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- Luca (2021) (3)
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You like the life you've built for yourself in Vienna, you've worked hard for it and you've got plenty to show for it: you're rising through the ranks at a respectable clip and with god as your witness if you don't take first chair in the Opera by the time you're forty it'll only be because you've graduated to the Philharmonic instead. Music is your life's work, and you love it, love the act of pulling art out of thin air, temporary and ephemeral. But it's still work, both the dedication to the craft and the endless social acrobatics of kissing the right ass at the right time to always stay one step ahead of your lazier, less devoted colleagues, and it wears on the bones. Vienna is great, but it's not Sweden at your mother's for Christmas and it's not Italy with Alberto in summer.
Maybe it could be, though, if you gave it a chance.
('God Only Knows' adjacent.)
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- Part 1 of Thank You for the Music
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The small quiet voice that had been diligently reminding you that it was all for the best, you did him a favour is slowly being drowned out by something else; a raging regret that only echoes how could you?
You haven’t listened to the first voice in quite a while.
(Meanwhile, Alberto also deals with the fallout.)
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- Part 2 of But First, Coffee
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“Giulia. Coffee?” Luca asks from his seat at the kitchen table, in what he hopes is a pathetic enough tone that she’ll make it for him. Giulia gives him a sympathetic look over her shoulder, her hair already tied up in a messy bun. A curl bounces at her temple as she shakes her head.
“Sorry, Luca. All out.”
“Giulia…”
“It's fine, I have a better idea. You know where the science building is?” Luca nods as Giulia is already scribbling the directions on an old pizzeria-flyer, “There’s a little campus cafe just on the far side of the grass, you know where people sometimes study? My brother works there, just tell him I sent you and he’ll sort you out with something. You'll be caffeinated in no time.”
(Luca needs coffee and Alberto has coffee. Seems like a simple enough equation for something that ends up being anything but.)
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- Part 1 of But First, Coffee
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“Giulia. Coffee?” Luca asks from his seat at the kitchen table, in what he hopes is a pathetic enough tone that she’ll make it for him. Giulia gives him a sympathetic look over her shoulder, her hair already tied up in a messy bun. A curl bounces at her temple as she shakes her head.
“Sorry, Luca. All out.”
“Giulia…”
“It's fine, I have a better idea. You know where the science building is?” Luca nods as Giulia is already scribbling the directions on an old pizzeria-flyer, “There’s a little campus cafe just on the far side of the grass, you know where people sometimes study? My brother works there, just tell him I sent you and he’ll sort you out with something. You'll be caffeinated in no time.”
(Luca needs coffee and Alberto has coffee. Seems like a simple enough equation for something that ends up being anything but.)
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WANTED: Female, aged 20-30, to be my date for Christmas eve dinner with my Italian-American family. Must be willing to eat my mom’s cooking. No physical intimacy required. No strings attached—I will drive you home after. 4pm-10pm, 12/24. Salary negotiable. Call Carmen: (773) 555-0901.
OR: The one in which Sydney just needs a job, and Carmy will die before he proves Richie right.
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29 Dec 2025
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with your heart beating and your eyes shining by buttercup_beetle for kiko_maziko
Fandoms: The Long Walk (Movie 2025)
23 Dec 2025
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The booth is overflowing; Stebbins stretched out long on one side, with Baker practically sitting on his ankle. Across from them, is Olson, and squeezed in beside him are McVries and Parker. They’re huddled around the table, bickering loud enough to carry across the room, even over the noise of the game and the music and every other tired-rowdy group of undergrads in here. From this angle, Ray can just see the edge of McVries’ face, the curve of his scar, tugged taut by his mouth as he leans in to jeer at the others.
Dragging a hand through his damp hair, Ray feels the corners of his mouth lift up in a grin, breaking through the ache in his muscles and the exhaustion of late-October university.
or; five times everyone thought Ray and Pete were dating, and one time they actually were.
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27 Dec 2025
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Heaven wouldn’t hurt so bad, would it?
“Well, it was the words of the Major that kept me going. Something he said at the very beginning, about how we’ll never be number one again if we don’t try. So I tried to be number one. And here I am before y’all.”
Hell, then.
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Pete wished for Ray to live.
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21 Dec 2025
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There wasn’t ever supposed to be an after.
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Pete wishes for Ray Garraty to live.
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22 Nov 2025
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brighter lights back home by kaspbrak_kid
Fandoms: IT (Movies - Muschietti), IT - Stephen King
18 Apr 2021
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It’s been three months now since Eddie moved onto the property given to him in his grandfather’s will. He’d been going through a bit of a crisis at the time, having just broken off his 3-year engagement with Myra and realized he was gay and quit his job. Everything had been very bad at the time, but Eddie had been high on the adrenaline of making drastic life choices. What he should have done, probably, was sell the property and the farmhouse and then used that money to restart his life in the city, where he had prospects and applicable skills. But instead he packed up his shit and moved to Derry, population almost-zero, to the farm he spent his summers on until his dad died and hasn’t seen since then, deciding to...become a farmer. Or something.
OR: a sort of vaguely Stardew Valley/Harvest Moon AU, because why not
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