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After suffering a meniscal injury during an El Clásico, Gavi is sent to Madrid for surgery and rehab. Alone and in pain in an unfamiliar city, he becomes increasingly desperate for human contact. So, he makes a very stupid decision to talk to a certain Real Madrid player. Unexpectedly, he ends up finding comfort in Jude Bellingham.
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08 Dec 2025
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04 Jul 2025
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“25,000€!” the auctioneer cries, “for a date night with Euro Champion Unai Simón-”
“26,000€!” she bids again.
Unai can feel the hairs standing on the back of his neck as he watches the man smile before bidding: “30,000€.”
People gasp. The auctioneer may have a stroke while the woman gives her opponent a curt look before putting her sign down. And Unai… well, Unai is still staring at the winner, still rendered speechless as the crowd finally simmers down enough for him to hear:
“30,000€, and sold to Mr. Pedri.”
(Or: Forced to auction himself as a date, Unai drunkenly confides in his teammate, Pedri, that he's gay and healing from heartbreak. Unai is ill-equipped for the friendship that blossoms and even less prepared for what's to come.)
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03 Jun 2025
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A month after France and Frank Harkness, Slough House is floundering beneath the weight of grief none of them quite know how to deal with. Fortunately, Catherine has returned, and she’s determined to fix things — starting with River, who’s carrying a secret that’s affecting how he acts both with her and with Lamb — until she and River are kidnapped from Slough House by a group of former slow horses that have a very serious bone to pick with Jackson Lamb.
It will be fine. Catherine knows that Lamb will come for River, and River knows that Lamb will come for Catherine, and until he does they simply have to keep the other alive long enough to be found. But what they’re not expecting is that these former slow horses don’t just want to hurt Lamb; they want to break River, and force Lamb to watch it happen.
But the former slow horses have made a significant error of judgement. With every recording they send of River’s torture, the more determined Lamb becomes to rescue his boy, and when he finally does get River and Catherine back he is never going to let them go. It’ll be a long, difficult road to recovery, but they’ll walk it together, all three of them.
[ or: the camcorder kidnapping fic, at last. ]
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18 Apr 2025
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Ghost knew secrets, so he let MacTavish keep them. He didn’t need to know every little detail, didn’t need to know how he ended up with a decorative plate from Iceland or what was up with all the pillows in his house and on his sofa or if that was his cup, a lumpy thing made of clay in the back of the cupboard that had been painstakingly been painted years before and was chipping at the edges.
To Ghost’s chagrin, there was nothing in the field manual about wanting to know someone— nothing about wanting to live outside of the military, and nothing at all about being human with anyone else at all.
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- Part 38 of yours to keep
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12 Jan 2025
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so roll those credits 'cause the sequel's gonna hurt by snowdropp
Fandoms: Men's Football RPF
07 Oct 2024
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“Mate, this PR is getting a little out of hand.”
Heungmin frowns at Ben’s rushed tone. “What are you talking about?”
“Maybe the fact that I found out from your Instagram post that you’re dating Cristian Romero.”
Ferrari fucks up. Naturally, Heungmin and Cuti are the ones who pay the price.
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09 Dec 2024
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"Nobody's gonna believe you actually yell at your coach, you know."
"Why not? He's really annoying."
"You want me to believe you regularly get mad enough at Juan Carlos to start a fight, but you're not mad at me? Really?"
"What, do you want me to be mad at you?"
"No. Probably? I don't know." Jannik hesitates a moment. "Maybe I think it would be easier. I just feel like I've disappointed you in some way. And I don't know how exactly, so I can only guess."
And how could he not guess, Carlos thinks with an edge of something approaching hysteria. How could he not outright know, after all this time, after everything.
After the Beijing final.
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03 Oct 2024
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“You have to aim at the toilet, Bellingham—“ Pablo reminded, absentmindedly rubbing circles into his back. He wasn’t sure who it was meant to soothe, the drunk guy or himself.
How the hell had he managed to end up here again?
OR, the one where Gavi running into Jude at a bar in Ibiza after the Euros turns into a lot more than either of them bargained for.
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- Part 11 of Pablo/Jude rivals with benefits AU
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12 Sep 2024
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“What the fuck happened to your hair?” Not hello, not hola, not surprising seeing you here, not safe old saying nothing at all — that was the first idiotic thing that escaped Jude’s mouth when he realized who was sitting opposite him in that waiting room.
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The one where Gavi has weekly checkups in Madrid at the same clinic as Jude as part of his ACL tear recovery, their appointments happen to clash, and things escalate from there.
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- Part 6 of Pablo/Jude rivals with benefits AU
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30 Aug 2024
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"Are you staying tomorrow?" Jannik asks as fireworks go off overhead, the stadium illuminated red and violet and gold. The adrenaline of the final is starting to fade, but enough remains for him to say: "If you are—tomorrow, we're going to the coast. If you want to go with us?"
Carlos leans closer, brow wrinkling slightly as he tries to hear over the noise. "Tomorrow? Go where?"
"There's a beach, a little north of here. It's very beautiful. They have jet skiing." Ba-boom. Brilliant fiery flowers spiral across the night sky. The explosions of smaller fireworks syncopate with the suddenly rapid beating of Jannik's own heart. "If you're still here tomorrow, do you want to go? With us?"
Colors in the sky reflect in the smiling eyes looking up at him. "Yeah, of course." Carlos sounds as happy as if he were the one holding the winner's trophy. "Let's go!"
Jannik, Carlos, and a life-changing day in 2022.
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- Part 1 of like a river flows surely to the sea
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04 Aug 2024
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After Madrid, Jannik spends some time recovering at the Juan Carlos Ferrero Academy.
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27 Jul 2024
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Jannik’s not sure how they ended up here. Five minutes ago, he’d been coming back from the awkward post-victory photoshoot in the Center Court lounge, stopping by the deserted cafeteria for a coffee and to massage his aching quads. He hadn’t expected anyone else to join him except maybe Darren and Simone, though they’d said their goodbyes already. If anyone, it certainly would not have been Ben Shelton, who by all logic should have skipped town after Jannik avenged his Shanghai loss.
But here they are. And what’s he supposed to say—no?
Schlutzkrapfen, sambuca, and the seventeen hours between Vienna and Paris.
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27 Jul 2024
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Tears pricked his eyes as he realized just how foolish he was. The face on the screens, the one he didn’t recognize, burned at the back of his mind. Who would give a shit about that scrap-metal boy from District Six? He was not the District One golden boy, Roger Federer, born with a face worth more than a diamond mine and showered with so many sponsor gifts during his Games that the Gamemakers had to impose a daily limit. He was not Novak Djokovic, forged, sharpened, and steeled in the training academies of District Two, the crown fitted for his head before the canon of his first kill. He was not even in the league of last year’s victor, Iga Świątek, who disguised her genius with nervous, flittering smiles, as dangerous and unassuming as a live wire.
Who was he compared to Carlos Alcaraz, wunderkind? Nobody. He, Jannik Sinner, was going to die.
[Jannik Sinner, before and after The 71st Hunger Games.]
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- Part 1 of addendums to a pyrrhic victory
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09 Jul 2024
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Daveed is in a whole lot of fucking pain. The fluffy dog is curled up in his lap, shivering like it’s coming down from a high. God, don’t fucking think that.
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01 Jul 2024
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Oscar doesn’t have a problem with his soulmate. It’s his soulmate who has the fucking problem.
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- Part 1 of if and only if
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30 May 2024
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all I can ever be to you (is a darkness that we knew) by objectlesson
Fandoms: Stargate - All Media Types, Stargate Atlantis
28 Mar 2023
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John realizes he’s in love with Rodney McKay in the middle of a fucking CVS pharmacy in Colorado.
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25 Feb 2024
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how much better is your love than wine by manicpixiedreamjop
Fandoms: The Terror (TV 2018)
26 Feb 2023
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Sol was already a few drinks in when he got to Ned’s flat. He wasn’t drunk, per se, but he wasn’t fully sober, either, and he was definitely at least tipsy enough to show up at his best friend’s place at 11pm on a Thursday without calling first. Ned wouldn’t have plans anyways, he figured. He had just finished up his last job, he was single (as always), and most importantly, Sol wanted to see him, so therefore, he had to be there.
He had an extra key. Ned had given it to him for emergencies, which Sol had taken to mean “whenever you and your piece of shit boyfriend break up and you need a place to be that’s not the flat you share with the asshole drummer of your band who you know is gonna take his side any time the two of you fight.” Ned’s words, not his. Mostly.
Fresh off yet another breakup with Neil Hickey, Sol seeks out comfort from his oldest and closest friend. Trouble is, in the few weeks since Sol had last seen him, Ned seems to have found someone new. Sol is fully prepared to hate him. Unfortunately, he doesn't.
A sequel to A Song Only You Can Hear
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- Part 3 of divine fruits
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29 Jan 2024
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It said something about him, probably, that Roy stayed on the bike through Jamie’s awful, gut-wrenching story, through his own grit-toothed confession that he’d irreparably fucked it with the woman he thought, once upon a time, that he’d spend the rest of his life with, only to lose it on the straight.
Or: in which Roy, haunted by Jamie's Amsterdam story, says something (or several somethings) he shouldn't, and Jamie adopts a cat.
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26 Jan 2024
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Soap gives Ghost his number before they go on leave not expecting to hear from him at all. He didn't expect he would spend the entire time staring at his phone waiting for the next text to come through.
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24 Jan 2024
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“Have you tried ear plugs?” Rodney asks.
“It’s in my head, Rodney. Ear plugs don’t do a lot when the voices are inside your brain!”
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19 Jan 2024