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  1. Rec 48

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    Daniil Dankovsky, reduced to working as a pathologist, is summoned to an idiosyncratic port town to help hunt down the man suspected of a string of gruesome, ritualistic murders. Dankovsky quickly deduces that he was not selected by the Behaviorists for his medical expertise, but for his personal connection to the Ripper—and, perhaps, his outlawed thanatological studies.

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    08 Apr 2026

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    as a person who has never played pathologic, the world was very confusing at first. I was mainly looking for mindhunter fics and found this beast of work. I was reading it as an original story with a sprinkle of familiar characters and boy did it deliver. you don't have to understand everything straight away or at all, really. the answers are not presented to you, just live in this weird reality of things that simply happen, accept it end enjoy. the writing is so vivid and strong, I have never read anything quite like this. one of my favorite stories of this year.

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    Ilya laughs. He finds that once he starts, he can't stop. He laughs at the fact that he's in France with Shane Hollander. He laughs at the fact he's Shane Hollander's boyfriend. He laughs at the fact that he gave up Moscow for a better life, only to end up in fucking Ottawa. 

    Ilya's dick stops working one month before he's supposed to leave for the South of France. 

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    28 Mar 2026

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    beautiful work. it's hard to find resentful angry arguments with an established couple, especially as sweet as hollanov, and this was a breath of fresh air. the way would dig at each other. when I was reading the tlg, something about ilya's behavior seemed too mellow for me, and with this fic I finally understood what. I was seething with anger on his behalf, mad at the situation he found himself in by leaving Boston and moving, I assume that I would have similar emotions, even though it was his choice to make.

    super super super

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    If he were sober, he might have recognized how catastrophically bad this idea was. That the roulette ball was not a sign, that they’d been playing for over an hour and it was bound to land on twenty-four eventually. But there was a buzzing warmth flooding his veins and a very loose grip on his rationality, so he headed away from the bar, through the lobby, and out onto the balmy Vegas strip. He leaned against a shadowed wall and scrolled to a contact he’d hovered over a thousand times before.

    This time, he called.

    Or: Five years after Rose helped Shane come to terms with his sexuality, he’s done everything else on his own. Coming out, surviving the backlash, being traded to Ottawa. When the dust finally settles, Shane meets a nice guy from Montreal and tells himself he’s ready to move on. He’s definitely not thinking about Ilya. Or Ilya’s gorgeous Russian wife. Not at all.

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    17 Mar 2026

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    that was very nice. all the tension couped up in them — you can feel it through the text. i like fics with years of build up, and we didn't have it here, year by year, but you can certainly feel it, slipping, text drenched in it, delicious.

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    Womb to tomb, sweetheart.

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    12 Mar 2026

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    reread

    every time I read this particular piece of trilogy I cry like a baby. it makes me tear up every. single. time. the letters bucky is writing, his yearning, his worries, his messages on lighters, everything is just so heavy and prominent, because you know the path we are going with, you already know the future.

    this fic, I have realised, is also the one that reawakens my love for the pairing every single time I forget about it and switch on to something else. thank you, writers, so much for everything you have done

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    Lieutenant Steve Rogers has done all the right things. Graduated West Point at the top of his class. Earned a coveted spot as an infantry officer. Found the woman of his dreams. Everything is going exactly as planned. That is, until he accepts a platoon leader position for a unit deploying to Iraq, where he’s reunited with the ex-boyfriend he’d rather forget but never could.

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    Sergeant First Class Barnes thinks he knows war. He lives in a wild cycle of military training, deployments, sex, drinking, and pining for his former best friend and ex-boyfriend, Steve Rogers. But when Lieutenant Rogers is assigned as his platoon leader during Operation Iraqi Freedom, Sergeant Barnes realizes that he doesn't know the first thing about what it means to truly fight for something.

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    An Iraq War love story in three movements.

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    The story of two men who go to war and don’t quite come back home.

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    24 Feb 2026

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    it just shows you how much therapy actually helps. i've never being against it, vaguely tiptoing on the idea that I support it all in all, but this was so well researched and described that it made me truly believe in it.
    so realistic, and raw, and complicated — its going to be my forever comparison to anything vaguely similar (I'm already noticing it in myself, reading different fics in between the chapters)
    also, I found it quite hard and frustrating to get in at first, thinking its simply some kind of torture porn or pretentious dramatics, but its life at its worst and at its best, it's humans doing stupid and mature things
    another topic — Sharon, Winnie, other characters as well, really. but mostly i want to talk about Sharon; i don't know if its me being grown emotionally, if its the fantastic never-to-be-repeated writing approach to her, or if its my acceptance of the fic being as a default "memoir" so whatever comes is natural, but i have never found such an acceptance towards a character that is romantically and sexually linked to one of the main characters and doesn't cause even a stinge of annoyance from me as a reader. I'm betting on all three.

    “I wouldn’t go back and change anything. What we have now is built on the path we took to get here, and I don’t regret any of it.” I read once in another good fic about emotionally stunted men and fuck everyone if it doesn't ring true to what those two went through. they kind of HAD TO go through all of this, otherwise they wouldn't end up being HERE

    phenomenal writing striking you with the characters' most heartbreaking and adequate reactions and thoughts I've ever read on. I will never read anything that pulled me in this deep and affected me the way it did throughout

    I started reading the fic in 2022 by the way. it took me some time haha