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Fourteen day shifts that Mel and Frank share after he returns to work.
He instinctively looked for a braid and scrub pants, the only fit he'd ever seen her in. It took his brain a hot second to realise the woman in jeans, white sneakers, and a ponytail through her snapback was actually Mel.
At which point he walked full tilt into a wall.
Bookmarked by marfra
16 Dec 2025
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He ashed the cigarette as she grasped for the magic words that would fix this.
“Someone told me once that we need sensitive people.”
He didn’t stop crying, but at least he laughed. “That’s cruel, Mel. My own medicine.”
So, she offered up a second dose: “Would you like a hug?”
A sob cracked through. “Yeah, I really would.”
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You saw a lot of it in hospitals — a wife who turns out, later, to not be the wife.
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19 Sep 2025
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Now, Frank was so solid on top of her, it was like he was making her solid too — rebuilding her touch by touch. For a few years there, she’d felt like anyone reaching for her would just pass right through; like she was a person-shaped outline with her insides all erased out. But the weight of him — warm, sweat-slick, slotted between her thighs — made it hard to remember.
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Something clattered in the bathroom. Everything inside of Mel went very, very still.
Santos looked at the shut door. She processed.
“Mel King, you dirty dog.” A slow grin stretched over her face. “Did you hook up with someone last night?”(The gang goes to a medical conference.)
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09 Jun 2025
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for the blueberries
(loved the little details & subtlety of the narration)
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Written for the qaf_giftxchnge community, long ago, on insane journal and live journal. The request was for fluffy, B/J office fic set around time that Justin is an intern but before the Stockwell crusade.
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The summer after season 3, and they're weirdly happy.
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12 Mar 2025
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His happiness is a subdued hum, inexplicable and inarticulate.
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Ten years after the end of Season 3, and the living is good. Or so it would appear.
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12 Mar 2025
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Don't know why I didn't bookmark this the first time around.
Title says it all
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10 Mar 2025
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I felt a deep sense of foreboding reading this story, though it is ultimately a hopeful glimpse at their dynamics
I reach across the counter to his grease filled, death beckoning limp hand hovering above the bowl and stop him from picking at nothing.
“It’s good. It’s what I needed” He meets my look with half-lids, not willing to believe me, just yet. “Thanks.” He nods his head, bites his bottom lip and looks down at the bowl, at our hands dangling precariously above the cushioning of soggy, butter filled popcorn. And down he shoves, smiling wickedly while I squirm.
Maybe that’s why I wanted him here. To force my hand.
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Brian Kinney | Should Have Known Better [fanvid] by wrensandroses
Fandoms: Queer as Folk (US)
29 Dec 2021
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"I should have known better. Nothing can be changed. The past is still the past, the bridge to nowhere."
A visual character study, exploring Brian and his various hang-ups about life, death, age, beauty, romance, family, and, of course, love.
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- Part 3 of Queer As Folk Fanvids
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09 Mar 2025
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incredibly well matched clips & music/lyrics; includes captions
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"So," I said. "You know how you were thinking about asking your shrink to up your antidepressant?"
He looked at me warily. “Yeah.”
"Any further thoughts on that? Because I just looked at that painting you finished and now I’m thinking about killing myself, too."
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- Part 14 of The One Where Justin Loses His Hearing
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07 Mar 2025
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The [redacted] scene at the end took my breath away
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I don’t tell anyone else until two weeks before I leave for two reasons: one, I get teary-eyed enough on my own while packing without everyone else choking up every time they see me, and two, I don’t want Teddy to think I’m moving because of him, even though I sort of am.
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- Part 7 of Straight to Number One
- Part 28 of Soundtrack Trilogy, combined and expanded
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“So let’s just do it. Let’s just ... quit.”
He widens his eyes. “Sunshine, I think you’ve just invented the cure to addiction. We should just stop wanting to smoke! How come I didn’t think of that?”
“Fuck off,” I say. “Bitchy isn’t a good look on you.”
“Everything’s a good look on me,” he says, catching the tip of his tongue between his teeth and giving me a come-hither stare.
I refuse to take the bait. For now, anyway. “What I mean is, we should stop with all the halfway shit, the gum, the patches.” And the secret early-morning runs to the corner store for a pack of Newports (me) or Marlboros (him), to be half-smoked and then thrown out in a fit of guilt (me) or chain-smoked in a club backroom in a fit of self-loathing (him), but we both pretend we don’t know about those.
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- Part 6 of Let's Hear It for the Boy
- Part 43 of Soundtrack Trilogy, combined and expanded
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07 Mar 2025
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This is what happens when the past doesn't stay in the past. Post-series.
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No one:
Absolutely no one:
Absolutely no one who has ever lived:
Me: What if I rewrite the entire series but give Justin cystic fibrosis
Season 1.
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- Part 1 of Long Live
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Prom didn't work out so well. How about a homecoming?
A bit of season 3, reimagined.
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"In a year, probably not even that long, you won't even remember my name. Oh, what happened to that kid who wouldn't leave me alone? Who thought he was in love with me. If you fucking think of me at all." -
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“Buffy?”
He almost never used to call her Buffy. Did he? Always Slayer, or pet, or love. Or like, he’d use her name, but it always sounded odd, in his mouth. All tender, touchy. Like, like he was making eye contact with her, just by saying it.
"Spike."
She wonders if it feels the same, for him. His name, her tongue.
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don't look much like a lover (doesn't mean I won't try) by SummerFrost
Fandoms: Buffy the Vampire Slayer (TV)
25 Feb 2021
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Buffy is ashamed of him, Spike knows. But when no one else is around, she touches him like she could love him.
(In which Spike makes a damn good cup of coffee, watches a sunrise or two, and plays confidant to a Slayer who thinks dying to save the world would've been easier than this.)
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Bookmarked by marfra
29 Oct 2024
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engaging fic in conversation with season 6, despite its canon divergent premise & with a spike who remains soulless but becomes good nonetheless (what's not to love?)
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This Side of the Stars by architeuthis
Fandoms: DC Cinematic Universe, Man of Steel (2013), Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice
06 Jul 2017
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After Clark's death, Bruce finally gets to know him.
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Bookmarked by marfra
28 Nov 2023
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can you fall in love with the dead?
(wonderful prose)
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Wei Ying and Lan Zhan were best friends in high school, until they weren’t.
When they meet again, over a decade later, Wei Ying knows exactly what’s going to happen. Until he doesn’t.
They’re normal people, navigating a normal friendship, except they’re not. Turns out, they never were.
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“Yes, Lord Stark has come to town to help his mother bring out his eldest sister,” Tyrion said, pouring Jaime a glass of wine. “I understand he also plans to take his seat in the House of the Law. His uncle Edmure has been gathering time for him to give his maiden speech.”
“Yes, yes,” Jaime said irritably. “That’s not what matters and you know it. Well?”
Tyrion sighed. “He's nineteen, well-favored, and as far as I know, neither demented nor stupid. And not a hint of a betrothal. Sorry.”
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- Part 19 of Game of Thrones works
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Bookmarked by marfra
06 Feb 2023
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the robb/jaime regency au I didn't know I needed