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“Where’ve you gone, man?” Marty won’t let go of him. He can feel himself digging his fingers into jawbone, won’t let up until he can squeeze the apathy out.
Rust says, “Same place, Marty,” and Marty grips hard enough to bruise.
Rust’s hand reaches up slowly and folds over the hand on his face. He pulls Marty off him finger by finger, and when he opens the door Marty thinks he’s going to walk out into the threat of oncoming traffic. Instead, he curves over- more legroom, fresh air- and starts unbuckling Marty’s belt.
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01 Sep 2026
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Louisiana- Somewhere between the cane fields, roadside gas stations, interview rooms, and endless miles of highway, Rust Cohle and Marty Hart begin learning things about each other neither of them remembers deciding to learn.
The problem isn't the knowing.
It's realizing how long it's been happening.Bookmarked by meanwhilemachine
20 Aug 2026
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“So how are you and Laurie?” Marty asks, just to have something to say.
Rust is quiet for a long minute, pulling half his cigarette down his lungs in that nervous way he hasn’t done so often, like maybe he really had learned a new appreciation for the sanctity of human life, and Marty thinks maybe he’s touched on something fragile. Maybe he and Laurie are fracturing after all, his psycho-intellectual bullshit finally worn her down. The rolling paper crackles softly in the silence between them as the cherry bites lower and lower towards the filter.
“I’m fixing to ask her to marry me,” Rust finally says, and Marty chokes on his beer like he’s had the wind knocked out of him.
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Or: Rust and Laurie in vignette.
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09 Aug 2026
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Rust — Rust a fool — allows himself to imagine a world in which he turns. A world in which they solve this together, they grind it out and start thinking, really thinking, pavements and hard man-hours, answer to nobody but themselves, they solve it. Marty turns. Let this be that world — it’s the world of shit-all else, it’s the world where Rust wakes up wishing he hadn’t every fucking morning, the world in which he knows the sound a child’s bones, still soft, make under the wheels of an ‘84 Mercedes 230CE — let him have this, just this. Only this.
Marty doesn’t turn. Marty mutters under his breath, “Sanctimonious prick,” and Marty leaves.
They arrest Rust twenty-one days later.
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05 Aug 2026
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He hasn't slept in forty hours and it's too loud under his skin. He's got a beer and a new cracked tooth, one of the front ones, but Ginger’s watching him like he’s Miss Tits America.
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patrick loses a bet w art and ends up wearing a cute lil tennis skirt for a practice match, but it backfires horribly bc patrick is feeling his oats and art cant fucking focus for shit. like hes WHITE KNUCKLING the racket
"patrick. please stop"
"what? this is so breathable i should wear this every time "
[the most deliriously horny hes ever been in his life] "please for the love of god STOP"tashi walks by appreciatively and is like hey zweig. good form [nice ass]. maybe it gives her ideas and she goes online lingerie shopping. idk i just think his thighs would look good in garters. smudge some eyeliner on him while youre there idk. im just spitballin here boss
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perfect summary from the request that made me write this, thank you <3Bookmarked by meanwhilemachine
12 May 2026
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Ilya:
9/10 she had frecklesShane:
7.5/10 Medium dick but he ate my ass like he was starving for it---
Shane and Ilya call it quits after the All-Stars game when Ilya says they can't be anything. He says no one will fuck Shane like he can, and Shane takes that personally, starting a two year cycle of sending each other ratings of the other people they fuck
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Ilya rocks his hips up. “No, Hollander. Keep up. I want to meet your dildo.” He enjoys enunciating the word. Tries to give it a bit of a whiny Canadian inflection. “You remember? You told me about him, back in Vegas.”
Hollander blushes beautifully and says, “That’s private.”
“Hollander. I know the taste of your ball skin.”
“That’s—Jesus, don’t say it like that. I can show you, but. Only if you promise not to be a dick.”
“Best behaviour,” Ilya promises. “Will say only nice things.”
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23 Mar 2026
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12 Mar 2026
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There’s darkness, cut through with a pinch of shadowed blue. Maggie knows she is on the verge of something but feels like the sensation ought to be drawn out, pulled further, pushed to a limit she hasn’t tested before. Dawn just before breaking. Something hums inside that darkness and she hungers for it without knowing its name, though she wants to.
She has everything she needs but there is still so much left to explore.
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10 Mar 2026
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“Fuck, look at you,” Ilya breathes. “Ask me for it again.”
“Hit me,” Shane says instantly, not a moment of hesitation.
“Is your face not sore? You still want more?”
“It’s sore,” Shane answers. “Please. I want more.”
“Fuck,” Ilya hisses, and he extends his arm out, muscular and powerful, and he brings it down hard, harder than any of the previous smacks. This one makes Shane’s head reel, his entire upper half jolting in response to it. Ilya watches in concern and fascination, gauging his reaction.
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Ilya's playful slap during the Hayden phone call scene awakens something in Shane.
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22 Feb 2026
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I hate to bug you in the middle of dinner by snoopyarchie
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05 Feb 2026
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“That Asshole,” Tashi’s sat next to Art on the couch, “look what he’s fucking tweeted now.”
Art adjusts his eyes to read the post she’s showing him on her phone, it’s from Patrick’s account.
“When did you speak to him?” Art asks slowly, wondering if he’s blacked out for a whole lot of important information, “and since when are we throwing a fundraiser?”
“I didn’t, and we’re not,” Tashi glares, waiting for him to get it.
“Oh, that asshole,” it finally clicks.
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Or: Patrick using twitter to force his way back into Art and Tashi's lives, not because he misses them of course... just because he thinks they're due a reminder of just how annoying he can be.Bookmarked by meanwhilemachine
14 Feb 2026
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“This is so sad,” Art says, shaking his head – but then he grins, the first genuine smile Patrick’s seen all night. It’s so warm and familiar that Patrick forgets for a second, that he’s nothing and they’re nothing, that the slight November chill is making them both shiver.
(Patrick and Art spend a confusing weekend together at the tail-end of the year)
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- Part 1 of lost weekend
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02 Nov 2025
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Tashi doesn’t expect them to stick around. They’d had their moment. They’d played their little game. A phone number had been earned in exchange for a show. Her and Patrick had fucked around having some semblance of a relationship. She’d had her fun and then more of it. And where there was more of Patrick, there was of course more of Art.
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There's something delicious about the time period between the hotel in Flushing and Tashi's life changing injury - they've never been more hopeful and anything could happen. Here's seven chapters of them fucking like their lives depend on it.
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29 Oct 2025
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back's against the wall, still want it all by thesecretdetectivecollection
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03 Aug 2025
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One of the things people tend to forget about tennis is that hitting the net with your body causes you to forfeit the point.
In which Art is sick and tired of other people pulling the strings and making him dance.
(Tashi isn't the only one who takes what she can get from Patrick.)
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30 Aug 2025
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“Jesus.” Rust turns his head against the concrete. Under the car, between the wheels, he sees the dead mechanic’s blood spreading in a neat pool from his shattered skull. “Don’t tell me you get off on this shit.”
Marty breathes out. He doesn’t let go of Rust, doesn’t move. He says, “It’s complicated.”
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22 Aug 2025
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Marty follows him. Not clear where. Cut of Rust’s shoulders, loping walk of a predator and with some starved line to him. STATE POLICE across his back.
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Evening, and a brief interlude by the bayou.
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July 1995, six months since Dora Lange, Marty and Rust are stuck in a sweaty car on a long drive and months of built-up tension come to a crash.
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- Part 1 of It's Easier to be Animals
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22 May 2025
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“You think with your dick,” Rust says, when Marty’s got him pinned back against the lockers. “You wanna fuck me same as you wanna beat the shit out of me, just to see if you can.”
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22 May 2025
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Rust saw the corridor of the Mississippi she was referencing, mouth of Hades, knew the name it was known by, had heard Marty use it obliquely over the years; Cancer Alley. He could taste what she was describing, had encountered it himself, had chased it like a dog given a scent, rolled around in it, felt its poison work through the pores in his skin.
“You left?”
“Eventually. Not before it put its mark on me I’m sure.” She shivered. “Out here though? The green, the brown. Still tastes good. Was always round and wholesome. Like oats.”
“Like smoked corn to me. Sweet at the edges.”
“You that way too huh?” She studied him across the table. “You can come again Mr. Cohle.”
He stayed until the rain stopped, farewelling her as she insisted he come again next Sunday.
“Stay for service. You do believe don’t you?”
“No ma’am.”
She didn’t look a mite perturbed. “Well, I guess that can’t be helped. You come next week and tell me about it.”
Rust makes a friend at church, Marty tries to repay a debt. Will we get another chance at this?
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- Part 3 of Premonitions
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22 May 2025