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“I’m not in denial,” John B tells his doctor. “I know JJ’s dead.”
The old analogue clock ticks loud and incessant. It’s driving him nuts.
“Knowing a fact and accepting it are two different battles.” The clock gleams off his doctor’s glasses. Then she tilts her head, and the reflection shows the wall. “Some part of you won’t let go.”
John B slumps in his seat. “Your clock’s really loud,” he says.
Over in the corner, JJ rolls his eyes.
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02 Nov 2025
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Six years after joining the US Marine Corps, Cope has built a life around discipline, duty and silence. Once a combat Marine, Cope becomes a Drill Instructor to move closer to his best friend's family. He has become everything the Corps expects of him: unyielding, efficient, untouchable. But behind the composure lies a broken man, weighed down by the ghosts of his past and the secrets he keeps.
He's survived combat, he's buried friends, he's been broken down into pieces and put back together, each time a new piece missing. He mourns the life that is, and the life that could have been. He mourns the blue eyes that haunt his dreams, the strong arms that provide a safe haven in the deepest corners of his mind. He trains, sleeps, eats on autopilot, keeping his mold from cracking by gluing it together every night. He is fiercely loyal to his brothers in arms, a pillar when someone needs a place to rest.
And, through it all, there is of course, Liam.
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26 Oct 2025
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“Not since he told them that he’d rather be dead than grounded.
Bradley closes his eyes, the irony is ridiculous.
He was grounded, after all. More permanently than anyone imagined: a clot, a moment of missed blood flow, and legs that didn’t answer back anymore.”
(Or, Bradley became a paraplegic after the big fallout… and still didn’t call his fathers).
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24 Oct 2025
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It’s the profound tragedy of Lando’s life, he thinks, to realise he’s in love with his teammate – just as Oscar Piastri makes a habit of standing one step higher on the podium, forcing Lando to crane his neck to look at him.
Oscar hates watching the light fade from Lando’s eyes with every victory he takes from him. He accepted the inconvenient truth long ago: he loves Lando. But he loves winning more.
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10 Oct 2025
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Here is the ocean village. He can’t remember its name, but he can remember someone saying that it was surrounded by deep water on all sides. It’s the second they’ve come to, the second they’re tearing to pieces, the second they’re searching. Here, is among screaming, panicking villagers.
Here is under the scrutiny of so many people, expecting so much from him.
Maybe if he was a bit more…normal. A bit more like them, what was happening around him wouldn’t seem as bad. The violence wouldn’t be as shocking.
It wouldn’t make him feel as if he’s about to be sick over his own toes.
He really doesn’t want to be here.
“Translate.”
That’s growled at him, most likely to intimidate and scare him. It’s deep and low, like the growling of the ship’s engines just outside the reef. But, like the first two times, it just makes him confused.
Translate what? No one’s spoken, how can he–
“That is a forest clan member,” the man before him says, slow and pronounced over the crackling of flames. “They do not come here. Please, tell him!”
Oh. What? No, that’s not the sound of flames it’s–
Everything he knows breaking apart.
Or!
The Amnesia AU I promised
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18 Sep 2025
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George has never, ever been able to get anything out of his system. He’s not sure why he thinks Alex will be the exception.
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02 Aug 2025
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Park that car, drop that phone. Sleep on the floor, dream about me. by RedBlood_WhiteSnow
Fandoms: Formula 1 RPF
08 Nov 2025
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Alex was never supposed to be an alpha – not at almost 29 years old. Not after a lifetime of being ‘just a beta’. Not when he already had George, the only thing that ever felt like home.
But the world doesn’t care what he wants.
George doesn’t know how to exist in this new reality. The man he once loved in secret is suddenly unrecognizable: more aggressive, more distant, more everything George isn’t.
The paddock whispers, the media speculates and between them, there’s a chasm where there used to be trust. But old habits die hard and maybe love does too. Because no matter how much Alex tries to push George away, his alpha still wants to claim him. And no matter how much George wants to walk away, he still dreams of Alex’ hands on him.
They were never supposed to be together but when it’s George and Alex, there’s only ever been one rule: Find your way back to me.
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28 Jul 2025
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walking around with this bullet inside me by wytch-lyghts (flight_on_broken_wings)
Fandoms: The Sandman (TV 2022)
29 Jun 2025
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There are two people in the entire world who have the number of the prepaid burner phone that’s been burning a hole through Hob’s pocket for far longer than it ought to. That's going on four years now. Four years, two people in the world, and it’s never once rung. Until it does.
Hob gets a long awaited phone call signaling that his oldest friend is alive, and he's back, and he's carving a bloody path through London’s underbelly as he takes his revenge. The transatlantic flight home gives him plenty of time to replay what memories he has of his stranger before he up and vanished. What he finds is a violent terf war, his stranger a bit more feral, maybe, but it's familiar enough to ache.
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- Part 1 of hungry and hollow
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04 Jul 2025
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Logan always knew, deep down, that Oscar would make it.
or: an account of the feelings that come from racing alongside oscar piastri and knowing you never quite had "it"
(runs until the end of the 2023 season)
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04 Jun 2025
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“You’re just a rabbit,” he told it. “A really weird, possibly haunted rabbit. But not Oscar. Not that that would make sense. Because that would be fucking insane.”
The rabbit sneezed.
He bit back a laugh. Or maybe a sob. He couldn’t tell the difference anymore.
OR Oscar disappears. Lando finds a rabbit. He names him Oz. Everyone thinks it’s grief. It feels like something closer to love.
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- Part 1 of The Bunny and the Boy
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19 May 2025
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when memories melt, I hear it in the drain pipe by Chucychito
Fandoms: 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia (Anime & Manga)
21 Apr 2025
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The man before him is… Familiar, but off. His costume’s the same as ever, as is the capture weapon that’s still restricting Oboro’s movement. But he’s… taller. More disheveled. There’s a jagged scar under his eye that he’s positive wasn’t there the last time he saw him.
Oboro briefly considers that this is simply his friend’s father, but he knows that can’t be right. With a sinking feeling, he remembers Hawks’s words from earlier: “It looks like it turned you back a few years… fourteen years, to be exact.”
The way the man is staring at him like he’s seeing a ghost confirms it. His eyes are wide, face pale, seemingly rendered speechless.
Oboro tries to smile weakly. “Hey, Shouta.”
Or, Kurogiri gets hit with a quirk and ends up fourteen years younger than he's supposed to be. Nobody is having a good time.
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06 May 2025
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Stormpaw is seven moons old when he and his kin are taken prisoner by TigerClan and thrown into an old foxhole. Somehow, life doesn't get much easier after that.
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“Why,” Hawkpaw finally asks, deathly calm, “did you say that?”
Leopardstar shrugs. “I didn’t see either of you coming up with an explanation. You’re welcome for covering your tails.” She ambles to her den and doesn’t look back at them.
Stormpaw can feel Hawkpaw’s gaze burning holes into the side of his head. He sighs and decides that he’s ready for this night to be over, and he trudges to the apprentice den. If Hawkpaw wants to stand outside and glare at Stormpaw from all the way across the camp, let him.
It’s not like he's the one who just told all of RiverClan that they’re in love with each other.
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// or, Stormfur throughout TNP. Canon AU.
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10 Apr 2025
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Aldo Bellini is still going through it. Somehow it is worse?
This is a much longer fic about going on a journey with the man you love who you think is in love with someone else and you keep dreaming about the dead pope. God is still there.
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- Part 2 of how the light gets in
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27 Mar 2025
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In Vaulted Halls, Entombed by agustsea
Fandoms: Arcane: League of Legends (Cartoon 2021)
31 Jul 2025
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Viktor never leaves Zaun. Instead, as Singed's protege, he draws the attention of Silco and ends up taken under the kingpins' wing, another stray in a makeshift family of outcasts and orphans.
With no one to stand by his side after the Council's ruling, a disgraced Jayce Talis enlists as an Enforcer and swiftly climbs through their ranks until he is assigned a mission befitting of the golden boy of Piltover's Police Force.
When a cadre of Enforcers barges in to the Last Drop demanding to speak with Silco, Viktor does everyone a favor by intervening in the conversation between them and his little sister before it can escalate to explosive porportions.
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24 Mar 2025
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Gale Cleven rolls the dice. He was born and raised to it.
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- Part 6 of second string
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04 Mar 2025
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None of it happened on purpose. None of it was supposed to happen.
For Babe and Gene, going to war involves a lot more finding home than either of them had expected. It's not quite that simple, of course, because nothing in war ever is, but it's closer than you might think.
*can be read as a stand-alone*
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- Part 4 of go farther in hope
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07 Jan 2025
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how come you're neither? my rival or my soulmate? by Lost_Girl_02
Fandoms: Formula 1 RPF
08 Jan 2025
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Logan Sargeant knows he's not the only person in the world who doesn't have a soulmate, literally billions of people don't. And he doesn't even know the difference, so it's no real loss to him when he finds out. Plus, his best friend (who he maybe has the tiniest bit of a crush on) doesn't have a soulmate either, so he doesn't see what the problem is.
No one has to tell Oscar that he made a mistake. But he was young and naive and didn't realize how important Logan was going to become to him. He just wanted a friend, and he didn't particularly care about his soulmate in the first place, so he didn't see the issue. He wasn't proud of lying, but he was also in way too deep to take it back now.
But lies get out of hand, and soon they're staring down a lifetime of fighting each other in Formula One but nothing is how it should be, and they might be out of time and luck to fix it.
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Or, 5 times Oscar lied about having a soulmate, and 1 time he told the truth.
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05 Jan 2025
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reflections in still water by Zairielon
Fandoms: Arcane: League of Legends (Cartoon 2021)
15 Dec 2024
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It starts as a matter of curiosity. Viktor notices an anomaly in the Arcane, and he investigates. Such is his mandate.
It starts as a matter of desperation. If Jayce didn't know better, he'd swear Viktor is haunting their lab, and frankly, he's not opposed to the idea. Anything to bring his partner back to him.
They've always been accidental revolutionaries, innovators bonded by the same obsessive tendencies and dauntless passion, and somewhere along the way, that obsession and passion bled into their relationship. Their partnership. They're destined to be together, it seems, and break a few laws of nature and magic while they find their way.
OR, season two, but Viktor remembers what it means to be human a little sooner. Jayce is still the cause. He's always the cause.
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04 Jan 2025
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cardinals by bi-tlejuice (bi_tlejuice), bi_tlejuice
Fandoms: Beetlejuice - All Media Types, Beetlejuice (1988), Beetlejuice - Perfect/Brown & King, Beetlejuice (Beetlejuice) - Fandom
26 Oct 2024
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Beetlejuice has been blessed with the role of being a guide for any recently deceased individuals that Juno feels may need persuading to leave the world of the living. At least, this is the official job description he reels off like a tape recorder whenever people ask him who he is. Really, Juno hand-picks the cases she thinks he will hate the most.
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- Part 12 of adventures of lydia deetz and the b-man
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31 Dec 2024
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Word is out that Fantasia, an adored best-selling reality-bending romance novel, is being adapted to film. The author wants none other than childhood friends Brett Yang and Eddy Chen as the leads.
The catch? They haven't spoken in years.
[ Social media AU. Very image heavy. ]
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11 Dec 2024