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So when Paddy, crossing the Place des Vosges one late summer afternoon, caught sight of a familiar, lanky figure reclining on one of the benches there and felt the old spark of interest light him up again, he was taken by surprise but he was not surprised. After all, he thought, he’d always quite fancied Bill Stirling.
Bill and Paddy meet for the first time before they’re ready for each other. The spark is there but everything else is wrong. They meet a second time and then a third but it isn’t until years later when their paths cross in Paris that they are both in a place where a relationship between them might work—if they can let go of the hurts and tragedies of their pasts and embrace the possibilities of a future together.
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29 Sep 2025
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He found, to his surprise, that he actually missed the sight of Bill Stirling slouching towards him across war-torn villages, his face like a thundercloud. He missed their sparring, missed the brief, bright flare of true companionship between them and the promise it had held. Which was perhaps why, when Bill wrote to him at the Ayrshire camp, a letter sent from his estate barely thirty miles away, Paddy took the letter to a private place and read it carefully. And then, almost without meaning to, he wrote back.
Bill and Paddy strike up an unlikely correspondence in Scotland which survives the war and lasts for years. As their friendship strengthens and deepens, as it teeters on the dangerous edge of something more, they help each other through difficult times and hard decisions and realisations about who they truly are, until, in the end, they find their way back where they belong.
With each other.
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29 Sep 2025
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the feel of coolness only water brings by EffervescentYellow
Fandoms: The Boys in the Boat (2023)
05 Jun 2025
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You don’t need perfect vision to row a coxed boat. You don’t need it to fall in love, either.
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26 Sep 2025
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There are hand stitches she doesn't recall the name of but knows when to use them. Some things are just instinct. But she likes making things. She likes being able to hold something in her hands that didn’t exist until she summoned it forth, inch by inch. It’s a kind of recovery.
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11 Aug 2025
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how memory makes monsters into myth by blueskiddoo
Fandoms: Interview with the Vampire (TV 2022)
16 Sep 2024
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“I said I’m fine, Alice,” Daniel snaps, and time itself grinds to a halt.
Not literally. Ha. The things you have to specify with vampires. Daniel wishes he could laugh, but the sound is stuck somewhere in his throat, along with his heart. Now, of course, his hand chooses to be perfectly still.
Why the fuck did he say that?
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daniel keeps slipping up and mistaking armand for his ex-wife and the more he looks back on his memories, the less reliable they get. he's pretty sure he married alice molloy, but how do you marry a woman who apparently never existed?
armand is armand about it.
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