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Maddie: Please tell me you’re not drunk tweeting at Eddie Diaz right now
Buck: dude i’m so serious i’m about to start blinking vertically
Or: Buck flirts with MMA Fighter Eddie Diaz on Twitter. Buck's friends despair.
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- Part 5 of 9-1-1 chat fics
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30 Jun 2025
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It’s a disaster. There’s nothing for Eddie to do now but rip the Bandaid off.
“I’vebeenlookingatyourGooglehistory,” he says, all at once.
Buck blinks. “You’ve been what?”
“I’ve been—” Eddie breaks off with a huff, and then forces his eyes back up to Buck’s. “I went to the Google home page,” he starts again. “To search the thing about the coupling nut. But then when I clicked on the search bar, the recent history was not mine, because—”
A look of comprehension has begun to dawn on Buck’s face, suddenly.
“Because I was logged in on the iPad,” he says slowly.
- in other words: the slow-moving catastrophe of buck and eddie sharing a search history.
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09 Jun 2025
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Buck cleared his throat. “When can I leave?”
Eddie snorted fondly, and Tommy rolled his eyes. Buck was beginning to really dislike that guy. Why did Eddie even have to drag his–who was he to Eddie, his boyfriend? Why did Eddie’s boyfriend need to be here, anyway?
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Buck gets amnesia and cannot stand that man that is always hanging around Eddie.
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02 Jun 2025
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“Hey!” Buck says brightly, completely oblivious to Eddie’s irritation. His voice is filled with excitement as he continues. “Did you know that the ancient Greeks used tattoos to communicate among spies? They—”
“You didn’t do the dishes,” Eddie interrupts, not trying to hide or sugarcoat his annoyance. He’s fucking tired of this. He asked Buck to do one thing, and instead of doing it, Buck apparently went on another research binge.
Buck looks almost surprised when his eyes land on the dirty dishes, like he completely forgot they were there.
“Oh,” he says, huffing a small laugh. “Right. I got a little distracted. I’ll do them in a minute.”
“Will you?” Eddie asks with a bitter scoff, and Buck reels back slightly, clearly not having expected that reaction.
“I— Yes, I will,” Buck insists, and Eddie can’t help but scoff again.
Or: How living together leads to Eddie realizing Buck might have ADHD.
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29 May 2025
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Their trek through broken stairwells and crumbling hallways was brutal. The two of them struggled to haul their exhausted bodies through tighter and tighter crevices, but they pushed through the pain, praying to whatever god might be listening that the roof collapse hadn’t completely cut off access to the upper floors. The fact that they could even still call this place a building was the kind of miracle that Eddie desperately needed right now, because every second that he had to spend wondering if Buck was still breathing was a crueler torture than any pain he could ever inflict on his body.
Maybe the priests were right—Hell was real, and it was the agony of losing Evan Buckley.
An 8x18 fix-it fic featuring a near death experience, a feelings realization over the 118’s radios, and Buck and Eddie finding joy in the impossible things.
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26 May 2025
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When We Walk Together We Tend To Walk Alone by UneducatedAuthor
Fandoms: Dead Boy Detectives (TV), The Sandman (TV 2022)
12 May 2024
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She’s never unexpected, but she’s always a surprise. And when Charles meets her, it's nothing like the nightmare he's built up in his own head, being split away from Edwin and cursed to an afterlife without him. She's kind and gentle and familiar, and she gives him a chance to say goodbye to his mother.
Or, the one where Charles meets Death. They have a lot to talk about. But it's okay. They have time.
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- Part 1 of The Beginning And The Endless
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21 Jun 2024
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Edwin and Charles dance.
It didn’t start for a while, at least a few years in, when they were finally starting to shed some layers of armor in front of each other. Even then though, it was just Charles at first, insisting Edwin join him while he played 80s classics on the CD player he had swiped from the electronics store down the street. Eventually, Edwin caved.
After Port Townsend, they’re long overdue for a night of dancing. Port Townsend has set them back weeks, and Edwin can feel the strain settling in his muscles. Now that they’re back in London, every other thought is consumed by the way Charles moves, his eyes drawn to the old CD player over and over.
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- Part 2 of i could find you darling, in any life
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10 Jun 2024
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Won't Fear Love by coloursflyaway
Fandoms: Dead Boy Detectives (TV), The Dead Boy Detectives (DC Comics)
25 May 2024
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„We should go a date“, Charles says on a perfectly bland Tuesday, looking up at Edwin from whatever he is doing at the moment.
If Edwin wasn’t dead already, he would suspect that Charles is trying to kill him.
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Five times Charles takes Edwin on a date to figure out if he could fall in love with him, and one time when he has an answer.
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- Part 3 of Dead Boy Detectives fics
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09 Jun 2024
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how could you think, darling, i'd scare so easily? by chimneysrebar
Fandoms: Dead Boy Detectives (TV)
04 Jun 2024
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“Why? You jealous?”
“Hardly,” Edwin scoffs as he rolls his eyes. Charles grins at him in return, and the two hold each other’s gaze.
It’s moments like this where Charles understands what it means to get lost entirely in another person’s beauty.
“You sure?” Charles teases, but it comes out as a whisper.
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Charles and Edwin get to feel for the first time in 30 years. It's wonderful, until it isn't.
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05 Jun 2024
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The Most Tender Place In My Heart by coloursflyaway for Riwuen
Fandoms: Dead Boy Detectives (TV), The Dead Boy Detectives (DC Comics)
20 May 2024
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There is something said about the concept of hindsight, only that Edwin isn’t sure if it’s something good, per se.
Because now that he knows what he feels for Charles, it’s like his brain is working overtime just to make sure that he is, in fact, in love with Charles, which is slightly ridiculous, since it only takes a single look for Edwin to confirm it again and again and again. It’s the way his heart flutters, his eyes get stuck on one of Charles’ features, his fingertips aching for the warm buzz touching Charles grants him.
And yet, in those quiet moments between cases, or sometimes deep at night when they are both busy with their own research, Edwin’s mind wanders through the three decades they have known each other, searching and finding those moments in which Edwin could have known he was in love with Charles, had he ever allowed himself to consider the possibility.Edwin goes down a trip down memory lane, and Charles needs someone to spell it out to him that he is in love.
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- Part 7 of Dead Boy Detectives fics
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04 Jun 2024
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Charles learned at a very young age that in order to survive, reading people quickly was a necessity. The home he grew up in had been an emotional minefield, so his ability to read a room as soon as he entered it was crucial if he wanted to avoid his father’s unwanted attention. He made errors sometimes, especially as a young boy, which was always unfortunate - his father was not very forgiving of errors. Being able to predict his father’s mood swings was often the difference between a peaceful evening alone in his room, or an evening spent pleading for mercy on the kitchen floor. Learning to avoid the emotions of others became a method of survival, and Charles had always been good at surviving.
Well, until now. Now he’s dead and that habit, however exhausting, has followed him to his afterlife.
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- Part 1 of music to my ears (your voice is my home)
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02 Jun 2024
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Demonology and the Tri-Phasic Model of Trauma: An Integrative Approach by Nnm
Fandoms: Good Omens (TV)
05 Oct 2019
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As soon as Aubrey Thyme, psychotherapist, had opened her office door and seen her new client, Anthony J. Crowley, sitting in her waiting area, she was observing and assessing him. At first glance, she paid attention to the following:
--His clothing was expensive and stylish;
--He wore very strange but noticeable cologne;
--His relationship to the seat he occupied could only, very loosely, be described as “sitting;”
--He looked angry;
--He was wearing sunglasses.What Aubrey Thyme, a professional, thought, upon first seeing her new client was: you’re going to be a fun one, aren’t you?
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- 16/16
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12 Oct 2023
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Will Byers the Masked Menace Returns! by MogulMama
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016), Spider-Man - All Media Types
01 Jun 2025
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“Well, whatever.” Lucas starts, “Mike’s only sided with Will ‘cause he also has a man-crush,” then, a little conspiringly, watching Mike with twinkling eyes, “on Spiderman.”
Will Byers' alter-ego Spiderman has only just been placed under the limelight after the fiasco at Washington, and he's absolutely not dealing with all the attention and publicity in a healthy way.
Especially when his best friend Mike takes a sudden interest in the masked blue-and-red hero.
Yet, a new threat emerges on the horizon—and Will has to deal with it all without falling behind in his studies in his senior year.
Will his long-held secret survive the inevitable wreckage?
SEQUEL CURRENTLY IN PROGRESS!
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- Part 1 of Spiderman AU
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- 18/18
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05 Feb 2023
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Our Cave's Collapsing: I Don't Wanna Be Me Anymore by the_floatie (orphan_account)
Fandoms: Minecraft (Video Game), Video Blogging RPF, Dream SMP
31 Mar 2022
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“Hey, Tommy, you okay? Where’s your coach?”
Tommy eyed him carefully, pushing himself back onto his feet and skating over to the exit to step off of the ice, “I’m fine. He left a minute ago, practice is over.” He did his absolute best to hide the tears that were welling in his eyes. Don’t cry, he reminded himself, don’t cry because that’s weak and nobody likes a weak kid.
“At-” Quackity looked down at his watch, “eight thirty in the morning?”
Tommy hummed quietly, pulling his skates off and replacing them with his sneakers. “Practice starts at four fifteen, you can’t get this good if you don’t work until you drop.”
Or; Tommy's an outstanding figure skater competing at the World Championships, his coach is harsh, and his life is hell. Quackity's here though, and that makes it all more bearable.
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27 Jun 2022
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His Curse of Binding by orphan_account
Fandoms: Minecraft (Video Game), Video Blogging RPF, Dream SMP
26 Oct 2021
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Tommy had lived and died as Theseus, Icarus, Orpheus and Sisyphus. But all he wanted to be was free.
In which Tommy Soot, originally born in 1509, is cursed to be reborn, to never reach adulthood unless he figured out the Greek myth of his lifetime. He had one rule of not allowing himself to get attached to people but he would have never guessed that a foster family of the creator of Minecraft, an anime stan and a Soundcloud musician would break that rule.
~ SBI Foster AU but with Greek mythology.
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- Part 1 of His Curse of Binding universe
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- 144,446
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- 30/30
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23 May 2022
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the world forgetting by the world forgot by bonesandthebees (bonesandcacti)
Fandoms: Minecraft (Video Game), Dream SMP
10 May 2022
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“Something has been stolen from us,” Thanatos said, his wings puffing up as he spoke. “Something that is very important to us. And we are fairly certain that the person who stole this thing of ours is in this very crowd.”
Dream tensed beside Tommy as the crowd broke out into murmurs. Eyes were darting towards the different heroes in the crowd, the benefactors no doubt assuming that the culprit had to be a hero.
“Like we said, we haven’t crashed your party to cause trouble. But we want this thing returned to us, and we won’t hesitate to take extreme measures to get what we want.”
or, Tommy was a lot of things: a newly debuted hero sidekick, an amnesiac, and a former kidnapping victim of the Syndicate.
Tommy didn't actually remember that last one though. That was just what Dream told him.
Only weeks after his hero debut, the Syndicate announces they are searching for something, and Tommy knows it has to be him. The scariest part? If they find him, Tommy will have no clue what to expect, because the Syndicate might know him, but he has no memories of them.
So he can't let them find him. No matter what.
Of course they end up finding him anyway.
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- Part 1 of a spotless mind
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- English
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- 164,502
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- 21/21
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01 Mar 2022
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The following story is an adaptation of the scripts of 4 streams intended for production on the Dream SMP. Due to all 4 scripts being written before Ranboo’s death it is best to take this story as being in it’s own timeline that is respective of the character of Wilbur Soot. The actors have signed off that the actions taken by the characters in this story are accurate and representative. It is up to audience interpretation which timeline is canon to the greater storyline. For all future lore based around Wilbur, this is canon.
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- English
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- 7,447
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- 1/1
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27 Jan 2022
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Fiddling with the front of his armor, Tommy listens to the wind and lets his anger simmer down, patting at Clementine’s scales. He closes his eyes, then snaps them open almost right away at hearing a quiet woosh of air nearby. There’s movement in the corner of his vision, someone on their dragon, and Tommy’s lips curl into a scowl, annoyance flaring through him.
“Oh, fucking come on, Wilbur!” He sits up with a huff, turning his head. “I said-” Tommy’s ready to start yelling, but he falters in his words right there, feeling his voice die in his throat.
It’s not Wilbur.
(Or, HTTYD Au except I start off on the part I really wanted to write and then proceed to write Reunions bc I like family dynamics.)
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- 10,161
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- 2/2
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16 Jan 2022
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DISCONTINUED :(
I'm sorry, I just don't know where to go with this and lost interest. If anyone would like to take it up please feel free!
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Tubbo didn't think exile would result in this.His best friends death.
Now, he's forced to keep his head up as elections are on their way.
Aka, Beeduo election arc!
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03 Dec 2021
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“The targets are a royal family in a place called the Antarctic Empire,” Dream continued, “I need them all gone. I have sources from the inside that say the king is weak-willed and has a soft spot for orphans,” the man sneered.
Ranboo nodded and waited to take the potion off the stand until the liquid turned a shade of glimmering pink and the bubbles popped, lazily steaming out of the bottle.
“They’re hybrids,” Dream added.
Ranboo scowled. He looked up at Dream, the man staring back at him expectantly.
“When is the mission?"
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The one where Ranboo is an assassin and can't bring himself to kill a certain royal family. Oh, and he has a soulmate.
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- English
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- 65,434
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- 18/18
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22 Nov 2021