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  1. Public Bookmark 14

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    “I get like this, sometimes,” Benson admitted. “Really, um – up.”

    Silence stretched. The set of Randy’s jaw told Benson he had no intention of filling it.

    Benson sighed, rubbing his eyes. “And, uh, one of the ways I come back down is,” he gestured at nothing, “y’know, uh –”

    “Sleeping with strangers?” Randy asked, and the anger was different now, heavy in the air between them. It tasted like salt, like sticking his tongue in a socket.

    Benson shrugged. “Pain.”

    “Pain?”

    “It –” Benson sighed. “It needs to hurt. Otherwise it won’t work.”
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    Benson has an itch that needs scratching. Randy offers a safer alternative.

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    04 Jan 2026

  2. Public Bookmark 35

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    They’ve been on the road for about a week now, and he’s noticed that Benson has a penchant for calling him names. Nothing particularly evil, not like the things the jocks at school used to say to him before they shoved him in a locker or tried to drown him in a toilet, but little thoughtless things that made something in Randy’s chest tighten like it does when he has to ask a restaurant to correct his order. Anxiety bordering fear bordering something else entirely. It’s a tease, but there’s no malice behind Benson’s words. Randy squirms again. 

    (alternatively: is it gay to like it when your kidnapper calls you baby?)

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    15 Oct 2025

  3. Public Bookmark 32

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    The listing went out to the appropriate places and an interview was held for a measly four candidates, of which three did not turn up. So, that was that.

    Randy's first impression of the new boy, because he was a boy, was the memory that he was the same young man that he’d seen stabbing the end of a penknife into his thumb outside of the lonesome gas station where he filled up his car after work. He’d made brief eye contact with him and then scurried off because the smile he’d gotten in return had made the ends of his hair frizz and his stomach turn. The car he drove was old, a manual transmission, and after he’d fumbled with his keys and got the car going, he had stalled the engine twice with the thought of the tip of the knife slicing through the boy’s thumb.

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    written for the tumblr anon prompt, "ranson, but their ages are reversed". Randy trains the new BBB employee, a twenty-one year old called Benson, across the first five days of the job. Wanting and needing are two very different things.

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    03 Sep 2025

  4. Public Bookmark 16

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    Randy gets sick from eating the burger but needs help getting it up.

    Title from Vomit the Soul by Cannibal Corpse.

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    03 Sep 2025

  5. Public Bookmark 2

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    Randy never used to get carsick before the incident.

    The Other Incident.

    Now he can’t sit in the passenger seat of a car without feeling like he’s going to throw up.

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    20 Aug 2025