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This Crooked Heart by surprisinglyOK
Fandoms: History Boys - All Media Types, History Boys (2006), History Boys - Bennett
03 Feb 2025
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‘Do you ever wonder what you’re doing here?’ Posner asks.
‘At Oxford?’
‘Anywhere. What the point of it all is.’
Posner feels Scripps shift beside him. ‘I don’t think anyone knows the answer to that. God would say worship. Jesus would say love.’
‘And what would you say?’
Scripps falls silent as he ponders the question. Then: ‘I think it’s being with the people you care about. Finding moments of quiet. Looking for beauty.’
Posner smiles bitterly. ‘I don’t think I could find it if I tried.’
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Posner navigates adult life and everything that comes with it, both the good and the bad. Thankfully, Scripps is there through it all, in confusingly fluctuating capacities as friend and lover.
Rated M for some pretty heavy mental health stuff, a suicide attempt by OD (though not in graphic detail), and sexual content (again, not super graphic, but there are sex scenes). Triggers for individual chapters will be in the notes. Please be careful! This is angsty, but I swear it ends happily.
Title is from As I Walked Out One Evening by Auden.
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Or, 5 times Eddie comes out to his friends, and 1 time Steve comes out to him right back.
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The Untold Secrets of Desert Stars by surprisinglyOK
Fandoms: Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency (TV 2016), Dirk Gently - Douglas Adams
22 Jul 2018
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When a prospective client turns up at the Agency with the front half of a perfectly happy Siamese cat, matters have to be taken into Dirk and Todd’s entirely (in)capable hands. Over a thousand miles away, in a dusty town in New Mexico, a woman has disappeared without a trace, and the residents live in fear of falling prey to a monstrous witch who haunts their desert home. But nothing here is quite what it seems.
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Bring The Colour To My Life by surprisinglyOK
Fandoms: Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency (TV 2016)
30 Jan 2018
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Several months after the Bergsberg case, the Agency is functioning with arguable efficiency. But, when an old friend of Dirk’s who died fifteen years ago shows up out of the blue, it’s clear that something, somewhere in the universe, is very, very wrong.
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Driving Home For Christmas by surprisinglyOK
Fandoms: History Boys - All Media Types, History Boys - Bennett, History Boys (2006)
04 Jan 2018
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I know it's not Christmas anymore, but I didn't manage to get this finished in time so HERE IT IS in January! This is just super fluffy romantic/family Christmas fun, in which David spends Christmas with the Scripps', and Don finally comes out to his parents. Very minor content warnings for mentions of depression, suicide attempt and medication (all only mentioned very briefly in one paragraph), as well as a reference to HIV/AIDS, a couple of sex references, and some slight parental confusion about the concept of bisexuality. Enjoy!
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Honey, are you coming? by singtome
Fandom: Dead Boy Detectives (TV), The Dead Boy Detectives (DC Comics)
28 Jun 2025
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05 Jun 2025
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“It’s not a date,” Charles says easily, hands raised. “It’s just a bloke treating his mate to a meal as thanks for shagging his brains out.”
Edwin squints at him suspiciously.
Charles blinks his ridiculous, over-large eyes innocently. His stomach chooses the moment to growl loudly.
Charles grins sheepishly.
Edwin sighs.
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31 Jan 2025
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This year, despite the temptation of a red-wine nap, David is determined to stay awake until Don gets in, eager to warm the other up with mistletoe kisses.
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A very Scosner Christmas.
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19 Jan 2025
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“You keep your cards close to your chest all right. I never even knew you were looking.”
“At you?”
“At anyone.”
“Yeah,” said Scripps, and then he didn’t say anything else because there wasn’t anything he could say that could make its way around the sudden lump in his throat.
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28 Dec 2024
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“Ge’over here,” he mumbled, spreading his arms. Without a word, Nines took him up on the invitation, climbing into the sheets and settling against the nook of Gavin’s side.
The smart lights dimmed around them, leaving them in darkness aside from the moonlight and the amber glow of Nines’ LED. Gavin idly rubbed a thumb over Nines’ shoulder, staring up at the ceiling. His own words echoed intrusively inside his brain.
It’s like they made you just for me.
But what if they had?
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21 Apr 2024