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and i just wanna tell you (it takes everything in me not to call you) by thisismetrying
Fandoms: The Queen's Gambit (TV)
28 Aug 2022
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He almost calls her, the very next day after Paris. To plead with her to come back to New York. Almost.
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or 5 Times Benny Almost Calls Beth + 1 Time She Does
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it would've been fun, if you would've been the 1 by thisismetrying for youhandsomedevil
Fandoms: The Queen's Gambit (TV)
25 Aug 2022
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“What’s with the new ring?” she asks, unable to suppress her curiosity about the rings she’s been counting for nearly a decade at this point.
He hesitates in a move so unlike Benny Watts that Beth turns to him more fully. Then, he says, – a little abashedly, as if confessing something to her – “I got engaged.”
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you know i love the players (and you love the game) by thisismetrying
Fandoms: The Queen's Gambit (TV)
09 Aug 2022
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“Benny,” she says. “The tournament’s not until next week.”
“Yeah,” he says. “But we’re driving there.”
Beth almost drops the phone. “We’re not driving there.”
“Yeah, we are.”
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or the road trip au no one asked for
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you know i didn't want to have to haunt you (look at how my tears ricochet) by thisismetrying
Fandoms: The Queen's Gambit (TV)
11 Jun 2022
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The boy looks to the man, his father, who has now reached them, and is staring at the woman now. The boy is not good with reading facial expressions, but he has always been good at feeling emotions. He feels as if he is caught in the middle of a thunderstorm, with no umbrella and without his raincoat. He does not like lightning, the way it is quick and unpredictable and can burn something to the ground in one strike.
He sees the woman’s throat move, forming a gulp. “Is that…?” she says, though the boy does not understand why she asks it as a question or why she is repeating herself, because it is just two words, not even a sentence.
The man shakes his head and runs his long fingers through his hair, disturbing it even more. “Yes,” Benny Watts tells Elizabeth Harmon. “That is your son.”
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or Beth and Benny and a little boy in 1979
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(and i was never good at telling jokes but the punchline goes) i'll get older but your lovers stay my age by thisismetrying for BeluKertasOrang
Fandoms: The Queen's Gambit (TV)
04 Jun 2022
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5 Times Beth Knew Everything + 1 Time She Knew Nothing (at 22)
(Not a shippy fic, ships tagged because they're all discussed/mentioned in the fic but fair warning: this is not a shippy fic)
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now i'm covered in the colors, pulled apart at the seams by thisismetrying
Fandoms: The Queen's Gambit (TV)
30 May 2022
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Beth can’t see color. But the chess board and the world that it contains is all black and white, so it doesn’t really bother her.
Ironically, it is at a chess tournament that she starts to see color.
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or the queen's gambit "you can't see colors until you meet your soulmate au" that no one asked for
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(our coming of age has come and gone) suddenly this summer, it's clear by thisismetrying for paperclipbitch
Fandoms: The Queen's Gambit (TV)
25 Dec 2021
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Harry’s just packing up after a nice day at the beach when he sees them.
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Drabble series for a B2 version of all too well
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- Part 1 of all too well (b2's version)
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i'm a wanderess, i'm a one night stand (don't belong to no city, don't belong to no man) by thisismetrying
Fandoms: Uglies Series - Scott Westerfeld
22 Nov 2021
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Random drabbles about Tally Youngblood and the Uglies world.
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right when i was just about to fall by IJustWantedYouToKnow (thisismetrying)
Fandoms: The Queen's Gambit (TV), The Queen's Gambit - Walter Tevis
02 Nov 2021
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And Beth wants to kiss him goodbye. So badly.
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- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 100
- Chapters:
- 1/1
- Kudos:
- 26
- Hits:
- 659
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back when we were card sharks, playing games by IJustWantedYouToKnow (thisismetrying)
Fandoms: The Queen's Gambit (TV), The Queen's Gambit - Walter Tevis
02 Nov 2021
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It’s fine, Beth wants to say. No, it’s not fine.
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- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 100
- Chapters:
- 1/1
- Kudos:
- 23
- Hits:
- 493
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love is a ruthless game (unless you play it good and right) by IJustWantedYouToKnow (thisismetrying)
Fandoms: The Queen's Gambit (TV)
02 Nov 2021
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Benny has always played chess alone.
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all your closets of backlogged dreams (and how you left them all to me) by IJustWantedYouToKnow (thisismetrying)
Fandoms: The Queen's Gambit (TV)
26 Oct 2021
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In the closet, among matronly dresses and Ben Snyder’s hats, there is a box.
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maybe we got lost in translation (maybe i asked for too much) by IJustWantedYouToKnow (thisismetrying)
Fandoms: The Queen's Gambit (TV)
26 Oct 2021
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“Don’t call me anymore.” The words are clear, concise, cutting.
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in my head, i play a supercut of us (all the magic we gave off, all the love we had and lost) by thisismetrying for runningscissors, youhandsomedevil
Fandoms: The Queen's Gambit (TV), The Queen's Gambit - Walter Tevis
13 Aug 2021
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5 Times Beth and Benny Took a Short Break from Training in New York + 1 Time They Took a Long Break
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A collection of missing moments during the five weeks Beth stayed in New York with Benny
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and you know, we're on each other's team by thisismetrying for HumiliatedRook
Fandoms: The Queen's Gambit (TV)
19 Jul 2021
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And maybe family isn’t forever either, perhaps you can’t put a temporal dimension to it, can’t measure it by a chess clock or even a calendar year. But maybe not being alone isn’t a permanent state either. Perhaps there are people that come into your life when you need it, and are there when you need it.
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or 5 Times Friends Helped Beth + 1 Time Beth Helped Her Friend
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holding hands under the table by HumiliatedRook, thisismetrying for FroggyFemme
Fandoms: The Queen's Gambit (TV)
09 Jul 2021
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Beth is seven years old when she meets eight-year-old Benny Watts.
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or the "Beth and Benny are both child prodigies at the same time” AU full of tooth-rotting fluff
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dancing is a dangerous game (this is gonna be one of those things) by thisismetrying for Terra_Banks
Fandoms: The Queen's Gambit (TV)
20 Apr 2021
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They’re not lovers, but they can mimic it well enough. The band starts up again and Benny places his hands on her waistline, his grasp light, while her arms twist around his shoulders. Internally, Benny laughs at the irony, at the many other times they’ve been in a similar position. But now is not the time or place for that, memories of intertwined bodies and breathy moans and clutching hands meant to stay in the past, something he only allows himself to take out at night when he’s alone, something he really should forget.
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people are people (and sometimes we change our minds) by IJustWantedYouToKnow (thisismetrying)
Fandoms: The Queen's Gambit (TV)
06 Apr 2021
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Alice makes decisions about reality.
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for TQG rarepair prompt meme
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i don't want your body (but i hate to think about you with somebody else) by thisismetrying
Fandoms: The Queen's Gambit (TV)
05 Apr 2021
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And what he’s wanted to do, from the beginning, is to flay her mind, crack her skull open, slip inside her thoughts, seize upon the neurons firing gloriously with moves and combinations not even Borgov would anticipate. See the components of her brilliance and take it for his own. Map every strength and every weakness. He’d wanted to fracture her cranium, snap it open just enough for tiny fissures, to sink his wisdom into hers, reorientate and reprogram her so she could be even better than she already was, all her talent along with discipline and control.
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orBeth and Benny want different things
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- Part 1 of fuck that, get money