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losing at mario kart, bullying your coworkers, and other bonding activities for when your life falls apart by thunder_and_stars
Fandoms: The Pitt (TV)
04 Sep 2025
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Trinity isn't entirely sure how she ended up living with two idiot white boys, but she's not about to kick them out now.
or, through a series of mostly logical events, trinity and dennis invite (read: kidnap) frank to stay with them when he gets out of rehab and has nowhere to go after his divorce. chaos ensues, because, really, what else could possibly happen with these three if not chaos.
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is it enough to have some love (small enough to slip inside a book) by thunder_and_stars
Fandoms: Doctor Who (2005)
20 Jan 2024
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River loves the Doctor—she always has, and she always will. This is an unshakeable truth. Another, however, is that the Doctor, ancient and infinite and barely holding himself together most days, hurt beyond belief and still carrying on, does not love her back. Not the way she loves him. Because the Doctor loves everyone—planets and galaxies and stars, people and creatures and every single human he knows—and River loves the Doctor. General love, and specific love. They’re not equal.
or, river in the angels take manhattan is dealing with a lot
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now starts the craft of the father by thunder_and_stars
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
06 Feb 2023
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“You should come over,” Eddie hedges carefully after school the next day. His voice is strangely quieted. “You could meet my uncle properly.”
Steve is already agreeing before he hears about meeting Eddie’s uncle, but he figures he’s committed this far. Besides, he loves Eddie, and if Eddie cares about Wayne Munson, then he can’t be half as bad as the town seems to think.
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cracking like a dry branch in a westward wind by thunder_and_stars
Fandoms: Dimension 20 (Web Series)
15 Jan 2023
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Evan has never had friends before. It’s the kind of thing that keeps surprising people, but he doesn’t know why. He’s not great to be around.
or, evan makes friends and gets used to things, jammer accidentally summons a giant iron spike, and the magical misfits are best friends
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inside my head like adversaries by thunder_and_stars
Fandoms: The Adventure Zone (Podcast)
05 Dec 2022
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A thousand memories that cannot fit together are at war in his head, rending him apart as he tries to put it together, fists pressed into his eye sockets in an attempt to drown out the noise, the sights, the chaos. He can distantly hear Magnus, Merle, Barry, scrambling around in the background, talking, questioning, falling apart like he is.
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in the fire and the flood by thunder_and_stars
Fandoms: 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia
11 Jun 2022
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“Thirteen, take care of the students,” Eraserhead orders, snapping his goggles into place over his eyes. He turns to glance back at them for a second. “It’ll be okay,” he says, quieter and more uncertain. “Don’t engage.”
Something like protest bubbles up in Hitoshi’s throat until he chokes on it, unable to simply stand there and watch Aizawa run into a fight alone. He knows Eraserhead is good with his quirk, better with his scarf, and well suited for this. He knows that.
He thought the same thing about his parents every single time they went to handle villains or disasters or crowd control. He knows it was true. His parents were good with their quirks, good with each other, functioning like a perfect machine. His parents were great heroes.
or, the usj arc happens in the hitoshi-was-adopted-when-he-was-seven-by-erasermic-universe-that-really-needs-a-name
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- Part 1 of bitter water
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keep your distance, make resistance by thunder_and_stars for sunflxwer_writes
Fandoms: 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia
11 May 2022
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The headache pounding behind his eyes is getting really annoying, Hitoshi decides, especially as the day drags on and on and into his English class, which is as loud as ever. At least the energy levels in the classroom mean he isn’t in danger of falling asleep during a lecture like he almost had in the morning, jolting back to wakefulness with a shock of terror at being noticed.
But nobody had cared. Nobody seemed to even see. The benefits of being ignored, he supposes. Quiet enough that teachers never bother him, weird enough that he never made any friends to ask after his health and wellbeing. It’s easier.
or, shinsou is not doing great and aizawa is a dad whether he accepts it or not
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pour me another shard full of glass by thunder_and_stars
Fandoms: Critical Role (Web Series)
22 Dec 2021
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It’s not that he means to freak out. He’s already raging, at least, so maybe the stuttering fear that seizes in his chest passes as part of his anger and wildness. He’s not even entirely sure what they are fighting, and maybe that’s the strangest part.
or, ashton's not as fine with the hole in their head, and seeing someone who might be a friend get hit freaks them out a bit
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Nate leads them easily to Daria’s car, where she is pounding at the window and screaming bloody murder at Nate, while Hardison easily steals the chip from her passenger seat. Someone is saying something, probably something important, but the world falls away into muted radio static when they settle their gazes on Eliot.
Eliot, who has been bloody and battered before, and will never ask any of them for support. Eliot, who always throws himself into danger.
Eliot, who suddenly drops, crumpling to the pavement like a puppet with its strings cut.
or, eliot doesn't walk off the concussion he definitely has like it's nothing
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if i don't make it back from where i've gone by thunder_and_stars
Fandoms: Blindspot (TV)
22 Nov 2021
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They’re halfway through their recap of the case, Jane starting to say something about how Kathy won’t give up her partners, when there is a startled little noise out of Rich. Zapata, despite her idle distaste for the man, still glances up with faded concern, though there seems to be nothing wrong with him.
His gaze is flickering around oddly, and it takes longer than Tasha would like to admit for her to realize that it keeps cycling back to Patterson, and it is then that she notices the problem.
or, things go a little worse for patterson and it takes a while for the issues to present themselves, featuring rich using my patented method of showing concern through insults
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He can hear a fire in the distance, quiet and scared voices, and horrible laughter. He looks up quickly, chin snapping aloft, eyes sharp and defiant, and is met by the sight of a few orcs arguing over something.
“Oh, you’re finally awake,” one of them says, barely glancing in his direction. “That’s good. We’ve been waiting on you to make this a lot more interesting.”
or, things don't go particularly well for Elladan and Estel, though, really, when did they ever?
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- Part 8 of whumptober but it's a mess
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It’s not the most obvious thing, all the little habits. The way he never walks right in the front, the way he carefully stays in the middle of everyone, the way he ushers everyone ahead when they are in trouble, counting carefully the way Gandalf tends to, like he’s afraid to miss anyone. It’s not always visible, but there are the little moments when it bleeds through.
or, thorin has horrible vision and bofur is confused by this idiot man
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- Part 7 of whumptober but it's a mess
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touch and go by thunder_and_stars
Fandoms: The Hobbit - All Media Types, The Hobbit - J. R. R. Tolkien
06 Oct 2021
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The darkness he had been trying to accept as normal is taken from him, right alongside the settling edges of his churning stomach from the haywire motion of the river, as his small shelter is tipped, not very gently, onto its side. He tumbles out of it with the momentum of falling, unable to do much to stop himself as he sprawls onto the ground, dirt and sand in his mouth and every part of him aching.
or, they don't exactly get where they're trying to go by throwing themselves down a river in barrels, and thorin is getting too old for this bullshit
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- Part 6 of whumptober but it's a mess
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coughing up a lung by thunder_and_stars
Fandoms: The Lord of the Rings - All Media Types
06 Oct 2021
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He’s not sick. Elves don’t get sick.
Except he isn’t an elf, and the cough rattling around his chest seems a lot like illness, and he still won’t say a thing about it. He’s fine. It’s just a cold.
or, estel is sick and tries to pretend he isn't
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- Part 5 of whumptober but it's a mess
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it's not just in your head by thunder_and_stars
Fandoms: The Hobbit - All Media Types, The Hobbit (Jackson Movies)
06 Oct 2021
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When he wakes up, all he can see is fire. It fills his vision, burning hot and frightening, and he cannot see anything as white spots dance in his vision and his mind screams that there is danger.
or, thorin has a Not Good time and also trauma he's convinced he can ignore out of existence
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- Part 4 of whumptober but it's a mess
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He’s failed again, failed his family and his people and his company, failed all the fallen. He’s failed everyone he’s ever known, and he doesn’t think there’s a way to fix it.
So he settles for penance as he picks up the little dagger and holds it to the braid in his hair.
or, bilbo helps thorin cut his hair and nobody else in the company takes this remotely well
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- Part 3 of whumptober but it's a mess
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sticks and stones may break my bones by thunder_and_stars
Fandoms: The Lord of the Rings - All Media Types
04 Oct 2021
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Aragorn knows he’s limping as he stumbles through the trees, an instinctive part of him cursing how it makes a trail that can be followed, but he doesn’t have much of the energy to care as he trips over a root, barely catching himself on the bole of a towering oak. The movement sends a sharp pain ricocheting through his chest, and he sucks a hiss through his teeth.
or, some people suck and elrohir is great even if he's busy thinking about killing people
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- Part 2 of whumptober but it's a mess
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rumors of my death have been greatly exaggerated by thunder_and_stars
Fandoms: The Lord of the Rings - All Media Types
03 Oct 2021
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The landing on the floor is not a particularly soft one, but he pays no mind to it as he scrambles to his feet and heads to the door. His foster brothers are just down the hall a little ways.
Elladan always promised to be there when Estel had bad dreams.
or, estel learns a bit more about sleep habits except i made it sad
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- Part 1 of whumptober but it's a mess
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until my lungs collapse by thunder_and_stars
Fandoms: The Hobbit - All Media Types, The Hobbit (Jackson Movies)
01 Oct 2021
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He can feel his friend’s heartbeat stuttering in his chest, just from the arm he has wrapped around shoulders to steady his friend, skittish and faint and far too erratic to be helping the blood still trickling from his wounds. The pain that accompanies wheezing breaths is unmistakable and terribly audible, lungs trying to expand despite the broken glass protest of the shattered concave that is his ribcage.
or, thorin walks away from the battle on the cliff outside of goblin town maybe more than a little scathed
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carry on until you can’t by thunder_and_stars
Fandoms: The Lord of the Rings - All Media Types, The Lord of the Rings (Movies)
01 Oct 2021
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Strider bites back a wheeze that comes out like a stilted laugh, and Legolas is smiling softly beside him, like he’s in on this great and infinite joke. There’s probably something to be laughing about somewhere in their chaos, but Aragorn doesn’t think he can split his mind into any more parts. It’s hard enough to be tracking the missing hobbits and continuing to walk and keeping it from his partners.
or, aragorn forgets to sleep