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Samira looks at Robby and sees a father figure. Robby looks at her and sees himself. Jack Abbot sees them both so clearly.
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She can hear her college roommate’s voice in her head. “That sounds like a textbook case of daddy issues.” Which isn’t entirely wrong. Like many young women with unresolved father-shaped wounds, she has a tendency to imprint onto older men.
It would be less weird if Samira wanted to fuck Robby.
What she wants is so much worse.
And yet it feels just as inappropriate to imagine. He’s her boss. Her abandonment issues and aching loneliness should be checked at the door when she walks into work because she’s twenty-seven years old and this is a fucking emergency room.
And yet. It doesn’t stop her from wanting.
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07 Apr 2026
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never the same river twice by Contra for thesearchforbluejello
Fandoms: The Old Guard (Movie 2020)
14 Aug 2020
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Helen lives, Andy doesn't die and Troy is just a burning city.
(Or, there are many names in history. Some of them are ours.)
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13 Jun 2025
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When she'd gone to Robby, she wonders whether he'd been able to smell the desperation buried beneath her hesitance, the overwhelming stench of decaying need giving itself away. Believe me, believe me, believe me. It's all she'd ever wanted. Maybe no one had to die this time.
Or: Trinity Santos rediscovers the meaning of team.
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18 Apr 2025
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Fall On Your Knees by saltandbyrne
Fandoms: The Punisher (TV 2017), Marvel Cinematic Universe
03 Dec 2017
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She keeps the flowers in her window for three days.
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27 Dec 2024
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"I love you," Harry says on June 25, 51, halfway through a game of cribbage. Cuno has done nothing more notable than tell a joke that made Harry laugh.
Cuno doesn't know what to say. Nobody loves Cuno. Loving Cuno should probably be an interisolary crime. "Gross," he says.
An exploration of those Cuno has lost, those he's gained, and those he can't let go.
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08 Jun 2024
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“It looks like the night’s sky, Buck,” John says. “If you keep moving around, it won’t heal any good.”
Gale presses into the bruise, biting off a hiss. He thinks that John should break his remaining ribs, too. Let them all heal warped and wrong; let his body be found with the memory of John written into his bones.
“It’ll be yellow by morning,” he says. “Just leave it be.”
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06 May 2024
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"What are you going to do?" Bradley asks her, worrying the lip of his coffee cup until it starts to unroll. He knows Phoenix likes time, space. That she needs to decompress before seeing her family post-deployment. This time more than any other, probably.
She shrugs. "Belize, I think."
He turns, surprised, and winces when it wrenches his neck. Everything fucking hurts all the time. He doesn't know how she punched out and then flew the mission. She's un-fucking-real.
"I booked a place for a few weeks. It's on the water. Figured I'd, you know." She gestures vaguely, something Bradley understands to mean 'get my head right.' "You could come."
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29 Nov 2023
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He learns early on that there are different versions of her depending on the situation. Some are obvious. V with a drop of someone else’s blood smeared on her cheek. Valerie asleep in his bed, rolled up into a ball with her mouth slightly open. There’s a third he’s been noticing, someone he can’t name, more brash than V, less open than Valerie. Less comfortable than Valerie and more reckless than V. Rude, almost.
When she comes to his house and sits on the porch with her legs up on the table and a lit cigarette dangling from her lips, he knows that mysterious third is here but he doesn’t know what to call it.
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14 Nov 2023
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Rooster pitches down, too steep and too fast, daring Maverick to follow. Mav matches him, foot for foot, and they hurtle down, spiraling and twisting around each other in a deadly dance.
“What’s past is past,” Maverick says, voice g-strained. “Pull up, Rooster.”
To hell with you, Rooster thinks, and even he doesn’t know how literally he means it.
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It takes Rooster and Hangman ten years after they meet at flight school to get their shit together. It takes longer than that, a suicide run of a mission, Maverick's god-and-logic defying luck, and Iceman's indomitable common sense to get him and Maverick to sit down and talk.
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- Part 1 of The Sun's Gonna Rise (Tomorrow)
- Part 1 of Somewhere on the East Side of Sorrow
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12 Apr 2023
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In a Walmart at three am, between beef jerky and tortilla chips, with the lights flickering above them like it’s the fucking twilight zone, Bradley wants him more than he’s ever wanted anyone.
or: it's a hundred degrees in texas.
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04 Dec 2022
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The Bear and the Maiden Fair by Archadian_Skies for ryoflame
Fandoms: Pacific Rim (2013)
15 Jul 2013
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Unable to speak due to a genetic defect, Aleksis Kaidanovsky finds his voice, and all that he never knew he longed for, through the Soviet Jaeger Program. Here, on the brink of the apocalypse, he finds the place where he truly belongs.
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28 Nov 2022
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For every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction.
Alternatively—Hangman learns to stop pushing people away, and Maverick finally lets go.
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18 Sep 2022
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the man had killed the thing he loved (and so he had to die) by orphan_account
Fandoms: Top Gun (Movies)
25 Aug 2022
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Jacob Seresin was born and raised weak.
Delivered prematurely, he was small and fragile; a pitiable baby who always needed to be watched over. His conception was welcomed, his birth, undesirable.
(or: Jake Seresin throughout his life.)
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30 Aug 2022
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To the naked eye they look no different from ordinary trinkets, lucky charms perhaps, simple objects the dead often keep on them in the grave.
Maybe they are. Maybe it’s Zagreus that makes them hold power.
(concept: god's keepsakes and blessings change zagreus' appearance and behavior during an escape. thanatos takes notice.)
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13 Jul 2022
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The Deputy never imagined that Jacob Seed was capable of Love.
But then, it appears that John Seed never imagined that Jacob would die before him.
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13 Jul 2022
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He knows he isn’t built to be a father. His world is a world of frank destruction; and it’s a world he loves.
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18 Feb 2022
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the warmth on the mountain by nightmarechild
Fandoms: Assassin's Creed - All Media Types
12 Jun 2019
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Brasidas remembers lying on the lonely deck of his relief-ship and speculating what it might feel like to see her again.
Sunrise. Fresh rain. Battle-frenzy. A deep belly-laugh, or a spinning blue-lotus high. The crush of a wave coming back from low tide, dense and hard, knocking the breath from him like a body blow from a sledgehammer.
He should have known it would be like none of those. So many things about Kassandra are without compare.
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- Part 1 of athanasia
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13 Feb 2022
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The Water-Horse by Thamiris [archived by yuletide_archivist]
Fandoms: Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
19 Dec 2004
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In the year after the events at Hautdesert, as Gawain tries to reassemble his life, he finds that a few pieces are missing.
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07 Jan 2022
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She’s matched him from the start, blow for blow, move for move, and for the first time since he saw her six months ago he realises that Aleksandra Dmitriyeva is beautiful.
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04 Jan 2022
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You've given me the best of you, but now I need the rest of you by Smallobjects
Fandoms: Dragon Age: Inquisition
20 Apr 2015
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Dorian and Bull have a very long day. Chronologically: They get trapped in a pit, then later try to have a conversation about their relationship. In order of difficulty: They try to have a relationship talk and also fell into a pit.
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14 Oct 2021