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"It wasn't about jumping. It was about the ability to jump. The choice.[...] Something to remind him there was a way out."
Seong Gi-hun, a depressed but compassionate mechanic, meets Hwang In-ho on top of the bridge. Neither of them are there to jump, but they are both there. Their experiences with grief and humanity are different, but being seen and understood is too miraculous and too rare for either of them to pass up.
(Sad, traumatized old men fall in love.)
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In-ho comes back from his eight years undercover injured, jaded, and devoid of humanity. A kind-eyed do-gooder in a back alley might change all of that.
Featuring falling in love, PTSD, Hwang brother angst and hurt/comfort, and an evolution from misanthrope to slightly-less of a misanthrope.
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Hwang In-ho and Seong Gi-hun met when they were college-aged. They fell in love, tragedy struck them, they fell apart.
Ten years later, Gi-hun is hired on as a technician at OneEarth, a corporate machine. He is less-than-thrilled to find In-ho working there. Despite himself, despite both of them, really, they grow back together."You are searching so intently for some semblance of good in me. What will happen when you decide you can't find it?"
"Well, you know me," Gi-hun said, smiling a little bitterly. "I've never been smart enough to know when to stop."
In-ho tipped his head back and forth contemplatively. "There is something to be said for the resilience of your hope. Granted, I am probably not the one to say it."
LOTS of hurt/comfort, angst but a proportionate amount of fluff.
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"Here was Gi-hun, with his lifetime of tragedy and difficulty, picking up strangers in the rain and campaigning for the inherent value of mankind. And if that existed, if it was possible to sustain that even in spite of immense hardship, maybe it wasn't circumstance that had turned In-ho into something bitter. If Gi-hun was possible, if his worldview was somehow sustainable, that meant that whatever In-ho became was not a result of a bad situation; it was inherent. He was always empty, or capable of emptiness, and wasn't that the same thing?"
FAKE DATING AU. No Squid Games, just other trauma and the power of grief competing with the audacity of hope.
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After the events of season 2, In-ho sends Gi-hun away with a key and a card with the address to his apartment. He assumes that, in a few months, Gi-hun will come and confront him or shoot him. Instead, the moment that In-ho returns from the games, Gi-hun is waiting for him.
Despite Gi-hun's assurance that there is nothing but hatred between them, they are both still eager to find a kindred spirit. The reconciliation of these two warring emotions leads them to some confusing places.
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letting the days go by by TakeThisWaltz
Fandoms: IT - Stephen King, IT (Movies - Muschietti)
02 Jul 2020
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Eddie doesn’t know what the fuck he’s doing in his life or his marriage. All he knows is that when he’s with Richie he feels like his best self. So what would his best self do?
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13 Feb 2026
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“Okay, all right, well, I think we’re done here,” Eddie sighs, but when he glances into the rear-view mirror, he sees a smile on his face, and his cheeks are flushed. He frowns as something occurs to him. “Wait, are we? What did you call me for?”
“You called me, Eduardo.”
“I called you back, idiot!”
“Yeah, yeah. I dunno, man,” Richie says easily enough. Eddie can hear his fingers rattling against some hard surface as he talks, restlessly drumming as he speaks. “I saw Stan, and suddenly I realised that I fucking missed him, and then hot on the tails of that I was like… man, do I miss Eddie, jeez! So I called. That’s all. No biggie.”
“Oh,” Eddie breathes, and does not try to stop the pleased smile blooms with Richie’s words. “I, uh. I miss you too, jackass. God only knows why, but I do.”
Richie groans happily. “Man, that’s the stuff! Nobody insults me like you do, Eds.”
“Nobody deserves it like you,” Eddie grins, and Richie bursts into laughter. Eddie’s soul soars at the sound of it.
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- Part 1 of Can You Imagine When This Race Is Won?
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03 Feb 2026
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Words Are Very Unnecessary by Thatmalu for Peach_Medusa
Fandoms: IT - Stephen King, IT (Movies - Muschietti), IT (1990)
21 Nov 2020
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Only the one young man sat in the waiting room still. He looked up from his lap and Richie swore his eyes weren’t that fucking pretty before. Or maybe he just wasn’t paying enough attention, but they caught Richie up like a deer in headlights.
The wind was knocked right out of Richie’s chest when he smiled at Richie again, the slightest tint of pink on his cheeks, his limbs shuffling around in a way that could only be bashfulness, like he wanted to fold in on himself and hide in his own skin. Richie had been pining over this guy for months, and he had rehearsed this greeting about a million times.
“Hi,” Richie blurted out stupidly. “Uh. How you doin’?”
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A special prompt fic dedicated to the lovely, amazing peach_medusa
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- Part 1 of Mute!Eddie Series
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23 Jan 2026
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in the heat of the summer (you're so different from the rest) by kaboomslang
Fandoms: IT - Stephen King, IT (Movies - Muschietti)
13 Jan 2020
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There’s a heatwave in L.A., the first time Richie sees Eddie naked.
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One very hot year in the life of two idiots in love, working shit out.
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09 Jan 2026
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For the first time in his life, Eddie Kaspbrak is completely free. He's fresh out of a bad relationship, and now he's looking for a taste of real life. And he's willing to try absolutely anything - except for another boyfriend.
But then he gets assigned to dorm with Richie Tozier - and they're just buddies. Buddies who fuck. What could go wrong, right?Bookmarked by Fishbang
01 Jan 2026