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CB found herself drawn to Dustin more and more often these days. They seemed to work together all the time now. Even when they weren't working, CB seemed to end up wanting to hang around Dustin. Even if it meant being forced to spend time around Flat-Top, or Rusty.
In the back of her mind, she knew the reason she'd been feeling this way. She could never quite admit it to herself. If it wasn't true, then it didn't matter what happened.
The more time they spent together, the harder it got to deny. Despite herself, CB felt herself falling. It was inconvenient and infuriating. She didn't have time to get weak in the knees at Dustin leaning against her shoulder, at the way she patted CB's knee when they sat together, how she was just close enough to yearn after when CB brought up the end of the train behind Dustin.
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the only air that she'll breathe is my perfume by faintlight
Fandoms: Starlight Express - Phillips/Stilgoe/Webber
09 Feb 2026
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Ashley pulled a cigarette from the pack in her hand and put it in her mouth, a motion so rote that Buffy wouldn't even register it normally. But now, Buffy watched her intently, the purse of her lips around the filter, the way her fingers dipped easily into her shirt to search for her lighter. Buffy's eyes gleamed.
Ashley flicked the lighter open, the quiet metal clink of the lid resonant in the silence of the yard. A shiver ran up Buffy's spine. She pressed her lips together, the breath in her throat suddenly stuck. She gulped again. Something was about to happen.
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when you're at the back i guess that you've got an awful lot to prove by faintlight
Fandoms: Starlight Express - Phillips/Stilgoe/Webber
18 Jan 2026
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CB pulled away and straightened her back. Electra wasn’t going to get her that easily. “I’m just here on business, Electra.”
“So you’ll be going now?” Electra crossed their arms.
CB hesitated. This really wasn’t what she’d come here for, but…
She let Electra’s magnetism draw her back.
“I knew you wouldn’t be able to help yourself, Caboose,” Electra said, low and throaty in CB’s ear.
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—and then she owns you by faintlight
Fandoms: Starlight Express - Phillips/Stilgoe/Webber
15 Jan 2026
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Lying on the floor underneath Ashley's skirt, Buffy wondered about how she'd gotten there.
Not physically, mind you. She was very aware of each and every step that had gotten her from pressing Ashley to the shed wall to being pinned down, breathing in the warm scent of Ashley's compression system, with a collar tight around her neck. A leash attached to her collar snaked out from under Ashley's skirt. The other end of the leash was clutched tight in Ashley's hand. That all made sense to Buffy, as did the aching need coming from her codpiece.
No, what Buffy wasn't quite sure about was just how quickly she'd become utterly devoted to Ashley. She wasn't really even sure how long they'd been together. It had always been Buffy and Ashley, as long as Buffy really cared to remember. She was sure there'd been a first kiss, a first time she'd eaten Ashley out, a first time Ashley had fingered her. They were lost in the sea of memories of all the times since.
So Buffy had no way to know if it had taken her relatively little time to fall head over heels for Ashley. She suspected it had taken rather less time than the average.
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keep it keep it keep it keep it going all night by faintlight
Fandoms: Starlight Express - Phillips/Stilgoe/Webber
30 Dec 2025
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Dinah’s mouth trembled like she would start crying again, but she kept it together. “Greaseball- she never listens to me! Or takes me seriously!” A hiccup. “And she- she expects me to take care of her! All the time!” Her voice began to wobble.
Ashley and Buffy hugged her tighter. Buffy nestled her head in the crook of Dinah’s neck. Ashley rested her cheek on top of Dinah’s head.
They sat like that as Dinah cried until she couldn’t cry anymore. She just kept hiccuping into Buffy’s chest.
“What do you say we all get drunk about it?” Buffy said.
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Buffy's Dramatic Turn by faintlight
Fandoms: Starlight Express - Phillips/Stilgoe/Webber
24 Dec 2025
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Buffy is sick of the way coaches are treated on the line. She's going to do something about it.
Ashley is initially on board with Buffy's plan, but as Buffy's thirst for violence and chaos grows, Ashley starts to worry.
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the red caboose would like to be of use by faintlight
Fandoms: Starlight Express - Phillips/Stilgoe/Webber
17 Dec 2025
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“Come on, Caboose,” Greaseball said, grabbing CB’s jaw to force her to make eye contact. “Tell me what you want.”
“I want you to let go of me,” CB said, trying her best to struggle. Electra’s grip on her tightened.
Greaseball just laughed. She rubbed CB’s bottom lip with her thumb. It took all of CB’s willpower to not instinctively suck on it. “What do you really want?”
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what a race, what a team by faintlight
Fandoms: Starlight Express - Phillips/Stilgoe/Webber
11 Dec 2025
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Greaseball was busy with work, other coaches, other engines. Not that CB wasn't also busy with all those things, but no one ever fucked her quite like Greaseball.
It wasn't that Greaseball was particularly good at sex. She never listened to her partner, and seemed incapable of anything that wasn't hard, rough, and degrading. Anything more gentle was off the table, at least from CB's own experience and what she heard from Dinah.
Good thing CB liked it rough and hard. A wound-up Greaseball fucking her like she was trying to flatten CB's frame was unlike any other engine CB had ever had inside her. And right now, she needed the roughest, hardest, most degrading experience of her life.
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“Electra,” CB said, her voice steady. “What can I do for you?”
“Caboose,” Electra said, their voice a pleasant purr in CB’s headphones. She tried to ignore the shiver that ran down her spine. “I believe I told you to give me a call sometime soon.”
(lesbian electraboose phone sex)
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remember i can face both ways by faintlight
Fandoms: Starlight Express - Phillips/Stilgoe/Webber
05 Dec 2025
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It wasn’t that she was expecting Greaseball to come find her. Greaseball's usual post-race routine included loudly letting off steam with Dinah (or another coach) in the diesel shed.
But she’d seen the look in Greaseball’s eyes after CB had crashed the other engines. CB thought the same look was probably mirrored in her own eyes, if the thrill she’d felt watching the engines fly down the track and crash was anything to go by. Races didn’t always wind her up, but after she’d crashed someone, she couldn’t shake her excitement.
The way Greaseball had made eye contact with her on the track wouldn't leave her mind. Something about that look in her eye made CB recall in intimate detail the last time Greaseball had shoved her up against a wall.
(lesbian cheater boys post-race 1)
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stop grinning and cut to the chase by faintlight
Fandoms: Starlight Express - Phillips/Stilgoe/Webber
02 Oct 2025
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At the starting line, Greaseball stood and flexed, the motors in her chest humming with anticipation. CB could feel the vibrations through Greaseball’s couplers. How was she going to get Greaseball fuck her during the race? It wasn’t exactly hard to get her off course—usually she was crashing the other engines—but this was a little different.
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“Just remember whose side you’re on.” Greaseball stepped back, and CB let out a breath she hadn’t realized she was holding.
“I’m on yours,” CB said, keeping her voice light despite the lingering tension between them.
“Yeah?” Greaseball said, raising an eyebrow. “Prove it.”
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one rock'n'roll too many by faintlight
Fandoms: Starlight Express - Phillips/Stilgoe/Webber
21 Aug 2025
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Greaseball, Electra, and CB groaned in near-harmony from their pile of crumpled metal under the ramp. Greaseball’s arm plating was somehow stuck into CB’s hip joint and coupler, and Electra seemed to be dented into the bottom of CB’s spine, one hand resting just above her rear plating.
“This is your fault,” Greaseball said bitterly. She tried to wrench her arm from where the metal was twisted into CB’s side plating, only succeeding in knocking her wrist against CB’s waist, further denting the already weak metal.
“Fuck off, it’s your fault,” Electra said, attempting the same with their shoulder. They almost pulled free, but snapped back with magnetic force. Their hand smacked CB’s ass.
(lesbian cheater boys one rock n roll too many)
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i knew before it started this august would be a hard one by faintlight
Fandoms: The Bright Sessions (Podcast)
20 Jan 2025
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“So, Mark,” the therapist says, “what do you want to talk about today?”
Mark looks up from his lap.
They’re not an AM therapist, but they do specialize in atypicals, like Joan used to. They’re not AM, but they do have his file, know everything about him that the institute ever dragged out of him.
The therapist looks at him expectantly. Mark realizes he’s a few beats too late answering their question.
I’m here because everyone in my life keeps telling me that I’m fucked up, and I know they’re right.
I’m here because something happened to me that I still can’t put a finger on three years later.
Mark clears his throat. “I’m here because there are things that I can’t talk about with a normal therapist.” Or anyone, really.
(Or, Mark finally goes to therapy.)
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you were never a saint and i loved in shades of wrong by faintlight
Fandoms: The Bright Sessions (Podcast)
17 Jun 2024
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“Hi, Joan.”
The voice hit Joan before she could process the words. Sam was back, finally.
Sam was back.
Sam was back, and she hadn’t called.
Sam was back, and she hadn’t thought to tell Joan she was coming home.
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It was a bad idea for an infinity of reasons—she was Alvina’s boss, the nature of their work necessitated a close and functional relationship that would splinter under the pressures of romance, it was very likely that she was not the only one in the office that had feelings for Alvina—it was a nonstarter. There was no version of this where a relationship between them would work.
And yet.
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i'm doing better, i made it to september by faintlight
Fandoms: The Bright Sessions (Podcast), The College Tapes (Podcast)
06 Jan 2024
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It’s been three years, and you think you’re doing better. You know you are. But when Oliver looks at you and you can just make out the glint in his eye, that first step into something more, a jolt of electricity runs up your spine like a static shock turned all the way up.
set after episode 714
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i only want sympathy in the form of you falling into bed with me by faintlight
Fandoms: The Silt Verses (Podcast)
03 Jan 2024
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Carpenter and Paige find comfort in each other’s company.
Set during episode 34/s3e5
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we're in a tinbox and i've got a toothpick and i have been poking the air by faintlight
Fandoms: The Orphans (Podcast)
12 Jun 2023
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Cordelia Veil could feel her heart pound as she curled tighter into her bunk. It was all she’d been able to afford with the last of the credits from the Chronicle.
She closed her eyes as she felt tears start to gather. She had no idea where Rachel was, if she’d ever see her again. It wasn’t fair, after the way her life had turned out so far. Despite the rising tensions around them, the past few weeks had been the happiest of her life. Just last night-
Cordelia stifled a sob, hand over her mouth. Just last night she’d been sharing a bed with Rachel. Her heart ached. She could almost feel Rachel’s hand in hers.
(Set during Exposé)
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Lovelace grinned up at the camera. “You know, Hera, I’m not opposed to sharing.”
“Wipe that smirk off your face, Captain. This isn’t the conversation we’re having.”
“But it is a conversation?”
Lovelace, Hera, and Minkowski navigate their relationships in the wake of Eiffel's disappearance.