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Abby says something indistinct over the music. Max makes a face to indicate she couldn’t hear and bends closer. Abby leans in. The ends of her hair tickle Max’s collarbones and she has to remind herself to breathe. Sometimes when you’ve been feeling sick for so long you stop noticing it at all. It’s the same thing with the effect Abby has on her; sometimes she thinks she’s grown used to it. Other times it hits her like a fever spike.
Abby says, in her ear: “You’re so quiet these days.”
Max rears back. The sick feeling is all throughout her body now.
OR: how I think S4 should go, featuring fucked-up teenage decisions, Brodie's basement (again... and again...) and stupid, helpless, crazy girls.
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In his mind, he sees her, her dark hair splitting into two neat braids on either side of her thin neck, her pinstriped arms, the deep shadows of her eyes; she would not let anyone insert a microchip into her body; she would not, or could not, be made docile.
Tyler is different. Pliancy seems to come naturally to him.
Today is the day he is going to leave.
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Tyler at Nevermore, featuring: Hyde musings, dumb teenage parties, chess matches, dances, camping trips, and finally, maybe, true loveSeries
- Part 4 of grim, ungainly, ghastly, gaunt
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vision of things not seen by layabout
Fandoms: Anne of Green Gables - L. M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables (TV 1985) & Related Fandoms
05 Aug 2023
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“Really,” Gilbert says to Andrew, after Andrew’s bruised his knuckles on Moody Spurgeon’s pimply face. “I ask you, is this violence necessary?”
“He said I would make a pretty girl,” Andrew says, mutinously. His eyes flash, a gray that looks like churning river water: spuming, deadly.
“Well,” Gilbert says, reasonably. “He isn’t wrong, you know.”
He dodges the kick.
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Tom says: “Harry.” Her spine straightens. Tom says: “That’s a boy’s name.”
“Tom,” She returns, her voice nasty. “That’s a Muggle name.”
Tom hisses out between his teeth, but he’s a leashed tiger in the summer and she knows it. Her lips curl in a mean grin, and then she’s stepping close, so close he can count the individual eyelashes, the freckles on her sunburnt cheek. Green, green eyes.
OR: Harry, and Tom, together, in an attic, in the 40s. This cannot end well.
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“It’s Always About Us”: Outcast Activist Speaks About Tyler Galpin’s Trial (The Guardian)
“What About The Eighteen Lives?” A Mother’s Perspective On The Galpin Trial (People)
“It’s Weird That Everyone Cares So Much”: Nevermore Student Speaks About The Galpin Trial (Washington Post)
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All rise. The Court of Jericho County is now in session, Honorable Judge Lee presiding. Please be seated.OR: Jericho County v. Galpin. A courtroom drama in five parts.
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- Part 3 of grim, ungainly, ghastly, gaunt
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grim, ungainly, ghastly, gaunt by layabout
Fandom Addams Family - All Media Types, Wednesday (TV 2022)
17 Aug 2025
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Here's what we know: Lily Evans, after years of badgering and bad courting attempts, dated and married one James Fleamont Potter.
Here's what we know: Regulus Black, after years of slow separation from his popular, effervescently Gryffindor brother, died a slow drowning death, alone and friendless and forgotten.
Here's what we know: Severus Snape lost his only friend in a moment of humiliated, misdirected, anger and spent the rest of his life closed-off and spiteful, hating himself- his life - his job - his decisions - but with no choice but to drudge drearily onward, to honor Lily's last sacrifice.
But. What if.
In this universe, an alternate and dazzlingly parallel world, Lily Evans, a girl who has fought and raged and will not fucking lose her best friend to the capricious smiles and dazzling arrogance of the blood-purists looks over, glances, really, at a table hung with green and silver, meeting gray eyes with her own poison-green.
I wonder, Lily thinks, alight with hatred for James Potter and something else; maybe, Lily thinks, and pulls Regulus Black from the depths.
So spirals a bifurcation. So springs our story.
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"No one understood the perfume
of the shadow magnolia of your belly.
No one knew you crushed completely
a human bird of love between your teeth."
Gacela of Unforeseen Love, Federico Garcia Lorca
"I give the pain of a fresh lily
for a heart of chalk.
All night long, in the orchard
my eyes, like two dogs.
All night long, quinces
of poison, flowing.
Sometimes the wind
is a tulip of fear,
a sick tulip,
daybreak of winter.
A wall of difficult dreams
divides me from the dead.”Gacela of the Remembrance of Love, Federico Garcia Lorca
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the momentary image of certain passions by layabout
Fandom Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling, Percy Jackson and the Olympians & Related Fandoms - All Media Types
15 Mar 2021
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“I’m right here. And you are okay, and you are safe, and healthy, and you are at home, yes? It is quiet, and nobody is there, nobody is bothering you. And the world is full of stupid idiots, but you are not one of them. And I am here. When you need me, I am here.”
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or: The whole world thinks Shane is gay because of some stupid internet rumors, and he doesn't even have to confirm it. He's losing control of his entire life and he needs somewhere to put what little he does have.
Ilya has open hands.
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14 Feb 2026
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On the Brink of Forever by broccolicheddarchicken
Fandoms: Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid
30 Jan 2026
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There had been a tragedy. The Ottawa Centaurs' plane had crashed in northern Georgia, during the course of their flight from Carolina to Tampa. They didn't know much else yet. All NHL activities were suspended for the next seven days.
Wait, what?
At seventeen, Shane Hollander met the love of his life. At twenty-nine, gravity took him away.
Shane wishes he’d died, too.
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14 Feb 2026
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nobody knows (and nobody gives a damn, either way). by milominderbinder
Fandoms: Heated Rivalry (TV)
30 Dec 2025
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"I did. After MLH awards, in June. Oh, I did not tell him about Shane and me. But what he did, it was important. It changed things. For me, at least - maybe for us."
On the night of the MLH awards, Ilya corners Scott Hunter on a quiet balcony.
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12 Feb 2026
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frequently, secretly fond of each other. by milominderbinder
Fandoms: Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid
22 Feb 2026
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Shrugging one shoulder far more casually than he possibly feels, Ilya says, “I like both. Is secret, okay?”
“Okay,” Hollander says, voice cracking.
He doesn’t say anything else. The air’s so heavy around them that it feels like being in the middle of a scrum, the weight and heat of all those bodies pressing down on you. Danger always feels like hockey; it’s the most dangerous thing Ilya knows, except for this. Everything dangerous in his life involves men’s bodies and just how close he can get to them. Closer than he probably should.
Nobody knows why Shane Hollander dropped out of the 2009 draft at the last second, and a year later it stuns the whole hockey world when he's signed by the Boston Raiders. Having the two biggest stars in the league on the same line is great for Boston - but playing alongside their worst rival was never exactly in Shane or Ilya's plans. Especially not when staying away from each other starts to feel just as impossible as getting along.
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12 Feb 2026
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Jacob Black doesn’t tell anyone when Jane Uley starts tutoring him.
Jane has no one to tell anyway.Jane is Sam Uley’s younger half-sister—quiet, disliked, and an easy target in a town that has already decided who she is. Jacob is warm and wanted and still holding onto feelings for Bella Swan. Whatever he and Jane are feels real, but only in private: stolen kisses at the door, hours alone together, a relationship that exists as long as no one sees it.
When Jacob phases and imprints on Jane, everything changes—but not in the way she hopes. Loving Jacob means being hidden, chosen only when it’s convenient. And as Jane is forced to confront what she’s willing to accept, she begins to realize that choosing Jacob may mean losing herself.
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08 Feb 2026