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feet on the ground, reaching for the stars by ProfessorSpork
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
31 Oct 2020
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“So,” Mom says one weekend afternoon as she and Robin stare down the Sunday Times crossword, huddled together on the porch swing, “you and Steve Harrington sure have been living in each other’s pockets lately.” She puts down the pen and gives Robin a carefully-probing smile disguised as a teasing one. “Anything you wanna tell me?”
Yeah; I’m gay, Robin thinks. Her throat constricts painfully. “I—you’d know if I were dating someone,” she says instead.
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13 Jan 2026
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home is no place for the soft-hearted by Zofiecfield
Fandoms: The Haunting of Bly Manor (TV)
22 Nov 2021
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Jamie gets called back to her hometown to care for her father, leaving Dani and Bly behind. But home isn't only the place that spat you out into the world, once upon a time. Home is so much more, and home isn't willing to let go so easily.
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31 Dec 2025
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Rescue Flare by lazarov
Fandoms: Daredevil (TV), Marvel Cinematic Universe, The Defenders (Marvel TV), Marvel
17 Dec 2020
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It's an old game he and Stick used to play. Maybe not a game; something more like a test.
"Tell me what you taste."
Stick bought him an ice cream, the first time, but the game quickly expanded. From plain white rice (so much hiding in something so simple), to jerk chicken from Restaurant Row (Stick would make him pick out every last spice, in order of volume, then list their origins). Every wrong answer meant the swift crack of Stick’s cane across his shoulders or a jab behind the knee.
If he omitted an ingredient, he'd have to keep eating until he got them all—even if he'd already identified after the tiniest bite, say, the soiled band-aid the short-order cook had dropped in the chili and left to stew all day.
In which Matt Murdock dismantles a child trafficking ring while dealing with the ghosts of his past.
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10 Nov 2025
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Robin looks... pretty. Really pretty.
The thought should scare her, but it doesn’t, because the alcohol is thrumming behind her ribs and buzzing beneath her skin, liquid courage taking form.
She decides to admire. She thinks she deserves it, just this once.
Or: Robin stumbles upon Nancy at the Halloween party rather than Jonathon. From there, a strange yet profound friendship forms between the two of them. Robin yearns for more and Nancy aches deep inside.
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23 Jan 2023
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Now I Don't Feel Those Kinds of Things by saltandsunscreen
Fandoms: Killing Eve (TV 2018)
18 Aug 2019
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“Do you two know each other?” Elena asks, passing Eve a fresh cup of coffee. “You and the new lawyer, I mean.”
For a second, Eve imagines telling her everything. Saying, remember that night Niko left last year, and I thought we were really done? Well, I went out, got drunk, met her, and we fuc--
Eve can’t even make her pretend-self confess it all to Elena, not under the stark fluorescent lighting of their office. She can’t come up with a good lie, either -- a whole two seconds after seeing Villanelle again, her brain is still busy numbly cataloguing her every too-fast breath and rushed heartbeat. “Uh, I’m pretty sure we ran into each other at a conference, once?”
“Oh.” Elena pauses. “I wish I had her jacket. Her outfit is amazing.”
Eve’s smile would probably be a little less fake if she could entirely convince herself that she’s also thinking about Villanelle’s clothes, and not what’s underneath them.
But she and Niko are trying, right? So she smiles harder.
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A breakup. A hookup.
For a year, Eve does her best to forget it all.
Then chance brings a new hire to the office, and everything gets a lot more complicated.
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- Part 1 of Nothing Else Ever Feels Like Your Body
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15 May 2024