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Turn Out the Lights (On Your Racing Mind) by diamonds_and_dynamite
Fandoms: Red White & Royal Blue - Casey McQuiston
13 Mar 2024
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“Alex. Do you trust me?”
He trusts Henry with his life without a thought. But he trusts him with more than that too. He trusts that Henry cares about more than his continued existence. He cares about Alex’s desperate drive and his inane insecurities and all of the vulnerabilities he scrambles to keep out of sight.
He trusts Henry with the pieces of himself he thought would destroy him if anyone ever saw.
He nods, and something in his expression must give away how earnestly he feels his answer, because Henry’s smile softens.
“Sweet boy,” Henry murmurs. There’s a glow in Alex’s chest at the soft words. “I’m going to hold your book, and you’re going to kneel here and read for me. Do you understand?”
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Alex struggles to read his case studies for law school, and Henry decides to give him something to focus on.
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Muck Around and Find Out by Birdie_jc, butchboy24, diamonds_and_dynamite, elizaunfiltered, gee_623, peachylemon, RobynOnAO3, shyandgloriousthorn, southern bigfoot (western_smallfoot), summerdrive, talaricula, TheEternalForever, thereforebucket, twinsandclones
Fandoms: A League of Their Own (TV 2022)
22 Dec 2023
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Jess sees significance in copper pennies and four leaf clovers; her eyes are trained to see wonder in their magic-less world. Lupe can’t think of a worse way to recover from the anxiety of meeting Jess’s family for the first time than struggling through ankle deep mud in the woods in search of a cryptid fairytale.
But she’s with Jess, which is all she really needs. It’s all nonsense anyway… right?
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No Proof, One Touch (But You Felt Enough) by diamonds_and_dynamite for shyandgloriousthorn
Fandoms: A League of Their Own (TV 2022)
22 Dec 2023
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This time when Lupe inhaled, she could smell Jess’s soap along with the smoke. She breathed deep. She let her fingers graze against Jess’s cheek as she relinquished the cigarette, and she could almost believe Jess leaned into the touch.
Then Lupe said, “I’m in love with you.”
***Lupe comforts Jess after a lost game and makes a confession. Jess hadn’t realized there was a confession to make.
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Magic was never meant to take mortal form, but when the waters ran with the blood of babes, when the flesh of sorcerers fueled the pyres, the Goddess took that which had been slaughtered by a man determined to drive it from the world and formed it into a child. A thunderstorm, a forest fire, an earthquake bound by bone and blood.
Locked away, it builds. It grows. It wants to return to the earth, take its part in the turning of the wheel.
You can try to hold back the tides, but eventually, the levy breaks.
***Arthur commands Merlin to stop using his magic. Merlin tries to obey.
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Help Me Hold on to You by diamonds_and_dynamite
Fandoms: Red White & Royal Blue - Casey McQuiston, Red White & Royal Blue (2023)
08 Nov 2023
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They eat in quiet, Alex sitting sideways on the bed and letting his bent leg press against Henry’s outstretched one. I’m here, he tells him silently, with steady pressure and all the love in his heart.
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Henry has a depressive episode. Alex takes care of him.Series
- Part 2 of When You Hold Me, It Holds Me Together
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When You Hold Me, It Holds Me Together by diamonds_and_dynamite
Fandom: Red White & Royal Blue (2023), Red White & Royal Blue - Casey McQuiston
08 Nov 2023
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A series oneshots of Alex and Henry helping each other navigate their mental health and neurodivergences.
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“You think we should have sex?” Eddie clarified — still in that slow, deliberate tone, like any sudden movement would cause the ceiling to cave in around them.
Buck rolled his eyes. “I mean…not for real.”
“Okay. So you think we should have fake sex."
“Yeah, like reading Our Bodies, Ourselves isn’t the same as watching porn, right? It’d be educational sex.”
“Well if it’s educational sex...”
Or: Buck learns that Eddie's never had a prostate orgasm. Clipboard sex ensues.
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Bookmarked by diamonds_and_dynamite
26 Nov 2024
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Evan Buckley grew up in a rural paradise in a picturesque house his father filled with his four wives and 23 children.
Evan Buckley also grew up alone in Hell with only his sister to love him.
Or, how Evan and Maddie escaped a cult and found their real family.
Bookmarked by diamonds_and_dynamite
23 Nov 2024
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Chris wants his dad. He wants his bed. But he can't have those yet, and he and Dad never really text because if Dad’s not working they’re usually together or one of them is too busy to text, so texting Dad feels weird, but Buck… He can text Buck.
do you think it was a good thing for Pandora to keep hope in the box?
The little dots pop up immediately, which Chris wasn’t expecting.
I’m not sure. I do know that it technically wasn’t a box, it was a pithos, which is like a big jar they used for storage. Box is a mistranslation, but it became so widely used that we all just roll with it now.
It’s a very classic Buck response. The dots keep going.
On that note, “hope” isn’t an exact translation either. Another way that people translate it is “deceptive expectation.” Hope isn’t necessarily deceptive, and we tend to use it in a positive way, so it’s maybe not the BEST word to use, but I guess in English we don’t have a better one for “deceptive expectation” and “hope” sounds pithier.
Deceptive expectation. Huh.
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Bookmarked by diamonds_and_dynamite
19 Oct 2024
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Buck doesn’t think that if he were to say, “I’m in a bad place”, that anyone would turn him away. Really, he doesn’t. The 118 has too many good, kind people for that.
But every time he wants to open his mouth, to say something, to reach out to Eddie or Bobby or Hen or Chim, he hears Eddie yelling, “you’re exhausting.”
—you’re exhausting, you’re exhausting, you’re exhausting—
So each day he does his job and he laughs and he jokes and he pretends he’s the care-free goofball he’s always been. And each day he packs away his bruises and his worries, takes them home to his empty loft with its quiet rooms, and licks his wounds in silence.
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Bookmarked by diamonds_and_dynamite
02 Oct 2024
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The Rotten Four discover the concept of swear words.
Bookmarked by diamonds_and_dynamite
01 Aug 2024