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here, side by side, at the end of tomorrow by CountingNothings for v838monoceros
Fandoms: Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood & Manga
31 Dec 2025
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The accusation the Truth had levelled at him had stung, but it had been — well, true. He’d trusted, blindly, in men who’d only been trustworthy according to some bullshit metric cryptically communicated to him by an old man with his own agenda. He’d trusted his contingencies and his double-blinds, his schemes and his whisper network. And what did all that get him? He’d completely lost the capacity to care for those who had entrusted themselves to him, much less the whole country he’d been proud enough to envision under his wing.
Can he really become worthy of their faith again? Does he have any capacity to care and to protect, now that the illusions have all been stripped away?
“I’ll be back in the morning, sir,” says the one person whose answer he already knows.Or: in the ten days after Roy leaves the hospital, he learns how to cook an egg blind, loses his comfortable pants, prepares for his reinstatement evaluations, dreams of Maes Hughes dying, ponders the domestic applications of flame alchemy, second-guesses everything he ever believed about his role in his country's future, and moves in with his lieutenant.
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as the heavens set fire by CountingNothings for FleetOfAdmiralLynx
Fandoms: The Locked Tomb Series | Gideon the Ninth Series - Tamsyn Muir
31 Dec 2025
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Trapped beyond death in a hell of someone else's making, Ortus discovers that "stop flirting with my wife" has multiple semantic valences. Some of which, when followed to their logical conclusion, turn out to be worthwhile exegetical opportunities.
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so shake the ground in front of me by CountingNothings for milleniumrex
Fandoms: Voltron: Legendary Defender
01 Jan 2025
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A chase, a getaway, a crash. Pidge's day couldn't get much worse, especially since she's enduring all of this with the biggest distraction in her life, who also happens to be a really annoying mission partner. But when Allura gets hurt, the life-or-death struggle becomes a little more urgent, a little more personal, and Pidge finds herself admitting to things she hasn't quite figured out for herself, yet.
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Advanced Dynamics of Homemaking and Leavetaking by CountingNothings
Fandoms: Community (TV)
15 Jan 2024
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She regrets the kiss much longer than a week.
This may be because Jeff clearly thinks it means something different than she intended, and it may be because, Troy's triumphant return notwithstanding, she really is moving on with her life and Jeff's inconvenient feelings are kind of harshing her vibe. But a Jeff Winger who's honest about what he wants is a remarkably seductive thing, and Annie's spin-off show may need a romantic lead after all. -
I can hear the bells (ringing joyful and triumphant) by CountingNothings
Fandoms: Instant Star
10 Jan 2024
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London is lonely, with all her bridges burned, but Jude’s writing more and better music than she ever has, and it feels like a perfectly legitimate trade-off. Only, when circumstances conspire to add a newly-divorced guitarist to her tour band, Jude begins to consider if, maybe, the music isn’t something she actually wants – or needs – to do alone.
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Til They Retire Your Number by technicallyverycowboy
Fandoms: Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid
31 Dec 2025
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They lapse back into a comfortable silence. Shane looks at Ilya as he is and thinks about Ilya as he was at seventeen, smoking in the back of a Saskatchewan parking lot. The image is almost unbearably tender for Shane, where his own seventeen year old thrill at seeing Ilya Rozanov meets all the things Shane knows about that lonely boy now.
Shane thinks: Do you love number 81 more than you love this man?
"Hey," Ilya says, brushing his knuckles over Shane's cheek. "Whatever I do, I will be there when you come home."
Ilya decides to retire. Shane is very normal about it.
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25 Jan 2026
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It’s been almost three years since the last time they played against each other. Not in an exhibition, not a ceremonial puck drop or a smiling photo op. A real game, with real skates and real hard contact. Shane could swear, right now, that if he closes his eyes he’d remember the crack of sticks, the echo of blades against ice, the roar of the crowd rising and falling like a living thing by its own right. He won’t even have to try hard. It’s always there in the back of his mind. The way Ilya skated across the rink, visor fogged slightly, mouthguard half out of his mouth in that familiar, infuriating way.
Three years is nothing in the grand scheme of things. Three years is also an eternity. Long enough for routines to change and for habits to calcify like bone. For absence to become a kind of presence all on its own.
--- In which Shane and Ilya break up in 2017, after Florida. It's 2029, and both have retired and put the game behind them. An invitation to a charity event sets things in motion. Or, another alternate take on what happens after Episode 4.
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23 Jan 2026
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They’d considered it—Shane being gay. It’d been an option. But Ilya Rozanov and the way Shane looks at him like he’s the love of his life has blindsided them. Blindsided both of them, and there’s almost nothing Yuna likes less than being blindsided.
She’s not mad, David wants to say. We’re so proud of you. We’re so happy for you. We just didn’t know.
Somehow we missed it, you falling in love.
or, what David Hollander and Ilya Rozanov talk about while Shane and Yuna are outside in episode six.
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21 Jan 2026
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An online message board devoted to a cult fantasy author wrestles with his baffling final book.
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13 Oct 2025
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Fourteen years after the end of the Dominion War, Bajor and Cardassia are finally poised to enter the United Federation of Planets, together. But when Castellan Garak and Military Minister Kira find the body of Julian Bashir—with a heavily encrypted datarod containing the last fifty years of covert operations by Section 31 in his hand—on the eve of the treaty signing on Deep Space Nine, negotiations fall apart.
There is some nuance to it, of course, but what is nuance when your friend’s dead body has been found in a stasis container in Cargo Bay Four?
Or, Julian dies in the name of service to the Alpha Quadrant, but does a poor job staying dead. It does get his friends back together in one place, though.
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- Part 1 of call me by the old familiar name
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