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Change Your Win Conditions by Vee (Vera_DragonMuse)
Fandoms: Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid
05 Feb 2026
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Sometimes life came at you with a clenched fist and Ilya had never figured out how to duck.
So here he was, twenty-eight years old, single, dealing with the fallout from injuries given to him by the game he loved, and the second youngest assistant coach in the league to one of the worst teams. Stability was hard to come by, but he was managing.
Then along came Shane Hollander to knock him on his ass, one more time.
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- Part 1 of win conditions
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- English
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- 102,971
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- 10/10
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06 Feb 2026
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[Pre-crash / No crash AU]
They've been best friends since childhood, but Shauna has two massive secrets she keeps from Jackie: That she's desperately in love with her, and that she also deeply resents her.
With a few months left until their high school graduation and Nationals on the table, everything changes for Jackie and Shauna when Jackie breaks up with Jeff and one of their usual late-night makeouts crosses a line that can't be un-crossed. As their friendship turns sexual, Shauna tries to decode what it all means while she waits for an acceptance letter from Brown and hopes to leave Jackie—and the feelings she's always had for her—behind.
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- Part 1 of JackieShauna Curse Universe
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- English
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- 227,920
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- 33/34
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17 May 2025
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Jackie Taylor is not homophobic. She swears.
She doesn't know why she's so angry that Shauna is sleeping with another woman, but it definitely isn't because she's homophobic.
or: jackie's journey of self discovery after van suggests her feelings toward shauna aren't exactly a type of deep friend love, you know?
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15 May 2025
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Jackie means mating for life. Devoted, bonded, willing to die to sustain the other. Shauna, Jackie figures, means friends.
Either way, she’s Jackie’s. Jackie’s to watch, to touch, to love from afar, and to carry through life.
Until death.
Jackie would give all of herself too, eventually, if Shauna wanted it.
Would let her pick at her piece by piece until she’s consumed within her, flesh from the bone and two become one.Life’s easy for Jackie Taylor, high school’s even easier. Her only inconvenience is the small fact that she’s desperately in love with Shauna Shipman and can’t do anything about it. Nothing major.
So she yearns, close and overbearing. The only thing worse than losing Shauna would be to truly find herself. Every girl dreams about kissing her best friend, right?
That’s life.
Right?- Language:
- English
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- 48,420
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- 20/20
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23 Apr 2025
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I feel more free than I have in years (six feet in the ground) by fowles
Fandoms: Yellowjackets (TV)
17 Oct 2023
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Without the crash, without the tragedy, Jackie and Shauna head to college separately.
A reunion told over four years.
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- English
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- 139,959
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- 8/8
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15 Mar 2025
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as i scan this wasted land, try to find the way i feel by commanderofraccoons
Fandoms: Yellowjackets (TV)
22 Mar 2023
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In an attempt to change her clock back to 2021, an error message appeared instead.
And maybe Callie didn’t have her mother’s Ivy League-sized brain, but she could put it together. In the middle of the woods, her phone displaying it was 1996, of all possible years. It was quite the elaborate nightmare, she’d give her brain that one.
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Callie finds herself in 1996, armed only with an unworkable iPhone and her vape pen.
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- English
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- 38,076
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- 5/5
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12 Mar 2025
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honey, you’re familiar (like my mirror years ago) by novel_concept26
Fandoms: Yellowjackets (TV)
29 Sep 2023
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The Yellowjackets, strictly speaking, tend to have more than enough problems without time travel in the mix. None of them were planning on babysitting their teenage selves out of the blue. This was never the plan at all.
Sometimes, the plans just have to go out the window. Sometimes, you just have to trust in something bigger than what you can see.
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11 Mar 2025
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Jackie Taylor has collected many labels over the twenty-two years of her relatively short life: daughter, friend, girlfriend, Yellowjacket, teammate, captain, plane crash survivor, Scarlet Knight, Tri-Delt. Now, only a handful of weeks after adding college graduate to her resumé, she can call herself a homeowner.
Freshly minted Rutgers graduate Jackie Taylor returns to Wiskayok to buy a house with her boyfriend. It could use some work, but what couldn’t?
Not to worry, though. Nat Scatorccio knows a guy.
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09 Mar 2025
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Jackie gains the ability to read Shauna’s mind after a head injury. Shauna still manages to confound her, but at least Jackie comes to understand a lot about herself in the process.
|technically complete but future installments for part 2 are possible|
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09 Mar 2025
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and give all the love that you have in your soul by janie_tangerine
Fandoms: A Song of Ice and Fire - George R. R. Martin
23 Feb 2018
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“As in, there is one future where the White Walkers are defeated immediately, the Long Night is merely a passing shadow and we are spared most of the senseless deaths that came upon Westeros since Ned Stark died. But it’s not a future I can try to turn into a reality,” Bran says with a long sigh.
“What – what do you mean?” Lord Connington doesn’t sound too convinced, but he’s listening intently, or so it seems from the frown on his face.
“That in order for us all to live, Aerys Targaryen must die not sooner and not later than he did, but Rhaegar must live,” Bran says tiredly, “along with Elia Martell and her children. Whether Lyanna Stark does or not is irrelevant, as long as all three children live and know they are the heads of the dragon. It’s no job for someone like me – I can only walk if I visit the past or the future, not if I want to live in it. How useless it is that one has such powers but then cannot even walk, isn’t it?”
“You – you mean to – send us to the past?” Brienne asks, barely audible.
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- Part 7 of jb week 2017
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- English
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- 90,075
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- 8/8
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- 7
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27 Jan 2025
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He knows that Maddie basically raised the man Eddie’s fallen in love with. He knows that every little way Buck shows up in his life, every display of love he gives to Eddie and Chris, he learned from Maddie.
He remembers what he said to Buck that day on the loft balcony, a bag of ice blocking blue eyes from his sight. That Buck had always known Maddie as his strong big sister, but she might need to be the one taken care of for once. Maybe he'd been speaking slightly from experience.
So, yeah. It doesn't matter that they've never really talked or hung out like this before. Maddie is Buck's family, which makes her Eddie's family. If what she needs is a wine night, Eddie's gonna make it the best damn wine night of her life.
"I'm in."
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OR: Months after the shooting, Eddie and Buck dance closer and closer to confessing their feelings for each other — until Eddie agrees to wine nights with Maddie and Karen, and Buck thinks he's dating someone new.
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31 Dec 2024
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The World As We Know It by elphabaoftheopera
Fandoms: Wicked - All Media Types, Wicked - Schwartz/Holzman, The Wicked Years Series - Gregory Maguire, Wicked (Movie 2024)
04 Oct 2024
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When their long-awaited night of passion results in an unplanned pregnancy, Elphaba and Fiyero must navigate the consequences of the new world they’ve created. Years later, when Liir has questions about his past that even his Auntie Glinda won't answer, a startling discovery sets him on a journey that alters everything he once knew. Canon-Divergent. AU. Musicalverse. Fiyeraba (& Gliyeraba).
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- 166,751
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- 29/29
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03 Dec 2024
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“Your safety is my priority right now. How long have you been thinking about this?” he repeats.
Eddie wants to tell him that it only happened yesterday, but then he thinks about quarantine, and when Shannon died, and when she left for LA after he was discharged, and when he found out Chris was diagnosed with cerebral palsy, and when Shannon told him she was pregnant, and when he was ten and his dad yelled at him for crashing his new truck because his mom was in labor and nobody was around to take her to the hospital. He thinks about how he wanted to disappear every time, wished for something to kill him so that he didn’t have to face his fears, deal with reality. It hits him like his dad’s truck hit the tree.
“Since I was in elementary school,” he admits breathlessly.
Also known as, the eddieravi bestie fic that quickly turned into a character study
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08 Nov 2024
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Evan Buckley was born with the singular purpose of saving his older brother. And it works: the cells graft and Daniel's cancer goes into remission. Instead of becoming a grim secret that haunts his family for years to come, Daniel lives.
In some ways, it makes all the difference.
In other ways, it doesn't make any difference at all.
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11 Oct 2024
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18 Sep 2024
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18 Sep 2024
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Missing Chris is less of an emotion these days and more of a physical entity. He’s sure everyone can see that he’s slowly hollowing himself out, that he can’t do much of anything else.
But when Jee laughs at him trying to get his tongue to touch his nose, and Mara loops one of her arms through his to keep him from tossing the rest of his cup in the garbage, Eddie feels solid again.
Maybe he likes yellow birthday cake ice cream after all.
(or, gerrard messes with the team's schedules and eddie 'i just drove my son to flee the state' diaz is the only option to watch mara and jee-yun after school on tuesdays, which, shouldn't be a problem at all, right?)
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- 58,577
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11 Sep 2024
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“Oh, wow,” Hen says, eyes wide as she looks down at Eddie’s phone screen. “That really is a cat.”
“Why do you sound so surprised?” Eddie asks, as Chim joins Hen. “I told you I was adopting a cat. Now I have a cat.”
“He’s got your moustache,” Chim comments. “Is that why you chose him? So you wouldn’t feel so alone when we make fun of it?”
Hen snorts and Eddie sends a glare her way.
“No,” he says petulantly. “That’s not why.”
Eddie’s well aware he’s not being entirely truthful—he did kind of pick Freddie because of their matching moustaches—but Hen and Chim don't need to know that.
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(Chris goes to Texas for the summer. Eddie adopts a bunch of cats about it.)
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17 Aug 2024
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Eddie thinks for a moment.
He can’t, he shouldn’t get caught up in the oxytocin-laced response of whatever this is. His heart sings desperate beneath its rapid pulse, and Eddie knows this feeling isn’t going away. He deliberates before proposing, “I’m good with casual.”
Buck works his lower lip into his mouth, lost in thought. He’s quick with his response. “Yeah. Casual. I’ll warn you though, I’ve never been great at casual.”
“Ok. Let’s make a deal: we keep our personal lives out of it. No personal details. No last names, nothing. Just two guys, being… casual.” Eddie realizes it makes no sense as soon as he says it. He blames it on the alcohol, but really, he’s just saying anything, anything he can think of to try and convince Buck to let Eddie see him again. He wonders if Buck’s groveling with himself just as much.
“Fuck it. Yeah, let’s do that.”Or, Buck meets Eddie at a bar and the two agree to keep things casual. Meanwhile, Mr. Buckley is a junior high teacher who meets Christopher Diaz, a student of his with an elusive single dad. These two things aren't connected, probably.
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14 Aug 2024
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Buck overhears a conversation between Eddie, Hen, and Chim and misunderstands it all.
Or, the one where Buck thinks Eddie’s only asked him on a date for practice.
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29 Jun 2024