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  1. Public Bookmark 2

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    It's hard falling for a man whose heart is spoken for. She doesn't even know if she would call it that, but it doesn't stop her from wishing that things were different.

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    25 Nov 2025

  2. Rec 34

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    McVries tells him about meeting Ray when he’d only just meant to be passing through Freeport. He casually asks Stebbins if he believes in soulmates while he’s elbow-deep in the ceiling, and when Stebbins freezes stock still on the ladder, he only laughs that easy laugh of his and keeps on describing their meet-cute like he wasn’t really expecting an answer anyway. It’s a sweet story. Romantic, at least in the way McVries tells it.

    It’s the kind of story that twists Stebbins up in places he didn’t even realize could get knots until his smile looks like it hurts. It was love at first sight. McVries doesn’t ask if he believes in that, too, and Stebbins is grateful that he doesn’t have to stutter out an answer that he’s not entirely sure he knows.

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    or the one where ray and pete buy an abandoned bar in a dying mountain town and hire a local carpenter named billy stebbins to help them restore it

    a small town love story nobody asked for told in four parts over four seasons

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    03 Nov 2025

  3. Rec 27

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    Suddenly, it felt less important to know how many miles there were to Freeport than to watch this— the way Garraty turned his face towards McVries’ neck, for just a moment, to breathe. Like when his Ma said to keep eyes on the pulpit during service. Not for his own personal good, no. But just so that someone saw it; so it was affirmed in that sense, whatever it was Garraty and McVries had.

    That it really did exist, here, in this Godawful place.

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    Barkovitch loses it, for real this time. Pete and Ray draw together. Stebbins is witness.

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    25 Oct 2025

  4. Public Bookmark 4

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    A painting hangs in the long unoccupied hallways of Rafe's home. Stitches hold together skin once split by gold. Samuel Drake wears no jewelry. Christmas snow. And many, many more things.

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    or: avery's ship and onward, it is a long journey to recovery and carving a home

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    17 Jul 2024

  5. Rec *

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    Samira takes a temporary night rotation to get some distance. It doesn’t last.

    Slow-burn medical codependency with post-it flirting, trauma-induced restraint, and a diagnosis neither of them wants to read out loud.

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    23 May 2025

    Bookmarker's Notes

    maybe the best fic of all time?? my end of day get cosy and reread fic