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    does he do it like i do by

    Fandoms: Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid  

    03 Feb 2026

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    If he were sober, he might have recognized how catastrophically bad this idea was. That the roulette ball was not a sign, that they’d been playing for over an hour and it was bound to land on twenty-four eventually. But there was a buzzing warmth flooding his veins and a very loose grip on his rationality, so he headed away from the bar, through the lobby, and out onto the balmy Vegas strip. He leaned against a shadowed wall and scrolled to a contact he’d hovered over a thousand times before.

    This time, he called.

    Or: Five years after Rose helped Shane come to terms with his sexuality, he’s done everything else on his own. Coming out, surviving the backlash, being traded to Ottawa. When the dust finally settles, Shane meets a nice guy from Montreal and tells himself he’s ready to move on. He’s definitely not thinking about Ilya. Or Ilya’s gorgeous Russian wife. Not at all.

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    17 Mar 2026

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    that was very nice. all the tension couped up in them — you can feel it through the text. i like fics with years of build up, and we didn't have it here, year by year, but you can certainly feel it, slipping, text drenched in it, delicious.

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    The Thirteen Letters by ,

    Fandoms: Captain America (Movies), Marvel Cinematic Universe  

    30 Nov 2014

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    Womb to tomb, sweetheart.

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    12 Mar 2026

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    reread

    every time I read this particular piece of trilogy I cry like a baby. it makes me tear up every. single. time. the letters bucky is writing, his yearning, his worries, his messages on lighters, everything is just so heavy and prominent, because you know the path we are going with, you already know the future.

    this fic, I have realised, is also the one that reawakens my love for the pairing every single time I forget about it and switch on to something else. thank you, writers, so much for everything you have done

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    Baghdad Waltz by

    Fandoms: Captain America (Movies), Captain America - All Media Types, The Avengers (Marvel) - All Media Types, Marvel Cinematic Universe  

    27 Oct 2020

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    Lieutenant Steve Rogers has done all the right things. Graduated West Point at the top of his class. Earned a coveted spot as an infantry officer. Found the woman of his dreams. Everything is going exactly as planned. That is, until he accepts a platoon leader position for a unit deploying to Iraq, where he’s reunited with the ex-boyfriend he’d rather forget but never could.

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    Sergeant First Class Barnes thinks he knows war. He lives in a wild cycle of military training, deployments, sex, drinking, and pining for his former best friend and ex-boyfriend, Steve Rogers. But when Lieutenant Rogers is assigned as his platoon leader during Operation Iraqi Freedom, Sergeant Barnes realizes that he doesn't know the first thing about what it means to truly fight for something.

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    An Iraq War love story in three movements.

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    The story of two men who go to war and don’t quite come back home.

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    Please read the tags and warnings.

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    24 Feb 2026

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    it just shows you how much therapy actually helps. i've never being against it, vaguely tiptoing on the idea that I support it all in all, but this was so well researched and described that it made me truly believe in it.
    so realistic, and raw, and complicated — its going to be my forever comparison to anything vaguely similar (I'm already noticing it in myself, reading different fics in between the chapters)
    also, I found it quite hard and frustrating to get in at first, thinking its simply some kind of torture porn or pretentious dramatics, but its life at its worst and at its best, it's humans doing stupid and mature things
    another topic — Sharon, Winnie, other characters as well, really. but mostly i want to talk about Sharon; i don't know if its me being grown emotionally, if its the fantastic never-to-be-repeated writing approach to her, or if its my acceptance of the fic being as a default "memoir" so whatever comes is natural, but i have never found such an acceptance towards a character that is romantically and sexually linked to one of the main characters and doesn't cause even a stinge of annoyance from me as a reader. I'm betting on all three.

    “I wouldn’t go back and change anything. What we have now is built on the path we took to get here, and I don’t regret any of it.” I read once in another good fic about emotionally stunted men and fuck everyone if it doesn't ring true to what those two went through. they kind of HAD TO go through all of this, otherwise they wouldn't end up being HERE

    phenomenal writing striking you with the characters' most heartbreaking and adequate reactions and thoughts I've ever read on. I will never read anything that pulled me in this deep and affected me the way it did throughout

    I started reading the fic in 2022 by the way. it took me some time haha

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    biting the hand (and other body parts) that feeds you by

    Fandoms: The Pitt (TV)  

    01 Nov 2025

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    “There anything else you wanna do to celebrate, Mohan?”

    “The night is young! You are young, Mohan,” Jack says, bumping her with his shoulder. “Could go bar hopping? Though that might actually send Robby for a loop.” He chuckles.

    Her martinis have hit her. Hard. She’s woefully lightweight; it takes nothing for her to feel tipsy. The cigarette smoke on her tongue tastes acrid, it adds to her mild discomfort. She breathes in another drag, flicks the ash off to the side. Samira feels a little dizzy, but invincible.

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    Jack, Samira, and Robby go to a medical conference.

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    10 Feb 2026

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    I love them all. this trio is going to haunt me for the second season of the pitt. its so hot and believable and I feel like one of the best character description of what they are. love love love

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    i can no longer live by thinking by

    Fandoms: The Pitt (TV)  

    16 Jul 2025

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    It’s weird, the way Robby’s sizing her up, like he’s figuring out the angles of approach, running differentials in his head.

    Thirty-two-year-old doctor, lonely and stubborn and needy. Complicated, closed-off, grieving. Does she want to be fingered? Eaten out? Fucked into the mattress with her head buried in a pillow so she can forget who he is?

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    12 Jan 2026

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    is this a het relationship that I stumbled upon accidentally and liked it? what kind of sorcery is that? anyway, beautiful character study/pwp of a ship i never thought of