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“Well come on, tell me. Maybe I can help you.” Monica pulls him towards her, holding his hands gently. “Just cus we had sex doesn’t mean I don’t want to help you with your love life. And it’s not pathetic to be hung up on someone, you know that, right? Besides, you know I give good advice." She ends sternly, eyes narrowing at him.
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After London, Monica and Chandler talk, learn that they're both in love with their roommates, and make a bet about who's better at matchmaking. Shenanigans and Tomfoolery ensue.
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I don't know if I'll make it (But watch how good I'll fake it) by brain_babs
Fandoms: Friends (TV)
09 Aug 2025
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Joey's always known who he is, but knowing who you are and having the courage to share that with someone are two different things.
This will probably make more sense if you read part 1, but it's not necessary.
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Coming out of my cage (And I've been doing just fine) by brain_babs
Fandoms: Friends (TV)
26 Jun 2025
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Joey steps out the door of his apartment. He smiles, waves slightly, and opens his mouth and–
“I need you to kiss me.”
Rachel cuts him off before he can start. This is what she needs. This’ll work, it has to work, and then everything will go back to normal, and she can face Ross and Monica again, and it’ll all be fine.
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Joey reaches towards the tap, turning off the water, one hand still on Chandler’s knee, balancing.
“Okay, ya ready?”
Chandler sighs, and looks towards the tub. He can feel the warmth of the water from where he’s perched, steamy air inviting and enveloping him, but he can’t muster up the energy to move. To take his shirt off, much less undress completely. To slip into the warm water and hope that it washes away his sweat and his mopery.
But he can’t move.
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Chandler's depressed, and Joey helps him by giving him a bath.
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He finds it under the couch. Eddie’s not entirely sure how it got there, but he pulls it out and shakes it off, folding it and placing it on the counter, next to his binder of Hellfire notes (and song lyrics, and to-do lists, and cool concepts he needs to work on) so that he can’t forget it when he leaves tomorrow. It’s a beautiful coat, very obviously well-made and expensive, durable and sturdy, but also soft. Eddie’s also not entirely sure how Steve manages to keep losing/forgetting/leaving it at Eddie’s, but he does.
or, Selkie Steve keeps hiding his pelt at Eddie's
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and nothing hurts anymore, i feel kind of free by elsaclack
Fandoms: IT (Movies - Muschietti), IT - Stephen King
24 Jun 2023
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“You have to remember,” Richie says. “You have to remember, Eddie. They need you. He needs you. They can’t do it without you.”
Eddie furrows his brow. Everything about the conversation thus far has felt familiar, almost like hearing a once-beloved song for the first time in several years, but these words fall foreign on Eddie’s ears; he is very suddenly overcome with the distinct feeling that he’s no longer listening to Richie speak. He clenches his jaw against Richie’s shoulder, but does not open his eyes.
“There isn’t a lot of time,” not-Richie says. “It’s watching you. It’s coming for you. For both of you.”
The warning stirs something to life - fear, bone-deep and chilling. Eddie gets the feeling that he knows what it is, though he can’t quite grasp the memory; it slips through his fingers like sand in the breeze. The lights move faster, and Eddie does not dare open his eyes.
“You don’t deserve this,” not-Richie says mournfully. “You never did.”
“Why, then?” Eddie asks before he can stop himself.
Not-Richie is quiet for a long moment. “He needs you,” he says eventually, “and you’re braver than you think.”
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11 Feb 2026
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memories, and other missed connections by unberryble (adruggedcuppa)
Fandoms: IT - Stephen King, IT (Movies - Muschietti)
11 Feb 2026
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"I don't even know your name."
Willet-guy — Trashmouth — smiles genuinely for maybe the first time in this whole conversation.
"It's Richie."
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New Year's Eve, 2009.
A freak snowstorm, two missed connections, and an obnoxious(ly charming) stranger who makes hazy memories threaten to resurface.
Or, Eddie and Richie 'meet' during a 16 hour layover in Canada. Something in them calls to each other, but will they realize what it is before their time runs out?
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10 Feb 2026
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fill my eyes with that double vision by ratboyrich
Fandoms: IT (Movies - Muschietti), IT - Stephen King
26 Jan 2022
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“Just a hunch, but I’m pretty sure that fucking with the timeline,” Eddie replies, speaking slowly, just like Eds does when he wants to call someone out for being foolish but is trying his best to remain calm, even-keeled, and he makes a broad, sweeping gesture with his open hand toward both boys and the space between them, “is still very much a concern that’s on the table, considering we’re looking at flesh and blood, real-life versions of ourselves from twenty-four fucking years ago.”
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title taken from Double Vision by Foreigner
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- Part 1 of double vision
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07 Feb 2026
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"A private detective?" Eddie asks, and Richie Tozier jerks his shoulder.
"Kinda."
"Kinda a private detective?" Eddie repeats, and Richie looks up from his phone.
"Yeah, what about it?"
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07 Feb 2026
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“It was hard for us—” Beverly starts, promptly ignoring Richie, “In a different way, with our parents.”
Eddie pushes his hand roughly over his forehead and into his hair, “We just wanted a couple more hours where we didn’t have to be at home.”
It’s such a quiet admission, and even though they’ve defeated Pennywise, started to live in their own truths, Beverly wonders if the two of them ever fully shook Sonia Kaspbrak and Alvin Marsh from their bones.
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Beverly and Eddie heal themselves in six parts
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30 Jan 2026