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You'd Kill Yourself For Recognition by im_normal_about_everything
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016), The Black Phone (Movies - Derrickson)
19 Jan 2026
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That made him freeze. There’s no way, right? It was just a coincidence, Finney and a baseball game. It didn’t mean anything. But he looked up at the screen and saw a painfully familiar face with two long braids of brown hair that matched his own. His little sister, Gwen.
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You Ask Me Who I Have Become by im_normal_about_everything
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
29 Dec 2025
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“That was weird, right?” Mike says and is immediately hit in the arm by Lucas, hard.
“Mike, are you serious?” Lucas is glaring at him and Mike’s sure a lot of the others are, too.
“Not like that, Jesus! I mean, the shit he said about what we liked doing. Getting milkshakes from Melvald’s? Getting lost in the woods?” He asks incredulously.
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We Never Learn (We've Been Here Before) by im_normal_about_everything
Fandoms: The Outsiders - S. E. Hinton, The Outsiders: The Musical - Jamestown Revival & Levine/Rapp, The Outsiders (1983)
15 Dec 2025
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Johnny died around nine P.M. after the rumble ever single time and there was nothing he could do to stop it. And then Dally would die.
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Fine, Great by im_normal_about_everything
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016), The Outsiders - S. E. Hinton, That was Then This is Now - S. E. Hinton
15 Dec 2025
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Ponyboy is sitting in Tommy Hagan’s room, a rich kid who the Harrington’s have decided he must befriend to keep up the Harrington reputation. Pony personally thought that was bullshit, but he wasn’t going to argue. A few days into living with the Harrington’s, he discovered exactly what kind of people they were. Violent ones.
Or: Ponyboy moves to Hawkins a year after he sees three people die and becomes Steve Harrington.
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Everyone who says Ponyboy Curtis is a shy, quiet, innocent kid is full of shit.
Or, Tim has a very different perspective on Pony than anyone else does because of how he acts with Curly.
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- Part 2 of Ponyboy's unknown social life
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Ponyboy's unknown social life by im_normal_about_everything
Fandom That was Then This is Now - S. E. Hinton, The Outsiders (1983), The Outsiders - S. E. Hinton
16 Nov 2025
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This is just gonna be my collection of Pony shocking people with who he's friends with. As of right now, it's in chronological order, but you don't need to read one fic to understand others.
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- Bookmarks:
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Whumptober: 2024 <33 by im_normal_about_everything
Fandom That was Then This is Now - S. E. Hinton, The Outsiders (1983), The Outsiders - S. E. Hinton, The Outsiders: The Musical - Jamestown Revival & Levine/Rapp
06 Oct 2024
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Talk About It by some1_around
Fandoms: Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid
11 Feb 2026
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“You will not be so nice when we beat you,” Ilya told Shane Hollander, holding onto his hand, not letting him pull away. Not yet.
But Hollander’s brow furrowed, not in anger but in confusion. “Ah, um, sorry,” Hollander said. “Merci. My English is bad. Worse… than you. Maybe slower?” And he leaned in, like that would help him understand.
Ilya’s eyebrows rose, and his smile widened.
Or, Ilya Rozanov grew up in Russia. Shane Hollander was raised in France. When they first meet, neither of them can speak English very well. Somehow, it’s easier to understand each other when words aren’t getting in the way.
(Stand-alone remix of “I’m Reading Your Lips (You’re Speaking My Language)” but this time neither of them are native English speakers, and learning a new language is sort of like falling in love, if you think about it.)
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- Part 3 of Competition is Better With a Friend
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And there it was, clear as day. Ilya shoving his tongue into Shane’s mouth in the reflection of a background of a fucking Hayden Pike fan video.
Shane was going to talk to the team about it that first practice after. But then management had pulled him into a meeting and from the game that night. He’d spent hours defending himself and his integrity as player, as a captain, and as a person.
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How the Montreal Metros get over themselves, and start backing their captain.
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In Good Company by FlameHazel18
Fandoms: Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid
25 Jan 2026
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TROY:
Is there such a thing as a player walk out? Like what if we just refused to play our game on Monday?Or: The first few days after Shane and Ilya are outed, as told by group chats and social media
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- Part 1 of the sum of its parts
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Shane heard the blade coming down right by his ear. The schlick of it as it sliced through the ice, echoing in the arena, the place eerily silent in a way Shane had never witnessed before.
Then, a gasp.
Or, Shane Hollander takes a blade to the throat.
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I'm Reading Your Lips (You're Speaking My Language) by some1_around
Fandoms: Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid
22 Dec 2025
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Rozanov cocked his head. “You speak Russian? Or just the curse words?”
“Yes, I speak Russian,” he snapped, defensive and angry. He knew that it had been a mistake to even try to be friendly with Rozanov. “Why? Do I not look Russian to you?” He scoffed.
“No, not really,” Rozanov said. Some of his teammates laughed, although they mostly looked surprised that Shane was speaking to them at all. Rozanov didn’t laugh, though. “Are you Russian?”
“Go fuck yourself.”
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Despite an inauspicious start, when Russia’s Ilya Rozanov learns that Canada’s Shane Hollander is fluent in Russian at their first World Junior Championships tournament, it changes everything and sets them on a different course. Instead of being branded as rivals from the very beginning, Ilya and Shane start off as friends.
And, after all, a little friendly rivalry never hurt anyone, did it?
Series
- Part 1 of Competition is Better With a Friend
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- English
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Bookmarked by im_normal_about_everything
13 Jan 2026