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“You’re going to run yourself ragged looking after me. You need to take some time off before you burn out.” She doesn’t say that Bobby wouldn’t want that. Buck knows it’s true, anyway. She’s already dreading the quiet his absence will leave her with, but she needs to adjust to that sometime. Soon, she’ll be living in the house she and Bobby built together, with no company but his memory.
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Maddie is at the dining table, tossing things into her work bag. She doesn’t even try to hide her smirk when he walks in.
“Uh oh. Don’t tell me you have another Tommy emergency.” Buck stops dead in his tracks, opens and shuts his mouth a few times.
“You know, I’m not really sure how to answer that.”
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Quentin offers this: a discipline. A question finally answered after all this time. If it even matters anymore. The idea of returning to Brakebills as a student is laughable. But here it is. One small, pleasant thing. His discipline. Repair of small objects.
“That makes sense.” Alice had something similar. You did always excel at minor mendings. It hadn’t been much comfort at the time. Quentin hadn’t thought there was much left of his ego to bruise, but being handed a discipline so thoroughly unimpressive had left a mark. But Eliot is looking at him now, eyes soft and shining, like Quentin just handed him something precious. “You’re always trying to fix things.”
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There was nothing very special about the flowers, not appearance-wise anyways. They were beautiful certainly. Dark pink flowers that weren’t quite poppies. Spikes of blue that could be mistaken for lavender or bluebells from a distance. At a glance, they wouldn’t seem worth all the trouble Quentin had gone through to get them. They certainly didn’t seem worth all the trouble it was taking to keep the damn things alive.
“And you’re sure you can’t tell me where they came from?” Hamish asked.
“You wouldn’t believe me.”
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she took a look at my palm (and said you're in love) by sugarlessgum
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
17 Nov 2022
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“Now, let’s look at your heart lines. Yours is chained. You’ve had a rocky love life, haven’t you?”
"I guess that’s one way to put it.”
He certainly wasn’t going to air out his series of failed relationships – stemming from his abandonment issues and the fact it took him nineteen years to realize he couldn’t connect with any of his dates because he was going after the completely wrong gender – in front of a complete stranger and a group of children. He definitely didn’t want to be discussing this in front of Eddie. He’d put too much effort into hiding the crush that had steadily developed over the summer before it could ruin their friendship. But any hope of avoiding that had clearly died the moment Steve stepped through Madame Loretta’s gaudy curtain beads.
Steve and Eddie take the kids to a fall festival
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- Part 1 of seasons change with the scenery
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A series of snapshots from alternate timelines
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Magicians Hallmark Holiday Extravaganza by madman_with_a_warehouse, sugarlessgum
Fandom The Magicians (TV)
24 Dec 2019
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A look at Hawkins across the seasons
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Dex (reluctantly) drives down to New York to check on Nursey the summer before their junior year.
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16 Jan 2026
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Reluctant President of the Derek Nurse Fanclub by alocalband
Fandoms: Check Please! (Webcomic)
06 Feb 2017
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“I think your fanclub has a seat free at their table if you’d prefer it,” Dex mutters.
“You trying to get rid of me, Poindexter?”
“What gave me away?”
“Or,” Nursey smirks and raises an eyebrow the way he does whenever he thinks he’s found just the right William Poindexter button to push that will get a good reaction. “Are you just jealous?”
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- Part 2 of OMGCP Tumblr Ficlets
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15 Jan 2026
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“I keep better time during hockey season,” Jack tells him once. “Easier to track a life in wins and losses than in idle days, eh?”
And Nursey can definitely relate, but he definitely doesn’t say so.
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- Part 5 of OMGCP Tumblr Ficlets
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15 Jan 2026
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Derek writes a short story. That's his first mistake.
His second is getting it published.
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14 Jan 2026
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Alone on a boat with Will on the Fourth of July. It would be near perfect... if Derek hadn't made the mistake of trying to kiss him earlier.
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- Part 9 of OMGCP Tumblr Ficlets
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08 Jan 2026