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The RSD is bad tonight gang

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For @ficwip word game wednesday which this week is Love

From Dutch Sky Blue

Ted sipped his coffee. There was so much he could say; so many Ted-isms flew through his head to try and sooth his former player but they died on his tongue as he looked up at Jamie. Jamie looked at ease. There was nothing Ted needed to say to make Jamie feel better about quitting the thing that Ted believed was his life because Jamie looked better. He looked like the weight of the world had been lifted off his shoulders. There was barely a trace of the young man who was hunched up in the Richmond treatment room being berated by his father. Jamie Tartt had grown up and taken his life by the horns to make it his. Who was Ted to tell him what he needed? Ted coached him for less than a year, and even then it wasn’t really coaching. Ted didn’t know Jamie Tartt anymore and with every moment he wondered whether he ever did. “You really love him then?” Jamie looked up surprised at the direction Ted had taken the conversation but after one long second, his eyes widened and his smile lit up. It was radiant beaming grin with a soft pink flush of his cheeks and the tips of his ears. “He’s everything,” Jamie replied, his voice soft and tender.

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August prompts: 6 + Alex Rider

Thank you my dear and this was a load of fun to write!

@augustofwhump Day 6: Coughing Fit

The Final Stress Test (Alex Rider)

Alex comes down with the flu and finds a long term impact of his service with MI6. Jack uses all the Alex Rider cheat codes to help him recover

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Me to my draft: You are a oneshot.

The draft: Wrong. I am the pilot chapter of a multichapter fic that you do not have the bandwidth to take on, but will haunt your every waking thought anyway.

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I am finally putting Spider in a fic and he is an asshole ghost drug hallucination

I'm not quite sure how it is but in some way this feels very on brand for me

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Black Sails | 1.01

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looking for opinions both from americans and non-americans: what would you consider to be the big 4 american cities in terms of like, vibes-based cultural impact?

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Six Sentence Sunday

From Flash in the Pan

Roy had thought signing players would be more complicated. Both of his two moves had been entirely organised by his agents and both times he had been the one that had been doing the club a favour. Chelsea he was cheap and unproven and desperate to sign whatever clauses they wanted. Richmond he was on the opposite end of the scale, Roy just wanted out to somewhere he could retire in peace and so signed whatever they offered. His agent had handled it, Roy just signed the papers. He always assumed the meetings between the managers and directors of football and agents would require more than that.

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Chapters: 7/18 Fandom: Ted Lasso (TV) Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Roy Kent/Jamie Tartt, Keeley Jones/Roy Kent Characters: Jamie Tartt, Roy Kent, Ted Lasso, Keeley Jones, Henry Corwin, Roy Kent's Sister, Phoebe (Ted Lasso) Additional Tags: Slow Burn Roy/Jamie, post S1, Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Injury Recovery, Past Child Abuse, Warning: James Tartt Sr., many bad decisions are made, Spiralling, Self-Doubt, Self-Worth Issues, working title was - the sad boi summer fic, Medical Appointments, Insults as a form of affection, Not Man City Friendly, Abuse of an adult child, Suicidal Thoughts, Suicidal Intent, Joking about abuse, Jamie jokes about his dad killing him, Self-Destruction, Roy's unemployed era, Obsession, but not in a weird way, just trust me on that, Football chat Series: Part 3 of Candle's Whumptober 2023 Summary:

Sometimes it is the smallest of moments that change lives. That moment could be catching a train or it could be viewed through the window of a Treatment Room door.

In one scenario, an American in London stumbles upon an old protégé in a perilous situation facing down his own blood. The American walks away, that moment is seemingly forgotten but it shapes both their lives in seen and unseen ways.

In one scenario, a veteran of the sport has played his last as the young starlet contemplates his future while faced with his past. One rescues the other, leading to their fates being intertwined.

We've seen how the first scenario plays out. This story follows what might have happened if it had been the second instead.

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@augustofwhump Day 3 - Alt 2 - Self Destructive Behaviour

I truly had not realised how long it had been since updating this but I promise it will be finished, very still running through my mind constantly

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Chapter 13 is here: we have the Watford match and Jamie does not have a good time 🫣

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Chapters: 1/? Fandom: The Musketeers (2014) Rating: General Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Characters: Aramis | René d'Herblay, Porthos du Vallon, Athos | Comte de la Fère, d'Artagnan (Trois Mousquetaires) Additional Tags: Hurt/Comfort, Emotional Hurt/Comfort, Angst, Hurt Aramis | René d'Herblay, Canon-Typical Violence, Post-Episode: s01e04 The Good Soldier (The Musketeers (2014)) 

Summary: He wants to curl up somewhere with someone who does not understand, who looks and sees his uniform and none of the cracks underneath where the leather has been beaten and worn thin enough to let in the cold.

He wants to go back and wake up earlier, draw his sword earlier, shout and kick his sleeping friends into action.

Better to die a Musketeer than live like a dog, Marsac had told him through the pain and oncoming shadow.

He wants to shake Marsac until his ears stop ringing.

August Whump Day 2: Bleeding Heart 

@augustofwhump day 2! for @abubblingcandle 

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Chapters: 1/4 Fandom: Legends of the Guardian-King - Karen Hancock Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: Graphic Depictions Of Violence Relationships: Abramm Kalladorne & Trap Meridon Characters: Abramm Kalladorne, Prittleman, Trap Meridon, Gillard Kalladorne, Brother Belmir, Simon Kalladorne Additional Tags: Torture, Abduction, outnumbered - Freeform, shadowspawn, Religious Imagery & Symbolism, Religious Guilt, Fictional Religion & Theology, Blood and Injury, A little but of gore but not bad, Hallucinations, Sleep Deprivation, Friendship, Friendship literally saves the day, Brainwashing, Mind Control, Angst and Hurt/Comfort Series: Part 1 of Candle's August of Whump 2025 Summary:

Abramm's secret has been revealed leading to his traitorous brother and the Gadrielites hunting for his blood. But what if Abramm and his loyalists don't get away? What if Abramm is broken? What can Trap do to bring his best friend back before it is all too late?

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It’s August everyone and so I am posting my first @augustofwhump and the only thing I have ready to go lol

August of Whump - Brainwashing BTHB - Outnumbered in a Fight

So this year one of my big goals was to let myself write what I want no matter what I think people will think. And this fic is going to achieve that. I am fully anticipating no one but me to read this but I need more Abramm and Trap friendship in my life, I love them so.

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Tagged by the outstanding @jamiesfootball to post the last seven sentences I wrote!

From Quick Repairs to Cope

“I don’t know what is going through that empty skull of his but I thought you had some sense,” Lamb tutted. “The longer he hides the worse this is going to get for both of you.” “I can look after myself Jackson,” Catherine snapped, “I don’t work for you any more and so I would like you out of my house.” Lamb paused, eyes boring a hole through her with his stare. Catherine stood firm, chin held high and eyes just as determined. “Your funeral. And his too.” And then Lamb was gone in a haze of noxious fumes and ominous sentiment.

No obligation tagging @tarttygoodness @disappearinginq @nativestarwrites

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I was tagged by @lunar-years to post the last seven sentences I wrote. I’m honored!

Did a bit more than seven because I couldn’t find a satisfactory place to snip

From the one that makes you sick

(Cw for csa related trauma a la Amsterdam for it being the topic of the fic in general, but it’s only alluded to in the snippet below)

Jamie broke through the surface on the other side of the pool, coming up to bob neck deep in the water like a forgotten ice cube. A cool quiet hung over the deep end. No crowds over here, except for a nippy wind that passed for a winter’s breeze in São Paulo. Thick beads of chlorinated water hung off his eyelashes, strangely hot and distracting.

He grabbed the bars of the stairs, tugging himself out, ignoring the slick way the water hung from his swim shorts like it was trying to tug them off.

He rubbed the back of his hand over his lips. The brief dip had done nothing to remove the lingering sensation of wax and scented warmth.

His hands flexed on the bars. It was Keeley. It was just Keeley.

It was twelve years ago.

It was nothing.

Seventy-two hours and counting, since he’d visited his dad. It would pass.

He dove back into the water, and swam another lap.

He needed to keep moving.

Tagging @altschmerzes @cartwrong @abubblingcandle and @thewildballyntynesgrow

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Nearly two weeks into the holiday and we've reached fucked up sleep schedule time gang.

Two hour long nap this afternoon, it's midnight and I'm watching Anastasia and eating cereal