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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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who will love a little sparrow by weeb_grass
Fandoms: Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid
30 Jul 2026
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Spring of 2016: Ilya loses a father.
Summer of 2016: Ilya loses a brother.
Fall of 2016: Ilya gains a daughter, a lover, and a friend.
Or: another "what if Ilya gained custody of his niece" fic.
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22 Sep 2026
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Ilya's life is already at a low ebb, having chased Shane Hollander out of his house and into the arms of American's sweetheart, Rose Landry. Things get even worse when his former coach dies, and a secret Ilya has been avoiding for over a decade is suddenly shockingly, horribly public.
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"You heard that Lipovsky died?"
Lipovsky. The name has the usual deadening effect on Ilya's emotions. He can feel his face going blank as everything drains from him until he's as empty as a bathtub with the plug pulled out. "Yes, of course."
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19 Sep 2026
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Ilya is thirty three and his life is finally settled. Then a call from Russia informs him that Alexei has overdosed and died. This brings things to the surface.
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18 Sep 2026
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The child and the boy and the man all drag the body onward. Somewhere in there is a person named Ilya Rozanov.
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18 Sep 2026
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not too early for dreaming by moichi
Fandoms: IT - Stephen King, IT (Movies - Muschietti)
07 Mar 2025
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They take up the entire couch; with his knees bent Richie's sneaker clad feet are scuffing the arm rest, but Eddie seems to kind of fit. Kind of. It's almost like they've done this before, what with the way Richie's imagined it a hundred times; Eddie pushing him back and down into some kind of soft surrender. But they haven't. They definitely haven't.
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Richie and Eddie hook up. In a non-gay way.
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05 Sep 2026