the chronic illness club
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praying our bridges don't make waves by anincompletelist (soldouthaz)
Fandoms: Red White & Royal Blue - Casey McQuiston
11 Oct 2023
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He glances down to the word ‘LOVE’ at the bottom. It’s too loud, too harshly written. Alex doesn’t feel harsh or loud. He feels a lot, so much it’s overwhelming sometimes, but the edges are soft, not hard. There’s a glow around it, something hazy and barely tinted gold, and Alex feels like if he could reach out and put his hands near it, they would warm up like they used to when he stood in front of the old brick fireplace back home.
He glances at ‘LOVE’ and then loops back around to ‘HENRY’.
Maybe, Alex thinks, hands shaking, they’re one in the same. Whatever the fuck that means.
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When June gets sick, Alex knows he'll do whatever it takes to make sure she gets the care that she needs. Even if that means convincing his nemesis/sexuality-crisis-inducing/clandestine hook-up partner/somewhat of an actual friend to pretend to be his soulmate in order to pull it off. It's both more and less complicated than it sounds.
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- Part 1 of the chronic illness club
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there were pages turned with the bridges burned (everything you lose is a step you take) by anincompletelist (soldouthaz)
Fandoms: Red White & Royal Blue - Casey McQuiston
30 Sep 2024
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The entire world has it on video. Alex stumbling forward, straight into Henry’s shoulder, knocking him back into the table and then crumbling to the ground, the cake falling on top of them. Everyone thinks Alex was drunk, or that he hates him, or that he’s immature or unfit for his title, but none of it’s the truth. Everyone’s acting like it’s the end of the world regardless.
And maybe, for Alex, it kind of is.
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[Or, the way things might have played out if Alex had been diagnosed with type one diabetes after the royal wedding.]
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- Part 1 of diabetic!alex
- Part 2 of the chronic illness club
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gather our hopes (they've got us this far) by anincompletelist (soldouthaz)
Fandoms: Red White & Royal Blue - Casey McQuiston
27 Feb 2025
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In the year and a half since Alex's lupus diagnosis, Henry has watched Alex prove to himself - and the world - that he's still unstoppable.
Henry still wants to give him everything, even in the ways that look a little different now.
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- Part 3 of the chronic illness club
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i can't heal what i hold onto by anincompletelist (soldouthaz)
Fandoms: Red White & Royal Blue - Casey McQuiston
09 Apr 2025
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There are many analogies Henry’s used for pain at various stages over the last handful of years.
Today, it feels like a sonata played with shaking fingers, with notes that Henry knows are slightly off but can’t manage to tune just right. It swells—in his knees and wrists and shoulders—and then retreats, leaving him little time in between to catch his breath, much less attempt all that's on his perpetual to-do list. Sometimes nothing more than the ghost of a melody stuck somewhere in the back of his mind, and other times like a cacophony that he can’t seem to turn off.
Never completely gone. Similar to his thoughts of Alex.
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- Part 4 of the chronic illness club
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work in progress by anincompletelist (soldouthaz)
Fandoms: Spider-Man - All Media Types, Deadpool - All Media Types
16 Jun 2025
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With the mutation, Peter’s body is a weapon. He’s learned to sharpen it in some parts and dull it in others, to use it in a way that helps instead of hurts. But with a body that was eager to turn on itself even before all the events of the past few years, he has to be extremely careful; it’s a weapon that could very easily be used against him.
Which is why no one, under any circumstances, can find out what his weak spots are.
Not even Deadpool.
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- Part 5 of the chronic illness club
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i'm running home to your sweet nothings by anincompletelist (soldouthaz)
Fandoms: Red White & Royal Blue - Casey McQuiston
31 Dec 2024
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There’s room to grow here. To plant roots. The beginning of a new chapter all over again.
There’s a wreath hanging on the door and a pair of matching Stetson’s on the wall and laughter echoes from the living room. Alex’s picture shifts on the screen on the counter in front of him.
“You and me,” Alex says.
“You and me,” Henry agrees.
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[Or, Henry's bonus chapter with the addition of Alex's T1 diagnosis.]
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- Part 2 of diabetic!alex
- Part 6 of the chronic illness club
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collateral by anincompletelist (soldouthaz)
Fandoms: Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid
06 Feb 2026
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His mother’s eyes darken with weariness Shane recognizes instinctually, a grief separate but not wholly unlike his own. A tear makes its way down her cheek, but Shane’s stay put, stubborn, cradled in his lashline like if he doesn’t cry, maybe none of this is as bad as he thinks it is.
“Just—I just have to ask,” she says. Her voice lowers to a whisper, that ever-steady corner of her mouth wavering as her palm envelopes his cheek. “How long have you been hurting?”
My whole life, probably, Shane thinks. I'm sorry. I just didn’t know.
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[Or: Shane learns that skill, passion, and meticulous control aren't necessarily immunity, and that rest isn't something he's owed so much as he has to carve out for himself; sometimes with a whisper, sometimes with his pride on the line, sometimes on his hands and knees. And still, regardless, despite—he refuses to give up on this either, even if this time it means believing in himself instead of familiar schedules or rituals. Even if it means his whole life has to change to do it.
Even if it means having to believe that he's worth that much in the first place.]
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- Part 7 of the chronic illness club
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murphy's law by anincompletelist (soldouthaz)
Fandoms: Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid
22 Mar 2026
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At first, he thinks he’s hallucinating Rozanov. The lethal half-cut of his gaze, the open collar of his shirt, the span of his hands moving up someone else’s waist. Shane’s always been a glutton for punishment.
But he blinks, or the lights keep blinking for him, won't fucking quit, and Rozanov is still there. Looking. An anchor. Shane stares back, can’t make himself stop.
The glass he’s holding slips out of his hand and shatters as he jolts forward. He's drowning in this sea of people but he thinks, maybe, Ilya is the only one that manages to hear.
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- Part 8 of the chronic illness club