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This Crooked Heart by surprisinglyOK
Fandoms: History Boys - All Media Types, History Boys (2006), History Boys - Bennett
03 Feb 2025
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‘Do you ever wonder what you’re doing here?’ Posner asks.
‘At Oxford?’
‘Anywhere. What the point of it all is.’
Posner feels Scripps shift beside him. ‘I don’t think anyone knows the answer to that. God would say worship. Jesus would say love.’
‘And what would you say?’
Scripps falls silent as he ponders the question. Then: ‘I think it’s being with the people you care about. Finding moments of quiet. Looking for beauty.’
Posner smiles bitterly. ‘I don’t think I could find it if I tried.’
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Posner navigates adult life and everything that comes with it, both the good and the bad. Thankfully, Scripps is there through it all, in confusingly fluctuating capacities as friend and lover.
Rated M for some pretty heavy mental health stuff, a suicide attempt by OD (though not in graphic detail), and sexual content (again, not super graphic, but there are sex scenes). Triggers for individual chapters will be in the notes. Please be careful! This is angsty, but I swear it ends happily.
Title is from As I Walked Out One Evening by Auden.
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Or, 5 times Eddie comes out to his friends, and 1 time Steve comes out to him right back.
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The Untold Secrets of Desert Stars by surprisinglyOK
Fandoms: Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency (TV 2016), Dirk Gently - Douglas Adams
22 Jul 2018
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When a prospective client turns up at the Agency with the front half of a perfectly happy Siamese cat, matters have to be taken into Dirk and Todd’s entirely (in)capable hands. Over a thousand miles away, in a dusty town in New Mexico, a woman has disappeared without a trace, and the residents live in fear of falling prey to a monstrous witch who haunts their desert home. But nothing here is quite what it seems.
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Bring The Colour To My Life by surprisinglyOK
Fandoms: Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency (TV 2016)
30 Jan 2018
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Several months after the Bergsberg case, the Agency is functioning with arguable efficiency. But, when an old friend of Dirk’s who died fifteen years ago shows up out of the blue, it’s clear that something, somewhere in the universe, is very, very wrong.
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Driving Home For Christmas by surprisinglyOK
Fandoms: History Boys - All Media Types, History Boys - Bennett, History Boys (2006)
04 Jan 2018
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I know it's not Christmas anymore, but I didn't manage to get this finished in time so HERE IT IS in January! This is just super fluffy romantic/family Christmas fun, in which David spends Christmas with the Scripps', and Don finally comes out to his parents. Very minor content warnings for mentions of depression, suicide attempt and medication (all only mentioned very briefly in one paragraph), as well as a reference to HIV/AIDS, a couple of sex references, and some slight parental confusion about the concept of bisexuality. Enjoy!
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How do you explain light to a being who can't even see it?
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- Part 1 of Blue's Project Hail Mary Fics
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20 May 2026
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Fun and Games by DancingPony
Fandoms: Project Hail Mary - Andy Weir, Project Hail Mary (2026)
11 May 2026
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Grace is worried that Rocky works too hard.
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20 May 2026
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The Chain (Keeps Us Together) by ifonlyiwaswittier
Fandoms: Project Hail Mary (2026), Project Hail Mary - Andy Weir
13 May 2026
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“If you could be any astronomical object, what kind of astronomical object would you be and why?”
“Rocky cannot be astronomical object. Rocky can only be Eridian.”
“Humor me, pal, I’m dying of boredom over here.”(or, snapshots of the fourteen days that Rocky and Grace spent making the chain in orbit around Adrian)
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16 May 2026
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We've both been very brave by testingcheats0n (42gabi24)
Fandoms: Project Hail Mary (2026)
14 May 2026
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A short compilation of missing conversations set after Grace and Rocky's reunion and before they arrived at Erid.
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16 May 2026
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aren't we the same? by Anonymous
Fandoms: Project Hail Mary (2026), Project Hail Mary - Andy Weir
14 May 2026
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‘To be fair,’ Adrian began, the chords tinged with amusement, ‘you can’t even win against either of us at regular chess, so I don’t see why this would have been any different.’
‘Shut up,’ Grace shot back cleverly.
‘You even had an advisor this time,’ Rocky said, still snickering. ‘You had Adrian as an advisor. And you still lost.’
Grace swivelled to glare daggers at him. ‘It’s 5D Chess with Multiverse Time Travel! Each game lasts, like, a million hours, and my brain checks out after the first ten!’
‘Yeah, we could tell.’
Adrian and Rocky are over at Grace's house for the night, and Adrian loves their idiots to death, even if they are idiots.
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