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  1. Public Bookmark 33

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    Theo sits happily on the couch eating animal crackers. “Pops says Ravi screams during scary movies.”

    Ravi chokes on air. “How-”

    Theo gasps. “He says one time you cried.”

    Hen immediately loses it. Buck tries not to laugh and fails spectacularly. Ravi points accusingly at him. “You told him!”

    “I swear to god I didn’t!” Buck says, raising his hands in defense.

    Theo swings his legs cheerfully. “Pops said it was the dinosaur movie.”

    Ravi buries his face in his hands while Chim nearly falls off the couch laughing. Buck watches Theo carefully after that. Everything he says, leaving Buck slightly unsettled. Theo acts and is talking like someone is really there. Not imaginary-friend energy. Not make-believe. Real conversations. And every time Theo wanders off to talk to “Pops,” he comes back calmer.

    Happier.

    Safe.

    OR

    Theo has a new imaginary friend and it’s slowly freaking Buck out.

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    18 Jun 2026

  2. Public Bookmark 50

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    "You're serious?" Eddie manages, voice quieter than he intends. "I don't- I wouldn't even know what to do, man. Just- hold it there?"

    He hears Buck's breath catch even through the crackly line. "Yeah. Or you can, like, roll your hips, grind against it. Or you can ... do little rotations with your wrist." A pause. A lengthy, pregnant pause that should indicate that Buck is about to say something insane that shatters Eddie's world, but Eddie's apparently naive enough to think this is still at least a semi-normal conversation until Buck says, "I could show you."

    Eddie's stomach does a somersault, heart suddenly thundering so loud he can barely hear himself think. "What?" He croaks out.

    "I could show you, it's - it's… not a big deal. It doesn't have to be." He's not sure which one of them Buck is trying to convince with that. "Just... a guy showing another guy how to get off."

    or: Eddie is struggling to keep up with his sex drive after starting T. If only someone else could lend a helping hand.

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    17 Jun 2026

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    Someone exclaims in the background, but Buck’s voice cuts through louder when he asks, “You… you want to borrow my…?”

    “Flashlight,” Eddie supplies with patient emphasis. It is not, strictly speaking, a leap of faith to assume Buck of all people would have one, but he did move recently, so— who knows what’s still lost in Packed Box Limbo. “Please tell me you have one I can use.”

    “I…” there’s a lengthy pause on the other end, Buck’s voice weak and tapering off at the end. “Y-Yeah, okay.”

    Or: Eddie just needs to borrow some tools. Fleshlight, flashlight, what’s the difference? The distinction has never been more illuminating.

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    16 Jun 2026

  4. Public Bookmark 30

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    Buck💛👨‍❤️‍💋‍👨☀️
    i need 10 or 15 skirts from calvin klein

    Eddie 🩷👨‍❤️‍💋‍👨🤠
    ?

    Eddie 🩷👨‍❤️‍💋‍👨🤠
    i can pick you up and we can go to the mall

    Buck spends a quiet morning alone waiting for his husband to come home and watches one of his favorite movies.

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    16 Jun 2026

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    Alright, now to prove he’s right.

    Finger on the cursor, Buck types an a to start.

    Google, in all its autocomplete glory, gives Buck some options. Four suggestions stack top to bottom in whatever order Google decides matters most on any given evening, and the four that come up under Buck's single letter are, in order:

    am i gay quiz (visited 2 days ago)

    Amazon (visited 5 days ago)

    american airlines

    ammonia bleach mix

    Buck stops chewing the inside of his cheek — which, honestly, he didn’t even realize he was doing.

    That’s — huh.

    That’s not what he was expecting at all.

    Or,
    Buck uses Eddie's laptop and sees something he isn't supposed to see. He reacts accordingly.

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    16 Jun 2026