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“Why don’t you just ask them to come here?”
Yuna sighs. “Because I’m a coward, David.”
David just shakes his head and clenches his jaw. “Yeah. Sometimes you are, Yuna.”
He gets up and walks back inside. Yuna stays on the front porch for a long time, drinking her coffee.
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In which the secret-keeping in the Hollander family is sort-of generational.Series
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if we are only for ourselves by small_grasshopper_celestial
Fandoms: Heated Rivalry (TV)
17 Jun 2026
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Svetlana and Ilya do not talk about their mothers, or Sasha, or the first woman Svetlana falls in love with. They fuck, and they watch hockey, and somewhere down the line, Svetlana decides that this has to be enough.
Svetlana does not call her mother, and she will not talk about Ilya’s mother with him. God, she wonders, why did it have to be Irina?—
Svetlana Vetrova is smart enough to know when to keep her mouth shut. Shane Hollander is too stupid to ever let Ilya open his.
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last man to die by small_grasshopper_celestial
Fandoms: The Old Guard (Movies 2020 2025)
07 Jun 2026
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Nicky’s brow had been furrowed, and in another life, Joe would have been seated next to him on the sofa, and not nearby in an armchair, and in another life, Joe’s thumb would have brushed Nicky’s soothingly, and in another life, where they were not broken by the loss of Quynh and the reward of Sebastien, Joe would not be bitter and Booker would not kind in his sadness. But this is the only life Joe has ever had, and so Joe is bitter and Booker is kind in his sadness, and it is this that makes Joe want to swim across the Mediterranean until he is dragging himself onto the shores of Palestine again. Maybe if he had been a better man, all those years ago, maybe if he had never killed in the first place, Allah would not have given everyone Joe has ever loved such grand pain.
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In which Quynh's disappearance ruined all of their lives, in more ways than one. One day, perhaps, they will all find their ways back to one another, but before they can do that, they have to find Booker. -
los de entonces by small_grasshopper_celestial
Fandoms: The Old Guard (Movies 2020 2025)
22 Jan 2026
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“And so I will love you?”
Quynh considers saying more than she already has and decides it will all come out eventually. Andromache is the one who asked, anyway.
“For the rest of your life. But it will not be an easy thing.”
Andromache tilts her head to the side, waiting for Quynh to go on.
“You will get older, and I will get younger. And then, one day, I will not know you, the same way that you do not know me, now.”
Andromache shakes her head. “You are feeding me tales.”
But Quynh can see that she believes her. “If I was feeding you tales, then you would have killed me before I had even gotten two words out.”--
In which Quynh moves backwards through time, death after death. She and Andy fall in love anyway. It's not an easy thing.
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Andy’s heart stops. All the blood leaves her face and rushes directly to her ears. The only thing she can hear is the sound of it pumping through her veins. Copley and Nile are both studying the photo closely, but Andy hardly notices them, even right beside her. All she can see is the blood, the look on her face, the tremble in her jaw as she died –
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She is almost four thousand years old – there is quite little that feels older than her in this world, but Discord feels older. She feels ancient compared to Quynh, especially with all of the knowledge she holds that Quynh does not. “You have been withholding it from me, a carrot to keep me here so that you do not have to find a stick. It is hard to punish someone who has lost so much, is it not?”--
For five years, everything goes smoothly. Five years of Booker in exile, five years of Nile on the team, and five years of Andy grappling with her newfound mortality.
But, like every other plan they've ever had, it has to go to shit at some point, and go to shit it does.
AKA the sequel we deserved, rather than the one we got.
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all of this could be yours if the price is right by small_grasshopper_celestial
Fandom Heated Rivalry (TV)
21 Jun 2026
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"Game Shows Touch Our Lives" -- The Mountain Goats
https://open.spotify.com/track/51mlFCw4gWwOoV6uevTDXP--
what is like to be a secret kept; what is it like to keep a secret; what is like to be the only secret freely given?
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Into the Blue by librarytiger
Fandoms: Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid, Game Changers | Heated Rivalry - All Media Types
30 Jun 2026
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With the first overall selection of the 2010 NHL draft, the New York Admirals are proud to select Shane Hollander.
“Ah, New York! New York is nice, yes?”
“Uh, yeah, I guess. I haven’t really spent much time there. Yet, I guess.”
“I am also moving to New York.”
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On the night of the NHL draft, Shane Hollander goes to the gym. Ilya Rozanov may not be a hockey player, but somehow he is there, in Shane’s orbit, in New York, under his skin.
Or, how more proximity can turn a fuck buddy into a best friend, but falling in love is always hard.
Bookmarked by small_grasshopper_celestial
01 Jul 2026
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Yuna can’t help it. There’s just something about Ilya Rozanov that rubs her the wrong way.
Bookmarked by small_grasshopper_celestial
01 Jul 2026
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two weddings and a scandal by lowkey_existential_despair
Fandom Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid, Game Changers | Heated Rivalry - All Media Types, Heated Rivalry (TV)
24 Jun 2026
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Bookmarked by small_grasshopper_celestial
18 Jun 2026
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"I saw the others left," Quỳnh says, and Andy's breath catches.
How long has Quỳnh been watching? How many times has Andy not seen her? How many times has she failed Quỳnh?
"Where did they go?" Quỳnh continues.
"Mission," Andy says. "I'm—"
She doesn't know how to say it.
"I always go first," she settles on. "And they keep throwing themselves in front of me."
OR: in which Andy stays behind while the team runs a mission, and she doesn't believe her eyes, at first, when Quỳnh finds her.
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Linea Alba (line between our halves) by quynndestructable
Fandoms: The Old Guard (Comics), The Old Guard (Movies 2020 2025)
23 Jan 2026
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“Why did you start drawing?” Nicky asks, as if the question had cost him some earlier shyness, and he has just decided he would rather pay than continue to owe.
“Because my hands were restless,” Joe says, not bothering to be clever. “Because I needed to tell the world it could not decide the shapes of things without me. Because it was the only way I knew to talk back to beauty and not be punished.”
Nicky exhales a small, rueful breath. “I started with a church,” he says. “Not because I believed. Because I liked the quiet. The way the light was something you could measure and also not measure.”
“You still like the quiet.”
“Yes,” Nicky says. “Though I am learning to like certain kinds of noise.”