carve your name into my chest: chapter 8
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with all love to @stevecarrington & @maxineholtzmann & blue!!
[complete | explicit | tw for slurs and internalized homophobia]
chapter eight: on your team
Bruins to play Canadiens tonight in Boston. Munson is three goals away from being one of the youngest players (and first openly gay NHL player) to hit 300 career goals—will tonight be a hat trick and a new record for the Bruins star scorer?
The only consolation to the All-Stars weekend was that Carver had earned himself a season long suspension and a ticket right to diversity training, and the Metro division had lost against the Pacific in the championships.
It was better than the alternative. Then again, he wouldn’t have been happy with any outcome that wasn’t them winning, so he supposed it was lose lose either way. Literally.
After All-Stars, Eddie put his head down and tried to get back to hockey.
He’d puked in the bathroom the morning of his first practice back with his own team. Archie had tried to reassure him that no one actually gave a shit about him being gay, but he hadn’t believed it until he’d walked into the room, braced for impact, and found nothing.
Jeff had clapped him on the back and winked at him, and Gareth sidled over with a soft smile. “Proud of you, man,” he said, before tugging Eddie into a bone crunching hug.
“For what?” Eddie laughed, as he hugged back. “I took the coward’s way out, bro.”
Gareth laughed and smacked him on the back. “For finally getting laid, dude. You know we’ve all been trying to help you with that for years.”
Eddie tossed his head back and honest-to-god cackled at the sentiment, and then he leaned in and winked. “Don’t you worry, Garebear. I’ve been just fine on that front.”
Then his heart sunk, just a bit, because he wasn’t going to be anymore. But he wasn’t about to tell the team that.
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bite the hand, chapter 12
out now :)
“You know me. Better than anyone does. You already know the answer to that.” Sirius responds, they don’t really want to admit it.
“Say it, please. We have to talk through it all, you know we do. Nothing left unsaid, yeah?” Remus pushes because of course he does.
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Have you listened to / read Hermit Archives / From the Archives? It's so so cool literally two of my biggest hyperfixations combined !! I'm a so normal. So so normal about chapter 41 (i think it was 41). I bet you would love it too (chapter 41 is called The Red King's Tragedy (literally omg it left me shaking))
I HAVE NOT 💔 i was really into TMA a few years ago, but i never got around to finishing it and have subsequently been skiddish about starting From the Archives.... BUT. i have seen some SICK fanart recently, i think that & yr ask have given me reason to start it!
be on the lookout for some red king in the future!!!
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find the word challenge
rules: share snippets of your work containing each of the words the previous poster selected for you (optional addition: if you can't find the word in your WIPs, or you simply don't have any WIPs, you can just write a sentence around the word)
thanks @the-likesofus for the tag!! very excited to see how many of these words I've used...
my words are: quiet, hold, cover, first, together, and small. unsurprisingly, my fake dating au (currently sitting at almost 30k words like it has been for the past few months...) has all of these words multiple times lol <3
quiet
Buck’s phone rings, and he pulls it out of his pocket, his hands shaking when he reads Bobby’s contact name. He answers before he can even register it. “Pops?” His voice is quiet and terrified.
hold
Hearing footsteps from his spot on the couch, Buck tenses as Nathan comes up the stairs. It’s been so long, but Buck can still recognize the man’s footfalls. He lets out a breath he’d been subconsciously holding when Nathan finally appears and moves towards one of the armchairs across from him instead of the couch.
cover
“Jurassic Park!” Chris yells, and Buck has to cover his ears against the sound, the kid’s excitement causing him to be louder than usual. “Please, Dad, I know it’s kind of scary, but they just put it back on Netflix, and I’ve seen it before! Plus, I’m ten now, I won’t have nightmares!”
first
“I don’t want you to get hurt again,” Eddie says, meeting Buck’s gaze. His eyes are soft and despite his words, they shine with support, and Buck thinks—not for the first time—how lucky he is to have a best friend like Eddie.
together
Nathan’s study abroad had been nearly over when Buck brought up the idea of him going to Los Angeles to fight fires and help people. Nate had just nodded before taking Buck’s hand and kissing him, saying he’d buy the plane tickets in the morning. Buck had assumed they’d be going back together to be together.
small
Eddie glares at Chim when he insists on playing with the station’s small Hildy gadget that they keep in the kitchen. They mostly use it to play music, but Chimney takes the opportunity to ask her a bunch of questions throughout the day and only stops when Eddie threatens to run her over with a fire truck after Chimney starts asking her questions about the 118 themselves.
words for people I tag: home, care, love, make, and dream
no pressure tagging @mooshkat @jacksadventuresinwriting @ty-in-bedlam @lilbuddie <3
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im in my local library rn and I was looking through the psychology section (idk I'm just rlly interested in it) and I found a book called "the incurable romance" and its literally just about obsessive love and the psychology behind it and why it happens
yall I think I have hit the jackpot
im gonna take it out and read it, hopefully it'll help me with my writing
Eternally yours, Zain ♡
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