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“Well come on, tell me. Maybe I can help you.” Monica pulls him towards her, holding his hands gently. “Just cus we had sex doesn’t mean I don’t want to help you with your love life. And it’s not pathetic to be hung up on someone, you know that, right? Besides, you know I give good advice." She ends sternly, eyes narrowing at him.
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After London, Monica and Chandler talk, learn that they're both in love with their roommates, and make a bet about who's better at matchmaking. Shenanigans and Tomfoolery ensue.
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I don't know if I'll make it (But watch how good I'll fake it) by brain_babs
Fandoms: Friends (TV)
09 Aug 2025
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Joey's always known who he is, but knowing who you are and having the courage to share that with someone are two different things.
This will probably make more sense if you read part 1, but it's not necessary.
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Coming out of my cage (And I've been doing just fine) by brain_babs
Fandoms: Friends (TV)
26 Jun 2025
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Joey steps out the door of his apartment. He smiles, waves slightly, and opens his mouth and–
“I need you to kiss me.”
Rachel cuts him off before he can start. This is what she needs. This’ll work, it has to work, and then everything will go back to normal, and she can face Ross and Monica again, and it’ll all be fine.
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Joey reaches towards the tap, turning off the water, one hand still on Chandler’s knee, balancing.
“Okay, ya ready?”
Chandler sighs, and looks towards the tub. He can feel the warmth of the water from where he’s perched, steamy air inviting and enveloping him, but he can’t muster up the energy to move. To take his shirt off, much less undress completely. To slip into the warm water and hope that it washes away his sweat and his mopery.
But he can’t move.
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Chandler's depressed, and Joey helps him by giving him a bath.
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He finds it under the couch. Eddie’s not entirely sure how it got there, but he pulls it out and shakes it off, folding it and placing it on the counter, next to his binder of Hellfire notes (and song lyrics, and to-do lists, and cool concepts he needs to work on) so that he can’t forget it when he leaves tomorrow. It’s a beautiful coat, very obviously well-made and expensive, durable and sturdy, but also soft. Eddie’s also not entirely sure how Steve manages to keep losing/forgetting/leaving it at Eddie’s, but he does.
or, Selkie Steve keeps hiding his pelt at Eddie's
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the phrases that keep it all going by eddiespaghetti (foxwatson)
Fandoms: IT (Movies - Muschietti)
08 Nov 2019
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Richie just looks kind of sad, and tells him to stay awake while he runs off shouting, and Eddie thinks I don’t think I’m going to make it that long, but he doesn’t have the strength to shout. He just watches Richie until he can’t see him anymore, and he quietly wishes maybe he’d said something different after all.
And then there’s just darkness.
He wakes up, startled, in the Town House, with his face in his hands and his elbows on his knees.
“What the fuck,” he says, looking down at his own hands.
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13 Jun 2026
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It wasn’t immediately obvious to the Losers that something was wrong with Richie after the Deadlights. After all, his eyesight had always been shit.
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01 Jun 2026
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Things that Happen after Eddie Lives by shinycopperpenny
Fandoms: IT - Stephen King, IT (Movies - Muschietti)
01 Oct 2019
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In a world where Richie manages to save Eddie from It after the deadlights, they still have problems on their to-do list. Featuring everything from Derry to Los Angeles—Richie Tozier's murder trial, Eddie Kaspbrak's divorce proceedings, bedsharing of the platonic and non-platonic varieties, an investigation of magic, a truly disgusting séance, the quintessential morosexual road trip, and OH MY GOD THEY WERE ROOMMATES.
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Steve Harrington's Unwilling Time Loop Saga by badpancake
Fandom Stranger Things (TV 2016)
31 Jan 2023
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A series following Steve Harrington as he unknowingly, unwillingly, loops time to save the ones he loves (and maybe realises that he can ask for help, is deserving of love, before, after, and during).
The One in Which a Time Loop is Fucking Exhausting. [COMPLETE, CAN BE READ AS A STANDALONE]
When anything and everything goes wrong in 1986, Steve realises that he can fix things, and maybe falls in love, along the way.Steve Harrington's Deaths (And The Times He Maybe Saved The World). [COMPLETE]
After the events of '86, after everything has settled down, and everything is calm, people start to remember. The pieces start to slot together, and nobody likes the picture it creates.There’s Something In The Woods, And We’re No Longer Children. [COMPLETE]
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