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take these broken wings and learn to fly (all your life) by howdoyouget
Fandoms: Fullmetal Alchemist - All Media Types, Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood & Manga
11 Aug 2025
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flu season arrives in east city, bringing two state alchemists down with it. roy is left to figure things out.
title from: blackbird by the beatles
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- Part 8 of Masterpiece Verse
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a masterpiece still in the making by howdoyouget
Fandoms: Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood & Manga, Fullmetal Alchemist - All Media Types
18 Mar 2025
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Rebecca Harper has yet to find her place in the world. After an alchemical accident took her father's life, she finds herself in East City, intending to just settle his debts, but somehow ending up employed as a State Alchemist and partnered with one Edward Elric. Surprising herself, she can't find it in herself to be upset about it.
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- Part 1 of Masterpiece Verse
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turn the night into day (start talkin' again, when I know what to say) by howdoyouget
Fandoms: Fullmetal Alchemist - All Media Types, Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood & Manga
18 Sep 2024
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ed's birthday!
takes place in between ch 55 and 56 of masterpiece!
title from: clay pigeons by michael cera
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- Part 7 of Masterpiece Verse
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we could do the long haul, we could ride it out (i know the ride's rough but try us) by howdoyouget
Fandoms: Fullmetal Alchemist - All Media Types, Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood & Manga
19 Apr 2024
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becca and ed meet by chance at central city university rather than at a military base. this changes everything and nothing.
also known as "the author wanted to do the 'oh. /oh./' thing and this is the outlet"
title from: thinkin' bout love by wild rivers
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- Part 6 of Masterpiece Verse
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so tell me when you're gonna let me in (i'm getting tired and i need somewhere to begin) by howdoyouget
Fandoms: Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood & Manga
30 Sep 2022
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tw for eating disorder, not necessary to read for masterpiece verse main story. this is just to get me out of my writing slump and write some fluff :)
the first time the group stops on their trip south, ed and becca have an overdue talk.
title from: somewhere only we know by keane
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- Part 5 of Masterpiece Verse
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Masterpiece Verse by howdoyouget
Fandom Fullmetal Alchemist - All Media Types, Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood & Manga
11 Aug 2025
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the courtship of ilya rozanov by cherrylilies (cherrydialectic)
Fandoms: Game Changers | Heated Rivalry - All Media Types, Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid, Heated Rivalry (TV)
28 Apr 2026
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After the tuna melt meltdown, Shane meets Rose Landry, has several deeply inconvenient revelations, and decides to do the only sensible thing: win Ilya back with sincerity, logistics, and a frankly alarming amount of emotional effort.
Ilya, meanwhile, mistakes every tender gesture for the kind prelude to an inevitable goodbye.
Or: Shane is living in a romcom. Ilya is living in a Russian tragedy.
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30 Jun 2026
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“Go?” Rozanov repeats, and Shane thinks he manages to nod, thinks he manages to spin some kind of excuse that he knows Rozanov doesn’t really buy, but he needs to go. He needs to get out of here. He needs to find somewhere quiet and calm where he can ride out this panic and painful tightness until he can catch his breath again. He needs-
He needs to go.
“I’m sorry,” he says, turning heel and resisting the urge to just book it right for the front door only because he’d rather not have to explain to Hayden why he returned from a hookup with Boston Lily in men’s clothes that he certainly didn’t leave in.
It’s not until he makes it halfway up the stairs to Rozanov’s bedroom that it occurs to him in a cold rush that it isn’t just anxiety that makes it this hard to breathe.
“No,” he tells himself firmly, white knuckling the bannister and trying to take a deep breath just to prove that he can.
It wheezes.
(how the tuna meltdown is averted through the power of food allergies and anaphylaxis)
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27 Jun 2026
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It does mean missing out on things like barbeques and team dinners sometimes, but it’s not as if he would have been able to participate anyway. At this point in his life, risking someone not taking his allergies seriously would mean potentially missing games, which makes it unacceptable. Jackie always makes sure he has a dish or two that’s safe when he’s over at their house, but if he was going to be the one guy sitting and drinking ginger ale instead of taking part in sharing nachos or Korean barbeque or burgers or any other delicious thing he goes in knowing he can’t have anyway, there’s no point in making a fuss about it. He eats at home, has a drink with everyone else, and he calls it a day. Easy. Safe. Foolproof.
But also the reason it doesn’t occur to him that he hasn’t actually told Ilya about any of his allergies until it becomes immediately relevant five days into being at his cottage together.
(how ilya learns about shane's food allergies) (and how shane learns what it's like to have someone who always saves him a seat at the table) (and who also makes sure there's food he can eat on the table to start with)
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26 Jun 2026
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“No vodka?” Rozanov asks, tsking in disapproval but looking amused. “What then? What does the great Shane Hollander want when he does a good job? What is your vice, Hollander?”
“Hmmmm, mangoes,” Shane sighs out wistfully. It’s not a dangerous allergy for him, but it does mean being itchy and sometimes a little queasy for a couple of days after. Really he knows that he should probably avoid them altogether, but with every other restriction he has and with how controlled he is with his life even outside of that, it’s his one little indulgence, a pressure-relief valve of one bad choice to let some steam off at the end of a season, when he carves out time in his cottage when he can make his annual bad choice and enjoy a few days of wild mango madness before he makes himself buckle back into the restraints he usually keeps his life in.
He looks up when he hears Rozanov snort.
“Mangoes?” Rozanov repeats, tugging his shirt over his head. “Really?”
“They’re good,” Shane defends. “Better than vodka,” he adds, pointedly.
(shane has food allergies but makes an exception for mangoes) (5 times ilya didn't find out about this allergy and 1 time he did)
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23 Jun 2026
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