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[Podfic] A Comprehensive Menu of Blackbeard's Craft Cocktails by Oak1985
Fandoms: Our Flag Means Death (TV)
05 Sep 2022
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Stede's a middle-aged businessman going through a divorce, and he desperately needs a drink. He ends up at Blackbeard's: a charming little bar (that's technically not a gay bar but kind of is a gay bar) with nautical décor, classic rock, excellent cocktails, and a very pretty bartender who wears crop tops and leather.
Soon Stede becomes a regular, and obviously he just likes going there because the cocktails are great.
Definitely no other reason.
[podfic version of the_bedheaded_league's fic; 1 hour and 22 minutes long.]
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After all, Ed reasons, if Stede wanted to sleep in the same bed with him again, he would have asked, wouldn’t he have—
Not that Ed asked, but— Stede isn’t like Ed. Right? He would’ve asked.
—Right?
“Maybe,” Stede continues, while Ed’s mind is spinning, “I can’t sleep because I got very, very used to sleeping with another person in here with me, and it’s not so easy without them, anymore.”
Ah, Ed thinks, before he says out loud, “Ah,” where it comes out significantly more strangled-sounding.
[Podfic version of ShowMeAHero's "somewhere to begin." 40 minutes long.]
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The beginning of wisdom (is to call things by their proper name) by Oak1985
Fandoms: Kissing Jessica Stein (2001)
20 Aug 2022
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"This is why she doesn’t like to think about those months with Helen. Jessica likes labels, likes tidiness and boxes and knowing where everything belongs. She can’t make the months with Helen belong anywhere, can’t make herself belong with Helen and then with Josh, can’t think of those months with Helen as an aberration or her love for Josh as self-denial and if she thinks about it too hard, about how right it felt with Helen and how right it is with Josh, she starts to think she doesn’t belong. Anywhere."
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A series of vignettes exploring how Ed might express his Jewishness.
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[Podfic] Chain, Keep Us Together by zerodaryls by Oak1985
Fandoms: Our Flag Means Death (TV)
12 Aug 2022
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Ed hasn't slept at all in the three days since Stede returned to The Revenge.
He can't let Stede know it's because he's afraid he'll wake up alone.[Podfic version of zerodaryls' fic. 32 minutes.]
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One Hundred and Thirty-Eight New Messages by Fangirl_Shrieks
Fandoms: Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid
08 Apr 2026
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Ilya is not going to do anything. He knows this. He's also standing very still.
He thinks about his mother's arm, hanging over the side of the bed. He was twelve. He'd thought she was sleeping.
He closes the cabinet.
The face in the mirror is someone he recognizes in the way you recognize a city you lived in as a child: the basic geography is familiar, but you can't find anything you're looking for.
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Or: A closer look at Ilya’s first year in Ottawa, set against his first in Boston—featuring a long-lost answering machine he claimed he’d never listen to, the family inevitably left behind when you move, and the mostly self-imposed pressure of loving a man as large and looming as the great Shane Hollander.
Bookmarked by Oak1985
07 Jun 2026
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The Discipline Of It by Fangirl_Shrieks
Fandoms: Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid
24 Apr 2026
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Shane was fourteen the first time a number felt like safety.
The nutritionist worked out of an office in Kanata, framed certificates, a calm voice, laminated charts with columns. She explained it simply: fuel in, output required, timing of each. She said it was a starting point.
Shane took notes in the margins the way he took notes on everything—completely, past what was required. Yuna had found the nutritionist herself, sat beside him, and took notes too.
Like mother, like son.
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Or: Shane’s system works until it doesn’t; Ilya notices first.
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Bookmarked by Oak1985
06 Jun 2026
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Something Borrowed / Something Blew by Fangirl_Shrieks
Fandoms: Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid
17 May 2026
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Shane is in the front pew. His face is—Ilya does not have words for what Shane's face is doing. He has seen Shane angry and afraid and exhausted and soft and undone. He has never seen this: living at the very bottom of a person, surfacing only when every single thing above it has given way.
This is what it looks like when Shane has nothing left to manage.
Ilya reaches for him.
His hand passes through air.
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Or: Ilya Rozanov turns the same age his mother was when she died. Featuring strange dreams, tarot readings, and a woman with her back to him who keeps appearing where she shouldn’t.
A man who spent twenty years preparing to die, and one husband who refuses to let him.
Bookmarked by Oak1985
31 May 2026
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Shane goes back to his hotel after leaving Ilya's house, and he immediately spits up a flower petal.
Within a week, he has his mother schedule the surgery.
Bookmarked by Oak1985
25 May 2026
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falling into you by quinnfuhbeay
Fandoms: Game Changers | Heated Rivalry - All Media Types, Heated Rivalry (TV)
01 Apr 2026
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It’s like they’re in a fucked up game of relationship chicken now, increasingly doing things together that Shane can’t describe as anything other than domestic and romantic and boyfriend-like. They text constantly, detailing their days and sharing everything from complaints about teammates to jokes about other players in the league to the kind of quiet worries about family that don’t need to be responded to, just heard by another person.
Or maybe it’s like Schroedinger’s cat. As long as Shane doesn’t ask, doesn’t speak out loud, he can have this. It can exist, and it cannot exist at the same time as long as Shane doesn’t press too hard. Doesn’t want too much.
It feels increasingly like agony now that he’s realized that he loves Ilya.
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Tunameltdown AU where Ilya makes him tuna melts and says his name and Shane doesn’t freak out and run away. Well, he does freak out, but he also stays. Or the one where Shane doesn’t realize that Ilya’s his boyfriend for a solid three months.
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Bookmarked by Oak1985
21 May 2026