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and the man in the mirror smiles (what did you expect?) by cortamambo
Fandoms: Nirvanna the Band the Show (Canada TV 2017), The Dirties (2013), Operation Avalanche (2016)
23 May 2026
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So it feels like they've naturalized your permanent presence in every single step they take as a basis of reality: you are always, always there. / That'd be ridiculous. You’re just watching this. It wouldn’t be a film if you were really there. / He was your director and you were his camera, so he was your head and you were his fear.
Jared, thrice drawn.
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believe me, it's the next best thing by cortamambo
Fandoms: Nirvanna the Band the Show (Canada TV 2017)
06 May 2026
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“You watched the film?”
"I'm afraid not. But I'm excited to see it when it's time for the showing.”
Matt feels that itch, that spring under his feet that fills him whenever he’s coming up with an idea. It’s a literal spring, apparently, because he shifts back and forth until he’s leaning into Williams’ personal space. Because how good would it be, to get back at Jay like this? In their shared hotel room? Fuck, in Jay’s stupid choice of a bed?
“You wanna check a preview back at my place?”
Williams smiles.
Matt's still reeling from the adoration he's getting from the press. An upcoming actor at Sundance approaches him, and, well, he's kind of a little bit like Jay.
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this is hardcore, this is me on top of you by cortamambo
Fandoms: Nirvanna the Band the Show (Canada TV 2017)
30 Apr 2026
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And now she's insinuating something to cheer him up and she has no fucking clue what she’s doing. But she knows her Bird and what he looks like when he's freaked out like this, and his glassy eyes and her own heartbeat drumming in her ears. She leans down until their noses are touching.
“You're not gonna do anything about it.”
It’s not a question and it's not a challenge. Jay does what she tells him to and he sits there.
Jay doesn't like the "getting handcuffed" step in Matt's new plan, for some damn reason. She takes some drastic measures about it.
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From: Owen A. Williams [[email protected]]
To: Rebecca Johnson [[email protected]]Ms. Johnson,
I am terribly sorry for my misunderstanding and my wasting your time. I won’t bother you any longer.
Owen A. Williams
From: Rebecca Johnson [[email protected]]
To: Owen A. Williams [[email protected]]i’m fucking with you. it is me. 64780417419 text me
Rebecca
Conversations between two people who have not been the same in 10 years.
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you already know me, use me backwards to try it out by cortamambo
Fandoms: Nirvanna the Band the Show (Canada TV 2017)
30 Mar 2026
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The burning in Jay’s face is enough to make him itchy. He can’t identify the emotion behind it. It’s indignation and it’s mortification and it’s a new word ending in -ation no one has ever felt in history before called ‘Matt is talking about having a shitty girlfriend and that’s me’. He keeps his tight fists at his sides and his jaw clenched and Matt holds his gaze but he breathes like Jay just sent him for a race. And maybe Jay wants a race now.
It's 2008. Matt's a little bit drunk. Jay's a little bit high.
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be the one to call me baby, even though you're the one who would always tear me down by mythofthefisherking
Fandoms: The Monkees (Band)
22 Aug 2024
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Mike invites Peter into the bathroom with him, then asks him why he's here. It's all part of the game. Eventually, he will run out of arguments and defences. Eventually, he will return to Peter's side. This is just how it goes.
Bookmarked by head1968 (cortamambo)
23 Oct 2025
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He believes that what patterns really refer to is the phenomenon where you know the end from the behavior of the beginning. And he’s never had much interest in seeing anything through to the end.
Or, Falsettos: The Lost Entr'acte.Bookmarked by sweetcharity (cortamambo)
30 Oct 2023
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You wished very hard for there to be no more two o’clocks. What was the point of two o’clock if not to tell you to call in on Colm?
Bookmarked by cortamambo
15 Apr 2023
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foundational for me. this fic changed my life. the banshees of inisherin is one of my favorite films of all time and i cannot stress how much having read this changed the way i write for the rest of eternity.
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Or: The Night Peter Decides to Leave
Stuck in a hotel room on a hot summer night and everything means more than it does.
Bookmarked by head1968 (cortamambo)
22 Oct 2025