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At an isolated research station at the top of a warming world, in the most inhospitable place on Earth for communications, John Irving studies signal propagation - and studiously avoids the obvious metaphor. John’s had a lot of practice at ignoring the obvious, but when an improbable random contact with an amateur radio operator calling himself "EC" leads to even more improbable regular contact with the same operator, not even John can ignore the ridiculous reality: a growing relationship with someone he knows only by their call sign; a relationship conducted half in Morse code.
John's real-life connections aren't going half so well, and neither is his research: his radio equipment keeps suffering accidents, and he can't stop getting into arguments with Sergeant Tozer, the man assigned to help him fix it. Frustrated, he turns even further toward his relationship with EC - and finds himself being urged down a path of paranoia as to who is actually damaging his equipment.
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Fanart for the prompt "Maths, Markmanship, & Manly Bonding."
A The Terror Reverse Bang 2023 work.
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Fanart for 15 Recipes Arctic Explorers Can’t Do Without by entangled_system
Fandoms: The Terror (TV 2018)
21 May 2023
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Fanart for krewka's "15 Recipes Arctic Explorers Can't Do Without": In the spring of 1850, Thomas and Edward convalesce in the English countryside. Recovery, relationships, and retirement create an unsavoury mix, made all the worse since no one really knows how to taco 'bout it.
A The Terror Reverse Bang 2023 work.
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John Irving’s in a Taco Bell, trying to mop the hot sauce from his shirt.
(It isn’t hot sauce.)
(It isn’t a Taco Bell, either.)
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Turns out capsaicin's not soluble in water.
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“You have to get used to this, cook.” Zoro’s breath tickles his left ear. “So no one can use it against you.”
Sanji’s breathing shallowly, waiting to be pushed away. Zoro’s chest is so, so warm. “How would I get used to it? Who’s gonna—”
“Who’s gonna what?”
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Sanji is so touch starved it's a liability. Zoro, like any good nakama, decides to help him out.
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31 Jul 2024
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they said love is reaching blindly at a pit full of snakes by summermidnights
Fandoms: One Piece
30 May 2022
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“What are you going to tell them?”“We’re friends with benefits,” Nami says with a straight face. Sanji chokes on his own spit and starts coughing violently. “Except the benefit is friendship.”
“So, friends. You’re literally just friends,” Usopp monotones flatly from his room.
Alternatively: During college, you learn that not everything is as it appears. Sanji is in love with Zoro, Zoro is dating Hiyori, and Nami accidentally ends up a master wingwoman by sorta kinda maybe platonically taking Sanji off the dating market.
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20 Jun 2024
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Sanji scowls behind his sunglasses. He’s draped in heat, under an umbrella in a bright patterned shirt, large waffle with a dollop of melting whipped cream and a coffee-stained mug on the table in front of him. Further out on the patio, a whole group of screaming kids jump into the pool in sonorous succession.
“Relaxing is a scam.”
Zoro gives him one of those multilayered grumpy looks.
“It’s fraudulent. We’ve been defrauded.”
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Zoro and Sanji go undercover at a fancy resort to take on a mysterious enemy. What could go wrong?
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17 Jun 2024
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At an isolated research station at the top of a warming world, in the most inhospitable place on Earth for communications, John Irving studies signal propagation - and studiously avoids the obvious metaphor. John’s had a lot of practice at ignoring the obvious, but when an improbable random contact with an amateur radio operator calling himself "EC" leads to even more improbable regular contact with the same operator, not even John can ignore the ridiculous reality: a growing relationship with someone he knows only by their call sign; a relationship conducted half in Morse code.
John's real-life connections aren't going half so well, and neither is his research: his radio equipment keeps suffering accidents, and he can't stop getting into arguments with Sergeant Tozer, the man assigned to help him fix it. Frustrated, he turns even further toward his relationship with EC - and finds himself being urged down a path of paranoia as to who is actually damaging his equipment.
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01 Apr 2024
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OH MY GOD, IT’S EVERYTHING I LOVE IN THE FORM OF EVERYTHING I LOVE.
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15 Recipes Arctic Explorers Can't Live Without by crab9999 for entangled_system
Fandoms: The Terror (TV 2018)
19 May 2023
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In the spring of 1850 Thomas and Edward convalesce in the English countryside. Recovery, relationships, and retirement create an unsavoury mix, made all the worse since no one really knows how to taco 'bout it.
Written for the Terror Reverse Bang 2023, with art (and WHAT art!) by entangled_system on AO3.