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a sweater made of girlfriend material by casualwordsmith (perksofbeingabandmember) for merelydovely
Fandoms: Les Misérables - All Media Types
16 Apr 2023
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a playlist, liner notes, and moodboard for merelydovely's fic "a wolf in goat's clothing" for discorinthe's 2023 anniversary exchange
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i think that siyphus has learned (to love the mountain) by casualwordsmith (perksofbeingabandmember)
Fandoms: Pacific Rim (Movies)
17 Jul 2022
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Raleigh didn’t always know he was different.
He had a big personality, yes, and was friendly, yes, and was cocky, yes, but he was never a womanizer for the sake of it. His friends treated girls like trophies, and while Raleigh knew the steps, knew how to flirt with the girls who were pretty or who expressed interest in him, knew how to smile and smirk and flex and joke, he never went anywhere with it. He didn’t see the point. His friends and his fights and his books (of the comic variety, of course) and his brother were all good enough for him.
(or: aroace raleigh, through the years)
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that little flash of gold by casualwordsmith (perksofbeingabandmember)
Fandoms: Critical Role (Web Series)
29 Jun 2022
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Cerrit escapes, is the only one to escape, what essentially became a floating bomb of fire and magical energy – and was only able to do so through the love and guidance of his friends. His friends… his friends who died making sure that he specifically would make it out, his friends who he called selfish (because they were, of course, they were, but he loved them anyway…) and silently (and loudly) judged for their ambition and hubris while he turned a blind eye to his own. The first of many blind eyes he turned.
His selfish, arrogant friends who, in the end, he saw and felt die in the most selfless, loving ways possible.
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a body to bury by casualwordsmith (perksofbeingabandmember) for hexagons
Fandoms: Pacific Rim (Movies)
15 May 2022
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There’s a split second, after he detaches his oxygen supply and sends it up to the surface with Mako, after he gets his shit together and triggers the manual destruction sequence, during all the flames and the fear and the pressure and the final stark realization that this is his mission to finish, goddamnit, that Raleigh considers staying with Lady Danger.
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the creation of marius (a collection of promotional art for empereur's mercy week) by casualwordsmith (perksofbeingabandmember) for ShitpostingfromtheBarricade
Fandoms: Les Misérables - All Media Types
08 Apr 2022
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all around you, all the time by peculiarblue
Fandoms: Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid
06 Mar 2026
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“I am out for the season?”
“Probably."
“Are you by any chance looking for a trophy husband?”
“Ilya.”
“Yes? No?”
“It’s one season, Ilya, we’re not—it’s bad because you’re hurting, not because—I’m not letting this fuck anything up for us, okay? We’ll figure something out,” Shane says, resolutely.
or, you know what they say about the best laid plans
ilya’s first year in ottawa looks a little different than originally planned, maybe sort of because he ends up spending it recovering a broken leg in his boyfriend’s apartment, but probably mostly because he meets jackie pike
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Bookmarked by casualwordsmith (perksofbeingabandmember)
25 Jun 2026
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this was so fucking good.
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O-Town’s Fillies Back Again by Anonymous
Fandom Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid, Game Changers | Heated Rivalry - All Media Types, Heated Rivalry (TV)
19 Jun 2026
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Bookmarked by casualwordsmith (perksofbeingabandmember)
19 Jun 2026
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holy matrimony by lowkey_existential_despair
Fandoms: Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid
09 Feb 2026
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There’s a sign in front of Shane. It says Welcome to Scott Hunter and Kip Grady’s Happily Ever After in a cursive font that makes Shane think of Etsy. Shane’s stomach churns. He briefly squeezes his empty ring finger. He feels, all at once, like he might cry. Instead, he swallows, and breathes, and pastes a smile on his face, and marches his ass down to Scott and Kip’s fucking wedding of the century.
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- Part 1 of two weddings and a scandal
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Bookmarked by casualwordsmith (perksofbeingabandmember)
17 Jun 2026
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hurts. too relatable. incredible writing.
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Over the course of the three days, there are plenty of opportunities to tell Shane about Moscow.
There’s dinner the first night. They’re having pasta and salmon and Ilya’s whining about the amount of chicken and beef they’ll have to eat now that bulking season is approaching. Shane says well, they’re high protein foods. Like Ilya isn’t also a professional athlete who’s been doing this for just as long as he has. That’s not what he shoots back, though. He says, lamb is a great source of protein but we never have lamb. Okay, good lamb’s hard to find. You know what has lamb? Pelmeni! We should get Russian take out sometime soon, Shane says. I’ve always wanted to try. And always means nothing in this sentence, because always is only as long as they’ve known each other for.
Forget about take out, Ilya could say then. The best pelmeni can only be found in the motherland. Russia, Moscow! I am going there in ten days for a box of my dead-dad’s things and maybe, my dead-mother’s suicide note. But of course, he doesn’t.
Bookmarked by casualwordsmith (perksofbeingabandmember)
13 Jun 2026
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“Sometimes, I wish he was a worse person,” Ilya admits one night, while he and Yuna are doing the dishes. Shane and Ilya had come over for chicken parmesan, and it had been a lovely dinner, right up until David, clearing the plates, mentioned that he had met a guy at the store the other day who was a big fan of Shane’s, had a kid who idolized him.
David asked if Shane could sign a piece of merchandise for him, maybe record a video. Shane said yes, because he had a rule, about doing things for child fans. Now, Shane was off shooting a video while Ilya did the dishes, and Ilya already knew the way it would require Shane to drag his public face up from the depths of his stomach, the work it would take him to shed it afterwards, the way it would taint this evening.
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- Part 14 of my anonymous heated rivalry fic
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Bookmarked by casualwordsmith (perksofbeingabandmember)
10 Jun 2026