tea as a coping mechanism
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The Lippy Linguist by one_blue_eye
Fandoms: Sherlock (TV), Sherlock Holmes & Related Fandoms
29 Nov 2012
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There are times, when even John gets left out. While Sherlock works a case with a mysterious friend, John watches from the relative safety of his armchair. From the sidelines, John & Mycroft share the bitter taste of jealousy as well as a few texts.
[Remember that episode of Buffy the Vampire Slayer where Xander got left out and had his own adventure with those crazy dead dudes? Well, that's where this idea sprang from. So, thanks Xander.][John's Blog is now a very pretty green table with borders; links & images [texts between Mycroft & John] have been fixed for CHROME, FIREFOX & IE]
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- Part 1 of Half Way Out of the Dark
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Jon's working late at the Archive, which isn't all that weird. Pretty much everything else about the situation is, though.
(In which Jon suffers, Martin makes tea to cope, and the Beholding has a little fun with its Archivist.)
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Oliver Banks would like to have a nice and normal day for once. It doesn't seem that will be an option, but at least he meets someone along the way.
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Ellie pulls him in and squeezes him tight, just for a second, not even long enough for his shoulders to lower. She daren’t. Because it’s too right, and if she holds on any longer she’ll have to wonder why it is.
In which Hardy and Miller slowly come to realise what everyone else already knows. Featuring the ever dependable Hardy 'Nah', Ellie Miller being just the best mess in the world, and people covering each other with blankets. Set after show.
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Children Are Our Future by warningfandomobsessed
Fandoms: Les Misérables - All Media Types
06 Apr 2022
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Cosette is sick of not having a way to answer the doctors when they ask for her medical history and she's terrified of not being able to answer her future kids' questions. She decides to track down her bio-mother, but it turns out she was closer than she thought.
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- Part 2 of Tales of Les Amis
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I Know Your Name as My Brother: Adopting Echo by archivewriter1
Fandoms: Star Wars - All Media Types, Star Wars: The Clone Wars (2008) - All Media Types, Star Wars: The Bad Batch (Cartoon)
12 Aug 2025
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Echo didn't escape Skakko Minor unscathed, and his new limbs are the least of his problems. When he walked onto the Marauder, he had no idea how he was going to make a place among the four brothers who had rescued and then adopted him. Slowly he realizes that he might not have to. Maybe he just needs to accept the one they've already made for him.
Tech: Call Sign (The Bird Story)
-- The Batch's resident genius asks Echo a strange question. The cyborg gets a lesson about birds and his new squad's way of doing things.Crosshair: Silent Words (The Sketch)
-- Echo is brooding and he thinks he'll find camaraderie in the other broody Batcher. But Crosshair is more than meets the eye.Wrecker: Midnight (Lula and the Cyborg)
-- Echo can't sleep. He ends up getting a chat, a tooka doll, and some surprising revelations.Hunter: A Quiet Morning (Tea and Terrors)
-- The sergeant and the cyborg have a rough morning and tea is the fix, paired with stories about his brothers that Hunter is willing to share.Broken Pieces (Somehow Fit Together) -- Echo thinks he's stable enough to sleep without his prosthetics. He isn't.
Reflection (Peace on Pabu) -- Home at last.
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The war is over. Voldemort is dead. And Hermione Granger — brilliant, brave, unbearable Hermione — is still here.
But she hadn’t planned for survival. She doesn’t know how to exist without a goal, without a battle, without something to fix.As her friends begin to rebuild their lives — Luna and Ginny in their own strange orbit, Harry fumbling through support, Ron trying to still be there — Hermione is left with the terrifying task of figuring out who she is now, and who she wants to be.
And maybe… who she wants to be with.
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Welcome to Wind Breaker Housing Complex! by shining_peupeu
Fandoms: Wind Breaker - にいさとる | Nii Satoru (Manga), Wind Breaker (Anime)
27 Jul 2025
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Sakura Haruka just wants a quiet night in Room 203 of the Bofurin apartment complex. Unfortunately, peace is impossible when you live next door to Noroshi, home to the most theatrically violent people in existence. As expensive gifts fly and declarations of love turn into declarations of war, the residents of Wind Breaker Complex endure the nightly drama with tea and a growing sense of dread. In a world where love is loud and neighbours are nosy, everyone’s just trying to survive the night.
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You survived a serial killer. Barely.
Now, the world feels too loud, too sharp—until you meet Dexter Morgan.
There’s something off about him, something quiet and still and strange. But when your hands won’t stop shaking, when you forget how to breathe, he’s the only thing that feels safe.
You’re not supposed to rely on someone like him. But you do.
And maybe… maybe he does too.