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  1. Rec 11

    I Love You So Much I'm Sorry About It by

    Fandoms: X-Men (Movieverse), X-Men (Alternate Timeline Movies)  

    02 Jul 2025

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    Charles Xavier is headmaster to a prestigious school for mutants. Erik Lehnsherr is a mutant terrorist. They play chess on the weekends when they're not trying to actively destroy each other's legacies (or kill the president, or go to space, or recruit various mutants into their cool kid clubs). It's unlikely, and it works, even if neither of them would ever let it slip that they have been seen with the other. Or, even if they leave a lot of things unsaid. Or kind of don't say anything at all, mostly.

    It works out. It's a good place to be in, better than before. Right?

    Why do they want to hang out, again?

    And anyway, what is so wrong with getting tipsy and playing chess with your ex-situationship turned "We Were Literally on the News Together for Terrorism Related Incidents" arch-nemesis? A lot. There's a lot wrong with it, actually.

    Charles and Erik drink, play chess, talk about their feelings (oof), and mostly, honestly, argue. There's a lot of arguing.

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    05 Jul 2025

  2. Rec 46

    Mending Metals by

    Fandoms: X-Men - All Media Types, X-Men (Alternate Timeline Movies)  

    04 Jul 2025

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    I didn’t realize how important this was to you, Charles admitted, sending along the impression of… gratitude. Gratitude that Erik cared this much. I’m not who I used to be, though. I’m not the same.

    And neither am I, Erik replied, leaning back against the headboard. I have no expectations. I just want to help, if I can.

    Mental silence fell between them—Charles was still there, drifting carefully in the center of Erik’s thoughts, but he was thinking, guarding the quiet metronome of his thoughts from Erik.

    What if this doesn’t work? Charles asked, uncertain.

    What if it does?

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    14 Mar 2025

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    In His Language by

    Fandoms: Arcane: League of Legends (Cartoon 2021), League of Legends  

    22 Dec 2021

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    Viktor nearly flinches.

    He cannot remember the last time someone touched him voluntarily.

    He cannot remember the last time he wanted to be touched this desperately.

    Jayce’s warm fingers trail down Viktor’s upper arm — humerus, Viktor’s mind corrects him mid-thought — as he pulls away and Viktor resists the urge to lean into Jayce’s touch.

    Jayce and Viktor learn how to communicate intimately with each other in their respective languages. It takes longer than it should, but they get there eventually.

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    14 Dec 2024

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    knowledge (and all of its consequences) by

    Fandoms: Arcane: League of Legends (Cartoon 2021)  

    24 Nov 2024

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    He’s familiar with the space Viktor takes up, standing next to him by the blackboard or sitting down at the tables. He knows how Viktor will shuffle underneath Jayce’s arm to correct a mistake in his maths, or rewrite a messy theory while Jayce prattles on about the next steps. He knows the surprising sturdiness of Viktor’s cane, as it smacks at his ankles when Jayce doesn’t make room fast enough.

    Viktor is no stranger to Jayce.

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    This is just 23k of Jayce being hopelessly in love with Viktor. That's it. That's the fic.

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    14 Dec 2024

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    A New Era by

    Fandoms: Arcane: League of Legends (Cartoon 2021)  

    11 Nov 2021

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    They toast. They toast again. To Piltover. To their partnership. To their dream.

    Viktor idly wonders how long they’ve been sitting so close, how long he’s been smiling, watching Jayce drink and talk, how easily he could get used to this.

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    11 Dec 2024