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"David first spots him leaning nonchalantly against the red brick wall as he leaves his Elizabethan poetry class on a sunny Wednesday afternoon. It takes him a moment to react, possibly because he's never seen Joseph Liebgott in civilian clothes, or perhaps because at least in David's mind, he doesn't belong on the eerily well-kept Harvard lawns."
Harvard, Spring of 1947.
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“Grandpa just died.” It sounds so strange, said out loud. Almost like it shouldn’t be possible to make a statement of fact about something so monumental. Except it doesn’t feel monumental. It doesn’t feel like anything."
Wherein a coat is never just a coat, and Ewan's death has unexpected repercussions for Greg - and by extension, for Tom.
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"Greg’s voice is the first thing Tom hears as he slowly drifts back into consciousness. He sounds as worried as Tom had ever heard him, as if something horrible that Tom didn’t know about had happened during the night.
When he opens his eyes, he immediately understands why."
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Wherein they get everything they want in the end, it just takes them a little while to notice.
(Or, in the months and years after we last saw them, Tom and Greg accidentally build a whole life together.)
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"Dear Mr. Zuckerberg, We remind you that, in fulfilment of the terms and conditions of your disciplinary probation as ruled by the Administrative Board of Harvard College in its disciplinary meeting, you are hereby required to attend a weekly counselling session for the duration of said probation, schedule of which you will find enclosed."
There are a lot of things Mark doesn't want to talk about. Eduardo may or may not be one of them.
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“It’s about someone on tour. Well- it’s about having a relationship with someone on tour.”
Jannik relaxes slightly, “Oh yeah? It can be difficult, I mean, it didn’t work out with me and Anna, but lots of people-”
“It’s not about a woman.” Flavio cuts across him, swivelling his head to look Jannik directly in the eye.
“Oh,” Jannik says, for lack of a better response.
“I’m gay.” Flavio says flatly, as if there was any room for misinterpretation.
“Oh.” Jannik repeats, dumbly. He feels out of his depth here, it is times like these that he feels the impact of his singularly focused lifestyle. He has had no interactions like this one before. He doesn’t want to sound patronising, but he wants to offer Flavio some words of support, so he says: “Cool.”
(Or: Jannik makes some assumptions about the nature of Flavio and Carlos' relationship. It might help him realise something about the nature of his relationship with Carlos.)
Bookmarked by therealw
13 Aug 2025
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“It’s not unrequited, they’re just idiots” is my favourite genre.
“Jannik thinks: I am never going to get over you.”
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One day in late September, Jannik wakes up as an omega. This is after.
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- Part 1 of world of forms
Bookmarked by therealw
13 May 2026
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Jannik shifts on the bed, prepared to turn his phone off and call it a night, but his phone buzzes again.
Charlie: Hola doubles partner! 👋😄
Bookmarked by therealw
20 Aug 2025
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The true test of a ship is how well it works if you gender swap them.
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Jannik hits a clean shot, a lashing forehand that lands the ball deep in the ad court, grazing the line and lifting a wisp of white off the grass. The kick of the topspin dizzies the ball into the air. Carlos, out of position, jumps and lunges toward it, throwing all of his weight forward.
Jannik can tell he’s going to miss. He’s already turning to his team, one fist raised, when the ball whizzes past Carlos’s outstretched racket.
He doesn’t see Carlos land. He doesn’t see him collapse into the dirt.
He hears a crack, like a heavy tree branch, snapping in a windstorm.
He only looks back when Carlos starts screaming.
Bookmarked by therealw
18 Feb 2026
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"When he forces his eyes open again, he finds himself unexpectedly surrounded by tall columns of green and purple and white—an unanticipated array of color, billowing in the breeze. Around Carlos and Jannik and the medics, the ball boys and girls have formed a circle, each of them holding up a spare towel, shielding them from view—from the intrusive eyes of the cameras, the crowd. Jannik looks up and inadvertently meets the eyes of one of the ball girls, still in her cap and sunshade. Her hair is orange, like Jannik’s. It’s braided into two tails. She’s crying. Jannik has to look away."
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Jannik Sinner dove for a ball in the 2020 Australian Open final, and never really got back up. He has never actually watched the footage back. It ended there, at age 23. 2 grand slams. A couple of months at world number one. A permanent hitch in his stride.
He is 28 years old when he agrees to join the coaching team of rising talent, Carlos Alcaraz.
Bookmarked by therealw
09 Jan 2026
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"He had thought (...) that the danger in their relationship would be in the highs, in the adrenaline, in the excitement. He finds out, that night that it is in the lows."