useless_historian
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He skips the shower when he gets home. If it’s living in the head of the shower then breathing it in is probably worse than whatever he might have picked up at the hospital. And if he’s got black mold living in his pillow he shouldn’t be sleeping with any sort of moisture on his head. Honestly, he shouldn’t even sleep with the pillow anyways, and that’s not too bad, he’s gone without a pillow hundreds of times before. But he can’t get in his bed if he hasn’t showered, he could be carrying something else from the hospital, and apparently Mckay had a patient with c.diff yesterday. So he can’t sleep unless he showers, but if he showers he’ll get sick. He’s stuck, standing in the doorway, one shoe off and one shoe on, trying to figure out what he’s supposed to do.
or: Whitaker has contamination OCD. He thinks a little too hard about all the microbes that live in old apartment buildings. Thank god he's got a rich older boyfriend in a new house!
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Jet had known for a long time that he could not “love”. At least not in the most traditional sense of the word. He would never be in the same dizzying romance that seemed to occupy the time of most of his peers, never feel the same way that they felt about another person. For the most part, this did not bother him. What did bother him was the fear that the people he cared about most (for though his heart did not work in the same way as others, there were people he cared about) would leave him once they managed to do just what he could not.
Fall in love.
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The mortifying ordeal of buying post-breakup flowers by useless_historian
Fandoms: The Penumbra Podcast
05 Aug 2020
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Peter Nureyev isn’t quite sure why he’s standing outside a flower shop in Hyperion City, a city he swore he’d never see again on a planet he promised himself that he’d never return to. Is it revenge? His vindictive streak would certainly suggest so, but even a man with a sordid history such as himself wouldn’t stoop so low as send flowers to an ex-something (Fling? Partner? Almost-but-not-quite lover?) on his birthday for the purpose of petty revenge.
Maybe he wants Juno to know that he’s still out there.
Maybe he just wants to send a former co-worker a gift on his birthday.
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Nureyev felt like his entire abdomen was on fire, and he curled in on himself, shaking and biting back a moan of pain. It didn’t matter how many times it happened, he still felt like he was dying.
Which was probably because he was.
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16 Jun 2026
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“Are you decent?”
This is where the misunderstanding happens.
Trinity, in all of her panic and anguish, took the question to mean ‘are you okay’, so she very quickly blurted out “yeah.”
Al-Hashimi had not meant to ask if she was fine.; Trinity Santos has had an utterly exhausting, grueling day. Langdon's return, combined with all other factors, is just entirely overwhelming for a woman who feels very miserably and viscerally unseen and unwanted. She now sits in the bathroom with her pants around her ankles and her underwear still on, a sharp thing in her hand, and once she's done the woman who finds her is her worst-case scenario. Baran is not as horrible as she thinks she might be.
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15 Jun 2026
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Necromantic Grad School AU by pipistrelle
Fandom The Locked Tomb Series | Gideon the Ninth Series - Tamsyn Muir, The Locked Tomb Trilogy | Gideon the Ninth Series - Tamsyn Muir
13 Nov 2022
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14 Jun 2026
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He doesn’t notice that one of her shoes is untied until a lace gets caught in a notch of a log as they pass, sending her down hard.
The momentum of her fall sends him thudding against a tree, and his eyes slam shut as he grits his teeth against the white hot pain that flares in his side.
When he opens his eyes, she’s facedown in the snow, still and silent, hands still at her sides making it clear that she didn’t even try to catch herself.
It speaks of so much trauma, so much unresponsiveness, that he feels tears sting his eyes at the sheer scale of what’s happened to her, of how small and useless he is to fix any of it, of how much he’s let her be hurt by his own failure to protect her.
But there’s no time for his own self-loathing.
She needs him, insufficient as he is.
(a fic covering joel taking care of ellie after episode 8)
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08 Jun 2026
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Sometimes Juno's old injuries flare up and cause him a lot of pain. But that's fine, because it's not like he hasn't dealt with that before.
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24 May 2026