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"It wasn't about jumping. It was about the ability to jump. The choice.[...] Something to remind him there was a way out."
Seong Gi-hun, a depressed but compassionate mechanic, meets Hwang In-ho on top of the bridge. Neither of them are there to jump, but they are both there. Their experiences with grief and humanity are different, but being seen and understood is too miraculous and too rare for either of them to pass up.
(Sad, traumatized old men fall in love.)
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In-ho comes back from his eight years undercover injured, jaded, and devoid of humanity. A kind-eyed do-gooder in a back alley might change all of that.
Featuring falling in love, PTSD, Hwang brother angst and hurt/comfort, and an evolution from misanthrope to slightly-less of a misanthrope.
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Hwang In-ho and Seong Gi-hun met when they were college-aged. They fell in love, tragedy struck them, they fell apart.
Ten years later, Gi-hun is hired on as a technician at OneEarth, a corporate machine. He is less-than-thrilled to find In-ho working there. Despite himself, despite both of them, really, they grow back together."You are searching so intently for some semblance of good in me. What will happen when you decide you can't find it?"
"Well, you know me," Gi-hun said, smiling a little bitterly. "I've never been smart enough to know when to stop."
In-ho tipped his head back and forth contemplatively. "There is something to be said for the resilience of your hope. Granted, I am probably not the one to say it."
LOTS of hurt/comfort, angst but a proportionate amount of fluff.
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"Here was Gi-hun, with his lifetime of tragedy and difficulty, picking up strangers in the rain and campaigning for the inherent value of mankind. And if that existed, if it was possible to sustain that even in spite of immense hardship, maybe it wasn't circumstance that had turned In-ho into something bitter. If Gi-hun was possible, if his worldview was somehow sustainable, that meant that whatever In-ho became was not a result of a bad situation; it was inherent. He was always empty, or capable of emptiness, and wasn't that the same thing?"
FAKE DATING AU. No Squid Games, just other trauma and the power of grief competing with the audacity of hope.
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After the events of season 2, In-ho sends Gi-hun away with a key and a card with the address to his apartment. He assumes that, in a few months, Gi-hun will come and confront him or shoot him. Instead, the moment that In-ho returns from the games, Gi-hun is waiting for him.
Despite Gi-hun's assurance that there is nothing but hatred between them, they are both still eager to find a kindred spirit. The reconciliation of these two warring emotions leads them to some confusing places.
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Eddie's peacefully unpacking his stack of linen shirts when he hears it: a piercing whistle that permeates the walls of his apartment with seemingly no effort.
At once, he drops the shirts and straightens up. Is this a fire alarm? Oh shit, is the boiler about to explode?
As far as he knows, the alarms have more of a beeping rhythmic sound to them. They sure as hell don’t send out an alarm which sounds suspiciously like a clunky, reedy and entirely off-key rendition of ‘My Heart Will Go On’ by Celine Dion.
a.k.a the fic where Eddie and Richie are next door neighbours and Richie's favourite hobby is (badly) playing the recorder.
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25 Jun 2026
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You Can Still Be What You Want To by rayofsunshinc
Fandoms: IT (Movies - Muschietti), IT - Stephen King
07 Sep 2020
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And then, Richie did say something dangerously tempting.
“My parents have a lake house in Vermont. We can stay there.”
Staying with Richie. Living with Richie in some beautiful lake house in Vermont while he recovered. It wasn’t like he had that many options. It would really help him get his shit together if he had somewhere to stay.
OrEddie Kaspbrak realizes that people aren’t given second chances very often and decides it’s time to live his life for himself. Richie Tozier decides it’s time to stop hiding parts of himself from the people he loves now that they’re back in his life. They're going to work through their trauma together in a completely non platonic way.
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23 Jun 2026
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All the Very Best of Us (String Ourselves Up for Love) by starclipped
Fandoms: IT (Movies - Muschietti), IT - Stephen King
08 May 2020
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“Richie. Richie, it’s me,” he whispers, so softly that it’s almost a figment of his imagination. “Hey, it’s Eddie. I’m Eddie. I’m okay, Rich, and you’re okay, so just… please, stop saying shit like that. You’re—you’re scaring me.” He says that part like he’d rather do anything but admit such a thing. But then, as his eyes dart over Richie’s face, his expression shifts, the usual constipation twisting into something close to hysteria that he tries and fails to mask with outrage. “And stop shaking me, shitbag! I had to claw my way out of a fucking disaster zone and I’m really sore—”
Richie doesn’t know how he knows it, that this is the one and only Eddie Kaspbrak, truly here in the flesh, but he does. Because it’s as if the piece of him that'd been unceremoniously ripped away has miraculously been sewn back into place, worn and faded and uneven and maybe the wrong way around, but still very much present.
“Eddie,” Richie chokes, and the man he loves with all his heart is standing right in front of him, alive, and there’s no way he could make himself think otherwise.
[Or: Stan lives, Eddie is resurrected, the Losers visit Georgia, and Richie gets everything he's ever wanted (plus more).]
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- Part 1 of The Courage to Start Over
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23 Jun 2026
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Richie Tozier is thirty-six years old, and he’s on top of the fucking world. For a guy who makes a living dishing out laughs, this whole “path to happiness” thing is a relatively new one.
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- Part 2 of Louder Than Words
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11 Jun 2026
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The Secrets That You Keep (When You're Talking in Your Sleep) by DH_epub
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
04 May 2026
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Mike thinks it all started the day the Byers moved into their house.
Having sold their house in Hawkins a year and a half prior and moved to California, when they came back, and the town got put in lockdown, they didn’t have a place to go.
Mike had kindly offered up their place during dinner.
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The 18-month gap between s4 and s5 told from Mike's POV with minor other POV's as the story progresses. The gap has been lengthened to encapsulate more time passing. They start at 16, but by chapter 6 they're 17 1/2 with them turning 18 chapter 32/34.
Also known as the answer to Mikewhatthefuckdidyoudo gate
Steve Harrington is to Mike what Robin is to Will
Season 5 Rewrite to follow WHILE THIS IS A COMPLETE WORK, THE SEASON 5 REWRITE IS A WIP
Everything is tagged appropriately. If you choose to read, that is your prerogative. No smut occurs until chapter 36.
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- Part 1 of Do You Want to Know a Secret?
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