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“We got a problem?” Gerard asks, same voice he uses to taunt hecklers onstage. The bravado slips on easy now, like a favorite coat.
The guy doesn’t take the bait, just keeps his arms crossed tight over his chest, jaw working.
Whatever. It’s not Gerard’s problem if some redneck gets worked up about a guy wearing makeup.
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“It’s okay,” Frank says, gentle, his just-rescued-you-from-the-pound voice. Frank isn’t sure Gerard is listening — he’s closed his eyes, off in one of his worlds, even as he keeps rocking against Frank’s body. Usually, Frank doesn’t like disrupting him, but as endorphins overtake the pain he can’t stop the impulse to ask. “You could put it out on me. When you’re done.”
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“What’s that?”
In lieu of an answer, Gerard presses a button and the thing jumps to life. It sounds like automatic weapons fire, snapping electric current pulsing between the prongs in Gerard’s fist. For a moment, Gerard’s face is lit up briefly in otherworldly blue light. He’s grinning. “It’s perfect for you.”
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Mikey finds a strange video from last year's Warped Tour.
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“I think you gotta— Maybe you should just force it out,” Gerard says. He sounds a little panicked.
“I can’t,” Frank replies. “Doesn’t work like that.”
“Here, I could—”
Frank looks up, finally, to see Gerard peering down at him. He’s never woken up during surgery to see the scalpel coming down, but he imagines it feels something like this.
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Jeremy had forgotten Ludwig could be so forceful, when he got his hackles up. It had gotten more and more pronounced the closer he got to his degree. Jeremy had been forgetting a lot of things about Ludwig. He had been doing a really good job.
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Ludwig ends up back at home after college. Luckily, the local amusement park is hiring.
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“My dad always thought rodeo cowboys were fuck-ups.”
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It's the summer of 1982, Lights Out is the first arcade in the greater Rochester area to get Pole Position, and Mika can't seem to top the high score set by the player known as MS.
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Pierre sits at the bar with all the traders and wanderers and surveillance paranoiacs who don’t dare brave the city. Not exactly the paddock club.
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the language of another world by redpaint for Directionless_Foray
Fandoms: Formula 1 RPF
13 Nov 2020
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Charles is sent down from Oxford (drunkenness, absenteeism, behavior unbecoming of a Balliol man) and becomes the research assistant to a botanist who is doing fieldwork in the Shetland Islands.
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SpaceX is proud to announce that reigning Formula 1 World Driver's Champion Nico Rosberg will be the captain of our two-year, all-electric Mars reconnaissance mission.
(A captain's log.)
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He wants to be a team player, he really does. Still, there are some lines that must be drawn.
“It’s a dildo company.”
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Daniel opens a wine shop. The jury is still out as to whether that was a good idea or not.
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- Part 2 of terroir
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No one listens to the university's radio station. They got their broadcast license taken away in the nineties and now they only exist to blast the worst of French rap across the campus at all times of the day. But Pierre listens to it. He listens on Mondays and Wednesday evenings, always a few minutes before the show is actually meant to start, because sometimes DJ Roulette is eager and starts early.
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They can start by holding hands.
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Love is the hardest thing he’s ever done. Lando puts his heart in Carlos’s hands and just trusts him not to drop it. Carlos feels filthy, feels himself contaminating Lando with every day he doesn’t say something. He wants to shake Lando’s shoulders: can’t you see what I am?
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Laurie poses for Amy in her studio. Fred Vaughn doesn't cut the session short.
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Often described as one of the most difficult tests in the world, the Master Sommelier Exam consists of three parts: wine theory, wine service, and a blind tasting of six wines. In the blind tasting, candidates must use deductive tasting to identify an unknown wine by grape, region, and vintage. Dozens take the exam each year. Only a handful pass.
The sommelier AU no one asked for: Sebastian, Lewis, and Nico are somms training to achieve the highest certification the wine world has to offer.
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- Part 1 of terroir
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George raised his eyebrows expectantly. “Now I’m not sure that this is a part of our official training regimen, but I won’t tell if you won’t.”