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It starts like this: Steve, waiting in his car to pick up Dustin and friends from a session of their Chutes and Ladders club or whatever. Waiting kind of impatiently, to be honest, even though it’s not like he has anywhere else to be because Robin’s busy tonight and, as he well knows by this point, saving the world doesn’t get you a girlfriend or glory or even a second age-appropriate friend, it just gets you another evening shift at Family Video and a long personal to-do list.
In the spring and summer of 1986, Steve Harrington contends with the biases of the day, hatches several plans, and finally really gets to know Eddie Munson.
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Yes, Hecate somehow communicates. Blackbeard’s heart is with the one called the Gentleman Pirate. Return Blackbeard his heart, and presently, and the man will be made whole once more.
First of all, nobody calls that ponce the Gentleman Pirate but himself, Izzy starts. Then he pauses, takes in the rest of Hecate’s words. Interesting. You’re saying all I have to do is cut out Stede’s heart from his body and give it to—
No! Hecate shakes her large, rough gray head. No, oh my god, no. Have you heard of metaphor? Are you familiar with fucking—flights of fancy, figures of speech? The surest way to make Blackbeard okay again is to reunite him with Stede Bonnet, is that clear enough, you complete and utter maniac?
[Prompt from NyquilPlot: essentially, Izzy realizes the error of his ways and decides the only way to fix it is to work with Lucius and Jim to trick Ed and Stede into reuniting. Featuring a bonus Frenchie, several dubious schemes, and a brush with what is definitely either a primordial goddess of the deep, or a hallucination of a seacow.]
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The problem with playing arenas is that, from the stage, every arena looks basically the same. Metal frameworky bits, lots of lights overhead, big screaming crowd of people, not much else to see. The people tend to scream pretty much the same stuff every night, too. It's all, “Woooo, Blackbeard!” and “Yeahhh, Blackbeard!” and “Play Stop Or I'll Make You Eat Your Toe!”
Over and over, all around the world, ad infinitum. If Blackbeard wasn’t a solo act, he would’ve broken up by now.
Ed misses the stuff that makes rock real. The passion. The rabble-rousing.
He’s got a couple of days between tours, and for once, just once, he wants to start a night without knowing how it'll end.
ETA: Parts 2 and 3 are now up!
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Interlude: The Story of Steve “Walking PR Nightmare” Rogers, and How For a Short While He Single-Handedly Destroyed the Emotional Health of Eva Laura Ortiz, His Now Ex-Publicist
(Throwback Thursday to that time in 2015 when I decided to just really lean into my incredibly self-indulgent headcanons about Steve Rogers, his politics, and kind of his whole deal. Occasionally people ask why this isn't on AO3 so here it is! Seven-ish years later. I aim to please. Eventually.)
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Four years. Four songs about Steve Rogers, Captain America, and how the U.S.A. might've processed their feelings about the wartime loss of their celebrated hero, years before the de-icing.
Plus a theme song for the 90's cartoon of the Howling Commandos that 100% would've existed, for sure.
(Throwback Thursday to that time in 2014 when I physically could not stop writing little songs about Steve Rogers.)
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This American Life episode 141: A Whole New World. (Transcript) by NaomiK for gonergone
Fandoms: National Public Radio RPF, Captain America (Movies), Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling, Chronicles of Narnia - C. S. Lewis
22 Dec 2015
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From WBEZ Chicago, it's This American Life. I'm Ira Glass. Today on our radio program, we have three stories of people stepping from one world, the only world they’ve ever known, into an entirely new world. What happens when you open that door? What do you do with what you find, and -- when you look back -- how do you understand what you’ve left behind? Stay with us.
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06 Jul 2017
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"Ah," Yusuf says, lifting a reproving hand, "are we calling less than 24 hours of memory loss amnesia now?"
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01 May 2015
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secret agent man by goshemily for barricadeur
Fandoms: Les Misérables - All Media Types, Les Misérables - Victor Hugo
10 Aug 2014
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“We need you to be married,” Lamarque says.
“Pretend to be married,” Fantine clarifies. “Or pretend to be boyfriends, that’s fine too.”
“It’s the living together that’s important.”
Grantaire swallows. “I beg your pardon?”
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Or: the one where Enjolras and Grantaire are spies sent to a small village in the south of France to be undercover boyfriends.
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- Part 1 of secret agent man
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22 Jan 2015
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Lag Time by mlle for goshemily
Fandoms: Les Misérables - All Media Types, Les Misérables (2012), Les Misérables - Schönberg/Boublil, Les Misérables - Victor Hugo
12 Aug 2014
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The Barricades Rise tour starts in Ft. Lauderdale on one of those gorgeously mild days that only coastal Florida can produce. The sun is bright but the wind off the Atlantic is fresh and cooling. It’s not too humid, not too hot, especially as Grantaire takes the stage in the early evening. The sun is setting, wrapping the fairgrounds and the crowd in warm golden light. It’s damn near perfect.
It’s also one of the worst days of Grantaire’s entire life.
Probably the worst.
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- Part 1 of folk singers au
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Captain Rogers and Sergeant Barnes by Speranza
Fandoms: Captain America (Movies), Marvel Cinematic Universe
20 Aug 2014
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His eyes were dark and unreadable: there was only a faint ring of blue around the pupils. He stared at Steve down the gun barrel and muttered: "Are you really my friend?"
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