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DXS is secretive organization, ran very strictly. There is a rigid system of infractions and corporal punishment, escalating in severity in accordance with the severity of the mistake or rule broken. One stipulation is that anyone who should have stopped you is required to witness your punishment.
This element of DXS, while Riley was thoroughly warned about it when she agreed to stay on, always seemed distant and not quite real. Now, with Mac kneeling shirtless and a man whose name she doesn't know standing over him about to beat him while she and Jack can only watch, it’s entirely too real.
(for whumptober day 1, alternate prompt 8, "forced to watch")
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- Part 1 of Handbook 'Verse
- Part 1 of Whumptober 2022
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It would've been traumatic enough for Jamie's father to ruin Richmond's most recent victory in front of the whole team, but when the confrontation turns violent in front of a gaggle of reporters, the ensuing social media firestorm is even worse. Over the next two and a half weeks, Jamie will have to navigate the charges against his father, walk a gauntlet of publicity that he never asked for, and prepare to give the interview of a lifetime.“So,” Trent starts, keeping his voice mild and professional. “We have all, by now, seen the footage from the unfortunate run-in you had with your father, the night of the twenty-fifth of April in the car park at Coventry City FC’s pitch.”
Luckily, Richmond has always been there to catch him on the other side.
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My Dead Are Mine (And Yours As Well As Mine) by altschmerzes
Fandoms: The Locked Tomb Series | Gideon the Ninth Series - Tamsyn Muir
27 Jun 2022
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The resurrection of the dead of Canaan House, as carried out by newly minted and unwilling Lyctor Harrowhark Nonagesimus.
(The Second learn there are some things you can't - and shouldn't - shut out and soldier your way through. The Fourth gain a handful of new role models, for better or for worse. The Fifth learn that perspective is a sword with two edges, and the clarity of understanding can bring with it a great deal of pain, but also a map through which to chart the way forward. The Sixth find the strength to hold everything together except for themselves. The Eighth tumble into the free-fall that comes after a crisis of faith slashes every string holding the world together and hit the ground hard. And the Ninth?
Well. The Ninth House never did care much for the rules of what is, isn't, or should be 'possible.')
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When Jack gets a call from an old friend, Matty Webber, telling him about a job opportunity with an organization called ‘DXS’, he isn’t sure what to expect. What he doesn't expect is being hired as the partner of the top agent - also the son of Director James MacGyver.
Jack navigates getting to the bottom of what’s going on with his new partner when it seems like what looked like arrogance and nepotism might be something more dangerous. Along the way Riley and Bozer are brought in to Operation Investigate Our Boss to try and get to the bottom of what’s wrong and DXS and who is to blame.
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Jamie collapses at training the day before an away game far from home, running a fever, and somehow this ends up being Roy's problem. And Ted's, when he persuades Roy to take it in shifts. It's both of their problem, though it's a problem for them in different ways.
Ted struggles to keep the feeling of being helpless from sending him too deep into his own head to stay where he's needed. His experience as a parent both helps and doesn't.
As for Roy, hating Jamie was a lot simpler than caring about him is. Taking care of him? Roy doesn't have a clue where he got the idea he was competent enough to do that. Especially when it feels like all he does is mess it up.
(or: every fandom deserves at LEAST one tropey mess of a sickfic. here's one for us.)
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AU where DXS is a dystopian nightmare, with a branch known as the Department for Enforcement of Regulation of Disciplinary Infractions that oversees errors and misbehaviour committed by DXS agents and punishes them accordingly. There are four tiers of infractions, and the discipline tiers escalate along with them, but at the core, the concept is simple: an agent does something wrong, an agent gets beaten with a leather strap.
The rules and procedures are explained to those employed by DXS in a booklet they are all given upon signing on to the organization: the Handbook on the Regulation of Disciplinary Infractions.
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Whumptober 2021 by altschmerzes
Fandom: CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, CSI: NY, Final Fantasy XV, Killjoys (TV)
13 Oct 2021
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Mac Taylor is a community college professor who teaches science with a focus on forensics. He and his neighbour in the apartment next over, Stella, live in the Courtyards on Foster apartment complex, and he quickly becomes embroiled in the lives of the group of teenagers who live in the complex and seem to have... well. A lot going on.
(or: local community college professor goes on an unintended journey down the 'childless widower' to 'father of six' pipeline, best friend sits on next door balcony and laughs at him for the duration)
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what it was that made you weak by headaaches
Fandoms: The Locked Tomb Series | Gideon the Ninth Series - Tamsyn Muir
17 Jun 2022
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Therapy had been the Fifth’s idea. Apparently the effort of dicking around with locked doors all day was putting too much pressure on them, and Abigail was a “licensed therapist”, whatever the hell that meant. Gideon still hadn’t figured that one out yet. Could have been normal on other houses (like salads, or having an “afternoon”) and the bony old assholes back home on the Ninth just hadn’t bothered.
Or, when Gideon Nav goes to group therapy, she learns new things about Harrow, Silas, and herself.
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18 Jun 2022
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[puts my hands over my face and shrieks for a very long time] my horrible girl and my horrible boy find common ground and might even someday end up FRIENDS. this is everything i wanted in a tlt fic. the gideon narrative is perfect. laughed AND almost cried at least once. seven out of five stars.
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Colin gets into a fight when the team goes out to celebrate Richmond's promotion.
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07 Dec 2021
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SO much about this. the feelings, the anxiety, the like- that one poem, right. 'i've already ruined it or it's ruined me.' that's the energy here. also qp colin/isaac???? [chef's kiss] fucking perfect, beautiful, unmatched. will never see them any other way now.
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Spike isn't sure when he started feeling like he's drowning. The more distant Greg grows, the more Spike knows he's screwed up.
But when he becomes the target of a father's crime, secrets are exposed. Reconciliation looms as an Everest Greg isn't sure they can ever climb.
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- Part 1 of Figlio Mozzato
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12 Oct 2019
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friends. fellows. countrymen. do you want to read the best shit. do you want to experience a roller coaster ride full of found family and hurt and mistakes and reconciliation and humor and love. do you want to ENRICH your fandom experience. please read this.
will be reading it OVER AND OVER.
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In the fall of 2001, Toby went to shul.
"In past years he had carried sins enough to confess, sins both petty and great, transgressions against God's ordinances and those of men."
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02 Jun 2018
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amazing fic about toby on yom kippur, really got to the heart of a lot of my own #jewishfeelings and my #tobyfeelings and gosh i just wanna roll around in it
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Even with the answers he'd craved for so long, Mac couldn't figure out how to fix it this time. His team knows the answer: Mac isn't broken to begin with. Post season 2 finale.
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25 May 2018
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really beautiful writing with just my absolute favorite take on everybody, but bozer and mac's relationship especially. jam packed with FEELINGS and JUST HOW I LIKE IT. just..... i'm bowled over. i'm so impressed. ill be rereading this often.