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Of Rainbows and Starrie Eyes by zetaophiuchi (ryuujitsu)
Fandoms: Matthias & Maxime (2019)
09 Mar 2024
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Before they settled, the children’s daemons had liked to roam about as birds.
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I heard God singing / in the garden, / and went outside / to greet Him.
-Portia Martin, “Return”I hear wolf behind me / the foot steps of hunger / I am coming back…
-John Allman, “Return”*
Tom returns to the farm; and other variations.
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“If we do it in the corner behind the sofa we’ll be able to see anyone coming in before they see us. Plus my laptop’s up there. Plausible deniability.”
“Nothing gets me harder than the law.”
“Mouthy. Let’s see what else that mouth can do.”
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Scenes from a weekend at the lake house.
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- Part 1 of Forever's Gonna Start Tonight
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Max is staying a while, Matt had told him. “He has to clear out Manon’s—his mother’s apartment. It’s a fucking mess. I said I’d help.”
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After the funeral.
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- Part 2 of The Rehabilitation of Northern Foxes
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The Rehabilitation of Northern Foxes by zetaophiuchi (ryuujitsu)
Fandoms: Matthias & Maxime (2019)
03 Jun 2023
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When God closes one door He opens another, to a bougie-ass condo in Griffintown.
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- Part 1 of The Rehabilitation of Northern Foxes
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A Place That Has Already Been Disgraced by zetaophiuchi (ryuujitsu)
Fandoms: Tom à la ferme | Tom at the Farm (2013)
20 May 2023
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"You’re an animal, Tom. An animal, esti! You should be kept outside. You should be kept in a pen."
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Summer at the farm. Sequel to Put Your Loving Hand Out.
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- Part 2 of Les bouts effilochés
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Put Your Loving Hand Out by zetaophiuchi (ryuujitsu)
Fandoms: Tom à la ferme | Tom at the Farm (2013)
07 May 2023
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“You’re sick,” Sarah Thibault says in parting. “The two of you, you’re sick, you’re fucked up. Worse than that, you’re pathetic.”
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Francis doesn’t fuck Sarah. Tom doesn’t leave the farm.
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- Part 1 of Les bouts effilochés
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“I can’t untangle it in a day. We live together, we have a lease. It’s complicated.”
“ ‘We live in a society.’ ”
“Exactly.”
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After the weekend.
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- Part 2 of Le vent nous portera
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The day Frank Columbo met Eugenio Franchitti was a day blessed by God: God and all the real angels and saints, specifically Adjutor, Philip Neri, and Barbara. The war was going full swing; on the beach there were the leftovers, the women and boys and girls, and the oldest Franchitti kids who hadn’t shipped overseas, Geno and Cecilia, first cousins. Frank hadn’t noticed ’em at first, either of ’em, the tall and lanky boy and girl with skin like gold and eyelashes like fringed velvet burlesque fans, physical traits the magazines said you could shell out for but the Franchitti kids had ’em in spades all natural; but once he had he couldn’t stop noticin'.
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The story of how Columbo and Mrs. Columbo came to be.
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I won’t go on Friday. I was supposed to go on Friday, but I’ll go on Sunday. I want us to spend the weekend together.
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The weekend. Picks up right after the credits.
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- Part 1 of Le vent nous portera
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Two years later, Matt picks Max up from the airport. Set in the same angst-ridden universe as Running in the Shadows.
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- Part 2 of The Chain
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Running in the Shadows by zetaophiuchi (ryuujitsu)
Fandoms: Matthias & Maxime (2019), Beach Rats (2017)
20 Jun 2022
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Five trips, for business and for pleasure, that Kevin McAfee takes over the years.
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- Part 1 of The Chain
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“Why Hawaii?”
“You waited until we were in the air to ask?”
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Matthias and Maxime in the spring of 2022.
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- Part 5 of Miss You Like a Home
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“So,” Max says. “Toronto.”
"Yeah."
"Ditching us for those anglophone fuckers."
"Yeah."
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An AU where Matt is the one who decides to leave.
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For every heartbreak I prescribe caramel. I know it hurts now: one day it won’t.
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Matt and Max in Australia.
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- Part 2 of Après
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One Day, Baby by zetaophiuchi (ryuujitsu)
Fandoms: Sublet (2020), And Then We Danced (2019)
17 Feb 2022
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Merab meets his eye—grins—holds out the cigarette. Here, he says. We share.
I told you, Tomer says, no lighter. No Feuerzeug.
We pretend, Merab says.
Tomer follows his friends to Berlin and meets a dancer.
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Brass:
Matts a crazy man
what kind of midlife crisis is this
who took him to the airport?
Sarah?*
Post-canon. Matthias Ruiz and grand, desperate gestures.
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- Part 1 of Après
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An Unraveling String That Pulls and Pulls by zetaophiuchi (ryuujitsu)
Fandoms: Matthias & Maxime (2019)
13 Nov 2021
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“When this is over,” he says, “this quarantine, we can get tested, we can do it bare—”
They’re going to be late to dinner.
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Matthias and Maxime in November 2021.
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- Part 4 of Miss You Like a Home
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a strain on the heart by zetaophiuchi (ryuujitsu)
Fandoms: Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy - John Le Carré
30 Sep 2021
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“Perhaps it wasn’t Jim,” said Smiley after a long silence. “Perhaps it was someone else who blew the networks. Not Jim.”
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At Freistadt, deep in the soft warm heaven of a girl whose name he had forgotten, Max had been puzzled and angry. The anger had carried him for months, but he wasn’t angry anymore, though the bewilderment lingered.
“So what you doing here,” he said again, “Jim?”
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After the events of TTSS, Jim pays a visit to his Operation Testify legman.
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Midnight. The streetlight is flickering. Matt stands beneath it. Smoke floats upward and vanishes into the dark.
He slinks up with his hands in his pockets. “You sure know how to make a guy feel welcome.”
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Max comes home.