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strawberries and cigarettes by letgorensolo
Fandoms: Star Wars - All Media Types, Star Wars Sequel Trilogy
27 Aug 2025
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Ben Solo is a bit of an outcast. He has ridden the same bus as spunky and loud-mouthed Rey Niima, who is an outcast in her own right, since middle school. Unable to find the courage to make a move, Ben's world turns upside down when Rey invites him to sit with her during the fall of their senior year. How far is he willing to go to keep Rey now that he has her?
A.K.A. Loser Ben x Gremlin Rey, the high school seniors edition (with a fair amount of obsession, possessiveness, and utter devotion thrown in). Title Song: "Strawberries and Cigarettes" by Troye Sivan (2018).
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08 Sep 2025
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Florence and Anatoly get married and have a daughter. See what happened, happening and will happen.
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30 Aug 2025
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Fifteen-year-old Florence Vassy emigrates from Ukraine in 2014.
In 2021, Freddie Trumper challenges Anatoly Sergievsky at the Berlin World Championship. Chaos predictably ensues.
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Florence hesitated, then found herself speaking with a candor that surprised her. “Trying is an understatement, Mr. Sergievsky. Freddie is a brilliant man, a chess genius without parallel. But his methods… his temperament…” She trailed off, not wanting to be disloyal, yet the exhaustion was too profound to entirely conceal.
“Geniuses are often accompanied by complex weather systems,” Anatoly offered, his tone dry. It was the closest he’d come to a direct comment on Freddie, and it was delivered with a subtlety that made Florence want to smile.
“Aptly put,” she conceded. “I seem to spend most of my time navigating the ensuing meteorological events."
“It's good you have an umbrella, then” Anatoly said, his own smile, rare and real, emerging for the first time. “Otherwise, this championship might have drowned us all by now.”
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30 Aug 2025
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“I guess what I’m trying to tell you dear is that we don’t always get to keep our magic. But having it for a few moments is better than not having it at all."
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28 Aug 2025
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The initial idea was to somehow get Benson into an undercover position at a hair salon so she could give Barba a haircut, shave, manicure, etc while undercover; this was supposed to be a short, mostly context-less thing. Then it got combined with a request for an "undercover dating" fic that was supposed to be a slow burn, but I failed at the slow burn part because most of the fic takes place in the course of a few hours. Don't look too closely for a cohesive or plausible plot in this thing...
I was also told that it needed a "minimum" of 8,000 words of smut, and even though this was a ridiculous joke number tossed out, I took it as a challenge. Somehow this fic ended up being 30,000 words and 10,000 of them are smut.
Update: I've added another 2,000 words, for some reason. Haha
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26 Aug 2025