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   found people to love (left people to drown) by tigerlilycorinne

   Fandoms: If We Were Villains - M.L. Rio  

   • Teen And Up Audiences
   • No Archive Warnings Apply
   • M/M
   • Complete Work

   03 Sep 2022

   Tags

   • No Archive Warnings Apply
   • James Farrow/Oliver Marks
   • Oliver Marks
   • James Farrow
   • Filippa Kosta
   • Alexander Vass
   • Post-Canon
   • Shakespeare Quotations
   • Angst with a Happy Ending
   • Angst
   • Mutual Pining
   • Getting Together
   • Screenplay/Script Format
   • Implied/Referenced Suicide
   • as canon sort of requires
   • Emotional Hurt/Comfort
   • (Ish) - Freeform
   • much heavier on the angst than my usual fics
   • Eventual Happy Ending
   • they're both messes that can't talk to each other
   • Reunions

   Summary

   JAMES: No it’s not fine—God, Oliver it’s not fucking fine. Every time I imagined this it was better.

   OLIVER: [hurt] Well—

   JAMES: No, stop, I didn’t—I mean I was better. I mean, when you showed up, I was going to be happy to see you—

   OLIVER: You’re not happy to see me.

   JAMES: Oliver—Oliver no, I’m happy to see you, but I’m losing my mind so bad I shouldn’t even be on the road, Oliver, and I was going to be okay.

   Oliver tracks James down, but figuring out what they are to each other now is difficult, terrifying, and complicated. AKA, another reunion fic, featuring high levels of guilt and angst.

   Series

   • Part 2 of AUgust 2022 Short Fic

   Language:

   English

   Words:

   21,357

   Chapters:

   5/5

   Collections:

   1

   Comments:

   84

   Kudos:

   550

   Bookmarks:

   129

   Hits:

   7,642

   Bookmarked by Cemeee

   29 Apr 2026

2. Rec *

   You've got mail by Anonymous

   Fandoms: Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid  

   • Teen And Up Audiences
   • No Archive Warnings Apply
   • M/M
   • Complete Work

   01 Jun 2026

   Tags

   • No Archive Warnings Apply
   • Shane Hollander/Ilya Rozanov
   • Shane Hollander
   • Ilya Rozanov
   • Letters
   • Epistolary
   • Alternate Universe - College/University
   • E-mail
   • Texting
   • HTML Tryhard
   • Strangers to Friends to Lovers
   • Fluff

   Summary

   While trying to write to his friend studying abroad in Moscow, Shane Hollander accidentally reaches Ilya Rozanov.

   Series

   • Part 1 of Hollanov collection

   Language:

   English

   Words:

   33,660

   Chapters:

   10/10

   Collections:

   1

   Comments:

   9,170

   Kudos:

   45,926

   Bookmarks:

   12,635

   Hits:

   676,562

   Bookmarked by Cemeee

   01 Apr 2026

3. Rec *

   it’s not love i swear (it might be closer to despair) by shaekspeares

   Fandoms: Secret History - Donna Tartt  

   • Teen And Up Audiences
   • No Archive Warnings Apply
   • M/M
   • Complete Work

   06 Apr 2022

   Tags

   • No Archive Warnings Apply
   • Francis Abernathy/Richard Papen
   • Others mentioned
   • Richard Papen
   • Francis Abernathy
   • Post-Canon
   • POV Richard Papen
   • Vignettes
   • Established Relationship
   • Developing Relationship
   • Friends to Lovers
   • Unhealthy Coping Mechanisms
   • Domestic Boyfriends
   • This is just snapshots of Francis and Richard being codependent in messy but sort of nice ways
   • Featuring Richard’s internalized homophobia
   • But in minor key
   • Also featuring both of their fucked up intimacy issues
   • In major key!
   • Implied/referenced childhood bad times
   • Book trauma also referenced
   • Mean gays cohabiting in the 1990s

   Summary

   Post-canon, post-figuring things out, snapshots of Richard and Francis across the years and occasions.

   Series

   • Part 2 of TSH but I decide what comes after

   Language:

   English

   Words:

   23,794

   Chapters:

   1/1

   Comments:

   30

   Kudos:

   496

   Bookmarks:

   120

   Hits:

   10,799

   Bookmarked by Cemeee

   15 Feb 2026

4. Rec 35

   someday on the avenue (tangled up in blue) by shaekspeares

   Fandoms: The Secret History - Donna Tartt  

   • Teen And Up Audiences
   • No Archive Warnings Apply
   • M/M
   • Complete Work

   15 Jan 2025

   Tags

   • No Archive Warnings Apply
   • Francis Abernathy/Richard Papen
   • Richard Papen
   • Francis Abernathy
   • Judy Poovey
   • Everyone gets name-dropped
   • Post-Canon
   • POV Richard Papen
   • Developing Relationship
   • Friends to Lovers
   • Period Typical Attitudes
   • March in Quebec
   • 1996 headlines as seen by jackasses
   • Richard is lowkey a terrible academic
   • And having a quarter-life crisis
   • Francis continues to scope out his adventure in middle class mundanity
   • They're sort of in the start of their honeymoon phase although they don't know this

   Summary

   1996, Montreal. Richard first says the words.

   Series

   • Part 3 of TSH but I decide what comes after

   Language:

   English

   Words:

   16,267

   Chapters:

   1/1

   Comments:

   29

   Kudos:

   209

   Bookmarks:

   35

   Hits:

   3,470

   Bookmarked by Cemeee

   15 Feb 2026

5. Rec *

   Sober II (Melodrama) by shaekspeares

   Fandoms: Secret History - Donna Tartt  

   • Teen And Up Audiences
   • Graphic Depictions Of Violence
   • M/M, Multi
   • Complete Work

   08 Jun 2021

   Tags

   • Graphic Depictions Of Violence
   • Francis Abernathy/Richard Papen
   • Francis Abernathy & Richard Papen
   • Richard Papen & Judy Poovey
   • Camilla Macaulay/Richard Papen
   • Richard Papen & Henry Winter
   • Richard Papen
   • Francis Abernathy
   • Camilla Macaulay
   • ghosts - Character
   • Various Others
   • Priscilla (The Secret History)
   • Olivia Abernathy
   • Meaningful Cameos
   • Slow Burn
   • Post-Canon
   • Canon Compliant
   • Mental Health Issues
   • Unhealthy Relationships
   • Canon-Typical Descriptions of Self-Harm
   • Road Trips
   • Motels
   • Making fun of California
   • Phone Calls
   • Rimbaud
   • Coping with being a murderer and also approaching your thirties
   • Surprisingly wholesome friendships
   • Richard Papen's Internalised Homophobia
   • Francis Abernathy's Internalised Everything Else
   • Earn your happy endings cranked up to a hundred
   • Montreal!
   • POV Richard Papen
   • Dubious hurt/comfort administered by people ill-equipped to offer comfort
   • Protagonists transparent to everyone but themselves
   • Long Shot
   • Footnotes implied
   • Sorry if you don't speak French or Greek

   Summary

   L’Automne s’assombrit ainsi qu’une Bachante
   Au sortir des festins empourprés. Elle chante
   La moite lassitude et l’oubli des baisers.

   (Richard and Francis, post-canon. Nothing goes according to plan.)

   Series

   • Part 1 of TSH but I decide what comes after

   Language:

   English

   Words:

   65,137

   Chapters:

   3/3

   Comments:

   155

   Kudos:

   950

   Bookmarks:

   263

   Hits:

   23,016

   Bookmarked by Cemeee

   15 Feb 2026