tenderhooked
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you could write me someday, and I hope you will by tenderhooked
Fandoms: Slow Horses (TV)
22 Feb 2026
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Granddad’s hands had always been leather, worn thick with lines. They’d held a callousness that had somehow never touched River when they held him.
[ or: river, and grief, and home. ]
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A month after France and Frank Harkness, Slough House is floundering beneath the weight of grief none of them quite know how to deal with. Fortunately, Catherine has returned, and she’s determined to fix things — starting with River, who’s carrying a secret that’s affecting how he acts both with her and with Lamb — until she and River are kidnapped from Slough House by a group of former slow horses that have a very serious bone to pick with Jackson Lamb.
It will be fine. Catherine knows that Lamb will come for River, and River knows that Lamb will come for Catherine, and until he does they simply have to keep the other alive long enough to be found. But what they’re not expecting is that these former slow horses don’t just want to hurt Lamb; they want to break River, and force Lamb to watch it happen.
But the former slow horses have made a significant error of judgement. With every recording they send of River’s torture, the more determined Lamb becomes to rescue his boy, and when he finally does get River and Catherine back he is never going to let them go. It’ll be a long, difficult road to recovery, but they’ll walk it together, all three of them.
[ or: the camcorder kidnapping fic, at last. ]
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the sun is only a God if you learn to starve by tenderhooked for altschmerzes
Fandoms: Ted Lasso (TV)
17 Aug 2024
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’Cause, see, it’s been nearly a month since Wembley and no one’s said a word about it. They were all there in that room with him, weren’t they; they witnessed what happened with their own eyes. The horrible words, jagged and serrated like a knife’s edge. The prowling, commanding grace of a predator that’s caught its prey between its teeth but hasn’t bitten yet. And then—
Then Jamie, knuckles bruised before he even realized he’d thrown a punch. Jamie, standing there in his socks. Jamie, looming above his Da as his Da skittered back across the tile, fingers to his jaw, curled protectively around the soft parts of his stomach. Jamie, the monster. The one that nobody can get close to. The one that destroys everything it touches.
He can’t sleep. When he tries, that’s the only thing he sees, in the dark behind his eyelids: Ruin.
[ post-wembley, jamie is drowning and terrified of asking for help he doesn't believe he deserves. cue a fretful team, a lot of well-meaning but fumbling attempts at connection, one thousand bajillion hugs, a few homemade brownies, and a jamie tartt on his way to something like healing. ]
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- Part 2 of gift fics!!
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to your joy I tether (not a lot, just forever) by tenderhooked
Fandoms: Dead Boy Detectives (TV)
02 Aug 2024
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“I’m not in love with you.”
“Ah,” says Edwin, succeeding a pause that goes on longer than he plans it to. “I see.”
“Shit, no, sorry, that’s not what I—”
“Charles, you mustn’t apologize—”
“No, Eds, wait, wait. That came out all wrong.” And Charles clutches Edwin’s hand tighter, so Edwin clutches back, taking strange comfort in the curve of Charles’s fingers, the ridge of his knuckles. Terrain that is somehow more familiar to Edwin than the paths he’s carved through Hell. “What I meant is, I’m not ever gonna be, like, in love with you. Romantically. I just—” His inhale is a juttering scrape of breath excavated from deep inside, and Edwin feels it as though it is his lungs that draw it in. “I love you, Edwin. I’ve always loved you. And after you confessed in Hell, I thought—well, I thought what I felt for you had to change. But it didn’t, and it won’t. I’m never gonna have a romantic notion towards anyone in the entire world, and I love you, and it’d be aces to kiss you.”
[ or: an aromantic awakening, a kiss, several bouts of crying, and a long cuddle on the couch. more or less in that order. ]
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Things Are Different Since You’ve Been Here Last by tenderhooked
Fandoms: The Bear (TV 2022)
09 Jun 2024
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After the walk-in debacle on Friends and Family night, Carmy is trying to make up for his mistakes by pushing himself to be better. But between the voice in his head telling him he’s worthless, his own wholehearted belief in everything that voice is saying, and his desperation to not let anyone see that there’s something severely wrong with him, things are going to shit fast — so when the hospital calls to inform him that his mother’s been in an accident and is going to need a caretaker for a while, Carmy takes the chance to do something right for once. It’ll be fine. He can handle it, and it’ll be fine.
He cannot handle it, and it isn’t fine. One night at Donna’s, everything goes catastrophically to shit and Carmy’s left with an open, bleeding wound in his hand and the suffocating realization that nobody’s coming to save him. But the people who love him are nothing if not determined to prove him wrong. They’re going to get him out of that house. They’re going to be there as his hand heals. They’re going to hug him, and cook for him, and remind him how it feels to laugh. And whenever he begins to believe that he doesn’t deserve any of it, they’ll be there to prove just how much he matters to them.
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when she sings, she sings (come home) by tenderhooked
Fandom Loki (TV 2021), Marvel Cinematic Universe, Thor (Movies)
10 Nov 2023
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look into the sun as the new days rise by MashpotatoeQueen for JustAnotherGhostwriter
Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender
13 Dec 2020
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It's one thing to say you're ready to forgive someone, and quite another to actually do it.
Katara and Zuko become friends while dealing with the potential end of world. It involves a lot of hiking, shared trauma, and trying to reclaim their childhoods from the grasps of war.
Oh, and the rest of the gaang is there too.
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18 Mar 2026
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“What if…” Katara’s voice was barely above a whisper, and she forcibly swallowed the lump in her throat. Her mother’s face floated before her, ash falling from the corners of her eyes. “What if I don’t…” Aang’s lifeless body flashed in her mind, lightning dancing across his spine. “What if I can’t forgive him?”
Forgiveness isn't easy. (And really, who ever said it was?) This fic follows Katara's emotional journey from the events of "The Western Air Temple" to those of "The Southern Raiders," as she experiences firsthand both the challenges and rewards of forgiving others (and perhaps even learns to forgive herself along the way).
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18 Mar 2026
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though your heart is far too young to realize by flashsideways
Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender
27 Jul 2020
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Sokka has realized that he’s basically the big brother here, and he takes his duties seriously. Protector. None of them really need to be protected, Toph being a master earthbender and Katara being a master waterbender and Aang being the Spirits damned Avatar, but he takes care of them anyway. They’re all just children of war, and Sokka refuses to let them grow in it alone.
or, Sokka learns how to take care of his friends, wins a war, kisses his girlfriend, and becomes an honorary older brother to just about everyone. Not necessarily in that order.
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16 Mar 2026
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i think you need to work on your (military-industrial) complexes by vintango
Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender
10 Aug 2019
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In which Zuko—son of Ozai, son of Azulon, son of Sozin, son of, well, someone—learns from an unexpected source that his political education has been lacking.
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15 Mar 2026
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Azula wants to play a new game; Zuko has a lisp; their parents react
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- Part 3 of the only hope; or else despair
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14 Mar 2026