Gifts for HumiliatedRook
List of Gifts
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catch the last weekend of the last week (before the gold and the glimmer have been replaced) by Anonymous for HumiliatedRook
Fandoms: The Queen's Gambit (TV)
27 Jul 2022
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The urgency belying his voice rattles her. Why? A fear of rats? Burglars? Loan sharks? Smells? Every day she tries to work up the courage to ask, but then Benny throws her a copy of Chess Review from before she was born and she reads it like her life depends on it.
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Benny cares that Beth locks the door behind her when she leaves. She doesn't understand why.
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The Doctor reflects on the end.
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I was seven when we met by orphan_account for HumiliatedRook
Fandoms: The Queen's Gambit (TV)
22 Feb 2022
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Art inspired by Humiliated Rook
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It's a Kind of Magic (That Keeps us Going) by Lyrical Madrigal (Female_Hercules) for HumiliatedRook
Fandoms: Encanto (2021)
15 Feb 2022
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How did each member of the Madrigal family get their gift? And how does Mirabel take not having one herself?
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and you know, we're on each other's team by thisismetrying for HumiliatedRook
Fandoms: The Queen's Gambit (TV)
19 Jul 2021
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And maybe family isn’t forever either, perhaps you can’t put a temporal dimension to it, can’t measure it by a chess clock or even a calendar year. But maybe not being alone isn’t a permanent state either. Perhaps there are people that come into your life when you need it, and are there when you need it.
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or 5 Times Friends Helped Beth + 1 Time Beth Helped Her Friend
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So Much for the Afterglow by fourteenlines for HumiliatedRook
Fandoms: The Queen's Gambit (TV)
18 May 2021
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Five ways Benny Watts could have salvaged the situation, but didn’t.
Set during that scene in Adjournment.
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- Part 1 of Five Things Benny Watts Didn't Say
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(all we do is drive) all we do is think about the feelings that we hide by thisismetrying for HumiliatedRook
Fandoms: The Queen's Gambit (TV)
21 Mar 2021
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Soon enough they’re driving through fields, (“a shortcut,” Benny says as he exits the highway, right before taking her pawn. Beth takes his knight on the next move), and they’re at the end of three rapid-fire games.
Beth goes on the attack, moving in on his pieces like Alekhine, not bothering to map out a long-term strategy. This is basically speed chess, after all. Plus, she’s still just a tiny bit annoyed that all Benny can focus on is chess.
When Benny pauses for a minute, trying to regroup, to get out of the pin Beth has him in, she sneaks a glance at him. His shirt is billowing ever so slightly in the air conditioner, giving her a view of the smooth skin underneath. His jaw is clenched just slightly, mouth turned slightly down. She shivers in her seat involuntarily, and crosses and uncrosses her legs.
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Or Beth and Benny need to talk, but they're both stubborn
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le coït; tu aimes ça? by dialectica_esoterica for HumiliatedRook
Fandoms: The Queen's Gambit (TV)
20 Mar 2021
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Beth thought she knew what concentration was.
Forged in the fires of chaos, molded by repetition, cured by the promise of victory. Tensile like steel. Heavy like lead.
Your move.
Salty like sweat; bitter like cum. Bent backwards over the chess board in his kitchen, open and exposed and embarrassingly wet.Beth has forgotten how to concentrate.
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- Part 2 of est-ce que tu aimes le sexe?
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and i get the feeling that you'll never need me again by thisismetrying for HumiliatedRook
Fandoms: The Queen's Gambit (TV)
14 Mar 2021
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“I know what I saw Benny,” she says. Her voice is hard, unyielding. “I thought you were better than that.”
“I didn’t mean it. It didn’t mean anything.” He is not a begging man, but he is close to getting on his knees. “I’m sorry.”
Finally, she looks back at him, the anger in her eyes evident, tinged with pain. Still, her mouth is set, jaw tight. “You let go,” she tells him, daring him to contradict her.
The image flashes before his eyes, his hands where they shouldn’t be. The release. Beth’s shocked and then disappointed and then anguished eyes. And after, how she’d fled from the room, anger and fury in her every step.
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Or what happens when Benny does something he can't take back