15 Works by gabyteller
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He wondered if his father had made a deal with the devil before he was born. Immeasurable success, a place reserved for him in the history books, a lifetime of messianic comparison. These deals, however, always came with their analogous downside.
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An anthology of experiences and relationships at different stages of a life. An analysis of trauma and how it weaves itself into the fibres of identity, and becomes ontologically inseverable.
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Leo didn't know where the organic tissue ended and the machinery began. When squeezed his eyes closed hard enough and focused on the pulsing cybernetic implant at the back of his thigh, he could almost hear it working; his own divine chorus, but instead of singing, it whirred. Maybe Pep was right, maybe there was something angelic about it after all.
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Your hand touching mine. This is how galaxies collide. by gabyteller
Fandoms: Men's Football RPF
20 Sep 2023
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For some people, it takes an apocalypse to confront truths about themselves.
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Or, Neymar not really expecting to spend the Autumn years of his career stuck in a cabin in the middle of nowhere with his midlife-crisis-suffering best friend, only two weeks before a supposed mass extinction event.
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On the outside, Leo and Cristiano were the perfect storybook romance. Photos of a happy family of four, the son Kun had once called his own clutching his beloved ‘Pai’s’ Golden Boot, plagued the covers of magazines across the country.
Kun was certain he knew better. Perhaps it was a pettiness typical for all scorned lovers, perhaps it was fatherly protectiveness, perhaps it was Cristiano’s extraordinarily punchable face. Whatever it was, he couldn’t help but feel that he needed to take this facade of domestic bliss with a grain of salt.
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I take off my hands and I give them to you but you don't want them by gabyteller for takoyaki_squid
Fandoms: Men's Football RPF
28 Jul 2023
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Pep and Leo had almost had it. They'd reunited at Manchester. They were going to win another UCL together. Until an injury during training had made all these dreams crumble before their eyes. An injury that would plague them throughout their marriage.
Now, before the UCL final, the two get into an argument, and this is the last thing Pep wants to be dealing with.
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"Parasitic plants, devoid of the ability to sustain themselves, are intrinsically linked to their hosts, for without them, their existence withers into oblivion."
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Day Six of Leo Messi birthday week 2023.
Prompt: 'Soulmate AU' + 'He was beautiful, he was the point of difference, he has always been the point of difference'
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- Part 5 of Leo Messi Birthday Week (2023)
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Kun gets his hands on an interview Leo recorded for his older self.
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Day Four of Leo Messi birthday week 2023.
Prompt: 'Oh no, now there's two Lionel Messi!'
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- Part 4 of Leo Messi Birthday Week (2023)
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Scaloni is a dad of several adult men, Leo has some deep-rooted issues, Angel is the resident therapist, and Dibu really didn't do anything wrong!
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Day Three of Leo Messi birthday week 2023.
Prompt: 'Oh, Leo you're not a burden, never.' + ‘the Argentina NT being protective of Leo.’
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- Part 3 of Leo Messi Birthday Week (2023)
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"Older siblings, they said, had some sort of primal protective instinct; whether it were intrinsic or if it manifested itself upon the birth of a younger child, it would show up eventually. For the first thirteen years of his life, Gerard felt like he was doing some thing wrong. Like perhaps his parents had messed up the birth order or something.
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Then he came along and had to ruin everything."***
Day Two of Leo Messi birthday week 2023.
Prompt: 'Touch him and you're dead.'
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- Part 2 of Leo Messi Birthday Week (2023)
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I'm willing to lose everything so long as I can keep you by gabyteller
Fandoms: Men's Football RPF
17 Jun 2023
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"Yeah, perhaps it wasn’t all over. Now he was a little older, a little wiser. Perhaps they could make it work somehow. He wasn’t going to leave it to chance this time. Even if he failed, even if his career faded into obscurity, forgotten amidst him chasing Leo all over, then it would be okay, because he was willing to lose it all. So long as he had him."
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Day One of Leo Messi birthday week 2023.
Prompt: 'I'm willing to lose everything so long as I can keep you'
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- Part 1 of Leo Messi Birthday Week (2023)
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Pep seeks advice from Cruyff to sort out his locker room problems in his first months as coach. It backfires, to put it mildly.
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Antonella and Leo, observing two important celestial events at two different moments in their lives; each one bearing its own weight and preceding a significant moment in time.
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It is in your self-interest to find a way to be very tender by gabyteller
Fandoms: Men's Football RPF
12 Apr 2023
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‘Look, you know he can be a bit… I don’t know. It’s not easy for him, not like for us. Please, Sergio, I wouldn’t be asking if I didn’t think it was serious.’
‘What does it even matter, he’ll be out of here in a couple of months anyways, right?’
‘Please. Just this once.’
‘It’s not like I’m having a blast either.’
‘Ramos.’
‘Okay, okay. Fine. You owe me, though.’***
Xavi has tasked Sergio Ramos with making Leo Messi's life at PSG slightly easier. Ramos is everything but up to the task.
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Pep never thought of himself as a survivor before. Not in the classic sense — the hero with the golden smile, the unsurmountable wall of a body, the unbreakable spirit, laughing in the face of danger and adversity.
His story was one of survival, however. Survival at its most pathetic, awful, primal. Survival at its most human.
This is the way the world ends: Not with a bang, but with a whimper.
Loosely based on The Last of Us and other media concerned with human interaction during the end times.
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Retirement had been treating Cristiano unexpectedly well. Just him, Leo, and Junior in a beautiful home, away from all the maddening chaos of football and public life. It was almost perfect, and the Portuguese could barely believe his luck.
But there was that stupid anger running under his skin, crawling inside his veins like a million bugs trying to dig tunnels out.