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“Do you trust them?”
“Of course I do!” Bobby insisted. He trusted his crew with every bone in his body. But within him was a little boy with dried tear tracks on his face, clutching plucked feathers to his chest. That fear was undeniable, laying dormant in his body always just below the surface. “I’m just… worried they'll treat me differently,” Bobby admitted softly.
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Bobby’s kept his wings hidden for years and yet all it takes is one slip of the tongue for his entire world to come crumbling down around him.
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"That just can't be possible," Joe says decisively, though his voice wavers. "Picked up for what? It's gotta be a different Day. Chuck's crazy, but he's not crazy enough to get himself arrested."
Shorty has a sinking feeling that he, at least, knows what.
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In which Don and Bobby are friends with benefits and neither one of them think the other wants more.
Yeah right.
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While Bobby is out, he gets caught in a crowd wanting to hear a speech from the mayor. He doesn’t realize something is wrong until the screaming starts.
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When Our Fingers Touch, I Feel My Way Back Home by booknerds_unite
Fandoms: The Boys in the Boat (2023)
04 Aug 2024
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Don and Bobby survived D-Day together and now must survive the rest of the war. Bobby knows that he has very little chance of surviving due to his health issues. Don refuses to let any of the men in his squad die even at the expense of his life. As they fight their way across Europe, they discover how desperate they are to get each other home.
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Birds Gotta Fly, Fish Gotta Swim by IWannaDoBadThingsWithYou237
Fandoms: The Boys in the Boat (2023)
12 May 2024
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Don is doing well in dealing with his unrequited feelings (read love) for Bobby. Really he is…and then the dratted cox at Cal makes a comment and the whole thing goes to pot.
Don/Bobby, Joy/Joyce. RATED M?
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It's Not Living (If It's Not With You) by thatoneenglishnerd
Fandoms: The Boys in the Boat (2023)
01 Apr 2024
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"The music was intoxicating, addicting, therapeutic. The vibration of the speakers was all Joe wanted when he walked out of stage of The Boys in the Boat’s world tour. He was known as the calm and quiet member to their large fanbase but regardless, he couldn’t wipe the smile on his face. It was a fever dream; loud, exhausting, and beautiful. As if the planets had aligned as the 9 of them were in tune.
Joe drank in the noise of thousands of their fans screaming for them, for him. At this point, the blonde’s eyes found Shorty’s beside him, guitars gripped in both of their hands. His fellow guitarist had a glint in his eyes, the glint that he seemed to gain every time they were on stage, no matter the size of the crowd. Joe couldn’t even savor the sound of Shorty’s laugh with the noise that had begun.
This, this was his dream. He had made it. "Or,
Joe starts a band, and drama ensues.
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“Never really took you as a religious guy,” Bobby says, looking slightly amused.
“It’s not that,” Don replies, “it’s more… having trust in something.”OR
Bobby Moch and Don Hume carry out a University of Washington tradition
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It's 1936. 9 boys embark on a difficult journey through college and by miracle, they make their schools rowing team. They are all nobody's from nowhere and nothing is expected of them, they just want to make it out alive, but then the tables turn. They become the best crew rowing team ever seen. The team goes far, the Poughkeepsie regatta and even the Olypmics in Berlin, but nothing ever goes perfectly.
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In this you will read about poor rowers who need to pay their tuition, homosexuals who are afraid, Jews, military men, coaches, a family, and romantics.
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Snow Angel by thatoneenglishnerd
Fandoms: The Boys in the Boat (2023), Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling
11 Mar 2024
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"Joe had grown up chasing. Through the fields of his childhood home, he and his brother rushing through the tall grass, calling out to each other through the clear, warm air. Chasing his father’s truck as it drove down the gravel path of the dark, London house he’d been put in. Chasing his stepmother, looking for acceptance but simply being met with scolding or a slap to the cheek. Chasing, gripping at the memories of his mother that were slowly fading the more and more he thought deeply about her.
He’d chased and chased his family for their approval, attention, their warm embrace. He’d never gotten it.
Hogwarts had been a blessing in disguise."Or,
Joe is fighting to be top of his class at Hogwarts, as well as bring home the House Cup to Hufflepuff. And yet, Shorty Hunt, a naturally smart and skilled Ravenclaw, won't stop getting in the way.
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Bobby was a born fighter. The harder something came to him, the better he worked to be at it. He chased girls and snuck through windows and got kicked out of dormitories, and he never let his eyes wander or gave in to the gnawing pit of inadequacy in his stomach.
Six pivotal moments in Bobby Moch's understanding of himself.
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Come A Little Closer Now (10 1 Times) by stopstopstopit
Fandoms: The Boys in the Boat (2023)
15 Feb 2024
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Don’t get him wrong, he still isn’t much of a hugger. But he’s been married long enough to learn that touch from the right person is different. It's safe and warm and comforting and…and he wants it back from Tom.
Or, 10 snippets of touches through Al and Tom's growing relationship, plus 1 that sealed the deal.
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5(ish) Times Joe Rantz Finds Out Someone is Queer by IceGrey_Rose
Fandoms: The Boys in the Boat (2023)
03 Feb 2024
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1 Time He Did Something About It (by playing matchmaker)
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“Oh,” Bobby whispers. “You should be in bed.”“So should you,” Joe counters, just as quiet. “Is he okay?”
Bobby shrugs. “He was asleep. I just…” he runs a stressed hand through his hair. “I just wanted to check on him.”
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This is going to be a whole stack of random, completely unconnected BITB oneshots primarily focusing on various side characters! It's basically just angst and almost everyone being gay except occasionally not lol. Just look at the tags, K?
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When a girl named Eleanor meets a boy named Don during one of their shared classes at the University of Washington.
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hold me in the spring time by 1andonlyeddie for NiciJones
Fandoms: The Boys in the Boat (2023)
26 Jan 2024
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It's Spring Break training for the varsity and JV boys of the University of Washington's crew team. Joe Rantz heads to a remote mountain lake with his boys and his coaches, preparing for two weeks of intense physical training to get them ready for their spring season. Joe is not prepared for when he actually forms close bonds with the boys in his boat, and in particular, his stroke seat, Don Hume, leaves an everlasting mark on Joe that will change his life forever.
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“I wish Bolles wouldn’t say things like that,” Roger complained, voice raised to be heard over the sputtering showers. “Okey-doke. He’s too old to talk like us.”
AKA "an exercise in why using actual 1930s slang in fics removes all sense of gravitas or believability"
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Stitch Me Up, Send Me Back Out to Dance by The_Hobbit_Ninja
Fandoms: The Boys in the Boat (2023)
17 Jan 2024
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The varsity crew isn't too happy with Bobby Moch for "jumping ship" and captaining the JV crew to a victory they couldn't achieve themselves. Basically, shit goes down and the crew is not about to let anyone mess with their cox.
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An Unconstant Lover is Worse Than a Thief by Arokel
Fandoms: The Boys in the Boat (2023)
12 Jan 2024
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“It’s not nothing.” Jim’s voice, unusually quiet, turned every head in the room. The boys looked on with wide eyes as he explained. “Remember when Ulbrickson was out of town for a few days last year? He asked me to take a few of his things home from the shell house 'cause he had to leave quick. I stayed to chat with Mrs. Ulbrickson for a bit, and as I was leaving, I saw Coach Bolles pull up with a suitcase."
Johnny White sees someone suspicious leaving Coach Ulbrickson's house in the early hours of the morning, college boys have fertile imaginations, and Hazel Ulbrickson's ego gets a significant boost.
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I have scoured the internet, and cannot find one single fic for "The Boys in the Boat." That fact is absolutely killing me, because I've already seen it in theaters four times and I reallllly need more of these characters. Especially Bobby Moch, because let's face it...he was more compelling than the rest of the team put together. So if you are in the same boat as me (pun very much intended), this fic is for you!