#tqgfic

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Full Tilt (16000~ words) by NRGburst Chapters: 2/2 of Playing the Rush Fandom: The Queen's Gambit (TV), The Queen's Gambit - Walter Tevis Rating: Explicit Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Beth Harmon/Benny Watts Characters: Benny Watts, Beth Harmon, Jolene (The Queen's Gambit) Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Rating May Change, Implied/Referenced Drug Use, Mutual Pining, Poker Lingo, Actual Chess game Summary:

adj: a player’s state of impaired judgment due to emotional agitation

TQG x Rounders: Benny gambles his way to Moscow AU Part 2

Cover art by mniiv

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Joy and Harmonny for the Season (2567 words) by NRGburst Chapters: 2/? Fandom: The Queen's Gambit (TV) Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Beth Harmon/Benny Watts, Beth Harmon & Jolene Characters: Beth Harmon, Benny Watts, Jolene (The Queen's Gambit) Additional Tags: Fluff, holiday fic, Biblical Scripture References (Abrahamic Religions), Post-Canon Summary:

B^2 over the holidays. Prompt fics for newyearcntdown.

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Playing the Rush (7461 words) by NRGburst Chapters: 1/2 Fandom: The Queen's Gambit (TV), The Queen's Gambit - Walter Tevis Rating: Mature Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Beth Harmon/Benny Watts Characters: Benny Watts, Beth Harmon, Jolene (The Queen's Gambit) Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Rating May Change, Implied/Referenced Drug Use, Mutual Pining, Poker Lingo, Actual Chess game Summary:

vb: playing loose and aggressive on a hot streak of wins.

TQG x Rounders: Benny gambles his way to Moscow AU

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the touch placebo (1374 words) by NRGburst Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: The Queen's Gambit (TV) Rating: Explicit Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Beth Harmon/Benny Watts Characters: Beth Harmon, Benny Watts Additional Tags: 5+1 Things, Canon Compliant, beth-centric, Rivals to Lovers, this isn't even that smutty but it's descriptive enough that i'm rating E for safety, Angst Summary:

Five times Benny touches Beth (and one time she touches him back)

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From “Playing the Rush” which is basically B^2 x Rounders canon AU

@ilreleonewikia13

Maybe he's gone just as crazy as Beth, but a few phone calls help him figure out that it's actually possible, especially since he's already got the visa.

There's a direct flight out of Kennedy to Moscow on Friday, and he needs to be on it if he's going to show up in time to actually help Beth against Borgov. She's already won two games, and the Times has gone from printing small blurbs about the tournament on the fourth page to proper articles with notation on the second page. She'd defeated Laev in twenty seven moves, then completely destroyed Duhamel the next day in twenty two, since he'd made an error on his eighth move.

It feels good, wiping the dust off his chessboard and playing through the games; slowing to admire a particularly pretty move she'd made with a pawn sacrifice turned attacker when Laev had refused the bait.

There's really nothing more beautiful than a well played chess game.

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For @faearies ! Absolutely loved this fic and I can’t wait for the update (and the Benny POV fic)! <3

now i'm covered in the colors, pulled apart at the seams (19682 words) by thisismetrying Chapters: 9/15 Fandom: The Queen's Gambit (TV) Rating: Mature Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Beth Harmon/Benny Watts Characters: Beth Harmon, Benny Watts Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Soulmates, Alternate Universe, Canon Compliant, mostly - Freeform, Soulmates, Color Blindness, Color soulmate, Idk what exactly this trope is called, but the soulmate trope where you can't see color until you meet your soulmate, mostly follows canon but with the color/soulmate aspect, and then goes a little beyond canon to post-Moscow, Slow Burn, Alcohol Abuse/Alcoholism, Smut, Eventual Smut, Drug Addiction Summary:

Beth can’t see color. But the chess board and the world that it contains is all black and white, so it doesn’t really bother her.

Ironically, it is at a chess tournament that she starts to see color.

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or the queen's gambit "you can't see colors until you meet your soulmate au" that no one asked for

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For Mother’s Day (and for @coruscating-ly) 

Coda (1392 words) by NRGburst Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: The Queen's Gambit (TV) Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Alma Wheatley/Manuel, Beth Harmon & Alma Wheatley Characters: Alma Wheatley, Beth Harmon Additional Tags: implied canonical character death, Alma-centric Summary:

It's better to have a short life that is full of what you like doing, than a long life spent in a miserable way. Alan Watts

Also with Alma absent but her memory threaded through the fic:

Trifles

(G, 791 words, Beth Harmon/Benny Watts, background Mike/Jolene, Grief/Mourning, Non-linear narrative, Kidfic)

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Gloves Off

The Queen’s Gambit (TV), Beth Harmon/Benny Watts

E, 1300 words, no archive warnings apply

Birthday smutfic for Terra_Banks, missing scene from Middlegame Maneuvers (Exchange-verse). There is discussion of post IUD insertion pain, just to warn.