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of bakers and henna artists, (not so) cliché winter activities and christmas, and of course, love
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Now, it was silent. No more gunfire-- no footsteps, no shouts, no whispers-- just the ringing in his ears. Kip furrowed his brow.
No sound of Maccready either.
Which was normal. Right? His sniper friend had a tendency to be light on his feet. A requirement for his style of life, really. Kip strained to listen again. The metal skyscrapers towering over him creaked in the wind.
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One day, Dylan wakes up.
Dylan’s room feels very big and very small. Unseen, confidential, but extremely exposed. Jesse tries not to wonder how they kept Dylan contained. She really tries not to wonder what the Hiss did to break him out. Nobody has come to clean this room. The House hasn’t shifted it. Her name is still scrawled on the table and glass. "You must see the truth for yourself, Jesse, Sister. The horrible truth about the Bureau." Dylan’s words-- maybe Dylan’s words, maybe the Hiss’s words, she isn’t sure-- play over in her head. She thumbs through a file on the desk she’s memorized by now. Observations on her brother, every hour, everything he does, locked up. "I’m P6. Trench and Darling made sure of that."
Jesse is Director now. She has to make sure that never happens again. Do whatever she can.
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- Part 1 of Grow Brighter continuity
- Part 7 of faden in (or: how i learned to cry about dylan a lot)
- Part 1 of Hello World
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“And really,” Jenkins added, his eyeroll visible through the visor on his full-body protective suit, “Eros Spores are basically harmless; it’s not like you’re going to die.”
There was a pause as four Librarians and one Guardian could only stare at him, dumbfounded, through the thoroughly-barricaded doors.
“Really!” he continued. “The nature of the spores is to sort themselves out on their own, so to speak, no lasting damage to worry about. I’ll be back to check on you all in, oh, three hours should do it?”
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When the team gets doused with mysterious magical sparkles, things start to heat up—literally. Now they’re quarantined in the Annex with only each other for company... Who knows what they might get up to?
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On March 14th, 2025, Project Allium was activated. However- due to ignorance on behalf of its creators and a few technological malfunctions- the machine, instead of solving the world's energy problems, released a cloud of gas that spread quickly over the earth and sent all of its human occupants into seemingly permanent comas.
All, that is, but a few who somehow had immunity to the chemical.
But there might be a way to find a cure...and there might be more to the incident than what was visible.
[Abandoned Work].
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galaxies across by SpaceBetweenGalaxies for emptypockets
Fandoms: Doctor Who, Doctor Who (2005)
09 Mar 2022
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After Eve of the Daleks, Yaz is still waiting for the Doctor to tell her everything, and the Doctor is still somehow doing repairs on the TARDIS. Until the TARDIS ditches them on an alien planet, and something is wrong with the Doctor.
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I think, therefore I am? Is that right?
Akutagawa, and blood.
[Title based on Hollywood's Bleeding by Post Malone]
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“I’m not brooding,” he sneers.
“Are too.”
A teasing tone but god it hurts and he frantically tries to hide it.
“Fuck you,” Marc spits, stumbling to his feet and away from the puddle, as if that would take him away from the other.
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Snapshot of Marc, undone
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beach trip by SpaceBetweenGalaxies for emptypockets
Fandoms: Doctor Who (2005), Doctor Who
12 Apr 2022
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“And we’re really, truly, at a normal beach?” Yaz asks, as the trio leaves the TARDIS.
“Yup,” says the Doctor. “Normal, safe beach. Resort and all.”
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“It’s never good enough,” Steve says into his hands. “I’m never enough.”
After everything, Steve is finally moving out of his parent's house. It feels like breaking free (and with the help of Eddie's mixtape, kind of sounds like it, too). Until his mother shows up after almost two years of radio silence.
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- Part 1 of To Find a Family
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Take Your Hand to Me (Kinktober 2022 Day 4) by ambut
Fandoms: Wiedźmin | The Witcher - All Media Types, The Witcher (TV)
04 Oct 2022
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Kinktober Day 4: Spanking
After months of exploring rough handling and intense sex with Geralt, Jaskier begins devising ways to earn punishments from his Witcher. It's all very delightful until he takes it too far and puts himself in mortal danger. This punishment might not be one he enjoys.
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- Part 4 of Witcher Kinktober 2022
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“I know, I know. I’m just—I’m really worried about him. Worried he’s gonna get hurt. I know he’s trying his best, but I feel like at some point he must see how reckless he’s behaving, right? Hell, I mean, just today he got into another fight.”
Neytiri agreed, “he did.”
“And he’s been talking back.”
“He has.”
“And he’s been sneaking around a lot with the chief’s daughter—”
“Yes, he has.”
Jake looked at her, confused, eyebrows furrowing, and all she did was smile ever slightly before moving in closer. She intertwined their arms and ran her nimble hands over one of his.
“Do you know who Lo’ak reminds me of?”
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Jake’s realization that Lo’ak is exactly like him.
SPOILERS FOR AVATAR: THE WAY OF WATER
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brad bakshi is not friends with david brittlesbee by gremlit
Fandoms: Mythic Quest (TV 2020)
06 Jan 2023
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That was the thing about David. He wanted to be good so bad. More than doing his job well, he wanted to be good. Wanted to be liked.
Brad's casual use of David as entertainment becomes misconstrued as an attempt for friendship. And he can't have that.
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“Aren’t you… mad at me?” she asked quietly.
Eddie laughed. “Mad? You wrote me as a knight who unknowingly has the love of a maiden most fair. It’s nicer than anything written about me on the bathroom stalls in the boys’ washrooms, and that’s basically public domain.”
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Scientific Discussion by TheTofuEatingCat
Fandoms: Pocket Monsters | Pokemon - All Media Types, Pocket Monsters: Ruby & Sapphire & Emerald | Pokemon Ruby Sapphire Emerald Versions, Pocket Monsters: Omega Ruby & Alpha Sapphire | Pokemon Omega Ruby & Alpha Sapphire Versions
02 Aug 2023
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Ask any scientist if peer review and discussion are an important part of science and you’ll get a resounding "yes". Whole conferences are held where conversations are held and ideas are shared. In less professional settings it’s over a beer or in the lab. Other places… Are more unorthodox.
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A shift splits the group up and leaves Wild stranded in the middle of Hebra without his sheikah slate. Chances of survival decrease by the second.
A.K.A. Hylia seems to have something against Wild in particular.
Whumptober day 14: water inhalation | “just hold on"
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- Part 2 of Whumptober 2023
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I like wearing all of your clothes (so you smell my sweet perfume) by leeknovv
Fandoms: Semantic Error (TV) RPF
27 Jan 2024
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Every day, Jaechan thanks whoever made it so that soldiers are able to use their phones while conscripted, because if they hadn’t made it so, he’d probably be dead by now. Sure, Seoham’s only going to be gone for a few more weeks but if he had to go completely cold turkey on his boyfriend as soon as their sex life was just amping up… it would not be good for his mental health.
Jaechan and Seoham have phone sex while Seoham is in basic, and then he comes back and they fuck.
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He’d tried every other lead, any other option, and still ended up on the doorstop of a barebones hut by the Chili Sea. He was surprised that it was so close to Carn, but Deli had never shied away from danger. Or maybe he still remembered the value of information, needed to know where his enemies were in order to sleep peacefully at night. As he knocks on Deli’s door, he wondered if a quiet life had muted the nightmares that had haunted them all.
The dark circles under Deli’s eyes answer that question. Colin rehearsed this on his journey, but he still wasn't prepared for the surge of emotions as Deli opened the door and silently welcomed him in.
aka Colin needs (wants) Deli's help even though he knows the risks of reaching out, and is still very very bad at talking (but pretty good at fighting)
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Peter Keating makes a startling discovery about himself late one night at Stanton.
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He woke to the feeling of heat on his face and pressure on his chest. A groan built in his throat, but he didn’t voice it. Quiet, always quiet, and still. Don’t move until you know what you’re moving into. Make no sound until you know who’s there to hear you. He breathed in scorched air and opened his eyes.
His vision blurred the flames leaping out of the window above him, but the thick smell of smoke shot him through with enough alarm to move his aching body. Something heavy slipped off his stomach as he sat up, and he blinked to focus on the object beside him.
An arm, limp, connected to a bloody shoulder. Glassy eyes stared from a face he didn’t know, mouth open, cheek pressed into the concrete.
Or: Eliot wakes up on the floor of a parking garage beside a dead man, with no memory of who he is or what happened to the other man. He only knows two things for certain: someone is trying to kill him, and he's not going to wait around for it to happen.
Or or: The author reread a western and decided to make it everyone else's problem.