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Plasma Donation is a Lie by biscuit (vital_root), keroseneSteve
Fandoms: Detroit: Become Human (Video Game)
01 Nov 2018
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Things are changing.
Supposedly unfeeling androids have begun to express emotion. A caretaker says she loves a child. Construction workers complain about exhaustion after a long shift. The general public has turned a blind eye to these small, human expressions. But when androids suddenly start disappearing, people take notice.
CyberLife takes action, ready to dismantle a revolution before it starts. The company's previous attempts failed, but the newest RK model exceeds their highest expectations. It's driven. Focused.
A machine.
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Anchored in Dust by biscuit (vital_root), keroseneSteve
Fandoms: The Avengers (Marvel Movies), Captain America (Movies), Iron Man (Movies)
11 Sep 2018
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SHIELD finally captured the pseudo-terrorist Iron Man, aka Tony Stark, after several years of searching. But the man is near death, and SHIELD can't find a cure for him. Fellow fugitive Bruce Banner has that cure; however, he was forced to hide from SHIELD in Wakanda. With Tony's time running out, Bruce unable to help, and the world wondering where Iron Man went, the last thing SHIELD needs is another problem.
Such as, maybe, a leak from within their walls telling the rest of the world that the long-dead Stark is alive in America.
Or Loki.
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- Part 2 of Drought
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I Hate to Say This by biscuit (vital_root), keroseneSteve
Fandoms: The Avengers (Marvel Movies), Iron Man (Movies), Captain America (Movies), Thor (Movies), Hulk (2003)
09 May 2018
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After a hurtful argument with the other Avengers on top of the flu, Tony's not feeling too charitable when the call to Assemble comes. Of course, the villain of the day has to prove that yes, in fact, his day can get worse.
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- Part 1 of Truer Words
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I Wanted to Say This by keroseneSteve, vital_root
Fandoms: The Avengers (Marvel Movies), Iron Man (Movies)
18 Mar 2018
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After a nasty argument amongst each other, the team separates to cool off and calm down. But when an alert sent out by SHIELD tells them Tony and the Tower have been attacked, the rest are forced to come back together and solve their problems in order to assist their stricken team mate.
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- Part 2 of Truer Words
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It's supposed to be quick and quiet: go in, meet the mysterious family friend who somehow has connections to a tribe of druids, let this friend take Stiles to those druids, and leave the kingdom that would happily slaughter him for having magic in the dust, never to return. Only, that's not quite how it happens. A Merlin AU.
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Truer Words by biscuit (vital_root), keroseneSteve
Fandom: Captain America (Movies), Hulk (2003), Iron Man (Movies), The Avengers (Marvel Movies), Thor (Movies)
09 May 2018
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Drought by biscuit (vital_root), keroseneSteve
Fandom: Captain America (Movies), Iron Man (Movies), The Avengers (2012), The Avengers (Marvel Movies)
11 Sep 2018
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What if Tony ran away, rather than return to his Malibu home? What if he became Iron Man from the corner of a mechanic's workshop in India? What if he and Bruce met up before Helicarriers existed?
What if Steve Rogers recognized the face of a dead man? What if Fury told him Iron Man is a terrorist? What if he and three very special agents looked for the armor but found the Hulk?
Also, Pepper the cat.
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Caleb doesn't want to rely on anyone. But finding himself in a position where he must, he slowly begins to care for a goblin runaway more than he could have imagined.
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18 Aug 2025
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This is my AU where Astarion gets to process his emotions a bit earlier, and Gale is a bit more volatile, and those two things match up quite well.
Thing’s are not being written in consecutive order, but will be added to the right spot in the timeline once posted.
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Bookmarked by vital_root
02 May 2025
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Astarion goes to Gale's house for a first date. They are rudely interrupted.
Bookmarked by vital_root
25 Apr 2025
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“What has you so worried?”
Astarion bit his lip, couldn’t look Gale in the eye. He didn’t have the words to describe how he felt. For 200 years he had been the same. His body had been the instrument of Cazador’s will. Lithe, sharp, deadly. Now the lines were blurring.
“It’s silly, really,” Astarion said, and stepped out of their embrace. Gale’s eyes followed him, made his skin prickle with embarrassment. He knew what he really wanted to ask: Will you still love me, even when I change?***
After their adventure, Astarion gains some happy weight and doesn’t know how to feel about it.
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25 Apr 2025
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Hank starts to feel a bit silly as he enters the garden gate and sees the other visitors: young professionals looking for a quiet spot to eat their takeaway lunches, nannies chatting while the toddlers in their care peer wide-eyed at a cluster of crocuses, a group of elderly women strolling slowly along the path. He feels out of place, and as he stops to admire a huge patch of daffodils, butter-yellow and delicate pale peach, he has the sudden conviction that it's ridiculous for him to be here at all. For him to want to appreciate something beautiful for a moment.
Hank ventures into a public garden on his lunch break and runs across an android gardener who's friendly and more than a little forward. He's not looking for romance, but maybe he's stumbling into it, all the same.
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- Part 1 of Lilacs in Bloom
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Bookmarked by vital_root
19 Feb 2025