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Liam knows when it started but he doesn’t know when it happened; he has trouble justifying the differences between the two, the starting and the happening.
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Grantaire is a sculptor. Enjolras has never seen his rough hands touch a chisel or a mallet, but he is a sculptor nonetheless. Sometimes, Enjolras can feel those hands tracing his stone ideals, taking out a bit here, wearing down a rough curve until it’s smooth.
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"How long are you guys gonna keep dancing around each other, though?" Sam raised an eyebrow from over the top of the fridge door as he looked down at Dean, who was trying his best to hide in there.
"There is absolutely no dancing going on between me and Cas." Dean's cheeks flushed as he pointedly ignored Sam in favour of pretending to look for the milk.
Prompt: Dancing.
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- Part 20 of 30 Day OTP Challenge - Dean/Cas
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Modern AU (barely) Sansa visits her mother's grave.
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Roads by AuroraExecution
Les Misérables - All Media Types, Les Misérables - Schönberg/Boublil, Les Misérables - Victor Hugo
27 Apr 2013
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Grantaire dreams of roads, and Enjolras.
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- 411
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You had always thought of Arthur and his knights like dogs - very large and very protective.
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They are poetry and prose, separate but not individual, and together they create something more beautiful than either part.
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Of Refraction and Revelation by Glaerdrune
Sherlock (TV), Sherlock Holmes & Related Fandoms, Sherlock Holmes - Arthur Conan Doyle
28 Nov 2012
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Musings on the nature of John and Sherlock's partnership; otherwise known as the extended metaphor that wrote itself.
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Sir Arthur Conan Doyle is no fool; he knows his characters, now. He understands they're more than words on paper and images in his head. He also knows that they deserve better than the lives he has given them. So he writes them stories he will never publish, and hopes that, for them, they become true.
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The golden spires, the luscious lands, the beautiful people: they are little more than splotches and smudges beneath his prison. It is better to close his eyes, cocoon himself in darkness, and dream.
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She's the Black Widow, she can leave the moment she changes her mind, but for now she chooses to join Hawkeye on the path he walks.
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"That little shit," Jasper snarls, throwing himself in the seat across from Phil in the mess hall, glasses slightly askew and eyes sporting that look Phil has come to associate with a certain specialist recently collected into SHIELD's fold.
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Strange and broken as they were, they fit.
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Sometimes, looking at Sherlock is like watching a musical score in motion.
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suddenly your heart showed me my way by hitlikehammers
Sherlock (TV), Sherlock Holmes & Related Fandoms
23 May 2012
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In which Sherlock develops a fixation with John’s pulse, and discovers his own esoteric heart in the process.
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- Part 1 of Cardiophilia Sequence
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Sherlock is the light and John is the conductor. Or so it’s been said.
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Sherlock is the storm John's been waiting for.
Extended metaphor based on John's blog post titles.
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Gather 'round, children, and let me tell you
The once promising story of the Winchester bulls...Or: in which Dean and Sam are bulls, Castiel is a pony, and the entirety of Supernatural to the beginning of Season 7 takes place on a farm.
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The story of Sam Winchester’s long, hard road out of Hell, back to his brother, and back to himself. Spoilers through 5.22 - Swan Song.
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- 9,138
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- 1/1
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Kim's perspective on the attack on Sean.
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