staidwaters



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  1. Summary

    Just a bit of gratuitous, spoiled dreaming. I refuse to accept the cannon ending; however well done, I want to believe that in some reality, everyone lives happily ever after.

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  2. Summary

    My Country is basically 16 episodes of tears and pain in a cute, feel-good package. We ALL cried at least once while watching it, right? Now, I'm going to try to make us all cry even more, as part of the Whumptober fic challenge.

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    If there is one thing Jinmi knows with absolute certainty, it's that nothing is gone forever. Cut down a cedar and a new tree will grow from the trunk. Fires can reignite from old coals long after the flames went out. No one can return to the past, but the past is always within reach, as long as the warm embers of memory are kept alive.

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    Erik lives, but returns to Wakanda and asks for sanctuary when he discovers Linda had left him a son - a son that Hydra is trying to use as collateral to force Erik to help them create the perfect soldier. Safe behind Wakanda's walls, Erik finds more support than he expected, and learns to be a father while making a place for himself in the new Wakanda that T'Challa is forging.

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    Chronological Order:
    Terrible Taste
    The Making and Keeping of Friends
    One Good Turn
    Mercy Meet Vengeance
    Cartwheels in Cloud Recesses
    Up All Night To Make Bao
    Mothers in Cloud Recesses

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    15 Feb 2024

  2. Rec 7

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    KimChay Hanahaki AU wherein by the time Chay confesses his feelings to Kim on the couch, Kim has already been coughing up petals for a week

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    19 Jan 2024

  3. Rec *

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    This remarkable letter of unknown provenance surfaced recently in the cuneiform collection of the University of West Wessex. Addressed to Azirapil from a Mr. “Crawly,” it appears to be begging for the other’s return to Ur from a western journey with another individual, Abiraham. The relationship between the two (brothers? business partners? friends?) is unknown.

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    10 Jan 2024

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    Wei Wuxian always enjoyed picking an aesthetic and really leaning into it. As an adolescent, he was joyous, entitled and high-born; during the war, he was dangerous and threatening. After the war, he was lost. But then he found his new aesthetic: Elder of the Jiang Sect.

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    13 Dec 2023

  5. Public Bookmark *

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    Even the best had to start out somewhere, and everyone needs someone to watch their back on the way up.

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    English
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    Chapters:
    26/26
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    47,862

    09 Dec 2023