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As the heroes ride off together, Inigo contemplates the future.
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Chakotay considers Voyager's situation. C/7.
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An overheard conversation leads Superman to reflect on need and on love.
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Tohru is the sun who holds their gravity together.
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[fic] 間隙 ~beauty in the breakdown~ by takaraikarin
Fandoms: Real Person Fiction, Johnny's Entertainment, KAT-TUN (Band), NewS (Band)
19 May 2008
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Merlin was never supposed to develop an attachment to his charge on his first guardianship task. He finds himself all too deep, all too late.
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Murder's own personal torment.
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- Part 1 of Roses Damask'd
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"You know what color your wings are?" Harry asked conversationally, on his stomach at the tattoo parlor, while Louis played absentmindedly with one dangling hand and flipped through some designs.
// Alternatively: Louis grows wings. Harry is the only one who can see them.
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Leather, Mimosas, and Saturday Evenings by soniclipstick (veriscence) for smilla840
Fandoms: The Avengers (Marvel Movies), Marvel Cinematic Universe
06 Dec 2013
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Phil loves early mornings, and chocolate chip pancakes and fair-trade coffee and he really, really loves blonde superheroes
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- Part 1 of Run
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J/C Angst: Sometimes the weight of the universe is too great to bear alone on the shoulders of a tired and lost soul.
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when they came for me, there was no one left to fight by Perditus
Fandoms: Hunter X Hunter
25 Jan 2014
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Gon is fire, tears, and blood.
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Sean and Viggo, fishing and photography.
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A year or so after almost everyone in South Park came down with some kind of infection which destroyed family ties, tightened the bonds of friendship and made pretty much everyone try (and often succeed) to kill pretty much everyone else, the survivors have recovered most of their wits and have settled in to their new existence behind the high, electrified fence which encircles the town.
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Nations are just full of contradictions, aren't they?
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Carved into a picnic bench in Kentucky, they find the words: "If you could go anywhere in the world right now, would it be to a 'where' or to a 'who'?"
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Error of Cognizance by SlothsTheSinICaterTo
Fandoms: X-Men - All Media Types, X-Men (Movies), X-Men (Movieverse), X-Men: First Class (2011) - Fandom, X-Men: Days of Future Past (2014) - Fandom
08 Aug 2014
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“Magneto – Erik Lehnsherr had always been unbendable in his certainty ... A man of remarkable precision, his opinions were undeniable in their correctness and accuracy ... Raven Darkholme, known by her alias that matched her metamorphic personality well – Mystique, was not a singularity where it concerned his ability to correctly evaluate character, however that was not quite right – her personality was not a solved mystery, neither static nor solid in shape (a fitting description for the Goddess of a thousand faces) ... Alas there had been extremely rare occurrences when he could not tell who the woman was...”
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John is upstairs having a private conversation - that is, phone sex - with Mary. Sherlock plays his violin and contemplates John's insistence on describing Sherlock as a kind of angel in his songs; on which of them really is the angel; the concept of kintsukuroi and the nature of love.
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- Part 100 of Guitar Man
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Jeanmarco Poetry
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On a quiet moonlit night, Phineas lays in bed, unable to sleep. The reason for his sleeplessness is Isabella...and that look on her face when she thought Phineas had abandoned her.
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- Part 3 of The Beak Shorts
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Time is very still inside a glass prison.
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meet me in the middle of the road by idrilka for countingcr0ws
Fandoms: 魔道祖师 - 墨香铜臭 | Módào Zǔshī - Mòxiāng Tóngxiù
04 Jul 2021
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“Lan Zhan, ah, Lan Zhan, do you really want to kiss me so much?” Wei Wuxian laughs, but not unkindly. He pours Lan Zhan chrysanthemum tea and passes him the cup, watches him down it in a single swallow.
“It is not only for that reason,” Lan Zhan says once he regains composure. He picks up another mouthful of noodles between his chopsticks and brings it up to his mouth. “But yes, I do. I always want to kiss Wei Ying.”
Wei Wuxian knows it’s not only about that. Lan Zhan’s meals growing up were silent and restrained, and more often than not solitary. That’s why, Wei Wuxian supposes, he’s so intent on being able to share.
A treatise on sharing meals and kisses in six parts, told over a year of wandering.
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Bookmarked by Xuěhuā (Snow_F8)
02 Oct 2022
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Long, winding, and beautiful descriptions of people and places. Slice of life.
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His fingers are still clasped between Wangji's. In the mirror Wangji watches him tuck his coat between his thighs so that he can fuss with the tucked-in hem of his shirt, tousle up the side of his hair, all one-handed. "I hope what I'm wearing is okay."
"It's good," Wangji says. "You look good."
"I guess I must," Wei Ying says, and then he smiles and bites his teeth into his bottom lip for a second, devastatingly, and before Wangji can drop dead the doors to the elevator slide open, and the hostess station appears.
[In which lonely businessman Lan Wangji meets the right wrong person and changes the course of his life.]
Bookmarked by Xuěhuā (Snow_F8)
14 Sep 2022
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Wow. Love it. LWJ picks up who he thinks is his date, WWX goes out with a stranger, and they fall in love. Modern au. Beautiful.
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How Long Will This Last by osakakitty
Fandoms: 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia
29 Dec 2017
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A series of short scenes based on prompts asked by my followers on tumblr. Will be updated infrequently. Whenever I have time to fill a prompt, I will do so as soon as possible!
[Update] Prompt 11: “I love you. I’m completely and utterly in love with you. Please don’t get married.”
[Update] Prompt 12: “I’m sorry. I shouldn’t have kissed you.”
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The couple tucked into the corner of the bar are so cosy, so inconspicuous. No one would suspect they were fugitives.
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Dick talks to each of them about being Robin.
(I didn't include Duke because he doesn't want to be considered a Robin; I didn't include Carrie because I wasn't sure how to fit her)
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something beautiful but annihilating by SecretReyloTrash (BadOldWest)
Fandoms: Star Wars Sequel Trilogy
18 Jun 2019
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Touch-starved, heartless Wall Street Exec Kylo Ren just wants a safe place to park his godson for an afternoon: desperately choosing a Toddler Time Story Hour at New York Public Library.
What he doesn't anticipate is that an instantaneous connection has him trapped by the reader's voice; and the lengths he will go to hear it again.
Rey reluctantly agrees to their arrangement: paid by the hour to read out loud to him.
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Bookmarked by Megphy
16 Oct 2020
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Compelling and beautiful in its exploration of strangeness and the strange parts of ourselves we keep hidden away. Isn’t that everyone’s deepest wish—a person who will fight to reach the inner sanctum of our deepest selves? I will certainly read this again when I am feeling contemplative.
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the spaces between by tellthemstories
Fandom: 陈情令 | The Untamed (TV), 魔道祖师 - 墨香铜臭 | Módào Zǔshī - Mòxiāng Tóngxiù
28 Feb 2020
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the spaces between
by tellthemstories
Wangxianficrecs post here. (Archived.)Lan Wangji stands up and in the darkness Wen Yuan says, ”Don’t leave.”
His voice is tiny and quiet and afraid. He has no one else in the world.
Lan Wangji remembers the pain of being completely alone in the world after his mother left — but then he hadn’t been, had he? He’d had his brother and his uncle and the clan. He has never really been alone (so why does his heart ache like he has lost some part of himself he will never get back?)
There is nothing left of the Wen clan or Wei Wuxian, for Wen Yuan.
Lan Wangji sits on the edge of the bed next to Wen Yuan, intending to see him off to sleep and then leave but it is not that easy (nothing to do with Wei Ying is ever easy). Wen Yuan frowns and tugs him down so that Lan Wangji is lying on the bed next to him, then Wen Yuan turns his head into the pillow and closes his eyes.
Lan Wangji listens to the sound of his little breaths, watches the fluttering of his eyelids in sleep. When Wen Yuan makes little distressed noises in his sleep, Lan Wangji strokes his hair to calm him, filled with the aching need to do something right, this time, to protect and defend and keep safe.
Sometime in the night, Wen Yuan turns under the cover to curl up against him, instinctively seeking out warmth, and tucks his head under Lan Wangji’s chin as he curls his hands into fists in his shirt. It is then that Lan Wangji finally feels the tears he has been holding back, hot as blood, running down his face as he holds the last reminder he has of Wei Ying close.
That is the moment, Lan Wangji thinks, when Wen Yuan really becomes Lan Yuan.
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After by tellthemstories
Fandoms: 陈情令 | The Untamed (TV), 魔道祖师 - 墨香铜臭 | Módào Zǔshī - Mòxiāng Tóngxiù
29 Dec 2019
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Lan Yuan does not smile for his first three years at Cloud Recesses.
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23 Jan 2020
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by tellthemstories
Wangxianficrecs post here. (Archived.)Okay, but, when A-Yuan finally smiles, I totally cried. This is such a dreamy, beautiful story. LWJ's pov.
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Lan Wangji stands up and in the darkness Wen Yuan says, ”Don’t leave.”
His voice is tiny and quiet and afraid. He has no one else in the world.
Lan Wangji remembers the pain of being completely alone in the world after his mother left — but then he hadn’t been, had he? He’d had his brother and his uncle and the clan. He has never really been alone (so why does his heart ache like he has lost some part of himself he will never get back?)
There is nothing left of the Wen clan or Wei Wuxian, for Wen Yuan.
Lan Wangji sits on the edge of the bed next to Wen Yuan, intending to see him off to sleep and then leave but it is not that easy (nothing to do with Wei Ying is ever easy). Wen Yuan frowns and tugs him down so that Lan Wangji is lying on the bed next to him, then Wen Yuan turns his head into the pillow and closes his eyes.
Lan Wangji listens to the sound of his little breaths, watches the fluttering of his eyelids in sleep. When Wen Yuan makes little distressed noises in his sleep, Lan Wangji strokes his hair to calm him, filled with the aching need to do something right, this time, to protect and defend and keep safe.
Sometime in the night, Wen Yuan turns under the cover to curl up against him, instinctively seeking out warmth, and tucks his head under Lan Wangji’s chin as he curls his hands into fists in his shirt. It is then that Lan Wangji finally feels the tears he has been holding back, hot as blood, running down his face as he holds the last reminder he has of Wei Ying close.
That is the moment, Lan Wangji thinks, when Wen Yuan really becomes Lan Yuan.
*****This is part of a series now, and the next work is 7k of Lan Yuan (Lan Sizhui's pov) growing up and watching Lan Wangji and wondering why he's so sad and trying in his little boy way to make him happy. And then, when he's 16, Lan Wangji meets Mo Xuanyu and smiles. 3rd and final work, 5k, was just posted! Covers wwx, his many, many losses, his lonely death, and then, with a new life, he might just be filling in the empty spaces.****
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Home is Where the Heart Is by mistressmarionette
Fandoms: Storm Hawks
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22 Aug 2018
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Finn contemplates retirement. Aerrow is not amused.
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The Walk by linguamortua
Fandoms: Star Wars - All Media Types, Solo: A Star Wars Story (2018)
02 Nov 2017
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We walked around a lake
And woke up in the rain
And everyone turned over
Troubled in their dreams again
Visiting time is over
And so we walk away
And both play dead then cry out loud
Why we always cry this way?- The Cure, 'The Walk'
The worst part is, Lando likes Han.
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Tension by Aurënfaie (Aurenfaie)
Fandoms: Dragon Age II, Dragon Age (Video Games), Dragon Age - All Media Types
24 Sep 2015
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With the distance from Kirkwall growing, the wounds should be healing. Hawke can't fix everything, but he can keep them together. He can keep them alive. That should be enough, right? In their travels, they realize that nothing is alright.
See notes for Russian translation.
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- Part 1 of Travail
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A moment in Purgatory recalls the first time that Castiel kept Dean safe.
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I'll Have All These Things by lazaefair
Fandoms: Star Wars Episode VII: The Force Awakens (2015)
12 Feb 2016
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The dim light catches the line of his shoulders, the (non-gelled) hair falling over his eyes. She thinks he must be handsome, this man whom Finn needed for a pilot, but right now he mostly looks exhausted.
Rey on D'Qar, waiting for Finn to wake up and searching for purpose. Poe on D'Qar, waiting for Finn to wake up and dealing with the aftermath of Starkiller. In the middle, they find each other.
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Here at the Quiet Limit of the World by PhoenixFalls
Fandoms: Marvel Cinematic Universe, The Avengers (Marvel Movies)
10 Aug 2013
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Bruce attends Nick Fury's wake.
Written for this prompt on AvengerKink.
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Bookmarked by Keenir
10 Aug 2013
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Bruce is older. Fury has died. Thor is contemplative.
(its very powerful...and has a comparison you may not have expected)