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    “Well… I’m just cautious.”

    ”You’re paranoid.”

    ”Am not!” Ray retorted before playfully punching Gerard’s shoulder, earning a laugh from the paler man. “You’re just— Well you’re you!” Gerard began,

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    Spanning decades, Jack Kennedy and his favorite sister's best friend Sabrina Overstreet find themselves in a slow burning love story.

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    English
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    10,390
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    5/?
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    — О, я вас представлю. Это Ван Ибо, он мне… для краткости, племянник. Всего пару дней как вернулся из Англии. Всячески его рекомендую. А это наш радушный хозяин: видный благотворитель, покровитель синематографа и искусства фотографии, но что важнее — настоящий падишах торговли хозяйственными товарами в Шанхае. Владелец императора-дракона здешних магазинов — самого большого универмага на Нанкинской улице. Господин Сяо Чжань.

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    Русский
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    3/3
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    79
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    221
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    24
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    2,189
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    The last thing Dallas wanted to do was survive in that desert. After the last horse had disappeared over the horizon, after he'd wandered back to the scattering of bodies, after he counted the amount of men here out on an expedition that should've been easy treasure hunting, an easy plunder of the ancient pharaohs, he wanted to simply die.

    Life had other plans, like the Professor who saves his life.

    — a pulp inspired mash up.

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    English
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    1/1
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    Rupert Pognor has seen a lot of things as a country vet. But he’s never seen a unicorn.

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    2,243
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    2/?
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    8
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    34
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    In the vibrant yet treacherous backdrop of the 1930s bayou, a charismatic killer with a penchant for jazz and theatrics, forges an uneasy alliance with a corrupt, world-weary cop. While the Killer thrives on the chaotic beauty of the swamp, turning death into a performance, the cop drowns in the grime of his sins and regrets, clinging to their shared deal to maintain his crumbling life. As they navigate speakeasies filled with shadowed revelry, vibrant jazz, and illicit deals, their contrasting lives entwined, creating a partnership as volatile and inevitable as the bayou’s endless cycle of life and decay.

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    13/13
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    17
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    30
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    5
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    1,047
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    Vaggie has always let other people decide her life for her. On the worst night of her life, she meets someone who will change all that.

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    A human AU set in 1930s New York City, this time focusing on Charlie and Vaggie's love story

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    English
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    6,994
    Chapters:
    2/?
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    25
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    71
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    25
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    1,458
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    //Previously titled "All The Way Up"\\

    Pico Fulp, at the tender age of 20, is a notable up-and-coming crime boss in northern Philidelphia. People call him a prodigy in the field as he claws his way to power with a potent cocktail of charisma and intimidation. This kid's going places.

    But just his luck, things start going awry just as he steps up to the big leagues. On the one hand, he's making his way into the good graces of bigger, stronger families and found a precious partner to boot. On the other hand, old traumas are resurfacing and manifesting in new ways, threatening to put his entire career and even his life at risk.

    But dammit, one way or another, he's gonna fight until he makes it all the way.

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    3/?
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    Alastor felt his stomach drop, his blood cooling in his veins. Someone had seen him in the throes of murder last night, and he hadn't even noticed them watching. He had gotten sloppy, and now there was a faceless witness out there possibly holding that information to their chests or possibly spreading it. He needed to find them.

    Vox. That name was the same as the production manager that had mailed him earlier, he was certain of it.

    - On hiatus as of 03/06/25

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    16,875
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    9/?
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    9
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    "If a thousand years were to pass in an instant, what would be left of us?"

    Mary accompanies her new husband on an archaeological dig of monumental importance. But beneath the excitement, she can't help wondering if there isn't something more for her. More than feeling like she is always someone's second choice.

    [Part 17 in a series. PART 1 of 2. This story follows Mary's journey. It will have some overlap with Lydia's journey, in Part 18 of this series.]

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    English
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    55,064
    Chapters:
    17/17
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    35
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    Up from the ashes, our lady will rise
    Clearing the rain from our cold foggy skies
    Tomorrow’s not given, but tonight she can’t die
    Tonight our dear lady walks with us

     

    Dick Grayson had a destiny. For eighteen long years, he trained under the guidance of his sponsors, pushing his mortal body to the limit and beyond in the hopes that one day, he, as well, could be among those who cared for the city that had raised him.

    Bruce Wayne had a dream. For eighteen long years, he followed the progress of the orphan boy he hadn’t been able to save, coining the plan to help the city that gave him all he had.

    And she... she dreamed, awaiting her incoming destiny. She had never been a damsel in a distress, no—she had been fighting tirelessly, with all she had—but still, she had grown weary…
    And so, she waited in the gentle embrace of dreams.

     

    Written for Brudick Week 2025 day 6: Gothic Horror

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    1/?
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    4
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    "I agree, Mr. Cullen. Everyone has at least one secret they would like to hide." She leaned into his personal space, voice lowering to a husky whisper. "Including you."

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    2/?
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    The picture Blackcliff Light cuts into the night sky can easily be illustrated with one word: imposing. The lantern flashes isophase at an interval of about three seconds atop it, and the air is utterly silent, save for crashing waves and the coastal winds. Caitlyn is no stranger to maritime architecture, and by that measure, she had hoped that this post would do her well.

    She finds herself succumbing quickly to regret.
    -
    or: Caitlyn and Vi are partnered as lighthouse keepers for one harsh New England winter.

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    English
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    37,400
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    5/5
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    “I thought you didn’t care about sex, ” Husker said.

    Alastor tilted his head, pondering the question with a low, drawn-out humm until the belt fell loose with a metallic clink. His hands reached for Husker’s neck. For a moment, Husker thought he might try to strangle him—his muscles tensed, ready for a fight that, despite their size difference, he was only mostly certain he’d win. Instead, Alastor slipped his fingers under the loop of his tie, tugging with deliberate force.

    “Oh, Husker,” he said, his voice light. “I’m only human, after all.”

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    In early 1930s Louisiana, a beloved radio host has three hobbies: broadcasting, murder, and tormenting his reluctant clean-up man. Unfortunately for him, everyone has a breaking point.

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    English
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    1/1
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    11
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    66
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    15
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    Set in World War II, the story follows you, a skilled French spy working for the Allied forces. Your mission is to extract critical information from Count Winchester, a wealthy and influential figure suspected of aiding the enemy. At first, everything seems to be going according to plan until things become more complicated. You find yourself questioning whether you're the one being outsmarted. The lines between duty and personal emotions blur.

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    4/4
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    1
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    99
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    Zhezhi is a photojournalist who is in need of a job; the Montellis are an organised crime family in need of a rehabilitation of their image after their youngest daughter pulls the trigger on the wrong people. This mutually beneficial arrangement made to restore the balance between New York and her shadowed underworld turns out to be the catalyst for a much larger chain of events that will turn everything Carlotta Montelli knows on its head. After all, only the executioner has done wrong in God's eyes.

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    English
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    3,165
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    1/?
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    5
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    24
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    1
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    329
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    Ten people gather on Robins Island for an amusing, delightfully droll weekend in the country. When a harmless parlor game reveals troubling secrets, and their eccentric host drops dead on the sitting room floor, the guests soon realize their reputations aren't the only things at stake.

    And the bodies just keep piling up.

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    English
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    84,193
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    19/19
    Comments:
    43
    Kudos:
    5
    Bookmarks:
    1
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    419
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    These days, Jughead gets more questions about the Paladin case than the comics themselves. A couple years back, some kid at the Times dug up the newspaper records, wrote a retrospective: ‘The Greenwich Village Vanishings: 30 Years On’. The somewhat unfortunate photo she chose - of a disheveled, confused-looking Jughead and friends accosted on their way out of the police station, Betty’s eyes piercing the camera lens - ended up plastered across every page fifteen whose editor had taken a shine to their story. Strange as it is, with that kind of early beat generation, vintage charm.

     


    In 1940, the Paladin, created by Jughead Jones and Cheryl Blossom, entered the pages of Lunar Comics. Just another superhero, perhaps, but a string of mysterious disappearances in real life New York begin to rival anything the two could write.

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    English
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    32,425
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    7/19
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    14
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    31
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    6
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    680
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    Catherine Morland, girl reporter (well, Bath Weekly’s junior weddings reporter and photographer), has always longed for something, anything exciting to happen to her. When she meets the Tilneys, it does.

    1930s screwball comedy AU... though Catherine thinks she's in a Hitchcockian murder mystery. Otherwise known as "It Happened One Night At Northanger Abbey."

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    English
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    35,172
    Chapters:
    11/?
    Comments:
    873
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    472
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    108
    Hits:
    10,454
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    Bison had always wanted to be famous and wealthy for doing crime, like Al Capone and Billy the Kid. He had managed to rope his older brother, Fadel, into committing crimes with him. Fadel wanted to earn money fast so he could run away with his lover, Style.

    Kant was busy enough with trying to sustain himself and his brother, working in a diner every day, with the same regulars every day, and the same complaints every day. That is until his every day is interrupted by a chance meeting with Bison when he has car trouble.

    They join up, and become a group well known for their robberies. And what are they known as?
    The Heart Killers.

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    Or, The Heart Killers, but make it a Bonnie and Clyde AU. It is set in the early 1930s in America. It follows the general comings and goings of the original Barrow Gang, but based mostly on the Bonnie and Clyde musical.

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    English
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    2,882
    Chapters:
    1/?
    Kudos:
    10
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    2
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    197

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