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Do You Notice When I'm Not Around? by unsolicited_ideas
Fandoms: The Social Network (2010)
23 Oct 2015
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When Eduardo takes a day off from work in Singapore he finds his mind drifting to the West Coast... and Mark.
Written as a follow up to my previous work Raindrops On A Window Pane but I guess it can be read as a stand alone too. (minus the first line) :)
There is also now a Third Part If anyone is interested: The Distances Between Us
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(TRUE PACIFIST SPOILERS, OH MY!)
Alphys makes her daily rounds to feed the Amalgamtes in the true lab. It's very quiet in there, so she has a lot of time to think and reflect. She knows she can't escape what she did forever...
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- Part 1 of B.P.: Before Pacifism
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Sherlock stretched his arms above his head, fingers just brushing the wrought iron headboard. He turned his head slightly and looked at Janine, her long dark hair, now flecked with silver to match his own, spilling over her bare shoulder as she sighed in sleep. Usually it was he who fell asleep first after they came together in the night, Janine invariably teasing him over breakfast the next day about the great Sherlock Holmes being a typical man in at least one way.
Sherlock had never been good at “afters.”
Part two of "Setting Sail."
Disclaimer: Sherlock Holmes and his universe are the creation of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Sherlock is the creation of the BBC and its partners, and of co-creators Steven Moffat and Mark Gatiss. This work is for my pleasure and that of my readers; I am not profiting from the intellectual property of those creators listed above.
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- Part 2 of Life in Sussex
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Death the Kid isn't used to feeling normal. Scythe!Maka Partial-AU
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- Part 24 of 30 Drabbles Challenge
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How did the sled get up onto the hill?
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You can feel it, can't you? The rightness that is just out of reach?
Contemplating what it's like to create art. Feel free to disagree.
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Before, every step Ennis had taken had been solely under the will of her creator. Now her days stretched out from the present all the way into eternity, and each day belonged to her and her alone. She hadn’t expected freedom to be this terrifying.
One shot, sort of precludes "In Confidence"
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Speedsters' Way by ImaKaraTabiHe
Fandoms: Young Justice - All Media Types, Justice League & Justice League Unlimited (Cartoons)
12 Jan 2016
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Life as a Speedster is hard at times. No one can understand a Speedster like another Speedster. That's why they are so close knit they called be called a Speedster family.
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- Part 1 of Speedster Family
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Stiles realizes something.
WARNING this one-shot may cause tears, chest pain, excessive heaving, self-doubt/reflection and death.
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Belshazzar’s Eternal Rainbow by infinite_regress
Fandoms: Doctor Who (2005), Doctor Who & Related Fandoms, Doctor Who
16 Feb 2016
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A rainbow that never alters, never changes, never fades: the perfect spot for Clara to reflect on her relationship with the Doctor.
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- Part 2 of Colours, Lights and Gardens
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Alex Mercer has a conversation with an inner voice, pondering the meaning of everything he's done and whether or not it's the right thing to do, as well as his own nature. Pre-Prototype 2.
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Scars by RowenaZahnrei
Fandoms: X-Men - All Media Types, X-Men (Comicverse), X-Men (Movies), X-Men (Movieverse)
11 Apr 2016
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Inspired by the X-Men 2 Nightcrawler Prequel and "X2: X-Men United," this story explores the questions: Why did Nightcrawler leave the X-Men, and where did he go? How might the former circus performer overcome the stigma of being The White House Assassin? The shapeshifting Mystique may hold the answers...
COMPLETE STORY! Please Review!
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Exactly what it sounds like.
They all have questions
I'm taking on the voice of the Almighty in this one, trying to make sense, in a spiritual way(that I hope makes sense and is respectful) to the events of the (worst) finale ever.
How can those left behind make sense of the losses they have experienced, in what is supposed to be a Biblical fight?
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Ordered to escort a prisoner to London, Richard meets a face from his past and has one or two revelations about his life.....
Set at the end of Series 2 Episode 8. Series 3 doesn't exist.Series
- Part 1 of When the Wind Blows
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Wrote this last year and just realised I didn't share it here
This was written for the day in title
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Maybe We Are in a Relationship by BtvsSherlockFirefly
Fandoms: Sherlock (TV), Sherlock Holmes & Related Fandoms
05 Jun 2016
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John and Sherlock seem to have a lot of spare time on their hands when there's no murders. John has been contemplating what type of relationship they even have.
I suck at summaries.
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Ch. 1: Claude made a contract with Alois Trancy—not the sniveling child who was (still is) Jim Macken.
Ch. 2: Alois remembers a kiss.
At the still point of the turning world. Neither flesh nor fleshless;
Neither from nor towards; at the still point, there the dance is.
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Always by Tinyshot
Fandoms: Game of Thrones (TV), A Song of Ice and Fire & Related Fandoms, A Song of Ice and Fire - George R. R. Martin
01 Jul 2016
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He knows he made a mistake. And now it's time to correct it.
There is nowhere else to go. There is no one else in the world left to care for but one woman that he knows had left for the edge of the world. And he has to find her.
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“Stay away from the ones you love too much. Those are the ones who will kill you.” ― Donna Tartt, The Goldfinch
Ciel can love. He can.
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"She remembers his fingers brushing against her cheek, his sapphire eye looking into her soul and his desperate, broken whisper...She didn’t know what he was asking for—not then, not when the sun was setting and the world bathed in archaic fire—but she said something that made him smile and he kissed her for the first and last time."
(Lizzy takes a trip to Arizona.)
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Arms came over his shoulders, wrapping around his neck, pulling Wolfwood in close, Vash's face set in his neck, and Wolfwood's breathing slowed. He could feel the blonde and black strands at his neck, Vash's skin against his along with the heat of his chest against his back. It was warm.
Warmer than he deserved.
(Or: Before Wolfwood could leave to fight Chapel and Livio, Vash managed to catch up to him before he could leave. Everything would turn out differently in response.)
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Vash is a celestial crooner sewn into almost six feet of organic strata that had started in the ballpark of Homo sapiens. There's a song baked into his bones that he and his sisters instinctively know the words to.
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Wolves Without Teeth by Gummichii
Fandoms: Trigun Stampede (Anime 2023), Trigun (Anime & Manga 1995-2008)
26 Mar 2023
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Wolfwood supposed it was fitting in a cosmic sense that the highest of men had fallen back to the earth on their waxen wings. Perhaps that was why Vash could no longer take to the skies, despite the titanic wings that fluttered behind them. Even from afar, Wolfwood could see the ugliness that Vash felt within them. They were crooked and wrong — stunted like a scarred chest bound too tight. Do that long enough and you damn near train your body to accept failing lungs as a new standard of living.
What a way to live.
Thinking you’re only ever as much as your clipped wings and harsh bindings.
Wolfwood marveled at the fact. What a shitty way to die in half as many steps.
When he next looked down at Vash, he found impossibly baby-blue eyes staring back at him. There was a pleading look about it all as Vash weakly grabbed Wolfwood's hands. Vash was shaking hard enough that he could hear the man’s teeth chatter painfully with the effort it took to simply be present.
“Please,” Vash finally outright begged with a hoarse sob.
. . .
With Vash injured after the fight with Livio, it's up to Wolfwood to pick up all the broken pieces left behind.
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strung out (for you) by quietfaun
Fandoms: Trigun Stampede (Anime 2023), Trigun (Anime & Manga 1995-2008)
24 Mar 2023
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Vash has never been good with pain and it’s not because he can’t withstand it. The scars on his skin are proof enough that pain is an old friend who can’t accept that they’ve gone their separate ways. He can handle pain, but he can’t handle… this.
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Stiles has retrieved countless children from the shadows.
But Eli is the first child Stiles has found alone.
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Paint with your heart, brushstrokes upon my ribs by TrickyBee
Fandoms: Trigun Stampede (Anime 2023), Trigun (Anime & Manga 1995-2008)
27 Mar 2023
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Soulmarks are something to be treasured, the people who mean most to you in this world will leave a mark upon your skin, a constant memory. The most important, your soulmate, the other part of you.
Soulmates terrify Vash. And yet marks start littering his skin regardless, and he doesn’t think he could bear to lose them.
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- Part 1 of Vashwood Week 2023
- Part 1 of Vashwood Soulmate AU
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It’s nice to dream, Nicholas will concede, even if his wake up call is always right around the corner, waiting to ambush them both.
direct sequel to water supply.
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Something good comes with the bad, a song's never just sad by nocturnobook
Fandoms: Trigun Stampede (Anime 2023), Trigun (Anime & Manga 1995-2008)
18 Apr 2023
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It took Wolfwood a long time to find him. Weeks turning into months of wandering the scorching desert, from towns to abandoned settlements, suffering the unbearable heat that wasn’t even the least of his worries.
He spent every waking moment repeating his sins and apologies, even when his throat was parched and hands scratched from the leather bands on his cross, the weight nothing in comparison to the hurt he felt from his betrayal. Was it really betrayal if he had no other choice? If Vash knew all along and went with him anyway? What else could he have done? Without any answers to his questions he could only put one foot before his other; keep going, keep searching, until he would get his answers, until his wishes and pleas were heard.(or: After July, Wolfwood makes a promise to find Vash, whatever it takes. What he finds is not quite Vash.)
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just a holy fool by avoidingavoidance
Fandoms: Trigun Stampede (Anime 2023), Trigun (Anime & Manga 1995-2008)
31 Mar 2023
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In which Wolfwood struggles with intimacy, and Vash somehow finds a way to make it so much worse.
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these hands stained red (a thousand bodies piled up) by littleghost
Fandoms: Trigun (Anime & Manga 1995-2008)
14 Apr 2023
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“I want to make a deal,” Wolfwood says. He keeps his voice steady despite the overwhelming sense of helplessness that washes over him. He’s like an insect, walking up to God and asking for a miracle.
Knives hums. He knows the deal Wolfwood wants to make. “What would you do, then, to get me to release Vash?”
or: After leaving Vash to Knives on the Ark, Wolfwood would do anything to get him back. Even if that means making a deal with the devil
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man's best friend, et cetera by unsungillumination
Fandoms: Trigun Stampede (Anime 2023), Trigun (Anime & Manga 1995-2008)
17 Apr 2023
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The dog starts following him somewhere out of August.
It's big. Gray. A kid in a small town asks what kind of dog it is, mister, and Vash helplessly informs him that it is a big and gray dog. Also, hairy.--
vash meets a dog who kind of reminds him of someone he used to know.
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Mystery Work
Part of azurescleanup
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This is part of an ongoing challenge and will be revealed soon!
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whose woods these are (i think i know) by intimatopia
Fandoms: Trigun Stampede (Anime 2023)
25 Apr 2023
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Between the forest and the sea, a love story in 6 encounters over the years.
Or: the one in which Nicholas is the High King, and Vash is a nobody with a red cloak and ancient magic in his eyes.
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Become the Beast by DisasterDungeonMaster, Hyrulehearts1123, LadyShadowphyre, totalnovaktrash, TripsOverFics
Fandom: Merlin (TV), Supernatural
01 Jan 2020
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Sam Winchester is given a chance to go back in time and change things for the better, but he wakes up further back than he would have ever dared to hope. Only days have passed in this timeline since the fight that had him hitchhiking to California. Now he has four years at Stanford University to prepare for seeing his brother and hunting again.
But things will be different this time, and not just because Sam is taking courses that will help him in hunting. He's making the strangest assortment of friends, finding allies in tricksters, witches, demons, and nature spirits.
And that's without even looking at Loki. And... his kids.
Being a Winchester has always brought with it the strangest of oddities and the worst of luck, but this might be the adventure that takes the cake. Or the cadbury creme, at least.
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Severus had always known that he would die in a painful, most horrifying way ever since back when he was almost beaten to death by his father, then mauled by a werewolf, then thrashed around by a maniac overlord. His miserable, luckless life only seemed to lead to that one day when he would be struck down by a bloody snake, of all things.
Bleeding out in front of Harry Potter was just the last humiliation Lady Destiny had in store for him.
Suddenly staring into Potter senior’s eyes again while being levicorpused was just the icing on the cake. -
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Jungkook has a secret, desires he believes an alpha shouldn't have. To find solace, he surrounds himself with scented candles, plush toys, and weighted blankets. Throughout his life, he's struggled with self-acceptance, haunted by the notion that his desires are not fitting for an alpha.
However, when he encounters another alpha—Kim Namjoon—in a perfume store, everything changes. As their bond deepens, Jungkook begins to realize that societal norms don't dictate the path to happiness.
If only Jungkook could see the future, he'd know his life was about to change from that meeting onwards.
Russian translation here
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- Part 1 of Cotton Embrace
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Kaveh and Alhaitham had once been something, that was the rumor amongst students and merchants. Now, they bicker in public, angry messages left on boards for all to see, denied Kshahrewar funding from the Acting Grand Sage, and perhaps most painfully, Kaveh hides a secret in the shape of living in the Scribes home.
Yes, they had been something once. But that was gone now, and Kaveh wonders every day what is he doing looking into a mirror that he had left with cracks in it. In other words, a look into Kaveh and Alhaitham’s life as something that once was, to whatever the future may hold
“I laid you on my bed. You had blushed so sweetly because I had said you looked handsome in the moonlight” Kaveh’s bed had been by the window. And Alhaitham had. Those teal and red eyes glance away only for a moment to look at Kaveh’s hand as it pets his cheek lightly. His thumb brushes back and forth softly over Alhaitham’s cheekbone.When Alhaitham looks back Kaveh cannot help himself. He remembers, he always does. It never left, that feeling that he had buried so damn deep at the back of his mind. The affection, the warmth, the comfort, the love. The love. They had been in love
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"The consequences of obtaining knowledge is the overwhelming feeling of loneliness. "
In which Alhaitham realizes that a peaceful existence does not have to mean a lonely one.
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genshin collection: sumeru poly pile by Magepaw
Fandom: 原神 | Genshin Impact (Video Game)
07 Oct 2024
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can be read as one-shots/out of order! collection featuring alhaitham, kaveh, cyno, & tighnari. most are an established OT4 dynamic where they are married and sharing a house. alhaitham is transmasc and aroace, kaveh is genderfluid, tighnari is grayromantic; all four are varying shades of neurodivergent. ratings and content vary from G to E, so mind the tags!
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and we were dancing (like we're made of starlight) by narniafounder
Fandoms: IDOLiSH7 (Video Game), IDOLiSH7 (Anime)
07 Apr 2022
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Yamato sighs, steadying himself on his feet and letting Nagi take the lead. One step and another, then another. Forward, backward, forward. This is easy, he thinks. With Nagi’s hand gently wrapped around his waist and their fingers interlocked with one another, the doubts that have been clouding his mind begin to disappear. He watches how Nagi moves graciously, how his feet somehow find their own rhythm, guiding Yamato to match his own, spinning around the room. He watches how Nagi’s blue eyes pierce through his greens, shining brightly under the dim kitchen lights. It takes Yamato’s breath away
Yamato got casted to be in a stage musical, that’s no problem. But when he found out he had to do ballroom dancing live on stage, that’s where the problem comes in. Fortunately for him though, he has a prince as his boyfriend.