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I write poetry on occasion. I find it pretty fun. Is it good? Probably not, but I like it.
There is no broader story to the poems, I just add poems when I feel like it. Don't like one? Maybe the next is to your liking. The majority of the poems are Free Verse, but I also write sonnets as well as the occasional Limerick and Haiku. I recommend viewing this work through the “entire work” option.
I don't know how this would be rated, but warnings for violence and self-violence definitely and sexual activity. Read at your own discretion.
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“So, one day at Slough and you’re already running errands for Lamb, there’s got to be better use of your time. I hear there’s a real lack of experimental content in the adult movie industry, maybe you could try your hand at that, River. Or both hands, whatever it takes, huh?”
“What is your fucking problem?”
“My problem,” Webb spat out, flushing, “is that you were never as good as you always thought, but it doesn’t compute with you. You’ve got the name and that’s it.”
“Oh yeah? And you’ve got a whole lot less–”
After a catastrophic blunder on the main stage of The Park, once promising actor River Cartwright needs to lay low and reassemble the remaining pieces of his career. Luckily, the small and rundown theatre by the name of Slough House offers refuge to even the worst cases in the acting game. Unfortunately for River, it doesn’t take long before his former friend, rival, and orchestrator of his downfall – James Webb – also finds himself on Jackson Lamb’s call sheet, having suffered a fall from grace himself. Forced to work on their scenes together, they rehash the past and find some new common ground. Begrudgingly at first, willingly at last.
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loving goes by haps by Anonymous for cminerva
Fandoms: Leverage (US TV 2008), Leverage, Leverage Redemption
04 Jul 2025
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What use is there in dating when you’re already in love with someone else? (Set any time after “Swipe-Right Job”, ignores all the Hallmark Gary Stu shenanigans (don’t get me started).)
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stories from the heart of the messenger by moonlightcello7
Fandoms: EPIC - Jorge Rivera-Herrans (Albums)
04 Jul 2025
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This fic is a collection of short stories from the same universe as its parent fic, an honest vow from the god of lies! The first chapter is a retelling of the circe saga but with a more parental and caring hermes, so you don’t necessarily have to have read the first fic to mostly understand chapter 1! more chapters will be added with more stories and scenarios, so i hope you all like it! <3
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- Part 2 of honest vow (aka grandpa hermes) au
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much ado about nobody by laurenridloffluvr
Fandoms: EPIC - Jorge Rivera-Herrans (Albums), The Odyssey - Homer, The Iliad - Homer, HOMER - Works, Ancient Greek Religion & Lore, Much Ado About Nothing - Shakespeare, SHAKESPEARE William - Works
04 Jul 2025
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The time has come for Helen of Sparta to choose a suitor and prepare for her upcoming wedding. Suitors have come from all over Greece and beyond.
Helen's cousin, Penelope, doesn't think much of one of the men, a smug young king from an island in the middle of nowhere. He's snarky, sarcastic, and annoying. She can't wait for him to leave.
Odysseus of Ithaca came to Sparta as one of Helen's suitors, but he has no intention of marrying. One of the princesses catches his eye for the wrong reasons. While she is pretty, she is also insufferable, and he can't wait to leave.
odypen (fr)enemies to lovers
inspired by shakespeare's much ado about nothing"I do love nothing in the world so well as you. Is not that strange?"
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Miles is dragged to the drama club by his best friend and is somehow forced into the role of Juliet. What could be worse than that? Only the fact that he hates the person playing Romeo.
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"graze on my lips, and if those hills be dry, stray lower, where the pleasant fountains lie" by tiptoeingquietly
Fandoms: Arcane: League of Legends (Cartoon 2021)
04 Jul 2025
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“All the world’s a stage, and all the men and women merely players.”
But in Piltover and Zaun, the roles are cruelly cast.
Detective Caitlyn Kiramman is no stranger to solving grisly crimes, but a new wave of Shimmer-related "suicides" pushes her beyond the limits of logic and endurance. Beneath her sharp intellect lies an unspoken reliance on stimulants, a crutch she refuses to name.
Her investigation leads her deep into the shadowed depths of Zaun, where she encounters Vi—a pit fighter, bouncer, and ex-con weighed down by guilt and a near-fatalistic streak of self-destruction. Distrust ignites between them, but so does something deeper, an inexplicable pull between two women shaped by worlds intent on breaking them.
As their cities spiral while the body count rises, Caitlyn and Vi untangle years of shared pain and vices long hidden.
"Vengeance is in my heart, death in my hand, Blood and revenge are hammering in my head."
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"What does a violet smell like? ... Normand Cardella, a perfume expert, describes the fragrance as 'powdery, a little sweet and decidedly sad. Musically, a violet note would be a minor chord.'" - Doleschal, M. Shakespeare’s Favourite Flowers: The Violet.
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The human mind is a tainted thing. Feel too deeply, and your own thoughts will become your undoing.
Late-night conversations beneath the stars. Found family. Quiet yearning.
Sculpting your fate between your stained hands at Trostridge University, you’ll find your soul intertwining with others’.
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love's light wings by laurenridloffluvr
Fandoms: EPIC - Jorge Rivera-Herrans (Albums), The Odyssey - Homer, SHAKESPEARE William - Works, Romeo And Juliet - Shakespeare, Ancient Greek Religion & Lore
03 Jul 2025
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Telemachus has received an offer to study Law at his dream university. Due to his shyness, he misses out on the chance to ask a girl for her number, so he decides to build his confidence by auditioning for Romeo and Juliet.
Lysandra is finally free from her abusive father and moves to university to study Costume Design for theatre. Her friends encourage her to become more confident by auditioning for the annual Shakespeare play.
As both Telemachus and Lysandra begin to embody their roles, will their personal lives end in tragedy or will they find their happily ever after?
"with love's light wings did i o'erperch these walls,
for stony limits cannot hold love out;
and what love can do, that dares love attempt."
~ romeo, act II scene iitelemachus x oc romance
"woven hearts" modern aucan be read as a standalone
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- Part 3 of woven hearts - telemachus & lysandra
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The Sins Of God's Acursed Children by mejk
Fandoms: Christian Bible, Christian Bible (Old Testament)
03 Jul 2025
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Eight Sinners.
Eight Sins.
All forgivable, until the last.
- Language:
- English
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- 245
- Chapters:
- 2/8
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- 9
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dagger of the mind by EffieTrinket1619
Fandoms: Green Lantern - All Media Types, DCU (Comics)
03 Jul 2025
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By the pricking of my thumbs,
Something wicked this way comes.or:
something is terribly wrong with john, and it's up to guy to get to the bottom of it
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Milgram but if it was a sonnet.
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Snow on the Mountain Top by lukewarmlemonade
Fandoms: Hunger Games Series - All Media Types, Original Work
02 Jul 2025
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Jackson Flint is a district 10 male reaped for the 66th games. He has no idea how bad things will get during his time in the arena, or how fast his alliance falls apart.
OR the games' Titus was in.
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A collection of one shots based on various prompts. Most if not all of these will be from Tumblr. Feel free to comment ideas, prompts, and requests of your own. I will put trigger warnings for all one shots in the tags and trigger warnings that are specific to each one shot in the beginning chapter notes of each one shot along with the prompt I am fulfilling. If there's a trigger warning you want or need me to add, please tell me! I want everyone to read what they want to read and at the very least be adequately prepared to perceive the content they will be perceiving and able to avoid it. Please also feel free to give constructive criticism.
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No Flights of Angels Here by irisbleufic
Fandoms: Interview with the Vampire (TV 2022), Vampire Chronicles Series - Anne Rice
02 Jul 2025
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Claudia grabs the broom, stares at the ceiling, and then hesitates. For now, Sam and Armand are just talking, so maybe there won’t be a round two. There hadn’t been the night before, which gives Claudia a shred of sympathy for what’s happening upstairs—but not by much.
“Leave them alone,” Madeleine sighs, opening one of the plasma bottles that Armand had dropped off on returning from his errand. “I feel bad that we made fun. Not that bad, but a little. They each lost someone, and Sam’s situation is…really bleak. We lost Rashid, too.”
“What makes Armand special?” Claudia demands, propping the broom against the wall. “I lost Louis to Lestat, too. Chose him over me again.”
“Je sais, ma belle,” Madeleine replies, filling a pair of wine glasses with blood. She holds one out to Claudia. “Au diable avec tous les deux.”
“In the unlikely event I died tonight,” Claudia asks Madeleine, “how long would it take you to start fucking another attractive lady vampire?”
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- Part 2 of Love’s Not a Strong Enough Word
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Change of Leaf, Part 6 by SleepyOfBeata
Fandoms: Warriors - Erin Hunter, Henry VI - Shakespeare
01 Jul 2025
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Love, loyalty, and kin-ties will be tested in the moons after StarClan's miraculous sign, as secret plots and selfish lusts divide the Clan into many factions.
* Shakespeare's Henriad adapted for Warriors.
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- Part 6 of Change of Leaf
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James had hoped things would go back to normal quickly when Sirius is back in his arms.
They don't.
Sirius tries to act like everything is fine, like now that he's out of prison he has shaken off the whole experience, but James notices the little changes.
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Written for sorenphelps' bodyguard AU on tumblrSeries
- Part 8 of The Bodyguard AU - Part 2
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There is no service more pure and more damning than that which the body provides, and there is no honour greater than sacrifice.
Lancelot loves his King beyond the realm of flesh and reason.
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woven hearts by laurenridloffluvr
Fandoms: EPIC - Jorge Rivera-Herrans (Albums), The Odyssey - Homer, Ancient Greek Religion & Lore
01 Jul 2025
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Twenty years have passed since Telemachus' father King Odysseus left to fight in the Trojan War. In order to secure Ithaca's future, Queen Penelope arranges a marriage between her son Telemachus and the foreign Princess Lysandra of Elis.
In the eighteen months before his father's return, Telemachus must mature from boy to man and prove that he is capable to rule Ithaca when the time comes. Lysandra must grow into her role as princess and future queen despite the doubts thrown her way. Through it all, maybe they can learn to love each other.
telemachus x oc romance
incorporates elements from epic the musical and the odysseySeries
- Part 1 of woven hearts - telemachus & lysandra