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He likes Harry right away. Really likes him. He’s fun. He’s smart. He’s surprising. He’s sweet. He’s cool. Kim’s old enough to stop questioning why he likes who he likes. That there’s any feeling left in him is something to be grateful for.
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12 May 2025
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You’ve been having strange dreams. Awful dreams, dreams in which Kim dies, every night. You think someone’s trying to tell you something…
SHIVERS: They are.
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KIM KITSURAGI: “Harry. You were - making noise.”INLAND EMPIRE: Moaning. Crying out.
KIM KITSURAGI: In the dark - the only light the streetlight and the neon glow from the Frittte cast in through the window - he looks unreal.
CONCEPTUALIZATION: Ghostly.
HALF LIGHT: His eyes. You can’t see his eyes.
INTERFACING: You have to land a hand on his knee, to see if he’s real.
KIM KITSURAGI: He’s warm with sleep. He makes a surprised noise, but doesn’t pull away.
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02 May 2025
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Rewind, refine and you'll find me inside by Pinprick
Fandoms: Disco Elysium (Video Game)
28 Jul 2023
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Lieutenant Kim Kitsuragi got into an accident the first day he arrived in Martinaise, fell into a coma for two more days, and then woke up without remembering a goddamn thing. Not ideal to say the least, especially when you have to solve a lynching with a man as obnoxious as Harry Du Bois.
(A swap au fic that I wrote because someone had to weave together all these good headcanons I was seeing)
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01 Apr 2025
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Kim feels for the Satellite Officer. It’s clear what he’s been through, what Harry has subjected him to over the last few years - Kim only knows the half of it, of course, but he’s seen it before, hermit-cops pushing everyone away, their partner last man standing at the bombsite. Still, it feels cruel to punish this person for it, this wiped-clean, remade Harry, looking at Kim now like a bottle-fed animal about to be released into the wild. If Kim does go to the 41st, navigating all this will be an extra layer of complexity. He should think very carefully about it - about whether it’s worth getting mixed up in all of it. The mess.
A slow-burn, Kim-POV story about going to the 41st, against his better judgement.
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18 Mar 2025
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HALF-LIGHT: A thought occurs to you.
VOLITION: Don't say it. Please. You don't have to say everything that comes into your head.
You: "Kim," you say, your voice plaintive. "Am I a criminal? Did I do a crime in the last twenty-four hours? Is that why the RCM are sniffing around a high school gym?"Following a minor concussion, 28-year-old gym teacher Harry Du Bois finds himself missing the last 24 hours of his memory. He teams up with Patrol Officer Kim Kitsuragi from the Juvenile Crime Division to solve the case of his missing memories, a minor theft, and a first degree murder. Both of them get a whole lot more than they bargained for.
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16 Mar 2025
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"I know what a breakup looks like," Daniel says. "The better question is, why are you coming to me about it? I'm the one who broke up your little sham."
"This is what humans do, don't they?" Armand asks, letting his voice drop. "Crashing on their friends' couches when there's a blip in their romances?"
"Except we're not friends. We're actually very much not friends." Daniel shrugs, as if it's all the same to him. "And I can't imagine the great vampire Armand deigning himself to sleep on my fucked-up sofa. That thing's been here since the nineties."
"Well," Armand only says. "I saw you have a guest bedroom."
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07 Feb 2025
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Dipper's not the best cultist. What with asking too many questions, and the insolence, and learning too much, too fast. Not to mention the repeated blasphemy! Oh, and not actually believing in said god, that's a big one.
He's in for one hell of a surprise.
(One of Dipper's many reincarnations from Familiar AU)
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- Part 7 of Familiar AU
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28 Sep 2024
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“Finish it out,” he grits between clenched teeth. “Go on. Ask it.”
Nolan shifts in his seat. “Are or are you not attracted, at the very least, to Wilson?”
House knocks his forehead against his cane. “I don’t know. Maybe.”
[In which Nolan pulls at the Wilson thread, and House can't stop it all from unraveling. Repression is a hell of a drug.]
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03 May 2024
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“How the fuck do you know my name?” Dean hisses.
The man doesn’t look scared. He is watching Dean like there is nothing else worth watching, lips a little parted, eyes a little soft. And blue. Real blue, like the ocean on a postcard.
The ice spreading down Dean’s spine makes him shiver.
“I suppose you could say I’m your guardian angel,” the man murmurs. His breath fogs pale between them. All of him is unnaturally warm, like Dean’s touching somebody with the sun sewn up beneath their skin. “I have known you, Dean Winchester, for a very long time.”
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Dean meets an angel who says he's from the future. It all gets a lot more complicated from there.
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23 Feb 2024
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“Sorry I'm late, don, got a little carried away returning to these halls- always was a maze! Sir Felix Ca-ahh.”
He'd lunged forward with a hand outstretched, ready to shake as the professor had straightened up. He turned in his chair lazily, freezing Felix in an awkward, half-bent position with those chilly blue eyes. There was a long moment as Oliver Quick observed him, no expression on his face, before a small smile made his mouth twitch. “It's good to see you, Felix. You look well.”
Felix Catton is a happily married father of three teenagers, approaching 40, and he hasn't seen Oliver since his unfortunate overdose... Everything should be perfect. Everything is perfect.
Until Felix's oldest daughter wants him to smooth things over with her tutor- and he finds himself face-to-face with Professor Oliver Quick. He's older. Wiser. Sensible. He doesn't lie any more.
And so what harm could reconnecting with an old friend do?
Sorry, Lu, but Ollie and I have this very sudden and intense psychosexual thing going on, and if I don't explore it I might go absolutely out of my mind, start clawing at the walls. You understand, don't you, Darling?
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16 Jan 2024
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“It frustrates me,” Cas mutters, “how the same sensation can feel sometimes good, and sometimes not.”
Dean’s hand is still rubbing slowly down the length of his spine, like he’s petting the valley between the wings he can’t see. “Well, that’s just par for the course,” Dean rumbles. “Sometimes a body wants touch and sometimes it wants to be left the fuck alone.”
Cas always wants touch. At least from Dean. He doesn’t say so. “It frustrates me how much good and bad I can feel at the same time.”
“Oh, buddy,” Dean says. “Yeah.”
(After the perfect darkness of the Empty, Cas finds the world a little...overwhelming. Dean tries to help.)
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- Part 9 of author's personal favorites
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29 Dec 2023
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Friendship does not come to him easily..
Dream understands the general shape of it. He can see the lines of it when it draws others together. A part of him must know what it is. It is in the gentle lushness and golden light of Fiddler’s Green; it echoes when Matthew and Mervyn laugh, raucous and bright, in the library; it even shines from the warm note in Lucienne’s voice when she chides them for the noise. These are all parts of himself. Infinitesimal components of his vast entirety. This means he must know how it works.
It has to mean that.
(Aka: the classic "how they get together" fic. Aaka: two character studies stacked in a fic shaped trenchcoat.)
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- Part 1 of The Audacity Universe
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19 Dec 2023
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973 BCE: In the years after the old king's death, the Royal Family of Egypt and the Priesthood of Ra find themselves in a silent war over who truly controls the throne of Thebes. The most formidable acolytes Karnak has borne grasp for the chance to hold absolute power, but magicians are by nature solitary predators.
Sometimes, it is just a man and his shadow against the world.Bookmarked by MirthfulSophist
19 Oct 2023
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Nick draws a thin line between courage and cowardice. The Resistance walks it to the bitter end.
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03 Oct 2023
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I forgot many things when in the Other Place. That was how it was there. Memories were more real on Earth. I forgot that Nathaniel was quite so young, that his injuries had been so bad, that he was not healthy when he was this pale—and I forgot that his eyes were so radiantly blue, so brightly and strikingly blue that they seemed the color of a spirit’s essence and not something that could belong to a human. He opened his blue, blue eyes and I fell under their spell as strongly as any binding chain of a command that had ever been issued to me.
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03 Oct 2023
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The Trawler-Man's side of *that* speech from the s1 finale.
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02 Oct 2023
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Untouchable Things by Bitterlikesweets
Fandoms: The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild/Tears of the Kingdom
03 Dec 2024
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Link shouldn't allow this. Shouldn't indulge himself when he knows that Sidon is far, far from his reach. He shouldn't allow this because the avatar might only be doing this because Link wants it to, and how will he ever explain something like that to Sidon? He shouldn't be doing this because Sidon might find out somehow, because the king might already know, because this might taint their precious friendship.
He shouldn't because a taste of intimacy like this is only going to make Link want the real thing even more.
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Sidon's avatar starts behaving strangely, teasing Link with affectionate touches and gestures that the real Sidon would never allow; a torment so sweet, Link simultaneously wants it to end and never stop. At the same time, Sidon is plagued with strange dreams of his dearest friend. Dreams where he can't hold back desires he didn't even know he had.
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04 Sep 2023
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Pretend For Me by LollipopCop
Fandoms: Good Omens (TV), Good Omens - Neil Gaiman & Terry Pratchett
15 Dec 2020
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Crowley was still as stone beside him. His ears were cherry-red. “So...if we pretend we’re in a relationship, we’ll be safe.”
“I believe so.”
“And that would, that would involve, what?” he spoke hesitantly, softly. “Holding your hand, telling you that you mean a lot to me, kissing you for them to see?”
Two great hands were constricting Aziraphale’s lungs. He fought back an undignified wheeze. “Yes, I think so.”
“I can do that,” he croaked.
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In a panic, Aziraphale tells the archangels he survived hellfire due to his soul mixing with Crowley's because they're in a romantic and sexual relationship. They want him to prove it. Cue a fake relationship.Series
- Part 1 of Pretend For Me
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07 Aug 2023
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Separation had always been the goal.
(or, Five Bodies John Inhabited and One He Returned To)
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21 Jul 2023
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John Lester. Arthur thought about him carrying that name around everywhere he went and grit his teeth like he was chewing sand. It was his own damned fault for telling John to pick whatever he wanted; he’d had plenty of opportunity to lay down ground rules, it wasn’t John’s fault Arthur had run out of other Lesters quite some time ago with no plans to bolster numbers.
Not that he’d been much more enthused to gift his name to Bella. Why couldn’t he seem to stop comparing the scrap of the King in Yellow he’d stolen to his dead wife?
(In which John and Arthur take up private investigating together once they find their way out of the Dreamlands and into separate bodies.)
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08 Jul 2023