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i used to be a child, i was stupid and free (who domesticated the wild in me?) by joyfulsongbird
Fandoms: Critical Role (Web Series)
30 Jul 2024
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“Percy, we have to go,” Cassandra says, voice sharp even as it trembles. His little sister, stronger than him in the face of… this.
“Who is it?” He knows his voice is too loud but he can’t help it. “Who’s in there?”
There’s a long stretch of a particular kind of silence, like waiting for the other shoe to drop or the moment before you leave the eye of a hurricane.
“Everyone.”
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Cassandra and Percy escape together from the Briarwoods. It changes everything. And nothing.
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The Ballad of Camilla Macauley by joyfulsongbird
Fandoms: The Secret History - Donna Tartt
28 Jul 2024
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“That’s true power, she thinks; knowing what you could do and choosing not to. She knows that she could tell Charles to jump from the third floor if she begged enough, but she won’t. She won’t because she shouldn’t.
What she wants is another story entirely.”
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Camilla Macauley: what she wanted, what she couldn’t have, and the men who decided for her.
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you knew what you wanted (and boy, you got her) by joyfulsongbird
Fandoms: Raven Cycle - Maggie Stiefvater
08 Jul 2024
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Gansey is teaching Blue how to drive and Blue is feeling a lot of feelings about Gansey's mouth. That's it, that's the fic.
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do you have to let it linger? (you know, i’m such a fool for you) by joyfulsongbird
Fandoms: Critical Role (Web Series)
05 Aug 2023
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“There’s no explanation for any of it, no reason that Kynan should have to keep living in this way. But he’ll never abandon it, abandon her. Isn’t that the crime of unrequited love? To want someone who will never want you. To want someone that you will never have the wherewithal to tear yourself away from.
Cassandra said it herself: he could leave at the drop of a hat, if he so desired it. But his other desires keep him chained back, and they always will.”
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Kynan Leore is assigned as Cassandra de Rolo’s personal guard, given the task to protect her from harm. He takes his job very seriously. Maybe a little too seriously.
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“He’s struck suddenly by the depth of which she had been pretending. Even going as far as to speak in a voice not her own. It isn’t terribly different; the cadence is the same, the phrasing, and the tone, but it’s a change nonetheless. What else will have been changed? What else will be different from the serving man that Orsino felt himself so endeared to in this new noblewoman who crawled from the sea and into his unworthy hands?”
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orsino and viola, after it all.
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In a bed and breakfast somewhere in the vicinity of Duluth, Minnesota, Blue sits up with a hand on Gansey’s chest and says, “I think we should have sex.”
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08 Sep 2025
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Terribly Unexpected and Horribly Convenient by silkberry
Fandoms: Raven Cycle - Maggie Stiefvater
17 Apr 2023
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Blue Sargent,
Congratulations!
We are pleased to announce that we have found a match for your DNA and you have been assigned an ideal mate.Sincerely,
The United States Office of Biological MatchingSeries
- Part 1 of Bio Mates
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08 Sep 2025
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come what may by emmaofmisthaven
Fandoms: Anastasia (1997), Anastasia - Flaherty/Ahrens/McNally
10 Mar 2018
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“How old are you, comrade?” the man asks, instead of answering him.
“Nineteen, sir,” Dmitry answers dutifully. The man has a gun at his hip and a temper. Better not provoke him if he doesn’t want to end up with a bullet between the eyes.
“I take it you didn’t fight during the Great War.”
“I was locked at Tsarskoye Selo with all the other servants before I was of age,” he replies with what can only described as a mocking smirk. Then, after a pause, “sir.”(Dmitry is the kitchen boy in exil with the Romanovs. That's only the beginning of his story, if the end of theirs.)
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24 Mar 2025
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"I don't need it," Peeta says firmly. "I don't want anything from you." And it's not true, there are things he wants from Katniss; her smile, her laugh, her warm breath on his neck, her body moving beneath his in the dark. But he doesn't want them as part of an exchange. He wants them because she wants him to have them.
(AU - Gale dies in the Hunger Games.)
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22 Mar 2025
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semantics and implications and the like by izloveshorses
Fandoms: Anastasia - Flaherty/Ahrens/McNally, Anastasia (1997)
14 Mar 2025
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“So…” Vlad started, halting, “you and Anya are…”
Dmitry shrugged. “Sure,” he said, distracted, focused on getting the embossment placed just right.
“Ah. That explains a lot.”
“I guess so.” Dmitry double checked the angle.
“Well, now that you two are sleeping together, should I expect you to get along now? Or is the arguing a thing too?”
“Maybe…” Dmitry didn’t put the connotation of the phrase together fast enough. He blanched, his hand coming down hard on the handle of the stamp, creasing the paper. “No!” The word came out too loud as he shot to his feet, jostling the desk and bruising his knee. “It’s not— we’re just sleeping togeth— I mean— it’s not like that. We— we’re sharing a. We’re sleeping in the same spot. That’s all.”~~~
Dmitry is surprised when Anya decides to start sleeping with him to keep warm-- but like, not like that, they're literally just sleeping. It's purely platonic. He swears.
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21 Mar 2025