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With such lovely lines, he simply begs to be wielded.
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Into that world inverted / Where left is always right / Where shadows are really the body / Where we stay awake all night / Where the heavens are shallow as the sea is now deep / And you love me.
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She stumbled out of her room one morning to find him asleep, crookedly, on her sofa, and she thought suddenly, I am not resigned. Nymphadora Tonks, 1996. To Edna St. Vincent Millay's 'Dirge Without Music'.
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Once upon a time, when the Earth was still young, the human being had a very different form. Kaoru contemplates Plato, Twain, and being a twin.
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To Quote Lear by Alixtii for seeingxanadu
Fandoms: Angel: the Series, Buffy the Vampire Slayer
30 Jun 2006
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Closets are for secrets.
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Snapshots of two lives intertwined.
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Professor John Sheppard had a gift: by the end of the first class, he could always tell exactly who that semester’s troublemaker was going to be.
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The Ransom of Andrew Wells by Alixtii for ludditerobot
Fandoms: Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Angel: the Series
06 Apr 2006
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Andrew is kidnapped, and Dawn has to decide whether she really wants him back.
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- Part 20 of Watcher!verse
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Response to the following: an abstract conversation on the nature of art, using any of the genres that the characters are familiar with (painting, acting, directing, poetry, Harry's beloved Russian symphonies, whatever.) [Request by prettypattisue]
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Now there are two holes in the world: the sister that lived, and the sister that died. Is it any wonder that they seek to nullify one another?
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A retelling of the Pergamon anecdote from Petronius' Satyricon set during Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban. Mr. Filch attempts to have his way with a young student, only to have the tables turned on him.
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How Roger remembers his girls.
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Permutations by Alixtii for Elizabeth_Scripturient
Fandoms: Firefly, Buffy the Vampire Slayer
06 Jan 2006
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There are only so many stories.
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- Part 30 of Watcher!verse
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Walking under the blooming trees at night each year, I find the words returning without fail: It was a night like this, wasn't it? The night I killed that boy?
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- Part 2 of Forbidden Colors
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Guys Screw Around by HYPERFocused for duckgirlie
Fandoms: The Breakfast Club (1985), HUGHES John - Works
22 Dec 2005
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Hey, I screwed around.guys screw
around, there's nothing wrong with
that. Except you got caught, Sport.
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There was a reason that they called space the black.
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School of Lost Souls by Alixtii for voleuse
Fandoms: Firefly, Angel: the Series, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, R. Tam Sessions
29 Nov 2005
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Knowledge without a soul can be a very dangerous thing.
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During the holidays, Luna & Harry keep running into each other at the most inopportune times. Though one wonders if they planned it.
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Uncaging Monsters by Alixtii for kittybeenbad
Fandoms: Angel: the Series, Buffy the Vampire Slayer
13 Nov 2005
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Eve lets Nina out of her cage.
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Izuru knew after that first day of class that he wanted nothing more that term than to make that man love him. Backstory to the Saint Michel arc.
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- Part 1 of Forbidden Colors