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    “Can I paint his nails?”

    Lex blinked, taken aback. “What?”

    “I said, can I paint his nails?” she repeated calmly. “Something simple. Black maybe. He likes black.”

    Lex pressed the heel of his palm to his temple. “Eve. He wears full tactical armor. He has gauntlets reinforced with alloy plating that can crack a battleship. He is not going to be admiring his cuticles.”

    “But I will,” Eve said, with a little shrug, dipping her fingers into a small makeup pouch she’d hidden in her lab coat. “It helps me focus. And he'll sit still for it.”

    Or: Ultraman makes a friend.

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    Homelander was born with only one terrible poverty: loneliness. He's been starved of love his entire life, made sick by his hunger for it, but he believes you might have the cure.

    If you want to survive, you'll find a way to give it to him.

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    August 5th Prompt: Color

    "We're old," he comments, but there's no disdain, no indignation. Tom is actually… he's ridiculously happy. His chest feels tight with the emotion.

    They are old, but more importantly than that, they're here, in a house they own under both their names, matching wedding bands now clinking against each other as Tom tangles their fingers on top of the counter, together regardless of the hardships they'd faced, after all these years.

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    10 Dec 2023

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    Jaskier grins and kisses him, delighting in the quirk of his lip that forms against hers. He breaks at once, pressing their foreheads together. “I don't deserve you,” he confesses on a rattling breath. She tuts.

    “I won’t hear that kind of talk, Geralt. Tell me something else.”

    A female!Jaskier AU told through seasons.

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    08 Dec 2023

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    It's said that every soul is connected to another by a red thread, and that these two souls are destined to meet. The thread, though it may tangle or stretch, will never break. That's not your experience, lucky or unlucky enough as you are to see the strings that bind people together. A red thread is developed and grown, not born, and you've worked hard to weed out any semblance of crimson that might cling to you. You pay your bills, you keep your head down, and you find whatever lost people or items you're hired to sniff out.

    Then the Devil of Hell's Kitchen tags along on a job, and your plan falls apart.

     

    Starts prior to Into the Ring, and loosely follows the canon timeline. There is eventually smut, so enter at your peril. Reader is never physically described but uses a false name and may be treated as an OC.

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