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    The Smartest Idiot You Know by

    Fandoms: Criminal Minds (US TV)  

    29 Mar 2021

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    You stop at 4B and knock. You hear stumbling, a loud expletive, and then Spencer Reid is standing at his door wearing an apron. You bite back a laugh- given the clear distress on his face, it seems like he wouldn’t take it well.
    He ushers you in quickly and you smell the unmistakable scent of very burnt bacon. “Are you cooking pancetta on high heat?” you ask immediately.
    “Thank goodness you’re here,” he says.
    “What made you think you could start with carbonara?”
    “I have an IQ of 187.”
    “You have the common sense of a toddler presented with a box of matches.”

    In which the reader realizes that while her upstairs neighbor Spencer Reid knows a great many things, he doesn't know how to cook.

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    keep me searching for a heart of gold by for cirque

    Fandoms: Rumpelstilzchen | Rumpelstiltskin (Fairy Tale), Fairy Tales & Related Fandoms  

    11 May 2019

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    Some of them, the wish-granters, the kindly folk, the godparents, are summoned by desire, or hard work, or anger. It calls them, tugs them, until they can go to help, to see the desire fulfilled, the wish granted. Some of them receive in trade only the sense that they're balancing the scales of the world. Some of them amass favors owed. Some of them make bargains.

    Rumpelstiltskin has always found himself called to tears, the quiet ones of despair, the ones that are silent because it never occurs to the one weeping that someone might hear and come to comfort them. It might be better, if he could simply help them without asking anything in return, but his magic always asks for a bargain.

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    made and mended by

    Fandoms: Fairy Tales & Related Fandoms, Cinderella (Fairy Tale)  

    11 Jun 2017

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    When the carriage drives away without her, Ella doesn't cry.

    This Cinderella may not have a fairy godmother, but there are other ways to get to the balls.

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    04 May 2020