CompletelyOrdinaryCat
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Maybe the worst part of having to share your body with another sentient and (allegedly) intelligent mind, she’d discovered, is that you share everything, even emotions. The worst thing about having Johnny Silverhand specifically in your mind is that the fucker never knows exactly what emotions he’s feeling, and usually denies feeling anything at all.
Johnny has never been one to shy away from naming the elephant in the room, as much as V would prefer he didn’t. After all, she is forced to sort through the sordid details of his stupidly complex emotions without complaint, so the least he can do is not point out that she’s a sexual being just to piss her off.
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Bugs had never bothered Jean much—hell, it’d never occurred to him to even notice their presence. Moths were expected companions this time of night and that’s as much thought as he gave them.
Harry, though.
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Jean has a role to play. If only he could destroy the parts of himself that made that difficult.
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Turn from the ruin. Turn and go forward. by CompletelyOrdinaryCat
Fandoms: Disco Elysium (Video Game)
12 Feb 2023
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Harry struggles with recovery, goes to karaoke, makes a new friend he can’t stop can-opening, and grapples with the question of what kind of man he wants to be. Jean is suspicious, Judit is hopeful, and Kim has his own struggles he doesn’t want to talk about.
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The crew turned to stare as Wilford’s sunburned head and stupid little face appeared over the edge of ship and watched, confused, as he stood confidently onto the deck, his men following behind him.
Please, Izzy thinks, not here. Not now. The crew already disrespect me enough, as if I weren’t enough as is.
But Ed was already swaggering over, though he had a tenseness to his face, as Bonnet fluttered around behind him. For a moment, Izzy hoped Ed might physically throw Wilford off the ship, then silently cursed himself. Ed knows nothing of Wilford—the two were on different ships, after all—something Izzy had deliberately made sure was the case. Besides, what reason would Ed have to protect a traitor like Izzy?
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Izzy runs into some old crew-mates who are desperate to spill Izzy’s secrets, and the crew of The Revenge comes together for some good old fashioned violence against bigoted bullies.
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A Collection of the Assorted Failures of the Dwarf, Varric Tethras regarding the Champion, M. Hawke by CompletelyOrdinaryCat
Fandoms: Dragon Age (Video Games), Dragon Age II
02 May 2022
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Dorian grasps his arm, sucking in desperate lungfuls of air, and while Varric’s relieved to know he’s okay, that means Hawke wasn’t behind him. She’s not here, not where he thought she was. And then the reality of what that might mean crashes into him, and he goes cold all over.
Just like Hawke, he thinks, and tries to stay calm, —
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As Varric waits to see whether Hawke will exit the Fade, the only thing he can do is remember every time he failed to do right by her.
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The day Frank Columbo met Eugenio Franchitti was a day blessed by God: God and all the real angels and saints, specifically Adjutor, Philip Neri, and Barbara. The war was going full swing; on the beach there were the leftovers, the women and boys and girls, and the oldest Franchitti kids who hadn’t shipped overseas, Geno and Cecilia, first cousins. Frank hadn’t noticed ’em at first, either of ’em, the tall and lanky boy and girl with skin like gold and eyelashes like fringed velvet burlesque fans, physical traits the magazines said you could shell out for but the Franchitti kids had ’em in spades all natural; but once he had he couldn’t stop noticin'.
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The story of how Columbo and Mrs. Columbo came to be.
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An Illustrative Update by bigasswritingmagnet (thekumquat)
Fandoms: Dragon Age (Video Games), Dragon Age II
15 Sep 2024
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One of the author's portraits on Varrics books depicts him surrounded by many beautiful women. It could perhaps use a little updating, now that he's a married man.
[Has an accompanying art piece!]
Bookmarked by CompletelyOrdinaryCat
06 Nov 2024
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In wine, there is truth; sometimes you are more likely to blurt out your feelings when you are under the influence.
But sometimes, to wine, there is truth, and your friend will blurt out his feelings when he thinks you're too stinking, fall-down drunk to hear them.
Bookmarked by CompletelyOrdinaryCat
06 Nov 2024
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in every sense of the word by TheIcyQueen
Fandoms: Dragon Age (Video Games), Dragon Age II
14 Aug 2024
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There’s something about the way Varric and her sister work together that Bethany just can’t wrap her head around. On paper, it all makes sense – they’re both dangerously persuasive rogues, quick to pick your pocket yet somehow quicker still to talk the coin out of your hand; they’re crafty, they’re cunning, they’re charismatic, and, in a pond like Kirkwall, their partnership doesn’t just make them big fish but sharks. Together, there’s no scheme they can’t pull off, no heist they can’t manage, no lock they can’t slip their way past…
But there’s something else going on between them, too. Something Bethany, well, can’t quite put her finger on. Maybe she’s just imagining it. Maybe this is how ALL business partners act! After all, what else COULD it be?
(Or: Five times Bethany thinks it’s all about the con, and the one time she realizes it isn’t.)
Bookmarked by CompletelyOrdinaryCat
24 Aug 2024
Bookmarker's Notes
LETS FUCKING GOOOOOOOOO!!! I love this!! Incredible outsider perspective from my dear Bethany, Hawke and Varric being two sides of the same coin, the small, hidden gestures of affection and love!! If this fic was a human shaped hole in the side of Amigara Mountain, I’d be squeezing myself in screaming “it was made for me!!!” [affectionate]
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questions unasked by tospreadthewingsofthesoul
Fandoms: Dragon Age II, Dragon Age - All Media Types
22 Jun 2024
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Hawke has a very important question.
Bookmarked by CompletelyOrdinaryCat
23 Jun 2024
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“Varric was smiling too - a proper smile, tiny and real, not his storytelling smile at all.”
Oh how I adore my OTP talking about love via contracts ;-;