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and now that you don't have to be perfect (you can be good) by i_wont_fall_asleep
Fandoms: Ted Lasso (TV)
02 Jun 2023
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“Whatcha thinking about?”
Jamie asks the question as he sits down, handing Roy a third beer, another held loosely in his other hand.
What is Roy thinking?
He thinks Jamie looks fucking picturesque, sitting there at the table on their patio, overlooking the ocean, backlit by fading sun’s light. The breeze rustles Jamie’s Walnut fucking Mist hair, his more-than-half-opened shirt. He looks relaxed and happy, sipping from his beer. The sight of it makes Roy so fucking hungry for something he doesn’t even have the words to name.
Roy looks away, gazes out at the push-and-pull of the waves instead.
After taking a long swallow from his drink, he finally answers Jamie.
“Football,” he lifts a brow, as if to say, ‘what else?’
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Or, Roy and Jamie go to Brazil and Roy learns to let himself want.
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20 Mar 2025
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Roy Kent does not acquire a prison bitch on purpose.
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15 Mar 2025
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So when Jamie got the call from Roy’s sister, and an astoundingly clever and important little girl invited him to a sweet and silly little celebration, just them four — that was that, really. He didn’t think too hard about it. Two hours of travel to get here in the middle of a whirlwind training with the fucking National team and he follows the draw, the pull, the immeasurable force guiding him here. Not a single thought of protest, of resistance, even occurred to him. He just made it happen.
He’s really fucking gone, ain’t he?
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08 Mar 2025
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Roy folds his arms, glaring. "All right, what the fuck is going on here? Why have you suddenly decided to fancy me?"
"I haven't suddenly decided, I've always fancied you. Just didn't know until today that you'd be up for it."
Roy reminds himself sternly that he cannot murder their star striker the day before a match. "Just because I'm interested in blokes doesn't mean I'm interested in you."
Jamie looks confused. "It doesn't? But..." He gestures at his face as if it's incontrovertible evidence, then down his body like a closing argument.
Roy cannot murder him. The media would be intolerable.
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08 Mar 2025
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It's not like he wants Roy Kent saying nice things about him to be the only thing that gets him off, but he's got to work with what he's got.
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08 Mar 2025
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On the Edge of Where the World Drops by J (jaywright)
Fandoms: Critical Role (Web Series)
28 Oct 2024
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"I want to take my time with you."
"Then take it," Dorian said. "This is the time we have."Bookmarked by a_goblin (ConstantComment)
02 Nov 2024
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Neither Orym nor Dorian begrudge Fearne her personal sexual adventures across Exandria, except when it leaves them short a bed.
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23 Oct 2024
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“Physical desire is a perfectly manageable thing. There is no reason to perform such an act for the sake of the act itself, biologically speaking,” the elf speaks to him slowly, as one might when explaining something to a very stupid, albeit endearing, pet. “Unless one is engaged in the reproductive pursuit of conceiving a child, of course.”
A swig of the mulled wine manages to get unpleasantly lodged in Halbrand's windpipe. “Oh,” her eyes narrow at the thinly disguised laughter in the wet of his cough; other patrons around them turning to investigate the source of such a noise. “Oh—Galadriel.”
Or: Galadriel is a 5,000 year old virgin, and Halbrand decides to change that.
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04 Oct 2024
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Dex has a thing for dresses.
Nursey has a thing for Dex.
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- Part 1 of Hem & Fall
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01 Oct 2024
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Standing right outside my door by eleanor_lavish for EyeOfAster, Dorasolo
Fandoms: Check Please! (Webcomic)
25 Dec 2015
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“I’ve been doing holidays alone for years, bro. I mean, I spent more holidays at Andover than in New York.”
Dex’s fingers tighten on the steering wheel. He kind of really hates Nursey’s parents right now, even though he’s never met them. He wants to yell at Nursey about this ridiculous chill he has going on, about how it’s fucked up, ask how he’s not just pissed off all the fucking time, but he looks over and Nursey’s eyes are still closed, and he’s curled in on himself in the seat. “Yeah, well. Not this year,” he says firmly.
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01 Oct 2024
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volta (n.) a turning point or point of change in a poem, most commonly a sonnet.
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Derek watches as Dex’s eyes flick over the poem. He pushes back the dishevelled hair in his face like it’ll help him see clearer. He mouths the words as he goes, pauses, reads each line again. His fingers tap against the page in iambic pentameter. When he comes to the final line, his lips pull up into a barely there smile. “That in black ink my love may still shine bright,” he murmurs. “That is kinda nice.”
(Or, five times a poem doesn’t reach its intended recipient, and one time it does; five drafts, and one work completed; five turning points, and one ending.)
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- Part 1 of poetic devices
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15 Sep 2024
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It’s been five months since Dex has seen Nursey in person, the longest they’ve been apart since graduating Samwell three-and-a-half years ago. They’ve stayed in touch – texting on a regular basis, virtually watching movies together every other week, and Frog FaceTime calls at least once a month – but they haven’t been in the same room since the summer. He’d deny it if asked, but he’s had a countdown app going on his phone ever since he invited Nursey to spend the weekend in Maine.
Or, Nursey and Dex spend a winter weekend at a lakeside cabin in Maine.
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15 Sep 2024
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1917 — As the known world fractures, Gale leaves the city in an attempt to rediscover why it is he’s even still staggering around in his own dark.
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17 Aug 2024
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“Look,” Gale says tightly, “I don’t know how flashing around that magistrate’s chain tends to work for you, but I’m not exactly beholden to my sense of civil service.”
“Oh, darling, no.” Astarion waves a hand, disappointingly unbothered. “I just figured you the wrong side of pathetic without some company. I prefer more of a challenge.”
Gale’s gaze hardens. “Thanks,” he grunts.
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15 Aug 2024
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These days, most everybody in camp had learned to wave away Astarion’s advances with a laugh. They found the flirtation titillating, Gale figured, or a bit threatening, or some combination of the two. He wondered if anybody else found it sad.
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Good old-fashioned rumination on choice and compulsion. Gale and Astarion shake off their metaphorical shackles.- Language:
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15 Aug 2024
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The warmth in Esca’s chest, its suddenness, is a sign of much deeper feelings that he may not be ready to acknowledge. Rome has rules that govern the interactions of masters and slaves, as it has those that govern the affairs between patrons and their freedman clients, but as of now, he and Marcus do not fit neatly between any of these lines. Marcus does not strike Esca as one who deals well with blurred lines, and Esca himself no longer knows how to handle warmth.
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09 Aug 2024
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The First Leaf on the Tree after Winter by HardingHightown
Fandoms: Baldur's Gate (Video Games)
01 Oct 2023
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Their time was a century before, she thinks. What can they be, these old souls rooted in their ways, these observers of the world, these failed heroes?
Halsin/Jaheira. Background Wyll/Karlach.
Content notes for some upcoming in-depth discussions of grief and some, I think, narratively relevant wildshape sex.
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07 Aug 2024
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Halsin was a relatively new addition to their camp, and Astarion wasn’t quite sure what to make of him. Of course, the druid certainly pretended to be kind, and helpful, and considerate, but surely that was just a little too good to be true. Astarion needed to keep his guard up, because it seemed that there were fresh things trying to kill them on a daily basis, even on top of the ever-present threat of ceremorphosis, and he still had Cazador to worry about. It was certainly no time to go soft.
Astarion negotiates the plot of Baldur's Gate 3 (and a little bit beyond), facing the standard trauma and tribulations, all while stubbornly trying to avoid falling in love with their resident druid.
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21 Jul 2024
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Halsin sighed. “Astarion…I care for you. I care for you deeply.”
“You don’t know me,” Astarion insisted.
“Then let me.” Halsin slowly, carefully, reached for Astarion’s hands. Astarion let him. “Speak. One word from you, and I will leave you be.”
or: astarion and halsin dance carefully around affection, devotion, adoration.
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06 Jul 2024
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out of ash (the ground will grow things) by weatheredlaw
Fandoms: Baldur's Gate (Video Games)
07 Jan 2024
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He realized why Halsin had not asked for anything in return, after Astarion had been stricken with the mushroom’s toxin. Halsin did not see healing as transactional, nor anything else he did. Halsin merely tended to his companions, like wild plants in a garden. His grove had been the same, and he seemed bothered most that he could not treat Baldur’s Gate like the overgrown pit of weeds it truly was.
Astarion was an unruly vine in Halsin’s care, and he found he liked it that way.
or: after astarion is poisoned by a strange mushroom, halsin helps in an unconventional way. it has far reaching repercussions.
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05 Jul 2024