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Buck had lost-- he was sure of this now. His resolve only lasted a few weeks before his exterior began to crack; he was never a very good actor. He couldn’t keep up the greetings and the asking questions and the easy stroll. He let his shoulders creep up to his ears, let his foot tap incessantly. He did what his Captain told him, but stopped asking for anything more. Stopped following the conversation in the back of the engine on the way to the call; he just stared out the window, thinking about the case to come, preparing for it. When he woke every morning, there was no big recovery milestone to strive for, no big fight for the soul of his career to win. Not even the happy swell of being back on shift -- something so easy to dismiss, that had dominated so much of his life, that he had taken for granted-- that had catalyzed him each morning of his first week back.
An old habit of his had returned. A bad habit.~~
or: after the lawsuit, buck confronts what it was he wanted all along. he looks and looks and longs for it; the team looks right through him. buck breaks-- right down the middle.
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- Part 1 of Lighthouse Universe
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Bookmarked by CytoSprout
20 Jul 2025
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Bit by bit, Buck stopped.
It began with the little things. First, he stopped checking his phone when he woke up. He used to do it everyday. He’d check for notifications on Chimney’s instagram, or maybe a new message from the 118 group chat. It wasn’t that anyone other than him texted at one in the morning, but sometimes he’d sleep past one of Cap’s old-timey GIFs or whatever.
Sometimes, Athena would text and greet him good morning. And a few weeks into knowing him, Chris would send a morning message begging for help, normally because Eddie was trying to make pancakes again.
So, with everything going on, Buck always made it a point that the moment his eyes opened, he would check his phone.
Until the first week after the lawsuit, and for the seventh day in a row, there wasn’t anything there except a pitfall in Buck’s stomach.
Nothing.
Never.
Not even a quick ‘hello’.
So, Buck ceased checking his phone. After all, why did he even need to?
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Bookmarked by CytoSprout
10 Nov 2024
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you wrote exactly how it feels to be shunned by those you love. the knot in your throat making it impossible to open up, the doubt that festers and grows so large it renders you speechless, hopeless, like *what’s the point*… man
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Heartbreaking Dog Monologue by foxglovves
Fandoms: IT - Stephen King, IT (Movies - Muschietti)
27 Mar 2020
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“How have you been here like, five hours and you’re running my shitty life already,” Richie grumbles, stifling a yawn. “Are there type-A dogs? Is that a thing?”
Hot dogs for breakfast, courtesy of chef Richie, who wonders aloud if this is like, cannibalism before he puts it on a plate in front of him. Being a dog sucks, Eddie thinks gloomily, thoughts thick with visions of steel-cut oatmeal and green juices and honeydew melon, although his new taste buds have decided that hot dogs are actually just fine. His mind is the same, unfortunately, and he has to keep himself from thinking too hard on macros and his sodium intake and whether or not hot dogs are gluten-free, because he’s already got a fragile grip on everything like this and he thinks he’d lose it entirely if he did. He’d spent forty years knowing his body, every little thing about it, maintaining it carefully, like a temple, and now he doesn’t know the first thing about it. In fact, he has no idea if dogs can even have gluten allergies.
After Derry, Richie is caught in the throes of grief, and Eddie is a miniature Spitz/Pomeranian cross.Bookmarked by CytoSprout
14 Apr 2023
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the stan scene in this made me bawl my eyes out
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Petrichor & Parchment by MrsNoggin
Fandoms: Good Omens - Neil Gaiman & Terry Pratchett, Good Omens (TV)
20 Dec 2019
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“Mr. Crowley, I presume?” Aziraphale asked in lieu of an introduction, which was not forthcoming. The guy hadn’t even removed his sunglasses. Oh God, he had a tattoo on his face. Aziraphale wasn’t one to judge, but… what kind of gardener had a snake tattoo on his face?
Now also available as a podfic from Literarion
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- Part 1 of Petrichor & Parchment
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Villainous by IneffablePenguin
Fandoms: Good Omens - Neil Gaiman & Terry Pratchett, Good Omens (TV)
01 Nov 2021
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{Once Upon A Time…
There was a red-haired sorcerer who lived alone in a high tower, and a blond prince who lived in a palace full of people. And they were both of them desperately lonely.
The Kingdoms of Empyrion and the Sorcerers of Apollyon have hated each other for hundreds of years, ever since the Great War. They do not interact, other than to occasionally try to kill one another. And they certainly do not make friends.
Crow is an exhausted sorcerer who just wants everyone to leave him the hell alone: for the Sorcerer’s Council to stop harassing him to live up to his potential, and for wannabe Empyrion Heroes to stop attacking his tower to try and kill him. Until one day when he meets Prince Azra of the High Fells, who doesn’t behave anything like he’s supposed to…
Part fairy tale, part fantasy, all love story. There’s magic, and grand romantic gestures, and Heroes and a handsome Prince, and a Villain. There are even some wild heroics, though not necessarily from who you would expect. At its core it’s simply about two (relatively) sane people living in a mad world who find each other.
The smut isn’t until later chapters.}
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- Part 1 of Tales From the Rookery
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Bookmarked by CytoSprout
15 Jul 2022
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the art created for this is just gorgeous and I LOVE THIS STORY SO MUCH TY KISSES IT
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run away (go find a lover) by quarterdeck
Fandoms: IT (Movies - Muschietti), IT - Stephen King
29 Jun 2021
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“Damn,” Eddie says loudly, exaggeratedly. “Out of matches again. How does this keep happening to me.”
Behind him, as expected, he hears a muffled snicker, and the soft thud of an object hitting the wooden tabletop.
Man, Eddie thinks. This ghost must be dumb as a pile of rocks.
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In which Eddie Kaspbrak buys a lighthouse, falls in love, and finds his family.
Bookmarked by CytoSprout
04 May 2021
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this is honestly perfect
IfItHollers and quarterdeck r u single just asking love u -
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THERE IS A WAY, Maturin hums.
“What is it?” Richie asks. There’s a smallness in his voice that he has never known before.
A SACRIFICE, Maturin informs him, voice a low rumble.
“Take me, man,” Richie says, voice breaking. His hands tremble as he smacks his chest. “You can fucking have me if it brings him back.”
NO, Maturin says. THAT IS NOT THE KIND OF SACRIFICE I REQUIRE FROM YOU.
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- Part 1 of in your heart i see
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bury me in this cold light by kaspbrak_kid for zach_stone
Fandoms: IT - Stephen King, IT (Movies - Muschietti)
19 Nov 2020
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Things have been...rough, since Derry, and the fucking clown. The aftermath was a fucking mess, dealing with the hospitals, the recovery. Fending off well-meaning but nosy friends. Trying to convince everyone to let him go home. All while feeling like absolute shit, with his insides constantly trying to be on his outsides. And then going home was also a mess, leaving was so fucking hard, especially when Richie...when Richie asked him to stay.
But Eddie couldn’t stay. He had to go home. Fight with management, fight with Myra, remind himself over and over that he didn’t need her, didn’t need anyone. That she lied to him, like his mom lied to him, lied that he needed them. And then moving out was shit, and living alone was shit, and everything was shit, but. God, full moons are always the shittiest. And then the day after full moons are even worse than that. And he’s so fucking tired, and he needs to sleep, but everything hurts. God, he hurts so fucking bad.
Bookmarked by CytoSprout
20 Feb 2021
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fuck YES SOFT WEREWOLF EDDIE THANK U FOR THE FOOD
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tell me we're dead and i'll love you even more by quarterdeck
Fandoms: IT (Movies - Muschietti), IT - Stephen King
25 Mar 2021
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Richie Tozier is a chatterbox. The infamous Trashmouth, most relentless of babblers. Always has been.
Loud enough to wake the dead, is what his parents and friends always say, but Richie doesn't know how to tell them that the dead were never sleeping.
If they were, he'd have a hell of a lot more peace, that's for sure.
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or: Richie's Voices have more of a basis in reality than anybody thinks. He'd say it's a secret he'll take to the grave, but even that wouldn't be the end of it for him.
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Bookmarked by CytoSprout
04 Feb 2021
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i’m a sucker for ghost aus 🥰
i cannot begin to describe how much i adore this. i’d buy it in book form and wrinkle the pages and wear down the spine bc i’d read it so much. on god -
changing of the tides by speckledfeathers
Fandoms: IT (Movies - Muschietti), IT - Stephen King
03 Jan 2021
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A story about imperfect people, how to handle second chances, learning to find yourself, and choosing love even when it's hard.
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The Reddie-centric AU where it's Richie who gets impaled during the final battle with Pennywise, and then he is resurrected. (And yes, Stan is back too.)
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“So. To summarize. I’m stranded on Mars, entirely alone. I have absolutely no way to communicate with my crew or with earth, since our communications antennae turned me into a human shish-kabob. If the oxygenator becomes compromised, I’ll suffocate. If the water reclaimer stops working, I’ll dehydrate. Breach in the Hab means I’ll go poof. And if, for some god-forsaken reason none of those things kill me first, I’m gonna run out of food and starve to death. Oh, and we can’t forget that everyone I know thinks I’m dead. So… yup. Totally fucked.”
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On Sol 6, an unexpected windstorm cuts the Ares III Mission short and six astronauts retreat back to Earth.
On Sol 7, the astronaut they left behind wakes up gasping for air.
(Or, The Martian au)
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Demonology and the Tri-Phasic Model of Trauma: An Integrative Approach by Nnm
Fandoms: Good Omens (TV)
05 Oct 2019
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As soon as Aubrey Thyme, psychotherapist, had opened her office door and seen her new client, Anthony J. Crowley, sitting in her waiting area, she was observing and assessing him. At first glance, she paid attention to the following:
--His clothing was expensive and stylish;
--He wore very strange but noticeable cologne;
--His relationship to the seat he occupied could only, very loosely, be described as “sitting;”
--He looked angry;
--He was wearing sunglasses.What Aubrey Thyme, a professional, thought, upon first seeing her new client was: you’re going to be a fun one, aren’t you?
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Bookmarked by CytoSprout
25 Jul 2020
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i actually cried at the end you can’t do this to me
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Parent-Teacher Conference by trickdaggers
Fandoms: IT (Movies - Muschietti), IT - Stephen King
08 Sep 2020
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Eddie loves his job, he really does. Even with all the shit a group of twenty-six ten year-olds can throw at him, he still loves what he does. Really, the parents are far worse than the kids, too many of them fitting the stereotypical mold of what an obnoxious LA parent is. He rarely interacts with them face-to-face, most discussion passing through the middlemen of their nannies and drivers, or via incessant emails about their uniquely-named child’s dietary restrictions. His actual students aren’t even the cause for at least half of the issues that plague him as a teacher at a private Los Angeles elementary school. Most of them are well-mannered, capable, socially aware kids, if not a little spoiled thanks to their environment.
But then there’s Little Miss Peggy Tozier.
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Bookmarked by CytoSprout
14 Jun 2020
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i absolutely adore peggy so fucking much and child psychologist eddie is so incredibly heart warming please
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Martin had always been favored by the summer courts, and moving up north to the little village of Lacuna is a difficult adjustment. It's rainy and lonely and everyone seems to have a strange, distant relationship with the local faerie court.
However: there is a strange man in a cloak who walks past Martin's remote little cottage every few days.
However: there is a moth that keeps getting stuck in Martin's house during the rain.
These events are not as disconnected as they first appear.
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- 8/8
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Bookmarked by CytoSprout
21 May 2020
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I love the domesticity of this oml. Martin’s joint pain is such a nice detail! Also moth Jon is adorable, okay?
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“You need to learn a lesson,” she says, and there’s blood speckling her lips now. She’s overstraining herself. He needs to stop her, calm her down. “And until you learn it you will suffer, just like you’ve made me suffer.”
“Mum, I think you need to--”
It turns out that when his father had called his mother a witch, he had meant more than Martin realized.
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- 28/28
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Bookmarked by CytoSprout
06 May 2020
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Oh my god the writing is so nice here, they switch between the characters’ povs and thoughts so seamlessly! It’s wonderful!
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The Wedding Planner by famousinthatanonymousway
Fandoms: 逆転裁判 | Gyakuten Saiban | Ace Attorney
15 Jan 2019
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Weddings are meant to be for the sake of romance. And for hopeless romantic Miles Edgeworth, they are the closest he's able to really get. That is, until a young baker seems to invade every corner of his life and his little black wedding planner's book.
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- English
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- 11/11
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Bookmarked by CytoSprout
07 Apr 2020
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heterochromia freckled phoenix stole my heart
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Tea is for Teacher by Recipe
Fandoms: Fire Emblem: Fuukasetsugetsu | Fire Emblem: Three Houses
08 Apr 2021
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Her father never approved of her skills at the card table - said it wasn't honest work. Not like killing people for money, she supposed.
(Byleth has to hustle on the side to fund the Golden Deer's tea addiction; Claude finds the class checkbook and realizes that the math doesn't add up. A retelling of the GD route that slowly diverges from canon, starting with a game of poker.)
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- English
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- 124,209
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- 26/26
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21 Mar 2020
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yes. yes. yes. yes. yes. yes. y
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"You can't be serious." Jonathan Sims raises his eyes at last to properly look at Georgie, expecting her to laugh and make some quip about finally getting him to put the damn book down, at least.
"Well, I am," she shoots back.
He sets his book aside and turns fully towards her, betrayal clear on his face. "A blind date, really?"
Jon makes the frankly terrible decision to go on a blind date with one Martin Blackwood. Fate ensues. AU where Jon and Georgie are still friends, Georgie likes finding dates for her friends, Martin doesn't work at the institute, and everyone is just a bit happier while canon spooky stuff goes on in the background. Takes place juuust barely pre-canon in the beginning but catches up quickly. Inspired as usual by the wonderful conversations with my friend RavenXavier/somuchbetterthanthat.
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Bookmarked by CytoSprout
01 Feb 2020
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The Georgie + Jon interaction here is so wholesome. Also I think I had a heart attack due to how many times my heart skipped a beat kdgficyfubh,
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'Nureyev,
I don’t know what the hell I’m doing.
I guess I just need to get some stuff off my chest. It’s easier when I know you’re never gonna’ read this.'Juno writes letters to Nureyev, sure Nureyev will never see them.
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A Book of Most Curious Letters by lumailia
Fandoms: Fire Emblem: Kakusei | Fire Emblem: Awakening
16 Feb 2025
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When Robin, Mage Grandmaster of Plegia, receives a threat of assassination in the mail from the Prince of Ylisse himself, she does the unthinkable and writes him back. What begins as a by-mail spitting match, though, soon blooms into a deep, affectionate friendship, and as Robin finds herself falling for the enemy prince, she realizes this dangerous affair can only lead to one impossible choice: between her duty, and her heart.
- Language:
- English
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- 273,216
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- 39/39
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Bookmarked by CytoSprout
10 Jan 2020
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i am going to eat every single one of their letters (affectionate)