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The Dreamer and the Exile by Highsmith, what_alchemy
Fandoms: The Old Guard (Movie 2020)
21 Jul 2025
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Nicolò, olive tender and town pariah, finds a kindred spirit in Yusuf, a wanderer with a gifted tongue and a deadly secret, but Yusuf is always gone by morning. Will what he’s hiding be their undoing or the key to their freedom?
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A Halting Sonnet by Highsmith for silvershadowsea
Fandoms: Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
24 Feb 2025
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A different first meeting.
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Many years into their marriage, they retire to Lyme Regis. It's an adjustment.
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Though Miss Felicity Lemon and Hercule Poirot's priorities have changed following one final retirement, their enduring partnership as detective and secretary has remained much the same.
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Emma has to admit she would have assumed it would be progressing far quicker than this, considering that she is a lovely person, in possession of a great character and ability to tolerate everyone in the vicinity, and Jane has indicated, via Frank's admissions following an evening meal at Hartfield, that Jane would be not only open to such a friendship but enthusiastic about its existence.
Emma is beginning to suspect Frank may have exaggerated the openness of his new bride to Emma's attentions, specifically.
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Jake never starts shit. Not in the traditional sense. Shit is more like the eventual consequence with him a lot of the time. But he does his best to get the last word regardless. For that, he needs to not be scrambling at the last moment, clotheslined by forces outside his control.
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Sometime after high school spits her out, she goes off on her own for about a year, partly running away from the life, partly getting some air from the ideas her mother has about Jo herself and the life.
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teeth, water, spring by Highsmith for Rubynye
Fandoms: Ship to Wreck - Florence + the Machine (Song), Original Work
02 Jul 2023
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Ana gets some knocks at the door.
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'cause you can't jump the track by Highsmith for Pensysto
Fandoms: IT (Movies - Muschietti)
18 Jun 2023
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About another week has passed the next time Mike phones him up, by all accounts a regular Tuesday, Bill out shopping mid-morning, absently thumbing at his phone's screen to accept the call while staring at a shelf of differently-packaged types of quinoa in the Whole Foods out in Silver Lake. He thinks he must mumble some form or other of greeting, although it's fair to say most of his brain space is devoted to figuring out the difference between what looks to him to be the exact same product at starkly dissimilar price points.
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Cuculus canorus by Highsmith for psychomachia
Fandoms: Rebecca (TV 1997), Rebecca - Daphne du Maurier
12 Jun 2023
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Memories are like sinking river rocks—they hinder her steps when the current of life is strong.
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Summer (Had Me a Blast!) by Highsmith for havocthecat
Fandoms: Buffy the Vampire Slayer (TV)
10 May 2023
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Whereas the internet holds many mysteries, an envelope and a receiver do not.
- Rupert Giles, probably.
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"Is this a special occasion?" She doesn't really know why she asks this. It's not as if they've been here before.
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Smooth Runs the Water Where the Brook Is Deep by Highsmith for Meilan_Firaga
Fandoms: Firefly (TV 2002)
19 Apr 2023
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Serenity's not the ship Jayne wants to be with for the rest of his life, unless it's about to be a mighty short one.
Life, that is.
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Dreams are wishes. Memories are wishes fulfilled.
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may never see the light by Highsmith for MeganMoonlight
Fandoms: The Old Guard (Movie 2020)
25 Feb 2023
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After.
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From girlhood, as far back as the earliest everyone of her acquaintance has been insisting a better playmate than Miss Woodhouse could not be found or wanted for, Jane has wondered about Emma, until she could wonder no longer and had to decide for herself.
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Brian's not gonna overthink it.
He hasn't said hi to any of them, either, unless vaguely intense eye contact counts. Funnily enough, Claire was the one who got closest to approaching him, early Tuesday morning, but she looked so immediately horrified at herself that Brian almost pulled something ignoring her.
Overthinking it is what he's not going to do.
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"Funny story. Not really. But. Yeah. We were all adopted, Alex and Emilie and me, but I guess the old folks thought—rightly so—that baby me couldn't exactly play, uh, any board game. But Alex and Emilie were toddlers when their papers came through and they joined the family, so they did it, and I hadn't blown up yet by then, so. Yeah. Got left out of that one. A lot of goat sacrifices, though. To make up for it. Not fun. But, hey, I'm still in one piece. I guess."
"Great," is about all she can come up with. "I'm being asked some awkward questions, but glad I can blame it on your all being adopted and not on demons or whatever the fuck."
"Ah. The proper authorities." He grimaces.
"And hospital personnel, yeah." Her chair creaks. It's uncomfortable and noisy, and not making this conversation any easier.
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Dream a Little Dream of Me by Highsmith for DesdemonaKaylose
Fandoms: Sleeping Beauty (1959)
01 Jan 2023
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When she wakes up the dream's already turned to ash.
Outside the nearest window dawn would be peeking over the trees were the Forbidden Mountain not looming in the distance.
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She remembers often that her mother used to talk as much as her father, especially in the early days of joining the Family. Always with an opinion, old Lara, about what they were doing, about what old Sergei was involving himself and them in, how much this was going to come back to bite them in the soft bits, the underbellies they all pretended were stainless steel rather than human and weak.