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erudite by PenAndInkPrincess
Fandoms: 薬屋のひとりごと | Kusuriya no Hitorigoto | The Apothecary Diaries (Anime)
23 Dec 2025
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“Maomao?” He presses, fingers closing over hers and lowering their joined hands to her lap, and she blinks in surprise at the use of her name. “What is it? What’s wrong?”
“Their technique is sloppy,” she answers honestly. “I feel strain on my heart. They should have targeted the nervous system instead.”
Master Jinshi stares at her like she’s spoken a foreign language he can’t even begin to try and understand. She tries to explain.
“Certain snake venoms cause coagulation of the blood, which could have been effective and made the blood unable to move through my veins, but if the end result is simply making my heart stop beating by targeting the muscles involv-”
“Maomao,” Master Jinshi says, very calmly, “I need you to stop speaking now.”
(an assassin tries to kill jinshi with a poisoned blade that gets maomao instead) (she is obviously much less concerned about this than everyone else)
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In retrospect, the first warning should have been obvious, a familiar gesture performed in miniature: Lestat’s peevish purse of his lips and slight tilt of his head echoed in Claudia, a slight narrowing of eyes as a hint of a storm to come from his daughter, displaced from her perch on his lap to allow him to hold his new nephew.
He gently nudges Claudia back when she attempts to duck under his arm to reclaim her place, and from the corner of his eye, he sees her scowl. Before he can fully look at her, though, little Ezekiel is in his arms, and adjusting his nephew to rest better takes his attention as Grace gives him an encouraging–and slightly challenging–smile in response to his doubtful look before she steps away, flexing her arm to stretch it out.
“He looks all scrunchy,” comes Claudia’s lofty judgement, delivered with all of the gravitas a seven year old can manage. “He’s kinda ugly.”
(a collection of non-canon ficlets gathered under the basic trouver en compromis premise of louis and lestat having raised claudia as a human)
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- Part 3 of en morceaux, une totalité
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Hedonist that he is, Lestat has never particularly cared to be held to the constraints of a schedule. Louis may enjoy the routine and predictability of something as prosaic as the requirements of managing a business–one of his many little idiosyncrasies that Lestat simultaneously enjoys and is frequently irritated by–but for him? Non. He can enjoy the artistry of a well-planned ball or the satisfaction of a business deal well-struck, but he’s always enjoyed the freedom of not quite knowing what’s coming next. In a long, long life, it’s far too easy to fall into a rut and find oneself constrained to it for decades before noticing.
Even with his taste for surprise, however, Louis holding out a tiny, sooty, sniffling child is a shock he is not best pleased by.
He flicks his eyes up from the big-eyed, dripping moppet, raising a brow and feeling his lip curl slightly in distaste. The child reeks of smoke and fear and God only knows what else.
“Put it back,” he says flatly.
(AU based on the idea of Louis finding Claudia at the age of five like in the book but raising her until she's old enough to be changed) (marked complete because each chapter can stand alone but will be updated)
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- Part 1 of en morceaux, une totalité
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When she first met him, she’d assumed Clark Kent–solid, Midwestern, unassuming, non-demanding–would favor a beer and maybe a shot on the side if everyone else was partaking. She could peg him as maybe having a craft beer if he was feeling adventurous or a whiskey sour if he was really feeling like something on ice or just wanted to seem interesting in a group setting, but she hadn’t expected anything out of the norm.
The first time they’re at a bar for an unofficial team happy hour on a Friday night and he orders an honest-to-God Shirley Temple, then, she’s thrown.
“No one drove here,” she offers. “You don’t have to DD.”
Clark shrugs, looking mildly bashful the way he usually does when anyone’s attention is focused solely on him when he wasn’t expecting it.
“I’m not really a drinker,” he says, almost apologetically, even as he accepts his drink from the bartender, the glass looking almost comically dainty in his hands, which just adds to the comedy.
Lois, though, just shrugs. Everyone needs a quirk, after all, and there are worse ones to have than not drinking.
(clark kent doesn't drink) (lois uses this to her own benefit)
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“Ell-” He starts, his greeting cutting off when Ellie doesn’t seem to register the movement of the door fast enough to stop trying to pound on it, the momentum sending her forward into him and knocking them both to the floor in his effort to keep her from getting hurt.
“Hey, hey,” he says. “What’s going on, sweetheart? What’s happening?”
Ellie’s head lolls on her neck in a way that has his heart pounding, and finally she manages to roll it enough to look at him. The sight of tear tracks down her cheeks ratchets his terror up several degrees higher, especially with how unfocused her eyes seem.
“Hey,” he says, patting her cheek gently. “Talk to me, kiddo. What’s going on?”
“I’m dying,” she says, voice trembling, and his heart stops completely. “I can’t make the world stay still, and I’m gonna die.”
“...what?”
(ficlets of under 5k from various places in the pen verse with no connection to each other)
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en morceaux, une totalité by PenAndInkPrincess
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worry now, worry later, i'll hold your hand forever by itsagamefortwo
Fandoms: Superman (Movie 2025), Superman - All Media Types
30 Jul 2025
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“Is that—?” she starts, fingers reaching out, but stopping short of touching. Lois doesn’t know what to do, how to help, and for a moment with her hand hovering in the air and Clark breathing in pained hisses below her, she feels utterly useless.
or: clark gets hurt while out being superman and lois worries
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The Sonic Boom Heard Round the World by FormerlyIR (Irony_Rocks), Irony_Rocks
Fandoms: Superman (Movie 2025), Superman - All Media Types
10 Aug 2025
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She isn’t blind. She knows Clark has a crush on her. Everyone at the Planet knows that.
But the problem is, the feelings aren’t entirely one-sided. She can’t afford to be distracted, god knows that. Relationships are messy and she’s never been any good at it. Still, the way Clark Kent is staring at her, all too serious, filled with too much wounding devotion, she fears what he’s going to say because she’s always thought he’s perpetually one step shy of declaring his feelings for her — and she doesn’t entirely know what her response will be. Lois usually has her answers for everything.
He steps forward. “I need to tell you something, Lois. Something I should have told you a long time ago.”
And then, moving slowly, deliberately, he takes off his glasses — and just like that, Lois Lane’s entire world tilts off its axis.
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mon bateau s'en va vers vous by elke (weidli)
Fandoms: Interview with the Vampire (TV 2022)
05 Sep 2024
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On November 12th, 1930, a drunk mistakes the accelerator for the brake and hits a woman—a local torch singer, formerly employed at the Azalea, currently residing in Algiers—crossing the street. She's dead an hour later.
Or: Lestat and Louis make attempts at drinking, fighting, fucking, talking, and doing it kinder. And then there's Claudia.
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WANTED: Female, aged 20-30, to be my date for Christmas eve dinner with my Italian-American family. Must be willing to eat my mom’s cooking. No physical intimacy required. No strings attached—I will drive you home after. 4pm-10pm, 12/24. Salary negotiable. Call Carmen: (773) 555-0901.
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