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“So when you cast the spell, all I’ll need to do is pick a memory with Foggy as a starting point?”
“Not quite,” said Stephen. He ran his fingers over the spellbook pages, and took a deep breath. “You’ll need to pick a moment when you were with him right before he died—same day will work. And then, from there, I believe it becomes a bit like the myth of Orpheus and Eurydice.”
Murdock frowned. “How so.”
“Well,” said Stephen. “According to the spell, ahem, ‘the most powerful love is blind. It is that which is reciprocated no matter the burdens that may accompany it. The beloved whom is sought must accept the spell subject’s affections despite these burdens presented. And the hero must trust blindly that their beloved does indeed accept them even as they cannot know for certain.”
Murdock’s lip curled up. “Well. Luckily, I am blind,” he said.
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08 Sep 2025
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“I’m sorry,” Matt chokes out, bleeding sluggishly onto Foggy’s kitchen windowsill. “M’ so sorry, fuck.”
Foggy thinks there’s plenty of things to say about Matt’s compulsion to apologize. Things that sound like the toll of a church bell or the shrill chords of an organ. He wonders if those things ring horribly loud to Matt’s heightened senses. He wonders if his urge to say sorry rings even louder. Foggy’s never properly stepped foot in a church, but somehow he thinks he already knows what it would sound like.
“You’re ruining my marble counters,” Foggy says instead.
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Foggy Nelson comes to an epiphany at 3 AM, with Matt Murdock trembling under his fingers and a needle clutched in his hand.
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08 Sep 2025
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I expect you'll betray me in the end by inkthing
Fandoms: Red Dead Redemption (Video Games)
29 Jun 2021
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"I expect you'll betray me in the end, Arthur. You're the type."
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Hearing Dutch say that in camp dropped me. Immediately wanted to know what Hosea would have to say about it so here we are.Bookmarked by SleepingInTheStars
26 Aug 2025
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“I’m leaving.” Merlin says, because this situation already cost him his Duolingo streak, and he’s too tired to deal with Arthur when the food Gaius is serving him looks like it belongs on a list of war crimes committed by the Canadian soldiers.
“Where to?” His mentor asks, and Merlin shrugs, before going to his room and packing his bag.
“India. Gaius, I have decided I don’t give a damn, especially not when having to eat that bland food. I’ll be back in three months, make sure Arthur doesn’t die when I’m out.”
“Merlin!” And maybe, if he was younger and didn’t travel back to the past last month, he would’ve actually cared about the ‘eyebrow of disapproval’.
Or, a 1500yo Merlin gets zapped to the past during his vacation to Cuba. You’d think he’s happy to see Arthur again. He’s not.
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25 Aug 2025
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say it soft and it's almost like praying by Somanywords
Fandoms: Captain America (Movies), Marvel Cinematic Universe
04 Jul 2023
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Natasha says, “Look, whatever the truth is about you, we have no way of really knowing the Winter Soldier's intentions. He’s not all there, he’s not who you remember. He’s a hot mess, Steve.”
“Why does everyone think that?” Steve says, and he’s nearly yelling, but not quite, because he doesn’t need to, not when they’re so close. “Why does everyone keep saying he’s a mess—have you seen me? ”
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17 Aug 2025
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From The Spaces In Between by NocturnalNights
Fandoms: Captain America - All Media Types, Marvel Cinematic Universe
02 Aug 2025
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The shield purred.
Well. If Steve wanted to be pedantic, the reaction wasn’t exactly a purr. It was still a piece of metal. But eighty years ago, when this had happened for the first time- the low vibration accompanied by this violently content sensation spreading across his mental link to the weapon, light pulsing gently along its runes and a low hum emanating from the center- Bucky had laughed and said it reminded him of a cat.
Steve had always, privately, believed the term was fitting. Something about the way it responded to his touch, like one of the alley cats that always strolled up to Bucky and started rubbing themselves on his pant leg after he'd stopped Steve from getting beat up by the asshole of the week.
Bucky had thought it was sweet.
Steve, well-aware that a semi-sentient magical object connected this intimately to a wielder took on more than just their magical energy signature, thought it was horribly transparent.
Or: Steve’s shield is a semi-sentient extension of his magic, and only allows the people it trusts to protect Steve as loyally as it does to touch it. That is a very short list. One that, apparently, includes the Winter Soldier.
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09 Aug 2025
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"Androids don't feel fear," Hank had snorted derisively earlier that week.
"Deviants do," Connor had corrected.
(a scene that follows up on Connor admitting he felt fear post Stratford Tower rooftop encounter.)
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19 Jul 2025
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into the sea / out of fire (all that burning) by rivan (echo_chamber)
Fandoms: Detroit: Become Human (Video Game)
02 Jul 2025
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“how did you know it was me?”
“what d’you mean?”
“when you shot the other model. how did you know which one was me?”Bookmarked by SleepingInTheStars
14 Jul 2025
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leave unsaid unspoken by IseultofIreland
Fandoms: Superman - All Media Types, Superman (Movie 2025)
12 Jul 2025
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After rescuing Clark from his pocket universe prison, Lois stays the night in Smallville. Missing scene from Superman (2025).
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13 Jul 2025
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What's in a name? by Jaiden113
Fandoms: Superman - All Media Types, Superman (Movie 2025)
12 Jul 2025
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“What about… Stellara?”
A sharp silence followed.
Twelve blinked. Once. Twice.
“That,” she said at last, “is a stupid name.”
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13 Jul 2025
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It's important to Hosea, so it's important to Arthur, too. Just because it makes him want to tear his hair out is besides the point.
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- Part 2 of Outlaw Holidays
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01 Jul 2025
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ninth life by magistrate
Fandoms: Red Dead Redemption (Video Games), Red Dead Redemption 2
02 Aug 2024
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So far as John could tell, the rough brown tabby came with Beecher's Hope.
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29 Jun 2025
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Gentle Actions of Rough and Guiding Hands by Stickspirit215
Fandoms: Red Dead Redemption (Video Games)
09 Nov 2024
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John Marston has been on the run with three strange outlaws for nearly a week now. He hasn’t spoken a single word to them, and he plans to run away from them when he gets the first opportunity. He doesn’t expect to feel so at home among these ruthless men, who may not be as callous as he tells himself they are.
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27 Jun 2025
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The gang is falling apart and Arthur is nowhere to be seen. Stressed and frustrated, Javier goes out to track and find him for the last time.
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- Part 2 of dont get sentimental, now
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27 Jun 2025
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Save a Horse (Ride a Cowboy) by deal_at_the_crossroads
Fandoms: Red Dead Redemption (Video Games)
02 Jul 2020
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After a kerfuffle in Arkansas, the Old Guard ride north into the Missouri Ozarks, where they stumble upon a very curious local festival that folk call a "Rodeo." They proceed to take a break from their lives as outlaws to instead spend a day as a family - and then, Dutch and Hosea spend a night to themselves.
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Arthur gets two (2) piggy-back rides, and then Dutch rides Hosea.
(Explicit content only in second chapter)
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21 Jun 2025
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Charles has been with the gang for less than a month when he sees Arthur get fatally shot.
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19 Jun 2025
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Rookie Detective Connor Anderson (and other bets Dick Grayson shouldn’t take) by garnet_stars
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types, Detroit: Become Human (Video Game)
14 Aug 2024
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Connor didn’t sign up for any of this, let alone becoming an accidental symbol of the Android Revolution for his actions in Hart Plaza. With android freedom acquired, he just wants to be left alone and do what he was made for.
He just has to find a police department incompetent enough to not realize his references, half his service record, and all of his identifying documentation are fake (it's hard to get a driver's license when you weren’t even considered sentient six months ago).
Enter the hiring committee of the Bludhaven Police Department, who didn't even read half his resume, and his new partner Detective Dick Grayson, too observant for his own good.
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- Part 1 of Bludhaven 99
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04 Jun 2025
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It was easily the most predictable hit he’d ever delivered. If the knee hadn’t telegraphed it, the wind up would have. He’d leaned back, leaned forward, and sent the sloppiest punch of his vigilante career at the face of a man who should’ve seen it coming from a mile away.
Bruce’s head snapped back with a soft, surprised oomph. He took one step backward, regaining his balance on one overly-smooth loafer as blood began to gush down his face.
Dick stared at him, unable to speak. Unable to look away as Bruce put a hand to his cheek, probing at the bloody gash like he’d never been hit in the face before. The hit he hadn’t seen coming.
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18 May 2025
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The Guy Who Always Wore Blue by aSintobeRin
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types, Batman (Comics)
25 Feb 2025
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Jason Todd is finally settling in at the manor, but no one bothered to tell him about the stranger who seems to think the Wayne residence is public property.
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02 May 2025
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“Boy wonder struggling to keep his star burning bright, that it?” The question sounds like a joke.
He can't help answering it honestly. “You have no idea,” he says, and it's true. His brother's dead.
How do you smile bright after that?
Dick Grayson: on enduring.
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- Part 3 of my batfam fics
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02 May 2025