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"Heavy, ugly, all-consuming sobs overwhelm her instantly, leaving her shaking with effort. Any semblance of control vanishes, and she fights the urge to desperately crawl after it. Reminds herself there’s no need. Nothing more to lose.
It’s hard to put into words what’s behind the tears. Harder to say what isn’t. It’s everything. A boiling point for a lifetime of shame, of spending night after night terrified of waking up like this, overrun by evidence of her otherness.
In the calm and quiet of the morning, without the adrenaline and anguish turning her vision red, it’s as if she’s seeing them for the first time. Worse, in a way, because now she’s distinctly aware of every implication, even in victory. Freedom from her body doesn’t exist. Will never exist. They might accept her, might embrace her, but they’ll always look at her and know she’s different. Know she’s wrong.
Even if she wants to, she can never go back."
or, Rumi wakes up after the battle has ended and finds a more daunting one waiting for her: explaining herself to her girls.
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it was easier to feel nothing (than it was to make sense of it all) by ThanksForListening
Fandoms: Heartstopper (TV), Solitaire - Alice Oseman
18 Oct 2023
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"Maybe that was why she’d come out here. Maybe she had to make sure the tide wouldn’t turn again.
Except that was ridiculous. Charlie had friends. Friends who knew him. Friends who had watched darkness envelop him, who witnessed the battles he fought every day, the ones he tried to hide behind a smile and quiet demeanor. They had seen it all, and every time, they held him closer rather than run away. They were not afraid of the dark.
Tori wondered what that felt like. What it cost."
or, Tori ends up participating in a game night between Charlie and his friends, and thinking about her own social life.
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an eternity of almost by ThanksForListening
Fandoms: Guardians of the Galaxy (Movies), Marvel Cinematic Universe
04 Aug 2023
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“You don’t understand.”
“I do.” There was an intensity in his voice, a passion that she hadn’t prepared for. “I may have been the one locked in a cage, but you were a prisoner, too, Nebula.”
He was trying to defend her. To defend her honor, her actions. The very ones that had led her to attack them, that had made her complicit in the deaths of so many people. It made her feel sick to her stomach, made her gears turn wrong and her sensitive flesh ache.
“It’s not the same,” Nebula repeated, stubborn and defiant and desperate to make him understand.
“How? How is it not the same?”
“You didn’t deserve it.”
or, nebula and rocket have a much-needed conversation about the past after the events of guardians 3
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"Ava’s rambles faded away, overpowered by the sound of her own heart pounding. Ava, who held her birthright in her back, thought they were the same? The Halo had given her everything. Life. Family. Freedom. Purpose. Lilith’s rebirth had taken all of that away, had corrupted something inside her so decisively that she was beginning to suspect it could never be reversed. Their bodies may both have healed, but only one of them was left with scars."
or, Lilith gets the screentime she deserved as she spends crucial moments with each of her sisters.
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"As he exits their room, he thinks for the first time that perhaps it is a gift after all. It’s his impeccable memory that tells him not to panic at the sight of an empty bed on their second night as a married couple, the one day of transition between their wedding and honeymoon. It plays that conversation back to him, from the last time they were together in this very house, when their paths crossed in the dead of night. It was improper despite its complete lack of intentionality, and scandalous despite its complete and utter innocence. As a gentleman, he never should have stayed once he knew she was okay. Yet all he’d wanted every night since was to find her again, hair cascading over her shoulders, draped in moonlight and hardly anything else."
or, anthony and kate find themselves back in the library during a thunderstorm, this time as husband and wife. things are different, but also the same.
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bedside manner by ThanksForListening
Fandom: Fullmetal Alchemist - All Media Types, Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood & Manga
17 Jan 2021
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Hair Ties and Lullabies by ThanksForListening
Fandom: Birds of Prey (And the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn) (2020)
01 May 2020
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All my BOP oneshots/fics in one neat little place
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if you need to, darling, lean your weight (don’t fall away from me) by smoakoverwatch
Fandoms: The Pitt (TV)
22 Apr 2025
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When Mel comes into work acting strange, Santos and Langdon form an unlikely alliance to get to the bottom of it.
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09 May 2025
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“You know,” she murmured, her voice still scratchy but laced with something sly beneath the exhaustion, “I’m going to give you five stars on my patient satisfaction survey.”
He glanced at her, eyebrow raised, smirking just a little. “Didn’t realize I was being rated.”
“Oh, you were. Bedside manner: firm but gentle. Pain management: a little late, but effective. Communication skills…decent. Hands – exceptionally warm.”
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08 May 2025
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i'm gonna be fine (but maybe not tonight) by SleepyMaddy for lazyfish
Fandoms: The Marvels (Movie 2023)
08 Aug 2024
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Somehow, out of all that multitude of scenarios, out of all those options, Kamala had never pictured Captain Marvel, Earth’s mightiest hero, her role model and namesake, awkwardly eating chicken korma at her parents’ dinner table.
The cognitive dissonance is kind of a lot to take.
or: after reigniting Hala's sun, Carol crashes in Kamala's back garden
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27 Aug 2024
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“It is the same the world over, did you know that?” she murmurs, glancing up at the clear, starlit sky above them. “That scent on the air after it rains.”
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- Part 3 of three consecutive sundays
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20 May 2024
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There are husbands, and then there are Husbands.
Anthony Bridgerton is a Husband.
At least that’s what Kate insists when she stumbles home from Lady Danbury’s latest soirée, slurring her words and smelling of sherry.
Apparently it’s a compliment.
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04 May 2024