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With Failure, Just Try Again. And Again. And Again. by UniversalMuse
Fandoms: Red Dead Redemption (Video Games)
31 Jan 2025
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Arthur wasn't one of those academics. He was simply an outlaw trying to survive a dying livelihood. He knew the next death was coming, eventually. Whether it would be from a hanging, a wayward bullet, or some beast of the wild, he knew he would see the last place he'd slept again.
Arthur knew that while he could simply try again, nobody else had that chance.
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The Idiot's Guide to Survival: A Pack of Wolves by UniversalMuse
Fandoms: Red Dead Redemption (Video Games)
24 Jan 2025
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“Think we’ll find anything out here?” John yelled over the roar of the wind, his voice tight with cold.
Micah chuckled, a dry, rasping sound. “Find something, probably.” He sneered at John. “Maybe a lonely bear looking for a warm hug. Or a couple of hungry wolves feeling frisky.” The joke, if it could even be called that, fell flat.
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Ain't No Rest for the Wicked by UniversalMuse
Fandoms: Red Dead Redemption (Video Games)
23 Jan 2025
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“There’s always more work to be done, Arthur,” Charles finally said. “But even a horse needs rest. The land, the animals, they teach us that. We're not so different.”
Arthur scoffed, a short, humourless sound. “Horses can rest, Charles. I can’t. There’s the gang, they need food, medicine, debts I need to collect, the…” he trailed off, the weight settling heavily on his shoulders. “We can’t continue running like this no more. Dutch needs-”
“I know, Arthur. But what Dutch doesn’t need is you falling off your horse half dead from exhaustion.”
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A Slice of Cheese a Day Keeps the Lethal Wounds Away by UniversalMuse
Fandoms: Red Dead Redemption (Video Games)
14 Jan 2025
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"You ever think about how many bullets you could take with a single wedge of cheese?”
John blinked, momentarily thrown off by the oddity of the question. “A wedge of cheese? The hell you on about?”
“Nothing. Just a thought,” Arthur replied. “But if I had a wedge of cheese right now, I bet I could survive a grizzly bear attack.”
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Interlude: Destiny & Desire by UniversalMuse
Fandoms: Minecraft (Video Game), Video Blogging RPF
22 Nov 2024
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Life can go by in a blink, the sands of time slipping through fingers as they desperately try to hold on to what remains. What happens after time and time again, they've slipped through until there's nothing left but yourself? A self made desert all that remains for you to traverse alone.
Stars littered the dark blanket of night, each twinkling and blinking in their own patterns and formations. Constellations could be made out, but Techno couldn’t be bothered to figure out which was which. It was undoubtedly a beautiful night. No light pollution made it this far in the wild. Everything here was pure, untainted from man-made structures and destruction.
Aside from that temple, he noted. Though that felt like it had always belonged. As if it had stood silent for millennia, quietly watching over the land.
If that made sense.
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- Part 2 of An Immortal Life is A Life Spent Alone
- Language:
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- 3,097
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Tales & Collections from the World of RDR2 by UniversalMuse
Fandom Red Dead Redemption (Video Games)
31 Jan 2025
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- 4
- Bookmarks:
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An Immortal Life is A Life Spent Alone by UniversalMuse
Fandom Dream SMP, Minecraft (Video Game), Sleepy Bois Inc., Video Blogging RPF
22 Nov 2024
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While Ino is off in Kumogakure for the Chuunin Exams, Shikamaru's nightmares worsen and his control over his shadow unravels. Getting it together again means facing his worst enemy—himself.
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- Part 2 of Sky on Fire
Bookmarked by UniversalMuse
08 Jun 2026
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It's the infinite tsukuyomi episode, you know the drill.
[A.k.a. I was rewatching Naruto and I had a whim to rewrite it, mostly to indulge. I wanted some more of protective Gai + Kakashi. This wasn't meant to be a ship fic but it reads like pre-slash 😭😭😭 Sorry for that]
Bookmarked by UniversalMuse
29 May 2026
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A bunch of ficlets focusing on Kakashi and Gai, both when they were little and when they were adults, not only when they got together, but even before they realized the true nature of their feelings for each other.
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Bookmarked by UniversalMuse
29 May 2026
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Shikamaru stared up into the vastness of the stars and wept.
The sky darkened and the shadow looked upon them all with its infinite eyes of inky black and liquid silver and smiled its stalactite smile. "I am a nightmare." It said, voice booming, painful like a blow to the head.
"The likes of which the souls of every creature, past and present, has always known."
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- Part 2 of Step Through Shadows
Bookmarked by UniversalMuse
29 May 2026
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Can't Shake These Old Shadows (Gnawing at Your Insides) by KittyWillCutYou
Fandoms: Naruto
03 Sep 2018
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Shikamaru stared out into the stretch of dead earth that was once the lush expanse of Fire Country and beyond with eyes that had long-ago gone cold.
It was only fitting that at the end of it all, they returned home. The crumbling remains of their village lying in wait like a tomb.
The smell of the dead, of the rot, of the blood and demons no longer bothered him.
The screaming had long-since died down to a low roar and the Earth churned with monsters from the deepest of blacks.
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- Part 1 of Step Through Shadows
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 3,063
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- 1/1
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Bookmarked by UniversalMuse
29 May 2026