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“Hello there!” Charles greets amicably. “Come on in, we don't bite! Unless you ask nicely, of course.”
Thomas doesn't need to look away from the girl to know Charles has thrown in a cheeky little wink for good measure.
“What's your business here?” Thomas asks, always having far less patience for bullshit than his partner in supernatural crime.
Charles nudges him lightly with his elbow in reprimand, but the girl doesn't seem particularly bothered. “You guys are, like, the supernatural hitmen everyone's been talking about, right?”
The pair exchanges a brief but meaningful look. “That'd be us! I'm Charles Rowland, and he's Thomas King. We’re the Dead Dude Vigilantes.”
She looks them up and down with a keen, appraising gaze. “I'm Crystal, psychic medium. Cool name.”
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The Dead Dude Vigilantes, Thomas and Charles, and their newest client, a living psychic girl named Crystal, find themselves pursuing an unexpected job in Port Townsend. There, they meet the Forest King, a shape-shifting magical being who turns everything they thought they knew about themselves and each other on its head.
An AU in which Edwin and the Cat King reverse roles.
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17 Nov 2025
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A Heart’s A Heavy Burden by dear_monday, DontOffendTheBees, two_ravens
Fandoms: Dead Boy Detectives (TV)
24 Aug 2025
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The Wizard King’s reputation preceded him wherever he went, wherever the roaming form of his impossible moving castle carried him. His was a reputation drenched in blood and carnality, in licentious desires and grisly ends. A reputation of dangerous beauty, intoxicating charm; of a smile sharp when it grinned into the bright young faces of hapless townspeople, and sharper still when it sank into their chests to taste their beating hearts.
A chilling little story, to be sure, and a concerning one to have slunk its way to their doorstep, but Edwin wasn’t overly worried about it.
After all, the Wizard King only ate the hearts of the pretty ones.
He was Edwin Payne of Payne & Sons Bespoke Tailoring; he was always and only of Payne & Sons. Such was his station in life, a role he himself was tailor-made for. A role he fit like a drab but finely-crafted glove. And so it went—until the day a wizard and a witch conspired to turn his tidy little life upside down.
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22 Oct 2025
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The Mountains Are The Same by bonehandledknife (ladywinter), Primarybufferpanel (ArwenLune)
Fandom: Mad Max Series (Movies), Mad Max: Fury Road
09 Jun 2016
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Furiosa and her War Boys, before and after. Plus, Max!
So once upon a time I launched a tumblr post with headcanon about Furiosa teaching her War Boy crew the forehead touch in a moment of celebration...
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One simple idea that changes everything: Ariadne, audience avatar, is a plant. Dr. Stephen Miles places her - a twenty-six-year-old architecture student and polymath - on Cobb's radar as insurance, security, backup, and (of course) builder.
She thinks she's ready for dreamshare, based on what she's read.
Yeah, not even close.
(Canon-compliant, insofar as interpolating an entire new plotline and spinning the perspective can be considered "compliance".)
05/18/2021: Now with a Spotify playlist!
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02 Oct 2025
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Notes Concerning Certain Performances of Hamilton by scioscribe
Fandoms: Hamilton - Miranda
19 Jan 2016
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They're in the play!
(They go through the requisite amount of hey, this doesn’t look like heaven, this looks like a theater!, which takes… more time than you might think, especially since they aren’t all speaking to each other.)
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30 Sep 2025