americanbarbarian
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the worth of a single mortal life by americanbarbarian
Fandoms: Baldur's Gate (Video Games)
21 Sep 2025
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Ten years in the hells will twist how you look at death - including your own. A little ironic, then, that this amnesiac child of murder is the one who makes her want to live.
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Sunset by americanbarbarian
Fandoms: ジョジョの奇妙な冒険 | JoJo no Kimyou na Bouken | JoJo's Bizarre Adventure
10 Jun 2023
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It’s strange, Irene thinks to herself, to be mourned by someone as they stand right next to you, holding your hand. And yet Emporio, looking out at the sun setting over the ocean, isn’t really mourning her, is he?
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After the war, Azula gets deep into drumming. Without drums. By herself. In her cell. Learning from an instructor who is either a spirit or a hallucination.
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Just Before the Dawn by americanbarbarian
Fandoms: ジョジョの奇妙な冒険 | JoJo no Kimyou na Bouken | JoJo's Bizarre Adventure
20 Apr 2022
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After her husband’s death, disgusted by her son’s infidelity, Elizabeth Joestar returns to Venice in 2000 to center herself. But the world she had known there, in her life as Lisa Lisa, has not only changed, but darkened somehow.
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God of Gods, and King of Kings by americanbarbarian
Fandoms: ジョジョの奇妙な冒険 | JoJo no Kimyou na Bouken | JoJo's Bizarre Adventure
19 Apr 2022
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I apologize; I am rambling. I suppose, at this point in my life, that I can begin to honestly say that I tend to ramble in my old age. The purpose of this diary is not to write a memoir, as much as I have to say about this wonderful world that God has given us.
No, the purpose of this diary is to chronicle the strangeness surrounding Giorno Giovanna.
Adding chapters out of order. Most recent is ch.7 (4/19/22).
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Rumi touched her fingers to her ribs. She could feel the heat radiating from her skin, even through her clothes. A distant, miserable part of her said, this is going to hurt.
She pushed her fingers down.
The rib shifted.
The thing about telling one very big lie is that it requires a foundation of hundreds of smaller lies to hold it up, lies such as "I'm fine," and "nothing's broken," and "it doesn't hurt."
Rumi finds this out the hard way.
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29 Apr 2026
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life's about suffering
the trick is knowing how to suffer correctly
isn't it stupid, to suffer for suffering's sake?
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She adds another rule soon after. It’s simple, but firm.
Rule 3: Cool it, Romeo.
Their debut comes and goes, and somehow it’s everything and nothing like what Zoey thought it would be. It’s intoxicating and electric and she can’t believe they’re doing it, but it pales in comparison to the way her heart clenches when Mira and Rumi are close enough to touch.
Zoey lit the match. It’s her fault, really. Fires grow fast if you feed them enough, and this one’s no exception. It’s too late now. It’s too damn big for her to do a thing about it, even if she wanted to.
Which, incidentally, is the other problem: She really, really doesn’t want to.
Or: Zoey likes writing lists. They help her make sense of things in the world around her, which is precisely what she needs when this weird, mystical blue barrier starts showing up whenever she sings. It's called the Honmoon, and evidently, Zoey is one of its chosen protectors. On the plane to Seoul, she begins drafting a new list for Zoey 2: Electric Boogaloo. She's never had a fresh start before, and she's determined to make the most of it.
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26 Apr 2026
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know me to hate me (know you to love you) by lost_in_translation
Fandom World of Warcraft
20 Jan 2026
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25 Apr 2026
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“Should we call Zoey and Mira?” Suggested Jennie, finally revealing what she had been thinking about. Two pairs of eyes looked at her. “What? She must have them saved on her phone.”
Ara and Yi-seo exchanged a look, ruminating on Jennie's idea with different levels of interest.
“And tell them what?” Ara prodded sceptically.
Jennie shrugged, lifting her head up to look down at the other two. “Easy, it’s the International Idol Awards in three weeks, right? Why don’t we give them a little reunion?”
Yi-seo turned her head to look at the younger girl better, brows knitted in thought. “It’s been fifteen years without talking, Jennie, what are the odds of them wanting to meet after all this time?”
Jennie smirked. “Oh, no, no, no, you misunderstood. We’re not giving them an option.”
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It's been fifteen years since Rumi, Mira, and Zoey last saw each other. But the new generation of huntresses are determined to get the old group back together, especially when their perfectly calculated friendship reunion goes sideways.
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20 Apr 2026
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Zoey thinks, lying back against the paper covering of the cold examination table, while trying to ignore the sensation of inorganic equipment being lodged in places they had no god-given right to be, that this is, inarguably, the least sexy way to get knocked up.
Zoey isn’t really sure how she ended up here, in all honesty.
Well, she is. She can recount the steps chronologically. How Mira and Rumi had looked so god-damned defeated. How her big, stupid mouth had opened and volunteered, initially, and then had said yes to all of their concerned interrogations as to whether or not she was sure, like, really sure, one hundred per cent sure?
And now she’s said yes so many times and so adamantly that it isn’t as though she can suddenly back track and say, surprise! I am actually no longer willing to carry the baby you have been so desperately trying for because I think it would be a really super-duper bad idea! Sorry for getting your hopes up!
Zoey agrees to be a surrogate for a married Rumira. Things get messy because she's already in love with them, has known this for years, but she might be falling in love with the baby, too
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Bookmarked by americanbarbarian
02 Feb 2026