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Dave just wants to be left alone. What's the point of anything when what's broken can never be completely fixed?
This is the story of Dave Strider and Karkat Vantas, on the longest journey of their lives.
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21 Jan 2025
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The only comfort Astarion had in the years of hell he has endured under Cazadors control has been a golden ring with a chip of fire stone. No matter how many times Cazador has thrown it away, burnt it, or sold it, it always returns to him, good as new. His master gave up after a decade and told him to hide it, lest it impact his ability to lure unsuspecting victims back to his lair. Astarion has no memory of who gave him the ring, and the inscription "May we always return to each other" offered no help. But still, it is a comfort.
When the tadpole is forced into his skull, and he has to join a ragtag group of weirdos just to survive while he figures out his new found abilities, he finds himself fiddling with it more often now that he won't get punished for it. But the wizard, Gale, keeps staring at it, and it makes Astarion uneasy. He tries to hide it, but the need to touch it, to hold it, is too great.
So he endures the stares, and hopes that whatever the wizards reasons, he can use it to his advantage to finally be free from his masters clutches, and maybe find out who gifted him the only item he has of his life before he was a spawn.
And they may be closer than he knows.
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28 Nov 2024
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Respectability, Politics by brawltogethernow for Kieron_ODuibhir
Fandoms: Spider-Man (Comicverse), Marvel 616, X-Men (Comicverse), Marvel
18 Nov 2021
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Per the prompt, "the Spider-Man fic where anti-mutant bigots think JJ is one of them because of how he is about Spider-Man and he experiences no personal insight whatsoever in reaction to this but is so offended he dedicates the front cover of the Bugle to spotlighting the X-Men for like three days straight and Peter is keysmash feelings".
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10 Jun 2024
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The Campaigns: Tales for the Somewhat Living by vessy
Fandom Homestuck, Left 4 Dead (Video Games)
31 Jan 2023
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For you I give thee a collection of stories from before and during the events in L4DStuck. You can more about that AU @/left4deadstuck on Tumblr, but for right now you are here and that's wonderful. I got some stories and moments I wanted to share that I couldn't exactly tie into the main story line, but these will be canon unless I say otherwise.
If you are confused, don't worry, I will provide you the context that you would need. Enjoy :]
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01 Feb 2023
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There's a voicemail on the answering machine that Dave doesn't expect.
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04 May 2022
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In the land of Theoi there is a god for everything, no matter how small. In the holy city of Sacrum, a thief and his hunter perform an intricate dance of predator and predator. An experiment in divine fantasy.
Or, the world's bestest most specialest thief and the world's tiredest most exhausted inquisitor desperately try to convince each other that they aren't attracted to one another and will fail.
Updated at least weekly. Find me at http://inneskeeper.tumblr.com or http://twitch.tv/inneskeeper or my Discord at https://discord.gg/axQaKmq6X2.
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15 Mar 2022
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Your name is Karkat Vantas.
You are the proud owner of a small but quaint local children’s bookstore called Bookbound, which you have run your entire life. But across and down the street, threatening to put you out of business for good, is the construction site for another installment in a chain of super bookstores owned by the enigmatic Strider brothers and co. You are adamantly convinced you hate the people behind the Strider’s Puppets and Pages bookstore, whoever these assholes are.
Your name is carcinoGeneticist, and you have a mysterious internet penpal, who you have spoken with everyday since you met him in a chatroom almost two weeks ago. He goes by turntechGodhead, and despite not knowing his name or face, you can’t help but eagerly look forward to talking to him. The two of you share rules: no personal information, no business talk, no names. But you think the anonymity adds a certain charm to it all. Sure, you don’t know who he is, but you know he’s funny and charming, and incredibly kind. You’re convinced you’re in love with him, whoever he is.
And then one day he suggests the two of you should finally meet.
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26 Oct 2021
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24 Apr 2020
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Joey and the Hiveswap gang end up on Earth C for whatever reason. Thing happen, like:
*Dirk is stuck with them, and has to learn how to keep his fridge stocked with something other than orange beverages.
*Roxy instantly wants to adopt them
*Dave and Xefros have a rap battle
*Joey resists the urge to punch a strangerAKA, wish-fulfillment bullshit
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13 Apr 2018
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Dirk has a plan, when he's 18 he's going to take Dave and get him the fuck out of their terrible lives and start over. Until then being the barrier between Dave and Bro is his only job, his soulmate is just going to have to wait goddamnit. Dave has a plan, it involves getting internet famous and not going gay, easy right? Karkat also has a plan, to repeatedly track down his dumb as rocks soulmate and get him to actually talk to him for fuck's sake.
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- Part 1 of It's the end of the world as we know it
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03 Sep 2017
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Karkat's sure that his life couldn't possibly get harder than it is right now. So, of course, it's just his luck that he's being fucking haunted now.
He finds himself the target of the recently deceased Dave Strider, an annoying as hell ghost that has no interest in explaining what the fuck is going on at any point, and also has to deal with the unexpected ripple effect this causes on everyone.Bookmarked by auroranShadows
17 May 2017
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you can only take what you can carry to the edge of the sea by callmearcturus
Fandoms: Homestuck
06 Feb 2018
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Crocker Magitech is among the foremost developers of innovative magic and technology for the modern home, and the team of Crocker, Lalonde, and Strider are among the most important cogs in their clockwork machine. After a long dry spell without new projects to work on, Jane hits it big with a grand new discovery: a remote island out in the South Pacific that’s teeming with lost majyyks to rediscover.
What the team finds out there is far more than their next big break: a lost settlement, a forgotten god, strange arcane flora, and a friendly boy living in the lake. Not even the combined knowledge of the team can prepare them for their expedition to this strange, hidden island.
Magic, sex, and mayhem ensue.
(Main story fully complete, epilogue in progress.)
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- Part 1 of Sex Magic Island AU
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16 May 2017
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14 May 2017
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13 May 2017
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sometimes the nightmares are about real things. sometimes they are about things that's aren't. sometimes they blend truth and untruth until you can't remember what happened and what didn't. these categories are all equally bad.
somehow, together, you make it manageable.
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- Part 6 of mimsical homestuck fics
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16 Mar 2017
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Dave is a local rapper starting to make it big, Sollux is his DJ, and Karkat is a stressed out, sexually confused university student who's experimenting with as many things as possible.
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03 Mar 2017
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Wanderlust (tiny right things) by AliveArsenic for An Errant Tumbleweed (cryogenia)
Fandoms: Homestuck
25 Jun 2016
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Adolescence really is all about making new friends, playing video games, dying a couple of times, being stuck on a meteor floating through space, exploring your sexuality, crushing on foreign alien guys with absurd genitalia.
Yes. Probably.
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03 Mar 2017
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You try to open your eyes, stretch your limbs, taste the salt air of your apartment. You can't. You can't feel anything.
You can't see.
You aren't breathing.
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14 Dec 2016
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Dave had three friends.
One moved away, one changed district and one went to private school.
Just like that, part of his world crumbled like a card castle under a swift breeze.
Maybe someone should get him to open up a bit, lest he explodes?Karkat is a Teacher's pet.
He swears a lot, and he sure as heck doesn't like Dave.
He's a busy man-- all of these clubs take some time, you know.
No time for pity. Maybe some for friendship?Series
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10 Dec 2016
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Karkat reaches out to a forsaken friend while the rest of the crew struggles to solve, once and for all, their personal crises and the mysteries of ancient Beforus.
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- Part 3 of The Blood-Stained Knight of Beforus
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08 Dec 2016