13 Bookmarks by aystra
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After settling into your seat, you turn and stare out the window. When the plane lifts off from the ground, you crack and shatter all over again, split in half by the awful juxtaposition churning in your heart. Yearning grief. You long to see Shauna. It rocks you with its intensity. Yet, you mourn for Jackie, and the sadness slides through you like syrup, heavy and sticky and slow.
Surrounded by bloody luxury, you start to cry again.
AKA: A look at Shauna's life, post-rescue, told from the point of view of her mother.
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23 Dec 2025
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Jackie likes to remind her that she's not gay. Always right before they do something that Shauna considers to be kinda gay.
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What if these two hook up when they drink and then don't talk about it after?
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- Part 1 of behind closed doors lay open arms
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- 7/7
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14 Dec 2025
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Dean takes a really, really long drive to kick fear in the ass. It might just be the best thing he ever decides to do.
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The seat squeaks, and Dean follows the sound, his gaze trailing down. There—where Jack sat moments ago—is a much tinier version of him. He looks mostly the same, just...smaller and more dimply and cuter, if that's possible. His clothes have shrunk to fit him, so he's casually sitting in a t-shirt, jeans, and scuffed tennis shoes. He swings his feet from side-to-side over the edge of Baby's seat the same way Sam used to in the back, and he stares up at Dean with clear eyes.
"Oh," Dean blurts out, eyes bulging, "Cas is going to fucking kill me."
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02 Nov 2025
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Getting used to Heaven is something of a marvel. It ain't perfect, and Dean thinks he'd hate it if it was, which is probably why it isn't.
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"You don't understand," Dean whispers, exhaling shakily. "I know you don't, because even I don't. The instant you were gone, I wanted you back. Cas, I wanted you back. I wanted—I wanted—"
Cas stares at him, searching his face. After a moment, his own face falls slack, eyes widening just so. "Oh," he breathes out.
Dean wants to be furious that Cas has figured it out before he has—whatever it is—but he's not even that surprised. Cas knows him too well, always has, even more than Dean knows himself. He's been kicking Dean in the goddamn teeth with how deeply he understands him, even about the things Dean doesn't, ever since they first met. You don't think you deserve to be saved, that's what Cas had said. All bundled up in impossibilities and power, this being that looked at Dean Winchester and knew every single inch of him, as if he had a right to each part.
"What?" Dean grits out.
"I love you, too."
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- 3/3
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23 Oct 2025
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16 Aug 2025
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Cas dies and Dean starts referring to himself as a widower. This is somewhat confusing for everyone involved.
(Inspired by *that* tumblr post; linked in notes)
(Canon MCD not tagged because it's temporary)
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- 2/2
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25 Jul 2025
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no need to worry (making up your mind) by scribespirare for MiaNovak
Fandoms: House M.D.
25 Aug 2020
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House makes the mistake of telling his mother he can't join her for Christmas because of his new boyfriend. Somehow, this becomes Wilson's problem.
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- 5/5
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03 Dec 2024
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Late Bloomer by angestreet
Fandoms: Criminal Minds: Evolution (TV), Criminal Minds (US TV)
03 Nov 2023
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When Tara Lewis invites Emily Prentiss out to a gay bar on a hunch, she just wants the FBI section chief to have a little fun, and, yes, maybe pick up a phone number or two. But the ordinary evening sends Emily spiralling, forcing her to confront a truth she has pushed down for decades — and face how she really feels about Jennifer Jareau.
An Evolution-era fic about coming out and finding love in middle age.
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- English
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- 34/34
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20 Jul 2024
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These Colours Fade For You Only by LittlePageAndBird
Fandoms: Doctor Who (2005), Doctor Who
31 May 2020
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“I’m never going to give up on you, River. I’ll find a way. I’ll bring you back. I promise.”
The moment the universe relinquishes its demands, the Doctor conjures up a plan. It’s far from risk-free, but she’s spent over half her life now trying to save River from the Library. She had been after a miracle all these years and now, bolstered by the new knowledge of who she is and what she’s capable of, for the first time she feels like she might have one.
She has to try. She has to.Bookmarked by aystra
13 Jul 2024
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River grits her teeth, one eye on the rear-view mirror of the expensive hover car. She hadn’t expected the owner to notice its absence so quickly.
The city rushes by beneath her, perilously close but she drives the car lower still, darting around buildings and under the bridge that crosses the wide river, looping back over it to try and shake off the police car behind her.
That’s when the blonde woman falls out of the sky.
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12 Jul 2024
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Facing down the press junket for his book, Daniel Molloy is prepared to hype up his hit novel. He's less prepared to have Armand crash the tour to play bodyguard and doting assistant and he's definitely not ready to have his secrets spilled on a world stage because Armand wants to play games.
The longer he sticks around to torment Daniel as he chases him across the country, the longer he stays. So, who's really winning this game?
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03 Jul 2024
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Daniel is left in Dubai with an ancient vampire, a lot of questions and a fucking itchy feeling in his throat.
He's a reporter, so he's going to ask some questions.
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Started before season 2 aired, so this starts out after season 1 and goes on from there.
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15 May 2024
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Synergy: the whole is greater than the sum of the parts.
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29 Aug 2021