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Many Worlds by begoniaskies
Fandoms: Scooby Doo! Mystery Incorporated (Cartoon 2010), Scooby Doo - All Media Types
11 Nov 2024
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They arrive at last, Velma practically standing on the gas pedal to get the car to navigate the steep grade. The road gives way to a wide lookout point, tire marks marring the grass. Marcie can no longer make out the lights of Crystal Cove behind them; they’re in a truly rural area now, the sky above her an inky black with great swaths of stars splashed across its canvas. A waxing gibbous moon hangs amongst them, nearly obscured by the brilliance of the stars. Velma looks up as she closes her car door behind her.
“It was worth it to come just for this view.”
Marcie’s eyes wander back to the tire tracks. “Bring a lot of girls here, Dinkley?”
When she looks back up at Velma, her best friend is looking at her seriously. “No. Just you, Marcie.”
Marcie's not really sure if this counts as a date, but she's not going to pass up an opportunity to hang out with Velma.
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"Everything I do is of the utmost importance.”
“Like protecting humans from Shadows.”
Aigis meets her gaze. Unlike Junpei, she does not seem perturbed by the things that mark her as being a robot. She does not blink as she responds, “Yes. Such as protecting you, as well.”
Kotone leans over the back of an armchair, her gaze intense as she looks at Aigis. Aigis looks back unflinchingly. This is what makes her good at her duty. She will carry out her tasks until such a time as the threat is neutralized or she is no longer able to do so.
“Having fun is important, too, Aigis. If we all just sat around here doing nothing in between our trips to Tartarus, we wouldn’t be able to even set foot in the place. You have to have some downtime, too.”
“Perhaps humans must,” Aigis agrees. “But I was built differently, Kotone-san.”
Aigis learns how to be human.
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A strange sensation is affecting her ocular receptors. She cannot cry the way humans do, and yet Kotone is reaching for her face, as if to brush tears away. When she removes her hand, Aigis can see the glistening liquid on one of her fingers.
“I don’t understand,” she confesses helplessly. The emotions are building within her, making it difficult to breathe— and yet she does not need to breathe, cannot even do so, because— “I’m a machine. Why do I feel this way?”
Kotone’s expression is very soft. “You’re not a machine, Aigis. Remember?” At the look on Aigis’s face, she lets out a pained little laugh. The sound of it cuts Aigis to the quick. “Of course you don’t. Nobody— nobody remembers. Nobody but me.”
“I do remember,” Aigis persists. “I remember— you. The person most precious to me. The one I—”
“The one you what?”
Aigis may not be able to remember much following Nyx's sealing, but she can at least remember how Kotone Shiomi made her feel.
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Bloom by begoniaskies
Fandoms: 機動戦士ガンダム 水星の魔女 | Mobile Suit Gundam: The Witch from Mercury (Anime), Gundam & Related Fandoms
02 Jan 2024
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“Ah,” her mother says, faint amusement in her tone. “So you are awake.”
Gripping her under her arms, her mother attempts to set her on her feet, but Suletta tangles her fingers in the fabric beneath her tightly.
“No,” she says, screwing her eyes up. Her sock-clad toes are just brushing against the floor, until they aren’t, her mother raising her up so one arm is around her shoulders and the other is beneath her bottom. Instead of letting go, she presses her face even closer, into her shoulder, breathing in the scent of her hair— red like hers, although she will not remember that it ever was, later on— as she does so. This is as much a part of her mother as is the smell of the lubricant she uses on Aerial’s joints, Suletta sitting on the floor of the hangar as she watches her work on her sister. The one time she’d attempted to join her family, her mother’s hands had restrained her in a way she’s not accustomed to.
“You mustn’t go in there,” her mother had said solemnly. Then she’d smiled, but it didn’t quite reach her eyes. “When you are older. Then you may come inside.”
Suletta and her mother over the years.
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Luz has been looking forward to this birthday with an anticipation Amity has never seen in her before. When asked why, she had exclaimed, “It’s when I get my learner’s permit!”
“Your learner’s permit for… what?”
“To drive a car! You and I are going to be able to go so many places together, Amity, just wait!”
Amity can’t understand the appeal of riding around in multiple tons of metal that you have to refuel intermittently— and it costs money. Walking is easy and free— the only hardship it’s ever brought her are the blisters she got when she wore flip flops to the fireworks show during the previous summer. And even then, they had just put antibiotic ointment and bandaids on them until they healed.
They move down the street at a snail’s pace. A child riding a tricycle easily outstrips them. Amity hopes Luz doesn’t notice.
Luz grows older, with all the milestones that come with it. Amity is her willing copilot.
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The Alternative to Tragedy by englishable
Fandoms: 鬼滅の刃 | Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba (Anime), 鬼滅の刃 | Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba (Manga)
28 Jan 2024
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Meet Mitsuri Kanroji: online university student, assistant to the assistant librarian, aspiring novelist, socially awkward weirdo and hopeless romantic – if only she could make the details of her life line up a little more closely with the stuff in all her unfinished manuscripts.
Given the awkward weirdo part, of course, it’s possible some things aren’t in the cards for her, but at least she has the new friends from her writers’ support group as inspiration, even if they’re way cooler and more serious about their craft than she is.
It’s especially nice of a rising literary star like Iguro to be so selflessly supportive of her silly projects.
(In which Mitsuri realizes she is, in fact, the heroine of her own love story; maybe she can arrange a few other love stories and avoid killing those creeps she has to share the town library with, while she’s at it.)
Bookmarked by begoniaskies
26 Nov 2023
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Amazing showstopping spectacular. Worth a read even if you're not a fan of Demon Slayer!
This is the sort of AU writing I aspire to
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As We Have Done Before by infernal for shinealightonme
Fandoms: The Haunting of Hill House - Shirley Jackson
07 Oct 2020
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Sometimes the ghosts haunt you; sometimes you haunt the ghosts. Sometimes the house is haunted; sometimes you haunt the house.
Or: Theodora, after (and before, and during, and always).
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30 Sep 2023
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not enough to ruin me by autumntales
Fandoms: The Locked Tomb Series | Gideon the Ninth Series - Tamsyn Muir
26 Aug 2022
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“I’m your cavalier,” says Gideon. “I’ll do whatever you want me to.” And I'll convince you the way that will ruin you is the only way you can go.
the story of a con, in three parts.
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04 Nov 2022
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They were separated for now but destined to be reunited. Grimm, family, and their own doubts had come between them but no matter the opponent Weiss was willing to keep on fighting if it meant being with her again.
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01 May 2021
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Kuranosuke introduces Tsukimi to his new girlfriend.
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26 Dec 2020