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“I could say the same for you,” Edwin says, slowly turning around. “Where on earth did you get that outfit, Charles?”
Charles’ mouth drops open. “My outfit? Look at you—is this how you dressed, then? Back in 1916?”
“Not precisely,” Edwin says, looking down at the both of them with curiosity. “This is—slightly before my time.” His eyes flick up, then down Charles’ frame, and Charles fights the curious urge to look away. “Never did I think I would see you in a frock coat, Charles.”
“Well, if it comes to that,” Charles says, “I never thought I’d see you with a proper tobacco pipe.”
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During a relatively routine inspection of a possibly haunted library, the boys get sucked into a Sherlock Holmes story—and, as far as they can tell, will have to act out the story as Holmes and Watson, if they ever want to go home again.
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Sokka isn’t stupid. Not that his sister is, mind you (at least, he’d never call her that to her face now that she’s honed her waterbending), or any of the rest of Team Avatar, although sometimes it feels like he’s living in a different world from the rest of them — a world where running out of food means starving, and walking into a town full of firebenders with the Avatar in tow will get you killed, rather than help you free a beaten-down Earthbender colony.
Anyways.
Sokka isn’t stupid, which is why he laughs directly in Aunt Wu’s face when she tells him that he will marry the Fire Lord.
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McCoy’s voice was taking on a particularly irritated tone, and beyond those walls, beyond the borders that made up the entire world for Jim, he felt a flash of emotion. It was muted—he couldn’t tell what it was, but the shape of it flashed silver, like a fish, lashing its tail before fading.
Annoyance, Jim realized, looking around. The consciousness—whatever it was that made up his whole world, it was annoyed.
“Spock,” McCoy said again (there it was again, that word, Spock, and it felt like it meant everything), “where the hell is the captain?”
“I believe, Doctor,” the consciousness responded, “that he has somehow become part of my own mind.”
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hail satan tonight by benedick
Fandoms: The Best Ever Death Metal Band in Denton - The Mountain Goats (Song)
27 Nov 2023
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They're finally safe, Jeff thinks. After everything it took to get the both of them free, they're finally at a safe house, states away, where no one can find them, with a guitar, two gym bags of clothes, and fifteen bucks between them. And yeah, he's sleeping on an air mattress, and the money's running out, and Cyrus isn't laughing anymore and he hasn't played his guitar once since they left.
It's gonna be fine, though. Because Jeff's going to figure it out. And he's going to get Cyrus whatever he needs. And it's all going to get better.
Probably. If Jeff has anything to say about it, at least. After all, they've got a future in death metal to plan out.
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A look into the events after the plan to get even plays out.
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Sometimes, he thought, in the middle of dark hot nights where the sheets stuck to his skin and he could almost feel the devils closing in around him, he might have fought it off if Todd Aberdeen had been a good man. If Mrs. Aberdeen had been married to a good, kind man who loved her, and who she loved, maybe Zeke could have swallowed his feelings, kept an appropriate amount of distance from his beautiful parishioner, and stayed on the righteous path, secure in the knowledge that there was a place for him in heaven.
And then, in the belly of those nights, he would twist around in his sheets just the wrong way, feel a spark of friction, think of Prudence’s laugh, and know in his bones that there was no power that could have stopped him from loving Prudence—not a good husband, not a kind man, not G-d or the Devil himself.
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let not man separate by tardigradeschool for AlfAlfAlfAlfAlf
Fandoms: Temeraire - Naomi Novik
29 Sep 2023
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It all started because Laurence had come into the sitting room when Granby was visiting Tharkay’s estate, mildly cross and holding Tharkay’s greatcoat, which was rumpled from lying in a damp heap in the entryway for two whole days before Laurence noticed it. He had entered the room while shaking it out and folding it, as such a fine piece of clothing deserved, and saying something chiding, along the lines of, “Tenzing, did you never learn you must care for your things if you wish for them to last--?”
“Ah,” Tharkay said, slouching in his practiced way and tilting his sly smile at Granby, “here’s the missus.”
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beautiful domestic fic, obsessed with these two idiots
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To Cleave These Roots We've Made by Erisenyo for lesmiserablol
Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender
12 Jan 2023
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[“Well, I already have the plans in place to be back mid-June,” Zuko says, firm. “My classes won’t be started yet, so I can be there to—”
“Don’t worry about it,” Aang repeats, laughing. “There’s plenty of time!”
Which is true in its own way, two and a half whole months until the little sucker arrives, so Sokka isn’t quite sure why hearing Aang say hits him in the gut quite so hard.
Must be that indigestion.]
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Sokka and Zuko have been roommates and best friends through college and graduation, through first jobs and new jobs and promotions, through friends getting married and sisters being pregnant and everything in between.
But that all ends in four days.
Four days to pack up an apartment. Four days before Zuko goes to law school and Sokka stays behind. Four days to untangle two lives that Sokka and Zuko have spent ten years weaving together.
Can you call it a divorce, if you were never actually together in the first place?
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"The king sent me to get you," Merlin said, with a tone that implied strongly that he wasn't rolling his eyes where Arthur could see, but just wait until his back was turned. "He said you're to get changed into formal clothes and meet him in the Great Hall, there's a delegation coming from the Summer Court."
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15 Dec 2023
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Kirk contracts a condition that makes him feel perpetually cold. Spock has to perform mind melds to convince Kirk he’s warm.
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Please Don't Take Him Just Because You Can by spaceisgay (ChancellorGriffin)
Fandoms: Star Trek: The Original Series, Star Trek
03 Dec 2023
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Post-“Amok Time.” Jim and Bones take a still-recovering Spock, struggling to regain his mental equilibrium after the ordeal of the koon-ut kal-if-fee, to a remote planet famed for the skills of its psychic healers. But when the therapeutic treatments of a handsome alien doctor seem to be helping his Vulcan First Officer a little too much, Jim suddenly realizes why he can't stand the thought of someone else touching Spock’s mind . . . or any other part of him, either.
(Yes, this is a K/S fic inspired by "Jolene.")
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04 Dec 2023