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Where Jay lived the meat was cold and waterlogged and the sun appeared a dull, milky orb that would shift and undulate above them with the rippling of the waves.
(Or, the one in which the Hamilton fandom has two separate cannibal mermaid fanfics. In order to beat it, Centricide needed three.)
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The first contestant she meets at their orientation is an American immigrant.A Californian.
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(In which Karla seriously needs to stop taking advice from her brothers, Vanessa still manages to be intimidating in tacky halter tops, and lesbians aren't fucking around when it comes to bread.)
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Hermann is wearing a sun hat and swim trunks, which would be hilarious if it weren’t so horribly conspicuous.
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(In which Karla's brother gets a bit too embroiled in the high-stakes world of campus newspaper turf wars, Newt is an idiot, and Vanessa is herself.)
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The layover from the Anchorage ‘dome is equal parts exhausting and frigid, made particularly painful by the gradual soak of snow through the soggy canvas layer of Newt’s Chuck Taylors as he waits for the helicopter to arrive.
He has had far too much experience with Hermann’s cold shoulder to find the chill any worse than usual.
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(In which certain departments of the PPDC get snowed in, Hermann remains handsome in a confusing, Jiminy Cricket sort of way, and Newt makes helpful suggestions on how to stay warm that no one finds funny. )
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Here are the ways in which Hermann Gottlieb would describe his affliction: an itch, a scratch, a deep-set intuition- a blink, an ache, the arc of a bell curve. The second before cause turns effect, the breath before the pendulum swings the other way. An awareness, or more accurately, a premonition.
Nothing superstitious about it.
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(In which Hermann can tell the future down to the decimal point, the world has trouble believing him, and how he could never have predicted Newt Geiszler.)
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Field Guide to North American Dragons by PacificRimbaud
Fandoms: Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling
21 May 2020
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Draco Malfoy never asked for Charlie Weasley, a flying car, or fucking America, for that matter.
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28 Sep 2021
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"Give it up, Granger. We've had our N.E.W.T. results for a week. What can possibly have earned your continued academic devotion in the last four days of term?"
Hermione placed a hand in the open pages of a third edition of Narayanan's Elidated Incantations: Shifting Paradigms in Articulated Casting and looked down at Draco.
He lay beside her in the field of grass outside the Quidditch pitch, prone and with his eyes closed, baptising himself in the benevolence of a cloudless day in late spring.
*Draco and Hermione have a lazy snuggle in the grass behind the Quidditch pitch.
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28 Sep 2021
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Shorelines by Prevalent_Masters
Fandoms: The Old Guard (Movie 2020), The Old Guard (Comics)
04 Jan 2021
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She will find them. She is pitiful right now, and weak. She has never before been weak, not in her entire life, and she’d rather be dead than pitiful. Actually, at this point, she’d rather be dead than a lot of things, but she isn’t. She’s here. She's alive, and she's been alive for thousands of years, and she will not let that iron coffin and the abandonment of her family overpower her. She is out of the water now. She refuses to drown.
Quỳnh comes up for air, comes back to life, and comes home. It just takes her a little while to get there.
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01 Sep 2021
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da adesso fino all'eternità by maroon
Fandoms: The Old Guard (Comics), The Old Guard (Movie 2020)
19 Jul 2020
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“So,” Nile begins, sitting in the beat up Hyundai with some meatballs in her lap, still dressed in her running gear. “Sexiled, huh?”
Andy nods, chewing away at her own meatballs. She points at herself. “Professional third-wheel here.”
Nile nods. “Well, they’re in love.” She shrugs, and Andy raises an eyebrow at her. “What? Love makes you do stupid stuff.”
Nile experiences the whole world, learns some disgusting secrets, gains another set of parents—as well as a cranky vodka aunt—and learns what it means to be immortal.
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01 Sep 2021
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Sarwa is ladling stew into bowls and she hands the first one to Yusuf, who passes it to Nicolo and takes a drink from the now filled flask. “Is he your lover?” she asks.
Yusuf chokes on water and Nicolo pounds his back, eyebrows peaked with concern.
“I—” Yusuf pauses, wiping his streaming eyes.
Sarwa looks at him, nothing but mild curiosity on her face.
Yusuf glances at Nicolo. The firelight paints his cheekbones flickering gold, his eyes hooded and sleepy in the dim light.
“I don’t know what he is,” Yusuf finally admits, still looking at Nicolo.
Nicolo’s mouth quirks and he takes another bite of soup.
“He looks at you like you belong to him,” Sarwa says.
Nicolo keeps eating, oblivious to what they’re saying.
“I think he belongs to me too,” Yusuf whispers.
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01 Sep 2021