bittersweetegg
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- 崩坏3rd | Honkai Impact 3rd (Video Game) (1)
- Barbie (Movie 2023) (1)
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hold me like water (or, christ, hold me like a knife) by bittersweetegg
Fandoms: Baldur's Gate (Video Games)
02 Aug 2024
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Maybe it all means nothing. Shadowheart doesn’t know, and hasn’t for a long time. All she knows is that the voice of God is silent, and she yearns for its guidance in a form more comprehensible than an intermittent, stabbing pain in her hand.
So maybe she’s tired of feeling empty. Maybe she wants something to fill her in a more definable sense. She’s sick of obscurities, of foggy memories, of always second-guessing her own interpretations.
(“Do not mistake me,” rasps Lae’zel, amidst the celebrations back in camp. “I despise you. But I want to taste you all the same.”)
Well. Memory eludes her, but she's sure she's settled for less in the past.
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OR: shadowheart loses a purpose and gains a new one.
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The thought is an offhanded one, with little meaning deliberately thrown behind it: “I think I’m bad at being a human.”
She doesn’t learn until the next day that words spiral into bigger things, that snowballs gain mass as they tumble down hills. When she enters the kitchen, she finds Gloria at the counter, poring over a sheet of notebook paper with Sasha at her side.
“Great timing,” announces Gloria.
“We’ve compiled a list,” Sasha chimes in. “Thirty different activities that’ll help you feel more human. And counting.”
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or: gloria teaches barbie how to feel alive.
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I need you to hold me because I saw you die and I want to be sure that you’re really here. I need you to hold me because if it wasn’t this — if we survived by some fluke — it’s going to be something else. Because there’s always something tearing us apart and I need to spend this time close to you because I don’t know when I’ll be able to again.
But Blake can’t say that, so she settles for a half-truth: “I miss you,” she whispers across the divide.
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or: there was only one bedroll
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put your lips close to mine, as long as they don’t touch by bittersweetegg
Fandoms: DCU, DCU (Comics), Birds of Prey (Comic)
30 Jun 2022
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“You know, Harley and Ivy remind me of you two,”
“I see what she’s getting at,” chirps Dinah. “Old, curmudgeonly redhead and her bubbly, hot blonde best friend. That’s so us.”
“They weren’t friends,” Helena interjects flatly. With that, she slips out of the room and prays the two will get the message.
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or: dinah and barbara make some long-awaited realizations about their friendship
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At last, she speaks, a near-silent murmur: “There. You have fallen. Now that you are down, rest here awhile, won’t you?”
A mixture of anguish and reluctant obligation flashes through the depths of Ei’s expression, and oh, how Miko longs to chase it away. Truly, she is drowning now.
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or: following the moonless night, miko and ei find solace in each other’s company.
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I STOP TO SMELL THE BLOOD IN THE TREES AND FOR A MOMENT THE WORLD IS SO BEAUTIFUL IT BRINGS ME TO TEARS by perennials
Fandoms: The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild, The Legend of Zelda & Related Fandoms
15 Dec 2020
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“Let’s say you’ve been asleep for a hundred years and when you wake up you’ve lost all your memories, but you defeat the big bad monster like you’ve been told to, because a girl told you to, and because you were in love with her. And after defeating the big bad monster she comes back, only she’s not the person she was a hundred years ago. And you’re not the person you were a hundred years ago. And yet every time you look at her, your chest hurts so bad you think you might be dying.”
He looks up from his breadstick. “Am I dying?”
“No,” Beedle says. “I think you’re stupid.”
All roads lead to Hateno.
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28 Oct 2025
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“Who better to stand in my stead, to stand as the Crown,” Viserys raises his hands, like he’s about to shock them all with his wisdom, “Than its trueborn heir.”
Rhaenyra preens at the praise, the recognition. “Thank you, Father.”
“And the Queen.”
The smile drops from her face.
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[Post-1x06] The King sends Rhaenyra and Alicent to strengthen ties with the North. Alicent lasts two days with a chill that reaches her bones; and then she finds a solution.
(the bed-sharing fix-it that wonders if dragon blood really runs that hot)
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22 Jul 2024
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“I…have known nothing in my life but battle.” The words are stilted, brusque; it is her way. “All my knowledge of…children…is of constant testing, unending bloodshed. I do not know what a healthy creche looks like. I do not know what a healthy githyanki childhood looks like. That knowledge has been stolen from us. I do not—” She grits her teeth. “I dislike embarking on such an important mission with no information. Too much is at stake.”
Tearing such vulnerability from between her ribs has never come naturally. But watching the still-wet hatchling examine its own toes, watching her lover brush eggshell from its arms, against her will Lae’zel softens. They have been through too much together not to respond such. Back-to-back, as ever, there is surely no challenge so great that they cannot—
“Well, don’t look at me,” says Shadowheart. “I was raised in a cult, remember?”
Series
- Part 1 of Truesilver
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06 Jun 2024
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the Mondstadt Opera Company presents
LA RONDINE
a tragedy in three acts, starring LISA MINCI as the beautiful opera singer with a dark secret and limited time, and JEAN GUNNHILDR as the devoted bride-to-be separated from her one true love.
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25 Jul 2023
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The wilds of Remnant hold history. (Ancient memories in fallen stone, foregone whispers filtered through the leaves of great oaks, the ghost of a touch carried by the breath of the wind.) Yang wakes one hundred years after catastrophe and must collect the pieces of her own past as she moves through places she can’t quite remember, searching for the people she loved a lifetime ago. Some things are stronger than the gaps cleaved by loss, and she will fight for a princess she recalls only in fragments, long before she fully understands why.
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25 Jul 2023