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If I Am the Chief of Sinners, I Am the Chief of Sufferers Also by sunsetskylane
Fandoms: Sleep Token (Band)
16 Nov 2025
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After the unexpected death of his parents, young dancer Ves had jumped headfirst into ballet—his only refuge in a world unraveling helplessly around him. Thirteen years later, that lifeline snaps as Ves’s partner packs his things and leaves, threatening the company’s production of Jekyll and Hyde and plunging Ves into a familiar spiral of loss.
By chance, his best friend has found the perfect replacement: Three, a dancer already familiar with the role, so haunted by his own grief that he’s left his Chicago ballet company and moved across the country in search of an escape.
Thrown together unexpectedly, the two dancers are forced to navigate their complicated partnership—setting aside petty grievances in order to learn about death, about dancing, and how to reach out over an unknowable gap and take the hand of another.
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24 Nov 2025
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Looked So Alive (Turns Out I’m Not Real) by sparrowmoth
Fandoms: Six of Crows Series - Leigh Bardugo, Shadow and Bone (TV)
23 Oct 2025
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Electricity shocks him awake, blacks out the memory of dreaming—or, was this the dream? It might be a nightmare. He’s not sure he’s awake. He’s not sure what’s happened since—oh… they had taken him into surgery. He hadn’t read the consent forms. He couldn’t read the forms, but—his father had been beside him. His father had held his hand, smiled like cracking ice in springtime, and assured him in a low voice, “It’s going to be alright. Trust me, Wylan. This is going to fix everything. You’re going to be better. You do want that, don’t you?” (Wylan had nodded, because he knew that he should, and—and because he was so dazed by it. Unsure if he was dreaming. For his father to be kind, for his father to speak like… when he was just a child, and his disease had not presented, and the future was bright.)
Or: A presumed standard hospitalization leaves Wylan at the mercy of Wright Reform Universal, a factory operation through which society's "undesirables" have their identities stripped and their minds systematically reprogrammed, giving them new purpose in line with their manufactured new identities—each with an upper class price tag for a wealthy pool of buyers.
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01 Nov 2025
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“So if I told you I wore this shirt for you, you’d say what?” Noah asked, and his tone wasn’t playful anymore, it was bold.
Nick’s hand paused just slightly. “I’d say I’m your tattoo artist,” he murmured. “Not your date.”
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25 Sep 2025
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“Still awake?” II’s voice was low, rough with exhaustion.
“Mhm.” Vessel didn’t move. His voice was quiet, almost sheepish. “Body’s tired. Brain’s not.”
II hummed in acknowledgement. He pressed his chin briefly to Vessel’s hair, the weight of the gesture more grounding than anything else. “You know what helped last time?”
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24 Sep 2025
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II finds out that Vessel’s hookups keep leaving him hanging and offers to help.
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