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Val does Riley’s makeup for social night.
She has mixed feelings about the whole thing.
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- Part 3 of except you, you can stay
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It's late, but Val won't let Riley sleep until she takes her for a ride.
or: an excuse for Riley to ride pillion on Val’s motorcycle, together
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- Part 2 of except you, you can stay
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A triumphant smile graces her lips when the news is announced, but an even bigger burst of pride spills forth unbidden from Riley’s chest when she catches sight of Val’s face of fond approval nodding back at her.
That look is something she’ll mull over after a dinner of homemade lasagna, and then intermittently for the next three days, in between lulls of her new Algebra I and History periods on weekday afternoons as she attempts to dissect what it exactly means.
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- Part 1 of except you, you can stay
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leave all those things we did in yesterday by castellis
Fandoms: The Last of Us (Video Games)
17 Jan 2024
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Ellie tries to kill you the first time you cross paths.
It’s so sudden that if your reflexes haven’t developed from years and years of survival, you might have found your own head split wide open, brains left to leak out onto the polished wood flooring.
But nothing like that worth telling starts out that way.
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trying to find my way home (back to you) by castellis
Fandoms: The Last of Us (Video Games)
15 Jan 2024
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They say their goodbyes after he gets called away by Maria to help with the groceries, and then Ellie’s alone again, in her slightly rundown apartment that suddenly seems too small even for her. She finishes the chicken and takes out the trash, seeing flashes of texts rush by as she straightens the rug and tosses her clothes and uniform to launder later.
They’re all from Jesse.
Wakey wakey
So Owen made a fuss on his broken nose and Isaac’s given him the night off
You’ve got a shift with Abby instead
Have fun lol
She rereads the messages again, making sure she’s not seeing things, but they’re absolutely real. “What the hell?” Ellie growls, forgetting all about fabric softener for one moment and immediately calling Jesse’s number.
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(or: a modern animal transformation AU where Ellie and Abby work in the police force and
hatestrongly dislike each other. It stays that way right until Ellie turns into a cat while they're on the job.)
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“A cute girl who you’ve been crushing on like for-ev-er lied about not knowing how to use a vending machine so that you would teach her.”
“Yeah,” Max says grumpily.
“Max,” Fernando tries again, exasperated. “Why would a girl do that?”
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Rachel flirts. Max flounders.
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19 Jan 2024
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"Maybe I can actually make this work, or maybe I’ll just die trying. One way or the other, I swear I won’t let our story end like this."
They survived the storm and made it out of Arcadia Bay, but fate doesn’t give up that easily. And when Max is robbed of the future she dreamed of, she's left with two choices. She can grieve, heal, and try to move forward...or she can risk everything she has left to try and change the world.
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19 Jan 2024
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And there she is again, overlooking Arcadia Bay from the lighthouse, watching as the storm creeps closer and closer to the town. Her heart plummets at the sight, more visceral than it’s ever been for her; she feels like keeling over, throwing up over the side of the cliff, clenching her eyes shut as she clamps her hands over her ears.
A scream tears its way through her throat. Destruction soon follows.
Crimson trickles and drips over the side of the bathtub onto misty linoleum floor, and it takes Max a moment to gather herself. The vision’s faded, gone, at least in the immediate present; Max knows that she’ll be carrying that memory for the rest of her life.
She grips the side of the tub fervently where she’d moments ago been wringing wet soil and grass, hot water cascading over her where she’d moments ago been soaked through with frigid rain.
And none of it is just a bad memory.
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- Part 2 of Flickers series
- Part 13 of my favourite fics!
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19 Jan 2024
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shooting shots and seeing stars by Patcho418 for ossifer
Fandoms: Life is Strange (Video Game)
21 Sep 2023
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It had been Rachel’s idea in the first place to drag Max into this affair. They’d spent the first four months of the school year getting to know each other — pulled together by Chloe’s inability to decide which of her best friends she wanted to spend her free time with, which ultimately led to the two of them meeting during school hours while Chloe was working to solve her apparent three-body problem — before Rachel, browsing second-term’s electives, figured it would be fascinating to see how Max would handle the stage. She’d always seemed at her most comfortable behind the scenes, picking apart the details of a set and finding the perfect moment to capture. It was fascinating to watch her work, captivating to listen to her talk. It was easy to acknowledge how down bad she was for Max Caulfield, but harder to make her own feelings known.
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practising improv leads to something more
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19 Jan 2024
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One autumn Friday in 2008, Chloe Price does something spectacularly stupid. Figures she's stupid enough to get herself caught, too. To top things off, it's for a stupid reason she won't readily admit, but then again, Chloe's been stupid about most things, lately.
Chloe's words, not his.
The truth is, his daughter hasn't been particularly good with her decision making for quite some time.
And William Price wants to figure out why.
This story will follow Chloe and Max from just before Max's birthday, a week away from Farewell, all the way to well after the storm, while also taking regular pit stops in Seattle to figure out what Max has been up to these five years.
The story is Soft AU, with the aim to hit all the major story beats until after the storm, and keeping the characters as close to canon as possible. However, there'll be slight changes here and there, and expanding on the world and events that are only canon footnotes to make the world feel richer instead of just the canon play-by-play.
Act 2 done | Updates twice a month, on Friday | Next Chapter:
Friday, March 10*sigh* delayed. I'm going to need a couple more days.Bookmarked by castellis
19 Jan 2024