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Geralt studies Jaskier's hands like a map.
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like strangers in the dark by dandelight for SilentJellyfish
Fandoms: Tales of Arcadia (Cartoons)
16 Dec 2021
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"Can I ask, then," Hisirdoux continued softly, "why do you come back here if it's not what you're looking for?"
Aja sits silent for a moment, thinking. "I guess..." she starts, glancing back up, "I stopped caring whether or not these were real, because the things that are real are much, much scarier."
— or: Sometimes, in a world devoid of hope, it falls on us to create our own. -
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“Please, Doux. Don’t do this to me.” The amulet gleams with weakening sparks; Jim knows that it only has so much energy left to give to him. Still, he grips the artifact with vigor and sets his jaw. “I am not going back to the others without you. Do you hear me?”
— or: As Jim knows from his own experience, stalklings and storms don't mix well. He expects nothing different from this encounter, but he didn't count on Douxie getting caught in the crossfire.
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"I recall you once asking yourself what kind of a hero you'd be if you sacrificed everyone else for your own sake. Yet here you are, tampering with a power you can't even comprehend, because that desire to play hero eclipsed any concern you could've had for the people you might be hurting in the process."
Douxie stops, inches away from Jim. His shoulders shake with barely contained fury. "Tell me, Jim. Who does that remind you of?"
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I Fear There'll Be Nothing Good Left Of You by dandelight
Fandoms: Tales of Arcadia (Cartoons)
23 Sep 2021
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"You could have saved yourself from this fate," Bellroc says, almost sympathetically. "A pity, then, that you're too much of a hero for your own good."
— or: The Order gave the world its magic. They can just as easily take it away from a meddling little wizard.
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- Part 1 of Nothing Left of You
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In which the Order captures Douxie and, in lieu of killing him, opts to take away his magic instead. Explores a variety of different aftermaths, good and bad and everything in between. Can all be read as standalone fics.
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“Steve?” Eddie interrupts again. Steve casts a glance in his direction, but Eddie is looking past him at the television with hazy eyes.
“Yeah, I’m here.” Steve jostles his foot gently and gestures for the doctor to continue talking about fluid levels. By fluid, he’s pretty sure she just means blood. The blood that Eddie was coughing up, he figures. It had to go somewhere, so they must’ve drained it the same way they drained all the leaking air from Max’s lung. Maybe. He hopes Eddie’s uncle gets this stuff better than he does.
“Don’t you live in Loch Nora?” Eddie asks just as the doctor is opening her mouth to speak again. Steve builds up to a sigh, unsure how exactly to tell Eddie to shut up when it’s not even his fault that he can’t, before he realizes Eddie’s gaze is still glued to the TV.
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28 Jan 2026
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He watched Mrs. Byers meet the young girl's eyes over her son's shoulders and he was suddenly hit with a crystal clear image in his mind.
Hopper. Standing with his back to the gate. Smiling softly, resigned. But filled with so much love.
Joyce. Watching, stretched impossibly thin. Understanding with a sense of grief, too terrible to name.
She turns the keys.
"Steve?" Jonathan is half out of the ambulance, using all of his weakened strength to keep Steve upright. "What's wrong?"
"Hopper. It's Hopper. He's gone." Steve doesn't know how he knows it, but he does.
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After the Battle of Starcourt, Steve struggles with the damages that the Russians left behind. In dealing with the aftermath, with the help of Robin and the Party, he uncovers a larger conspiracy at hand than just re-opening the Gate.
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26 Jan 2026
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in this blue (where everything is good) by cedarbranch
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
23 Jan 2026
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"How'd it start for you?" Eddie asks.
Steve sighs and gestures to the pool with his cigarette. "Right here," he says. Eddie tilts his head, uncomprehending. Such a tiny gesture, yet it makes something in Steve cringe, knowing what it means.
"Has anybody told you about Barb?" he asks. Eddie shakes his head.
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Steve teaches Eddie how to swim, and confronts a few things about himself in the process.
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23 Jan 2026
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“...Dustin was being very mean,” El says cautiously. Her eyebrows are knit together in that way that always makes Max want to hold her and tell her it’ll be okay.
“He’s been weird, since… everything.”
Lucas thinks that he’ll calm down once Eddie is back on his feet. Max thinks that he’s being a selfish little drama queen, but she doesn’t really have a leg to stand on when it comes to self-pitying bullshit, so she’s been biting her tongue.
“That doesn’t mean it’s okay to… talk to Steve like that. Like he’s stupid.”
“Well…” Max tries to joke, and El glares. “Sorry.”
“You were not helping.”
Max puts down her hairbrush. She’s… maybe also been weird. Since everything.
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22 Jan 2026
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Steve's feet stumbled more than walked, but Hopper didn't care. He half-carried, half-dragged the kid toward the emergency room doors, his jaw clenched so tight it ached. Every step felt like it took too long.
As the two of them started to slowly stumble to the front of the ER, Hopper took a brief moment to think about it. Took a moment to think how despite everything—despite barely knowing the kid, despite all his preconceptions and assumptions, despite the amount of times Steve had purposefully acted like a smart-ass punk just to piss him off—Hopper had realized something tonight:
Steve Harrington was a good kid.
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13 Jan 2026