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A Sense of Identity by DaaroMoltor
Fandoms: DCU (Comics), Batman - All Media Types, Superman - All Media Types
12 Nov 2016
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It was a Thursday afternoon at the end of March, and Bruce Wayne met Clark Kent in the way enterprising billionaires tended to meet investigative reporters: Through an interview.
Kent had posture like cooked spaghetti and wore his plaid like the strangest camouflage in history.Bruce was less than impressed.
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14 Sep 2024
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Across All Skies by cadmean
Fandoms: This is How You Lose the Time War - Amal El-Mohtar & Max Gladstone
17 Jul 2019
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Red and Blue weave the beginning of their own braid.
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12 Sep 2024
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“I don’t want this to be a competition,” Karlach says, and places her larger hand atop Lae’zel’s. Tav feels the heat of her palm against their scalp. A mischievous smile stretches across the tiefling’s face. “But it can be.”
“A worthy opponent you will make, Karlach. Nevertheless, I shall win.”
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12 Sep 2024
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He tried to forget Adam, to destroy Adam, in those dark early days of the curse. He still doesn't believe that man will ever come back. He wants no reminder of him.
"You can call me Beast," he tells her, his voice hard again, a cold challenge in his eyes as he meets hers. He finds a bitter satisfaction in the raw poetic symmetry of their names, both of them called exactly what they are, for Belle truly is a beauty, and he’s nothing more than an ugly creature now.
Belle frowns and opens her mouth as if she wants to protest, but shuts it again and smooths her face into a thoughtful expression instead. "Alright...Beast."
An exploration of how Belle uses his names and how that makes him feel as their relationship grows.
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11 Sep 2024
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Kaveh hates Alhaitham.
Who is Alhaitham, you ask? Only the most insufferable regular that the Alcarzarzaray coffee shop had ever seen.
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06 Sep 2024
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Cupcake by DreamDrop
Fandoms: League of Legends, Arcane: League of Legends (Cartoon 2021)
13 Nov 2021
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“So,” Vi casually started the conversation, her arm draped over the back of the chair on which she lounged, “women it is.”
Or Caitlyn and Vi have a talk.
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06 Sep 2024
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“Something always happens,” you say. “No matter how long I try to keep us in that hallway, we always open the door. We have to see things through. Just stopping, refusing to make a choice, that’s not an ending. It’s just a pause. And this place wants endings.”
She cocks her head to the side, thinking. “How does locking yourself in the basement fix any of that?” she asks after a moment.
“It doesn’t. But I didn’t want to kill you, and I knew he could make me kill you, so I wanted to take that option away. I didn’t want to die, because then this would start all over again. I didn’t want to leave you, and I don’t think I could even if I did. And I didn’t want us to leave, because then… Then I would lose you again.”
“So you picked an eternity of this,” she says, gesturing to the walls of the basement.
“I did,” you say.
You return to silence.
Again, the Princess breaks it.
"You're a coward."
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AKA The Prison of the Mind ending (where you get stuck in the basement and wait out eternity) but you and the Princess actually TALK, because Prisoner said she didn't like small talk and I thought that was a missed opportunity.
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06 Sep 2024
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come into the water by theletterv (badletter)
Fandoms: ダンジョン飯 | Dungeon Meshi | Delicious in Dungeon
22 Dec 2021
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she is alive, and she is alive because of marcille. it’s something she feels dizzy with for a moment; the satisfaction of her achievement, the culmination of her love.
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20 Aug 2024
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“I mean, do you ever stop and think about who your anonymous friend might be?" Tighnari says. "Or like, maybe it’s someone you already know or some random guy in one of your classes.”
“No,” Kaveh says, thinking. “With my luck, if I did know him already, then he would probably be the worst person I know. Someone like Al-Haitham.” The thought is so absurd that he stops and laughs. “But that would be fucking awful.”
In Kaveh's humble opinion, the title for The Worst Guy In The World is tied between four people: the asshole in his Tuesday eight am, the employee behind the library email account, the guy writing the university's advice column, and the student that the professor he assists always complains about.
It would only be too convenient if they were all the same person. (They are.)
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20 Aug 2024
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gotta be down because i want it all by gnimmish
Fandoms: Arcane: League of Legends (Cartoon 2021)
20 Nov 2021
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Vi lets Caitlyn say things to her that she would never, ever take from anyone else.
“You’re wrong.”
“You acted rashly.”
“Perhaps there is a way to resolve this without punching someone.”But also. You know. Other stuff. Embarrassing stuff.
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18 Aug 2024
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The languid sweep of a broom; the textured turn of a page. A melody Kaveh doesn’t recognize overhead, barely audible, notes of a piano suggesting a moment out of time yet residing congruently. Something that would play in the quiet of one’s kitchen once a night of entertaining has ended, the cleaning has finished, and all that’s left is the fading echo of companionship and the gentle temptation of a warm bed.
Kaveh pauses in his cleaning. If Alhaitham caught his stare, it would definitely give him away—it’s missed, thankfully, thus Kaveh permits his gaze to take its time. Alhaitham’s got that dent between his brows again; something in his book must be vexing him.
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During the first rain of spring, Kaveh meets his most intruiging customer.
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14 Aug 2024
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keep on walking, come what will by strangehunger
Fandoms: She-Ra and the Princesses of Power (2018)
29 May 2020
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“Aren’t you two—”
“If you’re done talking about Adora and Catra getting married,” says Entrapta, with all the subtlety and tact of a sledgehammer, “I have calculated the voltage needed…”
Wherever the rest of Entrapta’s sentence is going to go, it falls away. The whole room falls away as understanding hits Catra like a bolt of lightning, an electrifying shock to her system that leaves her reeling. Getting married? Her and Adora? Questions well up on her tongue — What? Why? — and she doesn’t realize she has fumbled through those fragmented inquiries until Frosta answers her.
“Um. You’re wearing Adora’s pin.”
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Adora and Catra get engaged. If only someone would tell them.- Language:
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05 Aug 2024
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The toddler began to cry, and then he started to cough from trying to cry too hard, snot dripping down his face. Another adult came hurrying over to help him to his feet before they went inside to head, presumably, to the nurse’s office.
Loud, chaotic, dirty. Everything that went against Al-Haitham’s standards.
“Working here as what?” Kaveh blinked. “Like admin or something? That’s probably quiet and far enough from kids for you. Though—”
“No,” interrupted Al-Haitham. “I don’t.”
After getting fired from a prestigious architecture firm, Kaveh moves back to his hometown to raise his five-year-old brother only to find that an old college "acquaintance" is his little brother's kindergarten teacher.
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04 Aug 2024
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Al-Haitham hums, sitting back in his seat. His eyes get that look they always do when he's thinking– at least that had stayed the same– before he put his hands in his pockets.
“You can stay with me, if you'd like,” he says all too casually as he pulls a hand back out his pocket. “For the time being,” he adds on a little too quickly, “until you manage to get yourself out of the mess you’ve made.”
Kaveh was about to open his mouth to protest. Like he'd ever take an offer from him, especially with that attitude.
But then Al-Haitham slides a key across the table to him–golden, with emerald embellishments, a carbon copy of the soulmark on Kaveh's arm– and the words on his lips dissipate into the warm tavern air.
with art by @art_iram21!! :)
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26 Jul 2024
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“One of those Rtawahist scholars that’s always floating about.” Kaveh points in the direction of the front door. “They saw me just outside here.”
“So?”
“What if they figure out that I’m–” He chokes slightly before clearing his throat. “–living here?”
“I don’t see how that’s a problem.” Alhaitham leaves out the fact that everyone probably already knows, considering Kaveh announced it himself to a large crowd of scholars in the tavern last week.
“I need you to…” Kaveh winces as he pinches the bridge of his nose. “I need you to leave a mark on me. On my neck, ideally, so people can see it.”
“Excuse me?”
Kaveh doesn’t want anyone to figure out that he’s living with Alhaitham, so he comes up with an alternative story as to why he’s always seen outside his door.
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12 Jul 2024
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They stay that way for a long time, Catra’s face tucked into Adora’s shoulder, Adora gently cradling Catra’s head. Adora is careful not to hug Catra too hard or make her feel restrained, anticipating the moment that Catra will start to pull away — but Catra doesn’t. She hangs on so tightly it hurts, her claws digging through Adora’s jacket and into her back, latching into her like she did when she was a kitten and didn’t know how much her claws could hurt. Adora tries not to wince, tries not to move a single muscle, worried that if she does the spell will break and Catra will struggle away, appalled at having shown weakness.
But Catra doesn’t let go. And so neither does Adora.
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11 Jul 2024
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catwithabat u think ur so hipster but u just look like a lesbian
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she_ra @catwithabat bc… i’m a lesbian. lmao
5mor: how calling her crush gay online got catra a date to prom
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- Part 1 of what’s that cee lo green song
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11 Jul 2024
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i talk and talk about love, but it's above the clouds by pyresque
Fandoms: 原神 | Genshin Impact (Video Game)
03 Mar 2021
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As the sole Outrider, Amber prides herself on her ability to agilely traverse Mondstadt's wilderness with ease. And yet somehow, she still finds herself stumbling over her feet, heel cracking over a branch, and she gasps when suddenly, she's meeting the keen gaze of two golden eyes.
or, one summer night, Amber meets a girl whose hair reminds her of starlight.
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- Part 2 of alstroemeria; genshin impact
- Part 8 of acacia; genshin impact
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05 Jul 2024
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“Welcome home.” Alhaitham stands in the foyer, arms uncrossing to help Kaveh bring his mother’s bag onto the floor.
She looks to her son, then back at Alhaitham, then back to Kaveh again, brows knit in confusion.
“I, er… I suppose I should explain. Mother, this is my—” He pauses, hiding the way he falters behind an awkward cough.
“Alhaitham.”
Due to an unexpected visit from his mother, Kaveh asks Alhaitham to pretend to be more than his roommate. The week ends up being more than either of them bargained for.
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- Part 1 of safe and stranded + epilogue
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05 Jul 2024
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among all the lights i've seen so far by pyresque
Fandoms: 原神 | Genshin Impact (Video Game)
27 Dec 2020
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She's standing in Grand Master Varka's office, and this beautiful young woman has extended her hand in greeting as Lisa reaches out to meet her halfway. Their fingers brush, familiar purple sparks blossoming like flowers in the spring, and a small gasp escapes Lisa's lips.
or, they're soulmates. only Lisa knows, though.
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- Part 5 of acacia; genshin impact
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29 Jun 2024