9 Works by falteringstar
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Victoria Javadi wakes up on her first day at the ED. Again.
And then again.
And then again.
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“Please don’t tell me the first person who ever touched your dick was Dr. Robby.”
“Um.” He coughs.
“Oh my god I’m gonna fucking die.”
Santos tries to solve Whitaker’s sexual hangups. Whitaker tries to save Robby’s soul. Neither initiative goes exactly to plan.
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nothing alive can be calculated by falteringstar
Fandoms: House of the Dragon (TV), A Song of Ice and Fire & Related Fandoms
24 Oct 2024
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The child, such as it was, would not weep.
He, Larys, wailed, yes, he sobbed— but never once wept. Even in his infancy he would not allow his tears to be solemn or grand, or grateful, or polite. He would scream for his rightful keep. He would twist the nipple of his wet nurse in his tiny red fist until it bruised, and she would have to hide her grin. More, he seemed to always be saying, more. He would howl with the gargoyles and spoil the household’s suppers. They all thought he would die. Some of them might have even hoped for it.
No— he would take what he required.
A troubled boyhood, taxidermied. -
where the mountains bend by falteringstar
Fandoms: A Song of Ice and Fire - George R. R. Martin, A Song of Ice and Fire & Related Fandoms
17 May 2024
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During their attempted escape from the wildlings’ eyes, a raven crows at an inopportune time, causing Jon Snow to flinch and lose his footing on a cliffside. He falls on his sword hand and shatters his fingerbones. In lieu of better options, Qhorin Halfhand kills him and gives himself over to the other side.
To Mance, who knew him once.
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“Dustin?” he manages, when he finally catches his breath. It’s all he can think to say. Not what are you doing here? Not how did you know where to find me? Not why did you just crash your own car into a lamppost?
It’s not like Dustin was ever the answerable kind of question.
Dustin spits some blood to his left and breaks out into an uneasy smile. He limps forward, leaning on Will’s shoulder. His breath comes out in hasty wheezes. “Been driving three days straight,” he says, like that explains it. “Can I sleep in your bed?”
Then he faints into Will’s arms.
It’s the fall of 1994. Will starts a new life in San Francisco under a pseudonym, seeking refuge from his past. Dustin works for the feds, clearing up the last ghostly traces of the Upside Down.
Until the details of a strange new case force him to bring Will in under investigation.
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the body is a blade by falteringstar
Fandoms: A Song of Ice and Fire & Related Fandoms, A Song of Ice and Fire - George R. R. Martin
06 May 2021
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Jon’s throat felt rough, like soil. “You were hurt.”
Satin’s smile then was wry, nearly sardonic. “I was trying to protect you.” He looked at his hands, black eyes wet in the firelight. “Too late.”
“No, you weren’t,” Jon said.
The last stars winked down.
Jon Snow rises catatonic from his tomb three days into the siege of Hardin’s Tower. Satin, sworn to protect his lord, takes him north of the Wall where the Watch will not look for them.To care for the dead is a thankless task.
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noli me tangere by falteringstar
Fandoms: A Song of Ice and Fire - George R. R. Martin, A Song of Ice and Fire & Related Fandoms
13 Dec 2020
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One of the women at his brothel who’d helped raise him was from Lys. She worshipped a love god named Yndros that was both male and female at once, and she was the most beautiful woman in all of Oldtown, or so Satin thought when he was seven. Once, he’d asked her how you were supposed to pray to Yndros, and she smiled serenely and said in a fading accent, “You don’t, sweetling. You just have to allow yourself to love and be loved. That’s what prayer is.” She dabbed at his nose with a cloth. “When we love, boy, that’s the gods speaking back to us. In their sweet tongues.”
She was killed in an alley a year later.
Satin finds himself in a precarious new position. If it weren't such an honour, it might prove desperately inconvenient. -
the fool by falteringstar
Fandoms: A Song of Ice and Fire - George R. R. Martin, A Song of Ice and Fire & Related Fandoms
22 May 2020
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What was the Night’s Watch? Protection from nothing. The shadow of a wall. A cell in the open air for men with problems.
What was the Night’s Watch? A home for orphans and cutthroats and sad old men. An imaginary line in the sand, in the soil, in the sea. Towers made of rust. A set of words, named oaths, that singed your skin. A gaol, or maybe a noose. Likely both.
Castle Black is a pot boiling over. The great ranging has left a paltry force behind, Grenn is gone, and Pyp is having bad dreams. -
we don't need roads (IT, chapter three) by falteringstar
Fandoms: IT - Stephen King, IT (Movies - Muschietti)
07 Dec 2019
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“This is gonna sound so fuckin’ stupid, Bev.”
She lets herself laugh. “Oh, coming from you.”
“You’re not gonna believe me.” He’s serious.
“We’ve done a lot of things we don’t really believe.”
Time’s a flat circle. Someone’s torn a hole right through it.
Lucky.(A technically canon-compliant time travel threequel, featuring a cross-country road trip, the power of friendship, my own gay rage, metatextuality, erotic dishwashing, and an extremely generous definition of what exactly a deadlight is.)