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Ed keeps the gun trained on him. “You think you know a lot about me.” His finger skims the side of the trigger. “I used to think I knew things, too. Funny how that goes.” Straightening up, Ed aims like he means it. For the first time in a long time, looking at him inspires a real, honest fear in Stede. “Jack was right. We are all just in various stages of fucking each other over.”
He's forgotten how to breathe. He opens his mouth, but his throat’s closed up. Regret carves ugly scratches in his heart.
“It’s been fun, Bonnet. But I was always going to bury you in the drink.”
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What will losing Akechi feel like, this time? Will it be like dying? Disappearing? Falling asleep? Will Akechi have time for last words? Or will the world reset like a clock wound backwards, all at once with no room for goodbyes?
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just a ghost out of his grave by gendernoncompliant
Fandoms: Roswell New Mexico (TV 2019)
31 Oct 2021
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“Today, we’re in the home of a very disturbed young man from Roswell, New Mexico. The Peyton family claims that their brushes with the supernatural began not long after they started fostering young Michael.”
One mistake and they were all toast. Him, Isobel, Max. Their secret, their lives, it could all come crashing down around them and it would be his fault. Because he couldn’t keep a lid on his powers. Because he couldn’t ever fit in. Because no matter what he did or said, nobody ever wanted to keep him.
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This is Harrier de Bois on a godforsaken island, laid on his belly on a stinking mattress in the cold. His hands are steady, dangerously so. He was a man once, but now he is following orders. Privately, he begs for a flinch, for a tremble. But no one is listening to grant it to him.
The shot startles birds from their perches. Somewhere, very far away, a woman is trying not to scream. -
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The Rouge gains a reputation for being a place you can’t leave without a full stomach and an armful of leftovers. Anyone who tries to tease Duke about it gets treated to that signature grin and a playful, “Well, you know what they say about idle hands,” and another box of leftovers on principle.
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These days, Basch feels like an extra limb on the body of Archadia. He might have felt more at home in Lady Ashe’s court, helping to rebuild Dalmasca in the wake of the war. But Dalmasca no longer needs him. And as the months go on, neither it seems does the House of Solidor. But he mans his post, even when he finds little comfort in it. For the good of Archadia. For the good of Ivalice. For the brother he lost long before he buried him.
He is a man of his word even if he is no longer Basch fon Ronsenburg.
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When the unrelenting pace of revolution has finally slowed to a crawl, will you be able to live with the things you’ve done in the name of freedom?
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Nathan rolls his eyes. A smile plays across his face and before Duke can ask what the joke is, he finds himself tugged forward by the belt loops. Suddenly, Nathan’s barely a breath away from him.
For a second, Duke’s brain stops working entirely. When it catches up, a dozen possibilities hit him all at once. A prank? A trouble? Another shapeshifter? The start to a really weird, really intimate fistfight? Hell, maybe he’s still at the Gull, passed out over the counter, having an extremely vivid dream. But Nathan feels real—as real as he did a decade ago, before the fight that tore them apart.
(or: Duke finds out the hard way that a past with Nathan could mean a future without Audrey.)
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stand taller when you're on your knees by gendernoncompliant for lexiesaurus
Fandoms: Haven (TV)
17 Nov 2020
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Duke kisses like he’ll never be kissed again. He buries his fingers in the hair at the nape of Dwight’s neck and makes him shiver from the touch. He licks behind his teeth, pushes forward into his lap. Dwight loves having to tip his head back to look up at Duke. It’s a little embarrassing, really, just how often he’d happily put himself on his knees for the privilege.
He won’t admit to that just yet; it can be his own secret.
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“I suppose it's difficult to explain what it means to be alive to a boy whose grown up amongst the dead.” Nyx reaches out and straightens your laurel. Her fingers feel cool and soft against your temple, like silk. “Mortals are—permanent and finite. Their lives are very short but very full. And the shades are imprints of that old life. Do you understand, Zagreus?”
You don’t understand, but you nod anyway—because she is a safe, good thing and when she speaks you want to listen. But you cannot imagine a life separate from this one.The walls of your world are still so very tall.
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- Part 1 of no place in the stars
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Nathan’s no good with words; never has been. But he doubts there’s anything either of them could say in this moment that Duke would actually accept—no platitude or reassurance that he wouldn’t shrug off or find a way to twist backwards into a joke. So, they wait. And Duke marches ahead like he’s trying to push through it as quickly as he can stand to. Part of Nathan almost wishes Audrey hadn’t convinced Duke to tell the story.
But if Mara was going to hear it, then they needed to too.
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Zagreus is her son, but Persephone is no mother.
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THIS HERE IS NOT SINGING || I'M JUST SCREAMING IN TUNE by gendernoncompliant
Fandoms: Hades (Video Game 2018)
10 Oct 2020
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Alecto reveled in the violence, driven forward by a smug sadism. Megaera enjoyed it and resented it in equal measure. Tisiphone never liked it. Not in those words. She needed it. She starved without it: purpose amidst a meaningless infinity. As the centuries raged on, Tisiphone saw the underbelly of the world of man—and she bled it.
Punishment was what she was born for. Built for. She took to it with fervor.
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Than breaks the silence with a frustrated sound. “If you won’t stand and fight then you’re wasting my time,” he snaps. The prickly tone disguises something deeper. “Unlike some of us, I have a job to do.”
Zagreus doesn’t ask him to stay. The two of them have long since unlearned how to navigate asking for what they want (if they were ever any good at it to begin with). He nods and runs his fingers over the cool, Elysian grass.
“It’s greener on the surface,” he says. His own words startle a laugh from him. “Literally greener on the other side.”
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Your mother’s goodbye doesn’t even mention you. You wonder if you were born at all—or if you were, instead, spun upon the wheel of the Fates to be woven into a story that was never yours to begin with.
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- Part 2 of no place in the stars
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he's a regular disney princess by gendernoncompliant for fountainfeatherwind
Fandoms: Haven (TV)
24 Sep 2020
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The bear lets out a low, confused bellow and drops onto all fours. The motion puts its face horrifically close to Duke's, the puff of breath from its nose enough to blow the hair out of his face. Duke throws his arms in front of him, squeezes his eyes closed, and wishes he’d kept a better track of religion so he’d have a god to pray to.
(Duke never signed up to be some bargain bin Snow White. But apparently, he doesn’t get a say in the matter.)
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They’re quiet for a moment, before Audrey awkwardly bumbles her way through a murmured, “That was a good thing you did today, for Henry.”
Duke keeps sweeping, but he aims something that looks suspiciously like a smile down at the floor. “Yeah, well. When I was his age, I didn’t have a choice, you know?” He says. “Kid had options. Would’ve been stupid to let him waste it.”
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you're a possum living in the trashcan of my heart (you're a possum in my heart) by gendernoncompliant
Fandoms: Haven (TV)
23 Aug 2020
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Seth’s really starting to rub off on him. Not in the fun way, either.
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Duke shakes his head with a laugh. “I don’t think he’s smoked since we were teenagers. Poor asshole’s shaking hands with god.”
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Three people Duke’s in love with get handcuffed to a table. There isn't any punchline. Which is too bad, because he really, really, really would much rather that this were the setup to a joke.