16 Bookmarks by golbat
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When Maelle brings Gustave back, there is a look in his eyes. Mutable and poised. Verso thinks he understands, but he underestimates it. And when he is lured into a darkened alleyway outside the central square, he expects anything but a gun to his head.
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Verso discovers that Gustave was painted with some of Julie's memories, and he is forced to confront every decision he has ever made in the name of the Dessendre family.
On the cusp of summer, an expedition begins.
An epilogue to Maelle's ending.
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16 Nov 2025
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Maelle looks at the mirror shards scattered across the floor, a disarray of sharp and jagged pieces that can never be put back together again. "I know you’re not him..." she admits in a shaky whisper. Her tear-filled eyes find Verso, the blues and greys of paint starting to unravel the edges of them, mocking him. "But you deserve to be happy,” she says. We deserve to be happy, she means.
“I deserve to be myself,” Verso says, and it sounds like a plea more than anything else. The skin around his left eye aches, as if it’s waiting for his scar’s return.
Maelle sighs before she sweeps her hand through the air, calling for her rapier. It appears in a flutter of gold petals, glimmering in the dim light of the bathroom. Her eyes are cast in shadow and her disappointed smile is somewhat crooked. "Alright. Let's try again."
or: Maelle wants a happy end for everyone she cares about, and she will keep trying until even Verso gets it right.
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13 Nov 2025
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“Well,” Maelle asks brightly, “what did you think?”
The pianist seemed familiar, somehow, though he is quite certain they’d never actually met before.
“His music was very beautiful,” is what Gustave eventually settles on, “but he seemed - a little sad. Didn’t he?”
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11 Nov 2025
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Fathomless by Sroloc_Elbisivni
Fandoms: Transformers - All Media Types, Transformers Generation One
05 Feb 2023
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Prowl has been exiled from court and ordered to solve the mystery of the Rust Sea, which has been missing from the surface of Cybertron for longer than he's been alive.
Jazz is drowning on dry land on the other side of the world.
Once upon a time, before Jazz was born, the Rust Sea covered a swathe of Cybertron bigger than the territory of any city-state except Iacon. The sea had been more powerful than any engine besides the one at the heart of the planet itself, big enough to swallow a metrotitan in its depths, the birthplace of storms.
Thing is, none of that was Jazz. He doesn’t remember those days, before he was himself, except in his dreams.
And his dreams are terrifying.
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03 Nov 2025
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Scandinavia, 795 AD
At the advent of the Viking Age, the lone heir to the throne of a minor Gaelic kingdom falls victim to a Norse raid and is brought to Norway. Amidst a desperate fight for survival in a foreign land, a crisis of faith and bound by duty to the fate of his homeland, he’s forced to confront the blight he was groomed to hide for a lifetime.
Because Fáelán, the blessed miracle of his bloodline and supposed salvation and peace-bringer, isn't what he pretends to be.
He is no Alpha.
He's Omega.
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- Part 1 of Historically Accurate Omegaverse
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21 Oct 2025
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I suppose that I look different (without the robes and crown) by WingedWolf121
Fandoms: Merlin (TV)
16 May 2020
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When Arthur blows the horn of Cathbdhah for the second time, the horn doesn’t just send Uther to the other world. It sends Arthur away as well – to a world where Ygraine never died, the Great Purge never happened, and magic lives freely at court. As do those who practice it.
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Golden, beautiful, charming, pompous Arthur, drawing everyone to him like moths to a flame. She thinks of how he is the only other person in the world who understands what it's like to be Uther Pendragon's child, to crave the approval of that looming shadow and want to break free of it in the same breath. She hates him. She hates him. She hates him.
It’s only part of the truth, even now.
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I'll Be Your Ceiling by dog (cb_c)
Fandoms: The Hundred Line -Last Defense Academy- (Video Game)
13 Jun 2025
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Everyday is like the day before, until a mysterious force shifts and brings Takumi and Eito's memories together. Is there any common ground the two can stand on? Or will they cannibalize each other before they can make their real feelings known?
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08 Jul 2025
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Dielectric Breakdown by Jessepinwheel
Fandoms: Star Wars - All Media Types, Star Wars Prequel Trilogy, Star Wars: The Clone Wars (2008) - All Media Types
06 Sep 2021
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Cody had always believed the best of his General--strong, steadfast, and loyal. That is, until Obi-Wan suddenly assassinated the Supreme Chancellor and vanished without a trace, leaving the Republic scrambling in the fallout.
Five years later, Cody is still trying to pick up the pieces and understand why Obi-Wan betrayed them all.
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24 May 2025
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The killing game had ended, though his imprisonment had not. Last night, after the 14th body had been discovered, Tozu had appeared and announced that throughout the chaos they had managed to survive, and therefore won by default.
“Of course, since you took the easy way out we won’t be allowing you to leave our facility. No, instead Mara and I will skedaddle and leave you to your own devices. No more motives, no more trials, no more darling host. You’ve shown yourselves to be complacent, so here you shall stay! Don’t worry! You will continue to be stocked with all the essentials, so you can continue to live here for the rest of your lives.”
Easy. Right.
When the games began, Tozu promised they would end if there were only two students left. The games are over but Damon certainly isn’t free.
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30 Jan 2025
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Perhaps he was being granted visions. It wasn’t uncommon for Crick to dream of people he didn’t know, but for it to be the same man thrice over felt like too much to be simple coincidence. If his dreams were, indeed, visions, then it could be that Aelfric himself was warning him of something. Or, else, guiding him.
The inquisitor with silvery-white hair and such a sad smile… something about him was important.
He had to be.
In which a newly anointed Sanctum Knight is sent to the village of Flamechurch on his first assignment and meets the man of his (literal) dreams.
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29 Nov 2024
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Feeling adrift after the downfall of the Sacred Guard, Crick spends time with each of his fellow travelers, learning about their jobs and perhaps a little about himself in the process.
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28 Nov 2024
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It was an act of appalling, ghastly cruelty that, had Arthur not been so horribly in love with him, he might never have noticed Merlin was a sorcerer.
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Daan traveled to Prehevil with no intention of ever returning alive. His new friends seem determined to keep him breathing -- no matter the cost.
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05 Aug 2023
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It turns out that when your mother is possessed by an evil brain slug who doesn’t have a real gender, she’s more likely to let you transition. The only tradeoff is that you’ll feel really weird about it later. And when your boyfriend is an alien and you’re fighting a space war, it really makes you reevaluate how important your gender is in the grand scheme of things.
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- Part 9 of Lies Agreed Upon
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21 Jun 2022
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post-mortem conversations by jihnari
Fandoms: 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia
17 Apr 2021
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"It really doesn't have anything to do with you," Hawks tries to explain, which obviously backfires.
"The fuck it doesn't!" Dabi lunges forward, grabs the collar of Hawks' compression shirt and yanks Hawks up to growl in his face. "You murder someone for me, you do something that could get you killed, for me, and it doesn't have anything to do with me?"
"Okay," admits Hawks, "When you put it like that—"
Hawks make a series of regrettable decisions.