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While the story ends, life carries on.
Episodic chapters relating to Charmer's trauma as a result of the Institute and Shaun's upbringing in the Commonwealth. Nothing's ever easy.
Takes place post l'Appel du Vide.
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- Part 4 of A Kind of Blindness
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noun: the remembering of things from a supposed previous existence
In his moments of melancholy a part of him tasted bitterness to understand how many parts of him were scattered to the wind. An unraveling shawl, endless loose threads that just would not stop, and soon enough his melancholy turned to anger and its cause was forgotten.
So it was for centuries, until dragons returned to Tamriel - and with them, the Dragonborn.
For the first time Sheogorath could remember all the endless noise and costumes came to a standstill. Standing on Tamriel once more, under the shadow of dragon wings, one of the loose threads of his mind was pulled tight and plucked.
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4/24/25 - New epilogue in honor of the remaster.
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A two year tour wiping out the rest of the Legion wrecks hell on the mind. Due to declining performance and deteriorating mental state, Boone finds himself on the steps of a Followers of the Apocalypse clinic with two options: he can try to put his mind back together, or he can find himself a new vocation.
With the Courier gone for good, it's harder than he'd ever thought possible.
(Part of a series, but can be read standalone)
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- Part 3 of A Kind of Blindness
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Varúð - icelandic, 'caution'.
Perhaps their fate was written in the Elder Scrolls themselves, immutable, unchangeable. Perhaps they knew all along it all could only end in tears, but in the final days after the Great Gate's opening there is a force yet greater that draws them together in spite of all they know speaking doom.
(A telling of the Great Gate to Light the Dragonfires.)
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Thief and hero. Dunmer and Nord. Aching scar and bleeding heart. Despite their differences, Tandreth and Idunn keep meeting. The son of the Nerevarine has seen what becomes of heroes, and battles his own fears to save a woman kissed by Kyne from her fate.
There is no escaping Akatosh's firstborn, nor the end of time.
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Three fics done for Whumptober 2020. Short Charon x Lone stories plus one multichapter.
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Goodbye to Sleep by hartstrings
Fandom Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines (Video Game)
25 May 2022
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Nines helps Mary, a human woman, escape a bad situation. To his horror, five years later she returns to him as the nosferatu fledgling he put his neck on the line for. Together they try to hold onto what glimmers of humanity are left to them - and reconsider what a monster truly is.
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A Kind of Blindness by hartstrings
Fandom Fallout (Video Games), Fallout 4, Fallout: New Vegas
03 Jan 2026
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A courier and a woman out of time make their mark on the wastes. Spanning from New Vegas to post Fallout 4.
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Adrift in her marriage and tasked with negotiating nuclear war, Barb reaches across latitudes for her best friend.
Nora resents and represents flighty divorce cases while heartsick during Jack's deployment to Anchorage.
A former teenage runaway on her sixth personal reinvention, Stephanie takes a minimum wage Vault-Tec internship to make ends meet between roles that aren't calling. At least, that's what she tells coworkers.
Stories about capitalism, police states and pretending to carry on like normal through the end of the world. Told through handmade diaries, telegrams, advertisements for 35$ hot dogs, tabloid headlines, terminal entries, Pip-Boy messages, notes from management, letters from friends, nastygrams from the credit card company and other ephemera documenting pre-Great War life.
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Yours & Mine (darling, we'll be fine) by bittybelle
Fandoms: Teen Titans (Animated Series), Teen Titans - All Media Types, DC Animated Universe
11 May 2016
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Robin and Starfire sleep together. Literally.
Bookmarked by hartstrings
15 Jan 2025
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Sten paused in the polishing of his sword. “I did not think to ask before. Why did you decide to join me?”
Yara smiled. Everyone had asked her why she was following Sten back to Par Vollen, but her answer always remained the same.
“I don’t know,” she said.
He studied her intently for a moment, then went back to polishing his blade. “This is unheard of, kadan. Qunari always know their purpose.”
“I know,” she said. “But I’m not qunari.”
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Also known as: a quiet, contemplative slow burn during the ship ride from Denerim to Par Vollen, with eventual smut between Warden Yara Mahariel and Sten. Because I’m incapable of writing smut sans feelings, apparently.Bookmarked by hartstrings
05 Dec 2024
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Theirs was a love story, but it didn’t start out that way.
Bookmarked by hartstrings
29 Jun 2023
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“Do you want me to come back?” she asks.
He takes a long, open-mouthed breath. His eyes are smiling; his shoulders rise and fall.
He pierces her heart.
“If you want to.”
An exploration of the years following Jimmy and Kim's reunion in 6.13. Gradually, they learn to trust and take comfort in each other again, and they grow together in ways they could never have anticipated. NSFW content begins in Chapter 4.
Contains artwork by two wonderful artists in Chapters 11 and 19! (Artwork is SFW.)
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Bookmarked by hartstrings
22 Aug 2022