10 Works by hobbylantern
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distinct by one dim shade by fensandmarshes, hobbylantern
Fandoms: Moon Knight (TV 2022)
27 May 2024
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Dissociation — garden-variety, Steven jokes, just that staticky tug down into the distance — has high and low tides. It surges when something is upsetting; it recedes when Steven smiles at someone on the street, or takes in the different colours of tulip in the florist on the corner, or tastes salt or sweet or sour, or draws a hesitant, reverent hand across Layla’s hip. Mostly, when Steven draws back, Marc is pulled forwards. Other times, they just ... go blank, drift. When that darkness comes, though, there’s something like autopilot that lives in their body and passes for human: a set of reflexes that smiles, nods yes or shakes no, insists “I’m all good, mate” when pressed.
It’s not an alter. Steven knows the difference. But he feels it in their limbs and nerves, this doll of a thing; feels the way Marc beat those reactions into himself until he could tell anyone he wanted that nothing was wrong, running off of habit and instinct and fear, no matter how far the tide had pulled him under. -
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Pain has always begun in Marc's lower back. From there, it's a network of scar tissue and old breaks and skin made tough through trial after trial: the cold radiates through their bones and sets them all to aching. Steven jokes that they're getting old.
"We think," he says hoarsely, painfully conscious of the gravel of his own voice where Steven's is so different, "someone is still - well - one of us is still going out as Moon Knight."
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Niki had had a quiet childhood. In the backwards reaches of the Earth Kingdom, she had grown up surrounded by stone and peace; she’s told it had taken weeks for the news to even reach them that the old water Avatar had died. She, of course, was too young to remember. Niki had been born in early spring, as the earth began to blossom around her, and the stone had known her name.
Avatar Niki AU.
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If any part of them can be happy, Layla muses, it must be Imogen. For the love of all good things, the girl is made of her smile - out of place on Marc’s craggy, lined face, even despite the crows’ feet Steven wears more tightly when he’s at front. But there’s a solemness to her, some depth to her movement and patterns of shadow, that reminds Layla she isn’t, could never have been, a real child.
“Marc thinks you’re very pretty,” she says once, knowledgeably, as though sharing a secret. She and Layla are sitting at their kitchen counter together - Imogen had been delighted by the barstools, and the fact that she was tall enough to reach them - sipping smoothies Layla had blended up, banana and yoghurt and strawberry. (Imogen had flinched at the noise, then soothed herself quickly, rubbing hands up and down the fabric of her jeans.) “He says it like it’s a secret so I thought I’d tell you. Cos it’s funny.”
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Because I could not stop for Death (he kindly stopped for me) by hobbylantern
Fandoms: Dream SMP
15 Mar 2023
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The Witcher rides along a silent, stormy road. There are dark clouds ahead of him and dark towns behind. His mount’s hooves strike the stones, echoing in the absence of any other sound; even the chirping insects and small creatures by the roadside are silent for the Witcher’s passage.
Technoblade’s never much liked the whole imposing air he gives off when he’s travelling, but it is what it is.
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Eret is vulnerable this morning; the others, she thinks, are close to front. But she has tea scheduled with Niki, and she promised that she'd try to be friends again.
(Eret didn't want to mention to Niki that she was exploring her newly-rediscovered plurality, much less to have a little let that slip for her. Niki, though, does her best to understand.)
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- Part 2 of cognationem inter nos!
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Jake was pressure. A shifting in the corners of his eyes, an urge to hold his shoulders slightly hunched, a lightness at his hip like some familiar weight was missing - his faint presence just beyond front, and Marc was bitterly familiar with it. He would like to say he felt guilty about lying to Steven, but he’d done it before and he’d do it again - it was for the best.
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Something is a little different this morning, and Eret isn't quite feeling like herself. She goes to Foolish, and finds someone else in his place.
(An old headmate of Eret's finds their way back to front, only to discover that Eret doesn't remember them or the system. Luckily, the Totem System is there to help.)
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- Part 1 of cognationem inter nos!
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A thousand echoes, each one singing by hobbylantern for CorporealGhost
Fandoms: Dream SMP
05 Jan 2022
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Technoblade's not alone in prison - Dream's there, of course, but he also has Chat for company. Dream doesn't think very highly of this.
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It's been too long since Techno and Phil have seen each other. They relearn each others' presence.