12 Bookmarks by letsstickwithsam
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The Willingness to Walk Away, The Courage to Try Again by Barakis
Fandoms: Arcane: League of Legends (Cartoon 2021)
24 Nov 2024
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You let go for them, to save them from themselves. Otherwise, they’ll never find the strength to do it on their own, Vi realizes, and that realization only adds to her pain and heaving sobs. Jinx understood what Vi didn’t. She saw what her big sister couldn’t until it was too late. That in order to break the cycle of pain and violence, one of them needed to have the strength to walk away.
And that person was never going to be Vi.
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Post finale. In the aftermath of war, healing begins, and the hope of building something new remains. Perhaps Jinx isn't so lost after all.Bookmarked by letsstickwithsam
24 Nov 2024
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Everything feels the same, and everything feels different, all at once. Because the victory, the heart-pounding elation of fighting the Crone and rescuing Airk and actually doing it, that's incredible. It's everything Kit ever wanted. Everything her bones knew she needed when she'd dreamt about having adventures. But it fades, quickly. Into sore shoulders and bruised ribs and the realization that they have to sleep and eat so badly.
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(Kit and Jade and Elora and the long journey back from the Immemorial City, sorting out all the things that love and home can mean.)
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- Part 1 of and her light stretches (willow ot3 au)
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26 May 2023
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“D-do you think scars are sexy, or gross?”
Aloy’s heart flipped for a different reason. “What?”
“You h-heard me, sunwing.” Seyka forced a pained smile, but it was ruined by a gasp of pain.
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Or, scars carry stories, and Seyka just earned herself a new one... much to Aloy's irritation.
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02 May 2023
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A few months after the events in the Burning Shores, things in the Base have quieted down. With her companions having gone their separate ways for now, Aloy works with Beta and GAIA to prepare for the upcoming fight. That is until Alva shows up with Seyka. And if trying to navigate the unknown terrain of being in a relationship wasn't enough for Aloy, a few familiar faces show up at the Base, asking for her help in finding some missing Tenakth, who have seemingly vanished without a trace.
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- Part 1 of The Missing
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29 Apr 2023
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Now that Londra is defeated, Aloy's real work to destroy Nemesis begins.
Part of that work is NOT falling head over heels for the gorgeous, headstrong Quen sailor that she absolutely does NOT want to kiss right on the lips.
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28 Apr 2023
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Beatrice (unhinged, pretending to be extremely hinged) needs a date for her rich family's Christmas holiday. Ava (proudly out as an unhinged individual) wants to see what a rich person's Christmas holiday is like, and if it comes with an additional chance to fight homophobes, she's in. They've never met but they're also soulmates. Enjoy.
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20 Jan 2023
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“Some people think a soulmate is the person God creates for you. Others say it’s the soul yours has been drawn to time and time again, throughout multiple lives. Some even believe that each pair was formed during the creation of the universe itself.” Beatrice looks up at the sky, as though she might find an answer somewhere in the long dead stars hanging above them. “I’ve always liked that one, actually; that the particles ripped into being alongside each other formed a connection that would last as long as our universe did. I’m not sure it makes much sense in practice. But it sounds lovely.”
“Less cruel, at least,” Ava murmurs, and Beatrice turns at the sadness in her voice, drawing in a sharp breath when she sees the emotion so amplified in Ava’s eyes. “Because a god who created the whole soulmates thing in the first place, told you that you don’t get one, and then made you spend your entire life telling other people about theirs kind of sounds like a huge asshole, if you think about it.”
Which is, of course, why Beatrice so often tries not to think about it. Especially when Ava is looking at her the way she is now and she’s reminded of all the things she’ll never have (all the things she desperately wants).
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- English
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- 5/10
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16 Jan 2023
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a series of phone calls between ava & mother superion
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- Part 3 of we lived happily during the war
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06 Jan 2023
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Ava rolls over, shutting her brain off, and very carefully presses the palm of her hand on Beatrice’s waist.
Beatrice tenses immediately, a sharp intake of breath filling the otherwise quiet bedroom.
A few seconds pass with nothing and Ava starts to pull away, an apology on her lips, when Beatrice grabs her wrist. It’s so fast that Ava hardly registers what happened, but suddenly, she’s being pulled to the other side of the bed.
Ava lets it happen, helps, and now she’s hovering over Beatrice. She’s so close she can see the shine in her eyes, how wide they are and she can see them flicker to her lips and back up.
Bea’s made this move, it’s her turn now. Ava leans forward, giving Beatrice a chance to turn her away.
When she doesn’t, it’s game over. Their lips meet and every functioning part of Ava’s brain that might tell her there will be consequences to this completely disappear.
The world could set fire tonight and Ava would keep kissing her as the apartment collapsed around them.
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Ava and Bea hook up in Switzerland and everything is a mess because of it.
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- English
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- 13/13
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21 Dec 2022
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Because it turns out the Halo can want things now, sort of. Not the way a human would, with thoughts or motivation or articulable desires. The Halo wants things the way a tree wants water and shoves a taproot through flagstone to get it, which is all well and good for the tree, but less so for the idiot trying to keep her patio intact. Unfortunately for Ava, she’s both the idiot and the taproot. The flagstone is her dignity. The water – for reasons becoming rapidly and unavoidably apparent – is Beatrice.
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the one where the halo imprints on beatrice like a duckling and is dead-set on making it ava’s problem
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- Part 1 of sentient halo au
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- English
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- 9/9
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15 Dec 2022
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Ava would apologize but she’s not sorry at all: Beatrice is here, and Ava is tipsy, and the night is going great despite the fact that has perhaps possibly dug herself into a tiny financial hole betting on eight ball skills that she absolutely does not have.
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- Part 8 of happiness is a warm nun
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08 Dec 2022
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Home, to Ava, is flannel-backed chairs and worn quilts and lacy placemats and a rocking chair they find abandoned on the side of the road.
Home, to Beatrice, is Ava’s hand in her own as she drags Beatrice through the kitschy home store four towns over and Ava’s shout of triumph when she finds a matching set of salt and pepper shakers and Ava’s waggling eyebrows when they buy the bed that she (again) calls ours.
(Six days in Switzerland, and then a few more afterwards.)
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- Part 1 of happiness is a warm nun
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- English
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Bookmarked by letsstickwithsam
24 Nov 2022