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“What are you doing, Erwin?” Levi asks Erwin again, but this time it’s tired and just a little bit sad. “Wasting paradise talking to a ghost?”
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[PODFIC] Strangers in the Street by lightupstars
Fandoms: Captain America (Movies), Marvel Cinematic Universe
14 Aug 2020
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Bucky is eighteen, not stupid, so he shakes his head.
“No thanks, fella,” he says.
“I didn’t know you smoked,” the man says.
It’s such a funny thing to say that Bucky pauses, frowning. In between his fingers is the thin white cylinder, its ends neatly trimmed.
“You don’t know me,” he says.
“Maybe,” the man says. His voice is deep in a way that Bucky can’t catch, but can swallow. It rattles into him, a tenor so low it makes his jaw ache, warms him in the chilled night air. “I thought I did, once.”
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[PODFIC] Not Marble, nor the Gilded Monuments by lightupstars
Fandoms: Captain America (Movies)
11 Dec 2019
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It’s no less than he deserves, but it doesn’t make it any easier, every time he looks in a mirror and sees the Asset staring back.
When Steve turns him around, he shakes, afraid for a brief, bright moment that none of it will have made any difference; that he will look for humanity and still find a monster in return. But Steve stands by him and he is reminded that Steve is brave every day. So for him, Bucky can be brave too; he thinks, he will never earn any grace by being a coward.
Bucky looks up and meets his own eyes.
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A story of how Bucky Barnes learns to love himself again and how Steve shows him the way.
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[PODFIC] A Short Life and a Merry One, My Buck! by lightupstars
Fandoms: Captain America (Movies)
14 Aug 2019
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Bucky has given Steve his life, his friendship, his love, his hatred, his body—everything but his name. And yet Steve is still hungry. It's a slow poison. This urge to give more and more when he asks, and Steve never stops asking. He can feel it crawl through his veins as he’s slowly sucked dry. Steve never realized just how much of a hold he has on Bucky even without a name.
Steve Rogers can bend anyone to his will, so long as he knows their true name. But not Bucky. He won't ever let Steve have his name, even if it kills him.
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[PODFIC] Electric Hearts by lightupstars for crinklefries
Fandoms: Captain America (Movies), Marvel Cinematic Universe
02 Jul 2019
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Three hundred years ago, Earth was destroyed. Only by shipping offplanet and transitioning into robots does humanity survive--barely. Now, centuries later, what was once their saving grace, Androids, have become expendable. Distrusted, mistreated, and forcibly deactivated, Androids are under attack.
Steve, former human, political dissenter with an ardent love for fire, and now full Android with an inability to keep his goddamned mouth shut, is tired.
Bucky, former human, war survivor who was rescued from a self-loathing spiral out of a literal trash can, and now full Android with emotional turbulence, is lonely.
When the two meet, they find that living is not about what makes them robots, but the spark that makes them human.
But is it too little too late? Because to survive the threat of this new world together, it's possible that simply feeling human may not be enough. (Length- 8 hours)
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Suddenly, it snaps into place. The weary way Lan Zhan has been holding himself is suddenly cast in a new, much more distressing light. Somebody is responsible for it, a real live, horrible, blind, stupid person. The combination of guilt, sadness, and anger that sets in all at once is hard to contain. Lingering wisps of resentment that remain from the night-hunt flock to him, like calling to like.
All four boys stare at him with wide eyes.
“Wei-qianbei,” Sizhui says. “You look...um…”
“Scary,” Zizhen breathes, beaming.
“Who has rejected Lan Zhan?” Wei Wuxian asks.
Or; during one of his visits to the Cloud Recesses, the juniors strike a blow to Wei Wuxian's certainty that his feelings for Lan Wangji are one-sided.
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Post Mortem by Cataclysmic_Calamity
Fandoms: 魔道祖师 - 墨香铜臭 | Módào Zǔshī - Mòxiāng Tóngxiù
26 Jan 2023
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Life is a horror movie sometimes.
You ignore all the warning signs. You end up standing there in the final scene, covered in blood, contemplating your life choices.
Wei Ying is used to that.
But it’s harder when you’re in love with your best friend.
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27 May 2026
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That’s just the thing, isn’t it? Wei Ying feels nothing. He doesn’t feel anything, and this emptiness should scare him. He knows he should be scared. He wants to be scared. He isn’t. Fear itself is never scary; fear is just a response. It means that your body wants you alive. It’s the absence of terror that scares him.
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Always Light My Way by cqlorphan for spookykingdomstarlight
Fandoms: 陈情令 | The Untamed (TV)
17 Jul 2021
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Lan Wangji looks down at his own hands, steadying himself. It is easier to think clearly when he is not looking into Wei Wuxian’s eyes. He takes the scroll from his pouch.
“Research has uncovered a method,” he says. He does not mention the forbidden nature of said research, nor does he elaborate on the method itself. He will not venture to speak it aloud. He hands the scroll over.
Wei Wuxian looks at him for a long moment as he takes it, and Lan Wangji holds his breath, waiting for him to decide. Waiting to see if he is at least interested enough in the possibility of a new core to read it.
He is. He does. Lan Wangji might be relieved, if not for what comes next.
Lan Wangji offers to help Wei Wuxian develop a new golden core via dual cultivation. He struggles to keep his feelings in check.
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03 May 2026
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let the yoke fall from our shoulders by occultings (microcomets)
Fandoms: 魔道祖师 - 墨香铜臭 | Módào Zǔshī - Mòxiāng Tóngxiù, 陈情令 | The Untamed (TV)
23 Jan 2022
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Before Wei-qianbei had dropped to the ground — before his knees had crumpled beneath him and he’d fallen like a dark bird shot down, like something in flight grounded — it had gone like this.
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Wei Wuxian gets hurt on a night hunt. It brings up ghosts for Lan Sizhui and Lan Wangji.
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