20 Bookmarks by mortuaryassistant
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“So tell me then,” the shapeshifter says, voice dropping into a whine. "What gave it away?"
Dick clenches his jaw hard while he tightens his grip on the knife. “He’s never polite before noon, firstly, he’s got a muscle tick in his left eyebrow, secondly, and he never asks me if we’re going to go, he just says so,” he says, hearing his voice growing louder, the back of his throat tightening up, as emotion threatens to break it. “And he wouldn’t kiss me.”
“He wouldn’t – ?” The shapeshifter pants, “You serious? Fuck.” They start to laugh more croaking noises. “He definitely thinks about it enough that it seemed like he did it for real.”
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28 Dec 2024
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i came weathered and worn (and i broke down your door) by MaryaDmitrievnaLikesSundays
Fandoms: Band of Brothers (TV 2001)
24 Sep 2024
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The letter is almost unreadable, by the time Babe turns off of the interstate and into Baton Rouge. He ghosts a featherlight fingertip over the writing even now, long after the lead has been wiped away. He still remembers the word that had been there, feels it against his skin like he's a blind man reading braille. Cancer, it reads. Somewhere further down, another groove will spell out, low on time, first, then, nothing they can do. It's so cliche it makes Babe want to throw up.
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Or, the one in which Gene and Babe survive the war, go back to their homes, and try to lead their own separate lives--until Gene gets sick, Babe gets a letter, and it all comes crashing down.
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17 Oct 2024
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The days melt into weeks melt into months and, at this rate into years, and Babe's still stuck fighting this damned war.
At least he has Gene - that's the one upside to all of this.
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05 Sep 2024
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Lewis looks up from the contract, raising a brow, then stumbles up from the sofa when he sees Dick standing in the doorway. It’s not so odd, in itself, but Dick is in his skivvies and blinking into space, like he’s not quite sure why he’s even standing up.
“Hey, there,” Lewis says, reaching out and touching at a clammy shoulder with a wince. “You look peaky – you feel okay?”
“Nix is gone.”
“You found him, who else – ?” Lewis pauses, lifting slightly on his toes to better peer up at Dick’s face, into his half-open, glassy eyes, and falling back flat on his feet when he realizes Dick must still be asleep. He’s never seen him sleepwalk, or talk, but… it’s not necessarily impossible. “Hey, you need to go back to bed… I think.”
“Taylor sent Nix to Varsity.”
“What a bastard,” Lewis says, wry, as he gently pushes Dick up the stairs.
“The plane exploded,” Dick says, his voice tightening, lifting some from the bland drone.
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03 Aug 2024
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grab your wings (they're putting gravity on trial) by Eustace (Sibylline)
Fandoms: Daredevil (TV), Marvel Cinematic Universe
04 Apr 2016
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A story in which Matt thinks that he can escape the laws of physics and the human heart by detaching himself from anyone who's ever loved him -- but even Frank can see that he's come unmoored, and is aware that there's only so long a person can go without food or sleep and still stay alive.
Or: a story in which Matt gets a concussion and some french toast.
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08 Dec 2021
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Matt & Foggy take a trip to the American Museum of Natural History to escape the summer heat.
Mainly inspired by those funny little model dinosaurs in their office at Landman & Zack and set in the summer of their second year of law school.Bookmarked by mortuaryassistant
05 Dec 2021
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Frank's tired. Tired like an ache.
[OR: Frank's tired. Red's not so much.]
For the prompt « kid » for Fratt Week.
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03 Dec 2021
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a pretty good crowd for a saturday by Contra
Fandoms: The Punisher (TV 2017), Daredevil (TV), The Avengers (Marvel Movies)
29 May 2020
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Frank and Billy, after the Snap. [AU in which Curt somehow managed to save Billy.]
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01 Dec 2021
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theo explaining his tattoos to liam. it seems smutty but it’s not really
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21 Sep 2021
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Mason squints at him. “I’ll trade you an answer if you trade me one, too.”
“Something tells me this is not gonna be a very efficient way of communicating.”
Mason shakes his head. “Just--tell me something. What are you even doing here?”
Theo wiggles his empty paper cup in the air. “Having some ice cream.”
Mason eyes the cup, then him. “Yeah, but...why?”
“Oh, I’m sorry,” Theo snarks. “Did I miss the memo where ex-psychopaths were banned from enjoying ice cream?”
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Or: How Mason and Theo go from unwilling confession partners to stylist and stylee, to a strange sort of forgiveness. And through it all, Liam's presence shows Theo's capacity, possibly, for love.
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- Part 1 of From the Outside
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12 Sep 2021
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we're ephemeral shadows glowing in the moonlight by fallingforboys
Fandoms: Teen Wolf (TV)
27 Feb 2021
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ephemeral [ih-fem-er-uhl]
adjective
1. lasting a short time; temporary
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08 Aug 2021
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i don't know how to grieve the things i miss the most by fallingforboys
Fandoms: Teen Wolf (TV)
23 Mar 2021
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So, no, Theo didn’t think he could ever forgive himself, and he was smart enough to realize that there might be a connection between that and not knowing how to grieve, not letting himself grieve, but he was also self-destructive enough to not think about it.
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08 Aug 2021
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whisper your gossamer truths into the shadow, maybe you'll find the answers you're searching for by fallingforboys
Fandoms: Teen Wolf (TV)
15 Apr 2021
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Theo used to always be in control, used to be able to switch from his animalistic, ruthless side to his stoic facade in a blink of an eye—it used to be second nature. It was, after all, how he had almost broken up the McCall pack last year.
But then the pack took him by surprise, broke his expectations—evidently even the McCall pack could be cruel sometimes—and had sent him to hell. And all the training, all the sleepless nights Theo had spent being forced to learn how to hide, slipped out of his fingers.
Because apparently, there were some things that made you forget what it was like to be in control, and getting your heart ripped out over and over and over until you forgot what it felt like to not feel an ache in your chest was one of those things.
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08 Aug 2021
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trade the hollow in my chest for all the salt in the sea by eneiryu
Fandoms: Teen Wolf (TV)
26 Jul 2020
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You leave Beacon Hills with exactly the same things you came into it with: your truck, a duffel bag full of clothes, and the permanent taste of blood and grave dirt in your mouth.
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- Part 1 of waves on the ocean for the wavering kind
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31 Jul 2021
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old ghosts gather in liminal spaces by Attempted Eloquence (ringsiderage)
Fandoms: Teen Wolf (TV)
10 Jun 2021
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Liam asks, “What are you doing here, anyway?”
“Same thing you are,” Theo says. Avoiding, searching, not-thinking, maybe.
His answer seems to appease Liam. Or maybe he’d just rather not elaborate on the circumstances that made him seek shelter in a bus stop with a boy that he only spends time with when danger is making a home for itself in the corners of their lives.
(Theo thinks everyone might be a little out of place, trapped.)
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26 Jul 2021
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i don't know how to breathe in the place i called home by fallingforboys
Fandoms: Teen Wolf (TV)
21 Mar 2021
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Theo guessed that it was pretty funny, if he took a moment to think about it.
Never in his life had he expected to be sitting in Scott’s McCall’s living room on a worn-down armchair with the entire pack debating whether he was going to turn evil again, but here he was, sitting in Scott McCall’s living room with the entire pack debating whether he was going to turn evil again.
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12 Jul 2021
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it's the litany of ineffable moments that make you stay, you think (as the world goes up in flames) by fallingforboys
Fandoms: Teen Wolf (TV)
21 Jun 2021
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Theo swallows hard, failing to dislodge the stinging lump in his throat, and he looks down, incapable of seeing the pack’s reaction—seeing what they’ll do when they see who Theo really is, who he’s been for so long now that it’s almost normal, even though Theo still feels like his skin’s stretched too tight over him. Not wanting to know how they’ll respond when they see the pathetic slew of jaded bones and discordant parts that he actually is, the worn-down skeleton that’s made a ghastly home in a stranger’s skin since he’s come back from hell.
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12 Jul 2021
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skin, bones, a stolen heart, and an ugly creature lurking underneath by fallingforboys
Fandoms: Teen Wolf (TV)
09 Jun 2021
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Forged from the ruins of a nine-year-old boy who put a little too much faith in the double-edged sword promises of three mad scientists, and repeatedly dismantled and restored until he was more beast than human, Theo was—is—the perfect weapon.
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10 Jul 2021
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Theo’s hands twitch and trigger ripples across the surface of the water that has gone deathly still in the last few minutes. The movement draws Liam’s gaze to them.
Theo shuts his eyes. He has to, before he can back down from the next terrifying thing he’s going to ask Liam.
“Liam?”
“Yeah?”
“Could you--hold my hand, please?”
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Or: the story of Theo Raeken's hands, and how he climbs up from hell into redemption because he won't be another constellation without a happy ending.
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- Part 2 of Staying Alive
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10 Jul 2021
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07 Apr 2021