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    What bothers Edgin is that the guy is touchy. He knew that, of course, knew it from those first five minutes when the guy touched that gross fish-thing and then the Tabaxi cub and then the beggar. Xenk can’t keep his hands off people.

    “I don’t get it.”
    “If you’d stop interrupting, I’d say— fuck, I forget. No, wait, here. I was gonna say… And here’s the crux of it: Edgin wanted Xenk to touch him.”
    “Ew.”

    (Or: Xenk touches everyone except Edgin, and it's only a little bit frustrating.)

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    29 Mar 2025

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    It had been a simple dare, one that had made sense when Emma had been two drinks away from passing out. She doesn’t know what exactly Ruby had done to bind it– is still very new to magic as a real thing, flowing through Storybrooke– but it’s now a dare she can’t back off on.

    Ruby had laid out the rules, more and more smug as she had gone on. “So if Regina wears a red dress, you have to pick a fight with her.” Emma hadn’t questioned that one. “But if she wears blue, you have to give her a compliment. And if she wears grey, you gotta call her Your Majesty.” She’d been a little drunk, too, enough that she’d gotten bold. “Light colors mean you have to tell her whatever’s on your mind. Whatever.” Her eyes had narrowed in ominous delight. “And for black…for black, you have to flirt with her.”

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    23 Mar 2025

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    Emma reaches for Regina’s hand again, but Regina’s moved her ice cream to it instead. “Though, I mean, if I were into women, your mom would definitely be first on my list,” Emma tells Henry.

    “I’m flattered,” Regina says dryly.

    Her voice sounds a little strained, and Emma tries to lighten the tone. She hadn’t thought Regina would be uncomfortable with the idea of…well, Henry has two mommies, but the Enchanted Forest had seemed a little regressive. “What? Are you saying I’m not on your list?”

    “Yes, Emma,” Regina says, and she barks out a choked laugh of her own. “If I were into women, you would definitely be on my list.”

    [A year in the lives of Emma and Regina, falling in love all the way through and doing every bit of it backwards.]

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    22 Mar 2025

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    Where the loss of ignorance is more valuable than the knowledge gained, and Edward figures out the source of alchemy a lot sooner than before.

    "Edward has cockroaches under his skin and leeches in his veins. He's vibrating and bursting and his body is too small, too big, doesn't fit quite right. He needs Al to know - needs to tell someone, anyone, but he will cut out his own tongue before he burdens anyone else with this knowledge."

    (Now with a TV Tropes page!)

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    Roy isn't a liar – he's a storyteller, and a good one. Admittedly, sometimes it's hard to tell the difference. Sometimes, omission is the better part of valor, and embellishment is all he's got.

    (a.k.a. yet another "And they were SOULMATES!" "…ohmyGod, they were soulmates.")

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    16 Feb 2025