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Make the People Grotesques by pretentiousashell
Fandoms: 龍が如く | Ryuu ga Gotoku | Yakuza (Video Games)
07 May 2025
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Now, Kiryu descended into a flat, eerie sort of calm. “I have to make things right.”
Staring, Majima searched him for the falsehood that must be present in such a statement, seeking the resentment that must be boiling just beneath the surface.
He didn’t find it.
Fascinated, disgusted, Majima whispered, “You really, really mean that, don’t you?”
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Like the Wanting Monster by pretentiousashell
Fandoms: 龍が如く | Ryuu ga Gotoku | Yakuza (Video Games)
17 Feb 2025
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He watched Saejima get dragged away again, and Majima knew he wouldn’t look back, so he didn’t hope for it.
The fact that the pigs were after Kiryu too was the fucking cherry on top of it all, insult to injury after injury. Majima shut his eye, let his head thunk back against Kiryu’s door in overwhelming exhaustion. He didn’t know how many more times he had it in him to watch them turn their backs, didn’t know if there’d be anything left of him in their excessive wakes, scraped clean with their twin exits like the forsaken thing he was.
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“You won’t find him here,” Chiyoh says with an idle sort of distaste.
“And why is that?”
She weighs her response. “I saw him go.”
He is going to find Will. In the pigpen, Hannibal had gained a remarkable sense of clarity, and he has decided that he needs Will as animals generally require oxygen. He, evidently, cannot survive their separation—or he at least refuses to.
A Digestivo AU in which Will decides it's high time to cut and run.
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"I am a stranger to you.”
“Are we still strangers?” Will asked.
“I occasionally entertain the thought that we cannot claim to know any separate self,” Hannibal nodded at the space between them, “but I also confess that I only entertain this thought insomuch that I might endeavor to disprove it.”
“Well,” Will said, not without humor, nor without cruelty, “to separate selves.”
Will and Hannibal attempt to roleplay as strangers meeting at a bar.
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- Part 2 of And whom I will bite so there's blood
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“You’re happy,” Will says with disbelief.
“I believe, in fact, that I am.”
Will shakes his head in wordless rejection. “I should’ve killed us,” he says.
Now, Hannibal does look at him. His smile is easy, but his eyes hint at the precipice of danger. Another fall, perhaps, whose consequences neither of them can quite stomach yet. “You still can.”
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- Part 1 of And whom I will bite so there's blood
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What though the field be lost? by pretentiousashell
Fandom: 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia
27 Aug 2020
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Orphan Heirs of Fixed Destiny by pretentiousashell
Fandom: ジョジョの奇妙な冒険 | JoJo no Kimyou na Bouken | JoJo's Bizarre Adventure
17 Oct 2020
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Bizarre College Adventures by pretentiousashell
Fandom: ジョジョの奇妙な冒険 | JoJo no Kimyou na Bouken | JoJo's Bizarre Adventure
28 Jun 2019
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Hear a song this deeply by so_shhy
Fandoms: 陈情令 | The Untamed (TV), 魔道祖师 - 墨香铜臭 | Módào Zǔshī - Mòxiāng Tóngxiù
03 Sep 2022
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“I’m not here to help you with your work,” said Lan Zhan, injecting frost into his voice to deter any further attempts at charm. “I’ll be focusing on my research.”
Wei Ying cocked his head. “Research?” he said.
“Mm. I’m a cultivation researcher, not a department employee. I’m reconstructing the ancient musical cultivation techniques of the Lan clan.”
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Lan Zhan’s new liaison at the Caiyi Municipal Cultivation Department is an enigma – ridiculously talented, yet somehow content with mopping up spiritual pests for barely above minimum wage. Wei Ying is slapdash and irresponsible, and Lan Zhan doesn’t like him at all… but then he meets A-Yuan, who loves music and longs for a piano his father can’t afford.
Forced into cautious friendship by a four-year-old's music lessons, Lan Zhan soon realises Wei Ying is more than he seems. The single father is a man of many secrets – including, perhaps, the key to Lan Zhan's life's work. And in the meantime, the background resentment in Caiyi Town is rising to dangerous levels…
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28 Aug 2025
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Lan Yuan's War by BurningTea
Fandoms: 陈情令 | The Untamed (TV), 魔道祖师 - 墨香铜臭 | Módào Zǔshī - Mòxiāng Tóngxiù
16 Sep 2025
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Lan Wangji should be in seclusion, his back a network of wounds. Instead, he's woken up during the Sunshot Campaign and his adopted son is there with him.
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02 Aug 2025
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“If you’re going to get married,” Jiang Cheng ground out, “then you’re going to damn well get married at Lotus Pier.”
Wei Wuxian blinked once. Again. Then: “what?”
Or: the one with sibling reconciliation, brother-in-laws from hell, and Jiang Cheng trying to sort through his feelings while acknowledging them as little as possible.
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27 Mar 2025
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Suzuki's low point.
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16 Mar 2025