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Tod steps back, goes to the bar and pours some watered-down scotch. Black knows it's watered down, that his easy drinking is a power play for the older businessmen who keep looking for his father behind him and can't accept taking orders from a kid. "Tawi had Techit. I'm going to have you and your beautiful brain."
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Todd blackmails Black into working for him. This is a love story.
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- Part 11 of phnelt's phaves
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15 Nov 2025
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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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- Part 35 of Author's Favorites
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31 Jul 2025
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27 Mar 2025
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Suzuki's low point.
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16 Mar 2025
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'cause you'll never reap of any seed deprived of sunlight by notavodkashot
Fandom: 龍が如く | Ryuu ga Gotoku | Yakuza (Video Games)
03 May 2021
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03 Feb 2025
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The Seven Year Itch by notavodkashot
Fandoms: 龍が如く | Ryuu ga Gotoku | Yakuza (Video Games)
14 Jun 2021
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What if, in the aftermath of the explosion atop the Millennium Tower, it was Majima rather than Date that finds Kiryu? What if, as far as the rest of the world is concerned, Kazuma Kiryu died there, along Akira Nishikiyama and Yumi Sawamura?
Well, shenanigans, first and foremost. But also a punchline seven years in the making and the two idiots right at the center of it, trying to decipher it.
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03 Feb 2025
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The year is 2006, and in the aftermath of it all, Majima and Kiryu both depart from the Tojo Clan.
It's only a matter of time before they reap what they sow, and who knows what the consequences will be.
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24 Jan 2025
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After falling off the pier at Tokyo Bay, Majima dies. It just takes him a while to notice.
Loosely inspired by Junji Ito's Black Paradox, but no knowledge of that story is required to understand this one.
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20 Jan 2025
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hey boy! wake up by sunshineparallax
Fandoms: 龍が如く | Ryuu ga Gotoku | Yakuza (Video Games)
06 Sep 2020
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“In dreams,” Shimano deigns to explain, “it’s much harder to lie. The subject brings his own fuckin’ baggage to the table. Gives you a pretty list of all his vulnerabilities, his pressure points. Where do ya gotta push to get ‘em to hand over what he owes?”
“The kneecaps, usually.”Dreamshare comes to the yakuza in 1994. Majima can think of about eleven ways this could blow up in the Tojo Clan’s face.
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08 Jan 2025
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In these rare moments of quiet, when Kiryu was left on his own with nothing ahead and nothing behind, his mind always strayed to the same thought like an animal licking a wound.
What was he doing?
(Kiryu's accumulated a bit too much heat from the cops and is forced to skip town for a while. Luckily his caring superior Majima is around to help him pass the time.)
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03 Jan 2025
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The house had yellow walls and pale wood trim in all the rooms. The floors were linoleum, except the bathroom and the kitchen which had tile. Juwon cleaned the bathroom sink and the mirror every day with wipes, even though Dongsik didn’t leave much to clean. He only shaved every other day at most, and would rub raspily at his chin when his stubble got too long. Juwon would have hated the sound if it was anyone else. Instead he found the soft scratchy noise inoffensive, like the whir of wheels on an exercise bike.
Juwon moves in unannounced.
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15 Nov 2024
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Cataclysms in a Highway Mirage by caspock (orphan_account)
Fandoms: Supernatural (TV 2005)
30 Aug 2022
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“Is it you?”
Cas doesn’t look like how he looked when he died. Dean remembers the leviathan, the sludgy crawl of black up his veins before he started to dissolve. He looks kind of like that, and the edges of the whites of his eyes are starting to grow dull and dark and sick with it. “I don’t know,” Cas says.
The Empty has found its worst nightmare yet. When this is over, these memories will engrave themselves along the hollow, waning remains of his grace, and it will be as if these moments exist in perpetuity, wrenched from time’s linearity. They will haunt him as everything haunts him.
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- Part 1 of Entropy on Entropy
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05 Nov 2024
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(a sequel to archiveofourown.org/series/2685169)
The Roy siblings mourn their father while fighting off a hostile takeover attempt; Kendall and Stewy navigate a committed relationship after 25 years of on-and-off involvement; Stewy and Roman head to Silicon Valley to secure a tech deal.
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18 Sep 2024
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Post-S3. The Roy kids return from Italy and plead for Sandi and a less-than-thrilled Stewy to join them in thwarting the GoJo sale and taking down their dad once and for all. Kendall resumes his lifelong on-and-off affair with Stewy, and confesses the manslaughter to him. Logan and co. launch aggressive ratfucking tactics in the hopes of warding off a takeover.
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17 Sep 2024
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The cigarettes were supposed to be Butcher's final indulgence, but he’ll take Hughie, too.
“Was that it?” Hughie asks, managing to sound mildly annoyed.
But he’s surreptitiously set his laptop aside, one hand drumming fingers on his knee, and he’s eyeing Butcher’s idly burning cigarette like he’s got a vendetta against it.
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24 Aug 2024
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07 Aug 2024
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Of course Adam's angry all the time. Why wouldn't he be, with all the shit that he went through? Anyone would be.
What gets him angriest, though, is that the one person in the world who could even possibly begin to understand him is also the one person he's pissed off at the most.
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- Part 1 of the son of rage and love
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21 Jun 2024
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If They Haven't Learned Your Name by silentwalrus
Fandoms: Captain America - All Media Types, Marvel Cinematic Universe
16 Apr 2018
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Steve gets out of the hospital in two days, but just barely. “I’m fine,” he tells Sam, Nurse Eunjung and the phalanx of doctors assigned to make sure Captain America didn’t bleed out and die and get bad PR all over their nice clean hospital. “I have an advanced healing factor. It’s fine. See? I’m standing.”
“That is not standing,” Sam tells him.
“You’re bending the IV stand,” Nurse Eunjung adds pointedly. “Let go and sit down, they don’t grow on trees.”
aka Steve and Bucky's Global Honeymoon Revenge World Tour.Podfic of this story available by the incredible quietnight!
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03 May 2024