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a mouse who lives in a nest by uglythings (primaryinstinct) for liveinsalt, incisorsis
Fandoms: Heated Rivalry (TV)
13 Aug 2026
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In fifth grade science class Shane learned that a mouse would always return home no matter how terrifying home is, because it's home. He relays this fact to his mom the minute he steps out of school, their clasped hands swaying in between them. He remembers her laughing, and then he remembers her saying, "Of course they would, Shane. Where else could they possibly go?"
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- Part 10 of a collection of hollanovs
- Part 2 of p's hr ficlets
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13 Aug 2026
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No one is born a monster.
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27 Jun 2026
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Recovered from the excavation of the Cloud Recesses in 34 Chongjian, the tapestries of Shui Jiuzai are one of the only surviving examples of the fibrecrafts of the Yangyan era.
(Or, the marriage of Madam Lan, in her own words.)
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12 Jun 2026
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When you’re going up in flames, sometimes other people can smell the smoke. On the flip side, at least: when you’re on fire, sometimes other people can feel the warmth.
Or, scenes from Home Economics, told from the perspective of everyone else.
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- Part 11 of my heated rivalry fics
- Part 2 of homegrown
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02 Apr 2026
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Shane and Ilya had mutually agreed to keep their whatever-they’re-doing out of Sochi. It was an easy decision to make: this was bigger than any MLH rivalry and definitely bigger than a few hotel hook-ups. There was no room for distractions, not with Olympic gold on the line.
So it’d be really fucking great if their daemons could get on the same page and stop trying to cause an international fucking incident.
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- Part 8 of my heated rivalry fics
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- 4/4
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23 Mar 2026
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Ilya is a young man in America. Here he is in the off hours.
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23 Mar 2026
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The bunker didn’t lend itself to much natural light, and the utilitarian fixtures in the concrete hallways tended to sap people of their colour even on a good day. Maybe that was why Dean looked so much worse than Sam remembered, as worn as he’d ever seen him. The hand he pulled away from his face was shaking, just slightly, and he dropped it quickly to disguise the tremor, but the detail had already been seared into Sam’s brain.
Something was very wrong.
"I need you with me on this."Sam hasn't spoken to his brother in over a month, so when he shows up in the middle of the night with a powerful demon in tow, he's concerned.
It doesn't take long for him to realize that Dean is keeping secrets again, and that whatever he has hidden behind his teeth has to do with the strange woman who seems all too content to remain bound in their dungeon.
The demon with white eyes.
All Sam wants is the truth, to figure out who she is, and how she's connected to his brother.
But people who ask questions, tend to get answers.
And they just may be more than Sam can take.An alternate take on season 9 that replaces the Mark of Cain plot with something much worse.
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- Part 1 of No One Gets Out of This World Alive
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11 Nov 2025
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A 14.13 Lebanon rewrite. When Dean uses a wish-granting pearl to try and kill the archangel Michael before he can escape the cage in Dean's head, they instead wind up with a newly-resurrected John Winchester.
It's been more than a decade since John died, and a lot has changed: Mary is alive, Sam and Dean have what passes for a proper home in the Men of Letters Bunker, and they're living with angels. John doesn't know angels are real, he doesn't know about the fragile new relationship between Dean and Castiel, and most of all, he doesn't know that Dean said yes to Michael, or that Dean's plan to defeat Michael would send him to a fate worse than death.
Now Dean must contend with both his father asking questions he can't answer, and his loved ones learning about the darker truths of his childhood, all while constantly battling the archangel trapped inside him. But Dean coming to terms with his history may be the difference between this being the beginning of a journey—or the end.
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- Part 2 of a triptych of dean/cas
- Part 3 of the greatest works, liz edition
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23 Sep 2025
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“Sammy,” says Dean again, urgency cracking his voice. “We gotta — we really gotta go. I need you to — just — remember Poughkeepsie? Drop everything, no questions asked, and run? This is a — a Poughkeepsie situation. Please, man, I need you.”
Sam remembers Poughkeepsie.
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16 Sep 2025
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Adriana doesn’t tell their parents that she’s going to LA. She doesn’t tell Eddie, either—or ask, for that matter.
She does ask Chris, and he thinks it’s a good idea—says as much, on the phone, and doesn’t say much else.
“Buck will probably be hovering,” is what Chris does volunteer.
It still surprises her when the man who opens the door is not Eddie. It’s—Captain America, is the thing that actually comes to mind—a man close to a foot taller than she is, if not more than that, with blond curls and broad shoulders, and he’s got a question in his very blue eyes that’s probably less friendly than the one he actually asks her.
“Uh,” he says. “Can I help you?”
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Or: Adriana arrives in LA. Maddie has been here the whole time.
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19 Jun 2025
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When Azula is nine, she becomes an only child. She hears the Fire Lord call for Zuko's life, and in the morning, her mother and brother are gone. Azula may be young, but she isn't naive. She knows what happened to them.
Which makes it all the more surprising when Azula tracks the Avatar down and fights his group of peasant friends, only to find herself staring into an eerily familiar face.
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05 Mar 2025
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Public Bookmark 464
Mystery Work
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This is part of an ongoing challenge and will be revealed soon!
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05 Mar 2025
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They stay that way for a long time, Catra’s face tucked into Adora’s shoulder, Adora gently cradling Catra’s head. Adora is careful not to hug Catra too hard or make her feel restrained, anticipating the moment that Catra will start to pull away — but Catra doesn’t. She hangs on so tightly it hurts, her claws digging through Adora’s jacket and into her back, latching into her like she did when she was a kitten and didn’t know how much her claws could hurt. Adora tries not to wince, tries not to move a single muscle, worried that if she does the spell will break and Catra will struggle away, appalled at having shown weakness.
But Catra doesn’t let go. And so neither does Adora.
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02 Nov 2024
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We just want to be left alone, the man yells back. There's no mystery to being gay. We're just like everybody else in America.
Piandao always keeps the closed captions on; they help him understand the English. That day he noticed someone had made a mistake at the T.V. station. The text underneath the man said: There's a mystery to being gay.
He laughed. And then he thought about calling Jeong Jeong.
It's 1993: Piandao is an Taiwanese PhD student who just wants to get his green card and teach. Jeong Jeong is an openly gay Korean-American activist vacillating between militant idealism and total despair. The two of them shouldn’t even be friends, except they are. They play a lot of Go. They spend a lot of time in cars. It's a love story.
Oh, and — Jeong Jeong writes a screenplay. It looks a bit familiar.
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30 Jan 2024
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Once, Ty Lee asks her what it’s like to be in love.
From her lips, the words float like pink smoke and Mai lowers her book just to watch the sun set around her shoulders. “What? I don’t know.”
“But,” Ty Lee frowns, dropping from her handstand in one long movement, like water flowing in a river, and sits cross-legged with her serious face on. It’s very rare to see her like this, all wide-eyed and furrowed brow, head tilted just a bit to the side as if she’s listening to a song only she knows. “What about Zuko?”
Mai frowns. What about Zuko? Unnamed dread rises in the pit of her stomach, unnervingly familiar, and she pushes it back into a locked chest just below her sternum, closing the lid tightly to choke the fire. Everyone has a crush on Zuko, she could say, because it’s true, Zuko’s the crown prince and he’s sort of sweet even if he’s a little weird, so Mai figures if she were to like anyone, it would be him, she would like it to be him.
Instead, she glares. “We’re twelve, we’re not in love.”
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or, after the war, Mai stops an assassination plot, makes friends, and comes to terms with her own sexuality. Not necessarily in that order, though.
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11 Jan 2024
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Sokka's expression is caught somewhere between determined and pissed off when he says, “I know you think this is your responsibility. But you’re not going to be alone in this. This is why we’re building you a council.”
“I know,” Zuko says.
“And the only way you’re going to die having done nothing but sit in meetings is if you let yourself do that. You’re not a bad leader if you take a break now and then.”
Zuko scowls. “What, so people can then say at least my father wasn’t lazy?”
Sokka tilts his head. “Don’t you think there’s a difference between laziness and, I don’t know, choosing life and happiness in spite of a terrible dad who tried to take both from you?”
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Zuko is sixteen years old when he’s handed a crown, a throne, and a hundred-year ancestral legacy of colonial imperialism. He’s not scared of the work; he’s scared of being consumed by the responsibilities and burdens he’s claimed. What Zuko doesn’t quite realize, yet, is that he’s not alone in this.
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26 Sep 2023
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the intersection of memory and identity by Museflight
Fandom Chainsaw Man (Anime), Chainsaw Man (Manga)
23 Dec 2023
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Piece by piece, Denji's family comes back together.
Please note that Intersection and Contract of Remembrance take place at roughly the same time. You can begin the series with either fic.
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20 Aug 2023
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Ghouls are flesh-eating monsters. Denji is a regular highschool student and the younger brother of one of Tokyo's top ghoul killers. But when Denji is turned into a ghoul after a date gone wrong, he and Aki end up going down a path they never anticipated.
Or; the story of a pair of siblings, an investigator and a one-eyed ghoul.
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20 Aug 2023
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It’s in the middle of scanning the last bottle of green tea that Itadori properly looks up. Eye contact with him is a physical, unexpected shock, a crunch of imaginary static snapping through Megumi and leaving his hands twitching at his sides.
"Hey." Itadori blinks, wide and earnest. "Do I know you from somewhere?"
The tea sloshes backwards in the bottle he’s holding. Megumi focuses on this until his vision steadies.
"No," he says. "I don’t think so."
In the aftermath, Itadori loses his memories instead of his life. Megumi grieves nonetheless.
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20 Aug 2023