18 Bookmarks by steakbones
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Nothing is the same after Overlord. It's unspoken. It's said in the tired, nervous glances at each other in the quiet days afterward. It's said in small smiles that try provide comfort they cannot muster because they are teenagers that...
They lost. It's not a hard truth to admit, no matter how bitter, because that is the crux of it. They defeated Overlord but they did not win, and the consequences are ones they have to live with. Ones that echo in the silence of Defenders Hall and bounce around empty walls into emptier rooms. Consequences that leave a note on a countertop and an olive branch ignored and broken.
William has been through a lot. Maybe not nearly as much as Vyncent - no, definitely not nearly as much. His life is laughably normal, both deaths and all, compared to dimension hopping by force. But through it all, regardless of how little he thinks of himself as a hero and how he doesn't quite believe in heroism, William never thought that being a hero in training would lead to this.
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- Part 1 of so breathe, breathe just breathe
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15 Jan 2026
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through the days you will dream of losing me and losing you by androids_fighting93
Fandoms: The Adventure Zone (Podcast)
30 Sep 2017
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There is a version of Taako who rarely stopped holding his sister's hand for the first ten or so years of his life, and a second version of Taako who couldn't look in a mirror sometimes because he looked at his own face and saw static and everything felt wrong and he never knew why. They exist impossibly in the same space, fractured pieces that don't quite form a whole person.
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21 Mar 2025
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Blade-Three, also known as Three, is the living weapon of the Watchers. Conditioned to follow orders, it is meant to use its considerable strength, combat abilities, and total loyalty to obliterate the enemies of the Watchers. Of course, the "following orders" part comes first, which is how, when Listener agent Martyn InTheLittleWood comes along with the right command words, he manages to steal it.
Now, instead of missions that make any sense, Three must navigate as Martyn and his roommate Jimmy attempt to teach it how to be human, or at least enough of a person to be itself. It would help if either Martyn or Jimmy knew how to be human either, and if they weren't falling apart at the seams after the death of an old friend.
(And of course, there's the matter of Three's original identity, a question no one thinks to ask...)
Or: in which Evo had a bad end, and five years later, the pieces that were left behind start to accidentally fall back together.
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05 Feb 2025
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THE FURY OF A SHATTERED MIRROR by ASpooky, Thood74
Fandoms: Disco Elysium (Video Game), Slay the Princess (Visual Novel)
20 Nov 2025
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YOU - [Look around.]
INLAND EMPIRE [Legendary: Failure] - You are alone in a place that is empty.
PERCEPTION (HEARING) [Impossible: Failure] - It is quiet here.
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03 Jan 2025
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You are a thing that lives in a cave, and that is how it has always been, and that is how it will akways be.
You have wings, but were never meant to use them.
You have teeth, and have always been meant to use them.
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19 Dec 2024
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FIELD REPORT on Subject 4D42 - An Introduction
Perihelion looks at the van.
It's smaller than it had seemed in the schematics.
(Mundane Human AU where everyone is human; based on a wonderful discussion in the Murderbot Discord).
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16 Sep 2023
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Apollo is working on his new shell, and Hermes is "helping" (except he actually is helping (not that Apollo would admit it (he doesn't need anyone's help))).
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16 Jun 2023
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In All But Blood by Chaos_Rains, TearsofApophis
Fandoms: 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia
18 Jan 2026
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Izuku didn’t think. He would later find himself meditating a lot on this issue, for it seemed to be an unfortunate habit. And possibly an ironic one. His whole shtick was analysis, using his brain and whatnot, but in the heat of the moment any critical thinking skills just went right out the window. As it happened, so did he.
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When six-year-old Midoriya Izuku’s parents perish in a fire, a new mother takes him under her wing. Now Izuku trains to aid her cause: uncovering and exposing the corruption of politicians, police, and especially heroes. Well, up until he’s caught in the line of fire, injured, and taken under the guardianship of the hero he’s investigating.
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25 Feb 2023
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“Goin’ against me not once but twice in the past five minutes! Damnit, Kohaku-chan, you’ve got some nerve! I’m not gonna give ya an ounce of Build-a-Bear money if you keep acting like this!”
Kohaku stops for a second. “...Huh? Build-a-Bear?”
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(Or, Crazy:B has a rather eventful day at the mall.)
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17 Jan 2023
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a street corner spaeman once told me 'you are dead to the truth of god' and I laughed and laughed and laughed
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16 Jan 2023
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you know that time is all we're made of by chronocrystal
Fandoms: Critical Role (Web Series)
05 Jan 2023
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“Well then, I shall ask you a question,” said Essek, “Do you believe I should participate in conversation more than I do?”
Caleb raised his head in alarm. Did his friend think he was being criticised? Did Essek interpret Caleb’s judgement of his own silence as reflected upon him? Caleb raised his hands plaintively, “No, not at all. In fact, I think I’d be a little taken aback if you did. Please understand, it is not silence itself that I dislike and I certainly do not condemn yours, only my...lack of ability.”
“Why should you hold yourself to a standard you do not hold others to?"
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:::5 times Essek saw Caleb's unmasked self (and loved him all the same) and 1 time Caleb saw Essek's (and loved him the way he deserved).
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15 Jan 2023
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Bruce was starting to understand the jokes about him and adopting strays. But it’s not like he ever went looking for kids to adopt. They just sort of… appeared.
Besides, the neighbor boy clearly had no one, and Bruce could not in good conscience let that assassin girl go back to parents who had treated her so badly.
If that meant Bruce adopted two more kids, so be it. It’s not like he didn’t have the room.
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- Part 6 of In For a Pound
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11 Dec 2022
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Our Friends Do Not Look Fine by CourierNew
Fandoms: Undertale (Video Game), Deltarune (Video Game)
04 Nov 2018
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It's raining somewhere else.
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17 Dec 2021
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really vivid, intense imagery, conveys a definite sense of decay and melancholy, very well put together overall
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* It’s your drawing up on the fridge.
* It’s of your family: Mom, Dad, Asriel, and you.
* A family of four smiling goat-monsters.(or: Kris grows up, a human raised by monsters, and it turns out that does a lot to a kid's sense of self.)
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13 Oct 2021
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Hawwy Pottew and the Phiwosophew’s Stowne by Donuts
Fandoms: Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling
26 Mar 2022
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As they ran away from Filch, the three Gryffindors found themselves trapped in a dead end, the doors ahead of them locked.
"Wet me twy!" Hermione said. "I know a speww to unwock it!" She pointed her wand at the lock. "Awo- awohamow- awohawmwa-"
"Awwoh vewa?" Ron suggested.
"Amwohamawa- fuck!" Hermione cursed.
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AU where Hogwarts starts at age 6 and the kids are allowed to curse whenever the fuck they want. Originally I didn’t mean to change much more than that but things kinda spiralled out of control and I have been accused of "taking canon out back and shooting it."
Frankly, I think it’s about time someone put the poor thing out of its misery.
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- Part 1 of Harry Potter but everyone is humorously 5 years younger, making the situations completely ridiculous
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26 Jul 2020
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You Take My Breath Away by diddlydang
Fandoms: Fire Emblem: Fuukasetsugetsu | Fire Emblem: Three Houses
05 Oct 2019
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The first time it happens, he’s alone.
One second he is writing some reports and the next he can’t breathe, lungs refusing to cooperate with his mouth, and the quill in his hand snaps at the suddenness of it, ink spilling all over his desk.
And just as quickly as it came, it passes.
Ferdinand is left staring down at a ruined report, heaving in great gulps of air.
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- Part 5 of The Ferdibert Collection
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Primarily just where I share work skin code and discuss ways to improve the Ao3 experience, including:
- Twitter and Instagram like posts
- Non iOS messaging systems
- Avatar and image formatting for script formats.
- Search engine interfaces
- Documentation on AO3 Site SkinsSeries
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26 Mar 2019
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Rusty had always longed to know what lay beyond the white picket fence of his house. The wild had always called for him, but he stayed because of his overprotective sister. The farthest he dared to go out was just the edge of the forest, never staying too long, only long enough to appease the need he felt growing inside of him. And although he always felt restless, Rusty considered it a good life.
But a chance encounter with a strange cat changed everything, and Rusty found himself in the very heart of the wild. And while it seemed like a dream come true, he would soon find out that the wild was far from the safe environment back in his house, and that evil lurked in every shadow.
(Into the Wild rewrite feat. explicit LGBT kitties, more established family trees / relations, and revised warrior code)
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- Part 1 of Warriors Rewrite
- Part 1 of The Prophecies Begin Rewrite
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15 Nov 2018