sweetlywistful
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Identity is a gift forged by life experiences, chiseled by the weight of our choices and by the impact others have had on us. If we have no memory of such things, what right do we have to reclaim our identities? What right does Carlo have to call himself Carlo?
-A journey through the events of the DLC, preceded by snippets of how others saw Carlo Geppetto.-
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- Part 2 of it hurts to become
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As Sophia placed her hand on his chest, he thought, Can you feel it? I have a heart that’s beating right now. It feels and pulses and hurts just like yours. I have a heart.
I’m almost as human as you are.
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As a boy-puppet learns to live and breathe, this is what he will come to discover: humanity is what we make of it. The world begins and ends by what we grasp, even if it’s by the skin of our teeth.
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- Part 1 of it hurts to become
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no place like home by dirgewithoutmusic for Elennare
Fandoms: Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling
10 Jul 2015
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When Petunia Dursley refused to take Harry in she forfeited his birthright protection, so Dumbledore took the baby to the safest place he knew: Hogwarts.
The applicable staff (mostly just… not Snape) took Harry in on a rotating schedule as he grew from baby to toddler to child. They traded extra credit for babysitting among the older students, and Harry grew up knowing a few dozen different laps that were safe and warm to nap in.
This was a Harry who grew up among books, among old transient walls and learned professors. They gave Binns night duty sometimes, and let him talk young Harry to sleep. This was a Harry whose world changed, on principle, daily. The stairs moved. The walls became doors. You had to keep your eyes open–you had to pay attention. So he did.
He grew up in a school. Knowledge was power, but knowledge was also joy. This was his sanctuary. There was magic in his world from birth.
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- Part 3 of boy with a scar
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Bookmarked by sweetlywistful
22 Apr 2023
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this one’s one of the greats. made me cry at almost 3am multiple times over, and any fic that can do that in only 13k words without being tagged angst deserves my complete and utmost respect
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What We Are by YellowDistress
Fandom Iron Man (Movies), Marvel Cinematic Universe, Spider-Man: Homecoming (2017), The Avengers (Marvel Movies), Thor (Movies)
25 Apr 2019
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06 Jan 2023
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"Man, I don't have the energy for this." Wilbur complained, reaching up to pull the light bulb chain and illuminate the kid passed out in the middle of his stock room.
He was young. Fluffy blonde hair and a ratty old hoodie. There were magic aftershocks running up and down his limbs, starting and ending at his core, by his heart.
That shit was dangerous. Whatever this kid had been doing, it could've killed him. It still might. For a minute, Wilbur wrestled with his morals, but he knew it was useless. He was going to help this idiot at two in the morning after his mother's funeral.
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modern magic au that will leave you wondering who exactly is saving who, here
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Bookmarked by sweetlywistful
06 Dec 2022
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hands down one of the most beautiful, well-constructed fics I’ve ever read
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"I remember everything!" he snarls, loud enough to make her flinch. "How you move— the way you breathe—" His words hitch on a strangled half-sob; he stares at her like a man caught in a waking dream as he skims the line of her jaw with his knuckles, stopping to touch the pad of his thumb to her bottom lip. "How your eyes met mine in the starlight," he continues through a broken, haunted rasp of a voice, "and I felt like the look on your face."
Or: What is alive must heal. What cannot heal must endure.
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- Part 2 of Sword of the Jedi
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Bookmarked by sweetlywistful
30 Aug 2018
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ACTUAL FANFIC HALL OF FAME, def made me cry a few times
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Lily remembered her sister, how there had been a time she was curious and delighted about magic, before it slowly sank in that she could look and not touch.
The last thing Petunia had said to Lily before she died was a chilly goodbye, ending a holiday dinner where they'd had a shrieking row in the entryway. Petunia had said 'freak' and Lily had hissed 'better than this, better than this being my whole fucking world, Tune, do you even see yourself, are you happy--'
And now here was Dudley Vernon Dursley fussing himself to sleep as Lily walked the halls of the Godric's Hollow house. His tiny soft hands with their tiny soft fingernails curled under her chin, the same way Harry's always had.
She passed James, who was gently bouncing his way up the hall the opposite way. "I think he's asleep," James mouthed over Harry's tousled head. His hair was the same mess, his head bent down as he peered at his sleeping son.
Lily stopped where she stood, her nephew heavy on her chest, her husband smiling, her sister buried. "James," she said. "How are we going to do this?"
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- Part 12 of boy with a scar
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Bookmarked by sweetlywistful
28 Jun 2019