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the truth is like blood underneath your fingernails by swordsonnet
Fandoms: The Radiant Emperor Series - Shelley Parker-Chan
29 Aug 2025
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"Do you regret it?"
The ghostly whisper broke the stillness of the night like a pebble rippling the clear surface of a lake. The question hung in the air between them, heavy as a shackle. Zhu didn't ask her to clarify what she meant, for which Ma was grateful. She wasn't sure she had the strength to say the words, as if to speak them aloud would be to make them real. As if, by skirting around the brutal fact of it, she could undo what had happened, wipe Zhu's hand clean of innocent blood.
Zhu and Ma talk about the Prince of Radiance.
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the tinder and the spark by swordsonnet
Fandoms: The Radiant Emperor Series - Shelley Parker-Chan
29 Nov 2024
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All their lives, there had been an invisible barrier between Ouyang and Esen, a thin sheet of gauze keeping them apart, protecting them from a truth neither of them were ready to admit, even to themselves. No matter how close they got to each other, closer than friends, closer than brothers, there was one line they could never cross, one door that would always remain shut.
Until tonight.
If he leaned in now, if he closed the narrow gap between their bodies, he would destroy that barrier once and for all, cross the threshold into foreign and frightening territory. He would never be able to take it back.One stolen night, before everything ends.
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the stubborn grace of being loved (regardless, regardless) by swordsonnet
Fandoms: Good Omens (TV)
21 Mar 2024
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After a failed stint in Heaven, Aziraphale returns to Earth and tries to patch things up with Crowley. Naturally, it doesn't go quite as expected.
Or: ducks, Jane Austen, sudden rainstorms, and words (un)spoken.
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Needles finds a new victim - or rather, his victim finds him.
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putting too much faith in the make-believe by swordsonnet
Fandoms: The Magnus Archives (Podcast)
17 Dec 2023
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When Martin needs a fake boyfriend to bring to his family reunion, Jonathan Sims is the last person he would have expected to volunteer.
Will our two unlikely co-conspirators keep up the act long enough to make it through the weekend, learn to confide in each other, and... maybe even develop some real feelings along the way?