takingoffmyshoes
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And not the fun kind. Not that those are fun. Whatever.
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She’s never known how to give comfort. How to touch without either anger or impersonal purpose. Her hands don’t know where to land, her tongue doesn’t know what words to shape. Her heart doesn’t know how to show itself to someone who needs her.
(in which the comfort doesn't always run in the direction of the greatest hurt, and even people unaccustomed to vulnerability like a hug every now and then.)
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where you run to (I don't mind) by takingoffmyshoes for starwithsweater
Fandoms: The Man From U.N.C.L.E. (2015)
25 Dec 2025
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Back in the very beginning, when he was ‘reading up on’ Illya Kuryakin, he was actually sitting at the cramped kitchen table with Gaby as she finished her third glass of wine, scanning a dossier Sanders had stupidly left in an unattended briefcase.
Later, he learns something that had been omitted from that version.
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moon changes by takingoffmyshoes
Fandoms: The Lord of the Rings - J. R. R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings - All Media Types
06 Aug 2025
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A year has passed since a chance encounter yielded unforeseeable consequences. It has not been an easy one, yet neither has it been entirely without light — though it does not always seem a fair balance. Much has changed, and more will have to if diverging paths can ever be rejoined...
A collection of stories set in the first seven years.
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- Part 2 of to deny its power
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as they say, there’s a big difference between mostly dead and all dead.
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CEC Shorts by bowditch, DawnsEternalLight, HylianEngineer, Imbecamiel, lurkinglurkerwholurks, motleyfam, pinstripedJackalope, rockygetsrolling, takingoffmyshoes
Fandom Batman (Comics), Batman - All Media Types, DCU, DCU (Comics), Gotham Central
11 Jan 2026
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Collected CEC shorts loosely or directly connected to each other.
also, now with assorted dev stories from other universes.- Words:
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to deny its power by takingoffmyshoes
Fandom The Lord of the Rings - All Media Types, The Lord of the Rings - J. R. R. Tolkien
06 Aug 2025
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Aragorn is fifty-three years old when the wolf takes him.
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short story celebration by takingoffmyshoes
Fandom Dunkirk (2017), Peaky Blinders (TV), Sherlock Holmes - Arthur Conan Doyle, The Man From U.N.C.L.E. (2015)
28 Dec 2019
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The collection of short stories I've written for folks to mark the anniversaries of this account and acknowledge the kindness and support of those who have made the experience so wonderful.
If you'd like to know more about it, or see the fics and prompts in their original form, you can go here.
Thanks for reading, and as always please feel free to share your thoughts!
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the fight that will give you the right (to be free) by fandomlver, takingoffmyshoes
Fandom The Musketeers (2014)
29 Jul 2016
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smoke in every lane by fireinmywoods
Fandoms: Star Trek: Alternate Original Series (Movies)
24 Apr 2021
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The announcement doesn’t last long, and Leonard only catches a bit of what Spock’s saying – enough to gather that things apparently went sideways down on Xulos and the away team has been beamed back ahead of schedule.
For the sake of his already anxious patient, Leonard resists the urge to roll his eyes. When do things not go sideways on planets starting with an X, that’s what he wants to know.
When a diplomatic mission goes to hell on some stormy backwater of a non-Federation planet, Leonard is left searching for answers.
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- Part 1 of smoke in every lane verse
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Circle Yes or No (the Doctor, Doctor, Just Give Me the News mix) by lazulisong for BrighteyedJill
Fandoms: Star Trek (2009)
17 Apr 2012
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When even your mother thinks you should just bang him, you may have a problem. Jim's not sure if he wants to take the chance of ruining one of the few good things he has.
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Bookmarked by takingoffmyshoes
21 Mar 2026
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Mosaic by SugarSpiceandCurseWords
Fandoms: Star Trek: Alternate Original Series (Movies)
10 Oct 2016
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It's never quite as easy as it looks. A series of missing scenes from the end of Star Trek Into Darkness.
Bookmarked by takingoffmyshoes
20 Mar 2026
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Linguistic Ambiguities in Vulcan Ethical Codes by elumish
Fandoms: Star Trek: Alternate Original Series (Movies)
07 Jun 2017
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The thing people always forget is that it was a Vulcan ship that reached Tarsus IV first.
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20 Mar 2026
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What He Left Behind by AnEscapeFromReality
Fandoms: Star Trek: Alternate Original Series (Movies)
09 Oct 2019
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Ten minutes, ten days, and ten years after first year cadet James Kirk gave his guest lecture on Tarsus IV, people learned about it.
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- Part 2 of Teaching Tarsus
Bookmarked by takingoffmyshoes
20 Mar 2026