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Headfirst Over The Barrier Of My Victory by threesmallcrows
Fandoms: Death Note (Anime & Manga)
26 Sep 2025
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Mello’s ranked third currently and he’s always ranked higher than Matt, and he’s always been better than him and he can obliterate him 9 for 10 at war, but whatever, Matt has the alcohol ads, and for a while, even, fucking watches. He kept the Rolexes. Lumped inside his sock drawer.
Matt always wants to meet at nightclubs, because people like them are supposed to enjoy nightclubs, he wants a watch deal because a watch deal is the thing to get. He wants what he’s supposed to want.
He has a beautiful girlfriend who’s shorter than him in her heels. He’s made it. His life is full.
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Matt is in possession of a pretty ordinary life. Part-time job and rainy weather and university attendance. A square-shaped existence which he putters around the edges of, holding an umbrella. Lukewarm takeaways.
Sometimes, he turns into a dog.
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“Is suicide so disdained by the elves?”
Mithrun laughed suddenly. Kabru didn't like the sound of it. “You dare speak the word. What do you know of disdain? It is the cloud which sweeps over a summer day. It’s every door slammed shut at once.”
Rumor has it the Duke’s husband is mad. Kabru is the doctor called to investigate.
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Fallen Fruit, A Little Tender by threesmallcrows
Fandoms: ダンジョン飯 | Dungeon Meshi | Delicious in Dungeon
29 Aug 2024
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In the aftermath, these are the things Mithrun is told most often: that he’s been rescued, that he is no longer Lord. That dungeons are in his past. The date, the year. What he’ll be eating today.
He is being cared for. He’s safe.
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All West of the Mountains Is Yours by threesmallcrows
Fandoms: Death Note (Anime & Manga)
16 May 2024
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On Christmas Eve, Matt left Mello a 28-minute long voicemail, which Mello deleted without listening to.
A year and a half passed.
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I was a perfect girl for him, in the days after my party.
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2003 was the year of the mosquito. You couldn’t leave a cup of water out for a day. Black clouds threatened the windows, stalked the hallways. In a week, Mello had seen more elbows, knees, shoulder, and stomach, than he ever had in his life.
Italy. A “place of rest.” A “holiday.”
“Stop scratching.”
“Sorry,” said Matt.
“Stop it. You’re bleeding.”
Life swelled, itched. The summer of great torment.
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“What’s wrong with Officer Vicquemare’s eye?”
Harry frowns at him. “What do you mean?”
“His left eye,” Kim says, pointing at his own. “He can’t see out of it.”
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Here’s how shit was supposed to play out:
Ingerlund ditches Du Bois. Du Bois tanks. Du Bois meets Vicquemare. Vicquemare tanks. Vicquemare ditches Du Bois. Vicquemare gets better. Du Bois heals, or doesn’t, or moves to Graad, or paints an exterior with his interior, some Saturday evening, when the wind smells of ice. Anyway it’s not Jean’s problem.
Instead, here’s how it’s gone:
Harry, one month sober. Harry’s hundred days. Harry’s brand-new optimism. Harry’s brand-new partner.
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Of course Du Bois started it. King of workplace harassment. To hear Vicquemare tell it, he’s broken rules that aren’t even in the book.
“I heard he showed up hungover every day for a year.”
“I heard he held someone hostage.”
The startling heat of his big palm laid on top of Kim’s thigh, in some frigid bar on some long day, at the end of some long week; the only types of weeks they manufacture in Martinaise, anymore.
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In the intake room, he says to the nurse, “I mean I work in a kitchen for chrissake. I eat all the goddamn time.”
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Achilles confronts the way he was raised.
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Mello bought the rings but Matt was the one who knelt, in the crust of the linoleum kitchen floor that they never cleaned.
“Mel,” Matt said, and Mello said, “For fuck’s sake, get off the floor.”
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- Part 2 of A Normal Year
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Overall, life wasn’t too bad.
He was fifteen with shitty skin, knees that bruised easily, and a chin that couldn’t grow a hair. He had a job and a mom and a brother. He had the callus on his writing finger for company.
He liked sleeping because he dreamt while he was asleep. He tried to dream as much as possible, generally.
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After you guys broke up, there was a month or two where you actually thought Matt might kill himself over you. Which yeah, fucking arrogant—but what a thing.
If Matt did that you’d never be able to date again. You’d tell every one of your lays about your dead ex-boyfriend and close your heart off fucking forever. Throw it into the East River to join the underwater subway lines. Fish food.
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"Sober or not, Matt found Mello’s new face difficult. Looking at it was like watching a Ming vase smash onto the floor of his heart, over and over. All that beauty wasted."
Mello blows himself up. Matt takes the opportunity to relapse.
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After Matt had reunited with Mello, he was beyond relieved that Mello wanted to sleep with him.
He didn’t know what the fuck he’d have done if Mello refused him—beat off until his dick chafed off? Fuck off and be by himself again? And then what, kill himself?
The thing was, nobody actually wanted to hear, “I’d die for you.” It was romantic in theory, but very, very unsexy in practice.
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- Part 1 of A Normal Year
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The first thing Matt ever said to Mello was, “Dude, our house is flooding.” To which Mello had replied, “Yeah, no shit.”
Or, how Matt meets Mello in a fit of apathy.
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Matt and Mello are dating now.
Matt tries to feel worthy. Mello tries to stay faithful.
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- Part 2 of Magnolia
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"Here is some of the code of Mello:
Mello likes boys. Mello is Catholic. Mello loves the phonograph needle, the hypodermic, the tattoo; Mello loves god. Mello never loses, never concedes, will fight anyone anywhere anytime. Mello spends hours on his knees, head bowed and hands clasped. He squares a lot of circles."
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- Part 1 of Magnolia