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Do you wish that you loved me? (Take it easy on my heart) by zmorak
Fandoms: Lockwood & Co. - Jonathan Stroud, Lockwood & Co. (TV)
05 Oct 2025
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He suddenly gets this intense feeling of hating everything about himself — he feels like a caricature, a broken glass reflection of everyone who's ever loved him. He blinks, and between one moment and next the bathroom mirror cracks, a spiderweb of tiny fractures breaking the silver surface and the skin on his knuckles. His reflection takes on its true form — a twisted, crude portrait of a broken boy — as blood drips into the sink.
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Lockwood is haunted by his reflection. Lucy is taking none of it. -
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When he’s six, he gets a book about music on his birthday. He’s not too good at reading, but it’s so rare for him to get anything he treasures it anyway, and desperately tries to improve his skills. When his father is out, he asks his mum to read to him, and then he attempts to follow after her. There is a chapter on key instruments in it which he’s re-read so many times he knows it by heart now.
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A panoramic view on the life of one Charles Rowland, as told by the keys of a piano.
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There’s something about a sunrise. He’s never been good with words, so he’s struggling to put a finger on it, but he knows it’s there. Maybe it’s the rarity of it – he can’t remember the last time he was up before the sun, so the few times he saw it rise were few and far between. Or maybe it’s the fragility of it which isn’t there once sunset comes, the soft surprise of when the rays first appear, chasing away the night.
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In which Charles's earring gets lost at the beach.
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So, I'll sing Hallelujah
You were an angel in the shape of my mum
When I fell down, you'd be there holding me up
Spread your wings as you go
And when God takes you back
He'll say, "Hallelujah, you're home"___________________________________
He looks at the empty couch while the office clock tick-tacks in sync with his phantom heart, and he fails to understand the emptiness. It reminds him of the time he lost his mum at the shops when he was little, sobbing until a kind old lady helped him find her again. For some reason, the woman flashes in his mind in perfect clarity, despite it being decades since he saw her that day. Her face is so vivid he wonders if she’s some sort of guardian angel, reappearing to guide him back to his mum again.
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From the Payne Journals, donated in 1991 by Charlotte Payne, granddaughter of Lance Corporal E. N. Payne (1900-1989), as part of his World War I records collection.
Below letter has been transcribed directly by Miss Payne, and shared with the public upon discovery of the journals.
The author of the letter remains unknown. However, historians theorise that it may have been the work of one of Payne's dearest companions from the days of the Battle of Somme.
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I hope you never read this letter; that once we leave this war for good, I will slip it out from between the covers of your diary before you ever register its presence. I don’t know where we will go from here, but I hope I will get to burn these pages in the first fire we light together, and when you ask me what I’m burning, I will be able to say that it is just wasted time. I hope I will get to see the flames dance in your eyes as the smoke from my useless words lifts my first proper prayer to the sky – a thank you to your God for allowing you to live.
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- Part 2 of Evermore
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Collection of works detailing life and accomplishments of Lance Corporal Edwin Nicholas Payne (1900-1989)
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The Attic of Portland Row by sunny_plays
Fandoms: Lockwood & Co. - Jonathan Stroud, Lockwood & Co. (TV)
27 Aug 2025
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For the first month, they kept saying he’d wake up ‘any day now’. That everything looked good, and it was likely just the exhaustion from years of agent work that was keeping him asleep. That this might actually be good for him in the long run.
Lucy Carlyle finds her way home in a world where nothing seems right anymore. How do you find your way back to normal when everything has changed? What do you do when the one thing you thought you’d always have is just… gone?
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When Merlin uncovers a betrayal at the heart of Camelot, the jester-servant the court thinks they know vanishes—and Emrys steps into his place. On the day a pyre is built for a midwife, one choice pits mercy against a king’s law and cracks open every bond: mentor and ward, knight and oath, friend and crown. As prophecy presses in, love and loyalty are forced to live without trust. This is a tale of a kingdom remade by refusals, and a guardian who saves it—even if he must do so from the shadows.
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“Merlin. Even if you’re … even if you’re right, it doesn’t matter. It’s too late. He’s going to kill me. And I—listen to me, you idiot. I don’t want you to watch. And I don’t want you to be next.”
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After confronting Morgause's vision of his mother, Arthur rides for Camelot, intending to make his father pay for his hypocrisy. He falls short of luck, for the King has fallen back on the counsel of his faithful Witchfinder, Aredian, who is convinced that Arthur is not Arthur, the crown prince, but a changeling, bound to Morgause's will and let loose upon Camelot to usurp Uther of his crown.
As Arthur is dragged away to the dungeons, sentenced to a death by fire, Merlin must race against time to change the course of events which seem to spell out Arthur's demise. Time is scarce, however, and for all intents and purposes, it might be too late already.
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- Part 1 of There Are Other Places
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“You-” Ygraine said, stepping up to point a finger in Uther’s face. “You are a liar and a murderer. The fact you think someone as sweet and caring as Vivienne is destined to marry you is a tragedy in itself, but if you expect me to hand over my brother’s rightful claim to Camelot’s throne-”
“My claim to Camelot’s throne,” Uther threw back, face growing more red as Arthur looked between his parents in utter bewilderment. Merlin didn’t blame him. He had envisioned Uther and Ygraine’s love story to be more… well, less based in war and battles.
Ygraine’s eyes narrowed as she grabbed a goblet of wine and threw it in Uther’s face. A few of the guards shifted, but Uther only raised a hand to pause them, spitting out the wine with furious eyes.
“You,” Ygraine said coldly. “Are unworthy to sit upon a stool, let alone a throne.”
From a few feet away, Balinor scoffed as he sipped from his own goblet. “I kind of like having her as a hostage, Uther. She livens up the place.”
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In a desperate attempt to save Arthur at Camlann, Merlin tries to reverse time. It works perhaps a tad too well.
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Wunderkammer, noun. Translated from the German as wonder room and more commonly known in English as a cabinet of curiosities.
HELP WANTED: Maintenance Worker (late hours)
Seeking a person of steady disposition and keen intellect. Generous compensation. Room and board available upon request. Not suitable for those possessed of a delicate constitution or nervous temperament. Mechanical aptitude a must, fast runners strongly preferred. Priority will be afforded to candidates with no dependents or other living relatives. Applicants may report to Mr. Edwin Payne, acting head curator and recondite warder of the London Athenaeum.
Office hours: 11:30pm – 5:30am, Mondays only.It’s the weirdest bloody job interview Charles has ever done.
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- Part 1 of Wunderkammer
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04 Nov 2024