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nothing left but scars by SailorChibi
Fandoms: Marvel Cinematic Universe, Iron Man (Movies), The Avengers (Marvel Movies), Captain America (Movies)
30 Jan 2015
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Steve wakes up to the fact that no one ever compliments or even says thank you to Tony, and that he has fallen into the same trap of painting Tony with a specific paintbrush.
This is how he showers a very confused Tony with praise to make up for it.
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Pluribus (You know I'm in love with you, right?) by ZXI
Fandoms: Critical Role (Web Series)
07 Dec 2015
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Vex thought she could trust her brother to take care of his own shit. Apparently, she was wrong.
Vax just wants to be happy with his family.
Percy is all sorts of confused, on a multitude of subjects.
And Keyleth was trying not to get in the middle of things. Thanks, Vax.
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- Part 5 of many voices telling a story
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Past, Present, and Future Vignettes by CaryceJade
Fandoms: Kingsman: The Secret Service (2015), Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling, Endeavour (TV), Pirates of the Caribbean (Movies)
02 Jun 2016
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This is all of the stuff that does not fit in specific stories in my Past, Present, and Future universe. Most are one-shots or shorts, possibly even drabbles, but I will try to always tell you at what point in the canon of my AU they take place.
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- Part 7 of Past, Present, and Future
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Yuuri is not good at difficult conversations, so when it comes to having a difficult conversation with Victor things don't go as he planned them to.
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- Part 6 of Yuri on Ice!!! Stories
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The Dark Lord is dead. But for the survivors, it feels like the war's just begun.
This is a story of finding meaning in the space after.
This is the story of how Draco Malfoy wills himself to live.
This is the story after the ending has come and gone.Series
- Part 2 of Swan Song
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Sehun goes through life avoiding confrontations of any kind. It works, mostly, until he finds himself in the middle of a mental breakdown at his best friend's apartment because he refuses to talk to his boyfriend about what's really bothering him.
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- Part 1 of baby borderline sehun
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Dazai's never learned to ask for what he needs. Chuuya's never learned patience. And neither of them have ever really learned to compromise.
"If we've had sex so much, why haven't you ever admitted that you want to worship me?"
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A follow up to my earlier story 'Changes' - you don't have to have read that to really 'get' this but I would recommend it.
After his talk with Bobby, John can barely wait to talk to Sam about what was said. He wakes him up early to have a talk, and finds his guilt getting even worse as he realises the things Sam wants most in the world are things that any other child in America would easily take for granted, especially when he finds that one of those things is just to find out what his own mother looks like.
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- Part 32 of Supernatural Oneshots
- Part 13 of More Stories Than Usual in August
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This year, Scrooge is giving Webby the Christmas gift of a lifetime - a solstice spent on the mysterious island of Quackatoa. But when disaster strikes, Scrooge is forced to reassess his definition of treasure. Adventure, angst, hurt/comfort, and plenty of Uncle Scrooge and Webby bonding!
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Healing broken bonds starts with confronting hard truths.
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- Part 2 of Constellations
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i am just a broken machine and i do things that i don't really mean by loonylu
Fandoms: The Penumbra Podcast
13 Apr 2019
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Vespa turns and stares him down. “There was no reason for you to get shot today, Steel,” she says, dark eyes flashing. Then she is gone.
Alone in the dark infirmary, breathing shallowly, Juno understands this perfectly. Do a better job. Don’t get shot next time. Protect your team and don’t get hurt.
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Thor and Carol spend a night together and have a conversation about the future.
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A New Fire by disgaeaguy3
Fandoms: The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild, The Legend of Zelda & Related Fandoms
07 Jul 2019
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Teba is a warrior and Saki is a worrier. There were always going to be difficulties between them, but they worked well together. They were happy. At least, that's what Teba believed.
So why did Saki seem to think otherwise?
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i will make it up to you (i promise to) by spock_soup
Fandoms: She-Ra and the Princesses of Power (2018)
03 Sep 2019
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“I’m not asking you to join me, Catra. I just want your word - no more killing.” Tentatively, Adora stretches a cautious hand through the metal bars for her to shake.
No, Catra wants to say, no, I will never promise you that. Don’t you get it? I would kill you right here if I had something to do it with.
But it’s late. The storm is finally calming. The guards will come in the morning.
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catra inadvertently saves adora's life and then ends up in a bright moon prison cell with her legs bandaged from the alliance's weapons and a leaky ceiling dripping dirty water onto her tangled hair. a nontraditional heart-to-heart follows.
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Aaron having conversations with family members, canon compliant/wishlist items for eps
aka; the author is too sad to write direct robron rn, and so writes robron adjacent
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- Part 2 of Aaron's Family Values
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The sun is only just peeking over the horizon, shining through the window behind Buck. Eddie had breakfast on the stove already when he knocked on the door, and despite the fact that this is their first time doing something like this, it somehow feels the opposite. It feels as if this is a regular occurrence for them, like Saturday morning adventures didn't only start today. Truthfully, he had figured it had been a fluke, at first, that maybe someone up top was playing a cruel joke on him when he’d immediately taken an interest in the other man. But if anything today is only proving it's a downhill avalanche from here; Buck's heart sings whenever he's near. He doesn't know a lot about love, but Buck knows whatever this is, it's close.
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- Part 1 of my end and my beginning
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Public Expectations and the Management Thereof by Zwergenmaedchen
Fandoms: Good Omens (TV) RPF, British Actor RPF
09 Mar 2020
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David turns away from him (and the mirror, Michael notices) to re-do the bun higher up on his head, presumably so he can sleep on his back without having to lie on it.
'You're gonna look so pretty,' Michael says with what he hopes is an encouraging smile that David won't even see but hopefully hear, but David stiffens half-motion, just for a second, then continues with his task.
David is growing his hair out and Michael has an opinion. So does David, it turns out.
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Mochida Kensuke was in an interesting position, as the only upper echelon (besides Hayato) with access and control to more than one flame. He was in a delicate position because of his Lightning flames, especially when Tsuna sits him down and gives him an incredibly important task. Full Sum Inside.
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- Part 3 of Mochida!Centric
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Yuuki Mishima makes a hard decision, one he's wrestled with for a long time — the decision to show his cowardly face and apologize to a still bed-bound Shiho.
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Nines discovers something surprising about his partner.
Connor comes to Gavin for needed advice.
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- Part 7 of The Davis Investigation (Part 1)
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Virgil snorts, and sits on Logan’s bed. He crosses his legs to stop himself from bringing his knees to his chest. “Can you, um... just run through those uh... cognitive distortions again?”
Takes place after Fitting In (Hogwarts Houses!) but before Can Lying Be Good?
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- Part 13 of Sanders Sides Ficlets
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They end up together at the Lima Bean, promises made over the phone at Thanksgiving long left behind. "I know the relationship between us is - complicated," Kurt says. His hands are folded around the cardboard cup as if in prayer. "But I need to talk to my best friend. Can you do that?"
(reunion fic, divergent from canon after 4x22)
Bookmarked by daltonfightclub
04 Oct 2021
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POV: Kurt
MCs: Kurt, Blaine, Rachel, Santana
Setting: Ohio/NYC
Rating: MTags: Reunion; S4-5 fix-it; post-the breakup; learning to communicate; growing pains; fic in letters and messages; hard conversations
From the comments: In many ways, this story feels like the fix-it I always wanted but never got in full (and isn't it kind of amazing--and terrifying--that these two left such a mark on our hearts that even now, nearly a decade later, it still feels as though there are Klaine-shaped wounds left to heal??) I'm extremely impressed by what you were able to accomplish in a relatively short piece, and even more impressed that you managed to slide this into season five without actually having any prophetic knowledge of what was waiting for us after the S4 hiatus. I love how you captured their innocence (and their not-innocence), which I suppose is more youthfulness and hope than anything else--whatever it is, it felt SO true to the Kurt and Blaine that existed at this point in their journey that it fully transported me back to that time in a way I haven't experienced in a while. [Last Read: 10/21]
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nothing left but scars by SailorChibi
Fandoms: Marvel Cinematic Universe, Iron Man (Movies), The Avengers (Marvel Movies), Captain America (Movies)
30 Jan 2015
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Steve wakes up to the fact that no one ever compliments or even says thank you to Tony, and that he has fallen into the same trap of painting Tony with a specific paintbrush.
This is how he showers a very confused Tony with praise to make up for it.
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These were definitely not from an accident on a ranch, an OSHA violation on a construction site, or from the ladder truck. These scars, these old wounds, were intentional.
It knocks Eddie’s mind on the ground, but Buck’s still writhing under him, not even concerned to why Eddie’s mouth paused, breathing heavily over his dick.
Buck’s breath hitched, and he cursed under his breath, “Tease.”
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when you hide that your heart is just holding on by himbobuckley (tals11)
Fandoms: 9-1-1 (TV)
09 Apr 2022
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Placed after Chim punches Buck and the Balcony Scene, what happens when the rest of the 118 find out. Including lots of self-hatred from Buck, adoration from Eddie "Heart Eyes" Diaz and finally somene dealing with that Bobby/Buck scene from 1x04.
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Buck doesn't wanna get into the details of his shiner, the 118 is concerned, and Eddie finds out about the time Bobby shoved Buck into the wall. With (un)healthy amounts of author projection, Buck hating himself, and Eddie feeling helpless.
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Buck takes a deep breath and pulls off the cap, running a hand through his hair and not looking at anyone. He hears Hen’s intake of breath and can sense Bobby and Athena’s disappointment without even looking at them. Eddie’s knee nudges his. Buck doesn’t nudge back.
“What happened?” Bobby asks.
Buck shrugs. “It’s not important.”
“Boy,” Athena says, “if someone gave you a shiner that bad, it better be important.”
more description in the authors notes :)
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Light into Gray by Roselightfairy for DeHeerKonijn
Fandoms: The Lord of the Rings - J. R. R. Tolkien
16 Nov 2020
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"It's an art to live with pain... mix the light into gray." -Eddie Vedder
Dear Gimli, with his craftsman’s heart and his dwarvish determination to find the problem, to fix it, to repair something broken to better than it was before. “It cannot be helped, Gimli,” he says. “That is the problem. I cannot bear to stay, and yet I cannot bear to leave. And there is so much warring within me that sometimes I feel I will die anyway just from holding it all inside.”
Sometimes living with sea-longing is impossible to bear – and yet somehow Legolas and Gimli must find a way to bear it together.
All other choices are unthinkable.