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A newly inaugurated Tsunade's interview process for new government lapdogs and personal lackeys is derailed by unprofessional inebriation and zero-sum gambling.
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‘Am I going to lose you?’ Hank heard himself ask, the guilt instantly flushing back into his chest again.
Connor didn’t say anything at first, just blinked, then blinked again, but his eyes were still steadily focused on Hank.
‘If it depends on me, then no. You won’t’ he said eventually and relief washed across Hank, making the previous guilt disappear. For exactly 5 seconds, before Connor opened his mouth again and decided to burst his bubble ‘but I can’t guarantee that other people won’t try to interfere with that decision of mine’
Hank scoffed at that, dry and heavy. Realistic. Same old Connor.
Well, that was still the closest thing to the truth, probably. And that’s what he wanted to hear, right?
Except no, that was not at all what he wanted to hear, not even close to it.
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- Part 2 of Who We Are (and who we want to become)
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instrumentum vocale | instrument with a voice by Aylen, Mossgreen
Fandoms: Original Work, 2770 ab urbe condita - Fandom
08 Aug 2019
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When Ven and DVM visit Artemis and Julian at the Universitas, the two slaves are left alone together and end up sharing a bit more than just a conversation.
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- Part 8 of a capite ad calcem
- Part 58 of 2770 ab urbe condita
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【翻譯】魔王還是瑪其朵 Caught Between the Devil and the Macchiato by sandykill
Fandoms: Kingsman (Movies)
02 Nov 2019
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伊格西出門喝杯咖啡。老大決定該是時候聊聊了。魔王完全不嚇人，沒有撂狠話。
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Jonny D'Ville and the Search For Meaning by OnceAndFloral
Fandoms: The Mechanisms (Band)
17 May 2020
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Jonny is a bitter, immortal space pirate who doesn't think there's much meaning to anything. However, in his travels he meets some people and has to listen to what they have to say.
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During their second year on Earth C, the players start to drift apart. This is made worse by a disastrous wedding, and the effects of trickster-related humiliation cause further interpersonal tension.
This is part of a series that fills in the gap between the end of Homestuck and The Homestuck Epilogues. It is not a happy story. Updates weekly.
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- Part 2 of Evanescent Idolatry
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...and we were barely dressed by Flamingbluepanda
Fandoms: The Old Guard (Movie 2020), The Old Guard (Comics)
13 Dec 2020
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Scenes from the Mercer Safehouse, Arizona, a Vauge and Happy time in the future
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Medic and Engie have a conversation during routine maintenance of the Gunslinger.
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The Lord of the Dead is not lonely. He never has been. All things will come to his embrace in time, and what is time to an immortal, ageless God?
and yet. And yet, when he looks up—when he lifts his head from his endless work, judging and sorting out souls—he finds himself drawn to one god in particular. The lithe, lean form of the god of medicine and medicinal plants—his ever-present smile, the sharpness that smile hides—commands his attention more often than any other immortal, despite most of his focus always being on the souls of the mortal men and women who end, as all things do, in his realm. -
Strategic retreat by melissachan
Fandoms: Super Dangan Ronpa 2, Dangan Ronpa - All Media Types
15 May 2021
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Fuyuhiko attempts to teach Peko that she's more than what a bunch of long dead people who never gave a fuck about her wanted her to think about herself. It turns out to no be as easy as it sounds.
Day 18: Children fight their parents' wars.
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- Part 31 of Danganronpa Short Fics
- Part 18 of Angstpril 2021
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They were, once again, at a precipice, cards of fate long since dealt.
Met at another impasse, two old foes sit down and talk.
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Sirens by dismalzelenka
Fandoms: Dragon Age - All Media Types, Dragon Age: Origins - Awakening
06 Sep 2021
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“Why would a mortal ever allow such a thing?” Justice asks.
Nathaniel ponders the question. “For life,” he says finally. Thoughtfully. “For love. Perhaps together, you can do what they cannot do alone. If you gave instead of taking, I would consider you no demon.”
It is something to consider, Justice thinks. Somehow, he is far more preoccupied with the way Nathaniel offers a smile: like he is someone who deserves to be loved.
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S: No, we'll put Breanna on it. You're busy there, and she needs the practice.
H: She doing okay?
S: She's learning. The occasional bump. You remember how it was, don't you? Overreaching, having to compensate?
H: Yeah, sounds familiar.
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- Part 19 of Pardicer
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Love me like you do by minchanprocrastinating (multistanfoodforthesoul)
Fandoms: Stray Kids (Band), ITZY (Band)
26 Mar 2022
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It's a road trip, a get away for their group of friends, a good time to heal and rest. Tired parents of the group of thirteen, Chan and Minho need this trip more than anyone else. They need to have a good time. They're /going/ to have it.
Except for the blizzard that gets in their way, and the insistence of the universe for them to deal with everyday sexual harrassment, and trauma and emotions they'd worked very hard to bury, it would seem.
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The point of living by fullmetalpotterhead
Fandoms: 天官赐福 - 墨香铜臭 | Tiān Guān Cì Fú - Mòxiāng Tóngxiù
26 May 2022
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(All oneshots in the series can be read independently)
Hualian discuss reasons for living, the point of living, and flirt on a lazy afternoon.
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Baring Souls and Letting Dead Bury Dead by TheOrderoftheIncarnate
Fandoms: Order of the Incarnate
30 Sep 2022
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Elodia and Martigan muse on a resolution of their previous conversation in the library while sharing a sunrise on the back of the Rail-Away train. They share some of their pasts, understandings of the present, and possibilities for their futures.
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The ineffable melody of you by lonelywhale (pink_fluff)
Fandoms: 방탄소년단 | Bangtan Boys | BTS
02 Oct 2022
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Jeongguk picks up the kitten in both hands and holds it up to his face, focusing all his attention on it like it might start dispensing advice if he tries hard enough. “I mean, if it was me reading that headline, I’d think, like— a vacation from what? This is what I’ve always wanted.”
Yoongi tries not to notice how cute it is. It’s uncomfortable how even though Jeongguk is the one with amnesia, he somehow manages to keep surprising Yoongi, who should in theory be a step ahead of him.
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“Do you believe in soulmates?”
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"Surviving the Apocalypse" Is Kind of an Oxymoron by books_and_starss
Fandoms: Dream SMP
07 Jan 2023
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The world has always been ending. In the grand scheme of things, empires are always rising and falling. The world doesn't stop turning for something as small as an apocalypse.
Or: society collapses, and Ranboo and Techno start a garden about it.
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“Do you want me to tell you a story?” Megatron said mockingly. “You won’t like it, Prime. It’s not a very nice one.”
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CHAPTER 1: During a fight on Cybertron, Optimus and Megatron get trapped in a cave-in. They run the calculations for a hopeless chance of rescue and begin to talk. Megatron tells of his origin as a mining bot, one of 5 who had been enslaved and mind-controlled by the Prime. When his brothers dug him out of a cave-in and sent him for needed repairs, Megatron escaped to become a fighter in the gladiator rings. Optimus and Megatron debate ethics and end goals, not able to truly see from the others’ point of view.
Bored and fully comfortable with himself, Megatron begins flirting in hopes of spending their processing power on sex. They begin discussing poetry. Megatron reveals that he is the mind behind the pen name the Voice of Tarn, Optimus’ favorite poet, and that his works are literal. He recites a poem of meeting 2 bots discussing the personal, violent experiences they had and how those experiences are what allow people to understand his work. Megatron reveals the privileged willfully misunderstand his points while the scorned/forgotten/abused know his speech is plain because it is their lived experience.
Optimus has another panic attack and Megatron pulls him out of it. He uses guided what-ifs to lead them into a session of mutual masturbation, vocally guiding Optimus through a scene. They interface mentally, emotionally, and physically with one another (while holding hands hnnng) to explore the other’s psyche, emotions, and experiences. Megatron has never felt hope like Optimus, becoming almost frantic searching for signs of his own worldview within Optimus’ systems.
Optimus adjusts Megatron’s untreated neurons to dampen his pain. Megatron dives deeper to try and find signs of self-serving motivations behind the kindness, but Optimus doesn’t have any alternative motives. Megatron draws them into the Matrix as Optimus realizes that Megatron’s worldview is cemented the way it is because he feels no love and he’s never been shown it. The Matrix takes the pair to the origins of Megatron’s conscious, where they watch his brothers rescue him.
Having re-lived it, Megatron has the context and experiences he needs to understand Optimus like Optimus now understands him. He was loved, and can now comprehend why love is such a driving force for Optimus. They cry together in the aftermath, still clutching laced hands.
The activation of the Matrix helps the autobots find them. The 2 sides work together and free Megatron and Optimus. The Matrix prompts Optimus to guide them all deeper into Cybertron where they find recordings from the old Prime that reveal duplicity and selfishness to all those present. Optimus gives Megatron the metal his brothers died finding and the blueprints for constructing a Matrix.
Optimus returns to earth to help the humans build defenses. 17 months pass before the Decepticons attack and the humans force them to retreat. Megatron meets with Optimus to port together and they share hours of pleasure. Once sated, Megatron reveals his Matrix, called the Oracle, has given him intergalactic victory. Optimus is horrified and worried for Earth. Megatron reveals that Optimus can rest because Earth is safe: he didn’t return until the humans could defend themselves, so a human-favorable treaty could be made without causing riots from his forces. Optimus realizes that Megatron loves him and Megatron invites Optimus to journey across the galaxy in order to find a Victory Condition, should it exist, that has room for BOTH self-determinative justice and love.
CHAPTER 2–3: Megatron’s love confession (via poem) that he embeds within the Oracle, to be passed on and hopefully given to Optimus as a punctuation mark to his death, followed by a full collection of the poetry written and shown in this fic.
I’ll find the road. / I’ll put your feet upon it. / Walk on, without your heart. / I won’t say that I’ll be with you / I will not even be / One of those voices you can reach inside to wake / You will only tell them of a few hours in the dark / When you caught me in your heart. / I won’t be with you. / And all you’ll want is to stop in the ash-choked dark where last you saw me / But go on a little further / Let me write you a way out of the dark. /
I lived in that arena 50,000 years / Each one 100 tendays / Count them, now / Do you see them mounting up behind me: 5 million lives / I owe them a debt too / The toll between me and that shining place / When the time came, you’d wash away all / You’d spill yourself, a offering made freely / To get me to the light. / But I don’t make small bargains. / I won’t pay them back with one single cycle of your breath. / Not even if I see in every road you lie down and die in grief beside my corpse / I’m not sorry, and I won’t learn to be / But I’ll do my best to see you learn before the end / That I loved you / More than the worth of five million lives