Pedestaltrooper
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I haven't moved in years (and I want you right here) by Pedestaltrooper
Fandoms: Warrior Nun (TV)
22 Dec 2022
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Beatrice is being haunted by a specter, by her memories, by the figure of a woman that perturbs her every waking hour. The ghost of a touch when she’s alone in the kitchen pouring two cups of tea. When she hears her name called out in the mornings before she’s awake enough to remember she lives alone. Beatrice, ordinarily contained, has become a woman unleashed and it all started that fateful night. No, not that one.
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Words don't make sense when you're reading backwards by Pedestaltrooper
Fandoms: Supergirl (TV 2015)
13 Dec 2022
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Kara gets a boyfriend and it’s okay, it’s fine. Because Mike is funny and kind and sweet and gets along with virtually everyone.
He brings Kara fake flowers so they never die, always shares his food, and Lena’s pretty sure he’s been stealing clothes from Kara’s closet because that checkered button up he’s wearing looks suspiciously familiar and not at all nauseating.
Kara gets a boyfriend and it’s great, really.
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Snippets of Supercorp and the holidays Mike ruins.
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I love you (ain't that the worst thing you ever heard?) by Pedestaltrooper
Fandoms: Supergirl (TV 2015)
23 Mar 2022
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“You know this means you’re stuck with me right?”
“What are you going on about now?”
Kara shrugs like it’s the most obvious thing. “My sister just married your best friend. Face it, you’re stuck with me now.”
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When her best friend gets engaged, Lena realizes with absolute horror that she is now stuck in a socially binding and lifelong acquaintanceship with the second most infuriating person in the world; Kara Danvers. The only person Lena hates more is National City’s very own caped heroine
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It takes Lena 485 days to love Kara
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I don’t wanna look at anything else now that I saw you by Pedestaltrooper
Fandoms: Supergirl (TV 2015)
03 Sep 2021
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The next hour goes by in a blur. Clark is pushing the folders into her hands before she can say anything. Ms. Grant is telling her to go with her cousin.
“Bring me aspirin first, your anxiety is giving me a migraine.”
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Kara has just been recruited by Clark Kent to help bring down an underground casino ring. The only catch? Prove Lena Luthor is guilty
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Didn't know where I was running to (and you know I wanna go to heaven but we're human tonight) by catauragay, Pedestaltrooper
Fandoms: Halsey (Musician), The Chainsmokers (Band), Closer - Chainsmokers (Music Video)
28 Mar 2018
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This is our "theory" as to how the music video came to be, featuring vampires, mattress bandits, and a hardcore Willow/Tara shipper.
spoiler: it's a crack fic, it's always a crack fic
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"So to keep yourself from getting hurt by love, you're…casting a spell to…find it?" Sam says, her face twisted up in confusion as Lena wanders the garden gathering the herbs she needs. It's dark outside, and they're darting between shadows – the garden is here for the kitchen staff to pick fresh ingredients from, and the last time Lillian found her snipping rosemary she was confined to her room for two months.
"I'm calling for Amas Veritas," Lena clarifies. "I'm binding myself to a person that doesn't exist."
"How do you know they don't exist?"
"They can't. No person can fit all my criteria. And if they don't exist, I can never fall in love."
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Lena Luthor is cursed. Everyone she loves is doomed to die; it would take someone truly indestructible to survive a magic that’s ingrained in her very bloodline. When she binds herself to a true love that can’t exist, the last thing she expects is for Kara Danvers to turn up and prove her wrong.
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An AU (lightly) inspired by Practical Magic.
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i believe, you can get me through the night by Jazzfordshire
Fandoms: Supergirl (TV 2015)
19 Feb 2019
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The woman who opens the door is nothing like Kara expected.
She’s not a housewife. She’s young, probably Kara’s age, and alarmingly pretty. She looks loose, and carefree, and stylish. She looks like a catalog model. No…even better. Those women don’t have half the curves that this woman does, they don’t have her subtle smile or her bright green eyes –
Bright green eyes that are staring directly at Kara.
“Can I help you?”
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Kara is a sexless housewife in 1969, feeling trapped and not knowing why. But when mysterious, kind-hearted Lena Luthor moves in next door, hosting swinger’s parties but ignoring the men, Kara’s whole world shifts on its axis.
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- Part 1 of leave tomorrow behind
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Bookmarked by Pedestaltrooper
13 May 2023
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Written just like 1950’s lesbian pulp fiction, Kara’s spiral and then realization of love reminds me of when I fell in love with my girlfriend and all the scary (and amazing) things that come with it
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Recently, Ava had been watching Youtube videos on mindfulness in an effort to try to increase the percentage of her thoughts she was able to keep just in her head. That training was about to fail her spectacularly. “One of the nuns is kind of cute.”
Mary’s fingers paused mid stitch. Ava’s fork paused halfway to her mouth as her brain caught up with what she’d just said.
“Ava, what the fu—”
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Ava has to spend several weeks in a church archive. The person running the archive is a nun, and also hot. She is totally normal and respectful about this.
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30 Dec 2022
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“Well, nothing happened. I mean there was nothing when I died. Sorry for the spoiler.” Ava didn’t know how she expected Beatrice to react, but when she looked over she found her smiling, just slightly. “It really freaked me out. I mean, hugely. That feeling of just—being nothing. And sometimes I remember that, and remember that this is all there is, and get so upset with myself for wasting time. I don’t even know what it is I need to feel happy. And sometimes I think I’m afraid to find it. But the more time passes, the more I realize how I’m just hurdling toward—“ The word nothing died on her mouth. She pursed her lips around it, keeping it inside.
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Or, this actually ended up being a bit of a character study?? Which was not what my horny ass was expecting at all but it’s so much better. I love how the writing manifests physically. A word Ava swallows around. The sticky feeling in her chest when she sees Beatrice. Being so starstruck, like a coin appearing from an ear. How do you come up with this stuff?? It’s brilliant. And the subtlety of the ending, and all the weight it holds. Beautiful. Absolutely beautiful.
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Home, to Ava, is flannel-backed chairs and worn quilts and lacy placemats and a rocking chair they find abandoned on the side of the road.
Home, to Beatrice, is Ava’s hand in her own as she drags Beatrice through the kitschy home store four towns over and Ava’s shout of triumph when she finds a matching set of salt and pepper shakers and Ava’s waggling eyebrows when they buy the bed that she (again) calls ours.
(Six days in Switzerland, and then a few more afterwards.)
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- Part 1 of happiness is a warm nun
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Bookmarked by Pedestaltrooper
25 Dec 2022
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“Ava doesn’t keep secrets from Beatrice well, but she does keep a few.
The first, she keeps poorly: the three words she does not say, but fails to not show, saved only by Beatrice’s willful ignorance, by the weight of guilt pulling a thick veil over her eyes. The second, she keeps because of the first; Beatrice’s cooking hasn’t improved, not at all, and it shows with every meal Ava lies about having so much more flavor than the one before. The third and last is the one she keeps best, because it costs so little and gives so much; her three alarms and groggy mornings have little to do with laziness and everything to do with the hour or more she spends awake in the middle of each night, savoring the sensation of Beatrice’s body pressed against her own.”
It’s truly outrageous how many times I cried reading this. The slow burn is so, so palpable I could practically feel the yearning myself and it made me Emotional okay? Okay.
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“Well, I thought maybe you could teach me how to fight on the ground.”
“You mean jiu-jitsu?”
“Yes. That.”
“Very well.” Beatrice replies shortly, which is all the warning Ava gets before she’s being flipped onto her back, nothing but Beatrice and the full weight of her bad decisions on top of her.
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Bookmarked by Pedestaltrooper
22 Dec 2022
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Beatrice is absolutely, positively, 100% flirting, Ava is sure. She just needs to bug Beatrice a bit so she realizes it.