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we walk the paths not taken (with only the stars to guide us) by circle123
Fandoms: Dragon Age: Inquisition, Dragon Age II, Dragon Age - All Media Types
10 Jan 2025
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“You’re not going to die,” she tells him, and rolls up her sleeves.
In the moon’s dim light, the Knight-Captain looks pale as death. His hand in hers burns hot with fever, and she can feel his blood slowly seeping into the hem of her robe.
“Why would you… help me?” he asks.
She summons a wisp to her hand. His blood glints black in its pale green light. “Because you’re going to help me,” she says.
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Evelyn and Cullen, an alternate past.
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we carry the future (it turns to dust in our hands) by circle123
Fandoms: Dragon Age: Inquisition, Dragon Age (Video Games), Dragon Age - All Media Types
12 Sep 2024
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“I left the Order, when I joined the Inquisition. I’m not a templar anymore.”
“You’re not?” she asks. “Prove it.”
A fireball flares in her palm, the white-hot shriek of it contained but ready to launch. He is all reaction, practiced movements shifting into a defensive stance, hands ready to clap together in a silence. She can smell his lyrium in the air.
Banishing the magic, she says, “You can take the man out of the Order, I guess.”
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Evelyn and Cullen remake the world.
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darkness before dawn by circle123 for absoluteTomfoolery
Fandoms: Baldur's Gate (Video Games), Dungeons & Dragons (Roleplaying Game)
09 Dec 2023
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He was hers long before he was Mystra’s.
But what is the love of a girl to a goddess?
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Sotto Voce by MsCoffeebear for Shin_PM
Fandoms: Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 (Video Game)
07 Jun 2026
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Belle Époque Paris, 1913. Verso Dessendre is very good at being wanted. It is, in fact, the only thing the world has ever been willing to pay a ruined aristocrat for, and he has made his peace with that.
Then Gustave Virlogeux — celebrated conductor of the Opéra, one hand of flesh and one of steel, immovable as a closed door — catches him breaking into the rehearsal hall to play a piano in the dark. Instead of calling the gendarmes, he offers Verso a real chance and an honest wage, and commits the truly unforgivable sin of refusing to be charmed.
This is a story about a maestro who won't play along, a brat who won't behave, and a grand piano that did not consent to any of this. It is also, underneath all that, a story about being wanted for the whole of yourself — scars, ruin, and all — by someone who refuses to let you sell the one true thing you've got.
Or: a maestro who conducts in bed exactly as he does on the podium, a pianist whose every seduction technique fails spectacularly and repeatedly (until it doesn't), and one grand piano that did not survive the experience.
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07 Jul 2026
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The girl’s shoulders hunch again. An expression is battling on her face. Guilt again, and fear, and shame. And then faintly, in the soft turn of her cheek, commiseration. She watches Gustave for a long, sad moment, and then turns to a new page in the notepad. She starts writing something, and then stops, glancing furtively at Gustave before scribbling it out. On a new line she instead writes in big bold letters:
Maelle.
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Gustave is the local mechanic of Lumiere, an idyllic coastal village far away from the chaos and conflict of Paris. Struggling with his recent injury and the loss of a good friend, he's not quite prepared when a family moves into the abandoned Manor on the edge of town.
He's definitely not prepared for their children.
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05 Jun 2026
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And this is how Isabel Conklin sees Conrad Fisher for the first time in a decade: in the narrow galley kitchen of a sailboat called Beckon, naked under her terrycloth bathrobe, mascara smeared beneath her lower lashes, balancing a Diet Coke and Taylor’s Dyson Airwrap in one hand and a fistful of saltines and blue raspberry taffy in the other. It is, to put it mildly, not how she would have preferred the reunion to go.
(Ten years after Susannah's funeral and five years into a successful acting career, Belly books a sailing charter for her best friend's bachelorette weekend. No one told her it was Conrad Fisher's boat.)
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13 May 2026
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Baby, I'm a Giver by thesweetestnerd
Fandoms: Trigun Stampede (Anime 2023), Trigun (Anime & Manga 1995-2008)
26 Mar 2023
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“Doesn’t have to be that way, you know,” Wolfwood says instead, because he’s an idiot with no impulse control. “Pleasure can be reciprocated.”
“Ah.” Vash smiles, sheepish. “I don’t need it to be.”
“But do you want it?”
Vash considers that, the revelation that he could possibly ever want something and be granted it. In the end, he shakes his head. “It doesn’t matter. I’m not asking somebody to do that.”
“And if they offered?”
"Are you offering?"
Vash wants to help people however he can, including getting them off, but they never return the favor. Wolfwood changes that.
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07 May 2026
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They Told us to Die for our Honor, So we Escaped the Nunnery while the Convent was Burning Down by Weirdstick
Fandoms: 薬屋のひとりごと | Kusuriya no Hitorigoto | The Apothecary Diaries (Anime), 薬屋のひとりごと - 日向夏 | Kusuriya no Hitorigoto | The Apothecary Diaries - Hyuuga Natsu, 薬屋のひとりごと | Kusuriya no Hitorigoto | The Apothecary Diaries (Manga)
21 Mar 2026
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Title says it all!
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- Part 2 of Chronicle of Exiles
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22 Mar 2026