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And in the Darkness Bind Them by Cinderstrato
Fandoms: The Hobbit - All Media Types, The Hobbit (Jackson Movies), The Hobbit - J. R. R. Tolkien
04 Jun 2015
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Settling in for a quiet -- if not peaceful -- life in the Undying Lands, Frodo soon realizes that his adventuring days aren’t quite done after all. In an effort to seek out Ilúvatar himself to beg for a cure for the dark affliction endangering his uncle, Frodo travels far beyond the reaches of Valinor and finds that he isn’t the only one on a reckless journey to save Bilbo’s life.
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- Part 1 of Into the West
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19 Jun 2025
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“Well,” Trent said, and smiled self-deprecatingly. “He accused me of having an affair.”
“Oh come on now. That’s bull shit.” Now Ted was angry; you could tell because he dragged the word bullshit out into two long pulls, like a mouthful of licorice. “Who the hell would you be having an affair with?”
“Ah.” Trent kept the smile in place. “Well, that’s the part you won’t believe.”
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07 Jun 2025
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The New Inn is as close to a church as Hob can build, a monument to stories, a tribute to dreams. He has a baseball bat, 600 years of fighting experience, and an anthropomorphic representation of dreaming to impress.
In other words, no neonazis allowed.
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26 Mar 2025
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One day, in spring, he comes to the Inn.
Hob looks up and he’s there, and the relief is blinding. He thinks tu m’as manqué, fuck, because you were missing from me feels more true than I missed you ever has. English missing was ruined for him the moment he learned the French way of it. Longing is meant to be a reflexive verb.
It would be a bad faith translation, even for him. He tells himself this is why he doesn’t say it.
He thinks at last, and that’s a doable one. So he smiles, says, “You’re late.”
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26 Mar 2025
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you're not a religious person (but) by isozyme
Fandoms: Good Omens - Neil Gaiman & Terry Pratchett, Good Omens (TV)
22 Aug 2019
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"I'm in a bit of a pickle, my dear," Aziraphale said over the telephone.
Crowley was seized by immediate fury. Not even a decade, and they're at it again, he thought viciously. You'd think they'd be embarrassed enough to stay out of things for a few centuries at least, after botching the apocalypse like that.
"Who's done something to you?" hissed Crowley.
"Ah," said Aziraphale, in the quiet tone of someone who didn't mean to learn someone else's secrets and was mildly sheepish about it. "This crossword clue -- I'm stuck -- 1980s French fencer, thought you might know. It's eight letters and has a Q in it."
"Trinquet," Crowley snapped, in the tone of someone who had revealed one of his secrets and was annoyed about it.
An account pertaining to the cultivation of figs, the ecstasy of St. Theresa of Avila, the ontological uncertainty of mammoths, the nature of temptation, 2001: A Space Odyssey, and the ten years following the end of the world.
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09 Feb 2025
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Edwin falls silent once more, finally having the good sense to look ashamed as his eyes train on his lap, hands folded loosely atop it. The room settles quietly around them, too afraid to be any louder than it needs to be as Charles swallows his guilt and says, level, “Esther’s house was two and a half weeks ago.”
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01 Feb 2025
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Tethers (and who we choose to cut loose) by Nonbinary_Wirt
Fandoms: It's a Wonderful Life (1946)
03 Jan 2023
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George and Harry discuss the glass factory.
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25 Dec 2024
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unidentified affectionate objects by lyres for williamvapespeare
Fandoms: Dead Boy Detectives (TV)
20 Oct 2024
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“Good thinking,” murmurs Edwin. “Perhaps it’s a benevolent sort of poltergeist. I wonder if -”
He’s cut off by a shower of daisies, the large, long-stemmed ones they put out in the shops for early spring.
“Aw.” Charles picks one up between thumb and index finger, turning it in his hand. “That’s pretty. D’you know, whatever’s making this happen, I feel like it honestly means well with us.”
Edwin isn’t listening. When Charles looks at him, he’s paler than normal, his jaw set in that not-at-all-good way.
“Please excuse me,” says Edwin, and walks straight into their mirror.(A teacup appears in the office, Edwin blushes a significant number of times, and Charles copes normally with being visibly showered in affection.)
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14 Dec 2024
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After returning to London, Crystal tries to find her place in her new old life. Charles hands over an important task. Edwin may finally accept that new furniture is necessary.
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23 Nov 2024
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It's taken literal Hell for Charles to realise that actually, when he told Edwin that he loved him in 1989, he might not have been joking after all. As the demon rushes up towards them, Charles turns on his heels, takes a step down, and kisses Edwin hard and quick.
Or: an exploration of Charles' easy "love you too" in Hell.
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31 Oct 2024
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spinning around and around in an ocean of grief (your ladder came down to the sea) by Ingi
Fandoms: Dead Boy Detectives (TV)
05 Sep 2024
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The first thing Charles ever notices about Edwin is that his voice is far too posh to sound as kind as it does. The second is that Edwin has pretty eyes and a face that was made to be painted.
Or: the cascade of events leading to the completion of Charles Rowland's long-standing bisexual realisation.
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31 Oct 2024
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“Look, Edwin, ask me anything you want to know,” says the Charles on the left.
“Oi, he said to give him a minute,” the Charles on the right says, crossing his arms.
Left Charles makes a face at him. “Yeah, like we ever actually do that. See? I’m the real one.”
“Seriously, you can’t believe that-“
“Charles!” Edwin snaps, and both copies shut their mouths.Bookmarked by longly
06 Oct 2024
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what some circumstance stole by Chrome
Fandoms: The Sandman (TV 2022), Dead Boy Detectives (TV)
04 Sep 2024
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For a magic-user intent on siphoning pain for power, both Hob Gadling and Edwin Payne represent unique opportunities. United in dire circumstances, a man incapable of dying and a boy long dead forge an unusual friendship--and try to survive the experience.
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“When you died,” Hob said. “How old were you?”
“Sixteen.”
“That,” Hob said, “Is awful.”
Edwin shrugged. “Life is, I’m afraid,” he said.
“Can be wonderful, too,” Hob said. “I promise.”- Language:
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27 Sep 2024
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They’ve been working it out slowly in the two months since that awful night—it being something romantic, something that’s quite frankly more than dating, yet not all that different in shape from what existed before.
Point is, as much as Charles loves Crystal, a little time just for him and Edwin had sounded…nice. And probably needed. Except now she won’t be back until Thursday.
Which is fine. Totally fine. No outside rescue just means that they have to save themselves, that they have to figure this out solo—the two of them against the world, just like old times.
Nothing ever went wrong back then.
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In which a case goes wrong, the boys have an awful time, and - for Christ's sake - there aren't enough blades around for us both to fall on our sword, Charles.
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26 Sep 2024
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The other boy slowly lowers his arm back to his side as he meets Charles’ gaze. His eyes are scrutinizing. “There isn’t time, unfortunately,” he says, hushed, “for a full explanation. So, in short order: my name is Edwin Payne, yes, I too was sacrificed to Sa’al by my classmates at St. Hilarion’s, and both of our souls have been traded to the creature that resides here. Unlike Sa’al, the creature has no qualms about torturing souls and prefers to chase its prey. It will be following the trail I have left behind. Hide here. I will lead it off.”
Or: Charles Rowland is sacrificed in the same ritual that killed Edwin Payne, seventy-three years earlier, only a short time before Edwin would have made it out of Hell on his own. Now, instead of being responsible for only himself, Edwin's got to get the both of them out of Hell. It's not going to be easy.
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26 Sep 2024
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Edwin is in Hell. Nothing is as it seems.
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26 Sep 2024
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how selfish my heart by susiecarter for WretchedArtifact
Fandoms: Detroit: Become Human (Video Game)
06 Dec 2020
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The music was too loud.
The music was too loud, and the lights were too dim, and Hank was too goddamn old for this shit.
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15 Jul 2024
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Hank gave in to the urge to bury his face in his hands. This was just… Fuck, he was too innocent looking. Those wide eyes, the soft looking lips. He stared at Hank like he hung the sun and stars, and here Hank was, projecting. Again.
Something brushed his shoulder and Hank couldn’t help but jump. He flinched away and moved his hands, but it was just Connor. It was always just Connor, standing a little too close, probing when Hank was at his worst. Standing at his side with worry in his eyes, staring up at him, and… Fuck.
He was too old for this. He was too old and broken and fucked up to deserve this, but Connor made it too easy to want it anyway.
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14 Jul 2024
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“While sexual activity is not my default purpose, I do possess the capability,” Connor says without so much as batting an eye, unaware that he’s completely shattered Hank’s world view in one single sentence.
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14 Jul 2024
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There’s nothing wrong with the smile. It’s not one of the terrible, toothy ones Connor had given in their first days of knowing each other. It’s subtle, and looks like it fits on Connor’s face—like it folds right into the fabricated creases.
It doesn’t look right on Connor.
(Or: Amanda quietly wins on the stage. The thing piloting Connor’s body is not Connor. Hank will stop at nothing to get him back.)
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07 Jul 2024