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“I’m sorry,” she starts quietly. “I know I have been… hard to deal with. Since I met your father and left that prison cell, my purpose has been to get you on the Ruby Throne. I have to keep you safe, Martin. Nothing else is more important than that.”
Martin raises an eyebrow and sweeps an arm around the room. “You’ve been doing that perfectly well.”
“You died,” Lyrana points out.After the Oblivion Crisis, the Hero of Kvatch finds herself lost and half-mad with grief. But when the machinations of a long-dead cult bring Martin back, Lyrana has to hunt down cultists, interrogate widows, and figure out why her grief is starting to feel a lot like something else.
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Arthur walks up to Merlin and leans their shoulders together, staring at Gwen and Lancelot’s cottage. “It’s nice,” he says casually.
Merlin shoots him a look. “It’s amazing, you mean. I even conjured up all the furniture! I usually have to buy it all myself. My magic is getting stronger.”
Arthur hums. “Yeah, well. Maybe you should use some of that magic to create Morgana’s house. Or even a shack. She did love to live in shacks.”Series
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“It’s hard, isn’t it?” Gwaine continues. His eyes are brighter now, more awake. It is a sobering conversation. “Seeing him now, and how different he is. I know Merlin hasn’t changed in the ways that matter, but he has changed.”
Arthur hums in agreement. “He’s… less open, now. Time was I caught him crying over something at least once a week.”
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There's a whisper of a touch against her chin, soft and almost intangible. She snaps her head up to meet those impossibly blue eyes, soft and wary as though they were staring at a kicked dog.
“There you are,” Darien murmurs. The sound of his voice, so gentle and familiar, brings tears to her eyes. “I'm real. I think.” He scratches at the back of his neck. “I mean, I don't know. I was sort of hoping you'd help me with that.”
Talaari opens her mouth, but for a long while nothing comes out. “Darien, you… you're not real. You can't be. You're dead." -
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“We were actually discussing Steve here hosting a Dungeons and Dragons sleepover,” Nancy explains innocently, smirking at Steve when he gives her a betrayed look.
Eddie grins. “No way! Wheeler, do you play?”
“I’m a little rusty, but I’ve played,” she admits.
Eddie leans more weight onto Steve. If it was anyone else, Steve would probably throw them off, but something about the way Eddie throws an arm around Steve’s shoulder, his fingers brushing his bicep, makes Steve feel grounded and electric at the same time.
“Oh, well if it’s to incur suffering upon our resident jock, who am I to deny the pleasure? I’m in.”
Steve throws his hands up in defeat. “Do I not get a say? It's my house!”
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pull me close & hold me near by ever_yours
Fandoms: Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves (2023)
23 Jul 2023
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What bothers Edgin is that the guy is touchy. He knew that, of course, knew it from those first five minutes when the guy touched that gross fish-thing and then the Tabaxi cub and then the beggar. Xenk can’t keep his hands off people.
“I don’t get it.”
“If you’d stop interrupting, I’d say— fuck, I forget. No, wait, here. I was gonna say… And here’s the crux of it: Edgin wanted Xenk to touch him.”
“Ew.”(Or: Xenk touches everyone except Edgin, and it's only a little bit frustrating.)
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28 Mar 2025
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It had been a simple dare, one that had made sense when Emma had been two drinks away from passing out. She doesn’t know what exactly Ruby had done to bind it– is still very new to magic as a real thing, flowing through Storybrooke– but it’s now a dare she can’t back off on.
Ruby had laid out the rules, more and more smug as she had gone on. “So if Regina wears a red dress, you have to pick a fight with her.” Emma hadn’t questioned that one. “But if she wears blue, you have to give her a compliment. And if she wears grey, you gotta call her Your Majesty.” She’d been a little drunk, too, enough that she’d gotten bold. “Light colors mean you have to tell her whatever’s on your mind. Whatever.” Her eyes had narrowed in ominous delight. “And for black…for black, you have to flirt with her.”
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every winter fades away (into the spring) by coalitiongirl
Fandoms: Once Upon a Time (TV)
07 May 2017
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Emma reaches for Regina’s hand again, but Regina’s moved her ice cream to it instead. “Though, I mean, if I were into women, your mom would definitely be first on my list,” Emma tells Henry.
“I’m flattered,” Regina says dryly.
Her voice sounds a little strained, and Emma tries to lighten the tone. She hadn’t thought Regina would be uncomfortable with the idea of…well, Henry has two mommies, but the Enchanted Forest had seemed a little regressive. “What? Are you saying I’m not on your list?”
“Yes, Emma,” Regina says, and she barks out a choked laugh of her own. “If I were into women, you would definitely be on my list.”
[A year in the lives of Emma and Regina, falling in love all the way through and doing every bit of it backwards.]
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22 Mar 2025
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build your wings on the way down by ShanaStoryteller
Fandoms: Fullmetal Alchemist - All Media Types, Fullmetal Alchemist (Anime 2003), Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood & Manga
28 May 2018
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Where the loss of ignorance is more valuable than the knowledge gained, and Edward figures out the source of alchemy a lot sooner than before.
"Edward has cockroaches under his skin and leeches in his veins. He's vibrating and bursting and his body is too small, too big, doesn't fit quite right. He needs Al to know - needs to tell someone, anyone, but he will cut out his own tongue before he burdens anyone else with this knowledge."
(Now with a TV Tropes page!)
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20 Mar 2025
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Roy isn't a liar – he's a storyteller, and a good one. Admittedly, sometimes it's hard to tell the difference. Sometimes, omission is the better part of valor, and embellishment is all he's got.
(a.k.a. yet another "And they were SOULMATES!" "…ohmyGod, they were soulmates.")
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16 Feb 2025