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Not Great. Just Gatsby.
This in-depth exploration of Jay Gatsby's past comes from years of OBSESSIVE research and work, all with my usual desire to completely recontextualize and destroy your understanding of this stupid book. Nick had his say, but there's a lot he doesn't know about Jay. A lot he might have been told but isn't willing to put on paper—or worse, things Jay couldn't bear to tell Nick.
This story will go a chapter per year, covering his time with Dan, his time between Dan and the war, his time with Daisy—and just why she's so impossibly important to him—his years rising up with Wolfshiem, and that one final year before he dies. We'll get to the very heart of the manipulation and desperation that pushed his man until his untimely end.Bookmarked by synonymsofspeeches
19 Mar 2026
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a duty to others, a duty to you, a duty to the dead by audioEidolon
Fandoms: Vampires SMP
21 Feb 2026
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"My, you have been busy," Scott said, and Legundo did not look at Scott's eyes— shut them in fact, when Scott grabbed his chin and forced his face forward. He could smell that cold breath now, like a funeral parlor, and pulled away with a grimace, hand moving to his belt—
Scott snatched that up as well, and with a twist and a surge of inhuman strength, pressed Legundo flat to the table. His breath left him in a rush, and Scott laughed.
Scott was shorter than Legundo, and much lighter as well. The only thing keeping him planted on the ground was his own body weight, and Legundo had the advantage of leverage.
He still had a hand free. Legundo grabbed on to the collar of Scott's elegant coat, and put a knee into the vampire's stomach. He had the satisfaction of seeing surprise in Scott's eyes— before he was handily thrown clean off of Legundo, and over the far side of the table.
He would not get the element of surprise again.
(Or; Legundo gets bit by EVERY Vampire at some point or another, for varying reasons.)
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28 Feb 2026
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Apo has decided to infiltrate the Coven as a means to garner information that could help Oakhurst in the long run. The only problem is that the longer she stays around these people, who truly aren't too different from the rest of the village, she finds herself not wanting to leave. They care about her, in their weird and twisted ways.
Or Five times the Coven shows Apo she belongs and the one time she believes it.
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05 Nov 2025
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Legundo offers Owen the cure, they talk and it doesn’t end well for Legs. Owen then runs away to Louis’s grave that he made after slaughtering all of Oakhurst 200 years ago and cries. A lot.
Based on session 6 - SPOILERS FOR SESSION 6
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- Part 1 of Vampires SMP fics
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28 Oct 2025
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euuuuhhhhh just shoot me atp it would be kinder <3 beautiful fic author
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Pyro is thirsty. It's been only a few nights, but it's a hunger unlike anything in human experience. So when left with only himself and two vampires—alongside one human—it takes over. Even when that food wasn't for him...
aka 'quiet place to build a nest' dynamic of a coven, but it’s canon shelby’s turning; pyro takes scott’s meal and turns her, he is STILL pissed, only instincts make it *sing-songy voice* messy !!!
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07 Oct 2025
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Owen smelled like death. He looked like death. He was a harbinger of death, not to be touched, and yet a pale hand closed around his own and shook it firmly where he stood at the tall door to the Mayor of Oakhurst’s office, a welcoming gesture he hadn’t experienced since the disease took hold over a decade ago.
“Come on in, friend,” the man said, holding the door open to allow Owen to pass. Owen’s whole arm felt like it had been flooded with warmth, and it took him a second to realise that the kind words had been meant for him.
Or: Five times Louis touched Owen without fear, and one time Owen did the same
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06 Oct 2025
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verb
1. make (something) harmless or ineffectual.
2. remove the fangs from (an animal, especially a snake).---
Apo stared down at the pliers in her hands.
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01 Oct 2025
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Pyro doesn’t know how to cope with his own death. He never thought that vampires were real, much less that he’d become one! But maybe he can get something useful out of Scott toying with him. But….is he toying with him?
Owen and Avid aren’t the main plot but they’re still gonna be prevalent.
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30 Sep 2025
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Fed on blood and chaos, awaiting a revival, Scott decides to take a nap. He’s caused like eleven new vampires in a week. He can take a nap. Everyone else decides to nap too.
Also known as, the world’s worst slumber party.
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29 Sep 2025
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Pyro had spent his entire life never being good enough.
His parents had cut him out of their will and left him to fend for himself because he wasn’t sufficiently accomplished. Even without another heir to replace him, they’d decided he wasn’t worth the time or effort. No professor had ever taken notice of him either. He was a mediocre student. Not so incompetent to be remarkable, nor so brilliant to earn himself their admiration.
And now, he was a creature of the night, and he couldn’t even excel at that. He didn’t doubt that his Sire would soon grow frustrated with him and leave him for the villagers to tear apart. It was an inevitability, especially after he’d failed to control himself with Shelby. And yet, there was still hope in his cold, unbeating heart. Maybe if he just tried a bit harder, he could earn his Sire’s forgiveness.
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or, after desecrating a beacon himself, Pyro goes to have a talk with his Sire
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- Part 1 of Stell's VSMP Fixation
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24 Sep 2025
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Nurture (noun): the process of caring for and encouraging the growth or development of someone or something.
Sausage’s back hits his knee, and Scott doesn’t move. “Forgive him, he’s still learning,” he drawls, keeping Sausage firmly in one spot, “It’s hard, you know, suddenly having all these instincts, and speed, and-” he kicks Sausage in the back, throwing him forward towards Pyro, “hunger,"
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20 Sep 2025
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A lonely desert hermit wakes to find out he's not so lonely anymore.
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25 Aug 2025
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<3 this fic is so amazingly adorable I just can’t
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Main series completed, now mainly extra post-story fics :)
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The Codfather’s loose shirt is gone now, and while Scott certainly hadn’t expected that level of muscle definition, that isn’t what he’s focused on. Jimmy’s torso is littered with scars. They’re all over, some large and others tiny, some an aged white and others a shiny red. He gapes at them, confused—what had happened? Is the sea really that dangerous? He knows Jimmy’s clumsy, does it justify this?
“What happened to you?” he blurts out, and Jimmy turns to him, face a picture of confusion, before his eyes follow Scott’s gaze. Comprehension dawns and his face closes off.
“You know how it is,” he says coolly, and Scott is pretty sure he does not, in fact, know how it is.
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or, that one trope where A sees B's scars and instantly turns from a bully to protective.- Words:
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10 Jul 2025
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Yummy. I stayed up till 3 reading this so my brain is fried but like this is so good ((((:
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"My names Xornoth." They said slowly, very slowly. "I'm a they."
"What, like that demon?"
Just the smallest flicker of eyesight showed the Mezalean King looking at them with the most confused face they had ever seen.
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When an uncorrupted Xornoth woke up on the Mezalean shore line, they expected to get arrested or killed on sight. What they did not expect was for King Joel to drag them into the Matral Palace for in-law bonding.
They also didn't expect for Scott to be corrupted by Exor. And they also didn't expect themself to still be incoherent around Joey.
This could be... interesting.
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- Part 1 of Yeah
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Jimmy starts moulting during 3rd Life. It's okay, though, because he's got Scott to help him.
But with Scott, the line between help and hurt blurs.
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03 Jun 2025
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hrghhhhhhhhhhhh this is incredible like damn perfectly written my god
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Rome wasn't built in a day (but it was burned in one) by PawPunk for Ingoma
Fandoms: Video Blogging RPF, Empires SMP
08 Oct 2021
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The emperors can't stop Xornoth. They win, and now the rulers must face the price of standing up to the demon.
Overarching trigger warnings for slavery and general angst/whump.
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25 May 2025
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well that was devastating. thank you author (:
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what do you call it when you feel remorse, but not really?
what do you call when you weep for Lucifer in past, but with lying tears in present?
what do you call it when you're fool still stuck in a trap?
what do you call it when had malice, but in spite of all.
you wanted that power back.Croatia isn't quite sure either.
comments and kudos appreciated!
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Just like a prayer, you know I'll take you there by Risaspring
Fandoms: The Umbrella Academy (TV), The Umbrella Academy (Comics)
11 Oct 2024
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Five Hargreeves didn't realize that while saving the world, he regained some of his humanity with it.
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The Umbrella Academy Season 4 rewrite because that ending was ass.
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10 Sep 2024
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Five knows an experimental jump like this is a bad idea – especially when lost in the wrong timeline – but he's willing to gamble if it means he's not stuck as a goddamn thirteen-year-old. And it does work.
Just not quite how he planned.
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20 Aug 2024
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Five has never met a partner the way that people meet each other in fiction. Every single partner that he's been with has been someone he's met through his classes or someone he's been set up with by his colleagues. That changes when he quite literally runs into the most handsome man he's ever seen.
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17 Aug 2024