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You have remained blissfully unaware that your roommate Scara, is actually a bloodthirsty vampire, for quite some time now.
The weird marks on your neck and shoulders don't give it away. The drowsiness you feel despite getting a full eight hours of sleep doesn't either.
Catching him red-handed when you get up in the middle of the night to switch your laundry over is what finally alerts you to the fact that Scara, is indeed anything but human.
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The Place Where We Can Stop Running by Dame Harmony (Glire), Glire
Fandoms: Human Domestication Guide - GlitchyRobo
24 Aug 2024
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Set in GlitchyRobo's Human Domestication Guide setting.
Humanity has been invaded by a precursor race of hypercompetent plant dommes called the Affini, and forcibly given paradise in a post-scarcity culture that heavily prioritizes the care for its protectorates, to the point of drugging and mind-controlling them into a blissful reverie if necessary. For almost everyone this is a vast improvement. All that's required is to give up any silly notions that anyone except for the Affini know what's best for everyone; in many cases the poor things clearly don't.
Chloë Sulla, our protagonist, has been running for too long. Clover Fabaceae, Fourth Bloom has plenty of experience with those who can't slow down. When you finally come face-to-face with the thing you've been trying to avoid all this time, do you have the courage to stop?
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- Part 1 of The Place Where We Can Stop Running
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All Is Well In Santa Rosa by keepoutquantum
Fandoms: Half-Life VR But the AI is Self-Aware (Web Series)
20 Jun 2025
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It's been one week after the Science Team defeated Benrey and escaped Black Mesa, able to return home to what is left of their old lives. Unfortunately, Gordon Freeman isn't handling the events of the Resonance Cascade well, hiding from the world and, more specifically, Benrey himself. He just has a nasty feeling that something very bad is going to happen, and that it somehow involves that blue-skinned, supernatural alien man.
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marble-heavy, a bag full of god by iconoclastfridaynight
Fandoms: Baldur's Gate (Video Games)
11 Oct 2024
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Astarion pulled Killian to his feet and caught him when he swayed, his head finally buzzing empty – no headache, no thoughts, no dark urge.
He couldn’t smell the stink in the air any longer. Face buried in Astarion’s neck, he breathed in something citrus, something earthy, something sharp. He breathed and clung and let his empty head buzz with nothing and nothing and glorious nothing for he knew not how long. Eventually the sewers faded away and like waking from a dream, he was out on the street again, the day all too bright and loud and bustling merrily on, oblivious to what had happened below.
The bag full of Orin was still slung dutifully over Astarion’s shoulder. Killian looked to Shadowheart, the cleric, and then Jaheira, who could probably see the good in anyone, if she had found it in him.
“Come on,” he said. He was steady on his own two feet now. He was sure. “We're going to give her a funeral.”
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Or, the Dark Urge has feelings about narrowly escaping a death cult, and gives his sister the funeral I think she deserved.
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Hell is not forgotten, how could it ever be?
But having someone to share the burden and pain can make all the difference. -
Stay With Me by Earth_Priestess_Arjuna for Kitsune_Familiar_Kiara
Fandoms: TWINFLAME TALES: An Arjuiara Anthology
02 Nov 2024
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I haven’t seen him since we were kids.
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- Part 2 of TWINFLAME TALES: An Arjuiara Anthology
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The Phoenix and Her Sea-Dragon by Earth_Priestess_Arjuna for Kitsune_Familiar_Kiara
Fandoms: TWINFLAME TALES: An Arjuiara Anthology
02 Nov 2024
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My feelings are an unsolved puzzle.
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- Part 4 of TWINFLAME TALES: An Arjuiara Anthology
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In the middle of what should be a run-of-the-mill case, Dean Winchester loses his memories. All of them. But getting his memories back proves to not be as straightforward as they hoped. Is this a chance at a fresh start? To finally live the apple pie life? Does Dean even want that? Does he still want to be a hunter, the only life he had ever known? And what does all this mean for the people that love him?
Stay tuned for brotherly shenanigans, processing trauma, Destiel idiocy and feels, and Dean Winchester being excited by everything!
takes place somewhere in the middle of season 11, but everything that happens in the show with The Darkness, God, and Lucifer, doesn't happen. And also Charlie lives because I said so.
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let your mother know you're safe and by the time she wakes (we've driven through the state) (we'll have driven through the night) by PrettyLittleGallagherGirl
Fandoms: Teenage Bounty Hunters (TV)
12 Nov 2024
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The phone rang only once before April’s voice burst through the speaker, loud and frantic. “Sterling!” There was a pause, the sound of April taking a deep breath before her tone softened. “What’s going on? Are you okay?”
Sterling hesitated, her mind racing. She could tell April everything, pour out the truth in a flood of words and tears, but the thought of reliving it all made her throat tighten. Instead, she chose a different path, one that had just formed in the back of her mind, a wild, reckless idea that was the only thing keeping her from falling apart.
“Run away with me.” The words tumbled out before she could stop them, raw and desperate.
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Sophia Yang confronts her emotionally distant mother during an unannounced visit, reopening wounds from a childhood defined by neglect disguised as "Tough Love"
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- Part 1 of Whispers I Couldn't Scream
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I'll bring the courage if you bring me the heart by 1littlerabbit1
Fandoms: Helluva Boss (Web Series)
30 Nov 2024
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Even when you want it to stop, time keeps moving on. The day after the trial comes, and as much as Stolas would like to simply let himself be crushed with the weight of everything, Blitzø refuses to let that happen.
OR: Shit happens. As long as you're still alive, there's still a way forward.
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- Part 1 of we won't cut out until we've made it
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Tired and processing her trauma on the fringes, Hermione approaches Severus Snape for help with research, but brewing sessions begin to feel more like trysts.
Hermione had always yearned for sweet words couched in the sensuous velvet of his voice. If this meant something was deeply wrong with her, she would parse it out later. She could even talk freely to him about it. And he would listen. As he always did now.
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From echoes of the past to whispers of the future, every moment leaves its mark.
This collection of drabbles and ficlets delves into quiet interludes and sharp turning points, tracing the evolving trust between the Ninth Doctor and Rose—how their bond shapes who they are and who they are to become.
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Home is Where the Hearth Is by NiriKeehan
Fandoms: Dragon Age: Inquisition, Dragon Age - All Media Types
06 Feb 2025
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A month has passed since Dorian Pavus arrived in Ferelden, a refugee from the Qunari war in Tevinter. He is staying with his good friends and husband and wife duo, Cullen Rutherford and Thalia Trevelyan. When Cullen is called away to consult with Queen Juniper Cousland in Denerim, Thalia and Dorian decide to take a road trip to Lake Calenhad to pass the time.
Along the way, Thalia and Dorian face the longterm consequences of their past choices. In Denerim, Cullen discovers new political challenges.
And all around them, the winds of change are blowing.
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- Part 3 of You Take the Dread Wolf
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The World Has No Right To My Heart by MythologyLesbian
Fandoms: Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling
07 Feb 2025
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Mary Macdonald is processing and recovering from a vicious attack.
The war's effects ran deep. This is a story often left untold, brushed off, and lost within the years of violence and murder.
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- Kudos:
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Hermiona Granger od zawsze skrywała wstydliwy sekret: podniecała ją nauka.
Co się stanie, gdy wytatuowany Draco Malfoy wróci na Ósmy rok i nie przestanie szeptać jej do ucha fascynujących opowieści?
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In the years after the war, Hermione is busy at work for the Ministry, dreaming of a promotion and eventual ascension to Minister of Magic. Memories of the torture she endured at the hand of Bellatrix Lestrange haunt her and she decides the best cure for her unacknowledged trauma is to put her head down and work harder - what better way to distract one's self from memories they cannot forget? When her department gets orders to shut down the barely functioning Weasley's Wizarding Wheezes, she find solace in the knowledge that she is not the only one failing to cope with the trauma of the war. A reluctant George eventually accepts Hermione's help so they can work together to get the once beloved shop back into working order, growing closer as they lean on one another to heal from their dark pasts.
But strange things start happening. Hermione starts receiving strange notes with no name attached. Someone is watching her.
As danger draws ever nearer, Hermione grapples with the need for safety and the fear that finding it in another person - George - would open her back up the vulnerabilities she'd long since buried deep.
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Gi-hun and In-ho are living in a pocket of peace they never thought they’d have—domesticity stitched with healing, longing, and devotion.
Gi-hun is in awe of it all. This is the softest he’s been in years, and the most alive. He’s rediscovering himself outside of the game’s shadow, leaning into love he didn’t think he deserved. He’s grounded, playful, and shedding his guilt. He’s building a life where laughter and sex and sweetness all exist alongside grief and guilt—and that, in itself, is revolutionary.
In-ho is still learning how to be a person again. He’s gone from the cold, controlled world of the Front Man to shared dinners, inside jokes, and stolen kisses in the hallway. He’s careful, and reverent with everything Gi-hun offers him—his affection, his vulnerability, his body—because In-ho still feels like he’s learning how to hold things without breaking them. He’s falling deeply in love, not just with Gi-hun, but with the idea of having a home, a future. With being wanted, and maybe even good.
Together, they’re learning how to be soft in a world that made them hard. Their intimacy is slow, sometimes unsure, but always honest.
Chapters that coincide will have primary titles in Korean. :)
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- Part 4 of 457
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Firsts by proper claws for proper thieves (Graivity)
Fandoms: Six of Crows Series - Leigh Bardugo, Shadow and Bone (TV)
29 Mar 2025
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"In the back of Inej’s mind, something asked just what that really meant about her, and whether it would really be as okay for Kaz as it would for her if they never got there. They hadn’t talked about it; they kissed and held hands and slept next to each other (when they could), and they had both expressed interest in hugging, cuddling, and a lot more kissing, but past that was a comfortably blurry space they never quite got around to thinking about. It was all very gentle, all very beautiful. All very just what Inej had always wanted."
If you are of the persuasion that it’s problematic to headcanon these particular two characters as ace, one simple thing to do is just not read this fic. Alternatively, you could read it and remember that you can always change your mind. I do not write their asexualities as a result of their traumas, nor I do not imagining them opting out of moving forward and healing because of being asexual. Inevitably, their traumas are how come they’re ace-coded, but one need not erase or misrepresent either thing. I write each as informing the other, much as each aspect of a real person’s lived experience inform one another.
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How To Mend A Broken Bond by artism7117
Fandoms: The Princess Bride - William Goldman, The Princess Bride - Simon Morgenstern, Battling Legend: A Princess Bride Story (Webcomic)
05 Apr 2025
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Domingo lives.
A sword wound to the chest isn’t easy to shake off, but he lives. Inigo will never have to forge himself into an instrument of vengeance, but steeling himself to take care of Domingo’s wounds isn’t fun either.
(Okay, I’ll stop with the sword puns now.)
(Maybe.)
When Yeste arrives at Arabella, he knows that even if Domingo is still alive, he and Inigo can’t live like this. He takes it upon himself to bring a bedridden Domingo and a stressed and shaken Inigo to Madrid, so they can heal in more ways than one.
But when old grievances are unsheathed and unspoken tensions cut like a blade, Yeste realizes he has more challenge than he bargained for. Hammering this family into a better shape might take a miracle.
Fortunately, miracles aren’t impossible to come by.Series
- Part 19 of how to paint with a sword