Malstroem
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“You’ve come to see the mermaids, haven’t you?” At the table to the left of the window sits an older man. His beard is white like cotton, and he’s wearing a hat set low on his brow. Henry's ear swivels towards him and makes an inquisitive little whiny. That’s apparently what it takes to raise his mood. Mermaids.
“You lot seem awfully relaxed about having the cursed this close to home?”
“Those girls aren’t cursed. They’re native and they were here before us and they will stick around long after.”
“We’re just guests on their waters, and that is good and all.”
“But?”
“For someone with a cursed one for a companion you seem awfully concerned about them.”
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The point of the trip was to escape with his best friend. Postpone the future as much as possible, except that the mood is just off, and Hans doesn't know how to fix it. They will hit the sea eventually, and then they will have to turn around, and they will be back in Rattay. There is a lot he wants before getting married. There are experiences he wants to have and places he wants to be. There are talks he needs to have with his best friend. He doesn’t want to talk about the future, but they have to.
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- Part 3 of Fables of the Marigold Eater
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It’s time for the yearly big horse race, and Hans hasn't said a word about it. It should probably have been the sign that he was up to something, but Henry has been too distracted by how nice and quiet everything had been for a full month.
The trap shuts behind him when he walks into his abode and sees a brand new saddle and harness displayed on a stand, and Hans laying on his sleeping platform with a bouquet of marigold.
Henry starts to back out. Maybe if he’s slow enough about it, Hans won't lurch.
“Oh no, you are not backing out. Get back here Hal!” he yells and scrambles up to grab him before he can flee.
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- Part 2 of Fables of the Marigold Eater
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The first time Henry sees the horse, he nearly misses it in the rain. It’s after the attack on Pribyslavitz. Rail thin, and probably once white. Sniffing around the corpses, looking for grass that has long since been trampled into a muddy pit by the fighting.
“The horse over there. We should take it in. It won't make it like this.”
"What horse?” Henry looks down at the soldier in confusion. When he looks up again, the horse is gone.
Henry wasn't born like this, but he was cursed early enough that it doesn't really matter. Life as a centaur is complicated. Even more so when your whole world is razed to the ground and Death dogs your step. What does it mean to be both horse and man but also neither in a world that is only getting more complicated? Is there space for someone like him? Will he be put down when he stops being useful? And what's up with Hans Capon?Series
- Part 1 of Fables of the Marigold Eater
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To Lay the Weary Bones to Rest by Malstroem
Fandoms: Dead Boy Detectives (TV), Good Omens (TV)
22 Aug 2025
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Someone has broken into hell. Incapacitated the doll head spider. If the circumstances were different, Charles would raise a glass to the mad lads who pulled it off. But what they came for was to plunder the halls for bones and right now he is watching Edwin cower in a closet in an attempt to escape invisible hands on him. Somebody is using Edwin’s hell tempered remains and Charles is gonna track every single piece down so they leave Edwin alone.
“Get them off me– I said get them off me!” Edwin hisses. Voice breaking into a shrill whimper on the last part. He wants to rip the hand away. Throw himself out of reach. Bite them if that’s what it takes for them to leave him alone. He curls up tighter in some stupid conviction that that will make them go away.
“Edds’ I’m gonna fix it. Just—I’ll be back!” And off Charles go, leaving Edwin to his misery.
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- Part 3 of A Two Headed Troublemaker
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“This is Heine.” At his name being called he looks up at her with a stubborn tilt to his chin. A display she would have found offensive was it not for the clear undercurrent of fear he’s failing to hide.
“That one got something wild in him doesn’t he?“
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The underground gets accustomed to Heine because no dogs should ever be without a pack. Heine grows up. First alone and then in company.
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Fables of the Marigold Eater by Malstroem
Fandom: Kingdom Come: Deliverance (Video Games)
14 Sep 2025
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Henry wasn't born like this, but he was cursed early enough that it doesn't really matter. Life as a centaur is complicated. Even more so when your whole world is razed to the ground and death dogs your step. What does it mean to be a cursed creature stuck between animal and man in a world that is only getting more complicated? Is there space for someone like him? Will he be put down when he stops being useful? Thank God, Hans Capon seems as lost in the world as he is. Henry might be lost, and the forest might be dark, but he’s not alone.
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We would be kings. Just for one day by Malstroem
Fandom: Dead Boy Detectives (TV), The Sandman (TV 2022)
04 Dec 2024
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Snapshot out of order about big and small happenings.
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- 12,166
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- 3
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A Two Headed Troublemaker by Malstroem
Fandom: Dead Boy Detectives (TV), Good Omens (TV), The Sandman (TV 2022)
22 Aug 2025
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- 19,822
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- 3
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- 1
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Deus Iniustus by Titlark for isnt_it_pretty
Fandoms: Kingdom Come: Deliverance (Video Games)
10 Oct 2025
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When modern scientists excavate the Capon crypt and reveal Hans Capon isn’t Hynce’s biological father, the media spins it as a historical curiosity—an intriguing twist for noble lineage enthusiasts. But the truth lies deeper: in a battlefield tent, in fevered whispers, in the hands of a man who loved Hans in secret for most of his adult life.
As the story rewinds to the Battle of Živohošť, we witness Hans’s final day through Henry’s eyes. What unfolds isn’t a mystery to solve, but a legacy to mourn.
Bookmarked by Malstroem
10 Oct 2025
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In These Small Dark Places by rednightmare
Fandoms: Kingdom Come: Deliverance (Video Games)
22 Sep 2025
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Birdie of Pirkstein is nothing like a hare. He never thinks of dying; he has no need for dark, snug spaces; he flits in the sun and grins with his big teeth and rips his joy to bloody shreds.
Only a hare, of course, knows what it means to be ripped apart.
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A brief study of grief recovery and of two opposing shades of loneliness, as presented in Henry's loss anxiety and Hans's claustrophobia. Also, how to love as one when you love very differently. KCD1 & KCD2 vignettes, one shot.
Absolutely lovesick, like enough to hurl.
Bookmarked by Malstroem
22 Sep 2025
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There are some things Hans would never tell anyone, not even Henry.
Or the one where Henry slumbers and wanders. Hans questions his entire purpose on God’s green earth. And everything crumbles under siege.
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- Part 1 of four articles
Bookmarked by Malstroem
16 Sep 2025
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With Broken Ribs by SilverDancers
Fandom: Star Wars - All Media Types, Star Wars Prequel Trilogy, Star Wars: The Clone Wars (2008) - All Media Types
25 Mar 2025
- Words:
- 55,313
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- 3
- Bookmarks:
- 25
Bookmarked by Malstroem
08 Jul 2025
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a series of loosely connected oneshots around true detective, leading in chronological order up to carcosa and rust and marty getting together afterwards.
- 1992
- — lost causes
- 1993
- — foxhole
- 1994
- — long, tearless night
- 1995
- — night of the swallow
— machine in the ghost - 1998
- — magpie to the morning
- 2000
- — out of time man
- 2002
- — help that never came
— person, stranger
— way out there - 2012
- — fox confessor brings the flood
— star witness - 2013
- — ground to break
— baby in the king cake
- Words:
- 112,493
- Works:
- 14
- Bookmarks:
- 57
Bookmarked by Malstroem
24 Jun 2025