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the mutterings of all your fears, the fluttering of all your wings (fret not, dear heart) by stendhal
Fandoms: Hades (Supergiant Games Video Games)
23 Oct 2025
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This close: she sees red bruising sitting on Melinoë’s forehead, battle bruises covering skin: useless pride, defiance at being defeated over and over.
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Being forced to sit while Gale spits therapy lingo at him doesn’t compel him to open up anymore than Halsin’s sad eyes or Raphael’s stony silences did—rather, he feels like screaming, breaking the first thing he can get his hands on: perhaps that shiny Therapist of the Year award that keeps hitting the light coming through the office window as if it’s begging for attention.
Whatever Dr. Gale Dekarios might think, there’s nothing to say.
But later... he watches with unease as Halsin begins to unfold the previously crumpled up paper he left on the floor of Halsin's truck all those weeks ago, fingers still decorated with pinpricks of blood leftover from removing splintered glass from his skin. Halsin offers him the paper: a cartoon sun with sunglasses smiles up at him, Comic Sans makes up the entire document—it is as if he’s being mocked by Gale, even outside of the office.
No words are exchanged. The meaning behind the paper isn’t hard to understand.
It is a monumental effort to snatch it from Halsin’s hands, to reply:
“Fine. Fine.”
No one ever said healing wasn't a messy, chaotic affair.
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by the fire: you are a gentle beast, and i am alive by stendhal
Fandoms: Baldur's Gate (Video Games)
11 Oct 2025
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“And so,” Astarion sighs dramatically. “Overcome by peckishness, I found myself milling about, thinking: who else do I know that has a lovely neck—and, of course, there’s Shadowheart, but no sooner than I’d open my mouth to proposition her would she call upon her beloved goddess to smite me. Lae’zel scares me and would have no qualms about sticking that garish githyanki blade of hers through my gut. Gale’s no good: there’s nothing but rot inside that one, you see. Who knew courting the Mistress of Magic would have such dire consequences, hm? And there’s Wyll, sweet darling Wyll, but the stench of six-foot-something tiefling sits on every single one of his belongings.”
Astarion looks at him, properly, and those eyes pin him to the spot with their inquisitiveness and only then does it set in that just like him: Astarion is a hunter.
“Which leads me... to you,” Astarion finishes, pointing his empty goblet in his direction.
Warmth found by the fire; warmth found in the depths of darkness.
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and i am not myself in the daytime by stendhal
Fandoms: Arcane: League of Legends (Cartoon 2021)
01 Oct 2025
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Nothing more than a trick of the light.
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to be here loving you when i'm in the tomb (and if it's a blessing, i want it for you) by stendhal
Fandoms: House of Guinness (TV)
29 Sep 2025
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“You fucking, perpetual shipwreck!”
Hands, heavy and cruel, twisting into the fine, wrinkled linen of his shirt, yanking him up and close by the collar.
He looks different, this Edward: unnoticeable to most, surely, but he knows Edward, sees him in all the ways no one ever thinks to look: cheeks, sunken from endless nights, early mornings; skin, sallow; eyes, wild from ambition and something else, something—betrayal, yes, the fire of betrayal that’s been set by... him.
A man of mistakes. A life of lies.
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little fires of desire by stendhal
Fandom: 呪術廻戦 | Jujutsu Kaisen (Anime), 呪術廻戦 | Jujutsu Kaisen (Manga)
11 Nov 2024
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only kisses, because it's sunday by stendhal
Fandom: 呪術廻戦 | Jujutsu Kaisen (Anime), 呪術廻戦 | Jujutsu Kaisen (Manga)
31 Oct 2024
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kid bruises by stendhal
Fandom: 呪術廻戦 | Jujutsu Kaisen (Anime), 呪術廻戦 | Jujutsu Kaisen (Manga)
14 Sep 2024
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You are a tragedy in two acts. The first act, you are dead. The second, you are a prophet.
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06 Oct 2025
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Knuckle-bone, Chokehold by clandestinepasserine
Fandoms: Arcane: League of Legends (Cartoon 2021)
24 Aug 2025
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It's 1997. God is real, and He is in your cereal, your radio, the glint of headlights caught in roadkill eyes. In the hum of cicadas and the low pulse of FM static. He is in the rust on your daddy's tools, the warm plastic of the truck dashboard, the syrup-thick silence that settles over the hills come sundown. If you're listening proper, you can hear Him in the drip of the kitchen tap, the way it ticks time like a metronome. Keeps beat for the loneliness.
Jayce Talis lives alone in the hills, content to keep to himself, his Bible, and the quiet work of tending land too stubborn to yield much. Then one summer evening, the church drops a half-starved stranger on his porch. Viktor- sharp-tongued, bird-boned and unrepentant- is the kind of man Jayce was raised to turn away from. But the mountains have a way of stretching out time and making space for things that don’t belong, and the more Viktor learns to live, the more he makes Jayce remember what he's spent years trying to forget.
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02 Oct 2025
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Bad Moon Rising by ReformedTsundere for softestpunk
Fandoms: Arcane: League of Legends (Cartoon 2021)
06 Jul 2025
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At first, Viktor doesn't notice that Jayce Talis is, for lack of a better word, strange. Stranger than a man determined to mix magic and science should be. And why would he?
Knowing how a man loops his initials on every page of his personal notes and what angle his shoulders make when he appears to have given up does not mean that Viktor should know him. A similar mind and equal drive towards the unknown do not mean they are the same.
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22 Sep 2025
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Shut-in Viktor cannot stand the manosphere sensation that is Jayce Talis. He will do whatever it takes to humble the so-called Man of Progress, even if that means signing up for his men-only retreat.
Viktor needs to take Jayce down.
It's his wildest fantasy.
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12 Sep 2025
Bookmarker's Notes
bunny please please do not ever forget this gem of a fic:
- "There is an inherent eroticism in death, the ultimate rape."
- "Men are destined for this—extinction. Homoerotic cataclysm."
- "Vitkor should bargain. I’ll come out if you let me gargle your balls. That’s alpha, right? Negotiation tactics. Sigma grindset."
- "Based and hope-pilled. I love life, haters stay mad."
- "Viktor has so much to say about the flaws in Big Bideo Bame" -
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John's return doesn't go unnoticed, and Management are very good at forward planning.
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02 Sep 2025