18 Works by collapsed_lung (Collapsed_lung)
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foolish girl (for believing lies) by collapsed_lung (Collapsed_lung)
Fandoms: KPop Demon Hunters (2025)
22 Jul 2025
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when the noise pierced through the walls like wet paper, zinging around the empty hallway, forcing them to blearily run to Rumi, whose room was tucked into the furthest corner of the wide hall, with a fear that clutched them by the throat.
Mira was sure she’d never before heard a sound more primal, more horrific, more scared, and she’s sure she never wants to hear it again.
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is it worth it? by collapsed_lung (Collapsed_lung)
Fandoms: Grease: Rise of the Pink Ladies (TV)
15 Jun 2025
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Jane didn't mean it. She didn't mean it when she would call her sister a loser, or argued with her friends, or when she forgot to do the dishes after dinner.
And she didn't mean to leave her bedroom door unlocked, either.
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lay hands on the bricks (and i'd swear from inside, i could feel it) by collapsed_lung (Collapsed_lung)
Fandoms: School Spirits (TV)
08 Mar 2025
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Quinn looks down at their hands, at the way every inch of their arms up to the elbows are touching, at how it ignites a flame in her gut, and sighs. Quinn knows crossing over is not impossible, she watched with her own eyes at the way Janet's door materialized in a flash of pure gold, pure forgiveness, a promise of moving on to better things. It scares her.
"What's keeping you here?" Quinn doesn't know if she has the right to ask, but she does, anyhow.
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like a flower bending in the breeze (bend with me, sway with ease) by collapsed_lung (Collapsed_lung)
Fandoms: School Spirits (TV)
04 Mar 2025
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Quinn never went to prom, never got the chance. She died a sophomore, not old enough to attend, and even if she could she's sure nobody would have wanted to go with her.
Rhonda floats into her mind, unbidden, as she stares out the window. She and Rhonda have had this dance between them, unchoreographed, unplanned, going with whatever feels right, and Quinn's not sure when she wants it to stop. If she's courageous enough to grab Rhonda's hand just as the record player stops, pull her forward, and show her all of the words she can't seem to say. She's not sure if Rhonda would go to prom with her.
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Rhonda doesn't hate that Quinn is in her personal space, not really. Not like she wants to. The girl, oddly, has become a comfort, an anchor, a tether to herself when she spirals.
What Rhonda hates is how she feels about Quinn. And how she hasn't let herself feel this way in a long, long time.
"You know you don't have to sit here with me, Quinn. All I'm doing is reading." Rhonda pokes her eyes around the side of her book, looking down at Quinn, whose head is lying in her lap.
She doesn't know when Quinn started doing that, or when she felt so comfortable allowing it.
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i want more (more than i probably should) by collapsed_lung (Collapsed_lung)
Fandoms: Grease: Rise of the Pink Ladies (TV)
06 Feb 2025
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"Jane?" A voice calls, sweet and maybe a little chastising.
And, logically, Jane knows this voice, she loves this voice, she knows this voice in seven different octaves (yes, she counted), but still she startles, nose deep in scattered papers by lamplight. A stray hair clings to the side of her face as she whips her head up. "Olivia?" The shock drains from her face and a small, slightly confused, grin takes its place. "You're not due here until seven? It's only..." she pauses, frowning, brows furrowing, pushing her glasses up slightly as she reads the tiny analog clock on her wall. "I'm sorry, I didn't realize the time."
Or, Olivia spends the night, and they talk.
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(She did it! She got a gift! Can you believe it? She's a big girl now!)
She turned around just in time to watch Abuela exclaim, "We have a new Gift!"
(And, later, if she noticed Tío Bruno missing from her party, she couldn't pay it much mind, because everything was frozen and she didn't know why. Everything was stock still; nobody heard her cries. Nobody reacted. And, when she finally figured out that she froze time, it rewound. And rewound. And rewound. until she lived through the same moment over and over and it only stopped when she exhausted herself, falling to her knees and bawling. Abuela looked perturbed, and she tried to ignore the sinking feeling in her gut.)
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Student Council by collapsed_lung (Collapsed_lung)
Fandoms: Grease: Rise of the Pink Ladies (TV)
02 Jul 2024
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“I’m…I..I’m going to hell.” Jane stares at the water, lining the rim of the cup with her thumb. Clear and pure, what she once thought she was.
Cynthia snorts, quickly stifling it with a hand and shooting an apologetic look to her distressed friend. She never did know social etiquette. “Sorry, Sorry.” She squeezes Jane’s shoulder. “Why do you say that, Jane?” Cynthia asks with a sinking feeling of already knowing the answer.
Jane sets the cup down, the water inside ripples, disturbing its purity. She wrings her hands in her lap, looking at them. “I like someone and…it’s not a boy.”Series
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Creased Paper by collapsed_lung (Collapsed_lung)
Fandoms: Grease: Rise of the Pink Ladies (TV)
16 Jul 2023
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The note never left her hand. She played with it so much the words might as well be tattooed on the palm of her hand forever. It was as much of her as she was as much of it. Those shoe box notes are a part of her as she is a part of them. They, too, should be tattooed all over her body. The calligraphy of the girl she was in love with permanently on her skin for the world to see.
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Steady Together by collapsed_lung (Collapsed_lung)
Fandoms: Grease: Rise of the Pink Ladies (TV)
03 Jul 2023
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"Ready to go?" Breathless, Cynthia asked.
Lydia nodded, also taking her time to inspect Cynthia's choice of clothing. "You clean up nice, I have to say."
Almost dazed, Cynthia grinned. "Th- thanks."
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Cynthia's eyes widened. "Reckless? That's a bit dramatic."
"So now I'm dramatic? Great." Lydia's lips pursed as she stood.
Cynthia slapped a hand to her face, scrambling to get off the couch. "No, that--that's not what meant," she backpedaled. "It's just--you've never been this upset over a cut."
Lydia wrapped her arms around herself, an ache jolting through her chest as Cynthia emphasized the last word as if it meant nothing. "It's not just a fucking cut! What happens if you get seriously hurt and you brush it off? What happens when you do something reckless, and it kills you? What happens after that? I'll just be here? Alone?"
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Bruised for You by collapsed_lung (Collapsed_lung)
Fandoms: Grease: Rise of the Pink Ladies (TV)
20 Jun 2023
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"What are you going to do to him?"
Cynthia gently extracted her arm from Lydia's grasp. "Something that I'm definitely going to regret."
She was gone then. Running into the beastly crowd to hunt her prey. Lydia was left alone, a weak ray of light from the bathroom shining over her tear-stricken face.
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Of Cold Shoulders and Confessions by collapsed_lung (Collapsed_lung)
Fandoms: Grease: Rise of the Pink Ladies (TV)
16 Jun 2023
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Lydia felt her face wet. The rain hadn't touched her in minutes.
"I'm ready to give you all I've got. I'm all in."
"How will I know?" The words surprised Lydia with their appearance.
Cynthia slugged her Pink Ladies jacket right off her shoulders and slung it around Lydia's own. "You're shivering."
Lydia nodded. "I'm shivering."
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She Laughs Like You by collapsed_lung (Collapsed_lung)
Fandoms: The Last of Us (Video Games), The Last of Us (TV)
07 Apr 2023
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Joel's words looped in her head.
“Serious girl problems.”
“She likes you.”
But it wasn't true. It couldn't have been. Dina just broke up with Jesse--granted it was for their third--and final, as Dina says--time. But, fuck, the idea lessened the strain on her heart. It gave her a reason to pin the blame of Dina's actions on. She could easily chalk it up to Dina being nervous and scared.
It made sense.
But it also was the most fucking random, wildest thing she's ever heard.
Why would Dina like her?
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- Part 2 of Wake Up With Your Eyes Closed
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Living Through A Dream by collapsed_lung (Collapsed_lung)
Fandoms: The Last of Us (Video Games), The Last of Us (TV)
23 Mar 2023
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Her guitar caught the corner of her eye and her breath went cold. She eyed it and JJ a few times, thinking through if she really wanted to rip her own heart out and stomp on it at what she was going to do. But, as JJ only got louder and antsier, she resigned herself to a hollow chest. She placed JJ on the couch, swiftly grabbing the neck of the guitar and settling down next to her baby.
"If this doesn't work, I'm going to feed you to our sheep," Ellie muttered, with a slight smile tugging at the corners of her lips.
She got the guitar into position, took a deep breath, closed her eyes, and began...
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- Part 1 of Wake Up With Your Eyes Closed
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When The Sun Bleeds, So Do They by collapsed_lung (Collapsed_lung)
Fandoms: The Umbrella Academy (TV)
26 Feb 2023
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"And then she found me as a blank book," he continued as if he was never interrupted, "and decided to write me a new story."
He tore away from the sky to instead bore his watering eyes at his brothers. "And I loved every fucking chapter." He was breathless.
Diego and Klaus unanimously winced. They knew what that was like. To find someone who didn't know them for what their last name represented, to fall hopelessly in love, only for them to be painfully ripped away. All leading to the same ending: an undeserving death.
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"Oh. My. God. You're fucked."
Allison doubled over the coffee table, sending the game to the floor, and belted out in hysterics. Tears sprung her eyes. "Dad's going to kill you!" She wheezed.
Vanya felt her gut somersault. "Please, guys we only have an hour before Dad and them get home. Help me!"
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When Dolores hears something that finally sets her over the edge, lives change. Pepa finds herself carrying a bleeding fifteen year old and the rest of the Madrigals have to adjust to the new life thrust upon them.