Shadowy_Dumbo_Octopus
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RECLAIM
verb (/rɪˈkleɪm)
to take back something that was yours.
SYMBIOSIS
noun (/ˌsɪm.baɪˈoʊ.sɪs)the living together in intimate association or close union of two dissimilar organisms.
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“Maybe not” Arthur interrupts John to keep him from despairing. “But that doesn’t mean Kayne gets to dictate how we think about any of this. We destroyed that stone. We defeated him. And we saved everything that matters to us.”
Hm, John hums, not quite convinced yet. Arthur refuses to let it dictate their thoughts any longer. He traces the scar’s shape with John now, slow and steady. As if cutting the throat with their tenderness.
“This scar….it’s here because I love you” he reminds John of its nuance. The day he inflicted it on himself, desperate to save him from the king. Their promise that if it really came down to it, they’d rather die together than be split apart. And that is just the thing.
Kayne tried to drive a wedge between them. Again and again. Hoping to leave his mark on him. Hoping to make a difference about that choice.
About their love for each other.
Never.
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05 Feb 2026
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Body to Body by zuzeca
Fandoms: Malevolent (Podcast), Cthulhu Mythos - H. P. Lovecraft, The Thing on the Doorstep - H. P. Lovecraft
06 Oct 2024
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Three years after losing his investigative partner, his left hand, and his eyesight to an accident, Arthur Lester re-opens their final case: an investigation into a series of deaths involving a mysterious chat room. Newly equipped with cybernetic eyes, operated by a peculiar AI program with a dark and obscure past, Arthur navigates recovery and the fear of new beginnings, even as he faces down murderous cultists, cunning bots powered by cursed texts, and uncovers the horrifying secret that lies beneath the crumbling facade of one of Arkham’s oldest families.
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The Wealth of Kitchens by tarragonthedragon for Shadowy_Dumbo_Octopus
Fandoms: Bartimaeus - Jonathan Stroud
18 Aug 2025
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Faquarl set aside the pits, one by one. There is no use for peach pits in cooking. The heart of them held nothing by woody fibre and thorny amygdalin, waiting to meet the human stomach to set free its deadly passenger of cyanide. There is no tell-tale whiff of bitter almonds or acrid taste to warn the unwary away, only the dizzy nausea and slow loss of breath as the strangler did its work. Faquarl had no use for the peach pits.
They piled high at his elbow.
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27 Jan 2026
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Death of the Ego by quakergoth
Fandoms: Malevolent (Podcast), Cthulhu Mythos - H. P. Lovecraft
19 Jan 2026
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"Yes, yes! Now you’re getting it! Each key, each dimension, each world with its own entire timeline and series of events distilled from the choices you’ve made, the successes, the failures, all of them exist with their own little version of me. Until I killed them."
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23 Jan 2026
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Le Léthé by heartstone
Fandoms: The Silmarillion and other histories of Middle-Earth - J. R. R. Tolkien, TOLKIEN J. R. R. - Works & Related Fandoms
11 Jun 2017
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Warmth, that is what Melkor first becomes aware of when the accursed doors open and oblivion is disturbed. It is a small thing at first- barely a bud of vehemence- but it soon blossoms imperial red until the petals of its influence reach out across the nothingness of deep space to brush its tendrils, feather-like, across His aching flesh. The soft, ebbing heat emanates in thin waves from a dim, flickering glow like embers lying low in a hearth, pulsing with each beat of golden light and washing over His aimless form like one would caress a sleeping lover’s face. His fingers, long numbed to the cold begin to thaw and the stiffness that had burrowed deep in His joints is lifted, shook by sudden tremors. His sprawling body spasms to the ecstasy of the capering flame in a desire as intense as the aurorean luminesce to his long unaccustomed eyes.
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At the end of the third age, Mairon joins his Master in the Void.Bookmarked by Shadowy_Dumbo_Octopus
19 Jan 2026