blackcricket
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Blood drips from his nose, painting his mouth garish with its vibrance. Someone stop me, he thinks while the last of his panicked sanity flees for cover. I don't know how—
A mass of muscles and beautiful, athletic form pulls them apart without a wince of effort.
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She’s caught onto the tune now—singing along after scant repetitions about lunatics and rooms and dark forebodings. Mouth turned up at the corners. The moon is dark, and she sings of it with longing, with intent, and the desire to be perceived.
What does this song mean to her? If it’s the madness or the spoken yearning which twists it into something desperate on her tongue; a crevasse she’s tripped into. He swears she’d never heard it before tonight.
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If music transcends time and space and sanity, why is the bard on the sidelines? Eddie is an Orpheus in this universe, learning to look forward even as his courage falters. Chrissy is a knight of hope, a candle flickering in the darkness. She deserves a second chance and I am determined to give her one.
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He listens to the radio until it crackles out, and then is left with music of knives brushing wood, of hands tapping utensils, scraping pans of their well-earned flavours. The murmurs that are not strictly conversation between Syd and Carm but are a language all their own.
These are the people who showed him what it meant to fall in love with cooking, with pastry and precision and flavour. These are the people who run this kitchen, sometimes badly, sometimes ill-managed, but always with their hearts on full, blasting heat.
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The employees of The Bear get by day by day. Morning prep gives way to evening train rides, unexpected meals, and heartfelt confessions.
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Mr. Alphonse Harding has never, in all his years, been interested in the prospect of a wife. As a young man, he entered the military and served unimpeded by his lack of title or wealth for a subsequent eight years. In the final year of his service, he was sent a letter from a lawyer concerning a previously unknown will. This letter detailed an inheritance bequeathed to him of a small estate in the countryside.
The General was . . . irritated to say the least by Alphonse’s decision to abandon his military career.
Now Alphonse must decipher how to run his small estate with limited relevant experience, as all the while his neighbours the Ford’s plague him with dinner requests, tenant advice, and offers of a friendly nightcap much too late in the evening for him to travel safely home. Not to mention their daughter’s curious fixation with making him smile.
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He doesn’t know he’s slipped into deep water until it’s too late.
Alternatively: the one where Byron gets caught by the COI.
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Faerie Rings and Troubled Things by blackcricket
Fandom Les Misérables - All Media Types, Les Misérables - Victor Hugo
20 Mar 2020
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And Then He'd Go Back to Sleep by blackcricket, Elliott_Fletcher
Fandom Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling
02 Jan 2017
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The Line of Youth by blackcricket, Elliott_Fletcher
Fandom Ookiku Furikabutte | Big Windup!
21 Dec 2016
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Sansûkh: The Appendices by determamfidd, jeza_red, PunsBulletsAndPointyThings, Setari, slimygreenfrog, the_dragongirl, TheSansukhEnsemble, voxmyriad
Fandom Sansukh - Fandom, The Hobbit (Jackson Movies), The Hobbit - All Media Types, The Hobbit - J. R. R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings - All Media Types, The Lord of the Rings - J. R. R. Tolkien, The Silmarillion and other histories of Middle-Earth - J. R. R. Tolkien
21 Aug 2021
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Bookmarked by blackcricket
18 Jun 2025
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snowdrops on the mountainside by jezebel_rising
Fandoms: The Hobbit - All Media Types, The Hobbit (Jackson Movies), The Hobbit - J. R. R. Tolkien
29 May 2024
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Bilbo pressed his ear to the door but he could hear no sound of heavy boots on the ground nor the murmur of any voices. He was in between, which was always dangerous, all the more so because of his current designation with the inhabitants outside his hidden door.
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- Part 150 of 365 days of fic
- Part 29 of may flowers
- Part 1 of the passing of mysteries
Bookmarked by blackcricket
30 May 2024
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“Hey, little boss,” Ms. Jayce says with a smile when she arrives, also touching the top of Ellie’s hard hat before picking her up and resting her on one hip. “Where’s the big boss at, huh? Thought he was gonna be out sick today.”
“Daddy’s doing some other stuff,” she says, which she came up with on her walk to the job this morning. It’s not a lie, which is important.
“Oh yeah?” Ms. Jayce asks, checking the progress notes on their clipboard on the wall and handing Ellie the pen to write her initials down for work to start today. “Already beating us to the punch, huh?”
“Uh huh,” Ellie says. She’s not sure who’s getting punched, but Ms. Jayce seems satisfied with the answer.
“Well then, little boss,” Ms. Jayce says, adjusting Ellie to sit a little more securely on her hip. “Let’s get to work.”
(when joel's out sick, ellie decides to clock in for him) (this is obviously a great idea and there's no problems at all)
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- Part 26 of babyverse
Bookmarked by blackcricket
27 May 2024
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Gorgug has been called out by the only person left in the world he would consider a nemesis. He meets the challenge but has no clue what he's walking into.
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- Part 1 of Qoukki Pet Quest
Bookmarked by blackcricket
25 May 2024
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you said you want a revelation, revel in this by thatsparrow
Fandoms: Dimension 20 (Web Series)
24 May 2024
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The fall of a goddess in four acts.
Bookmarked by blackcricket
25 May 2024