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He had to get out of here. He slept for too long, last time, and Sky had tried to leave him, and it was his responsibility to save her mother, to save Thisbe, so he had to wake up and stop her from leaving again.
The dark-eyed woman stopped him before he could properly get to his feet, though even just the attempt had taken him a solid few minutes of trying, he was still so groggy.
"Uh-uh," she said, easing him back down onto the makeshift bed on the floor. It was a lot like the cot he'd slept in as a child, in his little bedroom in Quill, though there was no Aaron across the room, just out of arm's reach. "You need rest. I promise, you're safe here. Back to bed with you."
Lani, Meghan, and Samheed had their "holiday" on Warbler. Aaron had his on the Island of Shipwrecks. Sky had hers six feet under that stupid volcano. Now it's Alex's turn, in a run-down, mostly-abandoned palace, nestled between apple trees and a river. Besides, when the Quillen idea of a "holiday" includes sending children off to their deaths, he feels like this is pretty par for the course.
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- Part 3 of unwanteds quests: rewrite
- Part 1 of i wanna be loved, i wanna be whole again
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The broken tip of the pencil made his letters streaky and difficult to read, even moreso than his poor handwriting usually made them. He'd clean it up.
I know an apology means little from me.
So why was Liam writing this? What, in the end, would this do? Reopen the wound?
Liam learns to apologize, even when it's not enough.
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"Then go hunt down the tale yourself." Grimwold waved her away, his eyes never leaving the page in front of him.
Ivy pressed her lips together. How unfair! There were thousands upon thousands of books down here, centuries upon centuries of knowledge, surely. How in the world was she meant to find one specific book about one unremarkable teenage boy? It would be easier to just ask Jacques outright.
"That's an idea," she muttered to herself.
Ivy can't get over how familiar Jacques looks, and convinces him to reveal his tragic backstory.
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a portrait of you with marigolds by helloitsdusk
Fandoms: The Unwanteds Series - Lisa McMann
17 Dec 2025
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The girl's irises were a deep golden orange—like a marigold thrust into the sunset, a color Alex had tried dozens of times to perfect.
— The Unwanteds: Island of Silence - Lisa McMannAlex had to get this right. The eyes were the window to the soul, the marigolds held in her hand were the focal point of the piece, and this color—this vivid, striking, breathtaking, devastating color—was vital to capturing the whole point of the painting in the first place.
Alex tries to capture a color in a moment before it passes.
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- Part 2 of with you
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"It's not that I hate myself or anything," Aaron mumbled. The dog's ear quirked up at his words, then lowered again. "I like who I am, don't I? I worked hard to get here. To be a better person."
The dog shifted, then rolled himself onto his back, stretching his legs out. The skin drooped off of his face, revealing his big, wide eyes as he looked up at Aaron. He wagged his tail. Aaron took that as an agreement.
He sighed, hand reaching up to pick at his necklace, starting to run it back and forth across the chain. "It's like… I don't want to not be me. It's just… Is that me really me, you know? Do you ever feel like that?
After the end of the end of the end, and all the secrets that it brought to light, there is one last revelation to be uncovered, and one last puzzle piece to fit into place: Aaron realizes that she is a girl.
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i wanna be loved, i wanna be whole again by helloitsdusk
Fandom The Unwanteds Series - Lisa McMann
02 Apr 2026
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Alex's epilogue.
Somewhere Icarus crawls out of the sea, unburned and alive. Somewhere we are polishing the word absence with our tongues and learning not to be terrified of all we lack.
— "Wisdom Teeth" - Keaton St. JamesSome reunions, some arguments, some joy, and some sadness post-Quests with everyone's favorite guy.
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A collection of short Skylex-centric snippets.
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but soon you'll like the sound by helloitsdusk
Fandom The Unwanteds Series - Lisa McMann
14 Nov 2025
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Thisbe, for what it's worth, really does want to reconnect with Alex—but he's making it very difficult by insisting on overreacting about her having thoughts that she cannot control.
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A collection of scenes from a world where Quests went a little bit differently.
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arrows dream in straight lines by ashafavs, helloitsdusk
Fandom The Unwanteds Series - Lisa McMann
13 Nov 2025
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Nadia is not crushed by the falling wall in Quill, and, after Gondoleery burns it to the ground, ends up in Artimé. Her sons have quite a few thoughts on this, especially since she seems to know more than they do about the workings of their mysterious world.
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The Horizon Drank Me Down. by thatdancingbookworm
Fandoms: Interview with the Vampire (TV 2022)
01 Apr 2026
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In response, Armand simply tilts his head, casually and as if he is simply stretching. If it were anyone else, perhaps the gesture would be halfway close to convincing, but Claudia can't help but see right through him at once. She always has been able to see through him, hasn't she? Even when Louis crossed him arms over his chest, looking away from her and denying that his love could betray him again, she knew who her coven master was.
Or, as the years pass, Claudia watches Armand and Louis, unable to move on.
Bookmarked by helloitsdusk
06 May 2026
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It Could Not Be Prevented. by thatdancingbookworm
Fandoms: Interview with the Vampire (TV 2022), Vampire Chronicles Series - Anne Rice
28 Dec 2024
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Even now, Armand remains Satan’s fool.
Bookmarked by helloitsdusk
05 May 2026
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There is a certain amount of brutality to intimacy, but there is an intimacy to brutality, too.
Bookmarked by helloitsdusk
02 May 2026
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Tear My Yellow Dress and Cry. by thatdancingbookworm
Fandoms: Interview with the Vampire (TV 2022)
01 May 2026
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The dress on the wall— the canary yellow dress; the made by loving hands that are long since gone dress; the dirtied from being dragged through mud and blood dress; the torn up and chewed on by rats dress— is the same fucking dress that she wears now, and it can't do anything for her, other than hurt.
Or, to be a haunting is to be made into nothing but a memory.
Bookmarked by helloitsdusk
01 May 2026
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Appassionata, Interrupted. by thatdancingbookworm
Fandoms: Vampire Chronicles Series - Anne Rice, Interview with the Vampire (TV 2022)
23 Jun 2025
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Sybelle's playing is interrupted.
Bookmarked by helloitsdusk
01 May 2026