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put out the stars (they are not wanted) by liminal
Fandoms: Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling
10 Nov 2020
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"The hurt is in not dying when others do, in coming back to fight when you’re bone weary. The hurt’s in wishing, for one desperate second, that you were under the snow with your parents or beyond the shadow of the Veil, blissfully beyond reach of this world."
Grief, after the fight at the Ministry and the Battle of Hogwarts.
Remus, George and Harry come to terms with what they've lost.
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oaths cracked lengthwise (don't let it go) by liminal
Fandoms: Percy Jackson and the Olympians - Rick Riordan
20 Sep 2020
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I made them swear, Percy tells himself, tells Ethan, as he gets up to burn a silken shroud.
"It’s gonna be fine," they tell fourteen-year-old veterans, quick to draw swords and slow to trust; when the reason for their reluctance to return doesn't need to be spoken aloud.
No one promises that anything is fine when Percy is snatched away overnight.
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The gods keep their promise until they don't.
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- Part 3 of the perseid
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my rage is gone/ and i am struck with sorrow by liminal
Fandoms: Percy Jackson and the Olympians - Rick Riordan
30 Jul 2020
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Percy's taught to kill at twelve and is the child of the Great Prophecy twice over, a survivor of Tartarus without knowing exactly what he's lost in the process.
And he’s running out of patience with the Olympians.
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- Part 2 of the perseid
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you are where i am (but never at the same time) by liminal
Fandoms: Six of Crows Series - Leigh Bardugo, Shadow and Bone (TV)
28 May 2020
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“Don’t ever try to sneak up on me again.”
But Inej does, and Kaz catches her every time- except when he doesn’t.
They sneak up on each other, stumbling around in chaotic, uneven circles, never quite touching. Until Fjerda. When they converge.
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i found god in myself (in her) and loved fiercely by liminal
Fandoms: Percy Jackson and the Olympians - Rick Riordan
28 May 2020
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I could have been a god, Percy thinks bitterly, on the bad nights.
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Thoughts on godhood, when Tartarus rises in Percy's dreams and he’s done things the Olympians don’t dare to, things no child should have to do; when Annabeth pulls him from the darkness.
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- Part 1 of the perseid
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"But it’s 8 o’clock on a warm June evening, the likes of which he almost never saw again; his stomach’s full of as much treacle tart as it can take, having not eaten much for the better part of a year; and this is what they fought for."
The Burrow, one fine June evening. The calm after the storm. -
you’re my miracle, my sweet contrary by liminal
Fandoms: Sanditon - Jane Austen, Sanditon (TV 2019)
29 Oct 2019
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The summer ends with Harry and Esther’s shotgun wedding, a faded t-shirt folded at the foot of the bed, text messages that hurt to read and hurt to write...
Charlotte Heywood leaves Sidney Parker on read.
Sanditon, 2019. In which they’re not quite friends, not friends with benefits, and they’re definitely not over each other.
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how to love (better than any of us) by liminal
Fandoms: Sanditon - Jane Austen, Sanditon (TV 2019)
15 Oct 2019
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Charlotte and Sidney - one year, ten years in the future.
This is a love story.
"Love is awful... It’s all any of us want, and it’s hell when we get there. So no wonder it’s something we don’t want to do on our own."
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to see you live by liminal
Fandoms: Pride and Prejudice and Zombies (2016), Pride and Prejudice and Zombies - Jane Austen & Seth Grahame-Smith, Pride and Prejudice & Related Fandoms, Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
11 Aug 2018
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Lizzy strays further and further into battle, and Darcy tells himself that he will not force his wife to fight by his side.
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devil side by liminal
Fandoms: Six of Crows Series - Leigh Bardugo, Shadow and Bone (TV)
30 Jan 2017
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The Wraith is more than a ship, and survivors run from the fray telling stories of a girl allied with the darkness, whose knifework is something unholy, who will stoop to nothing and do anything, everything.
In Ketterdam, Kaz feels the wind changing.
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Where he goes, I go, Julia had once said. Now he knows absolutely that there is no line they will not cross for each other.
William and Julia recover.
Post 'Cometh the Archer'
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questions of self by liminal
Fandoms: Captain America (Movies), Marvel Cinematic Universe
04 Sep 2016
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“But you must live your own life eventually. You have one chance only.” ― Sebastian Faulks, Birdsong
Captain America dies in the same place as the Winter Soldier was born, and Steve reaches the end of a line he’s been travelling on for seventy years.
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"I want everyone- all of us, all the cousins- to do something huge before we leave school. Something so we won't always be called George Weasley's son or Fleur Delacour's daughter. Something our parents never did," he continues and now he has their undivided attention.
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Names are a tricky subject for the Weasley-Potter-Lupin clan, and Lucy hates practically all of them.
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redefinitions (of home and courage) by liminal
Fandoms: Captain America (Movies), Marvel Cinematic Universe
06 Jun 2015
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"Real courage lies not in unthinking heroism, but in the very act of overcoming fear and despair" - Michael Jones
Brooklyn calls Steve and Bucky home.
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"But I have been familiar with ruins too long to dislike desolation." - Lord Byron
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Knowing that he is loved is enough for this man of science and empiricism.
Post 9.24 ('Demons')
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What James doesn’t tell his parents is that Al, who never cries, cried; that he comforted his little brother when Al kept whispering, “but he promised."
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the twilight kingdom by liminal
Fandoms: Captain America (Movies), The Avengers (Marvel Movies), Marvel Cinematic Universe
17 Jul 2014
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"... death's twilight kingdom
The hope only
Of empty men" - T S Eliot"In modern war... you will die like a dog for no good reason" - Hemingway
Bucky in five parts.
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"There is no charm equal to tenderness of heart" (Jane Austen, Emma)
After Austenland.
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“When there is nothing left to burn, you have to set yourself on fire” (Stars)
“And if we won’t burn together, I’ll burn alone” (Bret Easton Ellis)
Steve sets himself on fire because he likes how it feels.