mournful_optimist
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Preoccupations (the Dark Side of the Moon remix) by mournful_optimist
Fandoms: Buffy the Vampire Slayer
28 Jan 2015
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It's the middle of the night, and Mikey is being weird.
(For Lucifuge5's Bandom_meme prompt: Ray - glasses - 3am)
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hollow-point smile by mournful_optimist
Fandoms: My Chemical Romance, Bandom, Danger Days: The True Lives of the Fabulous Killjoys (Album)
19 Nov 2014
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for the TransKobra2k14 challenge.
Ray's favourite colour wasn't always blue. Meeting Kobra changes that. In fact, it changes everything.
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tonight. by mournful_optimist
Fandoms: My Chemical Romance, Bandom, Danger Days: The True Lives of the Fabulous Killjoys (Album)
24 Jul 2014
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Gerard hasn’t even been sober for two months when a nuclear blast lays waste to New Jersey and New York in the autumn of 2004. At least Gerard still has Mikey, who he’s been soul-bonded with all of their lives.
But nothing lasts forever, not even brotherhood. A story about identity, evolution, and being what tomorrow needs.
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Come down slowly, Joe thinks hysterically as he descends the ladder right into the arms of this man who, very unfortunately, smells incredibly good, just a hint of sandalwood on his skin, and feels incredibly firm and comforting against Joe as he makes sure the ladder doesn’t break while Joe’s still on it. Come down slowly, he thinks, and imagines, against his better judgment, coming down slowly next to this man in bed.
If only his opinions on literature weren’t so wrong.
(In which Joe is accidentally seduced into happiness by Schrödinger's hipster.)
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18 Jun 2024
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The famous Italian short story 'La Realtà di Tutto' is the tragic tale of two men who fall in love in the rolling hills of Calabria and are then separated by forces beyond their control. Nicolo di Genova- one of the few openly gay actors in cinema - has spent years trying to adapt it into a film, and he has assembled the best in the business to help him shepherd the film to success. There's only one thing missing just weeks from day one of shooting: the other leading man.
When Joseph Al-Kaysani - a moderately successful comedian - is cast in what Variety calls, 'the most hotly anticipated film on Netflix's docket,' and what industry insiders call, 'that gay mafia movie,' it's a complete surprise. Joseph is best known for his unflinchingly honest storytelling style, but there's one thing he's never shared with his audience or his family - he is gay.
But Joe isn't the only one with secrets.
_______________Inspired by a KinkMeme prompt.
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24 Nov 2022
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It feels as if his heart is thrown open like the shuttered window of their room, laid bare to Yusuf's gaze. As if the answer to every mystery is in the heat where their hips meet, the low rumble of pleasure in Yusuf’s voice, and the damp silk of Yusuf’s hair clutched in Nicolò’s hands.
Five times Nicky loved Joe's curls, and one time they meant nothing at all.
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15 Apr 2022
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Nate never joined the Marine Corps. He works two jobs, one as a hotass waiter at a local bar where he meets Brad, and one as a popular fiction writer. Brad is a Marine though, and Marines get deployed, and Brad has to go, even if it means leaving Nate behind.
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24 Jun 2020
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An Ever-Fixed Mark by AMarguerite
Fandoms: Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice & Related Fandoms
28 Oct 2017
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One would think that having the name of one's soulmate appear on one's wrist on one's sixteenth birthday would make matrimony much less complicated. It mostly does not. And not at all for Miss Elizabeth Bennet of Longbourne.
(A deconstruction of the "soulmate identifying mark" trope, using "Pride and Prejudice." Trigger warnings in the tags.)
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10 Mar 2019