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At some point he had sharpened his claws, and he can’t for the life of him figure out when that had been. Was it after Billy, in the days and weeks he had spent licking his wounds, vowing to himself that he would keep that shitbag away from his kids? Or after Starcourt, laid up in the hospital with all of his ribs broken and trying not to let it show how bad it hurt, when the kids had piled onto him like a pack of overexcited puppies? Steve guesses it doesn’t make a difference. The outcome is the same: he’s dangerous, now, and knowing that is like trying to hide a stab wound. People look at him, and they know it, too.
Steve Harrington will never get to be a father.
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the soul-crushing indignity of going places by ooblech
Fandoms: 原神 | Genshin Impact (Video Game)
01 May 2022
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“Oh, fuck,” Childe swears, with feeling. “Ayaka. From debating.”
“Nice to meet you,” she says, smiling placidly. “I’ve heard a lot about you two. I hope we get along well.”
Hu Tao starts fanning herself vigorously with those stupid pamphlets. Childe has to hold himself back from smacking her.
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- Part 2 of stupid idiots
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Childe’s stint in Fontaine as an undercover operative for her Majesty the Tsaritsa is going just swimmingly. At least, it would be, if it weren't for two problems.
Or, Childe enlists the help of Zhongli, wandering consultant and folklore enthusiast, to find the Hydro Archon. Kujou Sara is a wrench in the works that he hadn't accounted for.
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i heard, from a friend of a friend, by ooblech
Fandoms: 原神 | Genshin Impact (Video Game)
30 Mar 2022
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“Well,” Keqing says, lifting her hand to her chin as if having to think it through. “I heard it from Beidou after our maths lecture yesterday, who said Kazuha found it out from Yoimiya after their tutorial together the day before, and told her when they were out on the sailing society’s bar crawl the same evening. Yoimiya knows because she hangs out with Ayaka. Politics. Remember that debate last semester?”
Childe does remember. There had been tears.
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The shrine isn’t that deep into the forest. It’s old, and it’s falling apart, but there is nothing off about it; it’s just a little sad. A little bit lonely. “Sometimes,” Zhongli tells him, when he mentions it one afternoon. “Gods just get forgotten, and their temples fall into disrepair, and they lose themselves in their own memories. That is just the way things are.”
“That’s so sad, though,” Ajax says, and Zhongli shrugs.
“No one said it wasn’t,” he replies, and smiles (just a little sad; a little bit lonely).
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a year safe in your heart by Anonymous
Fandoms: Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid
13 Mar 2026
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“And you’re sure there’s nothing for you?” David says suddenly. “You’re not—you’re feeling okay? You’re not sick? Shane wouldn’t have any reason to think that you’re sick?”
Ilya blinks and turns to him. “I am fine. Totally fine. Better than fine, even, before today.”
“It’s just—Shane’s acting like you’re dying, Ilya.”
“Not as far as I’m aware,” says Ilya. “And I do not think he would learn this before me.”
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The summer before Ilya joins the Centaurs, Shane wakes up nervous. It doesn't stop from there.
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[Rewrite] On the internet, nobody knows you're a dog by threecrossings
Fandoms: 전지적 독자 시점 - 싱숑 | Omniscient Reader - Sing-Shong
18 Jan 2022
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In an astounding display of bad decision-making and blatant stupidity from both parties, Kim Dokja and Yoo Joonghyuk catfish each other in a MMORPG.
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27 Apr 2025
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loving out of tune by almostprimary
Fandoms: 전지적 독자 시점 - 싱숑 | Omniscient Reader - Sing-Shong
26 Dec 2022
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After a truly tragic series of events, Kim Dokja gains a new neighbor who also happens to be the only person in the world he would, without hesitation, push in front of a moving vehicle.
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20 Apr 2025
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I (30M) keep getting into fights with a cook at Waffle House.
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"Uh, hey, 'scuse me?" Nick calls out toward the kitchen.
"Sorry?" the cook asks. He comes over, and Nick gets a good look at spiky blonde hair and fathomless blue eyes framed by lashes like clock springs. "Was there something wrong?"
And okay. So Nick might have a thing for a tall blonde with a dancer's figure. A man likes what he likes. With an effort he usually reserves for life-and-death scenarios, he forces himself to smile and says, "Is this your first day?"
"No? Why do you ask?"
"I asked for my eggs over easy."
The cook glances at Nick's table, now holding six different eggs cooked three different, incorrect ways, and Nick can see in his eyes the exact moment he decides the next thing he'll say. His brow furrows into a faux quizzical expression. "I don't see the problem," he answers.Bookmarked by ooblech
10 Apr 2025
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Some people develop powers as they grow older; others don't. This fact doesn’t bother Oikawa Tooru too much, at least not when he’s young. Then, at eight years old, Iwaizumi Hajime discovers his own ability. He’s stronger than anyone could be, given human limitations. It’s a broad and useful power, one that could take Iwaizumi down any number of paths in the future. He’s discovered his ability early, too, and all of the adults in the neighborhood say that he’s got a bright future ahead of him.
Oikawa could’ve told them that ages ago—he’s always known Iwaizumi is special, long before he started being able to lift furniture with one hand. Everything Iwaizumi does, Oikawa has always done with him. So he goes home and waits for his own ability to manifest.
Nearly ten years later, on the eve of the last tournament of his high school volleyball career, he’s still waiting.
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14 Oct 2023