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There's a serial killer in Princeton, New Jersey. Will ends up at the Plainsboro hospital, because of course he does.
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true as mary magdalene by queenbaskerville
Fandoms: White Collar (TV 2009), The Sentinel (TV)
27 Jul 2022
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Kate isn't going to be anybody's sweet girl, she isn't going to do what everyone expects, she isn't going to play second string for anyone. She's going to be independent and live her own life and take what she wants. She can be hard. She can be selfish. She can have a life. No one can deny it to her.
And if they make the mistake of underestimating a Guide—it'll only feel all the better when she steals everything they fucking have.
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“The worst has already happened,” he says.
“I’m glad you feel that way,” she says.
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A long time ago, he read somewhere that losing one sense led to the heightening of other senses. It was a fucking lie.
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After the chaos of Neal's run from Kramer and his equally chaotic return to New York, Neal's just trying to settle back into his life. Peter's transfer back to the white collar crimes division from the evidence warehouse is another welcome return to normalcy. It's not long after, though, that Elizabeth takes a job planning an event for a wealthy couple in Connecticut, which has unexpected emotional ramifications for everyone involved.
(Neal Caffrey is an only child. Except for the fact that he's not.)
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- Part 2 of you wonder where this fellow went
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"You know, on my fifteenth birthday, Mozzie made me get braces," Neal says, apropos of nothing.
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haunting out by the reeds by Raayide for stolenglow
Fandoms: Baldur's Gate (Video Games)
12 Nov 2025
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Undead cannot become mindflayers. A living mind is required to be a host, and vampire spawns don't have one.
There's something growing inside Astarion's skull.
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"There's more writing on the bottom of the bowl," Shadowheart said. She was crouched down and pointing to markings on the underside of the creepy, bloodstained altar.
"Is there? What does it say?" Gale asked, shuffling on his knees to get closer to where she was pointing.
"He's going to crawl around like this and then complain about his knees all the way back to camp," Astarion muttered, sounding half amused and half exasperated. Karlach chuckled just a little, because he was right. Talk about being your own worst enemy: Gale versus his knees and back.
"It says 'within each self a monster'," Shadowheart read off of the underside of the bowl.
"Oh, this is very interesting," Gale said. "The blood spilled in the bowl will touch the other phrases, but not this one. I think that marks it as optional. I've heard of something like this before. Azuth set out trials for young mages where one could mark certain incantations with chalk and leave others blank, indicating how difficult a challenge one was willing to face."
"This would make the trial harder?" Shadowheart asked, straightening. "A more difficult test?"
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blade of grass by anecjotes (klickitats), klickitats
Fandoms: Baldur's Gate (Video Games)
17 Aug 2025
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There’s something Jaheira’s not saying. “What happened to his last handler?” asks Gale.
“The last four, you mean?” The rueful curve of her smirk deepens the crow’s feet around her eyes. It makes her seem younger, somehow. “The first died. The second went missing. The last two quit. You’ll be fine.”
In a Faerûn where magic is slowly diminishing, disgraced former Chosen of Mystra Gale Dekarios survives in Baldur's Gate as a Harper alchemist, tending their greenhouses and nursing the Netherese orb in his chest—until his High Harper forces him into fieldwork.
His first assignment? A vampire spawn informant with a crooked touch, dreams of ruin and vengeance, and a hunger to rival his own.
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These days, most everybody in camp had learned to wave away Astarion’s advances with a laugh. They found the flirtation titillating, Gale figured, or a bit threatening, or some combination of the two. He wondered if anybody else found it sad.
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Good old-fashioned rumination on choice and compulsion. Gale and Astarion shake off their metaphorical shackles. -
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Astarion drinks the wrong potion and inadvertently turns into a weak and helpless bat. Shadowheart loves animals, and the bat loves her, so that's fine. Then he turns back and starts throwing a tantrum about it, which would also be fine -- except that Shadowheart is not fine.