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"Let’s sit down and chat, Light-kun,” L said. He turned the kettle on. Grabbed a mug from the drying rack. “I’ll be direct. If you kill me, please do it yourself.”
“I’m not—this is ridiculous. Are you getting off on this, L?”
L shook his head. Not yet. “No. I simply don’t like the idea of it being so impersonal. We’ve gotten quite close, haven’t we, Light-kun?”
No answer. Hopefully Light was thinking about strangling L. If not strangling, maybe a knife. Gun would be acceptable, but bare hands and manual weapons were ideal. L would go for something simple. Hands around the neck. Light’s eyes, dark, crazy, staring into L’s as he crushed his windpipe. The only problem with strangulation was the lack of blood: there was something very dramatic about it. Maybe a knife in the gut first, if Light was in that sort of mood. Shock. Tachypnea. Slow ooze of liquid in his intestines and through his shirt. L could almost feel the wetness. Not to kill, just to color the scene.
The kettle whistled.
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You become responsible for what you have tamed.
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- Part 2 of crossword-verse
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“Busy? What, having a playdate with your other friends? Awkward morning after? You should’ve told me. I’d have brought snacks,” Light said wryly. There it was. “L. Did you need me here today or not?”
“Mhm,” L said noncommittally. Light would only have to wait for—14-across was ‘oxeye’, so that made about a third complete—six more minutes. “Obscure synonym for furious.”
“Apoplectic,” said Light. “What?”
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L does the crossword. Light helps.
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- Part 1 of crossword-verse
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Ikebukuro always comes for its own.
Or: Shizuo gives an anniversary present, Shinra meddles, and Izaya receives a phone call.
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The thing is: while Root culls and beats many things out of its operatives—dreams, a need for praise, feelings, love, a self outside of what's called for—fear is the first. Fear is always the first; this is a fact of life. Sai takes a silent, shaky breath. All that exists is the mission.
But then, he thinks, what of the rest?
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Don't Know Where by riftgift for voidknight
Fandoms: 陈情令 | The Untamed (TV), 魔道祖师 - 墨香铜臭 | Módào Zǔshī - Mòxiāng Tóngxiù
16 Oct 2020
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Wei Wuxian has become adept at ignoring the very fluttery feeling he gets in his chest whenever he thinks about Lan Zhan—but every cell in his body still snaps to attention when Nie Huaisang idly says, “Wow, Hanguang-jun is very handsome, huh?”
“What,” Wei Wuxian says. “No, I mean, yes obviously, no, what, haha?”
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A story of what happens after not quite dying, in two parts: the downward spiral, and the long uphill climb. Or: Quentin Coldwater gets every last thing he deserves.
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01 Jan 2026
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i'm just playing games (i know that's plastic love) by spanish_sahara
Fandoms: Persona 5, Persona Series
17 Nov 2020
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“I don’t know how else to read it when he says, Don’t text me back.”
Akira thinks. “No, this is very standard of Akechi,” he says, shaking his head. “He’ll say one thing, but then he actually wants you to do another. Like that one time we were talking and he said that he couldn’t possibly bore me with his musings on Hegel and then I asked him anyways and he spent the rest of the night ranting about absolute idealism and dialectical thinking and the liminal spaces between self-identity and perception.”
For Kurusu Akira, stalking your former enemy slash rival—who may or may not haunt your dreams like a waking ghost—is a perfectly normal thing to do to cope with the impending nightmare that is your future. (Morgana disagrees.)
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- Part 2 of plastic love
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07 Sep 2025
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Excess is ugly. Ugliness is vice. Beauty is virtue. And Madarame’s heart is so, so ugly.
Ugliness, as Yusuke has been well taught by Madarame himself, is a punishable sin.
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- Part 2 of heirs
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28 Aug 2025
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On the morning of February 4th, most of a decade ago, Akechi wakes with a start, stares blindly up at the tiles of the ceiling without registering what he’s looking at, and says out loud, “Well, that’s embarrassing.”
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23 Aug 2025
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For Guidance, Please See the Corporate Interpersonal Relationship Policy by suspiciousflashlight
Fandoms: Naruto
13 Aug 2019
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What Sasuke Uchiha wants is an indeterminate EC-02 Step 2 position with the Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation that offers a decent salary, health benefits, paid vacation, and a manager who won't break all his Excel spreadsheets. What he gets is Naruto Uzumaki, an improbably attractive and unbearably annoying co-op student who eats way too much instant ramen and doesn't understand that "casual Friday" doesn't mean varsity sweatpants.
Official CBC Canada Reads Selection 2019, made possible by the generous support of the Canada Council for the Arts and the Ottawa Tourism Board.
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