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10:19, October 29th, 2031.
God I haven’t picked up this thing in ages. Simon’s been telling me to write in it more. Something about it helping me process everything that’s happened.
I cannae believe it’s been ten years. A fucking decade since the start of all this shit. It feels like yesterday and it feels like it’s been a lifetime. Time seems to pass differently now. I don’t know why. I don’t even know what started it all. There’s so much that happened. It comes back in bits and pieces. And Simon helps where he can. I guess it started in Kastovia really. Way back when I was so green I could walk into a tree and they couldn’t find me. That was the beginning of my way in. Back when the team that’s become my family was nothing more than a list of names and a mission.
If I trace back the threads of this fucking mess that’s where it all started. That’s when everything started to go wrong.
***(or: the winter soldier au that absolutely no one asked for)
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A Neutral Braid by small_blue_owl for humancorn
Fandoms: The Hobbit - All Media Types, The Hobbit (Jackson Movies)
22 Jul 2025
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Bilbo waited until most of the Dwarves were asleep before singling out Bofur. If this was some sort of faux pas, he wanted as few Dwarves to bear witness to it as possible. He walked across the campsite with purpose, ignoring the sudden rush of nervousness.
“Bofur?” he asked in half a whisper.
The Dwarf looked up at him with a cheery expression. “What is it, Master Baggins?”
Bilbo exhaled shortly, collecting whatever courage he had left. “I uh. My hair has been…” He paused a moment. “Getting in my face of late and I certainly don’t have the tools to cut it,” he added almost as an aside to himself. “And I was just wondering if you could braid it for me.”~*~
Or: In which Thorin is an idiot, Bilbo is culturally unaware, and Bofur causes problems on purpose.
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"I remember his fear. I remember how it widened his eyes and quickened his heartbeat. And I remember how it was almost impossible to distinguish his fear from his desire."
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There’s a story that they tell to frighten children, a story carried on the winds of the Texas prairie. It’s a story that tells of a boy who was shunned by his family and who hated them in turn. Everyone in the town looked on with apathetic, performative pity at the wreck that the boy had become. Some blamed the boy for deserving such treatment, some blamed the family for treating him so.
One dark night in the dead of winter, the boy murdered his family and burned their house to the ground, or so the story goes. Some believe that he took his own life. But some believe that he ran away into the night and still lives alone in the prairie, killing any unfortunate soul who happens to cross his path. No one knows for sure. But they say that if you are out on the open prairie after dark, you will not see him, but you can sometimes feel him watching you.
***(yes this is a soapghost cowboy au :))
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Price looked up, scanning the stoic faces of 141, gathered around the map. “I need one of you to go scout. Shouldn’t take long. You’ll be back by morning.”
Ghost was about to volunteer when Soap spoke up.
“I’ll go.”
Price nodded. “Alright, sergeant. Be ready in half an hour.”
*(Soap gets sent on a solo mission and things don't quite go according to plan)
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small_blue_owl's bookmark fanart by small_blue_owl
Fandom A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens, Ace of Spades - Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé, Anansi Boys - Neil Gaiman, Cemetery Boys - Aiden Thomas, The Priory of the Orange Tree - Samantha Shannon, The Song of Achilles - Madeline Miller, The Starless Sea - Erin Morgenstern, These Violent Delights Series - Chloe Gong
04 Apr 2022
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When I finish a book, I often like to create a custom bookmark inspired by it. This is a collection of those bookmarks :)
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“If you’d like to review the full terms and conditions of your deal, you can have as much time as you need to read--”
Eliot shook his head, still not quite used to the way his hair curled below his chin, now, since he hadn’t been around to keep it properly groomed for the last-- however long it had been. God, he hadn’t even bothered to ask.
“You get my deep, dark, never-told secret, and I get the opportunity to try and Orpheus-and-Eurydice Q the fuck out of this place,” he said, cutting through Penny’s bureaucratic power-trip. “I got it the first twelve times.”
“I would strongly advise--”
“I’m ready.”
The corners of Penny’s mouth went up, but it would have been a stretch to call the expression a smile. “No, you’re really not."
The Monster's been defeated, Quentin is dead, and Eliot has a quest of his own--if he can trust himself to complete it. An Orpheus and Eurydice remix.
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- Part 1 of You're a Story universe
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13 Oct 2025
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The problem with being terrible at feelings—beyond the inconvenient audacity of having them anyway—is that when Arthur sees someone hurting, he has no idea how to help.
[Takes place during 2.09 The Lady of the Lake.]
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- Part 2 of The Only Thing
Bookmarked by small_blue_owl
28 Apr 2025
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On A Razor Edge by kaffeekantate
Fandoms: The Radiant Emperor Series - Shelley Parker-Chan
26 Feb 2025
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Ouyang shaves Esen.
Ouyang looked at the razor. He had never held a razor before. He’d no longer been a slave by the time Esen grew his first beard and he’d never had any cause to use one otherwise. The metal glinted when he picked it up to test the weight and balance point. So thin and light—nothing like a sword. He touched the blade to his fingertip. It was sharpened to a fine edge. He smoothed it over the whetstone several times, anyway.
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16 Apr 2025
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Sansûkh by determamfidd
Fandoms: The Hobbit - All Media Types, The Lord of the Rings - All Media Types, The Hobbit - J. R. R. Tolkien, The Hobbit (Jackson Movies), The Lord of the Rings (Movies)
30 Jun 2021
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From a Hobbitkink prompt:
The battle was over, and Thorin Oakenshield awoke, naked and shivering, in the Halls of his Ancestors.
The novelty of being dead fades quickly, and watching over his companions soon fills him with grief and guilt. Oddly, a faint flicker of hope arises in the form of his youngest kinsman, a Dwarf of Durin's line with bright red hair.
(Follows the story of the War of the Ring).
(Bagginshield, Gimli/Legolas) In which recovery takes time, the dead members of the Company take to watching Gimli as though he’s a soap opera, the living struggle with being left behind, Legolas is confused, Khuzdul is abused, and Thorin is four feet and ten inches of guilt and anger.
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02 Feb 2025
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to change the course of the future by authoressjean
Fandoms: The Hobbit (2012), The Lord of the Rings (Movies)
08 May 2013
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"Even the smallest person can change the course of the future." - Galadriel
In an attempt to get the Arkenstone back for Thorin, Bilbo discovers the ring he's been using is the One Ring. Seized by a need to destroy gold, especially gold with the ability to ensnare creature and king alike, he sets out alone for Mordor. Anything to forget about the love that gold cost him.
What he doesn't know is that Thorin is no longer under the thrall of gold, and is desperately racing to catch up with him to keep him safe.
They may have just started on another adventure, but this one may not end as well as their first quest.
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22 Nov 2024