The Mortifying Ordeal of Being Known
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absolution (the world's not all it seems) by colorfullysarah
Fandoms: Star Trek: Alternate Original Series (Movies)
19 Aug 2021
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After his life began thirty seconds before his father died, it’s really not that hard to imagine the next twenty-two years of said life ended up being a series of tragedies. Honestly, Jim Kirk just thinks the universe is a cruel bitch, but that’s neither here nor there.
Or where Jim Kirk simultaneously raises a kid, tries to balance his rigorous Starfleet Academy course load, and is definitely trying not to think about how attractive his Advanced Morphology professor is.
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Disaster: Become Human by adrunkgiraffe, Dim_shim for Dim_shim
Fandoms: Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, The Adventure Zone (Podcast), Star Trek
06 Apr 2020
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Ben finds an unconscious John Hunger floating out by the wormhole. Hilarity ensues.
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you knew my name on sight by brinnanza
Fandoms: Good Omens - Neil Gaiman & Terry Pratchett
31 May 2019
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“This wasn’t me, you know,” Crowley says, the words out of his mouth before he’s made the conscious choice to utter them. “Not just the library, but the whole civil war. You know me; I’ve mostly been getting drunk at Bacchanals.”
“I know,” says Aziraphale.
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A vision of your happiness by strawberriesandtophats
Fandoms: Good Omens - Neil Gaiman & Terry Pratchett, Good Omens (TV)
14 Jun 2019
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Crowley breathed in the fresh air and the scent of just-mowed grass, glad that the ground had not turned into molten lava and the sea had not risen alongside the Kraken. By now he should have been fighting angels. Instead he had been enjoying some cold coffee with ice and syrup in it from a nearby café.
The angel sat closer to Crowley than he had a week ago, even if it was just a little bit. After thousands of years, you noticed that sort of thing.
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to carthage then i came by spargelseason for HoloXam
Fandoms: Good Omens - Neil Gaiman & Terry Pratchett, Good Omens (TV)
18 Jul 2019
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Across the floor, Aziraphale has stilled.
‘Loved love, Augustine,’ Crowley picks up, voice quiet, looking at the red-streaked open palm of his hand. ‘How noble. But what if he couldn’t? Theory. Theory’s one thing, but—ah, has no one ever done it the wrong way? No one envied, loved the wrong thing, for the wrong reason, in the worst of circumstances? Has no one ever hated love? It hurts, doesn’t it? It must hurt. Else what would be the point of all the self-denial.’
[Aziraphale and Crowley after the Apocalypse, on the brink of becoming something else than they have been, with all the doubts and apprehensions to still approach and work through.]
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Aziraphale tries to soothe, tries to rock him, completely unsure if he’s helping or not; he’s never seen Crowley lose control in quite this way. Sometimes Crowley lashes out in anger or hurt, and he’s seen him vulnerable before, but nothing like this. Nothing this fragmented, nothing this… shattered. It’s like watching Crowley break, this shivering, terrified creature clinging to him like he might disappear, and oh. Oh, Aziraphale thinks, feeling very small and fragile himself all of a sudden.
In the immediate wake of the almost-apocalypse, Aziraphale realizes he's not the only one who was afraid of being left alone.
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With Clarke’s mind deteriorating and her body unresponsive, Bellamy makes a snap decision to save her. Download her mind, take it from her body, and let him be her host. It’s never been done before- two minds sharing one body. There are so many ways it could go wrong. But Bellamy is nothing if not stubborn.
And Clarke is, and always will be, a survivor.
They’ll make this work. Together.
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To See It In All Its Tainted Glory (and still to love it) by allonsy_gabriel for Sanna_Black_Slytherin
Fandoms: Good Omens (TV), Good Omens - Neil Gaiman & Terry Pratchett
18 Jun 2019
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The world continued to not change. Everything was completely, utterly, normal--the sun rose, the sun set, the earth spun at roughly 1600 kilometers per hour. And yet, at a small antique bookstore in London, everything had, somehow, shifted.
There was no discussion, no conversation, no moment where they sat down and said, “I think something’s just a tad different between us, now, and we ought to address it.”
But, of course, things were different. Two people (or cosmic beings of ethereal/occultish intent) could hardly go around wearing each other’s skin for a while and then expect things to just stay the same.
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But we can do anything we like, can’t we. Who’s to stop us?
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Challenging Creatures by apliddell for A_Candle_For_Sherlock
Fandoms: Good Omens - Neil Gaiman & Terry Pratchett, Good Omens (TV)
26 Jun 2019
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Sometime in the weeks following the armageddon't, Crowley finds himself adopting a cat. Aziraphale's not so sure about it.
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Agent Theron Shan has cocooned himself in a net of mistrust, his caution advancing his goals in the SIS as efficiently as it suffocates the efforts of anyone trying to reach him. That safety is threatened, however, when his Jedi partner asks for his trust in an alliance forged between herself and a dangerous Sith to bring lasting change to the Empire. The stakes are just high enough for him to risk the venture, but will his caution let slip the truth that lies within his grasp, or is it all that stands between him and a final betrayal?
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Aziraphale Gets A Smartphone by Quandtuniverse for vilesque
Fandoms: Good Omens - Neil Gaiman & Terry Pratchett, Good Omens (TV)
25 Jul 2019
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....Exactly what it says on the tin.
Or: In which Crowley gives Aziraphale a smartphone, and rather than leaving it to gather dust in a corner, he actually puts it to use.
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Crowley kept a dog, once. Long ago. He’d named her God, officially, in a show of blasphemy he’s always felt turned out to be unintentionally complimentary heavenward. God was three years old and well over one hundred pounds when Crowley found her. She lived another nine years after that. Not bad for a dog that size.
She may as well have been a mayfly. May as well have been a sneeze, a blink, the instant between a scraped knee and a child’s cry. The split second between lost it already? and gave it away!, the moment between I and we.
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“This wasn’t me, you know,” Crowley says, the words out of his mouth before he’s made the conscious choice to utter them. “Not just the library, but the whole civil war. You know me; I’ve mostly been getting drunk at Bacchanals.”
“I know,” says Aziraphale.
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Winter comes quickly the year of the non-apocalypse.
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Here's Our Hands Against Our Hearts by echolalaphile, MilesHibernus
Fandoms: Good Omens (TV)
23 Jul 2019
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"I will swear by it that you love me; and I will make him eat it that says I love not you."
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- Part 3 of Journeys End
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to riots roaring on by youdidnt
Fandoms: Good Omens (TV), Good Omens - Neil Gaiman & Terry Pratchett
25 Jul 2019
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“Anathema, ye shall be the guide for your friends who have seen the creation of men, walketh among men and from forth on shall be men.”
"You burned one of Agnes Nutter's books?" Aziraphale gasps. "And it was the only one?"
"Not the priority here, angel," Crowley mutters.
- Aziraphale is going too fast, Crowley is in denial and they're both becoming human.
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Worth Knowing by summersage
Fandoms: Good Omens (TV), Good Omens - Neil Gaiman & Terry Pratchett
27 Jul 2019
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How would he even know if he had Fallen? Would Gabriel and Sandalphon and the others find him and drag him back Upstairs, only to cast him out in some official way? Was there paperwork involved? He glanced at Crowley, who was staring broodily out the bus window, and decided not to ask.
The night of “You can stay at my place.” Aziraphale worries that he’s Fallen; Crowley reassures him that he hasn’t. Pre-Fall angelic unions are discussed from multiple perspectives, and they discover an alternative way of knowing each other.
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sit with me by owlinaminor
Fandoms: The Music Man - Willson, The Music Man - All Media Types
29 Jul 2019
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If I stayed, would you sit with me? Would the angle of your knees bend to match mine?
Or: Harold Hill stops moving.
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In a world where humans wear their souls on the outside, Crowley and Aziraphale learn to make their own.
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to know is to love by trainerlyra
Fandoms: 전지적 독자 시점 - 싱숑 | Omniscient Reader - Sing-Shong
04 May 2022
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Kim Dokja gets dragged to a club. It goes very poorly, but at least Yoo Joonghyuk is there.
Bookmarked by Giltine (eatsglass)
17 May 2022
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Like he'd been waiting for this for a very, very long time.
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"Dear Soldier,
I pray that this package finds you well. The organization gave us a list of odds and ends that you might need, but I thought that a person so far from home might appreciate something more than soap and tube socks."When Charles' school decides to send care packages to the soldiers fighting in Vietnam, he chooses to also include a letter and a few personal touches. When Staff Sergeant Erik is the recipient of that particular care package it will spur a relationship that will change them both.
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What We All Long For by Nos4a2no9
Fandoms: X-Men - All Media Types, X-Men (Movies), X-Men: First Class (2011) - Fandom, X-Men: Days of Future Past (2014) - Fandom
30 May 2015
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Charles Xavier was heir to a vast fortune before his stepfather stole his birthright, his dignity, and his freedom. Forced to serve as Kurt Marko's informant and as a sexual plaything for the wealthy men of Europe’s upper crust, Charles yearns for nothing more than a quiet life free from shame and abuse.
The death of his stepfather seems to offer a way out, but Charles is once again forced to serve the Markos when his stepbrother offers him up as collateral in a game of chance. Suddenly Charles becomes the property of Erik Lehnsherr, a mysterious gambler with a thirst for revenge.
When love between the two men begins to blossom, Charles finally discovers what is at the heart of Erik’s tragic story, and why he is set upon a devastating course of revenge that will endanger Erik, Charles, and everything they have longed for.
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Tether and Timbre by ContrivedChaos
Fandoms: The Locked Tomb Trilogy | Gideon the Ninth Series - Tamsyn Muir
27 Jun 2021
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Under the circumstances, Reverend Daughter, how could you ever have been expected to do something as basic as unclench your jaw? Unhang your dark robes from the stiff hangers you call shoulders? Lighten your self-imposed load and look at something other than the dry, charcoaled earth in penance? Something, or someone, like me, for a change?
Harrowhark Nonagesimus, my diminutive dynast, how could you be expected to raise your ethereal pools for even a second to look at me when I’m trying to jump your bones?
Figuratively speaking.
Or: Back in their own bodies, Harrow is still learning about this intimacy thing. Gideon is helping her. And Gideon is helping herself while she's at it.
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Exposure by marycontraire
Fandoms: Six of Crows Series - Leigh Bardugo, Shadow and Bone (TV)
10 Apr 2022
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Inej sees Kaz smile.
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- Part 14 of Stories About Crows
Bookmarked by ViridisNox
13 Apr 2022
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Kaz has long defined himself by what separates him from other, lesser men. In hindsight, it was a childish impulse born equally of arrogance and shame. He knows now that he is not so very different from other men. He is subject to their weaknesses, but perhaps he can one day know their comforts as well.
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Are we 800 years too late? by orphan_account
Fandom: 天官赐福 - 墨香铜臭 | Tiān Guān Cì Fú - Mòxiāng Tóngxiù
29 Nov 2020
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Dream a little dream of me by ImTaakofromTV
Fandoms: 人渣反派自救系统 - 墨香铜臭 | The Scum Villain's Self-Saving System - Mòxiāng Tóngxiù
23 Mar 2022
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Shen Yuan swallowed, and spoke as Luo Binghe’s face began to fall. “Where are all your servants?” he whispered.
He was quiet for a moment.“...I sent them away.”
“Why?”
Luo Binghe looked away from him, staring across the barren lands he ruled over.
They were empty.Bookmarked by MaiLundi (reppu)
24 Mar 2022
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It is a rare thing that can be so fluffy and so heartbreakingly sad at the same time, I love this kind of pain.
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Former idol and one-hit wonder Seokjin wants to write a song, and he wants to write it for Jungkook.
Bookmarked by gentlenonnie
07 Feb 2022
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tidally locked
screamletDelightfully funny (yet full of (for Jin) that most dreadful thing: feelings and vulnerability) sequel to https://archiveofourown.org/works/30239106
I would happily wallow around in this AU for more parts/a fic from the viewpoint of each member. <3
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Calculated Contingency by scheherazade for gunjourui
Fandoms: 山河令 | Word of Honor (TV 2021) RPF
04 Jun 2021
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In an effort to stop his mom's persistent matchmaking, Zhang Zhehan talks Gong Jun into pretending to be his boyfriend.
You'll never guess what happens next.
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Snap judgments: everyone makes them. Yeah, it's good manners to pretend you'll wait to work together, give the benefit of the doubt, but the truth is that no one actually has that kind of time. Zhehan's just more honest about it. Because when you've been around as long as he has, those snap judgements are usually right.
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Zhang Zhehan meets his new co-star.
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Keep Me Anyway by Starrs__00
Fandoms: 人渣反派自救系统 - 墨香铜臭 | The Scum Villain's Self-Saving System - Mòxiāng Tóngxiù
03 Aug 2021
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Shen Qingqiu's been pretending that pretending doesn't hurt, because what's the alternative? The system has its rules, and he'd rather not die.
But Liu Qingge, thank god, is one step ahead of him.
_______In which Shen Qingqiu is Liu Qingge's soulmate. Really. Truly.
Bookmarked by MaiLundi (reppu)
07 Jan 2022
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“I won’t use that name again,” Liu Qingge squeezed his arms. He sounded desperate. “I should have asked.”
The feel when your soul mate is actually *your* soul mate and the mortifying ordeal of being known.
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As Zhou Zishu raises his head, his line of sight is tangled with Wen Kexing's gaze. Around them, the music playing in the background and sounds of people picking vegetables and pushing their carts drop away. It's enough for the both of them to break into smiles. Wen Kexing lifts a hand to rest on Zhou Zishu's left hand where it's draped over the handle of the shopping cart, and gives it a light squeeze.
"A-Xu," he says.
"Mm," Zhou Zishu responds.
A fic about the inherent romance of ambling through a supermarket on a Tuesday afternoon with the person you love. -
Every Path a Challenge by samariumwriting for Faal
Fandoms: 魔道祖师 - 墨香铜臭 | Módào Zǔshī - Mòxiāng Tóngxiù
25 Dec 2021
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Xiao Xingchen is avoiding going into any big cities. Song Lan tries to find out why.
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Song Lan could only nod. Maybe this wasn't the best thing to say—maybe it would cause more ill than good, but something had to be said. And, perhaps, no one else was in the position to say it. "You're usually far more eager to get stuck in and help people," he said.
Xiao Xingchen's face was carefully composed, but Song Lan could see more than a hint of annoyance creeping in. "Maybe I have been," he shot back, "but it isn't like we've known each other for all that long. Maybe you don't know what 'like me,' is just yet, Zichen."
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If This Is Hell by saturnalyia
Fandoms: 人渣反派自救系统 - 墨香铜臭 | The Scum Villain's Self-Saving System - Mòxiāng Tóngxiù
15 Oct 2021
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In a world without Shen Qingqiu, the two people who feel his loss the hardest learn that they aren’t so different after all.
Or: It takes Luo Binghe a while to realise that he wants to get his demon blood into Liu Qingge.
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Would be it so bad if I stayed? I'm just a ghost out of his grave. by aynchent
Fandoms: 전지적 독자 시점 - 싱숑 | Omniscient Reader - Sing-Shong
02 Dec 2021
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Kim Dokja decides to participate in a scenario despite the less than desirable penalty in order to be a proper Dad™. Little does he know, his kids are little shits and his nebula's tired of his scheming ways.
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- Part 1 of kimcom's scenario antics
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Lan Qiren reads books and Wei Wuxian worms his way into Qiren's heart.
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Remus stepped into Sirius’ personal space, leaning down and taking out his holy water doused dagger from his pouch. He placed it flat underneath Sirius’ chin, pushing his head up to look him in the eyes. He hissed as the silver burnt him, red and vicious.
“What,” he whispered, “are you doing here?”
Sirius looked pained for a second, and then he blinked, and that stupid, cocky smile lit up his face once more.
“Wouldn’t you like to know, pretty boy?”
or - Sirius and Remus have been trying to kill each other for eight years, but something always seems to be standing in the way.Series
- Part 1 of killer
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Say So by FeelsForBreakfast
Fandoms: 陈情令 | The Untamed (TV), 魔道祖师 - 墨香铜臭 | Módào Zǔshī - Mòxiāng Tóngxiù
07 Jul 2021
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Wei Wuxian is hit with a sexy curse that can only be broken by fucking or dying horny about it. In a last-ditch effort to preserve the paper-thin plausible deniability protecting his enormous crush on Lan Wangji, Wei Wuxian attempts to choose ‘dying horny about it.’ He fails on all counts.
Bookmarked by MojoFlower
15 Aug 2021
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Oh, lordy, this was a hoot and then it evolved into dom/sub pwp WITH FEELINGS and COMMUNICATION and whew, I'll tell you what.
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“Lan Zhaaan, I’m exhausted. I had a long day, let me rest,” he says, trying to sound like a sane, reasonable person and not a sex-crazed demon who is about to make a mad dash for the bed. “I’ll eat more in the morning, I promise.”
Lan Wangji finds such a subtle, pouty way to look unconvinced. Wei Wuxian would be much more delighted by if it didn’t just make him want to put his cock into Lan Wangji’s mouth. He’s worried he’s reached the point in the evening where everything is going to make him want to do this. He had thought previously that he was in the danger zone but is concerned he is entering a worse, dangerouser zone.
“Lan Zhan, look, the moon!” Wei Wuxian says, and, in his most genius move yet, bolts for the bed in a paroxysm of suffering. Any proximity his hands have to any parts of his body is too close, apparently.
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"This crush might kill her. She would die from being gay. That was what was going to happen. Amity Blight: too gay to live."
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Amity spends the night with her crush and tries to remain completely dignified about her feelings. If only Luz didn't sleep hug...
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- Part 1 of The rewards of being loved
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In the August heatwave of 1981 Sirius receives a letter from his dead brother and an unwelcome visitor at his door, sending him far across the country with Remus for a delayed burial. Along the way they thoroughly fail to extricate themselves from each other’s lives.
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- Part 1 of Eclipse and Transit
Bookmarked by kompromatte
14 Jul 2021
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And who wouldn't? Who wouldn’t exchange what IS for what COULD BE if given the chance to free themselves from the arthritic ache of shared history, from the person who fed you, who licked your wounds clean and carried you home, who made you come too fast or not at all, who was insecure, who was oblivious, who was sometimes selfish and always too much too big too deep too soon, who took forever in the shower, who said the right thing at the wrong time, who contrived not to understand what they had done wrong, who loved you nakedly, murderously, timorously. You find something better, someone easier, someone who hasn’t yet tracked mud into every cobwebbed corner of your soul. Someone with whom you have no past, no pain, no conflict, no freighted history. Someone newer and softer, someone who will always put you first, someone who can make you feel the way you used to, before the grief and the fear froze deep; someone who has never disappointed you, someone you have never tired of, someone who has never hurt you, and you—darling lovesick idiot motherfucker—you get it in your head that they never will, don’t you.