hollowmen
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loose me when ye list, for i am bound by magpie mountains (hollowmen) for FitzKreiner
Fandoms: Arthurian Mythology
18 Dec 2020
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“I married you for your lands,” she tells him, and Gawain thinks it a fine jest until they reach Blanchemal Hall.
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the gap between loss and plenty by magpie mountains (hollowmen) for Lesserstorm
Fandoms: Greek and Roman Mythology, Cretan Labyrinth Stories (Greek Mythology)
25 Dec 2017
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Why did this place always let in the lovesick ones? Why couldn't I run a guesthouse for normal, sensible people who paid in recogniseable currency and didn't throw tantrums in my flowerbeds? Was that too much to ask for?
(Ariadne meets Dionysus. This is not the kind of thing one writes poems about.)
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oh it's fun to hunt and shoot a gun, or to catch a rabbit on the run by magpie mountains (hollowmen) for Melitot
Fandoms: Seven Brides for Seven Brothers (1954)
18 Dec 2016
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You don’t just up and marry someone you met not a half hour ago, even if he’s got an easy smile and kettle-bright hair and shoulders wider than the Rockies and- and brown eyes that crinkle at the corners, like he’s laughing a little. Oh help.
(What if Milly had learned the truth a little earlier?)
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The Certain Knot of Peace by blithers for Corina (CorinaLannister)
Fandoms: Enola Holmes (2020)
25 Dec 2020
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“I have but a single bed, so you’ll have to sleep on the floor,” she says.
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with great patience and careful instruction by Jack_R
Fandoms: The Old Guard (Comics), The Old Guard (Movie 2020)
24 Jul 2020
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Niccolò was, Yusuf liked to think, a sort of an acquired taste.
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Bookmarked by hollowmen
04 Aug 2020
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okay this is absurdly good. needs a quick beta, i think, just to clean it up--the writer is possibly not a native speaker(?), because they have problems with tenses and common terms and there's an abundance of typos all through both fics. despite that, though, they obviously know how to use words well--the writing itself is evocative and beautiful as well as sharp and funny, and the emotions and relationship feel real. (also, obvious signs of research! historical accuracy! actual Islamic knowledge!)
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coming out of my cage & i’m doing just fine by dirgewithoutmusic
Fandoms: 陈情令 | The Untamed (TV)
05 Jul 2020
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Sometimes men are knives. Sometimes they wield them.
Wen Ning had never wanted to be a knife. He had wanted to be a boy, and then a man. He had wanted his sister not to worry, to never be afraid. He had wanted to be strong enough that she wouldn’t search for bruises under his skin or sleep restless at his bedside through fevered nights.
He did not think he would ever bruise again. He would not heal again, never watch purpled and yellowed flesh fade back to flushed, whole skin. He would never wake to her hand cooling his forehead.
Wen Ning would just go find a little river, after bad fights, and wash himself off gently. He’d sew himself up, a stitch at a time, and tell himself that because the pain felt different now it didn’t count as pain at all.
Bookmarked by hollowmen
06 Jul 2020
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*screaming*
*s c r e a m i n g*
wen ning is the sweetest. inky does feelings and deep, compassionate insight into characters brilliantly, as usual.
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an act of easy mercy by magdaliny
Fandoms: Captain America (Movies), The Avengers (Marvel Movies), Marvel Cinematic Universe
27 Dec 2015
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By the time Bucky rounds the doorway into Steve's hospital room and sees Sam, flipping through a medical file with a thunderstruck expression, he's prepared himself for just about anything to greet him on the other side of that curtain.
What he's not prepared for is Steve saying, “Hey, Buck,” kind of sheepishly, and pushing all five-foot-four inches of himself a bit further up the bed.
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There must have been a moment. When everything changed, whether or not he knew it. There must have been, but it’s impossible to find now. The full-color truth of it is already saturating a slideshow of black and white mental images and he can’t remember what they looked like before.
or: it takes yuri plisetsky three years to realize he’s in love with his best friend.
Bookmarked by hollowmen
15 Feb 2020
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*screaming*
i love this pairing, and this writer's good at the chaotic, defensive fury that is yuri. loved the bit where his friends close ranks around him; the general portrayal of friendships in this is lovely.