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'When she speaks to you it sounds like her throat is contracting and twisting around the words, or her tongue has split into five tongues and they’re tangling themselves into knots.'
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Out of Spiritus Mundi by marketchippie
Fandoms: A Song of Ice and Fire - George R. R. Martin
31 Jul 2012
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Messianism and legacy and the beginning of what'll someday be a tall tale in the chronicle of Baratheon, WV. It starts with three brothers this time, and the cards are already on the table, waiting to be read.
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After the war leaves John Watson wounded, he spends a summer recovering in a sleepy Mississippi town. Slowly, and not entirely willingly, Watson is drawn into a murder investigation (and a love story) far stranger than anything he encountered overseas.
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Dissonance by ohmymeggs for averils_atonement
Fandoms: Hunger Games Trilogy - Suzanne Collins, Hunger Games (2012), Hunger Games Series - All Media Types
19 Mar 2013
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Peeta Mellark hates his brand new, cookie cutter house on the outskirts of Baton Rouge. He especially hates that his mother has taken him away from his father, his friends, and the only life he's ever known. Intrigued by the ivy-covered farmhouse across the street and its inhabitant, a gray-eyed alligator huntress named Katniss, Peeta is swept into a passionate--and deadly--love affair that could cost him everything. Banner by Ro Nordmann.
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Dracula retold as a southern gothic.
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The first night Marty gets Rust home and put to bed he whimpers like an old hound dog in his sleep, making these ripped-raw noises that well and gurgle up past his lips like fresh blood from the hole in his gut all over again. Doesn’t know he’s doing it, course not, but Marty lays there next to him in the dark—the man’s only got one bed, ain’t no shame in that—and has to wonder about the Vietnam-grade shit Rust’s got playing in living technicolor in his head.
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- Part 1 of -What We've Got- Verse
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Even as he spoke words that broke her chains, Alana knew she was a prisoner. If not to him, then to her own curiosity. He was too touchy to be hiding nothing, and too calm to be hiding anything. The gleam in his eyes was like the misty fox lights on the smoky swamp, shimmering briefly before vanishing into the thick night. There was something uncanny about it all, especially how whenever she tried to move away, she walked in a circle right back home.
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Irascible by bigasstrees, rivai-lution (stethoscopesandsigs)
Fandoms: Shingeki no Kyojin | Attack on Titan
19 Dec 2014
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Detective Erwin Smith is a family man, first and foremost. He goes to church on Sundays, he has a wife and two beautiful children, and is well-regarded by his neighbors and coworkers alike. Sure, every man has his secrets, his struggles between himself and the Lord, but Erwin has never known any man whose waters run as dark and deep as Levi's, his mysterious new partner. With Levi's arrival comes a new breed of monster leaving a trail of dead children in its wake. The clock skips a beat and before Erwin knows it, life will never be the same. A storm is coming to Southern Louisiana, the forgotten children of God have known it for a while now in their crack-houses, truck stops and the thick of the woods. The sky grows dark around the body of a little boy in New Iberia and the wrath of irascible men threatens to tear the world right open.
Eruri, Southern Gothic, True Detective-inspired, 1990’s setting, Crime Solving, Dark.
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After one group gets caught in Terminus, the others fend for themselves. They reflect on the past and the relationships they've forged.
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You can only stare at the moon so long before it howls back. AU.
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My Fingers Ran With Blood by Marquise
Fandoms: A Song of Ice and Fire - George R. R. Martin, Game of Thrones (TV)
28 Oct 2018
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Reconstruction era AU. The Starks are all but extinct, with Sansa and Rickon all that remains of the line. They survive on their crumbling plantation, surrounded by debts and shadows. In an effort to save face and regain some status, Sansa finds herself seeking help from the carpetbagger Petyr Baelish. But his price is, perhaps, greater than she suspected.
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Beaufort, South Carolina is at the heart of the South’s Lowcountry and home to the coven of witches Emma Swan’s accepted to take over. Emma expected to come head-to-head with the current leader, a witch caught up in Black Magic, but she didn’t foresee getting herself tangled up in the vampire clan that resided in the Rising Sun.
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In an AU version of events where Galadriel and Celeborn don't leave Middle Earth for Aman after the War of the Ring, they spend a summer day in Alabama recounting the events of their lives, the advent of the modern world, the guilt that still haunts them, and, the ultimate question, will they or won't they leave for Aman at last? Short story. Will probably be 2 or 3 chapters total.
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World-weary talent scout Geoff Ramsey stumbles into a bar and discovers the biggest potential new band he's seen in years.
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- Part 1 of Fallen Kings Band AU
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Nightcrawler by reichenbach
Fandoms: X-Men: First Class (2011) - Fandom, X-Men: Days of Future Past (2014) - Fandom
17 Jun 2015
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"I dreamt we'd grow old together, you and I" Charles Xavier says, laying on the steps of his front porch, each wooden board marking his vertebrae one by one "a thousand miles away from here, from this sad, sad town, right into the lights of the city."
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Everyone has sins, and a story to tell.
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Our Hometown's in the Dark by leofjtz
Fandoms: Marvel Cinematic Universe, Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. (TV)
27 Sep 2015
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"I would have gotten away with it if it weren't for those meddling kids and their dumb dog."
A series of strange disappearances that occur in the peculiar town of Coolsville encourage a small group of High School Students to form a mystery solving gang.
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The Darkness is closing in, and the Winchesters' only hope of fighting it is in a haunted house deep in the West Virginia mountains.
Play as either Sam Winchester or Dean Winchester, or choose to "get the backstory" of the other brother to switch characters.
Set right after the end of season 10. Written for the 2015 spn-summergen challenge.
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i am bound for the promised land by jonphaedrus
Fandoms: Kingsman: The Secret Service (2015), Over the Garden Wall (Cartoon)
21 Dec 2015
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"beware the beast" they say and lancelot laughs and says "we are the beast"
[ the over the garden wall/kingsman crossover nobody asked for ; kingsman bb 2015 ]
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The Fury and The Rapture by blue_crow
Fandoms: Star Wars Episode VII: The Force Awakens (2015)
28 Jan 2016
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Ben Solo flees his past in the North along the rail lines. He stays in a town in Georgia because Father Hux makes him feel at home, even as he knows the lawmen are on his trail.
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A Good Man by PersonaChords
Fandom: 呪術廻戦 | Jujutsu Kaisen (Anime), 呪術廻戦 | Jujutsu Kaisen (Manga)
26 May 2021
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Bookmarked by luxken
04 Dec 2023
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a good man by PersonaChords
Megumi whistles low. It’s almost too good to be true. An omega just happens to wander out to the middle of nowhere, hormonal out of his fucking mind, and winds up like a rabbit caught in a bear trap.
Megumi x Yuuji (FushiIta) - Omegaverse + Southern Gothic AU
Smut + Angst + Violence
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No Real Pleasure by PersonaChords
"Never forget: anything you get to do, it’s because I’ve allowed it."
Megumi x Yuuji (FushiIta) - Omegaverse + Southern Gothic AU
Smut + Trauma + Violence
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There are names for boys who carry the Bible the way Stiles Stilinski does and none of them are pretty. Stiles holds the good book as if he wants to devour scripture like a coyote devours its prey but there’s a delicacy to it, a fear of the holy. He’s clearly dressed in his father’s suit, the boy is swamped in fabric making him look like a child playing dress up. He’s been silent throughout the funeral, except for mouthing the words to Amazing Grace, but his right hand has been clenching and unclenching. The only physical display of the rage that’s simmering below the surface.
Bookmarked by cantlivehereanymore
22 May 2023
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“I know it sounds stupid, but what if they don’t like me? And my scar, it’s so obvious and ugly. I mean, normally I don’t care but I want to impress them, I want them to think, I’m, I don’t know, worthy.”
“Well,” Peter says, reaching out to take Stiles’ hand, “I adore you, so I guess they’ll just have to keep quiet about their reservations unless they want to find out what their own teeth taste like.”
Stiles smiles. It’s tender and beautiful. “You’d fight em’ for me?”
“Darling, I would fight anyone for you.” Peter coaxs Stiles out from under the bed. He straightens Stiles suit lapels, pleased to note that Stiles looks dashing in the three piece red suit Peter picked out for him.
“Your scar is not ugly,” Peter says, placing a swift kiss on Stiles’ hairline where it begins. “It’s a mark of your survival and resilience. And honestly, if you want real ugliness, take a look at Uncle Lester, he’d scare a buzzard off a gut pile."
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Steve just wants to get out of Hawkins and back to his life in the city.
Something in the woods has other plans for him.
(happy halloween, monsterfuckers!)
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The Devil Went Down to Georgia (And Then Went Down on Johnny) by notbecauseofvictories
Fandom: Devil Went Down to Georgia (Song), Devil Went Down to Georgia - Charlie Daniels Band (Song)
30 Dec 2021
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Bookmarked by whaelan
14 Jun 2022
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one of the most wonderful things i've ever read
"This has never been a game...underneath, it was all the same. Simple, even: just a lot of souls deciding what to do with the misery of the world.
You couldn’t win or lose at that, any more than the corn could stop winter coming. All you could do was turn it into music."
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The whole job aspect of his existence was really hard to explain, even for him. Just as him and his apartment came into existence, the lists and the Very Important Packages appeared on his kitchen table every morning, if he needed to deliver anything.
Jungkook is a delivery boy, but not the normal sort. He's got strange clients, odd places to be and even odder packages to deliver, but that's none of his business. Things are normal until suddenly they aren't, and now Delivery Boy Jungkook is in a situation he'd never dreamed of.
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The Devil Went Down to Georgia (And Then Went Down on Johnny) by notbecauseofvictories
Fandom: Devil Went Down to Georgia (Song), Devil Went Down to Georgia - Charlie Daniels Band (Song)
30 Dec 2021
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In May of 1993, Sam Winchester disappeared. In June, his family found him.
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Irascible by bigasstrees, rivai-lution (stethoscopesandsigs)
Fandoms: Shingeki no Kyojin | Attack on Titan
19 Dec 2014
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Detective Erwin Smith is a family man, first and foremost. He goes to church on Sundays, he has a wife and two beautiful children, and is well-regarded by his neighbors and coworkers alike. Sure, every man has his secrets, his struggles between himself and the Lord, but Erwin has never known any man whose waters run as dark and deep as Levi's, his mysterious new partner. With Levi's arrival comes a new breed of monster leaving a trail of dead children in its wake. The clock skips a beat and before Erwin knows it, life will never be the same. A storm is coming to Southern Louisiana, the forgotten children of God have known it for a while now in their crack-houses, truck stops and the thick of the woods. The sky grows dark around the body of a little boy in New Iberia and the wrath of irascible men threatens to tear the world right open.
Eruri, Southern Gothic, True Detective-inspired, 1990’s setting, Crime Solving, Dark.
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There are names for boys who carry the Bible the way Stiles Stilinski does and none of them are pretty. Stiles holds the good book as if he wants to devour scripture like a coyote devours its prey but there’s a delicacy to it, a fear of the holy. He’s clearly dressed in his father’s suit, the boy is swamped in fabric making him look like a child playing dress up. He’s been silent throughout the funeral, except for mouthing the words to Amazing Grace, but his right hand has been clenching and unclenching. The only physical display of the rage that’s simmering below the surface.
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The Hanged Man by thatviciousvixen for ocktorok
Fandoms: Star Wars - All Media Types, Star Wars Episode VII: The Force Awakens (2015)
21 Mar 2016
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The air is hot and sticky the day Hux moves to Savannah with his family. Despite the beauty of the house and the history of the city he can't wait to escape his temporary prison, to move up north and re-start his adult life.
As it turns out, being stuck with his family for the summer is the least of his worries. Because there are monsters in the woods, and one in particular has its eye on him.
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The first problem is, of course, that Seokjin is now 22 and Jungkook is still 17. The second problem is also that Jungkook will forever be 17. Slight sci-fi/magical realism au
a twist on an otherwise angsty prompt: “we promised each other to meet again on your birthday and that I would kiss you on the lips and we would have our fairytale, but you never made it there.”
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the shelter of magnolias by interstellarbeams for artemidos
Fandoms: From Dusk Till Dawn: The Series
22 Nov 2016
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Kate Fuller never expected to live an exciting life in small town Texas, until she met a stranger on a dark road and her whole life got turned upside down. The only problem? He might not be who he says he is.
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where we're from, there's no sun by shesaysbriefthings
Fandoms: Star Wars Episode VII: The Force Awakens (2015), Star Wars - All Media Types
05 Apr 2016
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River Ranch, Louisiana, at the turn of the century is a quiet agricultural town with hard-working, God-fearing folk and none of that lawlessness you hear about out west. The town exists peacefully under the watchful eye of the imposing Pastor Hux, and his preacher son, Bren.
Life moves pretty slowly in River Ranch. That is, until a spate of brutal animal killings leave the town shaken, and the arrival of a dark, quiet, hermit-like blacksmith named Ben leaves Bren Hux reconsidering most of what he’s learned about life in his short 20 years.
Priest!Hux/Demon!Kylo.
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Better to go down like this, be cleansed; sink here where sins are washed away, where they’re not even sins, never were, and there’s no devil, and you’re gone.
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Irascible by bigasstrees, rivai-lution (stethoscopesandsigs)
Fandoms: Shingeki no Kyojin | Attack on Titan
19 Dec 2014
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Detective Erwin Smith is a family man, first and foremost. He goes to church on Sundays, he has a wife and two beautiful children, and is well-regarded by his neighbors and coworkers alike. Sure, every man has his secrets, his struggles between himself and the Lord, but Erwin has never known any man whose waters run as dark and deep as Levi's, his mysterious new partner. With Levi's arrival comes a new breed of monster leaving a trail of dead children in its wake. The clock skips a beat and before Erwin knows it, life will never be the same. A storm is coming to Southern Louisiana, the forgotten children of God have known it for a while now in their crack-houses, truck stops and the thick of the woods. The sky grows dark around the body of a little boy in New Iberia and the wrath of irascible men threatens to tear the world right open.
Eruri, Southern Gothic, True Detective-inspired, 1990’s setting, Crime Solving, Dark.
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by the year 1972 the state of kentucky had produced over 100 million tons of bituminous coal. when castiel, the new continuous miner operator at the venus coal camp’s no. 6 mine, begins to sense something strange is happening underground, the lines between the possible and the impossible begin to blur, and dean may be the only one who is willing to believe him.
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A devil's wind blows all the time across the plains of southwestern Kansas. It's 1898, and Dean Winchester is fixing to become the next minister of the Sweetbranch Irregular Baptist Church as soon as his grandfather, the Reverend John Winchester, passes away of the lingering illness that's slowly taking his strength. Sam, sixteen and sullen, resents the small town he grew up in, rejects his grandfather's preaching ways, and yearns for something Dean isn't sure he can give his little brother--not without sacrificing their immortal souls. When Sam rescues the mysterious boy, Lucas Volkov, from enslavement to a traveling medicine show, he thinks he's welcoming a worldly new friend. But like his namesake, the wolf, Volkov stalks Sweetbranch with patience and grace, taking what he wants and leaving behind only sorrow. Can Dean resist temptation and save his brother and himself, or will they both be destroyed by the wolf and the desires the wolf raises in them?