1 - 20 of 188 Bookmarks by Fex
Navigation
List of Bookmarks
-
to forget loneliness (and to remember) by TheLupineScribe
Fandoms: The Old Guard (Movie 2020), The Old Guard (Comics)
26 Jul 2025
Tags
Summary
“Why aren’t you rowing?” A voice, coldly accusing, called out behind him. It came as if from someone sitting at the back of the boat. Nicky recognized it, but stayed gazing forwards at the horizon. Dark clouds gathered, blotchy and heavy, as if they were weighing down the entire sky until it sagged against the ocean.
“There’s no point.” Nicky confessed, gentle in spite of the bite in the other’s voice. “I am not going to outrun the storm.”
“‘No point’.” A bitter scoff. “Easy to claim for the man with nothing of his own at stake.”
“We looked for centuries.”
“And I drowned for longer.”
Nicky closed his eyes. The wind was picking up, rippling through his hair and clothes. The boat listed under its force, and the waves were going to undoubtedly follow. Behind him, Quynh stayed silent.
“Ok.” Nicky said finally, quiet acquiescence. “Guide me, and I’ll go on.”
“Row.”
***
Or, after nine hundred years, Joe wakes up alone
Bookmarked by Fex
16 May 2026
-
Tags
Summary
When a failed mission leaves Nicky with the seriously injured members of his team, he is forced to push his limits. To protect his family. Whatever it takes.
I love you, Nicky engraves into Joe’s soul, a throbbing echo in his veins, and he absorbs Joe’s counterpart like life-saving water. It’s an encouragement for both of them.
It alerts Nicky to how exhausted Joe looks, and Joe’s flaring nostrils in response to the discomfort of his injury slice into his heart, but Booker is still missing.
Bookmarked by Fex
16 May 2026
-
Tags
Summary
A storm separates Luffy and Zoro from their crew, stranding them on a treacherous island shrouded in mystery. Time becomes their true enemy as they struggle against an unknown horror, battling exhaustion, despair, and their own minds.
Bookmarked by Fex
26 Apr 2026
-
Tags
Summary
A messenger arrives in Ered Luin to request the aid of Thorin Oakenshield and his warriors. Something has attacked the village of Baraz-nâla... something that has yet to be seen. Fíli and Kíli are chosen to help, but neither will leave unscathed—and some dark things in Middle-Earth are more dangerous than either of them yet know.
Bookmarked by Fex
04 Mar 2026
-
now would be a good time to start praying by Themanofmanyhats
Fandoms: Avatar: Legend of Korra
09 Sep 2019
Tags
Summary
There’s no better place to convert than in a dingy alleyway as you breathe your last breaths.
or
Mako thinks he’s dying. He doesn’t know what that means.
or
The author had an existential crisis, and is hardcore projecting.- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 5,884
- Chapters:
- 1/1
- Collections:
- 1
- Comments:
- 26
- Kudos:
- 242
- Bookmarks:
- 33
- Hits:
- 1,701
Bookmarked by Fex
02 Mar 2026
-
melting ice cubes in your hands by mossopossum
Fandoms: Fullmetal Alchemist - All Media Types, Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood & Manga, Fullmetal Alchemist (Anime 2003)
02 Jan 2023
Tags
Summary
'I don't do well in the cold, okay?'
There aren't any words to describe the all-encompassing feeling of dread that washes over him, then. Guilt sits slimy in the spaces between his molars and leaves an acrid trail down his throat, pooling heavily in the deepest pits of his stomach.
Roy Mustang stood against evil, but it seemed that it didn't protect him from being evil himself. No, it most certainly did not make him good.-or-
Roy has a bad day, so when Edward is protesting attending a mission in the north, he assumes it to be petulance. An argument ensues, Roy says things he shouldn't, and subsequently he ends up scrambling to keep Edward from freezing to death by the Drachman border.
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 7,763
- Chapters:
- 1/1
- Collections:
- 3
- Comments:
- 44
- Kudos:
- 1,915
- Bookmarks:
- 447
- Hits:
- 17,208
Bookmarked by Fex
02 Mar 2026
-
Tags
Summary
It should be easy. Simple. He just has to push with his hands and shift his legs, get his feet underneath him—but he can’t. He’s frozen, turned to ice, turned to stone. Fingers and face numb and floating away from him, fading out of existence. He’s a spectator in his own body. A prisoner.
Get up.
| An assassination attempt leaves Noctis struggling to stay present.
Bookmarked by Fex
02 Feb 2026
-
Tags
Summary
It’s not any easier. It’s harder. It’s worse. Noctis feels for that magic again, to let it build and swirl and flow, he tries to breathe it in and swallow it down and be one with it. It’s in his veins, in his head, in his heart, he was born with it, and so it should come to him as naturally as breathing.
He tries to push it through Ignis, from his own fingertips and into the warm skin in his grasp, the way he had with Gladio. It hurts to even try, it steals his breath away. And nothing happens.
| Noctis pushes himself too hard when he finally gives Ignis and Gladio access to his magic.
Bookmarked by Fex
02 Feb 2026
-
Tags
Summary
"He’d been tossing and turning all night, too hot and then shivering cold on a constant loop, and now he can feel the tiredness already pulling at his stinging eyes. He runs a hand down his face, heated cheeks clear to even his own touch.
Shit.
Of course he would choose the day of his dad’s annual holiday address to get sick."
Or, in which Noctis is sick and tries to convince himself and everyone else that he’s not.
Bookmarked by Fex
01 Feb 2026
-
Tags
Summary
They had lived. They had all lived.
Ignis had to take a deep breath and remind himself of that sometimes when it all got too overwhelming.
They had all lived, and that was a gift he would never take for granted.
He still resented that it was a gift that had ever needed giving.
Bookmarked by Fex
01 Feb 2026
-
Tags
Summary
The hits start coming and they don't stop coming.
A bunch of short stories (mainly whumpy) for our Chocobros! Chapters will be unrelated and self-contained, I'll put any warnings in the notes for each chapter.
Let me know if you have any specific prompts you want me to try!1. Pudding (Prompto) - Concussion
2. Just A Sliver (Noctis) - Poisoned
3. What Was Lost (Prompto) - PTSD
4. Torn In Two Directions (Gladio) - (coming soon!)
5. Gut Feeling (Ignis) - (coming soon!)
6. Teenage Wisdom (Prompto) - (coming soon!)Bookmarked by Fex
01 Feb 2026
-
Tags
Summary
Noctis is still laughing when Ignis reaches their table, and tilts a crooked grin up at his advisor, all soft edges and brightness despite the tired shadows under his eyes. Ignis can’t help but smile back, can’t help the curl of warm fondness that fills his chest as he turns to greet Prompto in turn.
Prompto looks surprised by the hello but it only takes him a moment to recover. “Hey, Iggy,” he says, pink-faced and pleased.
Bookmarked by Fex
05 Jan 2026
-
all good people hurt (and the righteous all die screaming) by mossopossum
Fandoms: Fullmetal Alchemist - All Media Types, Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood & Manga, Fullmetal Alchemist (Anime 2003)
07 Jan 2024
Tags
Summary
Dust still swirls in plumes around them, and he can still feel the shifting of debris as it settles. He sees his friends in only outlines, but their movements are clearly panicked and he still can’t really think but it scares him. His head hurts. His thoughts are like drifting clouds.
Edward wished the lightheartedness could have lasted, but it never did. He always found a way to smother it.-or-
Edward will never let somebody get hurt when it could be him instead. Roy Mustang just wants to keep the kid from killing himself before he's even a teenager.
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 16,231
- Chapters:
- 1/1
- Collections:
- 1
- Comments:
- 64
- Kudos:
- 1,331
- Bookmarks:
- 403
- Hits:
- 13,281
Bookmarked by Fex
25 Jun 2025
-
lightning's earthen cradle (love me like it burns) by mossopossum
Fandoms: Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood & Manga, Fullmetal Alchemist - All Media Types, Fullmetal Alchemist (Anime 2003)
07 Feb 2023
Tags
Summary
Time became a foreign concept, but he was aware of it passing, could see it in the way the concerned faces looming over him multiplied, hands of different sizes tapped insistently against his face, and the distance the clouds had moved. It was a lazy sort of existence, and he didn’t feel any strong urge to shake himself out of it.
-or-
Damage to automail isn't as harmless as it appears to be.- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 7,519
- Chapters:
- 1/1
- Collections:
- 2
- Comments:
- 51
- Kudos:
- 1,953
- Bookmarks:
- 511
- Hits:
- 20,144
Bookmarked by Fex
23 Jun 2025
-
All Wars End the Same by kodakren
Fandoms: Captain America - All Media Types, Marvel Cinematic Universe, The Avengers (Marvel Movies)
11 Jun 2026
Tags
Summary
Death is not the worst thing that can happen to a man.
To break him, you must first shatter his body—again and again and again. Then, you take his mind, his will, his name. You strip him down to something unrecognisable, reshape him into something he was never meant to be. Survival is its own kind of cruelty, and some wounds don’t heal. Some don’t even scar.
Because war doesn’t just take. It chews men up and spits them out as something else: hollowed beings, stitched haphazardly, and left to stumble forward. No side is ever truly victorious, not when the battlefield becomes a graveyard, and the survivors are left carrying its ghosts. No matter who wins, the cost is always the same: the weight of what can never be undone.
All wars end the same.
-
This is the story of Bucky Barnes, Steve Rogers, and the Howling Commandos. The war they fought. The men they lost. The scars they carried. The love that blooms, even in the darkest of places, far behind enemy lines.Before the ice. Before the Winter Soldier.
Before it all got worse .
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 282,447
- Chapters:
- 37/45
- Comments:
- 470
- Kudos:
- 371
- Bookmarks:
- 151
- Hits:
- 21,780
Bookmarked by Fex
12 Apr 2025
-
Man the guns, the howlers are coming by wheres_the_conspiracy
Fandoms: Captain America - All Media Types, Captain America (Movies), Marvel Cinematic Universe, Captain America (Comics), The Avengers (Marvel Movies), Marvel
31 Mar 2021
Tags
Summary
---Bucky Barnes & Steve Rodgers: hydra experiment to commando. Dancing monkey to Captain. Best-friends and a little more to the end of their first war.
( Bucky clenches his fingers tighter, and pulls him until he follows, stumbling against a tree farther away from the hustle. He lets go to practically hug the bark of the tree, looks up at the canopy and around him again. Steve, thinking him delirious, reaches out to check his temperature. Bucky’s eyes shoot to him as he does, bright and possessed.
“Is this real, Steve?” He asks, sounding like he’s almost begging. “Is this real? It feels real, like, like the tree and ---and you,” he clenches a hand around the zip of Steve’s jacket, digging the metal into his palm. “But not you at the same time. But you feel…Is this...? Tell me it’s real.” )
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 452,598
- Chapters:
- 36/?
- Comments:
- 526
- Kudos:
- 455
- Bookmarks:
- 153
- Hits:
- 29,577
Bookmarked by Fex
12 Apr 2025
-
Tags
Summary
Set at the beginning of Nicolò and Yusuf's relationship, Nicky can't get Yusuf to speak to him. He assumes it's because the other man hates him and finds him a burden. However the truth is simpler and far more complicated. Will Yusuf finally find a way to communicate how he feels about Nicky or will he be too late?
Aka
Idiots in love, immortal husbands edition, with some angst that finally makes them face the truth.
Bookmarked by Fex
19 Jan 2025
-
Tags
Summary
The stuff on his fingers and on his chin drips down onto his leg and it makes a sound like plinkplinkplink and everywhere it lands there is a small explosion of light.
Tiny fireworks.
He shakes his head and more drops hit the ground and it makes his head spin and somewhere deep down a high pitched voice tells him to stop, to not make it worse, but there are such pretty fireworks all around him now and the fish stop swimming and look down at him and he raises his arms and tells them to come down, come down, watch the fireworks with me!
But the fish only stare, swimming in place, their fins going back and forth and forth and back.
Boring fish.
************
An ambush leaves Luffy drugged and lost. A friend helps him find his way home.
Bookmarked by Fex
22 Apr 2024
-
Tags
Summary
“I think he’s sick.” Bato says flatly. “So unless you want the next meeting to include the Fire Lord puking all over the budget scrolls, maybe see if he's okay?”
Hakoda glances up the hallway, like perhaps Katara will appear and take over dealing with the prickly teenager. Of course, his daughter is off treating injured refugees with the Avatar, and Bato is still staring at him expectantly, arms crossed.
“Fine,” He sighs, and he claps Bato on the cheek before heading into the room.
Or: Zuko falls ill not long after Ozai's defeat. Hakoda sits with him and learns some unpleasant truths about his childhood.
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 5,306
- Chapters:
- 1/1
- Collections:
- 2
- Comments:
- 271
- Kudos:
- 16,409
- Bookmarks:
- 2,932
- Hits:
- 108,239
Bookmarked by Fex
29 Feb 2024
-
Currents by RacingGreen
Fandoms: One Piece (Live Action TV 2023), One Piece (Anime & Manga)
23 Mar 2024
Tags
Summary
‘Don’t worry,’ he said. ‘It’s probably nothing too serious, you’ll just be in a bad way for a bit. It’ll pass.’
Sanji’s chortle at his words caught him off guard. Zoro was just as surprised by his own instinct to soothe rather than berate the cook as Sanji must have been, but in their situation, he felt some compassion was warranted.
‘That bad, huh?’ Sanji rasped. His words were slightly slurred, and he spoke slower than usual, almost as if he were drunk. ‘When Roronoa Zoro offers words of comfort, you know things are proper messed up.’
‘I mean it,’ Zoro said, sternly. ‘We’re getting through this, you hear me? I’m not about to let some freak accident at sea take us both out.’
When the Going Merry is attacked in the middle of the ocean during a storm, Sanji is knocked overboard, and Zoro has to make the split second decision to save him at the risk of dooming them both.
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 35,278
- Chapters:
- 13/13
- Comments:
- 170
- Kudos:
- 887
- Bookmarks:
- 178
- Hits:
- 20,204
Bookmarked by Fex
01 Feb 2024