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It had been his parent's anniversary. Twenty-three years. And he'd told himself it wouldn’t get to him this time.
It did.
So instead, he asks the dumbest, safest thing he can think of.
“What’s for breakfast?” he goes, voice casual; might as well start neutral before they spiral into something heavier.
Kazansky, glances back briefly—enough to check that Mitchell’s upright and alive, probably, or maybe just out of incredulity—then turns to flip something sizzling in the pan, reply exactly what Mitchell was expecting.
“Eggs and bacon.”
Or, Bradshaw and Kerner have the brilliant idea to send Mitchell's sworn rival over to his place during their leave. And on the man's parents' death anniversary, things are bound to go sideways.
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On the Uses of Scholarship and the Necessity of Poetry (a novel) by kbd_cryptid
Fandoms: Shoot From The Hip Sketches, We Love Poetry - Shoot From The Hip Sketch
08 Mar 2026
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Speaking of friends, I have none quite yet.
I am surrounded by young men of excellent breeding and considerable opinion, who dine with me, walk with me, and argue with great enthusiasm over matters neither of us will remember a fortnight hence. They are clever enough, most of them, and earnest in the way one learns quickly at a place like this, but everything feels performed rather than felt. Each seems to carry himself as though already observed and judged, careful to say the right thing, to admire the right authorities, to become precisely the sort of man Oxford intends to produce.
I find myself liking them well enough in the moment, and mistrusting the liking as soon as we part. Perhaps this is the natural caution of new acquaintance, or perhaps it is only that I am difficult to know; I cannot yet tell. Still, you remain my truest, and dearest friend.
Or, Percival Cunningsworth and his correspondences to one Franklin Bennet during his years at Oxford.
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If You Stay, I’ll Try to Be Beautiful (In This Light, I Almost Am) by kbd_cryptid
Fandoms: Bitter Sweethearts - Shoot from the Hip D&D Sketches, Shoot From The Hip Sketches
11 Feb 2026
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“You look good,” The half-elf nods at last, but there's a flicker of something softer in his eyes before he turns on his heel, smooths his cuffs, and strolls back toward his bed.
Ashen recovers quickly, clearing his throat and carefully lowering his hands.
“Thank you,” He says, flashing a fanged grin that’s just a little too bright, a little too sharp, “I do try."
Or, the obligatory ballroom scene that comes with every D&D campaign. Ft. lots of self-indulgent pining, whump, and way more character study than I planned.
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Concerning the Sentiments of a Gentleman by kbd_cryptid
Fandoms: Shoot From The Hip Sketches, We Love Poetry - Shoot From The Hip Sketch
24 Jan 2026
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I tell myself that this is admiration, nothing more.
That it is natural to notice such things, to be pleased by talent, by intelligence, by a familiar presence made momentarily unfamiliar by light or laughter. I tell myself that I have always been attentive, that this is merely habit dressed up as meaning.
And yet I find my thoughts returning to you without instruction, rehearsing moments that require no rehearsal, lingering where they ought to pass on.
I ask myself when attention becomes attachment, and when attachment becomes something I am no longer permitted to name.
Or, the poet writes a thousand (and a half) words to say i love you without ever actually saying it.
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Paint on His Hands (Stars in Her Wake) by kbd_cryptid
Fandoms: The Mighty Nein (Cartoon), Critical Role: Exandria (Web Series)
20 Jan 2026
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They dance.
He is not good at it. He is not terrible.
He follows her lead, learns the shape of her joy by the way it tugs him into motion. He feels ridiculous and alive.
He feels, for once, like the weight he carries is not a burden but an anchor—something that keeps him here, now, with her.
Or: Fjord watches Jester dance, and thinks, and thinks, and thinks.
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- Part 3 of The Mighty Nein: Deleted Scenes
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We Love Poetry: Letters Sent, and Letters Unsent. by kbd_cryptid
Fandom Shoot From The Hip Sketches, We Love Poetry - Shoot From The Hip Sketch
08 Mar 2026
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A glimpse at the exchanges between Percival Cunningsworth and Franklin Bennet throughout the years.
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The Mighty Nein: Deleted Scenes by kbd_cryptid
Fandom Critical Role, Critical Role (Web Series), Critical Role: Exandria (Web Series), The Mighty Nein (Cartoon)
20 Jan 2026
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This is definitely gonna be updated with the Mighty Nein series coming soon :)
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In which Maverick and Rooster still manage to steal the F-14, but come back just a bit differently.
The events following are... abysmal.
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Everything's Alright (If You're With Me) by UmbreonInTheEnd
Fandoms: Iron Lung (2026), Project Hail Mary (2026)
23 Apr 2026
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A soothing hand ran up and down his back. Another hand found its way to his hair. It was intimate, but it didn't have to have a label. It was them, and the moment they were sharing.
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29 Jun 2026
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He had begged Cas to take the Mark from him. In a moment of weakness, he had begged for a solution, for a bit of angelic power to scrub him clean and save him from a doomed fate, but Cas had only given a sad shake of his head and explained it was out of his power to do anything. When all else had failed, Dean had hoped that Cas might have been enough, and his knees had almost buckled with cold dread when even his angel friend could do nothing.
In a fit of barely concealed hysteria, Dean had suggested cutting out the Mark, sloughing it off his skin, but Cas had hurriedly explained that the Mark was merely a physical aspect of the curse, and cutting it off would do nothing. It would not rid Dean of the images that tormented him, and it would not wash away the feelings of savagery Dean tried so hard to keep under wraps.
That was when the last bit of hope Dean had clung to dissipated and he concluded he was a monster.
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22 Jun 2026
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What if Bradley never had the chance to become Rooster? A boy raised with one future: to follow in his father's footsteps, shot down before he could ever make it to the skies.
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Bradley fails his final medical.
Bookmarked by kbd_cryptid
12 Jun 2026
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now I wake up by your side by quantumoddity for alittlebitoftheuniverse
Fandoms: Top Gun (Movies)
17 Sep 2022
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It's September 20th 2011 and Pete 'Maverick' Mitchell has something to tell the world. At three in the morning. Through a megaphone.
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The original title of this on Google Docs was 'A Fic for Seren's Bit of a Day' because it is based on a wonderful idea by my lovely gf and written in honour of their shitty day at work and just because I love them
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12 Jun 2026
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it's the fear and not the ghosts by quantumoddity for alittlebitoftheuniverse
Fandoms: Top Gun (Movies)
22 Sep 2022
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It's the night before a wedding thats been a long damn time coming but Tom Kazansky has somewhere else to be.
Because whenever Bradley Bradshaw needs him, he comes running.
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This is essentially an offshoot of another incredible fic about their relationship that you should go read instantly and immediately, 'I'd give all I have, honey' by alittlebitoftheuniverse
Bookmarked by kbd_cryptid
12 Jun 2026