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something in your throat that wants to get out by lacking
Fandoms: One Piece (Live Action TV 2023), One Piece (Anime & Manga)
31 Mar 2024
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There’s a scar tucked in between Sanji’s fingers, a jagged rope of shiny white tissue that puckers up from the skin. It begins at his palm and extends up past the second knuckle of his ring finger, tapering off right as it reaches the nail. Even at a distance Zoro can tell it’s not the kind of scar left behind by the neat, clean slice of a blade. Something punctured through flesh and muscle and tore, leaving the skin raw and tattered, twisting in on itself as it healed.
Little by little, Zoro and Sanji learn more about one another. A series of interconnected oneshots.
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or else a scar by lacking
Fandoms: One Piece (Live Action TV 2023), One Piece (Anime & Manga)
08 Mar 2024
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He thinks —he thinks he may have dreamt that he was starving.
He had been stranded and alone, sitting on a rock that towered high above the water with nothing but a dwindling sack of moldy food. The finer details seem to blur when Zoro tries to concentrate on them, but certain images linger, flashing across the backs of his eyelids like old photographs —the dull edge of a salt-stained knife and a spatter of blood across stone, the endless stretch of the grey horizon above an empty sea.
After a chance encounter with an old acquaintance, Zoro begins having strange dreams.
Oddly enough, so does Sanji.
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until the veins run red and blue by lacking
Fandoms: Trigun Stampede (Anime 2023), Trigun (Anime & Manga 1995-2008)
15 Jul 2023
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“I don’t dream,” Wolfwood said, lifting one shoulder in a shrug.
Meryl drummed her fingers against the steering wheel, her sharp eyes meeting Vash’s through the glass of the rearview mirror.
Wolfwood rarely talked in his sleep, but sometimes his lips moved, forming the shape of words like stop and don’t and please. His long lashes would flutter over the high arch of his cheekbones as he shivered and twitched, knees pulled up towards his chest like he was trying to make himself small. Vash had reached for him, once, fingertips barely skimming across the line of Wolfwood’s arm before he bolted upright, the whites of his eyes flashing wildly in the dark.
Vash and Meryl try to bring Wolfwood in from the cold. Told in seven parts.
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tell me where the light is by lacking
Fandoms: Trigun Stampede (Anime 2023), Trigun (Anime & Manga 1995-2008)
03 Jul 2023
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He wanted to look down at Vash’s prosthetic hand resting on the seat between them, already imagining the soft curl of his glass-like fingers, the invitation of an upturned palm. He wouldn’t reach out, but he liked entertaining the thought that he could, wondering if Vash’s hand would be smooth against his own, if it would be warm or cold.
He wanted to look, just look –but he couldn’t open his eyes.
After being kidnapped by bounty hunters and stranded in the desert, Wolfwood, Vash, and Meryl are left to rely on each other.
Or: Wolfwood contends with guilt and forgiveness and doesn't know how to have friends.
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Shiro cracks open his eyes. Keith catches a glimpse of colour―deep, coppery brown, rich and warm―and it makes him want to cup Shiro’s face between his hands, to tip up his head until they’re looking at each other properly and Keith can take his time categorizing every little thing that’s changed about him. In Keith’s mind Shiro still exists as a fixed point, with dark hair and unmarked skin, a wide smile that grew rare and ceremonious after his capture. Keith needs to unwind that image, let it linger in memory but fade in the light of what Shiro has become. It’s not fair to either of them, otherwise.
Shiro wakes and sleeps and wakes again. Keith tries to come to terms with everything that's happened, but even a grief long past demands to be felt.
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la portée des corps (the bearing of bodies) by river_low
Fandoms: Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 (Video Game)
09 Jul 2026
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Over ten years after he burned his canvases at the top of the Beaux-Arts de Paris and very publicly went off the rails, Verso Dessendre returns home, a prodigal son trailing rumors of a deeply private family grief. In those same years, Gustave LeClair has built an academic career restoring the aging bridges over the Seine, helping them bear the weight of both history and the humdrum day-to-day. If only he could do the same for his personal life.
They meet. The confusion is mutual.Bookmarked by lacking
19 Apr 2026
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Clea is the child they plan. Verso is the one they
nearlylose. And Alicia is the third—unplanned, unexpected, but not unwelcome.Or: a history of the Dessendre family in the years before the fire, starting with Renoir and Aline's marriage, through their rise to power within the Painter's Council, the birth of their children, and their eventual downfall.
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15 Sep 2025
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Gustave dies at Renoir's hand on the Stone Wave Cliffs. Then Gustave opens his eyes to the sound of a cane striking stone at the edge of the Continent. He dies again, he opens his eyes again. Again, again, and again, until he gets it right.
A slow-burn Verstave time loop from Gustave's perspective. The content warning is for time loop-typical death and violence.
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22 Feb 2026
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What Light Tastes Like by ashesandhoney for wingsofbadass
Fandoms: Castlevania (Cartoon)
09 May 2020
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In some other world, they left together after Dracula had burned to ash. Trevor Belmont isn't sure that he wants to be traveling the country side with a vampire and a speaker and a more sexual tension than he knows what to do with but he's stuck with it now.
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07 Dec 2025
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He plunges his sword into the ground — a familiar, practiced motion. The world pauses for a moment, and he sees the purple threads of blighted chroma ensnaring Gustave; pulls, yanking them towards himself. The pulsing chroma freezes for a second, tightening around the engineer. Then, like a pouncing predator, jumps at Verso.
The world starts moving again. A wave of nausea and fatigue almost knocks Verso to the ground, and it’s a miracle that he manages to dodge the next attack.
Gustave is staring at him, trying to process what just happened.
“Run,” Verso croaks.
Or: 5 times Verso carried Gustave’s burden and the 1 time Gustave carried his.
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27 Jan 2026