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and i long to be near you / but every road leads to an end by shims
Fandoms: unOrdinary (Webcomic)
30 May 2026
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Time has forsaken the treasures of his childhood and adolescence. Still, one of these days, maybe handfuls of years later, he’ll find himself in the bathroom of his own cramped apartment. He’ll notice his hair is growing out a bit too much for his liking and as he reaches for a pair of scissors his fingers will brush against the mirror and he will notice, for the first time, how age has settled on his face. How his eyes have begun to crinkle just like his old man’s.
And he’ll think, that’s cool, and carry on with his day.
or; John will be alright. He was always going to be.
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Those feelings dictated much for her. Ruled over, kept her gift locked behind hesitating hands, stowed herself away for fear of stroking a fire too hot to put out. And putting out those violent parts of her, the ones that did not bend to any semblance of self-control, that seemed important at the time. She kept her hands to herself, directed and exerted that need for violence on her own body, own skin, left her own scars.
Seemingly until now, because as she’s crashing against Sayeon, she doesn’t quite feel that burn anymore.
in which a hit to the face is a thousand unspoken confessions.
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my hands are sticky with desire (for you, for you) by shims
Fandoms: Hand Jumper (Webcomic)
15 Nov 2025
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Again, Ryujin has always been like this—giving and giving and giving, until she’s been sucked dry and frail, robbed of the only thing she’s been able to offer. That’s why it’s so fitting, her gift, the ultimate praise for self-sacrifice, and by extension, self-destruction. Dig the knife in deeper, you’ll reap better results. There’s always that voice taunting away in her ear. Pinpricks pulling her skin apart, or digging her teeth into her lip and any other flesh she could manage, or her nails clawing up and down, over and out. Demise doesn’t know limits, doesn’t stop at the human implications of pain. It powers through, it takes her down all the same.
handjumper shipweek 2025 day 7 - traditional prompts; injuries, firsts, body swap
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“I care a lot, you know?” she continues as she presses closer to Ryujin. The contact, once welcome and warm, makes Ryujin feel sick. “I’ve always wanted you to trust me. But after all this time, after everything, it still feels like—”
“You don’t give a fuck about me and you know it,” Ryujin spits out angrily, before she can stop herself. She pulls away to burn her eyes into Sayeon’s now hardened gaze. No surprise here, like she’d been expecting this. Ryujin’s nails dig into her palms. There goes her plans of a quiet night, thrown out the minute Sayeon tried to bend their limits.
or; at the end of the line, they are all they have.
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what an awful thing, to be loved unconditionally by shims (orphan_account)
Fandoms: unOrdinary (Webcomic)
07 Apr 2024
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“I’m sorry,” he’ll tell her, instead, one day. “I’m sorry that I was not good for you, but I want to be. I don’t want to lie, I don’t want to hide. I don’t want to hate anymore. I want to be seen by you.”
or; John learns that he can be more than a wasteland of everything wretched.
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28 May 2026
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i deeply regret orphaning this
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Ryujin kicks at the ground and wishes for a cigarette. Fuck impossible–this is some shit straight out of a crappy, discontinued shonen anime. There’d been an Aberrant that had slipped under their radar–maybe because of the exhaustion, maybe because of their carelessness, maybe because at the end of the day, they’re just scared little kids masquerading in suits who have no fucking clue what they’re doing–and hit Glasses square in the forehead. And now she’s off in La La Land and some unfortunate soul has to go in and pull her out of her own head.
The unfortunate soul in question of course being Ryujin, courtesy of Iseul’s appointment as de facto leader.
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06 Aug 2024
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“You shouldn’t be here,” Sayeon says again, which is neither a concession nor an acknowledgement, which is exactly the type of fucking answer Glasses would give. Ryujin laughs, she should have known it was a pointless endeavor from the start. “Get out of here, Ryujin.”
There’s tendrils reaching out from the eye now, peeling the topmost layer of flesh on her chest off. Her bones peek out onto the surface as the eye reaches in and in and in. Ryujin jams her eyes shut.
Silence ticks by in seconds, minutes, hours as she slowly loses her grip on the dreamscape.
“Look down,” Sayeon finally says. “Look down at what you did.”
And Ryujin tries to keep her head straight, tries to follow her gut instinct but she’s always been bad at listening to reason when it concerns Sayeon.
Ryujin looks down and sees Sayeon trading a piece of her soul to the devil because of her.
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Rec 12
Mystery Work
Part of whywhywhywait
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This is part of an ongoing challenge and will be revealed soon!
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07 Nov 2025
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The world snapped into sharp, painful focus. It reminded him that he was alive, and that being alive, for him, was a messy, complicated, orange-tinted war. And he was a soldier who, despite all his better judgment, missed the battlefield every single day he was away from it.
The color would never let him go. It was the leash. And Seongje was holding the other end, kilometers away, probably not even thinking of him, yet still pulling, pulling, pulling.
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Headmaster Vaughn finds out that Blyke has been living in Isen’s room, and forces Blyke to move back in with John. With Blyke having no choice but to share his living space with John, he's constantly walking on eggshells to avoid angering Wellston's most troubled student.
But, what if there's more to John than the merciless tyrant he's known for? Late-night confrontations and conversations can reveal a lot about a person. Will John and Blyke ever be able to see eye to eye?
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28 Jul 2025
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can't believe i DON'T have this bookmarked... one of my all-time favorites <33
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The last and only future.
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- Part 7 of BOUND TO HELL
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03 May 2025
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Loneliness doesn’t suit him. But perhaps, he thinks, it was just the prerequisite. That the compassion only blooms when there’s no one to give it to. Maybe that’s just the case for him.
Maybe he’ll go to a book club. Start hiking. Spend evenings talking to his neighbors. Maybe the winter will end, and the seeds will start to sprout and bloom by late spring, and take the place of the withers.
Sometimes, the people around him are faceless. But it’s less frequent now. The honesty punches holes in his wall, funnily enough. There’s something trifling growing in those gaps. Something small and warm, for him to hold in his hands.