20 Works by softwinds
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So I say we pay tribute to our history by softwinds
Fandoms: Eternals (Movie 2021), Marvel Cinematic Universe
10 Nov 2021
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“We’re but tools of their volition,” Gilgamesh said, gritting his teeth until two shallow lines creased in above his cheeks. The sun was sweating glimmers down his collar as he punched through another slate wall. Dust raised around his heels.
“And?” Under the shades of some large, flowering plants they’d yet to learn the name of, Thena ribbed. The soil was soft and warm under her back. It felt nice.
“And- pickled fruits for dinner again,” Gil grunted, shaking his shoulders loose. “Why build this thing in the first place if they’re just going to mow it down?”
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“Of course,” then he stepped around until he was beside her, resting his elbow on the thick stem of their strange plant. “I just wanted some eggs. Remember eggs? I liked them.”
“I know you did.”
“They’re very filling.”
“I know they are.”
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How Thena remembered. -
(Sometimes) All I Think About Is You by softwinds
Fandoms: The Falcon and the Winter Soldier (TV), Marvel Cinematic Universe
07 Jul 2021
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Still, when Bucky sat down before sleep and thumbed open the copy, he felt once again like a teenager hiding in his room with questionable materials; typically from his family’s subscription to Life Quarterly, the kind of magazine that fitted Czechoslovakia politics, Sheboygan Boyscout interviews and garden tending tips in the same issue— Bucky didn’t care about the journalism, of course, it was mostly about the colored film pictures of Radio City Rockettes or what not, the salvation for every other sweaty, hormonal thirties’ kid who was too busy thinking about their next alone time to take in the virtue of abstinence.
Bucky flips to the part about Sam, who was clearly the Radio City Rockettes of this volume.
They had given him a two page spread. Centerfold treatment.
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Bucky discovers Sam Wilson's pre-blip media content and things escalate. -
Shorebreak Adagio by softwinds
Fandoms: The Falcon and the Winter Soldier (TV), Marvel Cinematic Universe
01 May 2021
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When Bucky strolls over, suddenly free of adamancy, hoisting himself up their quote unquote reclaimed millwood pines tabletop that’s probably, actually made of some industrial mishmash, Sam can see from those smug baby blues that this is what he wanted all along. “What’s up, Cap,” the man cants up the corners of his mouth. “Heard you’re ready for some.”
“How does anyone ever handle you?” Sam wonders, from the bottom of his heart. And the face in front of him blinks.
“They don’t.”
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It's a slow day for world saving. -
Cutting Water by softwinds for singing_to_shipwreck
Fandoms: The Falcon and the Winter Soldier (TV), Marvel Cinematic Universe
23 Apr 2021
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“Nah,” Bucky pats him away. “Wasn’t doing anything. Just looking at the sky. Waiting for sunrise. It’s pretty.”
“You sound like a vampire who’s just discovered sunscreen.”
“You sound like Drew Carey on that shitty improv show.” Bucky counters. Sam decides not to question where or why Bucky has consumed that piece of information.
“It’s not that shitty.”
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A morning on the dock, Bucky and Sam skip stones. -
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They drive down I-55 with the taste of winds on their tongues, then switch to I-40 at Memphis. The ground is flat, tamed and trimmed; the Jinn feels as if they’re riding across a giant frying pan, which isn’t too far from the truth.
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Salim leaves Cairo with the Jinn. Love is a funny word, and they both know it. -
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Abed applies a last layer of antibiotics ointment on Troy’s wounds. “At least they seem human. 70% of Americans brush their teeth at least twice a day.”
“Where do they come from?” Troy flinches a little— Abed attributes it to his cold touch. “People don’t just bite other people. People aren’t cattails.”
“You’re right,” Abed paces his fingers on his chin. “Ideas. Theories. Lightning round?”
“Let me think,” Troy exhales sharply. “An absorbed twin’s eating me from the inside.”
“New operation technique by Monsters Inc.”
“We’re haunted by the ads of Quiznos Subs.”
“We’re haunted by your nana’s lost dentures.”
“Aliens. Werewolves. Very reserved Draculas?”-
Troy and Abed try to make sense of their Halloween night. They reach very different conclusions (and one of them involves doing things in the basement). -
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Troy thumps his bag on the counter, almost slipping on a pool of spilled booze. The tavern keeper nods her chin at him, polishing a pewter mug with both hands, blond hair loosely curled and smells of a pungent foreign herb. Fisherman Leonard said she was a witch, a callow palm reader, and that her meat pies tasted like burnt mushrooms.
“Men fear for witches because they have bonding issues with their moms,” she snorts. “I have a theory on breastfeeding. Either they suckled from the bosom of life for too long as children, or not enough. I haven’t decided yet.”
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Pitch meeting for a TV series, snippets, and its writer. -
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Troy absentmindedly extends his gaze along the pillow-stacked, slightly damaged city wall: contrary to his expectation, Troy can see the edge of a glowing night lamp standing conspicuously behind a fabric tear— and then an eye, staring back at him across the dimly lit hallway.
Ah. Shit.
Troy quickly ducks down his head. What on earth was he thinking? The chief commander of the entire blanket fort, alone and completely unarmed like a dumb baby lamb— if any rival soldier tries to make their mark right now—
“Troy?”
“It’s not Troy!” He harshes back. “Just another strikingly handsome citizen of— Abed!?”
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Night before the big battle, Troy and Abed spend some time together. -
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“You know what’ll help you cope?” Jeff continues. “Some scotch—”
“— You should bring a date to the party too!” Annie thrusts a finger before the youth corruptor's mouth. “You know, have some fun! It’s Valentine’s Day!”
“But it’s hard,” Troy groans. “I don’t like first dates. Impressing new people is so much effort. I like second dates, where you just go hang out at Lowe’s.”
“Well, you can always bring someone you already know,” Annie points out patiently, ignoring Jeff’s confused glare that screams what-the-hell-do-you-mean-Lowe's. “It doesn't have to be Abed. Then you don’t have to impress them! Right?”
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Abed's going on a Valentine's date with Karl, and Troy needs help lifting his spirit. By choosing from his get-better-emotionally plans, Troy is now creating six different timelines in the endless, raging sea of randomness.
Inspired by S3E4: Remedial Chaos Theory. -
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“O...kay?” Troy is getting more confused by the second. “Uh, what do you mean, with anyone I want? You’ll get people to make out with me?”
“Technically no. But at the same time, yes.” Abed nods. “Don’t worry. It’s not weird.”
Troy is still unsure about what’s happening.
“Like, for example, even Princess Leia?”-
Abed offers Troy a not-birthday gift: the ultimate date night. -
Crime Scene Investigation and Conflict Resolving Methods by softwinds
Fandoms: Community (TV)
15 Oct 2020
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“It’s not just about the study group!” Troy cries out, kicking his heel at the wooden lectern. “Our yam had so much potential, and now it will never have the chance to bloom or to have little yam babies, and I don’t even know if that’s actually the way it works because I am going to fail biology!”
“Walk it off, Troy!” Abed grabs onto his arm in an attempt to minimize the property damage. “Just walk it off!”
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Troy's enjoying their good cop bad cop arrangement a bit too much. Hopefully it won't be a problem. -
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“Young man, ” Nandor’s mom gasps and sits up lissomely. “You— you are a lover of my son? You share the same bed with my boy? ”
“Affirmative, ma’am.” Colin Robinson settles down at the other end of the sofa. “I’m his main squeeze, he’s my paramour. Oh, me and Nandor, how we have the hots for each other.”
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Nandor's mom comes back from the grave and demands to see his alleged 37 consorts. Guillermo is tasked to find them. Staring the Staten Island gang and more. -
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He once had a choice. Guillermo preferred to think so, at least, that he could have steered destiny on his own. He could have chosen the wetland, the cattail and the dragonfly, whose stilled wings he’d trap with his beak, and he’d have the choice to swallow or let go.
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Guillermo is turned but not by Nandor. It might be better this way. -
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“I surrender, vampire slayer,” Nandor exclaims. “You have outsmarted me! You have discovered the unholy bedroom during my evil slumber!”
He steps out of the open coffin and dramatically lunges himself into a recliner, tiny sparkles glistering in his eyes. The vampire studies Guillermo’s face in expectation.
“It seems that I did, Nandor the Relentless. You weren’t careful enough to hide from me,” Guillermo shakes away a slight twinge of anxiousness. He tries to stand tall and firm, fixing a sedate gaze on Nandor’s lips. Keep it sexy, Guillermo reminds himself. Authenticity is really secondary.
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In which Guillermo and Nandor have roleplay sex. Guillermo learns a lot from all the vampire movies. -
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“Well, they really had us at the first part, not going to lie,” Laszlo removes his reading glasses and peeks out from behind the invitation letter. “Right until when it starts ranting about wild, electrifying vampire-human sex.”
Nadja turns to Nandor, hands waving in midair as if to make a desperate attempt fishing for some appropriate words.
“Nandor! Did you not tell us that you and Gizmo were married?” Finally, she slaps her palms into her lap. “How could you do something like this? Now that he has left you, half the house will be his! We didn’t even have the chance to fight it!”
“We were not married!” Nandor defends himself, “I would know it if we were married!”
“So it was just fucking?” Laszlo joins in to support his wife. “You were fadoodling, joining giblets, doing the bear, training dick-fencing with Gizmo in your secret sex-coffin without any of your friends knowing?”
-Nandor receives an invitation from VAMENA (the Vampiric Association for Marriage Equality in North America) for his inspiring activism and direct actions. They also want him to make a speech.
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“The perfume,” his new owner asks. “What is the name?”
“Jannat-ul-Firdaus,” he answers.
Yes, Alauddin will take it all. Now only from the captured Marhatta slave, but from every man, every soul, from mountains and skies and all the rivers flowing from each and every city. He watches as the governor becomes the Sultan, and laughs with joy he has never produced before. It is freeing, almost.
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The first years Malik is in Alauddin's court, and his last ones.10/29：中文 translation now available.
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It’s a Crime (I Never Told You About the Diamonds in Your Eyes) by softwinds
Fandoms: What We Do in the Shadows (TV)
09 Aug 2020
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Guillermo waves back to bid them goodbye. His phone buzzes. Nandor is coming to pick you up! – it reads. A dark, bearded man gazes at him from the driver's profile with a wide mirthful grin, a garnet scarf wrapped around the base of his neck. His features are sharp and defined, a strong nose slightly crooked to one side.
Hot, Guillermo decides, in a wolfish kind of way. He allows his mind to linger for a bit longer, until a black Kia pulls up in front of him, the passenger side’s window rolled down.
“Guillermo?”
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In which vampires are not real (or are they?), Nandor is a killer, and Guillermo has to die. -
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“Anyway— I’m going to take a shower and try to go to sleep now. I have most weapons with me still, so I plan to face the suckers tomorrow if I find them.”
He takes a deep breath.
“Wish me luck. This has been Guillermo, senior mosquito collector of the tri-state area. Signing off now.”
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07.28: complete :>Series
- Part 1 of Guillermo de la Cruz, vampire hunter
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Like Something Holy by softwinds for walkwithursus
Fandoms: What We Do in the Shadows (TV)
18 Jul 2020
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“The hell are you talking about, little Caesar? The Palaiolo-something-guy had nothing on you!” Nandor frowns in disbelief. “He had the worst mustache I have ever seen! Don’t trust the drawings—painters lied, Guillermo, they were very dishonest people back then.”
“What I mean is,” Guillermo turns to him, face looking more serious than before, “I know what I have. I know how I look, and I’m at peace with it. I’ve passed the point where I need constant approval from other people. I’m happy that you want to compliment me, but I won’t pretend to actually believe in that sort of stuff.”
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Prompt: Guillermo fat positive body worship. Nandor ravishing Guillermo and enjoying every moment of it. -
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“And the gift is Nandor,” Nadja crosses her fingers and stares into the camera, “We have decided, and I apologize for my wording here, to pimp Nandor out to Gizmo. Because Laszlo thinks that Gizmo wants his bum. It’s actually not that bad. It’s like prostitution, just without the money part. Just a small sacrifice for our future.”