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Eadwulf can’t stop staring at the blood. He reaches up, trembling, breathing through the spasms, and wipes the corner of Essek’s mouth with his left thumb. The blood is fresh, still hot. “Did she hurt you?”
“That doesn’t matter now, does it?” Essek doesn’t flinch away from the contact. Bren has made him more comfortable in his own skin. When they’d first met, they could barely touch. “She’s dead. And you’re being foolish.”
“I’m always foolish.”
Essek narrows his eyes. “You can lie to your master so she fucks you in the way you like, and you can lie to Beauregard because she doesn’t have time to confront you about it right now, but don’t lie to me. We’ve done terrible things together, Eadwulf Grieve, and I have very little to lose. Don’t insult me.”
(Eadwulf kills again and again and again. It feels like coming home).
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But My Head Is Full of Poison/And My Heart Is Full of Doubt by thetickingclock
Fandoms: Interview with the Vampire (TV 2022)
04 Jun 2026
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When his world breaks and burns, Armand calls Lestat.
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We All Believe in Something That’ll Rip Us into Shreds by thetickingclock
Fandoms: Critical Role: Aramán (Web Series)
31 May 2026
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“I’m sorry,” Occtis whispers. “For dying.”
She laughs; she can’t help it. The sound rips its way out of her chest with the violence of a scream and she longs to sink her blade into it to tame it down, to make it bleed, to say, this isn’t fucking funny, none of this is funny, please, please, please, stop.
Or:
Thimble, with friends, in the dark (spoilers for Episode 27).
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One Hundred and Twenty Seconds to Inhale by thetickingclock
Fandoms: Critical Role: Exandria (Web Series)
25 May 2026
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Calm emotions is a spell he doesn’t need to pray for these days. The magic sits like honey at the roof of his mouth. He lets it unfurl with his breath, heat seeping into his cold fingers. The body shudders and stills. The only sound is his ragged breathing. “This is only going to last a minute,” Caduceus says. “And then it’s all going to come back. So I need you to breathe and look at me, okay? I’m not going to hurt you and you’re not going to hurt me.”
The eyes blink. Once. Twice. Three times. “Cad?”
“Yep. You’re good.”
“I’m good?”
“I like to think so. You’re certainly not bad. I’ve killed you before; I’d know.”
(Kingsley is brought to the garden).
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“Good boy,” the tiefling purrs, and slaps him.
Bren lets his head rock back. He lets himself bite his cheek. He tastes salt.
Later, Caleb will say, “you hurt yourself for your magic, yes?”
Molly will look up at him across their camp, eyes reflective like a cat’s, a sheen of red carved into an otherwise dull blur of the dark. “That’s quite a question, Magic Man. Doesn’t everyone?”
“I don’t.”
A flash of teeth. It’s not quite a smile. “Don’t you?”
(Somatic Spell Components and the need for touch, or Caleb Widgoast really just wants to be held)
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laisse-moi devenir l'ombre de ton ombre by tei
Fandoms: Interview with the Vampire (TV 2022)
29 Jun 2026
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"Sing it again," Armand breathes.
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03 Jul 2026
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you just keep me hangin' on by CoffeeAndArrows
Fandoms: Critical Role: Aramán (Web Series)
27 Jun 2026
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She was halfway across the floor in a heartbeat, the shape of his name on her tongue, her lips fighting to curl into a bittersweet echo of a smile despite the sheen in her eyes. Her breath caught on the inhale, and he hardly had a moment to brace before her arms wrapped fiercely around him, holding the pieces of him together. He curled his fingers fiercely into the back of her tunic, holding her with all he had, attempting to do the same.
or, the reunion
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28 Jun 2026
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still feel it in the middle of my spine by jadeandquartz
Fandoms: Critical Role: Aramán (Web Series)
23 Jun 2026
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"You're bleeding," Teor says, half an hour later as they wait for Thjazi and the rear guard to arrive. "Your ear. It is not good."
"Oh." Kattigan hadn't noticed. Everything hurts, either from an old wound or a new one. "Mm. S' fine. Don't worry about it. I've survived worse."
Teor makes a disagreeing noise. At the time, Kattigan finds it strangely similar to an earthquake's rumble. Later on, he'll learn that it's the sound that heralds a stupid oath, or a horribly selfless act of heroism - a low, steady purr that means no, I am worried about it. I am worried about you.
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Kattigan and Teor's history has a lot of bandages.
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24 Jun 2026
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like the chorus to the verse by CindFourth for arithmonym
Fandoms: The Locked Tomb Series | Gideon the Ninth Series - Tamsyn Muir
07 Jun 2026
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Pyrrha Dve hadn't intended to love them. They were two naive kids who thought they could save the world with a lethal combination of hubris and obstinacy. A couple of stubborn bastards without a shred of self-preservation between them.
Unfortunately, Pyrrha had always been a sucker for that sort of shit.
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08 Jun 2026
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We're Not In The Right State Of Mind by destielonfire
Fandoms: Interview with the Vampire (TV 2022)
15 Aug 2024
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“What the fuck,” Daniel said through gritted teeth, punctuated by tightening his grip further on Armand’s larynx, “are you doing here, vamp daddy of mine?”
Or, Daniel's book tour is interrupted by an unexpected visitor to his hotel room.
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06 Jun 2026