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Mira destroyed them, that night, but somehow she still gets to keep them.
She shouldn’t get to wake up to breakfast steaming and ready in a bowl for her. She shouldn’t get to fall asleep in the safety of their arms, tangle in their limbs on the couch, or tuck stray hairs behind the shell of an ear, lingering over the miracle of a simple touch.
The guilt of the crime itself is outweighed by the guilt of such an unbefitting punishment.
Mira destroyed them that night. She should not still get to keep them.
Or:
The purpose for the entire visit slips off of her tongue like a prayer, reverent and pious.
“I never thanked you,” Mira says. “For the night of the Idol Awards.”
Celine stiffens.
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Rock you like a hurricanrana by Counterpunch for ForestCreatures
Fandoms: KPop Demon Hunters (2025)
26 Dec 2025
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Secret Santa gift for Forest with the prompt: Zoey sparring shenanigans prompt
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Becoming, pt.1 by Counterpunch
Fandoms: KPop Demon Hunters (2025), Buffy the Vampire Slayer (TV)
07 Dec 2025
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"Rumiiiiii," Zoey whined. "Why didn't you tell us how boring this would be?"
"I did." Rumi replied without losing focus on her forms. "Repeatedly."
"Yeah, Zo," Mira said, "Sorry to burst your bubble but she did say patrol was like, 90% observing like a million times. To which you responded - and I quote - "That's fine, it'll be like a fun team bonding experience.""
Also known as: Zoey's first kill and the path that unwinds from there
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- Part 3 of Rumi the Vampire Slayer
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these wheels keep turning, but they're running out of steam by Counterpunch
Fandoms: KPop Demon Hunters (2025)
03 Nov 2025
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Everything was perfectly normal. Except that it wasn’t.
Rumi knew it the way she knew that the sun rose in the east and set in the smooth line of Mira’s shoulders, graceful and lithe. Rumi knew it the way oceans ebb and words flowed through Zoey. Rumi knew it the way she knew she would die.
And that the Honmoon would remain.
Because the Honmoon was stronger than ever. It waxed as she waned.
And that was the thing, wasn't it.
Or: Rumi died that night at Namsan Tower. It just took her body a little while to catch up.
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Training Montage by Counterpunch
Fandoms: KPop Demon Hunters (2025), Buffy the Vampire Slayer (TV)
12 Sep 2025
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"She would teach them how to protect themselves.
Even if that meant one day protecting them from herself."
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Mira and Zoey want to learn to fight. Rumi does not want them to.
Mira and Zoey learn to fight. Rumi did not want them to.Rumi hides truths and is buried under the weight of them but also can't say no
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- Part 2 of Rumi the Vampire Slayer
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the coming out conversation pt.1 by Counterpunch
Fandoms: KPop Demon Hunters (2025), Buffy the Vampire Slayer (TV)
10 Sep 2025
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Rumi is the Slayer.
She's never had many friends. Suddenly she has two of them. They take the news...surprisingly well.
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- Part 1 of Rumi the Vampire Slayer
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As desperately as Mira and Zoey wanted Rumi to let go, seeing it happen like this, like Rumi was falling apart instead of unwinding on her own terms, was terrifying. So yeah. She was too angry to see it until it was too late. Until Rumi's fear had snapped back with an anger all its own. It was sharp. And it had teeth.
"Not everything is about your insecurities, Mira!"
or: five times Mira pushed and one time she was pulled (and a bonus pull)
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Sequel to 'Amaranthine'
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- Part 3 of Amaranthine
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A Willow and Tara short story set at a letterpress studio. A light, good natured beginning.
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Stand Boldly To It by Counterpunch for douglasfirmarten, one_av
Fandoms: The Haunting of Bly Manor (TV)
20 Mar 2022
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This is a story about a girl. And how she forged a path of her own toward freedom. And just so happened to free someone similarly stifled along the way.
(You might recognize a few bits from A Knight's Tale. That was intentional. Now go watch A Knight's Tale.)
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out of the cold and heavy soil (aprons full of greens) by Counterpunch
Fandoms: The Haunting of Bly Manor (TV)
20 Jan 2022
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a soft tattooed!Dani oneshot inspired by this piece of art and a subsequent conversation in the Damie discord server
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Jamie travels involuntarily through time while Dani's life takes a natural, sequential course. Their love endures through an intricate web of time travel through past, present and future and begs the questions: Can love stand the test of time? What do we do with the time we're given?
Based on the novel The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger
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- Part 1 of Amaranthine
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The Time-Traveler's Daughter Trailer by Counterpunch, foomatic
Fandoms: The Haunting of Bly Manor (TV)
28 Sep 2021
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Coming Soon
(Please read Amaranthine for this to make any sense at all whatsoever. Also bc spoilers below)
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- Part 2 of Amaranthine
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Jamie knows every inch of the grounds on the manor. Been walking it for nearly five years now. Knows every leaf, every branch, every flower in this world she lives and breathes in. The one she pours so much of herself into day in day out, as the seasons and years come and go, she puts her head down in the dirt and tends to it, channeling all the aching loneliness of her heart into something that’ll grow and maybe, if she’s lucky, make the world a little more beautiful and alive along the way.
So Jamie knows, sure as the skin she’s wearing is her own, that something is wrong
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“I’ve done the research, know what I’m comfortable with, alright?”
“Alright. You’re-”
“Dani, I swear if you ask me one more time if I’m sure…” -
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Jamie just wanted to fucking break something. Couldn’t get her hands on the Lady, couldn’t pull her out of Dani, so she had to find the next best thing.
(also known as: Jamie finds her own ways of dealing with watching Dani suffer Viola through the years. She...doesn't handle it well)
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those who rot in the dark by Counterpunch
Fandoms: Fire Emblem: Fuukasetsugetsu | Fire Emblem: Three Houses
10 May 2020
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The last thing she remembered were the walls crumbling. And the screaming. So much screaming. Unable to move, her students' cries pierced her flesh and weighed far more than the rubble.
Also known as: Rhea was not the one captured after the Battle of Garreg Mach
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Three months after 'Grave'. We encounter our heroes who stumble brokenly, desperate to find a new path and heal.
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a sequel of sorts, to A Bird's Song, told from Elsa's perspective set to this song
Definitely read ABS beforehand if you want to have any idea what's going on
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- Part 2 of A Bird's Song
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tumblr three word prompt: sick, fever, angst
Anna doesn’t know how she can be so angry and so soothed by Elsa in this place all at the same time.
Elsa came here for answers and Anna stands on Ahtohallan’s shores angry at them. This place demanded so much of Elsa - of them - of their family. Hadn’t they given enough? Hadn’t Ahtohallan taken enough?