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Heaven’s Light Has Smiled Upon Me by just_a_dapper_fellow for BeepLove
Fandoms: The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald
05 Sep 2025
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I made my way down the drive, handkerchief pressed discreetly to my nose, toward the small car that had become both my companion and tormentor in these months; the car that promised me the world’s distance while dragging me unresisting through its motions. As I placed a hand on the door handle, I heard a familiar voice call out to me.
“Nick!”
I turned, startled, and there he was: Gatsby himself, immaculate even at such an early hour. He was clad in loose trousers and a collared shirt with the sleeves rolled up to his forearms, yet despite the casual air of his clothes, he managed to look as elegant as the night I first encountered him. He came down the marble steps of his mansion with a speed and certainty that betrayed his alarm, coming to my side as if honing in on a beacon.
“You can’t possibly be going to work,” he declared, as though the very idea were obscene.
Nick is sick. Gatsby insists on looking after him.
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27 Feb 2026
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The Unreality of Reality by drunkenhayze
Fandoms: The Great Gatsby (2013), The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald
20 Sep 2025
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Gatsby believed in the green light that was almost in his grasp. But Nick yearns to be his green light.
Then Nick falls ill and all changes for the better.
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26 Feb 2026
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Dream is not coping well post-imprisonment, after he has finally set things to order otherwise following the Vortex. There are unexciting times with migraines, dissociation, and panic attacks galore. Also copious references to sand and glass. Almost like a leitmotif / metaphor, even.
Title from "The Sound of Silence" by Simon & Garfunkel. (Opinion hours: 1964 acoustic version on Wednesday Morning, 3 AM album is the best version. You cannot change my mind.)
The head pains, the sparkling lights, the nausea - they come back. Again. And again. He gets better at hiding the signs, cursing whatever has caused this. He gets better at pretending he's not constantly behind a barrier of glass, that he's free, that he's fine. Dream is constantly behind glass. Stained glass, bloody glass, rounded glass, broken glass, all muffling the world around him, filling his head with cotton. Sometimes he wonders if it was easier being in the glass cage. At least then he didn't have to pretend.
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- Part 9 of Sandman one-shots
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07 Feb 2026
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heartbeat of a lark (or the lark in my heartbeat) by celestarium (meadowziplines)
Fandoms: The Sandman (TV 2022)
03 May 2023
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Dream has a lot of stuff going on: organizing a big museum exhibit, dealing with chronic illness, and trauma following being kidnapped for four days - and that he's just moved flats recently because he couldn't stand everything around him looking the same when he wasn't. He's doing his best. Then he finds his neighbor's cat Molly loose in the hallway, and returning the wayward cat turns into something more than just neighbors in the block of flats.
Dreamling Bingo square D4: Just Moved In.
Title from "Lark" by Josh Ritter.
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- Part 12 of Dreamling Bingo 2023
- Part 1 of museum curator!dream
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05 Feb 2026
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You would not want your spiked fishbowl to be rotational. Or the fishbowl has spikes, and is also capable of rotation with Dream inside as a means of torture. Fortunately, Jessamy has escaped, and gone in search of help...
(He would learn, later, that the cruelty – watching him fall and gash himself open, bruise and break his bones – was the point. That the cruelty would only get worse and worse as Roderick Burgess realised Dream truly could not bring Randall back, and took whatever else he could instead).
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- Part 2 of Whumptober 2024
- Part 69 of Sandman one-shots
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01 Feb 2026
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In hindsight, Neal Caffrey should’ve realized nothing good could’ve come from Peter Burke smiling at him with such a mischievous glint in his eyes. But Neal was nothing if not a little too optimistic—a little too romantic—to not croon gleefully when Peter had described the two month vacation to Paris he was taking Elizabeth on.
It was just two months with a different handler, after all? What could go wrong?
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Or, Neal gets abused by his new handler. Will Peter be able to stop it before its too late?
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01 Feb 2026
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Prompt: Some rich asshole who's the prime suspect on a case has grown a very intricate hedge maze on his property. Peter and Neal have to navigate the hedge maze in the heat, no shade and no water.
The story is complete and I'll post as I edit.
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28 Jan 2026
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Jud is in a state of shock following Martha's death. Benoit gets him home and ensures he's taken care of.
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22 Jan 2026
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When she said it was Nat who killed Sam Jud had heard her, but as a priest he knows full well that there is a difference between knowing and understanding. Between understanding and belief.
When the dust settles Jud is left with the realisation that he did not kill Sam, and the impact of three days of stress, sleeplesness, and guilt. Benoit Blanc supports him through it.
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- Part 1 of Green Pastures
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20 Jan 2026
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"Jud was incredibly, ridiculously tired. So tired he believed he'd passed the threshold of tired, and had tread into unforeseen territory, in which his body felt like it was ready to collapse, and his mind moved a million miles a minute, but every thought felt shallow and bloated. It felt horrible, sickly. Like waking up after a fight, body bruised, mind numb. But worse, since he couldn't rest yet. It wasn't over yet. He still needed to write."
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A rewriting of that one scene when Jud's writing the story and the stuff after it.
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21 Jan 2026
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He’s reminded, suddenly, of Marta: guilty only of a damaged trellis and a few amateur theatrics. Blanc had known from the beginning that she thought she was guilty, but hadn’t assured her of her innocence until checkmate. He did the same to Jud last night. Would he do the same again if it meant solving a case and bringing a murderer down, or bringing a wronged person justice? He knows he would, but it is not an easy thought.
In the immidiate aftermath of Martha's confession Jud has a small breakdown. Blanc helps him through it. Written as a companion piece for "Matthew 6:34."
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- Part 2 of Green Pastures
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21 Jan 2026
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The water runs brown for a while after he gets in. Jud isn’t one for long showers, but he figured that he had earned this with how these past few days had gone. After all, there would be a noticeable decrease in the church’s water bill if anything. He pushes his head back under the water at the thought, rubbing his hands roughly across his face.
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Jud is having a hard time coping with the recent events at Our Lady of Perpetual Fortitude, but at least he has company.
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21 Jan 2026
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After everything, Benoit Blanc makes sure Father Jud is cared for.
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20 Jan 2026
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Try me, I dare you to try me by ratking_withnotail
Fandoms: Percy Jackson and the Olympians - Rick Riordan, Percy Jackson and the Olympians & Related Fandoms - All Media Types, Marvel Cinematic Universe, The Avengers (Marvel Movies)
04 Dec 2024
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Percy wasn't competitive, especially not this early in the morning. But he also knew he wasn't slow; he wasn't one of SHIELD's top agents for no reason. But this was the third time this dude had passed him, and it was starting to make him a little pissy. He was already in a bad mood anyway.
At least someone shared his feelings.
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Part one in the Army Dreamers series.
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- Part 1 of What could they do? (Army Dreamers)
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02 Dec 2025
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Not to me.
There’s a new dangerous drug plaguing the streets of Bludhaven and it’s beginning to trickle into Gotham. Similar to opioids, and some deliriants, it has the capability to devastate both cities. But the most perplexing effect of the drug is the risks of detoxing from the drug.
At first, when Nightwing found reports of dead bodies showing up with trace amounts of the drug in their system, he assumed it was overdoses. But further studies of the drug have found that if those addicted to the drug go too long without taking another dose (around a 12 hour window), their body shuts down, ending with cardiac arrest.
With the stakes even higher, Nightwing jumps at the opportunity to investigate a tip he’d received about a new shipment coming in. He’d be fine without backup, the Bats in Gotham were busy handling an Arkham breakout and it was just recon. He was fine, that is, until he was caught and dosed with the drug during the ensuing fight.Now he needs to figure out how to find a cure, find and stop the main supplier of the drug, all while keeping his new accidental addiction from his nosy family. No biggie right? If only the withdrawals weren’t so fucking crippling.
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15 Nov 2025
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A prompt from my tumblr from a whump bingo card I made! This one is for "focusing through brain fog." If you wanna check that out, go to my tumblr, taylortut! feel free to drop a request in my inbox. the bingo card is my pinned post. :) Enjoy!
title from, of course, a Dessa song. Sue me.
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10 Nov 2025
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Jon will do whatever it takes to save Martin from the lonely, no matter the cost.
Jon finds that Martin snaps out of his lonely trance when Jon is in danger. Jon uses this to try to save him, hurting himself in the process.
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08 Nov 2025
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A werewolf is a vampires best friend by Multifandom_damnation
Fandoms: Being Human (US/Canada)
02 Sep 2022
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Surprisingly, Aidan was actually lying on the bed, half-tangled in the blankets and partially hidden in the dark, wearing the same grey shirt he was wearing when Josh left yesterday. Sally was right- even in the dark, Josh could tell how pale Aidan was. His skin was shallow, his eyelids darkened, and in a futile attempt to conserve energy, he was lying impossibly still.
If Josh didn't know any better, he'd say that Aidan was dead.
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03 Oct 2025
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Castiel see's his arranged marriage as the end of the line, and Dean is desperate to stop Sam from getting hitched to the wrong woman, when Cas' wedding gets interrupted by a confused, but well intentioned Winchester, he see's this as an opportunity to break out from under his families thumb and start fresh, even if that means running away with the guy who kidnapped him from the altar...
Title is from a Billy Idol song because I have no self control, enjoy!
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03 Sep 2025
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I Don’t Belong Here (I Wish I Was Special) by BootyCrusade
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types, Red Robin (Comics), DCU (Comics), DCU, Justice League - All Media Types, Batman (Comics), Batman and Robin (Comics)
14 Apr 2024
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After a run-in with some hi-tech goons, Tim wakes up in a universe where Bruce enjoys his company. Where Jason never died, where Dick never gave Robin to a murderous Demon Brat who, it seemed, wasn’t even around.
He goes to sleep, happy.
And wakes up back in his original world, where he feels like a ghost among the living, forgotten and cold and alone.
The one where Tim switches between worlds whenever he falls asleep.
COMES WITH ART!
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- Part 1 of Red Robin: Into the Timverse
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31 Aug 2025