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Just Keep Breathing by DangerousMouse
Fandoms: Wicked - All Media Types, Wicked (Movie 2024)
19 Oct 2025
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It felt like she was being torn apart. Blood rushed in her ears as her bones snapped and shifted, her skin stretching and pulling as her whole body broke and reformed. She’d never felt anything like this before.
When the pain finally stopped, she lay panting and shuddering against the freezing stone. Her nerves were still sparking and her heart felt like it was trying to burst from her chest.
In between pained breaths, she heard her voice, once comforting, now cold and sharp.
“Oh yes, I think she’s exactly what we were looking for. The perfect spy.”
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When Galinda shows an affinity for shifting forms, her parents reach out to Madame Morrible to plead for help, not knowing that in doing so they were sealing their daughter’s fate. Five years spent in the Emerald City under watchful eyes has honed her skills as a spy, working for the Wizard against the Animal Rebellion. Thrust into a strange new world at Shiz, tasked with learning all she can about Doctor Dillamond, Galinda is faced with a reality she wasn’t prepared for. All she knew to do was… just keep breathing.
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01 Dec 2025
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The fate of the hero Orpheus was changed when his father intervened. Now Orpheus has lived an immortal life travelling the world and ignoring his parents. It's the 21st century and he has met befriended you, a struggling student of the arts. What possible shenanigans could you and this completely ordinary man who is in no way a mythical being get up to?
Nothing unusual until you meet the man of your dreams
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31 Aug 2025
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The Tale of Orpheus and His Father by alivebutdeadinside_6_6_6
Fandom The Sandman (Comics), The Sandman (TV 2022)
12 Aug 2023
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25 Aug 2025
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The Dreaming stands, but Dream... Dream is gone.
In the aftermath of the assault on the Dreaming, the Kindly Ones delivered their judgement, their punishment - for spilling blood - and yet, Dream is gone... but not yet returned. Death does not understand why. Endless remain... and yet Dream... is just gone.
Only because the Kindly Ones did not take his life that day. No. It's not much of a punishment if it was what he craved most.
No, instead, they trap him in an unending nightmare - living the moment he killed his son over and over again. Until he breaks, until he begs, until the end of time - Dream doesn't know. He just knows there's no escape. There's no help coming. He's alone.
And every day that he kills his son - just to wash the blood away again and again... He desires for this to end, he would beg for death, he wallows in despair, and he worries he's becoming delirious. The touch of his siblings reside in him, but he accepts they will never come for him. He deserves this. It's his punishment.
His siblings don't care - he tells himself... unaware they don't even know he's alive, and if they did - none of them, not even Desire, would agree.
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Bookmarked by StrawberryCastle
25 Aug 2025
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What are Dreams in one's Waking Hours? by insanepanda
Fandoms: The Sandman (TV 2022), The Sandman (Comics)
29 Apr 2023
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In one universe, one Roderick Burgess spent his waking hours threatening, bargaining and cajoling an unspeaking Endless whom he had trapped within this basement. He would spend the rest of his living years coveting for boons that weren’t his to possess
In another universe, Roderick Burgess had an idea, and this idea became the tiny stone that started an avalanche altering the realities of this universe.
(or: Dream's psyche gets pushed to the brink during his time in the fishbowl, and something inadvertently breaks)
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21 Aug 2025