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It slips out, the first time, when Shane is lying in bed, drowsy and kind of fuck-drunk, half-watching Ilya as he rolls off of the bed and heads towards the bathroom.
"Thank you."
There's something new growing between them, and Shane has never felt so warm.
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wound repair by burningafterdark (burningdarkfire)
Fandoms: Critical Role: Exandria (Web Series)
11 Jan 2026
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"Astrid," he said, his hand coming up to cover the scar. "What's this? Who hurt you?"
It's different with just the two of them.
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Incident Report: Cab 73, December 19, 6:23PM by quanshi (burningdarkfire)
Fandoms: Critical Role: Exandria (Web Series)
29 Dec 2025
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The elevator gave a strange lurch—not enough to throw him off his feet, but enough that he was a little off balance, the bouquet and backpack suddenly more precarious than before—and stopped in its descent, and he instinctively looked at his companion in the cab.
Her lip had already curled. "Thelyss."
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The master's parting words to them were: "You two would do well to think on how we can recover Bren."
Astrid and Eadwulf debrief after a difficult night.
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the nights that never die by quanshi (burningdarkfire)
Fandoms: Critical Role: Exandria (Web Series), The Mighty Nein (Cartoon)
22 Dec 2025
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Bren does a little leap and twirl across the threshold, holding his arms up with an imaginary partner. His bathrobe flares out around his hips and leaves absolutely no doubt that he's chosen to wear nothing else underneath—Astrid looks at Wulf, to see if he's seen, only to find him already looking back at her with raised eyebrows and a grin.
After infiltrating the Cobalt Soul, they have some time to themselves.
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dichotomy method: studies in lycanthropy by burningafterdark (burningdarkfire)
Fandom Critical Role (Web Series)
24 Sep 2024
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"he's a man half empty kind of guy"
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the wound, the strength (blood moon) by burningdarkfire
Fandom Critical Role (Web Series)
16 Apr 2023
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"A magician is strong because he feels pain. He feels the difference between what the world is and what he would make of it. Or what did you think that stuff in your chest was? A magician is strong because he hurts more than others. His wound is his strength." The Magicians, Lev Grossman
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modern blumendrei university AU for fun and fluff
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modern AU (sedoretu)
Who here hasn't launched themselves / at the slightest whisper in a house with no shadows? Who can deny / having tried to summon love from air with teeth alone? [....] After years of this it must be easy to mistake hell / for an empty room." - "I ALWAYS BET ON LOSING DOGS", Beast At Every Threshold, Natalie Wee
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Meanwhile the wild geese, high in the clean blue air,
are heading home again."Wild Geese" - Mary Oliver
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As Astrid struggles to share her story with Beauregard Lionett, a Volstrucker attack strands the two of them in the middle of the Pearlbow Wilderness, relying on each other to carry an abjured-asleep Caleb to safety.
Well, it's one way to give a deposition.
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24 Sep 2025
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Essek, Caleb, and Astrid have an unconventional arrangement where everyone gets what they need.
There is a new book on the table. New to Essek, at least. Its leather cover is scuffed, but the gilt embossed border speaks to a certain level of expense. More than that, it’s the discolored edges of the parchment that catch his eye. They’re uneven, aged.
He hangs up his light outer robe, stacks his shoes by the door, and dispels his disguise. It is a relief to see his own hands again. He is walking, but his footsteps hardly make a sound. He approaches the table, runs a finger across the beautiful cover. There is a harsh crack that echoes from upstairs, but he does not flinch.- Language:
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Bookmarked by burningdarkfire
15 Dec 2024
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whatever souls are made of, yours and mine are the same (insult) by flemeth
Fandoms: The Locked Tomb Trilogy | Gideon the Ninth Series - Tamsyn Muir
04 Jul 2021
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“The woman is in a peony-coloured slip. She is taking the pins out of her hair. She is JOY, an acidic thing, citric and citrine. Sour frowns, tangerine pulp hair, liable to irritate in excessive quantities.”
In advance of Dios Apate Major, the Saint of Patience scripts a seduction.
Bookmarked by burningdarkfire
15 Jul 2022
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“I don’t think that’s what therapy is,” Jayce said encouragingly. “Caitlyn says therapy’s pretty good.”
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13 Dec 2021
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After a job goes poorly, Twisted Fate and Graves are at each other's throats. They end up at a bar to blow off steam, and while Graves drinks, Fate plinks away at the piano, remembering an old song...
Bookmarked by burningdarkfire
19 Jul 2021