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He raised two fingers. Scissors. “Snip,” he said, cutting an invisible thread. Cutting invisible balls.
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17 Feb 2026
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It was comforting to think there was a point of no return—a moment at which his actions were no longer his own and every step back here was inevitable. The only question, then, was how long ago this point had been passed.
He pulled his flip phone from his jacket and, painstakingly, using number buttons to make letters, typed:
'hey. come outside.'
No response. It was 3:34 in the morning, Armin figured.
He was definitely still up.
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05 Feb 2026
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Please read this. I'm begging you. You like yearning? You've never felt yearning like this. Good lord. I'm not the same as I was before reading this.
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It’s better money than donating blood plasma down at the hospital (he’s done that, he’s donated absolutely everything you can donate, it’s easy money, your body is free), and if he wasn’t doing this, he’d be sucking cock for a living. Not that there’s anything wrong with that.
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04 Feb 2026
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Merlin, for all his acting, must be wicked, as all sorcerers were. An echo of a soul, designed to trick with garbled words. Perhaps the cruellest thing, the proof of his depravity, was that he would make Arthur feel this way.
His twisted magic must be the reason he was reduced to a quivering, lonely mess straining against his own hand. Better that he should be used and commanded! How dare Merlin reduce him to a yearning servant and then not touch him?
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05 Dec 2025
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“He’s terrible,” Merlin told Gwen in a candlelit alcove hidden near the servants entrance to the great hall.
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“He’s terrible,” Arthur lamented to the empty air, sprawled out on his neatly made bed beneath the dim moon.Or: After a whirlwind day of hosting nobility and feasting, Arthur pines for something he can't quite verbalize and Merlin would like a little gratitude.
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12 Nov 2025
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An exploration of Arthur's inner world after his first two encounters with Merlin in episode one, with a few flashes of insight from Merlin sprinkled in for texture. Featuring D/s fantasy, longing, self-rejection, the quiet passage of time & maturity, death & resurrection, and how love creeps in and stays.
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15 Sep 2025
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It's 1913, the practice of homosexuality is unlawful, so is the practice of magic. When Arthur Pendragon and Merlin Emrys meet as Cambridge undergrads, they're both hungry for a real and true connection without secrets. For a short time they believe they may have found it. But war breaks out and separates them, and it seems unlikely that they will meet again. After all, what are the odds?
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03 Sep 2025
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When Arthur is badly wounded during an inexplicable attack by a magical creature, Merlin must make sure he lives long enough to make it back to Camelot. But that's easier said than done, especially with uncomfortable truths swirling just out of sight.
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22 Feb 2025
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Nobody touches Arthur.
Merlin realizes it slowly, and when he does, he wants to kick himself for not seeing sooner.
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01 Feb 2025
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Where Johnny goes, the Devil follows; where Johnny goes, the Devil is already there.
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26 Feb 2022
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They’re happy in their new life, in their shared wickedness and how far they’ve paddled from the shore of humanity, and how everyone seems to think they’re still miles inland.
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06 Aug 2018
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I can't believe I don't have this bookmarked already. THE BEST Hannibal fic, period <3
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Merlin is struck with a curse while he and the knights are out on patrol. He must confess his darkest secret or he will die. Arthur thinks he already knows what Merlin is gonna confess, trying to coax him into saying it, but what happens when what he's expecting isn't what comes out?
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“Damn it, Merlin, the witch said this curse would kill you if you didn’t confess! It’s one secret, just say it! I won’t care no matter how deep and dark it is, but I will care if my useless servant dies taking it to his grave!”
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11 Jul 2017
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Never Played It Cool by Lavellington
Fandoms: Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency (TV 2016)
03 Apr 2017
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"Dude," Amanda says, squeezing her tight while her hair tickles Farah's face. "It's so good to see you."
"You too," Farah says, meaning it, and when they break apart Amanda's hands linger on her shoulders for a second longer than they have to, and that's nice. That's enough to feed her borderline pathetic crush for a week, at least.
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- Part 3 of I Always End Up Where I Need to Be
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10 Apr 2017
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I Will Roam if You Say Roam by Lavellington
Fandoms: Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency (TV 2016)
19 May 2018
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"My old landlord wrote to me yesterday, and apparently I need to go and pick up my things or he'll throw them in a skip."
"A what?" Todd asks, sitting down heavily on the sofa.
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Dirk and Todd go to London.
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- Part 2 of I Always End Up Where I Need to Be
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09 Apr 2017
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Joe Liebgott is roused in the middle of the night by a phone call (an intervention in disguise) and ends up anchored down to one place while he tries to reconcile the man he's become with the man who went to war.
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04 Mar 2017
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17 Feb 2017
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Scout calls Sniper from Boston to find out what happened to his favorite t-shirt. Not because his house is too quiet, and not because he can't sleep, and definitely not because he misses him. Just because of the t-shirt.
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15 Jan 2017
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It's one thing to see a loved one die, but it's something else entirely to see them die and then come back from the dead.
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04 Jan 2017
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Strong by crobatics
Fandoms: Pocket Monsters | Pokemon (Main Video Game Series), Pocket Monsters: Sun & Moon | Pokemon Sun & Moon Versions
27 Nov 2016
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A young Guzma returns from his island challenge and tries to readjust to living in his parents' house. Strongly recommended you finish Sun & Moon before reading, just in case.
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18 Dec 2016
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As the Sand Loves the Sea by windfish
Fandoms: Pocket Monsters | Pokemon (Main Video Game Series), Pocket Monsters: Sun & Moon | Pokemon Sun & Moon Versions
21 Jan 2017
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Those who say that it is better to have loved and to have lost have never lost everything.
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A coming-of-age tale of two boys coming together in a lonely world.