nambi
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- Minecraft (Video Game) (50)
- Dream SMP (48)
- Ancient Greek Religion & Lore (32)
- The Odyssey - Homer (29)
- EPIC - Jorge Rivera-Herrans (Albums) (29)
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“Hey,” said Jewel, and a handful of nuts fell from her beak.
Handful, Blu repeated in his mind. Gosh.
“Hey, Blu, what’s wrong?”
He sank farther into the little tent his wings had made, even as he felt Jewel bend down to nudge at him. “I miss Linda,” he told her, followed by a dry laugh as he realised how absolutely insufficient those words were at summing it all up. He wasn’t sure he’d have found better ones, had he had the time and presence of mind to try.
Still, it seemed to get at least some of the meaning across. Jewel paused, frozen in her hunched position for a moment, before something in her eased, as if processing that he was not in any real danger. Just upset for no reason, and also every reason under the sun. Just inconsolable about something he couldn’t even name without dropping that name, the one person his life had revolved around for as long as he could remember, the only person who had mattered until—
Well, until.
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Or: Blu grieves something he will never have again, even in the face of something he loves even more.
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what's the use of his backbone if he never stands upright by nambi
Fandoms: Dispatch (Video Game)
08 Feb 2026
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“The fuck did you say?”
Herm hated that he was like this, that this was all it took to get him to bow his head and make himself small, that Flambae could’ve beaten him blue and Herm would’ve considered it fair. The confidence he’d been honing over the past few months reached only as far as the next altercation, the next hard glare of someone who knew exactly what he was.
A pushover. A doormat. A heap of snow that would lose its shape at the slightest nudge, and then had the nerve to be unsightly afterward.
“S-Sorry,” he said, because there was nothing else to say. His hand shook around his butter knife, stopped mid-scoop in the jelly. Like a small, frightened animal, Phenomaman had once said, and it was just as true now as it had been then. It was a miracle he’d lasted this long.
“No,” Flambae said, and from the corner of his eye Herm saw him turn, truly turn, to face him. “Where the fuck did that come from? Didn’t think you had that in you.”
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Or: A slip of the tongue turns into Flambae’s version of a pep talk.
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You want a lapdog, Ajmal had said when Robert had brought it up. When he’d asked, slow and clumsy, if this was something he could see himself trying, because Robert knew there was something there between the two of them, too, blurry and undefinable, and maybe they could figure it out together, the three of them, heroes who didn’t quite feel like heroes, people who didn’t quite feel like people, finding understanding in one another, but—
But Ajmal hadn’t seen it that way. Hadn’t even considered it, really, before mocking Robert, just as he was mocking him now.
“You know,” he said, “you could’ve told me that twinky virgins were more your thing. Would’ve saved me a lot of time.”
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Or: Robert suggests inviting Waterboy into the relationship. Flambae does not take it well.
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it's pouring, it's spilling (it's already under the ceiling) by nambi
Fandoms: EPIC - Jorge Rivera-Herrans (Albums), The Odyssey - Homer, Ancient Greek Religion & Lore
29 Jan 2026
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Odysseus knew he was presentable. He knew Zeus had cleaned him of their mess, and that he’d found a clip at the temple to salvage his mussed-up hair. He knew that the walk back had taken long enough for him to not appear as though he’d only recently escaped a tryst.
Even so, he could not help but feel uncomfortably seen by that gaze, his mother’s kind eyes taking on a firmer shape in Ctimene’s face. She looked at him as if she already knew, as though she could see it, that guilt hanging heavy on him like the matted fur of a dog. Odysseus looked at Penelope, as though searching for something that might help him, and in an instant she was putting an arm around Ctimene.
“It’s late,” she said, much to Ctimene’s visible irritation. “Let us move this to tomorrow.”
Ctimene brushed past the fact that it was very evidently not late, latching instead onto the larger, deeper contradiction. “And then what? He’ll be gone again come morning?”
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Or: In trying to avoid consequences, Odysseus digs himself deeper.
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- Part 17 of but it's no longer you
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“I get that way on wine,” Punch Up said. “Keep hearing it’ll make ya feel all fancy and wise. Fuck me, I just end up thinking ‘bout Coop.”
New though he was, Herm felt the weight of that. When the thrill of victory had worn off after Shroud, Punch Up had seemed—smaller, somehow. For as long as Herm had known him, he’d carried his height with pride, filling out his skin to the brim, his strength bursting forth even from his shortened frame. But knowing Coupé was behind bars, knowing he’d likely never see her again, had visibly messed with him, even when they’d broken up before that.
He’d gotten better by the looks of it, blooming anew, grieving in bite-sized pieces. Herm wasn’t sure he liked the thought that it could all come back to him with only wine as a catalyst, things he’d thought he’d processed and gotten over hitting him in full force, as if no time at all had passed.
“Tell ya what,” said Punch Up, and he shoved himself back to his feet to stand in front of him. “You and me, we’re gonna sober up."
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Or: Waterboy learns that he is a sad kind of drunk. Punch Up is there to pull him out of it.
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but it's no longer you by nambi
Fandom Ancient Greek Religion & Lore, EPIC - Jorge Rivera-Herrans (Albums), The Odyssey - Homer
29 Jan 2026
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Odysseus fights Zeus for his and his crew's lives and wins. Skipping over Calypso's island, he gets to return home to Ithaca with thirty-six others. Things are fine. It’s over.
And yet, he can’t help but wait for the other shoe to drop, anxiously anticipating disaster. Overwhelmed by his fear and unable to live with the uncertainty, he goes and seeks it out himself just to get it over with.
He gets more than he bargained for, and learns some things about himself on the way.
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Or: A tale about healing, change, and finding connection in unexpected places - or a needlessly complex metaphor for trauma, if that's how you wanna read it.
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nambi's torture fics by nambi
Fandom Ancient Greek Religion & Lore, EPIC - Jorge Rivera-Herrans (Albums), The Odyssey - Homer
29 Nov 2025
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yet another season of techbooza brainrot—this time with less porn, a side of beeduo angst, and the complexities of a poly relationship!
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a collection of ideas (and sometimes fully fledged fics) that didn't make the cut into my series!
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