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Ilya is seven when he understands, for the first time, that he is not like any of the other kids at school. He has always known he is strange, but it takes a long time for him to realize that his strangeness is unique.
None of the other kids have a mother who came from the sea. Everyone else has a mother who grew up in Moscow or St. Petersburg or Novgorod. Not Ilya. Ilya's Mama says she was on the beach when his father found her and stole her pelt. That he keeps her by threatening to destroy it.
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The idea crawls around Ilya's head, ticking like a pocket watch as Ilya rotates it and considers every angle. A world where he puts himself into Shane's hands. A world where Shane would want him like that. A world where it's something he's allowed to ask for.
Ilya finally figures out how to ask for something he wants to try.
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When his mother comes to him in the summer after he wins his second Cup with a new partnership proposal from the fucking Sesame Workshop, Shane can't say yes fast enough
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Shane doesn't mean to say it, the first time. It's just that he's only been with women, he tells himself. It's just the way he hears the guys talk in the locker room. It's just the words he knows, the ones he defaults to in the moment of passion.
Or, what happens when Shane's id has some ideas about new things to say in the bedroom and Ilya is 100% on board.
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adding on weight to the darkness in me by samalander for snows
Fandoms: Six of Crows Series - Leigh Bardugo
03 Sep 2025
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Kaz Brekker signed a contract when he was 13 years old, and he's been indentured to Pekka Rollins at the Sweet Shop for almost 8 years. When he's assigned to seduce someone at one of Pekka's parties, he meets Inej Ghafa, the Banshee of the Barrel, and tells her he can help her. She decides to take him up on that.
It goes okay.
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You Can Lose It Without Knowing by samalander
Fandom Marvel Cinematic Universe, The Avengers (Marvel Movies)
29 Dec 2015
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Clint is a hooker and Kate is his client. In Nevada. Or something.
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Better Than Silence by samalander
Fandom Marvel (Movies), The Avengers (2012), The Avengers (Marvel Movies)
20 May 2019
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A journey: Clint and Natasha try, and they fail, and they keep trying. But neither one of them is exactly sure why.
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In which the Avengers are High School theatre students.
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Like a Liar Would Believe by samalander
Fandom Captain America (Movies), Marvel (Movies), The Avengers (2012)
19 May 2013
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The story of Natasha coming to SHIELD, and what happens when the Winter Soldier bursts into her life.
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I Want You (Like a Cigarette) by happinessofthepursuit
Fandoms: Red White & Royal Blue - Casey McQuiston
22 Aug 2024
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“That’s when Alex sees him.
He’s seated at the edge of the pool, legs dangling in the warm water of the shallow end. There’s another man standing in the pool, with his face pressed to the spot where long limbs meet tiny waist. Honestly though, that’s not what gets Alex’s attention—he’s far from the only person in Alex’s line of sight having his cock sucked.
But he’s certainly the prettiest.”
Or, Alex meets Henry on Fire Island.
(Fully written, updating Thursdays)
Bookmarked by samalander
07 Jul 2025
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quid pro quo by astrhae
Fandoms: Six of Crows Series - Leigh Bardugo, Shadow and Bone (TV)
12 Apr 2023
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“We’ve – ” We’ve met, Wylan had been about to say. He cut himself off in time, his own father glaring at him. “Your Highness,” Wylan bowed low, bending at the waist. “It is – it is my honor.”
He’d bent too, that night in the Barrel – did the Prince know? Or perhaps, worse-better-worse, had he been so unremarkable that the Prince had forgotten about him? Wylan swallowed, muscle memory forcing him to remember his lessons: he could rise only when the Prince allowed it.
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Or, an arranged marriage AU where Jesper is Novyi Zem’s wayward prince, Wylan sneaks out before his betrothal to enjoy the company of a Zemeni man, and Jesper adopts a goat – not necessarily in that order.
Bookmarked by samalander
30 Mar 2025
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Confessions: A Sonata in Five Parts by rainstormdragon
Fandoms: Six of Crows Series - Leigh Bardugo
23 Oct 2023
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Wylan is a Catholic Priest in 1920s New York; Jesper is a sharpshooter for a local gang. Jesper comes into Wylan's Lower East Side church to hide from the police in a confession booth...
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20 Jun 2024
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His first thought, when the taste of bitter rust and crumpled petal hit him, was: I’ve drowned before.
His second thought was: What am I doing here?
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Or, a hanahaki AU where Wylan coughs up jurda blossoms, Jesper comes home from six years of Grisha training in Ravka, and the blood on Kaz’s gloves is definitely not from planning a coup.
Bookmarked by samalander
27 May 2024
Bookmarker's Notes
When you need to remember what it is to love a person as they are, and not as you remember them.
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flower dictionary for exes by MaudeAlise
Fandoms: Six of Crows Series - Leigh Bardugo, Shadow and Bone (TV)
12 Oct 2023
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“Well, I can’t stand yours!” Wylan snaps, lying through his teeth.
The good thing of being roommates with your ex, Wylan thinks, is that he doesn’t have to tearfully hold onto Jesper’s sweatshirts and hope that the scent still remains. He can just go into the laundry room and sniff Jesper’s fabric softener like a completely well-adjusted, reasonable and mature adult.
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or, Jesper and Wylan break up, still live together, miscommunicate and then communicate. And learn about some flowers.