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the devil's in the details by somethingaboutwriting for queerofthedagger
Fandoms: Merlin (TV)
06 Dec 2021
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It takes a month after Arthur lifts the ban on magic for him to adjust to the fact that the people around him might actually start to use it. Even stranger is when Merlin learns some from Gaius and, oddly enough, has a bit of a knack for it.
In which Arthur is obtuse, Merlin is trying his best, and Gwaine, Elyan and Leon don't understand why they can't learn to light fires as easily as Merlin did.
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In a black-and-white television show with a ridiculously small audience, Merlin reunites with his fiancé Arthur Pendragon in the 1950s.
This is completely normal, and has nothing to do with how long Merlin has had to wait for the Once and Future King to return.
WandaVision AU
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Langa didn’t understand, at first. Why that heart-racing feeling was suddenly gone, why even the most intense beef wasn’t exciting him. Why he was letting himself fall behind.
Now he does. Because when he locked eyes with Reki, saw that unruly hair, heard the intensity of his voice, it all made so much sense. Langa enjoys skateboarding, sure. He likes the thrill of it, the way it’s the same and new to his body all at once, the way the excitement of a race runs like electricity straight through him.
But that isn’t why he does it. Not really.
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if you hadn't been you by somethingaboutwriting for deli (deliciousirony)
Fandoms: Merlin (TV)
02 Jan 2021
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Merlin twisted round in his new chair as Arthur scowled over his shoulder. "He could be anyone, you know."
"I got that part, yes," Arthur said flatly.
"I’m just saying. He could be some creepy murderer for all you know. He could have magic!"
A flush crept across the back of Arthur’s neck. He turned fully to reply. "I don’t care, alright? Why are you still talking to me?"
Merlin ignored the last part, raising his eyebrows in mock surprise. "You would date a murderer?"
A You've Got Mail AU in which Merlin owns a magic shop, Arthur works for his father in politics and they cannot stand each other. EmrysHimself and SirKnight, on the other hand, have struck up a burgeoning romance...
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Merlin is sneaking off to see a girl. Arthur's handling it very well.
That is, apart from these weird flowers he keeps coughing up. . .
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“I would like you to know me,” Caleb says.
It feels like a secret. Like the darkest part of him cracked open; all his months and years of hiding, of wrapping his arms and scratching the bindings, of not loving, not loving anything but an unkillable cat — it’s unraveling around him. He feels naked. He feels the way he did the first time Pumat Sol spelled him clean.
“I find that — I would like you to know me,” he says, again.
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between the essence / and the descent by tothewillofthepeople
Fandoms: Supernatural (TV 2005)
24 Oct 2024
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He misplaced his angel. He didn’t hold on hard enough. He got Cas back only to lose him immediately.
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Cas comes back on a Thursday.
And then keeps coming back on Thursdays. He doesn’t seem to have much choice in the matter, actually. For the rest of the week, he’s stuck in the Empty, and Dean is left trying to figure out how to save him, how to talk to him—and how to get him out for good.
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- Part 1 of for thine is
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11 Dec 2025
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“So- so you’d basically be using some sort of sigil to mask our human souls from the Empty?” Sam’s voice interrupts Dean’s desperate train of thought and startles him back to the present.
“Yes.” Jack is nodding, smiling, all gap-toothed and kindergarten positivity.
“And the only parts of us the Empty would see are whatever dead leaves the angels and demons left in our gutters?” Dean raises his eyebrows.
“Exactly.”
He lets out a low whistle. There’s a living warmth finally coming back into his complexion. Not done yet, Winchester, still one more rescue mission. “It’s gotta be me. I’m going.”
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26 Nov 2025
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“Yeah, they were mad,” Eddie says.
"But not anymore?" Chris asks.
Eddie searches for a true answer that he can say to his son, and comes up with, "We don't talk about it anymore."
Eddie's feelings in a box, and the people who taught him to put them there.
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- Part 1 of when you know, you know
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22 Nov 2025
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“Eddie,” Buck breathes, laughing humorlessly, his voice wet and thick. “If we sat here and-- and went through the list of things I want…” his hands gesture aimlessly. “We’d-- be here all night.”
Eddie nods, catching Buck’s eyes again. “Maybe-- we start with mine, then.”
The space between them feels charged with static, like the second before the thunder finally rumbles.
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Eddie’s finally choosing to be better-- finally choosing joy. He just needs a push or two in the right direction, first.
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- Part 1 of seabird 'verse
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07 Oct 2025