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“I am what was done to Michael Shelley.” It says, shrinking from a mother’s intense eye. Then it hunches inward, sinking to the muddy grass so it may pull its skinny legs to its hollow chest. Michael wishes she would stop looking at it that way.
It wants to tell this man it has no mother, that the son she is looking for is dead, but the person it was born from howls inside its head until Michael cannot bring itself to tell the truth. To become a butterfly, a caterpillar weaves itself a cozy little cocoon to sleep in before its entire body disintegrates and becomes caterpillar soup until that primordial goo shapes itself into a butterfly. The butterfly remembers being a caterpillar, it knows due north and the hand that raised it, but it is not a caterpillar.
Michael feels like it is a misshapen insect, a big ugly cuckoo bird that thinks it's a sparrow, a barn cat raised by dogs so it tries to bark and only hisses.
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Michael Shelley goes inside of the-door-that-should-not-be-there, what comes home is something else.
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Doorkeay Moments by CowPrintLilies, TheStanleyParableEnjoyer
Fandom The Magnus Archives (Podcast)
22 Jan 2026
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A series of disconnected fics about Michael and Gerry! Because I Love Them!
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30 Jan 2026
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Kaveh stares at the neatly packed bento box laying before Al-Haitham, housing neatly sliced vegetables and glistening, fresh rice.
“Who made you that?” Kaveh asks, not bothering to hide the vengeance in his voice. “Your work husband?”
Al-Haitham lets the fork go slack in his hands and just stares at him. “Kaveh,” he says, in the sort of tone someone might say dude.
“Don’t dude me,” Kaveh says, aghast.
Kaveh is interested in discovering who Al-Haitham's elusive work husband is. Al-Haitham is only interested in Kaveh.
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17 Nov 2025
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it's ancient history (that's bleeding out of me) by femmethubs
Fandoms: 文豪ストレイドッグス | Bungou Stray Dogs
12 Jun 2024
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Atsushi hated pain. The Orphanage had subjected him to years and years of it, through hammers and knives and cold water and hot pokers and nights spent on his knees, scrubbing at the floors, blood blossoming on his palms. He hated it.
But in the early hours of the morning—shooting out of bed, wrapping his arms around himself, tight, as if they would protect him from the man in the corner that spewed poisonous words and harsh glares, cold and dissecting, memories clawing at him even now, threatening to destroy him—the first thing he did was grab at his hair and pull.
or: atsushi on the headmaster, pain, humanity, and new beginnings
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25 Aug 2025
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Atsushi is eleven, and he’s learned not to complain or cry by now, learned to keep his breathing down and his sobs muffled, his shaking and trembling to a minimum.
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- Part 2 of lonesome hunters
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16 Aug 2025
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so i cry (why do you treat me so) by MidnighttWriter
Fandoms: 文豪ストレイドッグス | Bungou Stray Dogs
06 Dec 2022
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Atsushi hadn’t known a time when he hadn’t feared death, and as much as that fear clung to him, his fear of confinement was always worse. Anything was better than a cage, anything would be better than going back to being trapped with nowhere to go, no way of escape. He knows the Agency can’t help him here, he’s not even sure he wants them to. After all, everyone saw him differently after they saw him in the cage. Little did he know, there would be someone else who would come to his aid
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14 Aug 2025
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Scanning the rest of the room, he turns to look at Sigma, whose shuddering breaths wrack his body even as he’s unconscious against the control panel, blood trailing down his side through the fabric. His hair is cast over his face, drooped across him in a pastel glory.
Coming to his side, Nikolai uses a blood covered hand to tilt Sigma’s face upwards, watching how his brows are pulled together in strain. He’s already a pale figure, but the blood loss makes him appear otherworldly, the red of Fedya’s blood streaked across his jaw standing out starkly.
Evaluating the damage on the other man, a new game begins to form in Nikolai’s head.
Or, the morally grey Sigma/Nikolai buddy terrorists AU you didn't need where everyone survives Meursault and Sigma makes it everyone's problem
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- Part 1 of Benevolent Design
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18 Jul 2025
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Pain, hunger, dizziness, loneliness.
Those were his constant companions, staying with him day and night.
Pain from the constant injuries, hunger from the lack of food, dizziness from the lack of sleep and over-use of his ability and loneliness from the solitary cell. The only words spoken to him were either orders, or rageful fits over his incompetence and failures.
He was less and less sure how long he'd be able to keep going like this.
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Or: Sigma's time with the traffickers
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10 Jun 2025
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Sigma doesn’t dislike heights. In fact, he’d say he quite likes them – the adrenaline is enjoyable, and the previous rides they’ve been on have all been thrilling experiences. In general, roller coasters aren’t a bad pastime.
The keywords there are 'in general'. Sigma has his limits, and he would rather not be plummeting down the tallest goddamned roller coaster in Canada at 148 kilometres per hour.
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07 Jun 2025
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky vs. the World by ToTrashAndBeyond
Fandoms: 文豪ストレイドッグス | Bungou Stray Dogs
23 May 2023
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Meet Fyodor Dostoyevsky.
He has ninety-nine problems, out of which at least ninety-eight could be blamed on either Nikolai Gogol or Dazai Osamu.Or Dazai and Fyodor are stuck sharing a dorm room, and that somehow leads to a full-blown prank war.
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07 Jun 2025
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let them suffer a little hunger (and a little coldness) by foolish_starr
Fandoms: 文豪ストレイドッグス | Bungou Stray Dogs
19 Jan 2024
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Atsushi watched the older man reach for the empty tray with tired eyes. Unbeknownst to both child and man, the clouds began to clear away, uncovering the full moon. The now bright moonlight bathed the orphanage, its reflected light finding its way through a small window. Atsushi turned behind and looked up, heterochromatic eyes gazing upon the full moon.
If he hadn’t remembered anything — shredding and mauling a man, eating and swallowing his innards like it was his last meal — then Atsushi would soon find out what he’d done early in the morning.
Atsushi was — no, is — a man-eating tiger.
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- Part 1 of The Desire to Eat [HIATUS]
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31 May 2025
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Ororon keeps bringing him tiny injured animals. Ifa learns how to take care of them.
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21 Apr 2025
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best kept secrets (are often kept in plain sight) by orphan_account
Fandoms: 原神 | Genshin Impact (Video Game)
02 Apr 2021
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It begins with a noticeable absence of almond tofu. It ends with Aether and Paimon being let in on a poorly kept secret. (Or, Xiao visits Mondstadt each spring to spend the Windblume Festival with Venti.)
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24 Mar 2025
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Illuminated by the glow of gold-scorched parchment, the harsh lines of Xiao’s face smoothen into confusion, then resignation. He takes a steadying breath. “You aren’t leaving.”
“I’m bound to you until I find you love,” Venti corrects.
“Yeah, so you aren’t leaving.”
“Wrong! I have a hot streak of success.” Venti claps his hands, the contract scrolling back up into non-existence. “Now that you understand, shall we start over? My name’s Venti, and I’m your assigned Cupid. Your wingman, if you will.”
“... Xiao.”
Or: Xiao is, maybe, a little in love with his Cupid. Venti does not catch on.
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23 Mar 2025
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People keep coming up to Kaveh to congratulate him. Kaveh doesn’t really know why, and he’s a little too scared to ask at this point, so he heads back home, content if not a little bemused.
He is, unfortunately, reminded of it the very next day, when the door slams open and Al-Haitham stalks in. “Mind telling me why everyone was congratulating me today?” he demands. “About your pregnancy?"
Or: Al-Haitham is, without a doubt, the most annoying person Kaveh knows. Maybe the world’s second-most annoying person can help Kaveh figure him out.
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19 Mar 2025
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The meaning of Ororon's unearned existence has always been called into question. Even after becoming a savior of Natlan, he knows he's only really half a person. What could that possibly be good for now?
When his trusting nature results in his own kidnapping, what little self Ororon has is suddenly struggling for its own preservation.
He fears for the life of Kinich, whose rescue attempts Ororon surely does not deserve. What transpires will push the boundaries of Ororon's own soul.
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- Part 1 of Rando's Ororon fics
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19 Jan 2025
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Lightning in a bottle
/ˈlʌɪtnɪŋ ɪn ə ˈbɒtl/
Noun (uncountable)1. (idiomatic) That which one seeks in attempting a difficult or challenging feat.
2. (idiomatic) A very difficult, unlikely or lucky achievement or period of success.Or: a brief walkthrough of Ororon's childhood, including the day he received his vision, and the aftermath of the war.
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10 Jan 2025
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“What do you do with the flowers?”
Al-Haitham paused. “What do you mean?”
“Like, what do you do with the flowers you cough up? Do you keep them or…?”
He furrowed his eyebrows. “What—why would I keep them? I obviously throw them away. Why are you asking?”
“I was just wondering—I mean if you’re not using them—like, if I could possibly…have them?”
Al-Haitham stared at him incredulously. “You want my unrequited love flowers?”
“Yes?” Kaveh flushed red. “Since…since you’re not using them.”
Since you’re not using them—
“What the hell would I be using them for? What the hell are you using them for?”
Al-Haitham has Hanahaki disease and coughs up mourning flowers. Kaveh asks if he can use them for his ascension materials.
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01 Dec 2024
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What if Xiao used to have wings? What if they were taken?
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21 Nov 2024
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To soar unbidden through the skies is the wish of any free spirit. Mortals, bound to the land, have found ways to traverse the oceans and burrow into the bowels of the earth. Yet flight still eludes them. Fingers point at the clouds and at patterns of migrating birds in the air and whisper that the life of a bird must be one of absolute freedom.
Would they say the same of me if they knew?
Character study of Xiao, the last Yaksha, written in first-person.
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21 Nov 2024