18 Works by tissuebocks
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He carries him in, just like when he was a baby, but now Matty’s nine years old and on pain pills to keep him from feeling the agony that’d kept them both awake at first. He’s silent where he lay against Jack’s shoulder, clinging to his neck, his little legs wrapped around Jack’s waist. One arm is wrapped up in a cast from landing so hard on the pavement that it fractured, and one of his toes is splinted to another. Jesus. Jack's baby with a cast and a splint.
Not to mention the blindness.
Jack brings Matty home.
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Lina sets her backpack—blue with polka dots, a gift from the local tailor Mrs. Hendricks—onto the kitchen counter. "Is he awake?"
"Last I checked, but he may be resting now," Granny says. She gathers some of the soup into her spoon and takes a gentle sip. "Hm. Needs a little more seasoning, I think. Why don't you go say hi, and I'll come by with the soup when it's ready?"
"Sounds good!" Lina says, running toward the guest bedroom in her socks, skidding to a halt as she turns the corner.
She'd been planning on saying hi, anyways. She always says hi. She wouldn't want him to get lonely.
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or: taking care of eriks is hard work, but lina wouldn't trade it for a thing.
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have your cake (eat it, too) by tissuebocks
Fandoms: 極楽街三番通の件 | Gokurakugai Sanban-doori no Ken (Manga)
07 Dec 2023
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The voices float in from the kitchen. Tao wishes, just for a second, that she had splurged on the soundproofing she’d instead ultimately discarded.
Then she smacks her head against her pillow and groans.
What the hell are Alma and Nei doing in the kitchen at 6:41 in the morning?
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or: alma and nei attempt to make tao a birthday cake. predictably, this does not turn out well.
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Dazai misses it, sometimes, this life he'll never live.
(or: five times beast!dazai reflects on what could have been, plus one time he doesn't.)
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demand nothing less (than transformation) by tissuebocks
Fandoms: The Trials of Apollo - Rick Riordan, Percy Jackson and the Olympians & Related Fandoms - All Media Types
23 Oct 2023
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Dad is quiet for a moment, stroking her hair. Then, with a surge of his usual flamboyant excitement: “At what time is your date?”
Kayla blinks. She pulls back a little to look at Dad. He’s still a little blurry from the tears, but she feels much calmer now. “He’s picking me up at six. …Why?”
Dad’s eyes—cobalt blue—sparkle. Literally. “We’re going to dress you to the nines.”
(or: apollo loves his daughter. he also loves fashion. even better is when the two intersect.)
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Awareness filters in slowly, then all at once. This is unusual for Ango—normally he wakes with the kind of quiet dread that forces his consciousness into clarity, dwelling on all the problems he’ll face that day and all the problems he had dealt with the day before. As a government agent posing as a Port Mafia agent posing as a Mimic agent, his duties—and potential for a gruesome and untimely death—have been piling on.
But still he clings onto those last threads of respite before his mind jolts into cognizance.
The beeping comes first: slow, methodical, unmistakable. The sterile scent of subdued suffering. The dry, metallic taste on the insides of his cheeks, and something thicker, more acidic. Like he had thrown up at some point.
Ango is in a hospital.
(or: in an information exchange gone bad, ango was captured and briefly tortured. his friends make sure he's okay in the aftermath.)
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every monday star by tissuebocks
Fandoms: 地縛少年花子くん | Jibaku Shounen Hanako-kun | Toilet-bound Hanako-kun (Manga)
18 Jun 2023
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Your brother is dead. You stabbed him in the chest with the kitchen knife, and now he’s bloody and empty and dead.
What else is there to do but to finish it?
(or: amane killed his brother. this is what he thinks about afterwards.)
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“Is this your card?”
He gapes at her despite this being the third time she’d successfully determined his card. “That’s impossible!” he exclaims, snatching the card. He squints at it, doubt coloring his gaze. “How did you guess it again?”
“I didn’t guess,” Rem tells him, reaching over to tousle his hair. He squawks in horror, but begrudgingly allows the contact. He’s like a cat, Rem thinks fondly. “I magicked.”
(or: rem and her boys explore the wonderful world of magic—that is, card tricks.)
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- Part 6 of Jeb's February Ficlet Challenge 2023
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You lay a hand on his cheek. Like always, his skin is hot, energy flowing beneath it, bringing color to his cheeks even in the sunless cellar. Besides the barely-visible cut trailing from his neck to his jaw to his ear, it is unmarred by the horrors of humanity.
“Vash,” you say. “Little brother, wake up.”
(or: nai takes a different approach in ensuring vash’s obedience. it is better in some ways. it is worse in most others.)
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- Part 5 of Jeb's February Ficlet Challenge 2023
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“Why did you grab me, jackass,” she says, lacking heat. More for the hell of it, really. The principle. Is she shaking?
Wolfwood pauses to glare up at her. “Oh, so you wanted to die back there? Didn’t know I was traveling with two suicidal folks.”
(or: a brief look at the immediate aftermath of july.)
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- Part 4 of Jeb's February Ficlet Challenge 2023
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Vash hopes Brad doesn’t blame himself. Vash is the one who lied to and manipulated all of the lovely humans on Ship Three, most of whom never even hurt him at all, even though Vash is a useless Plant who probably doomed all of humanity.
In any case, the scent of Ship Three is unmistakable because it smells like the ever-implacable home still, even if it can’t be Vash’s anymore.
(or: following vash's disastrous escapade to visit his brother, luida brings him home.)
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- Part 3 of Jeb's February Ficlet Challenge 2023
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tip me over, pour me out by tissuebocks
Fandoms: 極楽街三番通の件 | Gokurakugai Sanban-doori no Ken (Manga)
03 Feb 2023
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Pride bubbling in her gut, Nei feels a smile rise to her cheeks despite the rain. At least the Calamity is dealt with. Tao's gonna be so impressed when Nei gets back, she can practically taste it.
Still, though, an umbrella would have been nice.
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or: nei gets caught in a storm. tao makes sure she's safe.
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- Part 2 of Jeb's February Ficlet Challenge 2023
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and your suffering will starve itself by tissuebocks
Fandoms: 極楽街三番通の件 | Gokurakugai Sanban-doori no Ken (Manga)
01 Feb 2023
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"This won't do, sonny," she says. There is only an aborted effort to get up this time before the kid collapses into himself, panting from exertion. Tao knows the feeling—she has been hit before with punches like her own, and just like she hadn't, her attacker didn't hold anything back. The kid doesn't resist when Tao crouches over him, one hand nestled into his thin, worn-down tee shirt. "Don't go stealing in a town like this."
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or: a boy tries to pickpocket tao, and tao deals with it in the only way she knows how.
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- Part 1 of Jeb's February Ficlet Challenge 2023
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business ventures, and other things like that by tissuebocks
Fandoms: 文豪ストレイドッグス | Bungou Stray Dogs, 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia
18 Apr 2022
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Nezu smiled pleasantly, but the image was disturbed by the presence of his pointy little teeth. Shouta sometimes forgot that Nezu wasn't human, even within the expanded definition of Mutation Quirks.
"We'd be sorely disappointed to miss an opportunity to begin an… alliance, of sorts, with the Port Mafia. With both them and the MPD attempting to find Kawabata-jukeisha, it’d be perfect timing to secure a certain cooperative attitude with Yokohama—with Yuuei acting on behalf of Musutafu, of course.”
(or: class 1-a and their assorted instructors meet yokohama, mori definitely has something up his sleeve, chuuya is done with everything, and dazai is dazai.)
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But here—now—Dazai seems lilting. Feet uncoordinated, hands unsure. Chuuya has seen Dazai down three bottles of sake and continue on with nothing worse than a disheveled collar. He has seen Dazai walk half a kilometer on a broken foot with not the barest trace of pain. Whatever is happening right now must be worse than all that.
Sighing, Chuuya puts out his cigarette. Fucking Dazai.
(or: in the aftermath of oda sakunosuke’s death, chuuya both finds and loses dazai.)
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Odasaku is dead. Odasaku is dead and not coming back, never coming back, because he’s dead. He had asked Dazai to become a “good person,” despite the fact that Dazai’s barely a person at all. It’s just like Odasaku, to be requesting something so ridiculous when Dazai can’t refuse or argue.
It always comes back to this.
(or: oda sakunosuke is dead. this is what happens next.)
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A click. The bathroom door opens. Sakunosuke holds his finger over the trigger.
“Odasaku!” Dazai Osamu exclaims, soaked from head to toe. His coat looks stiff on his shoulders, little pouches on snow collecting in the crevices created by his bony shoulders. Nose and cheeks painted red as intermittent shivers wrack through his lanky frame, he’s the picture of pathetic.
Hugged close to his chest is a water-logged, blanket covered cardboard box.
(or: dazai accidentally acquires some puppies. predictably, he goes to oda.)
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The tall oak door quivers, and the knob twists. Odasaku’s sleepy face peers out at him.
“Dazai,” he says, as though he had been expecting him. Odasaku doesn’t smile, but his lips smooth into a gentle line.
Dazai doesn’t reply, and Odasaku doesn’t continue. They stand there for a moment, staring at each other.
(or: dazai has a very bad day at work. odasaku does his best to help.)