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Freckles on his shoulders, an old scar just under the collarbone from a wound Henry wasn’t there to defend him from, once. More lost details, more differences, more that persists only in Henry’s mind. Oh, to capture this, to sculpt or carve it. To be able to hold it in his hand with such pressure that it breaks the skin. To absorb it and let it absorb him.
Hans carves Henry a wooden figure of himself. Through blood and killing and stealing and coming home, it becomes the only real thing.
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- Part 37 of altar
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28 May 2026
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matriphagy:
(noun)
the consumption of the mother by her offspring. an extreme form of paternal love.Bookmarked by HardingHightown
01 May 2026
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Hans is rapidly starting to hate Ruthard Palace. He’s sick of staring at nothing but the Ruthard’s dour decorative choices, the same miserable colours and motifs in Kuttenberg that he’d had plenty of time to grow weary of in Maleshov. He’s sick of not being able to say this with the would-be scion of the Ruthards somehow always within earshot, lest he cause offence. He's sick of Brabant, who he’s now spent far too much time with and has heard every one of his stories at least twice. He’s sick of Žižka and Hynek cutting him out of conversations, out of decisions, out of his rightful place at the table.
He’s been here for barely three days, but if he has to remain within these four walls for even ten minutes more, he’s going to lose his mind.
Henry co-ordinates a jailbreak to give Hans a small reprieve from his effective house arrest, and Hans gets a glimpse into what Henry was doing in Kuttenberg while he was being held in Maleshov.
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- Part 2 of you did not light me
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27 Apr 2026
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“Is it alright if I say I love you?”
Henry always gives almost all of his body, all the time, every time, to everyone. But there is always something there that he doesn’t let out so easily. It clings, with claws, to his chest. It curls in his mouth like a lock of Hans’s hair in the bath.
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- Part 32 of altar
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15 Apr 2026
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He'd thought sin was meant to feel better than this.
Mere weeks ago Henry had been a boy with a girl he could proudly call sweetheart. Then Skalitz burned, and nothing- even a woman's love- could ever be so simple again.
A study of Henry's potential sexual encounters in Kingdom Come: Deliverance through the perspective of a Henry struggling with his homosexual desire.
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- Part 1 of dearer than worldly honour
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14 Apr 2026
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Sirius rises late in the dark, liquid sky
On summer nights, star of stars,
Orion's dog they call it, brightest
Of all, but an evil portent, bringing heat
And fevers to suffering humanity.-
Istvan takes Erik to his summer lakeside estate for a deserved retreat after months of fighting for Sigismund.
In the sweltering heat that threatens to devour him from the inside, Erik tries to come to terms with their newfound closeness.
Realizing his boy has grown into a man, Istvan is determined to do the right thing for once in his life. He will let Erik spread his wings, regardless of the dread that grips his heart at the thought.
The most tranquil hush comes only after a storm.
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31 Aug 2025
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if i’m not worthy, then i will take my leave by coeur_de_loup
Fandoms: Kingdom Come: Deliverance (Video Games)
06 Aug 2025
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With the year coming to an end, Theresa, Bianca, and Johanka celebrate the season and each other.
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06 Aug 2025
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As I was making my way through the front doors of the opera house, I collided with a young man who was making his way out. He was ever so apologetic, and chastised himself for his clumsiness. I assured him that I was alright, and he said he was relieved to hear it. Then he bowed deeply and said, “Enver Gortash, at your service…”
Excerpts from the diary of Lady Wisteria Jannath. Based on the "Perfumed Days, Passionate Nights" letter.
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02 Aug 2025
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“I’ve never had any hope for a good king, or a fair war. Or for the sun to shine each morning. Or for good harvests. I have hope in you. Every day. And we fight in these battles for your future. Tell me you understand.”
“I understand.”
The war gives Erik bloody cuts and sweaty sore muscles, stinging eyes, bruises the color of leather. Istvan gives him armor of pure white.
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- Part 1 of home body
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30 Jul 2025
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The Stag and the Hound by guysarestripping
Fandoms: Kingdom Come: Deliverance (Video Games)
19 Feb 2025
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In Bohemia’s heart, two men beg the wolves mistake their moans for psalms and don’t sing their names to God.
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- Part 1 of Aurescere
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08 Mar 2025
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Candle-Bright by amaranthSynthesis (SHAYCH___xxvii)
Fandoms: Dragon Age (Video Games), Dragon Age: Origins, Dragon Age - All Media Types
06 Dec 2024
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Duncan has been bent to petty violence and cut-throatery for years, is only now learning what it might mean to fight for a cause, for duty, even as his sword is promised to that duty for whatever years he has left. Eleanor is a fighter, and will be all her life, a ferocious strength of will behind every conversation in the ladies’ solars and argument at the landsmeet. She may lay her sword aside, but her words will have the sharpness of blades regardless.
Bryce would leave it all in the past, if he could, and count himself and his children blessed for it.
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The Fereldan Rebellion is over; the Orlesians have retreated beyond their borders, King Maric sits the throne, and Highever begins to rebuild. Aided as they are by a young Grey Warden, the new Teyrn and his wife are determined to bring prosperity back to their lands. There is peace, and there is love, and theirs is a bright hope for the future.
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07 Dec 2024
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following by rowanisawriter
Fandoms: Dragon Age (Video Games), Dragon Age: The Veilguard (Video Game)
03 Dec 2024
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In his imagination, Illario follows him closely on the rooftops as always, and Lucanis walks slowly and deliberately, his boots rising and falling and leaving footprints for him to follow. Watching him, Illario will always know exactly where to place his feet.
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- Part 1 of phantom histories
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03 Dec 2024
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The Light We Find by TheWolfsQueen
Fandoms: Dragon Age (Video Games), Dragon Age: The Veilguard (Video Game)
27 Nov 2024
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After narrowly surviving a battle that should have ended his life, Grey Warden Davrin is left grappling with his unexpected survival and the weight of what it means. In the quiet aftermath of near loss, raw emotions surface, and buried truths are laid bare.
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27 Nov 2024
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Figurehead by VestigialPersonality for LonelyPirate
Fandoms: Baldur's Gate (Video Games)
24 Jul 2024
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Time is a finite commodity and Enver Gortash never has enough.
Gortash Week Day 4: Work
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- Part 6 of Swan Song
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24 Jul 2024
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An adventurer visits the Myconids over the span of his entire life and forms a close relationship with Sovereign Spaw. This is told from the colony's perspective and sometimes from Sovereign's and ends with the adventurer's death. Intended as an exploration of love across different kinds of organisms, across different perspectives of time, and across different conceptions of self.
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16 Jul 2024
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“Monster hunter,” she says. “Have you ever hunted something that didn’t know it was a monster?”
He slows to a stop. She stops a little after, looking back at him, his youthful face, the deep scars that cut his cheek.
“Can’t say that I have,” he says after a beat. He's giving her question serious thought. The careful attention sends another shiver through her. “A monster is usually aware of what it is.”
Through the blood haze of dark nightmares and darker urges, Anara turns to a monster hunter to help her figure out exactly what kind of monster she is.
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07 Jul 2024
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It must be weakness, she thinks halfheartedly, that he finds it so difficult to disguise how he really feels.
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- Part 5 of stars in secret influence
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14 Apr 2024
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He glances through the window, where Valas is surely sitting in the garden. “What if I passed it on to him?”
Jaheira could answer with logic: how he’d given away the dark essence in his soul when they destroyed Bhaal’s throne, how there should have been nothing left of the murder lord in him when Valas was conceived. She could answer with the truth: how she couldn’t begin to guess how divine blood flows through family lines. She could even answer with what he wants to hear: of course you haven’t, you’d know by now, just look at his sweet heart, the understanding in his eyes.
But she answers with what matters. “If you did, it won’t be stronger than what you’ve chosen to pass on. The same way it was for you, everything you gained from Gorion’s heart.”
He’s Bhaal’s second chance. He’ll kill more, than the one who came before, kill better, carve his devotion into the world’s flesh. He'll lead his temple, share his dream, shake bloody hands with the rest of the Dead Three.
His name is Valas DeVir, and he’ll become death itself.
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- Part 1 of Even Horror Has a Home (Valas/Gortash)
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13 Mar 2024
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While the target is charmed, you have a telepathic link with it as long as the two of you are on the same plane of existence. You can use this telepathic link to issue commands to the creature while you are conscious (no action required), which it does its best to obey.
Gale is no stranger to bringing magic to the bedroom. Shadowheart has a suggestion which gives him pause. They work it out, to the enjoyment of all parties.
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- Part 11 of come ebb, come flow
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04 Mar 2024
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She knows of Halsin—one survivor of the shadow curse’s fall ought to know another—but there are not enough hours in that first of their not-quite-days to share life stories, let alone life stories so long as theirs.
She doesn’t think much of him, because she is thinking about his True Soul friends, and what they might mean for this fight. But she certainly doesn’t forget his presence. He’s not a man who can be easily overlooked.
The High Harper of Baldur's Gate may be a confirmed city-dweller now, but she has not forgotten her roots. Meeting another druid who remembers the old circles, who remembers the arrival of the Shadow Curse, and who comes with a party of bright young adventurers just when she needs them, pleases and vexes her in equal measure.
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21 Feb 2024