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In 1945, a virus was unleashed in a desperate attempt to end the war; it succeeded, but plunged hundreds of millions into comas joined by one thing: the Dreamscape. Now, nearly 2 decades later, the world is still ravaged by the virus with new victims falling every day.
Thursday, a copper in a world with little crime and limited resources to spend on policing, is approached by a man who claims he can help him. The only catch is that he's trapped in the Dreamscape himself.
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“I don’t believe in ghosts,” Hawkeye said. “Or demons, or poltergeists, or souls, or anything. The problem being, however, that my disbelief doesn’t seem to be fazing this ghost one iota.”
Ben grimaced apologetically.
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Or: Hawkeye finds out what it really means to be haunted by the past.
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10 Apr 2023
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Gorgeous. Nailed the dialogue and the emotions, two impossible tasks when it comes to MASH.
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Post-movie. In Charles Xavier's garden almanac, there is a special entry each November for when Erik comes home. And some seeds need to go through fire before they can grow.
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19 Feb 2023
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Technically unfinished which is ofc a pity, but it definitely works as as-is imo; this fic lets really you sit with Charles's grief and anger without going overboard, and his voice is spot-on.
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10 Feb 2023
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A year after Washington, Erik wakes up in excruciating pain as sudden awareness washes over him: Charles is dead. Erik has to adjust to yet another future: no extinction, just a world without Charles. But the death of his former friend leaves Erik weak and his powers drained. His quest for answers leads him back to Westchester, where Erik has to face his past with Charles and put together the puzzle pieces of what happened to the man he once cared for.
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05 Feb 2023
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Not many authors can write emotional denial/repression in an intelligent way, but this one absolutely nailed it. and, my god, the sheer romance by the end.
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The Ill-Made Knight by Amiril
Fandoms: X-Men - All Media Types, X-Men (Alternate Timeline Movies), X-Men (Movieverse)
12 Jun 2020
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The United States Justice System, in its infinite mercy, allows Erik to choose his method of execution.
He chooses Charles Xavier.
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- Part 22 of Amiril Fic (Not Cover Art)
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04 Feb 2023
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Merlyn turned Arthur into different animals to teach him lessons, and for a while, Erik had thought that that’s what life had done to him. Son, experiment, husband, father, hunter, discoverer, villain, prisoner, crusader. Each form given and torn away, but he was never Arthur, and his changes didn’t lead him to legend. Just landed him here, now, where the last thing he’s going to feel are the restraints, the hard chair at his back, and Charles.
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"Peg, honey, it's not like that." Or maybe it is. BJ, the truth, and the layering of lies over decades.
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19 Oct 2020
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Love the thoughtful portrayal of the fallout, the focus on the conversations on life and choices. Great BJ voice.
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They come upon the house early in the evening, having walked all day and through the previous night.
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19 Aug 2020
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Nacho thinks about the peasants somewhere at the crest of South America; smiling peasant families digging their hands into the dirt, planting coca plants in little green rows. Planting and toiling under the gunfire and smoke, so that some distant gringo lawyer can snort his second wind off a bathroom sink; so a college kid can get a better lay. So that he can sit here, in his big house, having dinner with his asshole boss, and feel like shit.
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10 Jul 2020
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the right amount of funny and devastating, and all of it sharp as hell.
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Tomorrow Brutus and Cassius will steal from Rome like thieves on Antony’s polite suggestion.
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21 May 2020
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Exactly Like We Were by mysterycultist
Fandoms: Marvel Cinematic Universe, Captain America (Movies)
03 Jun 2016
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“You can make a fight out of anything,” Bucky says, and affects a laugh, badly. “You can make a metaphor a fight. What the hell do anesthetics have to do with anything?”
Steve almost blurts out, Art is an anesthetic! But at the last second, he gets a hold of himself.
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13 Apr 2020
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a perfectly absurdist snapshot of the two of them right before bucky leaves for the army: hilarious, tragic, transcendent.
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Stranded on the planet Sigma Nox while searching for a missing away team, Spock and Kirk find themselves pitted against a disturbing native life form. With the captain out of commission on a regular basis and Spock struggling to preserve his stoicism, staying alive is difficult enough – but when a slim chance for escape surfaces, their resolve is truly put to the test. Together they must fight for survival in the heart of an alien jungle, and in the process, uncover the mystery of the planet’s past. Slow build K/S.
Written for the 2011 Star Trek Big Bang on Livejournal - look for links to the mix and art there!
Warnings: Minor character death. Mind control themes and sort-of-zombies. Dark at times due to twisted xenobiological shenanigans. Mild themes of stress-related weight loss. Heaps of TOS references and/or spoilers. Eventual smut. Freakishly long chapters.
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What We Talk About When We Talk About Wolves by Penelope Whistle [archived by dsa_archivist]
Fandoms: due South
03 Aug 2001
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From stake-out to make-out.
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26 Aug 2019
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Lovely. Great characterization and humor, with blinding sunspots of deeper emotion (the last lines, GODDDD)
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There was a man at the local convenience store who wore a silver bracelet wrapped twice around his wrist.
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16 Aug 2019
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Love me some restrained suffering from Fraser.
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This is several stories, not just the story of Jim & Bones' epic romance.
Jim's story. "Most would think defeating the Narada was my greatest triumph, but those closest to me know the truth. The Narada was a distant third. My last Kobayashi Maru comes in second-- and not for the reasons you'd think. The first, well..."
Chris's story. "I reached a certain age and thought I knew exactly who I was and what I wanted out of life. Then I walked into an Iowa bar and realized I wasn't the person I thought I knew. Not even close..."
Leonard's story. "You know that story? the one where Pike meets Kirk and there's mentoring and bonding and they tiptoe through the tulips into happily ever? Well, this ain't it. Dipshit."
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20 Jun 2019
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Epic, emotionally complex. Left me with a terrible yearning for more proper Pike fic.
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Watson has had to take a brutal course in being honest with himself so nothing Holmes says will ever be a surprise.
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31 May 2019
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One of my favorite Watsons ever. Perfectly fleshed out, perfect foil for Holmes. A fic that uses both amnesia and misunderstanding in a natural and great way.
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Some little scene sketches from early in Marty and Rust's partnership, and parts of the 1995 investigation. Not in chronological order.
In Louisiana Rust creates his own structure. His work is necessary and not overtly cruel to the larger human organism of which he is a part. He is entitled to the things that allow him to do the work: mattress, cigarettes, books, shoes.
He is not entitled to Marty but has ended up with him anyway. This will backfire.
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you dared not look. a human voice, / you thought by inkandcayenne
Fandoms: True Detective
31 Jul 2015
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At North Shore they called it repetition compulsion: the desire to throw himself into a ravine because at least he recognized the landscape. They warned him that he would do this again, and again, and again if he wasn’t careful. “It’s like you’re always bracing for a fight,” Laurie said once, “and if it doesn’t happen, you create one.” Sophia’s blood on the driveway, Marty’s blood in the parking lot, Psyche with her goddamn lamp, poking at a good thing until it’s scorched and screaming. There’s only one story, the oldest: “You climb a tree too high for you,” his pop said, as he passed Rust a bottle of whiskey and began to splint his arm, “you best be prepared to fall and get hurt.”
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15 Feb 2019
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Breath-stealing stuff, one of those stories that comes along and reminds you of all that fanfic can be as a unique art form.
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He wants to stay. And that desire, like all desires, makes him nervous.
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21 Jan 2019
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Post-series perfection w/ great character work. Oh, Rust.
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too afraid to love you by kkingofthebeach
Fandoms: Les Misérables - All Media Types, Les Misérables - Victor Hugo
28 Oct 2020
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Enjolras is a university dropout and Grantaire is an addict. Between them they like to think they’ve got enough misfit friends to make a difference in the world - or London at the very least - if hedonism doesn’t get the better of them.
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23 Jan 2018