the best fics (are those that loop in your mind)
For the fics that leave your mind spinning; the ones that sound like poetry; the ones that alter your view of the world just enough to keep you from sleeping
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It takes Sasuke six years to understand peace, and it involves some soul searching, some vacation, some spy work, and some stuffed cats.
Excerpt: "Because Sasuke’s nightmares travel the depths of every darkness he’s known, seen, and done, but they begin with a single blood-soaked night, and end with a single blood-soaked hand reaching out to touch his forehead."
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After his death, Achilles finds himself in the underworld. Prepared to face his judgement and eternity, he marches into hell, only to learn that Patroclus never arrived. He sets up vigil outside the gates, and waits.
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'Where is he?’ he demanded, his voice breaking against the colossal thrones like a wooden spear against the walls of Troy. The crowd stirred over his shoulder, whispers amongst ghosts, but Achilles paid them no mind.
‘And who do you speak of?’ asked Minos, the barbs of his lashing tongue catching Achilles’s skin, tearing what little remained unmarked. He turned his attention to the last of the judges, and spoke solely to Rhadamanthus.
‘Patroclus.’
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At nine, she gets four rounds in before being disqualified. She grumbles and groans about it, heads out to the mountains and practices, practices, practices. She’s going to win this. She’s going to show her parents, show everyone, that she’s not incapable, not helpless, not fragile.
The earth sings. Toph moves with it. Practices with badger moles and with random challengers. Falls and skins her knees and gets back up, feels the dirt and the sweat, feels the validation of being treated like an equal, of having people fighting her with their all. It hums inside of her and grows and grows and grows, and it makes her feel powerful.
If her parents ever realize she’s missing, they don’t ask.
Toph: A character study.Series
- Part 3 of childhood living is (not) easy to do
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Skyward (How to win a war against Mondstadt) by gwendee, Opalserpent
Fandoms: 原神 | Genshin Impact (Video Game)
12 Jul 2021
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"The best strategy against Mondstadt," Kaeya says, "is to take her down before war even begins."
"Wouldn't that be the best way for any nation?" Diluc says. Then, "why am I still humoring you about this?"
"Well," Kaeya says, "you see, it's because Mondstadt's Archon is the only one of the seven that gets stronger in a war."Kaeya, the eighth nation, and the seven archons of teyvat.
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- Part 1 of Gwen's Magic 8 Ball (Genshin)
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Let’s talk about Hakoda, who left.
Let’s talk about Sokka, who was left behind.
(This is a boy so defined by loss. )
Sokka: A character study.
Series
- Part 5 of childhood living is (not) easy to do
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Kakashi is maybe ten seconds too late to redirect the assassination techniques.
Sakura leaps in between them because those who abandon their comrades are worse than scum.
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- Part 2 of tumblr prompts
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i am the forest, i am the fire by TheLastCookie
Fandoms: 原神 | Genshin Impact (Video Game)
15 Aug 2022
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“Quiet, before the guards catch us,” the voice whispered, sweet and dark like a lullaby. Her brother, who she could now clearly see as she approached, with red touched lips and a smile she’d never seen before. He moved slowly but surely, taking his left hand to grasp Thoma’s chin while eclipsing the blonde’s waist with his right.
Warmly embraced in his arms, Ayato kissed him, as if he had a thousand times before, soft and simple. Then again, and again, longer this time, perhaps a little deeper, just like the knife Ayaka felt plunged into her heart.
The two parted just in time to witness her thoughts catch up to her body, tripping off the leg of the table and loudly sending silverware over the side. Funnily enough, the clatter against the ground couldn’t have beaten the pumps of her heart in its loudness, or the hiss of water against her tear ducts in its hostility.
She deserved this. Knew it was coming even; though it has always been easier to accept what was out of sight and out of mind.
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Or rather, my take on Ayaka's character, and an insight on how easily her past and present could make her snap.
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Skyward (How to win a war against Mondstadt) by gwendee, Opalserpent
Fandoms: 原神 | Genshin Impact (Video Game)
12 Jul 2021
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"The best strategy against Mondstadt," Kaeya says, "is to take her down before war even begins."
"Wouldn't that be the best way for any nation?" Diluc says. Then, "why am I still humoring you about this?"
"Well," Kaeya says, "you see, it's because Mondstadt's Archon is the only one of the seven that gets stronger in a war."Kaeya, the eighth nation, and the seven archons of teyvat.
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- Part 1 of Gwen's Magic 8 Ball (Genshin)
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The first time the thought occurs to Kaeya he is eleven years old.
Well, that’s not exactly true.
It had been twisting in the back of his head for a long time, already. Formless and unspoken, an ever-present awareness, a whisper.
But the first time it rings in his head, put in words, bright and shiny and just behind his eyes—
He is eleven.
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A story about ten years of contingency plans and holding your own hand.
(Because how else are you supposed to live with a weight too big to hold all alone?)
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that god, what god? by dabiideviito
Fandoms: 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia
27 Jan 2020
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Shouto tears his gaze away from the destruction and watches Bakugou instead, this Maker unlike any other he’s met. Chaotic and unknowable, wild and a little crazy and a lot beautiful.
Entropy, Shouto realizes abruptly.
Bakugou doesn’t Make, not at all.
He Unmakes.
or, the story of (re)Creation.Bookmarked by wild_dreamer
19 Apr 2021
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incredibly poetic