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And just when she was getting some serious attention from the teachers at the start of the last, pivotal year of school, he came along with his effortless perfection. She hated him. Right up until she met him, that is. ---------- The flowers that bedeck her skin don’t lie—ballet dancer Rey is in love with her partner, Ben. But the years go by and his skin stays resolutely, devastatingly blank. He doesn’t love her. But when his hands are on her body, she can pretend.

Jimin has spent his whole life being told that he is useless. That he is sick, weak and nothing but a burden. Desperate, he seeks out a witch, known for curing the incurable. But he ends up finding more than a cure - and a lot of other things he wasn't looking for at all.

It’s 1986, and Steve falls in love with a boy who is leaving.It’s 1990, and Eddie comes back home. Steve spends a month alone in the Upside Down and comes back changed. He’s quieter and all he wants is to tend to the land with his new powers… and to tend to Eddie, if he’ll let him. [Description by tolkeintrash. Alternating POV and timelines, (mostly) canon-compliant, includes tarot-inspired art and recipes.]

People would find out immediately, he realised. And oh, if they found out what he did, how Liu Qingge lived only because of him, they would laud him for it - then they would keep him in a cocoon for the rest of his short life. He wouldn’t be able to ascend with the others anymore, wouldn’t be able to go on missions or use Xiu Ya any better than a mortal could. He could no longer practice inedia, or hell, even keep up with his disciples who already had half-formed golden cores. Who would listen to him now, who would respect him now? What good was a strategist who couldn’t keep up with the men he ordered around? What good was a teacher who couldn’t demonstrate anything he taught to his students? What good was a cultivator who couldn’t fucking cultivate? Shen Qingqiu manages to save Liu Qingge's life in the Lingxi Caves at the expense of his own cultivation and immortality. Now condemned to a short, brutish life as a mortal again, Shen Jiu chooses to leave it all behind and eke out a small living while he can, aware that death could be at his door any day now. After all, what else does he have to live for?

“Techno,” Philza says again, and he has a suppressed, muted kind of frantic panic in his voice. “Have you - how did you obtain a child-” Techno recoils in offense. Tommy perks up again with renewed, enraged vigor. “He’s holding me here against his will,” he spits, shoulders drawing up. “He dragged me up here kicking and screaming - I tried to leave and he trapped me-” “Down, dog,” Techno growls in half-irony. The child, to Techno’s bafflement, obeys - in a manner of speaking. He flinches at the words, and he draws his shoulders up and flattens his wings against his back and gives Techno a narrow-eyed look of pure spite. The feathers over his ears draw up, cat-like, as he takes a step away. __ [Or: Technoblade's retirement is rudely interrupted by the discovery of a child in his basement. They are both running from things, as it were.] [This work is on indefinite hiatus.]

“Oh yes,” Crowley said breezily. “This is my husband, Francis. He’s a gardener by trade. We were hoping you might have an opening. An estate such as this.” Aziraphale gaped from where he stood on the stoop, feeling his heart speed up. Husband? Francis? Gardener? He’d never agreed to any of this! ** In which Aziraphale and Crowley pretend to be married while they stay at the Dowlings as Nanny and Francis.

The village elders always warned you about the fae, mythical creatures of the forest known for their cunning and trickery, lead by a particularly fearsome beast known as the Great Hawk. You dismiss the rumors as lies and fairytales, deciding that you'll venture into the forest alone to prove yourself to the old wraiths, once and for all. The only issue is, you've developed a rather peculiar friendship with a very rude, red-tailed hawk in said forest, who seems a bit... possessive of you. A very strange bird, indeed. (18+! I'll update the tags as I upload the smuttier parts. If any of the tags freak you out, please heed the warnings!) (update: smut happens in chapter 9 if you’d like to ski right to it <3)

Prompts I’m making at night on my phone because my sleep schedule is absolute shit and I can’t finish my other book because the writing is on my computerMaybe dark sbi dunnoDefinitely crackI’ll be surprised if anyone actually writes any of these