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The slopes of the Lonely Mountain are white with snow, an early sign of the impending winter. Gimli can taste the sharpness of the air as he waits shivering with his companions on the outskirts of Dale.
[For the prompt "Snow" in the Year of the OTP Challenge 2023]
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Gil is still learning the many undercurrents of the Guard, but she already knows the Icefalcon has a bit of a reputation for being popular with people of both genders, and generally always being open to a quick fuck with no strings attached. So she isn't exactly surprised when he turns to her and says: "They have the right idea, keeping warm on a night like this. Do you want to share blankets tonight?"
She has mostly seen people approach him before, not this way around. He's as matter-of-fact about it as she expected him to be. It makes it easier, and she's gotten some practice at turning people down. Everyone in the Guard has been very relaxed about it. "No thanks," Gil says, only a little awkwardly. "I don't really do that. With anyone." -
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After Zagreus reaches the surface for the first time and is taken back by the Styx, Thanatos finds him in his room.
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Dressed Like Hell by Essyllt
Fandoms: 陈情令 | The Untamed (TV), 魔道祖师 - 墨香铜臭 | Módào Zǔshī - Mòxiāng Tóngxiù
07 Nov 2021
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There is an art to being a truly excellent liar. It requires more than pretense – at any given moment, it means truly living in the false identity one has constructed, while a more hidden part of the self lies below, silent and watchful. It is why Wangji is terrible at it, for all his self-control. He can offer the world a blank mask, but he has never been anyone but himself.
Lan Xichen, one the other hand, has been careful and meticulous in his crafting of the face he shows to the world. Tonight he is the Lan clan leader, reluctantly loyal, as hateful and yet cowed by Wen Ruohan as the rest of them. He is very good at becoming this version of himself. If he was not, if any of the Wen ever had an inkling of that other, hidden version of Lan Xichen, he would be dead by now. -
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Zhou Zishu wants to hit him. He wants to push him away and hide like a wounded animal. He wants to crawl inside Wen Kexing's ribs and shelter there from the pain.
"Let this one take care of you", Wen Kexing murmurs. As if that was an easy thing to permit.
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The Wolf Inside by Sholio for sadlikeknives
Fandoms: Benjamin January Mysteries - Barbara Hambly
11 Feb 2022
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There were those who believed Olympe could summon wolves at her command, and snakes and roaches as well. She only laughed at this. It would be very convenient if she had been given a wolf-servant to do her bidding, instead of being afflicted with an unpredictable wolf-policeman with his own allegiances, bent about his own business and prying into hers for reasons of his own.
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Thicker Than Blood by Sholio for sadlikeknives
Fandoms: Benjamin January Mysteries - Barbara Hambly
21 Jan 2023
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Death and Hard Cider tag. In Ben's absence, Rose manages a little quiet time with a houseguest.
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"I don't plan these things!" January said. "They just -- happen." No specific spoilers for the books; set early in the series.
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"So let me get this straight. You seduced a fairy queen, stole her fiddle, and now this fairy queen is in New Orleans and she wants it back?"
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“Ben,” Olympe said, “watch out for that lawman of yours.”
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