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How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bug: A Parasitic Analysis by douwata
Fandoms: Gravity Falls
15 Jun 2025
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Every morning, Stanford performs something akin to surgery.
The human body isn’t made to sustain anything other than itself. Parasites must dig their way into skin, hooks and fangs suckling on warm flesh that squelches and tears in their grip. They squirm through tepid water until it gives way to the soft meat of a desperate tongue or hard bone of biting, hungry teeth. From there they feast on blood and tissue until they are satiated or the host is dead.
(An academic retrospective on sick houses and starving parasites.)
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Exercises in Trust and Workplace Relations by douwata for hyaesia
Fandoms: Metal Gear (Video Games)
14 Feb 2024
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"Snake, welcome to your first day at Bioronix. You’re a brand new employee specializing in analytical chemistry.”
A puff of smoke. “And, for the purposes of full infiltration, Otacon will be your partner.”
There has to be another way, another option. Some way for him to teach Snake what he needs to know instead of putting himself in danger–no, rather, putting Snake in more danger. He’d mess something up, say something wrong, get caught on a camera, mess up a password. He’d leave a trace, a fingerprint, he knows it.
Deep down, he knows he’d sink the yacht, and they’d both drown like they were supposed to.
But then he thinks, I need to be able to trust you, Otacon.
“Sure,” Otacon answers at last, “I’ll do it.”
(For once, Otacon has to be on-site for a mission, playing partner to a man he thinks might never trust him again.)
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Visited Upon The Daughter by douwata
Fandoms: Five Nights at Freddy's (Movie 2023), Five Nights at Freddy's
30 Oct 2023
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Spoilers for the Five Nights at Freddy's movie.
He’s the one that stalls her repetition–glasses adorned once again, her father in front of her, not Spring Bonnie or Steve Raglan or anyone else–her father, who presses a kiss to her cheek and says “You did good, Vanny. I love you,” like he means it.
And she says “I love you,” back, because she does.
(Vanessa Afton tries to love her father.)
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The Shattering of Thalia and Melpomene by douwata for virginianwolfsnake
Fandoms: A Series of Unfortunate Events - Lemony Snicket, A Series of Unfortunate Events (TV), A Series of Unfortunate Events (2004)
02 Apr 2023
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Admittedly, his acting skills are…something she’d never say to his face–excluding heated arguments, which there have been few, and as a response to insults from him that are arguably worse, which there have been many–but his passion makes up for it. At the end of it all, he’s got a love for the craft, and no amount of melodramatic line deliveries or ostentatious character choices could ever dim that fact.
She should know. She shares it.
It’s only in between a closing and an opening that she even considers doing anything else. Fleeting thoughts of abandoning the theater for something real, something tangible outside of a costume and a script and a dedicated audience.
(Outside of hidden messages and secret codes directed at certain people who still find her after the show and praise her as though she hasn’t handed them their fate on a histrionic silver platter.)
(Or: Olaf, Esme, and Beatrice put on a play.)
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Ashes to Ashes by douwata
Fandoms: A Series of Unfortunate Events - Lemony Snicket, A Series of Unfortunate Events (TV), A Series of Unfortunate Events (2004)
30 Jan 2023
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He’s been in the house long enough that this new mess is nothing but an extension of it–tangible proof of the decay that crawls through the water pipes and buries itself between disintegrating floorboards. A sliver of sunlight finds its way through a window, hitting the shards of glass and reflecting viridescent light against peeling wallpaper.
There’s a word for this, too–for the feeling that bubbles up inside of him while he stares numbly at the broken bottle and the vaguely beautiful emerald shine it produces that dances upon his walls; its ghost.
Sullen. Somber. Dismal. Wretched.
The doorbell rings the moment he settles on pathetic.
(In which Olaf does something close to mourning. Almost.)