spiritsdownthelane
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they love you well (I do the best I can) by spiritsdownthelane
Fandoms: The Last Unicorn - All Media Types
22 Mar 2026
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"Schmendrick wonders if the unicorn has ever wanted anything. He wonders what it would be like to have the unicorn want him...”
Winter sets into the stoniest corners of King Haggard’s castle and the unicorn settles into a human body. Schmendrick has yet to decide if this is a bad thing.
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shove your heart into my hands by spiritsdownthelane
Fandoms: Stardew Valley (Video Game)
11 Aug 2025
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You notice new things about your wife each day. That one grey hair she pulls out immediately when you point it out (you tape it to her mirror and she scolds you, laughing all the while). There’s the way she trails behind you in the kitchen, snagging a kiss or two when she thinks you’ve been distracted from the much more important task at hand (i.e. loving her).
All of this collapses after a disastrous night out, bringing emotions to the forefront that you had no idea she was struggling with. Secrets boil over, you treat them with less gravity than they deserve, and you begin to think maybe you’ve messed this whole marriage thing up.
Haley’s much better at hiding things than you’ve given her credit for. You’re willing to spend as long as it takes to make amends. You’ll have to see who gives first.
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there must be music in these dark corners by spiritsdownthelane
Fandoms: Stardew Valley (Video Game)
08 Aug 2025
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Based on Sebastian’s passing dialogue during the Festival of Ice.
You win the ice fishing contest - half for your own gratification, and half for Sebastian's bet with Marlon. You end up dragging your husband to the Stardrop Saloon, eager for a rowdy night and the chance to show him your neighbors aren't so unapproachable after all. The Saloon is warm and brings out the best in your neighbors, and Sebastian is no different.
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a romance (alternatively: two losers in love) by spiritsdownthelane
Fandoms: Stardew Valley (Video Game)
18 Jul 2025
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Now that you’ve settled into the valley, you realize your neighbors are more inclined to get to know you than you are them. One family dinner later, and you’ve got yourself a kicked puppy who skateboards into flowerbeds and fakes smoking for the fun of it. In a town this small, there’s no escape.
Who are you kidding? He’s definitely growing on you.
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A Perfectly Cordial Conquest by Cactus_Juiciest
Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender (Cartoon 2005)
23 Aug 2023
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Raised as a political-pawn-child, Mai has plenty of experience silently amusing herself in the midst of awkward situations—so when the Fire Lord fails to repel the invading Water Tribe, she calmly retires to her room while Chieftain Hakoda’s army sacks the capital. She doesn’t have much interest in all the predictable plundering and typical looting and cliché prisoner-taking (which will involve her, too, sooner or later)…
…until, that is, an eccentric invader pops into her room to politely discuss the terms of her plunder.
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- Part 1 of A Perfect Conquest
Bookmarked by spiritsdownthelane
19 Mar 2026
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"As for you and your heart and the things you said and didn't say, she will remember them all when men are fairy tales in books written by rabbits.”." || The Last Unicorn fic, inspired by a Yuletide prompt
Bookmarked by spiritsdownthelane
24 Sep 2025
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The Open Road by Hekateras for abovetheruins
Fandoms: The Last Unicorn - Peter S. Beagle
23 Dec 2023
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They walked in silence as they left Lir's tomb behind.
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- Part 2 of Autumn Dirge
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- 647
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Bookmarked by spiritsdownthelane
24 Sep 2025
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"I don't need it," Peeta says firmly. "I don't want anything from you." And it's not true, there are things he wants from Katniss; her smile, her laugh, her warm breath on his neck, her body moving beneath his in the dark. But he doesn't want them as part of an exchange. He wants them because she wants him to have them.
(AU - Gale dies in the Hunger Games.)
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Bookmarked by spiritsdownthelane
31 Aug 2025
Bookmarker's Notes
gorgeous, beautiful, lovely. i bawl my eyes out whenever i read this fic