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It starts with a fall, as so many things do...
Three times the Bentley turned yellow in the aftermath.
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Sunlight To Keep The Goddess by thenotyetpublishedpen
Fandoms: The Old Guard (Movie 2020)
09 Jan 2023
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Andy played with an apple idly, holding its thin stem between callused fingers.
“Be careful with that.” Quỳnh warned. “Apples are fortune tellers.”
“Oh?”
“If you go through the alphabet, one letter for each twist, it breaks when you reach the letter that starts your soulmate’s name.”
“Does it now?” Andy probed, a smile playing at the corner of her lips. If there was anything Quỳnh loved it was local legends. Folklores and myths were the heart of a place, she’d once said.
“The schoolchildren told me.” Quỳnh’s voice dropped to a conspiratorial whisper, but her eyes were bright and teasing. “Go ahead. Find out yours.”
“A,” Andy said, giving the apple a firm twist, “It’s about time I figured this one out, you know. B.”
The letter Q was a long way off. Lifetimes between each twist. The stem snapped early, though Andy did not make note of which letter predicted her fate. It did not matter, after all. She knew where her heart made a home. Still, she mimed the twist, holding the pieces together until the end.
An exploration of breath and desire.
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- Part 3 of Catching My Breath
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The world around them is muffled. Muted. It throws her back to a time further ago than she dares imagine. A time before breath. A time before surfacing. Before she was pushed into the world and learned of its drama from the very first cold touch. Andromache had been born blue, her mother once told her. Sea toned. Breathless and still. Her first gasp of life came late. Late to the point where her mother had nearly lost hope. Where the other women of her village had pressed close, warm hands on trembling shoulders. But gasp to life she did, and her skin flushed. Pink chasing away the sea blue that kissed her lips.
An exploration of breath, stars, and the ever changing mood of the ocean.
Can be read as a stand alone.
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- Part 2 of Catching My Breath
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Quynh still hasn’t cried, despite everything. Not that Andy has seen, anyway. The tension of it acts as a barricade. A tightly strung arrow. It quivers. It chills. Sometimes Andy sees her there. Standing. Staring off into some middle distance with her hand wrapped loosely around her own throat. Is she feeling the pulse there as it thrums steady and constant beneath her fingers. The reassuring rush of blood-contained in her veins, the flow of oxygen smoothly through her system. As it should be. As it should have been. Is she just not sure of it yet? That breath will come in and out of her lungs in easy, regular intervals. That her chest will fill and empty without force. Without that cold, aching agony.
Just how many times had she drowned?
An exploration of breath and the Ship of Theseus.
Can easily be read as a stand alone.Series
- Part 1 of Catching My Breath
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It was gentle here. Softness in the fingertips that drew nonsensical patterns up and down his arms. He could concentrate there. Just there. On that quiet touch that soothed and calmed; pulled all of his focus to a single point. A soft meeting of skin against skin. Featherlike. The world could condense itself to this moment. This fragment of fingertip against bicep, nails shorn too short to even scratch.
Here, there could be no harm.
A quiet morning in bed.
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A collection of fics exploring Andy, Quynh, and their relationship with breath.
Can be read separately or together in any order.- Words:
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the morning passes, we're hardly tired by loamvessel
Fandoms: The Wheel of Time (TV), Wheel of Time - Robert Jordan
05 Aug 2023
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Of all the trials she’d been set since she had come to the White Tower, somehow the most impossible was to lie beside Siuan in her gauzy nightdress, to feel the shape of Siuan’s body against her own in bed drowsy and supple with sleep-heat. On some nights when the fire was high, a faint seal of sweat would form between them like a kiss in places where their bare skin touched, and she swore to herself that she’d forgo bedding with Siuan altogether, and never mind the cold. But somehow she never could.
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and now all of my garden is grown in lavender by ilikeblue for the_moonmoth
Fandoms: Good Omens (TV), Good Omens - Neil Gaiman & Terry Pratchett
03 Apr 2024
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Popular queer romance author, A.Z. Fell, has been lying about having a husband and a happy marriage for years. Longing to escape a string of failed relationships and looking for a fresh start, Aziraphale moves into the cottage left to him by his Great Aunt Agnes. When a TV adaptation of one of his books leads to sudden popularity and throws him into the limelight, his fans (and the press) are eager to catch a glimpse of Aziraphale's own mysterious leading man. Unfortunately, he still has to cast someone for that role. Enter the handsome gardener…
Under Crowley's meticulous care the cottage's neglected garden slowly comes back to life, and Aziraphale finds himself writing the most important love story he'll ever write: his own
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08 Jul 2025
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kept impulse dormant by QuickYoke for BurgerBurgerBurger
Fandoms: The Wheel of Time (TV), Wheel of Time - Robert Jordan
09 Jan 2022
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The White Tower is not at all what Siuan expects, and neither are the people she meets within it. A prequel to "New Spring" covering the three years of Moiraine and Siuan as Novices.
(some minor book spoilers but no TV spoilers)
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- Part 1 of half disembodied waiting
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22 Jun 2025
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Angel-Centered Therapy Through A Multicultural Lens: An Integrative Approach by Nnm
Fandoms: Good Omens (TV)
14 Jun 2024
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“I’d love to meet with you,” Davey said, apologetically, when he had been called up by a fellow looking to initiate therapy, “but I’m all booked up for months.”
“Are you sure?” The fellow said, through a poor connection that crackled.
Davey had been sure. And yet. Right there in his calendar was a blank spot, just a few days away, which he had somehow completely overlooked before. “How about that…I’ve got Wednesday at eleven, if you can make that work.”
“What a miracle,” the fellow said, “that would be just the perfect time.”
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02 Sep 2023
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Why, what could she have done, being what she is?
Was there another Troy for her to burn?
-WB Yeates
No Second Troy
Way back in the day, before I had even finished watching Black Sails, I became totally convinced that Silver and Flint could have been fucking for the whole show and the dynamic would still work, and it wouldn’t necessarily change the outcome at all. The show narrative withholds information after all. That is basically the premise of this series. It is canon compliant perhaps to a fault, and evolves in many of the same ways as the show in terms of tone. As such - do not expect it to hurt any less. This is a love story. That does not mean it's happy.- Words:
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29 Jun 2022
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Currently reading #2. Gorgeously written series