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“I didn’t mean to pry,” Richard says apologetically, leaning back, clear of Henry’s personal space.
Henry’s eyes flit up at him in benevolent amusement, and to Richard’s surprise he smiles, looking for all the world like a God entertained by the hubris of his worshippers.
“Maybe,” Henry says slowly, “you should pry more often.”
A series of vignettes that could nestle themselves in the space between paragraphs.
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Colours by allthecuriousthings for curioushabitforarivergod
Fandoms: Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling
01 Jun 2024
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Brown was the colour of Tom’s eyes, but he overcame that tribulation of mortal blood once he became Lord Voldemort. Then, he found satisfaction every time he looked in a mirror and saw that he had reversed God’s natural order, when he turned brown into red.
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When she traces a bony finger across the desk, leaving a streak in the dust, Walburga feels something that may almost be regret. It’s an unfamiliar feeling, because in her sixty years it wasn’t one she allowed herself to feel.
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She lifts two fingers to her mouth, recalling the feeling of their skin under her lips.
Rodolphus’ stubble was familiar and comforting - Bellatrix was always more comfortable with the rough and raw of life. By contrast, her Lord’s skin was coarse, cold, and almost devoid of life.
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Regulus finds his eyes straying to Sirius, who is laughing along to something Peter is saying.
He can’t actually hear him, over the noise in the great hall and the buzzing in his own head, but the intimately familiar sound of his brother’s laugh echoes in his ears, anyway.
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If all the folks who've been lost can get together again after death, perhaps death ain't such a bad thing. Life is assuredly god awful, so being reunited with his family is a strong temptation that rolls over him like a wave.
Would he be a child again, small enough to be held in his momma's arms? Would he get another chance at being a brother?°•°•°•°•°•°•°•°•°•°
A very lonely 19-year-old Jack Marston struggles to find meaning.
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22 Dec 2025
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Christmas 1979—danger, secrets, lies and their shared history looms large over the Blacks' first Yuletide season as a reunited family. While life as a fugitive proves bleaker (and more boring) than Regulus could have imagined, a botched espionage mission at Malfoy Manor draws Sirius deeper into the Black family web—and his cousin Narcissa's social set.
Meanwhile, Walburga hatches a daring scheme to restore her wild firstborn's damaged reputation in the family—finding him a suitable bride—while Orion grapples with the past, and the high price his two sons have paid for his inaction.
[Regulus Black Lives/Black Family Witness Protection AU. The continuing story of how Regulus stealing part of Voldemort's soul brings a broken, dysfunctional family together]
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- Part 2 of The Black Sheep Dog
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06 Apr 2023
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Nobody's doing it like this. THE Black Family fic. THIS is the blueprint. -
The Mergerization and Acquisition of Patrick Bateman by venusjailer
Fandoms: American Psycho - All Media Types
05 Jan 2025
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Patrick Bateman's closet doesn't contain any dead bodies in this tale*, but there is something in it that scares him so much more...
*This is slightly AU; it's still set in Manhattan and the characters are all the same, but Patrick hasn't killed anyone, his dad is still alive, he has a whole ton of childhood trauma, and is incredibly mentally ill and in therapy at the beginning of this.
I've also updated it to modern day times; there is no specific year but it's intended to be sometime in the mid-to-late 2010s. Also, Paul knows who he is from the start and doesn't mistake him for Marcus Halberstram.
Oh yeah, and the biggest change is that he's joined Paul in that whole Yale thing. He just doesn't know it yet...
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Tim wakes up inexplicably in his two-year-old body. Which: odd. But just think, how many people would kill to have an opportunity to redo their life! And Tim has so much he wants to change, so much he wants. He wants to feel important to Bruce. He wants to be Dick's favorite. He wants Jason (his childhood hero) to think he's cool. He wants Damian to need him. And really, is it manipulation if his family benefits from it?
Or: He was halfway through the second trash can, when a startled “Good lord” caught him off guard. Tim glanced up, the rhythmic sucking of his pacifier coming to a still at the sight of a black Rolls Royce idling at the side road that lead to Wayne Manor. Alfred was staring at him from the over the car top, aghast. “Master Bruce, it’s not a raccoon.”
From the back seat, Bruce Wayne stared at him. Tim stared back.
Or: Tim is side tracked by his actual childish needs and wants, gets a whole bunch of his nannies fired, terrorizes his parents with a series of petty revenges, is an honest employer of one (1) newly minted murderer for hire, endears himself to – and thoroughly weirds out – the Waynes, and is generally just a petty, manipulative, vindictive, smol boy.
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Abigail Roberts and John Marston stake claims to be proved through the years.
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- Part 3 of Haunted by American dreams
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05 May 2025