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But My Head Is Full of Poison/And My Heart Is Full of Doubt by thetickingclock
Fandoms: Interview with the Vampire (TV 2022)
04 Jun 2026
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When his world breaks and burns, Armand calls Lestat.
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We All Believe in Something That’ll Rip Us into Shreds by thetickingclock
Fandoms: Critical Role: Aramán (Web Series)
31 May 2026
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“I’m sorry,” Occtis whispers. “For dying.”
She laughs; she can’t help it. The sound rips its way out of her chest with the violence of a scream and she longs to sink her blade into it to tame it down, to make it bleed, to say, this isn’t fucking funny, none of this is funny, please, please, please, stop.
Or:
Thimble, with friends, in the dark (spoilers for Episode 27).
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One Hundred and Twenty Seconds to Inhale by thetickingclock
Fandoms: Critical Role: Exandria (Web Series)
25 May 2026
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Calm emotions is a spell he doesn’t need to pray for these days. The magic sits like honey at the roof of his mouth. He lets it unfurl with his breath, heat seeping into his cold fingers. The body shudders and stills. The only sound is his ragged breathing. “This is only going to last a minute,” Caduceus says. “And then it’s all going to come back. So I need you to breathe and look at me, okay? I’m not going to hurt you and you’re not going to hurt me.”
The eyes blink. Once. Twice. Three times. “Cad?”
“Yep. You’re good.”
“I’m good?”
“I like to think so. You’re certainly not bad. I’ve killed you before; I’d know.”
(Kingsley is brought to the garden).
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“Good boy,” the tiefling purrs, and slaps him.
Bren lets his head rock back. He lets himself bite his cheek. He tastes salt.
Later, Caleb will say, “you hurt yourself for your magic, yes?”
Molly will look up at him across their camp, eyes reflective like a cat’s, a sheen of red carved into an otherwise dull blur of the dark. “That’s quite a question, Magic Man. Doesn’t everyone?”
“I don’t.”
A flash of teeth. It’s not quite a smile. “Don’t you?”
(Somatic Spell Components and the need for touch, or Caleb Widgoast really just wants to be held)
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The pain is bright. The pain is familiar. The pain is the punctuation mark in the story of today he has been looking for. He can control it here. Violence is not always an exclamation mark. For Azune, it is often a comma.
(Hal puts on the mask. Azune and Murray spiral. The story gets a little more complicated).
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like the chorus to the verse by CindFourth for arithmonym
Fandoms: The Locked Tomb Series | Gideon the Ninth Series - Tamsyn Muir
07 Jun 2026
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Pyrrha Dve hadn't intended to love them. They were two naive kids who thought they could save the world with a lethal combination of hubris and obstinacy. A couple of stubborn bastards without a shred of self-preservation between them.
Unfortunately, Pyrrha had always been a sucker for that sort of shit.
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08 Jun 2026
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We're Not In The Right State Of Mind by destielonfire
Fandoms: Interview with the Vampire (TV 2022)
15 Aug 2024
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“What the fuck,” Daniel said through gritted teeth, punctuated by tightening his grip further on Armand’s larynx, “are you doing here, vamp daddy of mine?”
Or, Daniel's book tour is interrupted by an unexpected visitor to his hotel room.
Bookmarked by thetickingclock
06 Jun 2026
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to make tenderness a cleaving cut by earwen_neruda
Fandoms: Interview with the Vampire (TV 2022)
20 Oct 2024
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Thus spoke the only fledging the vampire Armand will ever sire, after two years of premeditated severance:
“I have it on good authority that if you kill me now, Louis will send you flowers.”
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06 Jun 2026
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Lestat wants Armand, sure– he’s beautiful and vicious and might understand him better than anyone else ever can or will. But Armand doesn’t understand himself, doesn’t understand that he’s always acting out, won’t ever let his true self be seen or had. And that's what Lestat wants, what Armand will never offer him. All he can offer is the exquisite cruelty of a scared child, and now it feels like that child has taken his very soul from him.
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Lestat and Armand circle a trial.Bookmarked by thetickingclock
05 Jun 2026
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i know i'm hard to look at sometimes, but i'm here for the taking by yelenavasilyevna
Fandoms: Interview with the Vampire (TV 2022), Vampire Chronicles Series - Anne Rice
03 Jun 2026
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“Well, so what if it was rape. It is nothing so very spectacular to be raped,” Lestat says. “It happens to me, from time to time. A peril of my great beauty.”
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After Akasha, Lestat struggles with the ways his body has changed. Lestat knows he's a devil, and Armand is the devil he knows.
Bookmarked by thetickingclock
04 Jun 2026