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[dollopole]

I was just thinking about the fact that in so many Merlin fics, Merlin keeps being an healer/doctor/medic, which makes sense, since that’s how he started his life, by helping people however he could, but now consider this:

Merlin, who has lived so long and more than probably witnessed the deaths of thousands, even of those he loved, cherished and respected. So what if a millennia of life completely flipped his view on what it means to heal and study medicine. What if after all Merlin saw, everything that happened had the opposite effect on him, which means that he stopped trying and left the job to someone else.

Merlin still helps, surely, in the end, it’s in his nature as human, but we can already see how he changed, even only after ten years of being in Camelot and witnessing death after death.

What if he despaired because disease spread and not even his magic could help it, what if his magic decided that humans had to live with their own course of actions and so his magic simply refused to help them, which got Merlin just angry at the prospect of doing this for so many years.

But now take into consideration when Arthur returns:

I believe Arthur would be the healer/doctor/medic this time around.

He would be eager to help everyone he can, because that’s also in his nature, but since he can’t do it anymore in the way he once did, he has to find another path for him, a path that would make him heal too, heal from all the times he killed, instead of helping someone in danger.

Arthur lived a life of death even before Merlin could start to think about killing someone.

Arthur had his hands smeared with blood since he was a child. Being Uther’s son was automatically, in both magical people and peasants’ perspective, who lived under Uther’s tyranny, a sin and a guilt, even before Arthur could pick up a sword.

He did not just kill sorcerers, but he was raised with a mind of a killer of justice. To defend his kingdom, his father, his counsellors, his court and his people no matter what he felt regarding it, was and had always been his main duty.

He was trapped in a murderous cycle, literally, where he couldn’t do anything but raise himself to believe that the only way to help people was to kill them.

On one side, we have a man who spent his life helping people and who got tired of death, and on the other side, we got another man who spent it killing people and still got tired of death.

But to Arthur and Merlin it happened in different ways.

Where Merlin left the responsibility to someone else, Arthur decided to take that responsibility himself, in the hope that maybe, one day, he could bring back to life all those he had condemned for the simple act of living as themselves.

[totallyottie99]

The strongest twins in weirdmageddon

[lilacxquartz]

Hi! I’m Lilac! I write all sorts of things from smut to adventure to fluff to dark content. Below you’ll find a list of everything I have posted to tumblr so far. I have even more stuff on AO3.

If you want to read a series (3 or more chapters), then I have a chapter directory for your convenience. 💜💜

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Jujutsu Kaisen

JJK x Reader: Jealousy || Peeling Fruit || Birthdays 1 || Birthdays 2 || If they’d love you if you were a worm || Helping you feel warm || Love Languages

Multiple/Other:

Those Late Summer Nights (yandere love triangle x reader, dark smut, multi chapter, planned happy/good ending)

Roommates (dub con smut)

On Display (smut)

Guided Affections (smut)

Choso Kamo:

Blur Into You (smut)

First Impressions (protective yandere)

Satoru Gojo:

Blessed With Blue (yandere angel x human reader, dark smut, multi chapter, body horror, sad ending)

Rivals (yandere, dark smut)

First Times (smut)

Speechless (smut)

The Married Life (smut)

On Birthdays

Suguru Geto:

Blood Thicker Than Honey (smut included, not the main focus)

You Leave Me So Breathless (smut)

To Save A Broken Soul (yandere x cursed spirit reader, multi chapter, dark smut, horror, sad ending)

Bedtime Rituals (receiving oral smut)

Your Hunger Is Mine (yandere, vampire au, reader is a vampire, geto is a hunter, smut)

Feelings Realisation

Shoko Ieiri:

Please, Don’t Go (yandere, dub con smut, wlw)

Love Bites (smut, wlw)

So Desperate For You (smut, wlw)

Pretty Little Trinket (protective yandere, wlw, harpy au, violence, happy ending)

Kenjaku:

Don’t Make Me Feel Alive (yandere, multi chapter, dark smut, open ending)

Betrayal (yandere)

Uncanny Valley (violence)

Using You (smut)

Merging With You

Under His Authority (yandere, dark smut)

Chasing Humanity (ongoing) (yandere x yandere, mundane au, multi chapter, eventual smut)

Sickly Sweet (caregiving, sick fic)

Morning Troubles (smut)

Kissing Their True Form (kissing, romance, slight body horror)

The Life You Lived (yandere, violence)

To Nurture (an uncomfortable imagine with Kaori)

Mahito:

The Way He Smiled (violence)

A Sight For Sore Eyes (yandere, body horror)

Sukuna:

Untouched (dark smut, violence, reader death)

From The Murky Depths (dark smut)

Beyond Hellfire (yandere true form sukuna, violence)

Kento Nanami:

Flustered By You (smut)

Toji Fushiguro:

Eat You Up (smut)

Pregnancy Woes

Other:

All Eyes On You (dark yandere imagine of a prison realm in a cursed spirit form)

Chainsaw Man

Makima:

Obey (smut, wlw)

Homicipher

Multiple Pairings:

Stuck Halfway (smut)

Valentine’s Day

Mr. Crawling:

Love you, love you, love you (smut)

A Touch Apart (smut)

In An Attempt To Clean

Such A Needy Thing (smut)

Love You, Need You (smut)

Make You Feel Good (smut)

Mr. Gap:

From The Shadows

Mr. Silvair:

In An Attempt To Teach You (eventual smut, ongoing)

The Bride:

Breathless Kisses

Gravity Falls

Bill Cipher:

Dreams (yandere, gender neutral reader, smut)

Sweet Nostalgia (yandere, gender neutral reader, smut)

A Timeless Treasure (yandere, gender neutral reader)

Fiddleford H. McGucket:

Taking Chances (gender neutral reader, eventual smut)

Attack on Titan

Levi Ackerman:

Yandere House Husband Levi Scenarios: On Thieves || Jealousy

Mob Psycho 100

JJK x MP100 Crossover

Reigen Arataka:

Untimely Confessions

Fields of Mistria

Caldarus:

Set My Heart Ablaze (smut)

Other

Kinktober 2024 (Multiple Fandom x Reader Insert Smut)

Bite Sized Yandere Nightmares (JJK x Reader Yandere Imagines)

Original Works

Midnight the Incubus:

Under The Bed, Where Midnight Slept

Your Body Is My Temple & I Will Worship You (smut)

A Bump In The Middle of the Night (violence)

Life Beyond Midnight

Eloryn the Fae:

An Imp in Fae’s Clothing (violence)

[v88sy]

Every time I venture into the Bucktommy ao3 tags without filters, for curiosity and to check numbers, I remember why I have my filters so strict.

[mamawasatesttube]

what if the kon & clark tag was actually about kon & clark and not 5893298 ~batfamily~ fics? can you imagine? can you imagine a world where it was possible to go into superfamily tags and actually find things about the superfamily? can you imagine? waiter, why are these rodents in my soup? this is not what i ordered

[buddierecs]

♡ buddie fics navigation list ♡

welcome to my buddie fic rec account <3 this is a navigation to all of the fics posted on this account. It starts with the explicit, mature and general audience (which includes teen and up & not rated works) and will go into smaller categories.

- explicit (will often be very explicit! 18+ only / do not engage if it makes you uncomfortable!) - mature - general audience - mixed rated lists - aly's personal recommendations

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My Masterlist

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𝑱𝑱𝑲

Smaus

𝘖𝘯𝘦𝘴𝘩𝘰𝘵𝘴

Sleep with me? (Not like that.) - Yuji Itadori

Scary Boyfriend Privileges - Satoru Gojo

Love is So Cruel - Yuji Itadori

Graying Skies - Megumi Fushiguro

Nuisance - Ryomen Sukuna

Peace - Satoru Gojo & Suguru Geto

Pretty when you cry - Suguru Geto

Crawlin back to you - Nanami Kento

Past scars - Satoru Gojo & Suguru Geto

are we still friends? - Satoru Gojo

𝘚𝘦𝘳𝘪𝘦𝘴

Intertwined - Ryomen Sukuna

On Campus: The Prize of Affection - Suguru Geto and Satoru Gojo

𝘏𝘦𝘢𝘥𝘤𝘢𝘯𝘯𝘰𝘯𝘴

Tattoo Artist!Gojo

Nerd!Gojo

𝘋𝘳𝘢𝘣𝘣𝘭𝘦𝘴

“You’re a freak” - Toji Fushiguro

Hugs & Kisses - all

House Husband - Toji Fushiguro

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𝑺𝒂𝒊𝒌𝒊 𝑲

𝘖𝘯𝘦𝘴𝘩𝘰𝘵𝘴

A New Feeling - Kusuo Saiki

Study Date - Shun Kaidou

The Little Things - Kusuo Saiki

𝘚𝘦𝘳𝘪𝘦𝘴

You’re Nothing Special (AKA:Perfect) - Kusuo Saiki

Pt.1 Pt.2

𝘏𝘦𝘢𝘥𝘤𝘢𝘯𝘯𝘰𝘯𝘴

Coming soon..

𝘋𝘳𝘢𝘣𝘣𝘭𝘦𝘴

Coming soon…

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𝑴𝑯𝑨

𝘖𝘯𝘦𝘴𝘩𝘰𝘵𝘴

My Treasure - Eijirou Kirishima

𝘚𝘦𝘳𝘪𝘦𝘴

Tell Me You Love Me (Tell Me I’m Your Baby) - Denki Kaminari

Pt.1 pt.2

𝘏𝘦𝘢𝘥𝘤𝘢𝘯𝘯𝘰𝘯𝘴

Boyfriend!Shinsou

Boxer!Katsuki

𝘋𝘳𝘢𝘣𝘣𝘭𝘦𝘴

‘Jacked & Kind’ w/ Bhna Boy Trio

[ladythornofrivia]

🐲👑 KINGDOM OF FIRE AND BLOOD MASTERLIST 👑🐲

SUMMARY: modern!reader fell into the universe that she’d never expect, especially encountering a one-eye dragon prince under a mighty house reign with fire and blood.

~ Aemond x Reader ~

👑 KINGDOM OF FIRE AND BLOOD 👑

Chapter One: The Dark Uproar

Chapter Two: The Green Star

Chapter Three: The House of Black & Green

Chapter Four: The Wandering Light

Chapter Five: The Council

Chapter Six: The Rebirth of Lady Greenstar

Chapter Seven: The Price of Heart

Chapter Eight: The Escape

Chapter Nine: The Bite of a Lady

Chapter Ten: The Children of Dragon

Chapter Eleven: The Shadow of a One-Eyed Dragon

Chapter Twelve: The Sons of Winter

Chapter Thirteen: The Dragon & The Wolf

Chapter Fourteen: The Feud of Birthright & Bastards

Chapter Fiftteen: The Maiden in Sea

Chapter Sixteen: The Wrath of a Dragon

Chapter Seventeen: The Tourney

Chapter Eighteen : The Taste of Depravity

(Disclaimer: some chapter titles will either be changed or added with a new chapter for the sake of an extension for plot and long details.)

@ ladythornofrivia - all rights reserved.

[i-like-rocks22]

I have realised you'll probably all enjoy the presentation I gave at the PowerPoint Party we had for my husband's birthday.

It was VERY detailed.

[penvisions]

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[totallyottie99]

Chapter 4 coming soon!

[xiema]

A few pieces for my fanfic 'Daugther of the outcast'. I changed Che'ris hairstyle and it suit her so much better

[eris-eveningstar]

Guys my sister is tryna find my ao3. 😂 I'm not gonna tell her. She keeps giving me random tomarry fic names and I know EXACTLY which fics she's talking about, but none of them are mine. And she's giving me the side eye cuz I know all these random ass fic writers and which fics SPECIFICALLY she means even though she didn't say the fic name. Hahaha.

[eddith]

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[crimeronan]

“Okay, so you were my guard,” Luz says.

"Yeah. Among other things."

“But I don’t, um – I don’t actually need that here. Guarding, I mean. I’m not royalty anymore. And the people here are okay, mostly, except when they suck, and then Vee goes after them anyway. I don't… I’m not sure I can…”

She trails off, less because she’s trying to formulate sentences and more because she can see Hunter’s heart shatter. Even as she does, she checks herself – what does she know about his feelings, really? His face barely crumples. He just closes his eyes for a second, and presses his mouth flat, and swallows. Then he takes a breath and faces her with the exact same calm as before.

She doesn’t know why she’s so certain that’s heartbreak. In anyone else, she’d read it as tiredness or annoyance.

“I’m coming on too strong,” he says, and his voice is just as steady as it always is, no outward signs of distress. “I'm sorry.”

“You don’t need to apologize,” Luz says, and means it. “I can tell you’ve had, just, the worst time. And I know this isn't what you hoped for. I just – I don't know what you want with the human world, besides me. Won’t you miss home?”

“You're forgetting I’m not allowed to go home either way right now,” Hunter says, “on account of the atrocities.”

Luz rolls her eyes. “Don’t be a smartass.”

His mouth twitches. He might be trying not to smile.

“I’m just saying,” she continues, “you found me. You did find me. Like you wanted to. And I’m safe here, like you want me to be. So you don't have to… I mean, you did your duty. You did what you were supposed to do. I hereby release you from any further contractual obligations. Okay?”

It’s meant as a reprieve, but Luz immediately knows that she’s chosen the wrong thing to say. Hunter isn’t quite as good at masking this new heartbreak. His fingers spasm, curling around the edge of the couch cushion, gripping like a lifeline. He lets out the kind of breath that someone might if they’d just been shot. His ears flatten, pointing toward the floor, an unconscious reflex that makes him look like a kicked puppy.

When he speaks, his voice cracks. “You don’t want me?”

Luz feels her own expression crumble. Confusion and guilt war for dominance inside her, a stitch between the ribs.

“Here,” Hunter adds, unconvincingly. “You don’t want me here?”

“I don’t want you guarding me here,” Luz says. “All of this stuff, you being so hung up on Vee and my mom… it’s freaking me out. I don't want them to get hurt.”

“I won’t hurt them,” Hunter says immediately. “I wouldn’t hurt them, not if they’re treating you well – I wouldn’t ever do anything you didn’t want me to do, Luz. I swear.”

“See, that. That's freaking me out.”

His brows draw together.

“You’re sitting here locked in a basement on my behalf,” Luz says, “because you volunteered to be locked in a basement.”

“Okay, well. In my defense. There are some very specific extenuating circumstances right now.”

She waves this aside. “You said you’ve been trying to track me down for months.”

“Of course I have. Anyone with sense would have. Belos was-"

“Yeah, I know. But my mama isn’t Belos.”

Hunter stays quiet and still for a solid minute. Luz actually counts the seconds. His only movement is to press a hand to his eyes, like he’s pushing back a headache, or maybe trying not to cry.

“I’m not trying to be mean,” Luz adds. “I promise you, I'm really, really trying not to hurt your feelings. But you get it, right? It's just… a lot to process.”

“I get it,” he says, with what might be an attempt at a smile. He folds his hands in his lap, surveying her politely and deferentially, like a corporate executive might respond to a CEO. “I'm sorry I've made things harder for you. I didn’t mean to do that.”

“I know,” she says. “It’s okay. I’m really sorry I don't remember.”

“Could be that it's for the best,” Hunter says lightly. “I won't cause your family any trouble, Luz. Promise. It’ll probably be a while until they actually believe that, but in the meantime – you don't need to come down here anymore. I won't pick a fight.”

She has a sudden, overwhelming impulse to fling herself into his arms. Just one more nonsensical reaction, extra proof that something's missing inside her.

“Do you want me to stay away?” she asks.

Once again, Hunter lapses into silence. It's hard to tell whether he’s thinking or just refusing to answer, at least until he counters, “Do you want to remember me?”

“Yes,” Luz says immediately. She doesn't even have to think about it. Without meaning to, she touches her chest, the place that aches every time she reaches out for someone who isn't there. It's been aching since way, way before Hunter stepped onto the Nocedas' porch.

“I want to know,” she explains, “why I miss you so much.”

This, finally, is what makes Hunter break. He buries his face in his hands and lets out a ragged little sob, his shoulders shaking, his breath choked.

Something in Luz wants to wrap her arms around him and snuggle up on the couch and let him cry into her neck. Something in Luz wants to curl up with him under all the blankets in the house and ask him to tell her stories. Something in Luz is suffering physical pain with every elapsed moment in which she doesn’t do that. The desire to hold him edges past want, into need. It hurts.

The rest of her is still loosely gripping a steak knife. And so afraid of sending mixed messages.

“I’ll come back tomorrow, okay?” she says, backing toward the stairs before her instincts can turn traitor. “After I’ve slept. After we’ve both slept. I want – I need you to get some rest tonight. You'll feel better once you do. Okay?”

Hunter grunts in vague acknowledgement. He doesn’t seem interested in discussing his continuing sobs, and Luz is fighting back tears herself, and she doesn't have the strength not to go to him if she cries. So she just climbs the stairs, shutting the door carefully behind her, and she flips the lock closed.