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[tiggymalvern]

Six Sentence Sunday

“Then I guess we run.” Sam’s answer is instant – this isn’t the first time he’s thought about it. “We planned to before.” “It won’t work,” Michael says. “They won’t stop looking.” “So we’ll fake our own deaths.” Fi’s expression is set, all cold determination. “They won’t go looking for corpses.” Sam looks at her, then at Mike, his eyebrows lifting. “It worked for Larry.” “And what about my mom?”

[spinninginthevoid]

- Hello -

-6000+ Years Ago

“Umma, he’s staring at me again.” The child with fiery red hair clung to her mother’s leg and peeked at the new playmate she had been introduced to. His amber eyes hadn’t left her since they met, and despite having small horns herself, somehow his were scary simply because he was her size.

“Vine, say hello to Morax.”

“No.”

“Vine…”

Morax’s parent laughed. “It’s alright. It takes time. Morax, why don’t you try saying hello instead.”

Morax looked up and then stepped forward. “Hi.”

“No hi.” Vine pouted.

“Sweetie, try saying ‘hi Morax’ back.” Her mother rubbed Vine’s back and shook her head.

“Can’t…”

“Oh!” It dawned on her mother that Vine was embarrassed at her pronunciation. “Sweetie, he won’t laugh.”

“No.”

Morax looked back up at his parent in confusion.

“Try it once.”

Vine muttered unintelligibly to herself before saying, “Hi Mowax.”

Morax’s parent had to glance away to not audibly ‘aw’ at the toddler’s pronunciation.

He held out his hand wordlessly. The lack of laughter finally made Vine step out from behind her mother and take his hand. 

“Where go?”

“Pretty rock.”

The two of them wandered over to a bit of exposed cor lapis. They both crouched and poked at it, chattering in their young voices. The parents breathed a sigh of relief too soon. Moments later, Vine shrieked and started crying. On second look, the culprit was Morax, holding a strand of her red hair in his chubby hands.

“Morax, we don’t pull people’s hair, no matter how pretty it is!”

A look of pure surprise was on his face as he looked at the hair and Vine. “Oh. Sorry.”

It wasn’t enough to console Vine, who was overdue for a nap as she sobbed with big watery tears. Her mother picked her up and patted her back, rocking her back and forth.

“We can try again another day. It is quite late.”

“No!”

Morax’s parent smiled and nodded.

-0-

The first meeting didn't go as desired, but the toddlers soon learned that neither of them were going anywhere anytime soon and so formed a tentative alliance against slimes, cincins, and whopperflowers.

[kotsu-mix]

[madokamagicaheritageposts]

Madoka Magica Heritage Post

On a scale of Madoka Magica to Steven Universe how well do you cope with your soul being contained inside a gem and your body being just a vessel used so you can fight enemies that used to be just like you

[buddiefanficlibrary]

the mortifying ordeal of being known

The thing was, the 118 was full of gossips.

Eddie had been at the station less than a week before Hen and Chim wrangled details about his “hot young thing” from him (“Buck is only 4 years younger than me, he is not a ‘hot young thing’!” Eddie complained.)

And Bobby was open about his worries for his son’s lack of direction and the secrets he appears to be keeping (“I just wish I could help Evan find the thing that gives him purpose,” Bobby lamented.)

It just made it all the more ridiculous (and horrifying) when Eddie realizes he’s been dating his Captain’s son this whole time (“Defiling his baby,” Chimney cackled, because he clearly wanted Eddie murdered.) -- Or, the AU where miscommunication abounds as Eddie seeks advice about his new relationship, Bobby despairs over his adopted son's career prospects and his refusal to talk about it, and Evan Buckley-Nash juggles training at the fire academy, building a family with his new boyfriend, and trying to work out how to tell his overprotective dad that he's already chosen the life he wants, actually.

It takes a goddamn tsunami, of all things, to get the story straight.

LINK

[citrusmaps]

New suit new suit new suit

[madokamagicaheritageposts]

Madoka Magica Heritage Post

[thedemonscrawler]

I have got to get chapter 14 finished

[verdantcreek]

half-silvered surface, chapter one: prologue

finally sharing my fic! i’ve been working on this for the past two months and i’m incredibly happy with how it turned out. summary under the cut!

john mactavish is dead.

simon riley was in love with him, and he'd kept it to himself. after the tunnel, he feels nothing but regret; he's consumed by his mistake to leave his feelings unspoken. the others never knew, and he suffers quietly. when price makes a crucial decision for the team without his input, his anger deepens.

john is dead, but he's back home, alone in a strange sort of afterlife. it's comfortable, peaceful, and he quickly realizes he can slip his way back into simon's reality, unnoticed and silent. he visits his lieutenant from the other side as time starts to pass, and his best friend mourns his death. there's nothing he can do but watch, even as he realizes that maybe his feelings were deeper than he'd thought.

maybe one day they'll feel alright.

[lilac-hecox]

Ian's got a new car and is nerding out about it. (Also not blue???)

[crownleys]

One of my favorite things about the A route in Book 3, as a wannabe car guy, is imagining the face a car guy Detective makes as A casually reveals to them what's probably at LEAST a quarter-of-a-million-dollar mint condition car