#At the stroke of midnight

[haveyoureadthisfanfic]

Summary: After Addison, Arthur and John didn't go to New York - they just went home, and set up shop in as PIs in Arkham. Now several months later, having completed work for a wealthy client, they find themselves invited to a fancy dinner party with New England's elite occultists. But among the rich and famous diners are two unexpected guests: "Andrew" Larson, Arthur's one time nemesis, and Peter Yang, back from the dead but not quite right. After an awkward dinner, and an introduction to a mysterious supernatural artifact, a corpse is discovered. It's up to Arthur and John to solve the murder and stop the artifact before it unleashes its eldritch magic on them all.

Author: @croik

Author: THIS IS A CHOOSE YOUR OWN ADVENTURE FANFIC. How cool is that?? I've seen a few of these before but this one is especially fun and I loved going back to chapters I already read after discovering new parts of the overall mystery.

[splookiee]

when the fic chapter starts with the lyrics of let it go, you know it's gonna be a banger

[abstractbastard]

Why are you gay

i got the covid 19 back in 2020 and now i swoon for every gnc cryptid i see in the woods outside my house each night

[ritusmiles]

Book & A Brew with Ritu and Iqbal Hussain @ihussainwriter Northern Boy #BookReview #BookAndABrew @unbounders

I’m bringing someone new to you, today! I am very pleased to have a new author to introduce to you all, today, and a fellow desi fiction writer, at that, so I’m even more excited. Iqbal Hussain will be chatting about writing and his debut, Northern Boy! Hello, and welcome to But I Smile Anyway, Iqbal! Let’s get you set with a drink, first. Tea, coffee, hot chocolate, or maybe a masala…

[sexylittleslutsls]

Moët 🍾 and margaritas 🍸 at midnight .. cheers

[peachykcqt]

got that tummy fold lookin like :)

[finxwrites]

strange & grimm, which btw sounds like an urban fantasy affectionately parodic hardboiled detective agency. probably queer.

It was a hot, muggy night in the Enchanted Forest. Everyone with a lick of sense was down in the fairy glens, hoping the Winter Court would put in an appearance and bring a breeze on with them. Lucky me, I’m the sucker who fingered the Snow Queen for the missing persons case last winter, so I’m persona non grata in the fairy glens these days.

Just as well. I couldn’t afford to leave the office, not when it’d been so long since my last case. Though on a night like this, I might as well not bother. It was too hot for crime. Even the leaves on the enchanted trees were drooping in the heat. 

I was just about to call it a night when a dame walked in my door. Tall, blonde, legs for days, with an air of tragedy that could put an unloved stepchild to shame. I looked her over suspiciously for any cheery woodland creatures hidden in her golden ringlets. If she was a princess, I’d turf her right back out of the office, case unheard. Princesses paid well, but they were more trouble than they were worth.

No mice poked their adorable little noses out of her pockets as the dame sank into a chair and fixed me with a hard look. “I hear you’re the best in the business,” she said without preamble. “And I need the best.”

I leaned back in my seat. “Baby, I’m the only one in the business. It’s not a good genre for private dicks.”

She rolled her eyes. “Oh, yes, far too child-friendly for any sort of dicks.” Before I could recover from that little gem, she went on, “It’s a child I’m here about. My sister. She’s…she’s gone missing.” She took a deep, shuddering breath. “Please, Detective, you’re my last hope. The royal courts won’t hear me out, they think she’s gone on the lam!”

I nodded grimly. “One of those Bo Peep situations, huh?” I get a depressing number of those. All it takes is one wolf in sheep’s clothing—you’d think the kids would learn.

The dame glared. There was enough cold iron in her gaze to put a fairy off her ambrosia. “On the lam, Detective. On the run. My sister has…something of a record.”

I raised my eyebrows. “Your sister the child? She some kind of crime prodigy?”

The dame fidgeted, looking away. “She’s…” She sighed explosively. “My sister is Goldilocks.”

I whistled, low and long. Crime prodigy indeed—Goldilocks was wanted in five kingdoms for the most impressive string of burglaries the Enchanted Forest had ever seen. No one could ever prove she’d done it, but the circumstantial evidence had piled up higher than mattresses on a pea. No wonder no royal court would take this case.

The dame’s shoulders hunched defensively, but she bulled on without trying to defend her wayward sister. “She’s gone missing, and I know it’s not another one of her sprees. Something is wrong this time.” She turned back to meet my eyes, her lovely features harsh with poorly-suppressed fear. “It’s her first crime come back to haunt her, I just know it is. They’ve always wanted revenge—especially the baby of the family, and he’s all grown up now. What they’d do if they got hold of her—“ She cut herself off with a watery gasp; her eyes were wet with tears. “Oh, it doesn’t bear thinking about!”

I handed her a handkerchief and gave her a minute to compose herself. It gave me a minute, too, to decide if I was really going to be this stupid. You don’t tangle with the big predators, not if you know what’s good for you, and especially not a whole family of them. Families are a dangerous thing in any genre.

But I was her last hope, and I’m a sucker for lost causes. And if I didn’t get paid soon, this business would become a lost cause itself. I said a silent farewell to my good sense as it packed its bags and left for kinder climes. “Alright,” I told the dame, “Give me the facts. We’ll see what kind of a story they tell.”

[tidiestpegasus]

origin of all that is good and mother to us all

phone background version as well bc thats how obsessed i have become with this game

feel free to use!

[transgenderuwo]

STOP: it's not the goddamn year of the dragon yet

Hold on posting your goddamn culturally Christian ass solar new year greetings that clumsily use east Asian lunar new year elements. We gotta do this song and dance every single time because y'all still refuse to do any research. Lunar new year is never on January 1; it is ALWAYS after solar new year. Lunar new year 2024 is on February 10th – save yourself some embarrassment please you're better than this

[itsmangacap]

Gozen 0-ji, Kiss Shi ni Kite yo 午前0時、キスしに来てよ —  ch. 38 ⌈ 2015 - 2020 | by mikimoto rin ⌋

[ebbpettier]

*insert snide baz comment about simon being full of hot air here*

[pratchettquotes]

"I'd better be going," said Susan. "Miss Butts always checks the dorms on the stroke of midnight."

"How many dormitories are there?" said the raven.

"About thirty, I think."

"You believe she checks them all at midnight and you don't believe in the Hogfather?"

Terry Pratchett, Soul Music

[ritusmiles]

Book & A Brew with Ritu and Jenni Keer @JenniKeer At The Stroke Of Midnight #BookReview #BookAndABrew @BoldwoodBooks

Today, I am extremely excited to have a fantastic author, and relatively new writer friend ofmine, Jenni Keer, over to talk about her latest release, At the Stroke of Midnight. Hello, and welcome to But I Smile Anyway, Jenni! Let’s get you set with a drink first.I have the usual assortment of hot drinks available, or I could even make you up a masalachai, if you feel adventurous.Thanks for…

[service4cops]

Nights are the best time to find a horny cop who’s been brewing all week and is in serious need of some midnight service. 

Lead the way Officer.

[starrysharks]

carnival kids

[grandapplewit]

Chapters: 6/7 Fandom: 天官赐福 - 墨香铜臭 | Tiān Guān Cì Fú - Mòxiāng Tóngxiù, 天官赐福 | Heaven Official's Blessing (Cartoon) Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Hua Cheng/Xie Lian (Tian Guan Ci Fu) Characters: Hua Cheng (Tian Guan Ci Fu), Xie Lian (Tian Guan Ci Fu), Feng Xin (Tian Guan Ci Fu), Mu Qing (Tian Guan Ci Fu) Additional Tags: Hua Cheng as Wu Ming (Tian Guan Ci Fu), Amnesia, Calamity Xie Lian (Tian Guan Ci Fu), Shapeshifting, Genderfuckery, Female Hua Cheng (Tian Guan Ci Fu), For a few chapters, Jun Wu Being an Asshole (Tian Guan Ci Fu), Hua Cheng and Xie Lian Invented Love, Alternate Universe - Role Reversal, Kind Of Summary:

The chill of the shackle burned against his throat, choking the air out of his lung.