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Jokes to Tell when the Apocalypse is Over by afiniteredwood for Lucid__Dreamer
Fandoms: Hermitcraft SMP
07 Sep 2024
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Etho looks lonely. That's all Bdubs can come up with. There, halfway down the alleyway, surrounded by piles of zombie bodies, face smeared with flesh and poison, mask and hair drenched in sweat, Etho looks lonely. He turns, dragging his sword after him, arms shaking, and meets Bdubs' gaze.
He makes a strangled noise in the back of his throat, something animal and fearful, and Bdubs runs to catch him before he collapses. Another grief-stricken noise escapes Etho's throat and he stumbles forward into Bdubs' arms, head against the bell of Bdubs' throat. He's sobbing, dripping tears down Bdubs' shirt, chest heaving with every breath he takes that threatens to tear him apart. He clutches at Bdubs' back, nails sharp and tearing into Bdubs' shirt, some desperate scramble for control.
"I love you," he says again, like a broken record. His voice breaks. "I love you. I'm sorry. I know you're tired."
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This is not about Etho. This is not about Bdubs. This is not about love, that old corpse. This is just about the apocalypse.
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And He's There in a Glass Bottle by afiniteredwood for marquisguyun
Fandoms: 天官赐福 - 墨香铜臭 | Tiān Guān Cì Fú - Mòxiāng Tóngxiù
02 Sep 2024
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The thing that is not White No-Face laughs quietly. “That’s not what I’m asking about.” It pauses for a moment, pinning the braid in place and starting a new one. “Does it hurt that I’m so much better than you?”
Xie Lian’s heart does something terrible. “Yes,” he whispers.
“I know,” it responds. “It must hurt so badly. Whenever you look in a mirror, this thing that is so much better than you looks back- and it isn’t you, is it?”
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Xie Lian and the little ghost soldier he has been traveling around with go to investigate strange rumors of a ghost mirror and a face-stealing ghost, who have been harassing a nearby lord. They do not find either, but what they find instead makes Xie Lian want to tear his chest open and beg the heavens to take him back.
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It All Works Out For Me In The End by afiniteredwood for GladBurdn
Fandoms: Hermitcraft SMP, 3rd Life | Last Life SMP Series
05 May 2024
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Grian cowers from him, shrinking back into the wall. It does nothing for him but make him an easier target. Bdubs plants a hand in the middle of his chest, pinning him to the mossy stone walls, and drags him upwards.
“What are you doing?” Grian gasps, forming the words breathlessly around Bdubs’ hands at his lungs. He whimpers as the stone digs into his back, rips through his shirt, tears into his skin– “What are you-!”
Bdubs puts his free hand on Grian’s face. For a moment, he holds it there and does nothing. Grian’s breaths puff over the palm of his hand, hot and panicked, as the blood from his broken nose drips down his arm. There exists a moment in which Bdubs considers not doing what he’s about to do.
He pushes his fingers into Grian’s eyes and cracks his skull open on the wall.
And then there is clarity.
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No- wait, now hold on.==
You are the boy in the cage. You don't want to hurt them, but you don't know what else to do.
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Collect Call by afiniteredwood for hnrye
Fandoms: 3rd Life | Last Life SMP Series, Hermitcraft SMP
12 Feb 2024
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There is a hand outstretched in the square of light, palm upturned. A beat of silence floods the room before Cleo takes the offered hand and huffs a laugh. The food goes ignored, water simmering as an underpass to the radio’s muffled melody.
Careful, doing his best not to make himself heard, Etho sits up on the couch. He props himself up on the arm, blanket still pulled up to his chin. Pillow supporting the ache in his back, he sits just high enough that he can see over the other arm and into the kitchen.
Lit from above by the warm yellow lights, Bdubs and Cleo are half-dancing to the slow music. Bdubs is a lazy dancer- every step he takes follows Cleo’s body, stepping into her space and keeping to her careful rhythm. Cleo shifts her hands to Bdubs’ waist, keeping closer to him, and when she moves Bdubs moves with her.
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Here are the people that Etho might be in love with. Here is his own body, next to theirs.
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He just wants to sleep. He is so very tired.
But the nightmares remain, and as he shoves his fingers once more into the blood dripping from his chin and the delicate flesh there, he recognizes the swell of emotion within him as that of those visions come calling again. He accepts it gratefully, as a release from whatever half-reality he is pretending to be in currently.
And Etho remembers everything.
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Or, the one in which Etho remembers everything wrong that he has ever done, and it tears him apart.