wasteland
FF7 || PG-13 || Cloud, Zack || ~1,200 words
Sometimes your worst enemy is just day-to-day life. Modern!AU.

• Lyrics come from Rise Against, "The Approaching Curve"; Plowed, "Sponge"; The Killers, "Runaways." Because they're favorites, and I can, and this is semi-pretentious self-indulgence (i.e. therapy!fic for disaffected twenty-somethings ( Read more... )

the world cuts deeper (when love's in my hands)
Dishonored || PG-13: classism, racism, sexism || Billie Lurk || 3,800 words
When Daud dies, Billie is heading for a ship to take her to Morley.

• Present for ochrelock for the Dishonored Secret Santa - happy winter, hope you like it.  :D
• High Chaos!Corvo, Low Chaos!Knife of Dunwall
• Warnings: classism, ( Read more... )

The Boatman, Crossed by Death
Dishonored || R (violence) || The Outsider, Samuel, Corvo || ~7,500 words
"I know all the stories. I know all the beginnings, and all the endings. But it's the telling of them that changes, and Samuel knows far more than he thinks he does."

• warnings for human sacrifice, descriptions of slavery, and the aftermath of ( Read more... )

crossing the heartline
Dishonored || PG-13 (Low Chaos) || Corvo, the Outsider || ~840 words

He tells himself that he doesn’t kill every goddamn target because she wouldn’t have wanted him to. He reminds himself that Emily shouldn’t begin her reign on a foundation of corpses infected by something much more ruthless than plague. Truth is: it isn’t ( Read more... )

Too Daze Gone
FF7 || PG-13 (language, innuendo) || Aeris/Tifa pre-slash || 4,100 words
Aeris is a witch, a sort of go-to advisor and supplier to hunters of all types and skills that drift in and out.  It gets rather lonely after a while, though, with only a stubborn rhododendron and a few vinyls for constant company, so she's going to take any ( Read more... )

untitled 'carol danvers + back-from-the-dead!Steve'

MCU || PG - post-Civil War || Carol, Steve || ~480 words
For captainsmarvelandamerica, who wanted a take on the background convo between Carol and Steve on his miraculous return:


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Lessons Learned at a Crucial Point in Time
MCU || PG-13 || Tony Stark, the team || ~4,860 words
Several times Tony had no one to save him but himself, and one time he did.

• Warnings: suggested underage sexual activity, emotional manipulation
• Written for dante_s_hell for the Avengers Holiday Exchange

( And Tony, he’s a smart fucking guy, he learns: your enemies ( Read more... )

You know how people sometimes try emotional catharsis through fic?  Well, there wasn't much of a catharsis, but here you go.  I honestly no idea what the answer is to this sort of thing, whether Steve is right or Tony is, so take away your own interpretation.  Thank god for relative anonymity on the Internet ahaha.

this grey house where I come from
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Because apparently smoking pot is a thing I write, idk.


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When in doubt with FF7, write Avengers instead.

While Everyone's Lost (The Battle Is Won)
Avengers (Earth-19999/movie-verse) || PG-13 || Steve/Tony || 6,900 words
Steve closes his eyes in 1945 and wakes up in 2012.  Well. They certainly didn't put that on the recruiting poster.

• Warnings: talk of politics, mental illness, PTSD, the Holocaust.
• Title from ( Read more... )