LaughWhileCrying
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the stars will watch as we become by LaughWhileCrying
Fandoms: Red Dead Redemption (Video Games)
25 Aug 2020
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The stars, it seemed, stretched on for eternity. There long before Arthur's grandfather was born and there long after Arthur has been laid in the ground. They were beautiful. Constant. A reminder of how small he was in the face of the world.
Yet, the truth was that Dutch preached constellations where Arthur could only see dots of light.
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Arthur can't sleep, so he stays up to watch the night sky. Hosea joins him and the two have a conversation about where the gang started, where it will end, and the mythology behind the stars. -
In the Still of the Night by LaughWhileCrying
Fandoms: Red Dead Redemption (Video Games)
07 Oct 2019
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When she was a little girl, her mother warned her about people like Javier. “Never open your home to creatures of the night, mija. They will steal you away and take your heart for themselves.”
Honestly? That's kind of what she was hoping for.
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The Devil's gonna make me a free man by LaughWhileCrying
Fandoms: Red Dead Redemption (Video Games)
03 Sep 2019
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So this is how he dies - at 15, over a stupid bag that he's not even sure has anything valuable. Arthur's fully expecting the man to kill him now that he's finally caught him; he's not expecting the man to laugh and offer him a job.
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AKA, originally a chapter from a story that'll likely never be posted, 15 year old Arthur Morgan meets Dutch and Hosea for the first time and is surprised when he doesn't end up dead. -
Blessed Are They Who Mourn by LaughWhileCrying
Fandoms: Red Dead Redemption (Video Games)
05 Jul 2019
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Arthur Morgan died, relieved that even if he failed so much in his short time on Earth, John succeeded.
He closed his eyes on that mountainside, and died.
And then he woke up.
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AKA the one in which Arthur is reincarnated as a hawk and John can't shake the feeling of being watched -
what fire does not destroy by LaughWhileCrying for SweetSamOfMine (AudreeJo)
Fandoms: Supernatural
23 Dec 2015
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Addiction doesn't end after detox, and Sam's relationship with demon blood doesn't end at the panic room.
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There was a locket around Astarion’s neck. It was a simple thing, made of sturdy gold, not too gaudy. It was also a gift from his master. Astarion doesn’t know his name. Only that he’s Astarion’s master, and sire.
But he’s all alone in this wilderness now, far from his master and anything he can remember, and no one yet has hurt him. No one yet has told him what to do, either.
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Anoxic brain oxygen deprivation often lead to difficulty with memory and the ability to recall facts, informations, names, and the like. And to a dead boy who spent a whole night in a coffin before rising again, there’s nothing like the taste of dirt on the tongue to spin this tale.
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- Part 2 of In portraits we see evil
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04 Jun 2026
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’Til our compass stands still by edenwolfie
Fandoms: 天官赐福 - 墨香铜臭 | Tiān Guān Cì Fú - Mòxiāng Tóngxiù
23 Jul 2023
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After getting lost in Ghost City, Xie Lian bargains away years of servitude to the Gambler’s Den to help a man in need. He dons the robes of a worker and hides his face and life behind an enchanted mask, protecting himself from the city's denizens. Xie Lian finds an unexpected home in Ghost City before he ever sees the lord of it, the infamous Hua Cheng. When he finally does, something about himself seems to catch the attention of the Ghost King, slowly striking up an unusual friendship. Xie Lian must figure out how to navigate his burgeoning feelings, how to keep his identity to himself, and how to get over a ghost so clearly in love with someone else.
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- Part 1 of Compass + Extras
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09 May 2026
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Liminal (Smudged in the Margins) by walrusface
Fandoms: Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 (Video Game)
02 Aug 2025
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As a lonely teenager, Verso paints himself a friend on a small, hidden canvas: Gustave, a confidant who quietly grows into something more. After the fracture, the other Verso finds Gustave again in Lumière. It should be impossible - and keeping his distance might be.
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04 Aug 2025
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Achievement Unlocked by The Feels Whale (miscellea)
Fandoms: 人渣反派自救系统 - 墨香铜臭 | The Scum Villain's Self-Saving System - Mòxiāng Tóngxiù
11 Dec 2021
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One day, after five years of reasonably peaceful marriage with only a few kidnappings and sex pollen incidents, Shen Yuan is sent back to his old body without warning. Luo Binghe makes a deal with an alien entity calling itself the System to perform a mission in exchange for the ability to bring his husband home.
The mission is simple; [Uncover secret transmigrator plotline and flesh out the character wiki!]
At least it will be once he figures out what the words ‘transmigrator’ and ‘wiki’ mean.
Or: That one where Shen Yuan and Luo Binghe don’t realize they’re in a domestic fluff bonus chapter.
Written for the 2021 MXTX Big Bang with art created by Ataratah
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05 May 2025
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Pieces Still Stuck In Your Teeth by howlsmovinglibrary
Fandoms: Baldur's Gate (Video Games)
22 May 2024
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“I mean it,” she said. “Don’t kill anyone, Astarion. You’ve gotten what you wanted. Seven thousand lives was enough.”
“I don’t take orders from you anymore. You just said so, yourself.”
“The moment you kill someone,” Rose replied, “is the moment I'll know that my next task is to stop you.”
“Darling,” Astarion grinned, “I would sincerely like to see you try.”
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The Vampire Ascendent has crossed a line. Eleven years after making the biggest mistake of her life and losing the man she loved, tiefling wizard (now Archmage) Rosalie decides it’s time to put this Astarion in the ground for good. Hopefully, both her head and her heart are strong enough to see this awful task through to its end.
(A lovers-to-enemies, ‘we’re divorced and going to make it everyone else’s problem’, Vampire-Ascendent-aesthetic-but-make- it “I can STILL fix him’ fic)
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- Part 5 of Rat Bastard Boi (BG3)