look at the fire and think of me
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the spruces they burn black but they’ll sprout back up again by This_world_of_beautiful_monsters
Fandoms: DCU (Comics), Batman - All Media Types, Batgirl (Comics), Birds of Prey (And the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn) (2020)
28 Mar 2026
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"So cool," she breathes when you catch her trying to lift from your pocket, your fingers digging into the meat of her wrist. She's got a smile that lights up her whole face, sends her dark eyes dancing. She's got your name, but if she reminds you of anyone, it's Steph.
____Cassandra, through the looking glass.
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- Part 1 of look at the fire and think of me
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the girls have picked them every one (they’re covered with flowers every one) by This_world_of_beautiful_monsters
Fandoms: 1000xRESIST (Video Game)
29 Mar 2026
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“The name Iris…if it’s not a function, does it have any other meanings? Besides being a person, I mean.”
____On her journey through the ALLMOTHER’s history, Watcher learns more about the folded layers of form and function.
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- Part 2 of look at the fire and think of me
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everyone else is younger & more talented by This_world_of_beautiful_monsters
Fandoms: 1000xRESIST (Video Game)
29 Mar 2026
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"Look at them," Mimi says to Iris, watching the clones swarm around a wobbly newborn. "Our beautiful daughters."
____Iris struggles with insecurity, and Mimi is less than helpful.
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- Part 3 of look at the fire and think of me
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peace and understanding, forever may you reign by This_world_of_beautiful_monsters
Fandoms: Herculine - Grace Byron
29 Mar 2026
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"It's grown so long," she says, voice soft with wonder, making you sit in front of her as she weaves it into a loose braid. Her fingers brush the back of her back of your neck and you try not to shiver at the touch, not wanting to look ungrateful by pulling away. "Like Rapunzel."
"Now all I need is a tower," you say, and she laughs that sharp, ringing laugh of hers that you missed so much. You laugh along, while behind your eyes you see the meeting hall, the benches, the looming shadow of the woman in her hazmat suit. You wonder whether that counts as a tower in Ash's world, in yours.
____Weaving the strands, before and after the end.
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- Part 4 of look at the fire and think of me
- Part 16 of the first bite tastes the best
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swing me your bones, come settle down, settle down by This_world_of_beautiful_monsters
Fandoms: Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora (Video Game), James Cameron's Avatar - All Media Types
30 Mar 2026
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Optimistic, maybe. But Priya is optimistic, and fearless, and demanding like no one Anqa's met, bending the universe to her will. She's a force of nature in her own right, especially at times like this, her eyes shining against the shadows of their bedroom.
____Or, Anqa doesn't need release to know that she's adored.
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- Part 5 of look at the fire and think of me
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i am never broken (we are never broken) by This_world_of_beautiful_monsters
Fandoms: Interview with the Vampire (TV 2022)
30 Mar 2026
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"But beautiful vampiresses such as ourselves deserve fine accessories, yes?" Madeleine asks, glancing up at Claudia and wiping her mouth. "We can't let the boys have all the fun."
____On building a wardrobe and a home.
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- Part 6 of look at the fire and think of me
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here’s to the damned, to the lost and forgotten by This_world_of_beautiful_monsters
Fandoms: Doom Patrol (TV)
30 Mar 2026
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She spends hours walking up and down or sitting on a bench, studying Danny's seemingly endless sprawl. The different storefronts, different bars and hotels and apartments, different parts of a whole. Each filling a niche, forming something greater, messy and chaotic as that something often was.
It feels familiar.
___Jane, finding her way.
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- Part 7 of look at the fire and think of me
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and i feel life for the very first time, love in my arms and the sun in my eyes by This_world_of_beautiful_monsters
Fandoms: Avatar (Cameron Movies), James Cameron's Avatar - All Media Types
31 Mar 2026
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”Thank you,” she whispers, settling her head back against Kiri’s shoulder. “Just…thank you, Kir.”
”Anytime, Monkey Girl.” Kiri presses her lips to Spider’s forehead, mouth warm as a drop of sunlight. Her hand comes up over Spider’s chest, tracing slow circles.
___Or, Spider and Kiri come out of the fire and into a new life.
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- Part 8 of look at the fire and think of me
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bow down, face to the floor by This_world_of_beautiful_monsters
Fandoms: Herculine - Grace Byron
01 Apr 2026
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I know exactly what you need, of course. I did before, to an extent, but now I can read the thoughts twirling inside your skull like the pages of a book, something beautiful bound in soft emerald light.
___Or, Ash’s perspective on her and the narrator’s reunion in the church.
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- Part 9 of look at the fire and think of me
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in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet by This_world_of_beautiful_monsters
Fandoms: Avatar (Cameron Movies), James Cameron's Avatar - All Media Types
02 Apr 2026
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I know the touch of your hands, the movement of your feet, the gentle prick of your needles and clippers against me, but you are a mystery to my skin, as I am a mystery to you. A “fairytale,” was it? A myth. A legend.
___Or, the striking of a bargain beneath the holy tree.
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- Part 10 of look at the fire and think of me
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but i won’t make an incision 'til you're nice and numb by This_world_of_beautiful_monsters
Fandoms: 1000xRESIST (Video Game)
03 Apr 2026
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“Wrong?” Iris lets out a brittle laugh, thrusting her hand at the glass tank on the lab’s counter. “Oh, nothing much. You’ve only turned me into fucking sludge, again.”
___A glimpse into the early days of scientific progress.
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- Part 11 of look at the fire and think of me
- Part 10 of collected the pieces and picked out a dagger
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branches splinter through my lungs, begging me please let this grow by This_world_of_beautiful_monsters
Fandoms: 1000xRESIST (Video Game)
04 Apr 2026
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So maybe Jiao is stupid, a little bit, for still trying to keep up with her, for thrusting her hand into the flames again and again. She runs until she can’t anymore and Iris is always one step ahead of her, her beautiful face twisted in scorn when she deigns to look over her shoulder. The light brushes her glasses like a struck flame, bright as her bared teeth.
___Or, Jiao (more or less) understands the nature of her relationship of Iris. It doesn’t dissuade her one bit.
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- Part 12 of look at the fire and think of me
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little by little one comes to know / the limits and depths of power by This_world_of_beautiful_monsters
Fandoms: Herculine - Grace Byron
05 Apr 2026
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Instead of doing any of those things, she just lies there staring at the walls of her prison through a dull haze. Blue skies, green grass, carefully tended cabins and the latest oddly shaped corpse roasting on the fire and girls wandering around with faces full of blank worship. A little slice of paradise, perched primly in the mouth of hell.
___Indigo, clawing her way free.
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- Part 13 of look at the fire and think of me
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 777
- Chapters:
- 1/1
- Collections:
- 3
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took a cleaver, carved my heart out, for a taste of claimed saintliness by This_world_of_beautiful_monsters
Fandoms: Interview with the Vampire (TV 2022)
06 Apr 2026
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Of course, it was about her. It's always about her. Her red hair and her red lips and the fucking red blood dripping down her legs. The swastika, too, over the door. She's a traitor, a sellout, smeared in the blood of innocents. Chows down on her own kind like nobody's business. Remind you of anyone?
___One of the very last pages in a dead girl's diary, scratched out in an unusually shaky hand.
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- Part 14 of look at the fire and think of me
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she scrapes the dirt from souls in her boots, the buried bodies by This_world_of_beautiful_monsters
Fandoms: Doki Doki Literature Club! (Visual Novel)
09 Apr 2026
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Monika shouldn’t even know what an “itch” is, should she? But the word is in her head, first in English and then in Japanese, the ugly shift that always comes with her lying origins. Itch, かゆみ, itched, itchy, itching. Only living girls itch, and she’s not a living girl.
____While the dead club members rot, something else grows.
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subject line: difficult, but necessary by This_world_of_beautiful_monsters
Fandoms: Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora (Video Game), James Cameron's Avatar - All Media Types
10 Apr 2026
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Resistance Base, Klingor Forest, 2170.
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- Part 10 of testing, testing, testing (noise noise noise)
- Part 16 of look at the fire and think of me
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...my leader and my light. i am doing this for her—always for her. by This_world_of_beautiful_monsters
Fandoms: Avatar (Cameron Movies), James Cameron's Avatar - All Media Types
10 Apr 2026
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She knows you are there, always there, but does she know you are watching? You can’t tell--you, who know everything, can't tell. You doubt it, though. The Eywa she has been told of is focused on the balance of nature, not the little things that teenagers get up to in the dead of night.
___Or, aren't all mothers curious about what their children do when no one is around?
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- Part 17 of look at the fire and think of me
- Part 11 of collected the pieces and picked out a dagger
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wayward winds, a voice that sings of a forgotten land (see it fall, child of war, oh lend a mending hand) by This_world_of_beautiful_monsters
Fandoms: Anne Rice's Talamasca: The Secret Order (TV 2025)
11 Apr 2026
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Their eyes are the same shape, same shade, same weight of history behind them. Eyes that fit the bodies they wear, match them as they match each other. They are like queens on a playing card, the same image doubled with perfect detail. For a few seconds, Doris can't tell who is who.
___Doris and Helen attempt to explore what could have been.
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- Part 18 of look at the fire and think of me
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i never thought i'd be a killer, 'cause there's so much to lose by This_world_of_beautiful_monsters
Fandoms: Project Hail Mary (2026), Project Hail Mary - Andy Weir
12 Apr 2026
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But if I can't drink the water, what else can I do?
___The cosmonaut and the director, the last night before the end.
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- Part 19 of look at the fire and think of me
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my body's relic left behind, to fossilize beneath the willow trees by This_world_of_beautiful_monsters
Fandoms: Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora (Video Game), James Cameron's Avatar - All Media Types
13 Apr 2026
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"Sorry," she hears herself whisper. "Sorry, lo siento, Mami." The Spanish falls from her so easily--Alma had used it with them often, safer than the stark exposure of English or the tripwires of Na'vi. "Por favor, vuelve."
___Alone (more or less) in the Clouded Forest, Ri'nela takes the opportunity to unravel.
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- Part 20 of look at the fire and think of me