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The bickering also stays, but its form alters like spring frost melting into summer dew. Howl slithers out of arguments while settling a daisy wreath atop Sophie’s head. She is mid-sentence when he catches locks in his fingers and begins deftly plaiting her hair.
“What are you doing?” Sophie is caught off-guard—because sometimes Howl is so Howl that it still bewilders her.
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Some things stay the same, while others change for the better.
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Amy is growing increasingly suspicious that someone (or something) is stealing her coffee beans. She enlists the help of herself to catch the culprit in the act.
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In the evening, he made his way down to Trastevere, the food neighborhood where every winding alleyway was lined with hole-in-the-wall bars. He grabbed dinner from a sandwich shop and paused to ogle at the menu: each sandwich was named after a heavy metal band.
His friends back home would love this. Gwen, too, he thought, which was a weird thing to think. Gwen was a separate entity from his friends. She belonged to the world of Total Drama, a world that Duncan desperately tried to keep separate from everything else.
Duncan is free as a bird: he's ditched the Jumbo Jet and is ready to live life on his own terms. But as he pickpockets his way through Europe, his thoughts keep drifting back to one friend in particular. What the heck is that about?
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when we all fall asleep, where do we go? by CactusPot
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
06 Dec 2025
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“If you were reincarnated as an animal,” Steve says, “what would you like to be?”
Oh, do Robin’s eyes roll. “If the universe has any sense of humor at all, I’d be a robin. Singing my songs all day long, one-bird band, rockin’ robin. Tweet tweet.”
“And what animal do you think you deserve?”
“Deserve?” Robin repeats incredulously. “Man, you picked the exact wrong time to start with the shrooms. Lockdown finally cracking you?”
Steve and Robin ponder the afterlife.
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He was so stupid. Jo looked down at the empty black voice where she knew his hand was. If she couldn’t even see for herself, it didn’t really count. There would be no witnesses. And so she let go of Brick’s collar and tracked her hand down his arm until it found his own hand.
Now her heart was beating wildly for an entirely different reason. Stupid adrenaline.
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Lost in the woods of Wawanakwa, with no hope of returning to camp before morning, Jo and Brick are forced to... hold hands. Obviously emotions get involved.
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"There was a time when everyone seemed to be telling me."
Howl learns more about Sophie's curse (and has several goes at taking it off).
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Caleb has a problem: he's been at the Losers' Hotel for six days and he still doesn't know why he was the first person voted off the island.
MK has two problems: she's down a million dollars because of Julia's big fat mouth. More importantly, pretty boy Caleb is getting on her nerves.
They're still working on a solution.
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Ripper is distraught to learn that he and Millie wouldn't be together in every universe.
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Everyone is keenly aware that Jo spends most of her time flirting with Brick. This is news to Jo, apparently.
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A collection of relationships impacted by publicity, paparazzi, and the public eye.
I. Gwen and DJ
II. Courtney and Scott
III. Millie and RipperIV. Jo and Brick
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like we're made of starlight (like we dream impossible dreams) by CactusPot
Fandoms: Howl's Moving Castle - All Media Types
06 Apr 2025
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It was a lot of work, rearranging the castle to suit a Happily Ever After.
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There is a stowaway in the circus.
Guided by intuition and a desire to save someone from a terrible fate, Rainah goes looking for them.
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After an overwhelming start to her second day at the circus, Julia catches her breath while carving puppets.
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After a messy breakup, Sky and Dave both get involved with new people. One is handling things better than the other.
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Late in the evening, Ripper walks into the tuck shop and finds a familiar sight: Millie bawling her eyes out after ruining yet another friendship. Fortunately, he gives excellent advice, and they strike up a deal: he helps her win Damien back, she helps him win Axel over. And neither of them will mention what happened between them three months ago.
Written for Day 5 of Mipper Week: Canon Divergence + Hurt Comfort
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No, Babe, You Make 70s Sitcoms Sound So Hot and Exciting by CactusPot
Fandoms: Total Drama (Cartoon)
20 Nov 2024
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After discovering that Tasty Burger is closed for the night, Millie invites Ripper back to her dorm room. He proceeds to give his opinions on the decoration.
Written for Day 3 of Mipper Week (School AU) with the prompt "meet the family."
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- Part 3 of Mipper College AU
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Months after eloping with the love of her life, Amy decides to throw an official wedding to spite her pilates instructor. So what if Shawn refuses to show up to his own reception party? She's got more important things to worry about, like dresses and cake and... freeze rays?
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Noah receives a call from an excited fan.
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“But I know you’re really good at all this grammar and spelling junk. You could definitely help me edit my essay so I can actually get a decent grade!”
“Ripper, why should I be on the hook for your poor time management? I have my own midterms to study for, you know.”
“Please, Millie!” Ripper fell to his knees and clutched his hands together like he was praying for a miracle.
Millie looked at him for a few moments. Finally, she took a steadying breath. “Alright, I’ll help you.”
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During midterms season, Ripper wildly procrastinates his senior thesis and is left with no choice but to beg help from Millie, his rival-turned-maybe-friend.
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- Part 2 of Mipper College AU
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yeah i kissed a couple people but they taste wrong by CactusPot
Fandoms: Total Drama (Cartoon)
03 Jun 2024
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But hey, maybe Brick and Jo want to kiss and make up?
His stomach had lurched, but not from nausea. He’d looked away from her in shame. She couldn’t know. But Chris had brought it up first, right? It wasn’t Brick’s idea, right? And yet, from that moment forward he’d been hyper-aware of every detail… how if he moved the wrong way, his knee would bump against hers; how her hair was brassy gold in the firelight; how her eyes narrowed nearly to slits when she was mad at him.
Maybe it didn’t matter whose idea it was. It threatened to swallow him whole, a tidal wave advancing on a navy cruiser.
Didn’t think so.
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Written for Jock Week 2024, Day 3