CuratedCactus
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“Someone is calling for you.” Zooble mildly spoke, frowning at the way the child cowered.
“I hate that name.”
“Huh?”
“I wish I had a different one.” The boy’s voice wobbled.
And then, Zooble was alone again.
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POST EPISODE 9 FINALE SPOILERS!
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“Well, I wouldn’t mind seeing the maid dress again.” Ragatha mumbled, and they all froze.
Ribbit broke first, a loud guffaw escaping as Kaufmo snorted into his hand.
“…What?” Jax flushed. “What the hell do you mean by that?”
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“Well, I suppose your husband will keep you in line.” Iruka giggled, twirling one of Kakashi’s locks distractedly.
Kakashi froze on top of him.
A beat.
“Ah.”
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Or, Iruka accidentally proposes earlier than planned. Kakashi relishes in his lover’s embarrassment.
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It was a comment Alastor had made in passing while sharing a cup of tea, one that the overlord hadn’t thought too deeply about. It wasn’t a strange thought to have, so why did Charlie have that expression on her face?
…Who wouldn’t prefer being a woman, after all?
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Soulmarks were special.
Movies liked to romanticize them, sure, but they were more than a mark. They were a symbol of a lifelong bond, of a closeness that many yearned to achieve. Married couples showed them off more than wedding rings if a pair of matching marks appeared, gloating to all that would listen.
The marks were sometimes identical, but other times matching as a pair. It would be something meaningful to the pair, typically, something that brought joy.
Mike and Will had their first matching ones appear when they were 6 years old.
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- Part 3 of Byler-verse
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There’s an abandoned cottage in the woods, and a bruised to hell Billy Hargrove finds it in the middle of a snowy night in early March. This turns into a bigger deal than it probably ought to.
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When he wakes, he has no idea who he is. Not his name, what he looks like, or why he’s flat on his back, staring up at the stars littering the night sky.
The first thing he learns about himself is that he has shitty instincts, especially if his first one is to protect the blue-eyed man currently stabbing someone in the face.
Or, the story where two strangers can’t agree on much and know even less, but they’re both fairly certain that they’re in love.
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05 Jul 2026
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A Beginner's Guide to HTML and CSS on AO3 by the_untamed_poet25
Fandoms: No Fandom, Fandom - Fandom, AO3, Original Work
06 Jul 2026
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You've seen it. A fic formatted like a classified document. A chapter that looks like a real social media feed. An interactive game, somehow, inside an AO3 work. You clicked the kudos button. You thought: how.
This is the tutorial that answers that.
A beginner-friendly guide to HTML and CSS on AO3 — no prior coding experience required. By the end of this series, you'll know enough to write formatted fics, build your own workskins, style your entire AO3 interface, and maybe make something that makes other people stop and think how.
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- Part 23 of Izzy's HTML & CSS Experiments
- Part 2 of HTML/CSS AO3 Skins & Tutorials
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- English
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- 7/?
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04 Jul 2026
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Cas comes back. It's not exactly the reunion that Dean is expecting.
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Dean stares at him, flummoxed. Cas quite literally poured his heart out to Dean, gave a truly sappy and distressingly romantic speech and everything, then proceeded to give his life so that Dean could live his. And he wants to act like he doesn't want to see Dean, be around him, touch him?
Actually, Dean's ninety-nine percent sure that Cas probably wants to fuck him, and while he has no clue how he feels about that, he's pretty goddamn sure that means Cas doesn't get to act like this and make it authentic.
It feels strangely real, though, as if Cas wants nothing more than to get as far away from him as possible. This is a blatant contradiction. Even someone as weird as Cas doesn't want to get away from the person they have the desire to fuck five ways to Sunday, that they're in love with. That's not how these things work, so Dean isn't buying it.
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- Part 1 of Cursed Metaphors
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29 Jun 2026
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The silence in the car becomes unbearable.
“Hey kid,” Billy tries. “Where you from?”
“The future,” she replies.
Okay, so she doesn’t wanna talk. “Right, got it.”
Except he desperately needs something to distract him. “Like distant future, or…?”
“A year and a half,” she says. “Maybe more.”
“Damn,” he whistles. “Future any good?”
“No," she says. "Everyone dies.”
“Sounds rough.”
“Yes,” the girl agrees.