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“Do not compare the love that a woman can bear me and that I owe to Olivia,” Orsino muttered, shaking his head.
“Ay, but I know!” the page boy shouted, his features pinched and flushed. His chest heaved as he breathed, apparently overcome with the force of his own outburst.
“What do you know?” he asked softly.
Cesario stepped forward, his footfalls near silent as he made his way from the other side of the room, until he eclipsed the chandelier, eclipsing Orsino in darkness. The boy’s lips were pressed tight together, his hands clasped in wringing prayer, his eyes shining like blackened pearls.
“Too well what love women to men may owe,” Cesario whispered.
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act 2 scene 4 takes a bit of a turn
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It was strange to think of him. Cesario. The play-pretend boy she’d fashioned out of her brother’s memory and her own skin. The boy who’d charmed his way into the laps of a Duke and a Countess.
It should have been enough to leave him behind and take up herself once more. She’d told Antonio, heart pounding in confusion and half-way hope, that she hated ingratitude in a man more than any other sin. What did that say about herself, then? She had her brother back, safe and happy in her arms. She had a sister now too. She finally had Orsino, to whom she would be married within the week. Yet, somehow, there was something caving in her chest.
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a late night conversation between Viola and Sebastian
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“My hair’s not that red,” Wylan scowled, pulling at his hair self-consciously.
“Right and I’m not the most handsome man you’ve ever seen.”
It was a small work of miracle that they were interrupted before Wylan could deem him a response. The operator slammed his meaty hand against the beam the stranger was leaning on, startling them both.
“Fahey,” he growled. Wylan’s foolish, foolish heart skipped a beat. His name was Fahey; it was a Kaelish surname. That explained the grey eyes. “Pay up. Boek ain’t running a charity here. You lose, you fork over the kruge. I ain’t asking you again.”
Fahey’s easy smile didn’t fade as much as it tightened. The twinkle was gone and Fahey seemed more like a caged animal. Wild. Desperate.
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in which Wylan, long-time Dreg's explosive's expert is on a job at the Liddies' new club. it was supposed to be an easy job but he never expected to meet Jesper Fahey along the way.
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A Crow By Any Other Name by ryessoapbox
Fandoms: Six of Crows Series - Leigh Bardugo, Shadow and Bone (TV)
22 Sep 2023
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A bruiser searching for a cause
A runaway grisha who cant keep away from the tables
A reluctant barrel boss
A convict with her faith scattered
A soldier making love not war
A second son with everything to gain and nothing to lose
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In which the crows get swapped around a bit but still manage to form a found family, kick Jan Van Eck to hell and break into an unbreakable prison -
of dark curls and watercolour eyes by ryessoapbox
Fandoms: Six of Crows Series - Leigh Bardugo
13 Jun 2023
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Turning around, Wylan came nose to nose with a boy. A boy he had decidedly never seen before. Wylan would remember if somebody so pretty haunted these halls. Dark brown and unreasonably tall, the man was dressed in the roughspun of a groundsman. But his grey eyes glinted too much mischief and too little recognition. His lips – Ghezen he had the prettiest lips – were slightly parted at the shock of Wylan’s presence.
They breathed in tandem for a moment or two, like some sort of clockwork creation. Then the boy’s expression melted into a slow, sly grin.
“Funny finding you here."
Or the one where Jesper breaks into the Van Eck mansion and commits mild identity theft.
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cross my heart and hope to die by ryessoapbox
Fandom Shadow and Bone (TV), Six of Crows Series - Leigh Bardugo
12 Apr 2023
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There is something hot and terrible roiling in Armand’s gullet, something that saps the heat from everything else in his body, as if each step leeches more of his energy. The sluggish, near congealed slop he downed for Louis’ sake at the table might has well have been chicken soup or dish soap for all it offers now. He has the sudden and urgent need to find the nearest living creature and pry its jaws apart to share in this– upending it all. Frothing and boiling over.
Armand weathers esophageal aches in the wake of his banishment.
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- Part 2 of Chasms
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23 Jul 2026
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This is bullshit. Daniel has spent two years persistently dialling Armand’s mental phone number in the vampire psychic network, and after two years of getting the equivalent of ‘the number you’re trying to reach no longer exists,’ he bumps into his maker in a dinky little repair shop. In Canada. Smelling like—this is where Daniel must be going crazy, because Armand smelled like a human in there. An unremarkable, blood-filled, regular human, with notes of stale sweat and artificial lemon detergent.
Which part of the vampiric telenovela that makes up Daniel’s life is this again?
(OR, the fic where Armand shows up again as a human, but Daniel's still a vampire, and then they do role-reversal Devil's Minion nonsense)
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16 Jul 2026
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to the shame of queer theorists everywhere by starlitsequins
Fandoms: Interview with the Vampire (TV 2022)
19 May 2026
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The file on Daniel Molloy, to the Talamasca’s great inconvenience, has been closed and reopened twelve times in the last fifty years.
Armand sires his first fledgling after half a century. Said fledgling then publishes a best-selling novel. The world reacts.
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16 Jul 2026
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portrait of the vampire by volkswagonblues
Fandoms: Interview with the Vampire (TV 2022)
16 Oct 2024
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me: "kinda want to do another role reversal fic where Daniel is the vampire and Armand is the human"
also me: "I really see human Armand being a depressed millennial artist working for a fuckass London theatre troupe, autistic rizz off the charts. And worse on top of that--he's French."
still me: "Vampire Daniel is pretty much just Daniel"
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15 Jul 2026
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in throes of decreasing wonder by starlitsequins
Fandoms: Interview with the Vampire (TV 2022)
01 Mar 2026
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When Daniel trails through the scattered pages back to Armand, once again ten million dollars richer, the vampire is already standing up and brushing dust from his clothes. “I want to watch Breaking Dawn - Part 2,” he tells Daniel.
“Uh.” Daniel must have set off something strange in this loop. “Ever heard of Groundhog Day?” he hedges. “Also, unrelated question: Does today feel strangely familiar?”
Armand’s jaw twitches. “The only familiarity of today, Mr. Molloy,” he says snippily, “is that incessant inability of yours to do your job and listen.”
“Jesus,” Daniel says. “Forget it, then.”
“I want to watch Breaking Dawn - Part 2,” Armand repeats.
Daniel is trapped in a time loop. Armand seems irrelevant to it, until he isn't.
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15 Jul 2026