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Her ears are ringing, perfect little fluting tones that flit and trill around her head as she continues her cyclical, helpless, baby-duck stumbling, limbs clumsy and haphazard in contrast to the straight and easy way the other girl is holding herself. She’s beautiful, even in her boredom; tossing her hair, fluffing her hair, tugging lightly at the long, straight strands. Madotsuki wants to be closer. Wants it with a tireless, empty longing that feels like her insides are getting pulled up her throat.
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She’s never really noticed before but Noelle has really nice hair, doesn’t she? Like, objectively. Susie doesn’t really know much about what hair is nice and what hair… isn’t, but like. Noelle’s is all shiny and curly and kinda like spaghetti and she kinda wants to eat it?? Sorta?? And it looks soft, and Susie’s not usually all that big on that soft, mushy shit but like. She’s curious, okay!! Sue her!!!
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Children. Children! You know nothing of children! You know nothing other than that you will fight and you will fail and you will die, and there will be nothing left but children!
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“Hair-pulling,” they mumble. They open their eyes. They still don’t look at her. “Trichotillomania. Hair-pulling. It’s…”
“A body focused repetitive behavior,” Noelle singsongs, textbook-perfect as she turns back to her reflection. “Wherein the affected feels an overwhelming urge to pull out their own hair. From the head, from the eyebrows, from the eyelashes, from anywhere hair might grow! And between you and me, Kris-“ they give a tiny, almost imperceptible flinch- “it’s also really freaking annoying.”
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“You’re worrying. You shouldn’t worry,” Kris says, stiff. Mechanical. Giving a strange little gesture towards the giant freaking block of ice. “It was… fight or flight. Eat or be eaten. Perfectly natural.”
Uhhh??
“It was… natural?” Noelle repeats, wondering. Brow furrowing. “Uhh, Kris, I don’t know if you saw that, but it was pretty much the opposite of natural. Like, I don’t think it could’ve been any less natural!! Freaking- red dye 40 is more natural! The Mountain Dew Baja Blast!! Gamer fuel!!!”
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Sweet couldn’t say how long they stay there, breathing each other in, the sun low on the horizon but never dipping beneath it; painting the sky pink, red, gold. Behind them, the chatter of their friends. In front of them, the low-lit scatter of detritus, of a life lived- well or not, who knows- pressed flat to the earth. The deep depression of a well. The turn of the soil, pushed up by the earthworms. Up, up, up. Her fingers skitter up Kung Fu’s arm once more, little earthworms, pressed into the soft flesh of her bicep, rolling over her shoulder.
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trip, skip, flutter by tacit_semantics
Fandoms: ウマ娘 プリティーダービー | Uma Musume: Pretty Derby (Video Game)
25 Nov 2025
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“Hey!” New Uma says, voice high and fluting. “You look a little lost. All aghhhhhh and stuff, but that’s cool ‘cause your hero is here! Come on, come hang out with me and my friends!”
Girl? Girl talking to her? Girl talking to her, Agnes Digital?? Pretty girl, with big brown eyes and orange hair flowing down her back, head cocked to her shoulder and bomber jacket tucked around her waist and ears- those beautiful-gorgeous-perfect Uma ears, agh- twitching and flicking with curiosity? Bright, perfect, pretty girl?? Hello? Did she just up and freaking die? Can anyone hear her??? Girl? Girl???
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fill the form by tacit_semantics
Fandoms: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (TV 2003), Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles - All Media Types
08 Oct 2025
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“Yo, dudes,” Mikey says one day. “Not for nothing or whatever, but do you guys ever wish you were like… dudettes?”
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the cat’s meow by tacit_semantics
Fandoms: Rise of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (Cartoon 2018), Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles - All Media Types
01 Oct 2025
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“Fine. Huff,” Donnie says, in the better of efficiency this time, because this battle shell was designed with several convenient pockets for his multitudes. “We’re here because we- as in I- am going to find Michelangelo a kitten. For his birthday. Not a random, aimless kitten, like some kind of dumb-dumb. A kitten with purpose. A kitten with a cause. You get it.”
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may, june by tacit_semantics
Fandoms: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (TV 2012), Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles - All Media Types
16 Sep 2025
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Raph’s just driven his sai into April Clone Three Billion and One’s eye- and she explodes into a bunch of goop, which hasn’t gotten less gross between April clone one and three billion by the way- when he sees the flash of April’s, real April’s tessen out of the corner of his eye, and it’s… fast. Way too fast. Fast and erratic and just a little too brutal, and that’s coming from him; she’s mowing through those guys, one after the other, slash after slash after crazy fucking slash, and he’s watching and he’s getting distracted and annoyed about it, and the pieces snap together right on the wrong end of an April-clone punch to the shell:
Ah, shit. She’s angry.
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then you, then you by tacit_semantics
Fandoms: Batgirl (Comics), Batman - All Media Types
11 Sep 2025
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It’s not nearly as uncomfortable as it could be these days- which is to say not nearly as uncomfortable as it used to be- but Cassandra also often runs cold. Cold enough that Barbara can’t help but give a sympathetic shiver, cold enough to give her pause, and between that and the movements so smooth as to be superhuman and then of course the silence, the lack of clothes rustling or audible breathing or even so much as a footstep out of place-
Well.
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reduplicatives by tacit_semantics
Fandoms: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (TV 2003), Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles - All Media Types
03 Sep 2025
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“-well, he’s. Fidgety too, you get me?” Raph continues, thankfully oblivious to her internal (and eternal) big sister ramblings. “Does all that same kinda shit, the- rockin’, the shaking. Bites shit sometimes. Bit me once, which like, what the shell man, but it makes him happy, you get me? ‘S good for him. Natural, but we all kinda thought it was something only he did, or maybe some kinda mutant turtle bullshit, until, uh. Well, until you came along, I guess.”
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Poignant Bean by tacit_semantics
Fandoms: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (TV 1987), Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles - All Media Types
03 Aug 2025
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“You see,” Donatello says, popping right back up from the floor. “You see, you see. Ol’ Shredhead opening up a bakery is one thing- a hobby never hurt anyone, and we all tried those pastries so we know he’s good for it, that’s for sure, but the man’s greedy! He’d never run a sale! And definitely not every single Tuesday- no, no fellas, I think there’s something bigger going on here. I smell a rat.”
Or: soylent green parody fic. not sure how much it will make sense without having seen the movie. you can do whatever you want forever
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- Part 1 of you can be a star
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- 2,145
- Chapters:
- 1/1
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- 6
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we'll eat you up, we love you so! by tacit_semantics
Fandoms: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (TV 2003), Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles - All Media Types
08 May 2025
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“Right,” Mikey snorts, and then gestures down towards his setup, all but beaming with pride. “So we’ll ease into it! Instead of tryin’ to like, skydive right to the meat of the, uh, bare bones-“
“Mixing metaphors. Cross-contamination,” Donnie says. He is actually factually correct, and also actually factually ignored.
“-I’ll draw you a picture! You get a little distance, Leo doesn‘t get mad at me ‘cause I let you watch the giant monster Don video, and also I get to show off a bit, which. Never hurt a guy, y’know?”
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build, break by tacit_semantics
Fandoms: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (TV 2012), Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles - All Media Types
05 May 2025
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“Yeah, for like two hours,” Raph says. He’s leaning forward, brows drawn and irritation clouding clear as day in the lines of his shoulders, and he’s stressed so he’s looking for a fight and Leo knows that, she knows that, she can see and hear and feel it in the way Raph’s egging her on, but see Raph is stressed, so Raph is looking for a fight, and well? Well?
Leo is too.
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the world shines by tacit_semantics
Fandoms: 天官赐福 - 墨香铜臭 | Tiān Guān Cì Fú - Mòxiāng Tóngxiù
12 Apr 2025
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Good, good, good. Yes, yes, yes. Xie Lian shoots him a (still somewhat fever-bright, though he is hoping against all hope that that works in his favor here) smile, and then sets about getting things where and how he wants them: lies himself flat on his back and tugs Hua Cheng fully atop himself, heavy and cool and close. Wriggles the other man’s arms down around his waist, presses his head towards his chest, bullies the two of them into place with his brow furrowed and the echo of memory threading through his movements- a childhood spent giggling and goading his mother into holding him tight and close, safe and warm and so very, very loved- as he rearranges their limbs to his liking.
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- Part 2 of autistic xie lian fics
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to err, or: on taking candy from strangers by tacit_semantics
Fandoms: 天官赐福 - 墨香铜臭 | Tiān Guān Cì Fú - Mòxiāng Tóngxiù
05 Apr 2025
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See, see (and as it turns out), locked-up luck in combination with that lack of innate person-to-person understanding has proven itself to be a bit of a recipe for disaster, and sure a lot in life is a lot in life, but the inconvenience of it all is astounding! He’s always been the sort of person to find himself right in the thick of all sorts of ridiculous situations, but the sheer number as of late has begun to border on excessive, even for him!
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- Part 1 of autistic xie lian fics
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forwards, backwards, upside down by tacit_semantics
Fandoms: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (TV 2012), Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles - All Media Types
30 Mar 2025
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“I dunno what you want me to say, dude,” Mikey says, obviously getting bored with this even as he holds up a hand over his shoulder, fingers crossed. “Me ‘n Dimension X are like this. We’re bros, bro. She looooooves me.”
“She’s an alien hell dimension,” Leo points out, exhausted.
“No one’s perfect,” Mikey singsongs right back, dropping his hand.
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bermuda, bahama by tacit_semantics
Fandoms: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (TV 2012), Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles - All Media Types
14 Mar 2025
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“Ohhhh!” April repeats immediately, grabbing onto the back of his chair with her free hand and maybe possibly shaking it a little tiny bit. She’s excited! What can she say! “A poem! For Mona Lisa! That’s so sweet!”
A second of silence.
“…also a little funny. Sorry, dude.”
Or: in which Raph writes a poem, April kinda sorta maybe almost helps, and Mikey is also there
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sister, sister by tacit_semantics
Fandoms: Rise of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (Cartoon 2018), Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles - All Media Types
06 Mar 2025
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“Waitwaitwait. Hold up,” April- with impeccable dramatic timing, as always- says. “If Splints is your dad and the guys are your bros and the guys are my bros, then-“ trailing off into mumbles here, tracing in the air with her finger- “divide by two, carry the four, Please Excuse My Dear Aunt Sally-”
She stops. She lights up from the inside out. She feels what’s either a herd of elephants or like, a ton of firecrackers go trampling through her chest because do you know what this means? Do you know what this means?
FREE BIG SISTER, BABY!!! HOT FUCKING SOUP!!!