useless_historian
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He skips the shower when he gets home. If it’s living in the head of the shower then breathing it in is probably worse than whatever he might have picked up at the hospital. And if he’s got black mold living in his pillow he shouldn’t be sleeping with any sort of moisture on his head. Honestly, he shouldn’t even sleep with the pillow anyways, and that’s not too bad, he’s gone without a pillow hundreds of times before. But he can’t get in his bed if he hasn’t showered, he could be carrying something else from the hospital, and apparently Mckay had a patient with c.diff yesterday. So he can’t sleep unless he showers, but if he showers he’ll get sick. He’s stuck, standing in the doorway, one shoe off and one shoe on, trying to figure out what he’s supposed to do.
or: Whitaker has contamination OCD. He thinks a little too hard about all the microbes that live in old apartment buildings. Thank god he's got a rich older boyfriend in a new house!
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Jet had known for a long time that he could not “love”. At least not in the most traditional sense of the word. He would never be in the same dizzying romance that seemed to occupy the time of most of his peers, never feel the same way that they felt about another person. For the most part, this did not bother him. What did bother him was the fear that the people he cared about most (for though his heart did not work in the same way as others, there were people he cared about) would leave him once they managed to do just what he could not.
Fall in love.
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The mortifying ordeal of buying post-breakup flowers by useless_historian
Fandoms: The Penumbra Podcast
05 Aug 2020
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Peter Nureyev isn’t quite sure why he’s standing outside a flower shop in Hyperion City, a city he swore he’d never see again on a planet he promised himself that he’d never return to. Is it revenge? His vindictive streak would certainly suggest so, but even a man with a sordid history such as himself wouldn’t stoop so low as send flowers to an ex-something (Fling? Partner? Almost-but-not-quite lover?) on his birthday for the purpose of petty revenge.
Maybe he wants Juno to know that he’s still out there.
Maybe he just wants to send a former co-worker a gift on his birthday.
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and the night pointed a knife at our throat by TardisRos
Fandoms: Interview with the Vampire (TV 2022)
03 Jun 2026
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Some days are good. Good enough that life feels almost normal again.
Some days are a blur. He feels gentle touches in his hair, hears words he's too tired to understand.
And some days, when he notices how much time Louis is spending with him, when he realises how horrible he's being to him, he's just choked by the guilt of it all.
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Lestat has promised Louis a year together before going underground. This is a collection of events from that year.
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- Part 2 of a path to the sea
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02 Jul 2026
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and forgive me if I'm strong, yes, but then fragile too by TardisRos
Fandoms: Interview with the Vampire (TV 2022)
30 Jun 2026
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*SPOILERS FOR SEASON 3 EPISODE 3*
He doesn't know what compels him to find Lestat, after everything is done.
Perhaps it's the emptiness, the deep void he can almost see spreading within himself. Perhaps it's just the loneliness, or the need to be with someone who knew her, and loved her. Someone who can understand.
Or maybe it's just the fact that he really, really, misses him.
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Louis decides to meet with Lestat after killing Bruce. What he finds there is not exactly what he had expected.
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30 Jun 2026
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the place where the moon showed herself naked by TardisRos
Fandoms: Interview with the Vampire (TV 2022)
08 Sep 2025
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"You can sleep Lestat, it’s okay.”
“I’m sorry I sued you,” he manages to say around a sob.
“Lestat, come on, sshh,” he chides, rolling his eyes. His lawyer would have a field day with an admission like that. “Go to sleep.”
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A drunken call in the night makes the signs impossible to ignore anymore.
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01 Jul 2026
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4 times Peter got caught doing something sappy for Juno + 1 time Juno was sappy with Nureyev.
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29 Jun 2026
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“Are you decent?”
This is where the misunderstanding happens.
Trinity, in all of her panic and anguish, took the question to mean ‘are you okay’, so she very quickly blurted out “yeah.”
Al-Hashimi had not meant to ask if she was fine.; Trinity Santos has had an utterly exhausting, grueling day. Langdon's return, combined with all other factors, is just entirely overwhelming for a woman who feels very miserably and viscerally unseen and unwanted. She now sits in the bathroom with her pants around her ankles and her underwear still on, a sharp thing in her hand, and once she's done the woman who finds her is her worst-case scenario. Baran is not as horrible as she thinks she might be.
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15 Jun 2026