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“It’s not a secret,” Mr. Johnson says. He ducks down to wipe more aggressively at a stain on the floor, the mop squeaking. “Everyone knows.” He pauses. “Right?”
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10 May 2026
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The first time Niles and Daphne had sex was during that heatwave but since then they'd been careful. Enjoyable as that night had been, they weren't letting any of that into their day-to-day lives. The Montana was where they had sex. That one time. And then a few more times after that. Until last night that is.
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31 Aug 2025
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He's good and just and noble and kind. And he was raised by dwarfs, who are a "procreation-only" society if there ever was one. But she wasn't. So how the hell is she to go out with a man who blushes at the idea of a packet of Sonkies?
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15 Oct 2024
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...and a partridge in a pear tree by strangehunger
Fandoms: Gideon the Ninth - Tamsyn Muir
04 Feb 2020
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“Gideon,” said Palamedes with the patience of a saint, “the rules are the rules. It wouldn’t be fair if I changed them just for you. In a well ordered society—
“It’s not a well ordered society.” Gideon knew where that was going, and she certainly didn’t have the time. She slapped a slip of paper onto the counter and said, “It’s secret santa.”
And there lay the source of all of her problems: handwritten in a script so neat and precise it could have been printed, Harrowhark Nonagesimus. And everyone knew that Gideon and Harrow hated each other.
So what if they had started taking smoke breaks together? So what if Harrow had helped her fold shirts just last week, in a store she didn’t even work in? So what if Harrow had laughed as the two of them did Jagerbombs at Palamedes’ Halloween party, the glint of her fake fangs flashing invitingly in the orange party lights? They hated each other. The two of them would both work in the mall until one of them inevitably strangled the other with her bare hands, and Gideon wouldn’t have it any other way.
Except that lately, Gideon had started to like Harrow.
Which made that slip of paper a fucking problem.
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14 Jun 2024
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And the heart that fed by almostnectarine for Lirillith
Fandoms: ダンジョン飯 | Dungeon Meshi | Delicious in Dungeon
13 Dec 2019
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“How precious are your futures?” asks the Sphinx. “How dear to you is the path you wish to take?” She bares her teeth in a cruel smile, and they all take an involuntary step back.
“Wait,” says Laios suddenly. “Look at her teeth!”
“Yes, Laios,” says Izutsumi. “We’ve all noticed the fangs. This really isn’t the time—”
“No,” says Laios, “those back teeth. She has molars- grinders. That means she’s an omnivore. But she can’t leave this circle, and you saw how nothing ventures within miles of this spot. I bet she hasn’t had anything other than…” he swallows, waving a hand vaguely at the pile of ex-adventurers, “...meat… for years .”
“So…what?” asks Izutsumi.
“Remember how good those marshmallows were?” asks Laios. “And that was only after a couple days without much of a varied diet.”
“You want to bet all of our lives,” Chilchuck says slowly, “on making a Sphinx a nice dessert?”
Laios smiles.
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