A Moment In Sacrifice!Damen's Journey

This snippet will plague me for weeks on end! arrghhhh!!

“Your wands, if you please,” the worker said, motioning towards it.

Without pause, and to Harry’s great shock, Malfoy pulled out his wand. He slipped it into one of the open holes in the wall without question, then tied the bag shut.

“Mokeskin containers,” he explained to Harry, who was surely watching Malfoy surrender his wand unquestionably in utter shock.

“Mokeskin…?”

“Of course. It’s a standard policy at places like this—the decent ones, anyway. Mokeskin makes it so no one but the rightful owner of the wand can retrieve it.”

Harry took a moment to consider that. Really, he thought, it was quite genius. Having a bunch of wizards getting drunk in a public space did seem like a recipe for disaster, and making it so that they all had to keep their wands out of reach was an excellent way to mitigate any potential damage. Mokeskin was probably the only foolproof way to ensure that the owners of the wands would not have them stolen.

It also must have been bloody expensive too, Harry thought. He knew the mokeskin bag that Hagrid had once gotten him was far from cheap.

Unwittingly, Harry recalled the last time he had seen that bag. When Voldemort had forced him to open it, to reveal all his most precious items…

Maybe I have an affection for broken and damaged things.

…before vanishing them all, forever.

“It’s perfectly safe,” the worker said, drawing Harry’s focus back to the present. “At Cloak and Laurel we take the utmost pride in making sure that all of our—”

“Just take us in,” Malfoy interrupted in a drawl. The worker gave Harry a questioning a look, but didn’t seem to want to argue with Malfoy or ask anything of Harry at all. He eventually nodded stiffly, then opened the door for them to go in. Evocative, jazzy music met their ears, and Harry could see more faerie lights illuminating a much larger space.

Harry swallowed hard. Malfoy didn’t think he had a wand, that was perfectly clear. Harry was perfectly content to let him—and everyone who worked here—think that. He took a deep breath and followed Malfoy into Cloak and Laurel.

The second he stepped over the threshold, the doorway lit up in blue.

Malfoy whipped around, his confused, pale face glowing blue from the now glowing doorway. His magic become bright and frazzled, as did that of the worker’s.

“S-so sorry, sir,” the worker said. “But I must ask that you stow your wand at the front like Mr. Malfoy did. It’s for the protection of all of our clients…”

Harry tensed. He really didn’t want to give away that he had a wand at all, let alone the Dark Lord’s wand…

Malfoy stared at him with his brows raised but said nothing. Harry, not seeing a way around it, slowly reached into his pocket. He reluctantly withdrew the yew wand.

I think sending someone to kill the other is their way of giving gifts, and killing the person sent their way is the gift. 

“I’d say this makes us even. I sent someone to kill you… you sent someone to kill me. Even-Steven.”

“Consider it an act of reciprocity.”

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suddenly remembered this poem as i was making breakfast this morning & frantically googled “poem remembered to buy eggs?????????” & somehow managed to find it & it utterly knocked the wind out of me just as much as when i first read it

The Fates (Maleficent AU)

"M–my Lord," a rat-faced man speaks, knees sinking to the floor. "I know where he is, I know where Harry Potter is."

The Lord on his throne laughs. A cold, hollow sound that could shake the fear out of the ground.

"It would seem," Voldemort smiles, "the Fates are on my side."

(As the Lord sits and prowls on his glory of grandeur, above the clouds, the Fates snicker with shaking heads for they are not, in fact, on his side)

They have done well to hide his location.

Kept in the deepest, most dangerous parts of the woods. Secured under a barrier of protective magic. It takes a while for Voldemort to pierce through the wall. That fool, Dumbledore did his homework.

Slowly, he lurks closer to the crib. He is disgusted to find the thing already staring at him.

With big eyes that shone the type of innocence only seen by youths, this thing, his would-be destroyer, looks nothing more than a common baby with an oversized head. Offended, he is, that the majority of townsfolk considers this to be their ungodly savior.

Either way, Voldemort would gladly crush their hopes once he encloses his claws around his neck and squeezes.

His oversized head tilts to the side, curiously staring at the face of his soon-to-be killer.

Then, softly, he smiles. A wide grin displaying multiple gaps and small teeth that has yet to mature.

The oversized thing raises a hand, fingers dwindling in a silent plea to come closer. Amused by the request, Voldemort reaches out a hand of his own.

His palm and fingers are significantly longer, both in length and width, dwarfing the oversized thing's own hand. With this, he could easily crush his wrist, and finally be rid of this thing.

"A–are you going to kill him yet my lord?" the rat asks, and for a blissful minute there, Voldemort nearly forgets his existence

He looks back at the oversized thing. His would-be killer. Then smiles wickedly, "Not yet."

(Voldemort is curious—

What would the boy become? Does the prophecy hold any relevance? Is this boy just an oversized thing with an oversized head and oversized eyes?

To not be careless, he'd send Barty watch over the boy. In case the prophecy indeed holds some truth.

Perhaps some day he'd visit that cottage himself)

"My Lord," his servant bows his head. "I have returned, and came to report you per usual."

"Speak, Barty."

"Harry Potter will be turning eight next week. He does his morning routine as follows; fetching water on a well, baking or tidying the garden, rolling down grassy hills, speaking to faeries and sometimes disregarding his godfathers' warnings or commands." He clears his throat. "He is a curious boy, indeed. It seems he has no knowledge of what lurks outside the barrier, and I believe, some day, he would be killed by wild beasts lurking on those murky woods if he ever tries to indulge on his curiosity."

Of course. A sigh almost escapes Voldemort's lips. Every year, as he grows, his young would-be destroyer becomes bolder and braver and perhaps losing braincells along the way. "Keep an eye out. That boy would die and seal his own fate before I could."

"My Lord, do you mean I simply observe... Or do I find a way to stop it?"

"Let no harm come to him. He must not perish." Not yet.

Many years

come to

a pass,

Voldemort decides to visit.

"How old is he?"

"Eleven, my Lord."

Voldemort hums.

That oversized thing— is not oversized anymore. His head shrunk, his eyes no longer overtaking most of the space on his face, and the child-like innocence he's come to notice before is mostly gone.

He's taller now. The softer lines of his face disappears, emerging harsher features that showed his maturity.

"Is this a normal occurrence?" Voldemort asks, frowning at the obscured sight of a raven-haired boy sleeping beneath the thick, long grasses.

"Yes." Barty presses his mouth, biting an amused snort. "He usually sleeps here in this time of day. The friendlier creatures has deemed him Sleeping Beauty because of it."

"Hm."

(The boy slumbers, plays, runs and laughs. Unbeknownst to a crow and a Lord watching him beneath the shadows.)

Unbeknownst to a Lord who has taken too much interest in a way this boy smiles)

The boy left the barrier.

Voldemort seethes through his gritted fangs. Perhaps he'd finally get rid of his misfortunes and end him. One less stupid thing in this world filled of stupid things.

He encounters a galavanting grey-hound wolf, and decides to threaten question him.

"Where is he?"

The hound whines from his wrenching grip around its hairy neck. Voldemort has no time for this, for all he knows, that boy could be slaughtered and his organs are left dangling somewhere in the trees.

He tears through the hound's mind, ignoring its cry of protest, and peers into his earlier memories.

In his search, he finds a glimpse of memory, a boy going inside a house built in saccharine sweets, fooled by its false illusion of secutiy, and there, he is invited inside by a kind-looking witch.

That same witch, from what Voldemort knows, has a penchant for green-eyed boys who smelled of summer breeze and freshly rolled grass.

He growls.

Voldemort arrives right in the moment that the witch is ready to stew herself a next meal, pushing a white-stricken Harry Potter into her blazing oven.

Behind her, she is unaware of the hellfire she brought on herself.

(I knew it, was the first words that left the boy's mouth once the gag on his mouth is released.

Knew what?

You're real, he breathes out, disbelief. The faeries warned me that a stranger watches me in secret. I had my suspicion... I remembered red eyes staring at me when I was a baby and for a while, I thought it was simply a weird dream. Was that you?

Yes.

You're real.

I am.

They stare. And the boy visibly swallows. What's your name?

I'm not sure you want to know.

He laughs like the hum of summer breeze. Why wouldn't I want to know the name of my protector?

When Voldemort provides no reply, the boy frowns. Oh. You really won't tell me? Fine, I'll just call you Fairy Godmother, that's what I call you to the faeries anyways.

Cheeky boy.

Fine, he says in final.)

"I was wondering when you'll appear again."

"I was unaware that you were waiting for me at all."

"It's my birthday," he says. "Is that why you came? Have you returned to me with a gift?"

Yes. "No, of course not."

Harry sits on his bed, legs crossed against the other. The snores of his godfathers hum behind thin, cracking walls. If Harry would scream, his guardians would wake instantly.

But Voldemort could easily lure Harry outside, far away where no one could hear him at all. He'd believe anything, this naive, stupid thing.

Harry blinks, moon-lit glasses glinting behind glittering green eyes. "Fairy Godmother?"

Voldemort scowls. "You insist on calling me that? I am neither a fairy nor a mother."

His lips quirk into a sly smirk. "I wouldn't have to if you simply gave me your name."

With a sudden prickle of annoyance, his hand itches to—

Hold him?

Kill him?

Is there a difference?

He ignores this feeling.

"How old are you?"

"Thirteen."

Already. Voldemort observes Harry and finds the image of a stupid, oversized thing inside balled up blanket too distant. "Come."

"Where are we going?" Harry whispers, hastily following Voldemort out the front door, and only then does he notice how the boy walks barefoot, wearing nothing more than a billowing sleeping dress made of white cotton, his tanned legs underneath seemingly wore nothing.

When cold late morning wind blows, Harry shivers. Voldemort refrains to mention it. He continues to dash forward as Harry struggles to follow along his longer strides.

At some point, they reach the end of the barrier. Harry freezes.

"...will it be alright?"

"You doubt yourself now? This is not the first time you stepped out of boundary."

"Yeah, but that was before! I'm not stupid to risk it again. Who knows what's in there at this time of day..."

"I'm here," Voldemort claims. "No creature would dare cross us."

"And you're so sure of this because...?"

"I just am," Voldemort responds coolly. "Unless you want to go back—"

"No!" the boy cuts in. "Fine. I'll come with you."

How remarkably easy that Voldemort nearly laughs.

("Is that...?"

Voldemort watches Harry gape, stunned. His moon-lit glasses glinting behind star-struck eyes. "Indeed. It's a unicorn."

Harry laughs, and Voldemort steps back when the creature of light threads closer to the boy. Watching the young thing with intelligent eyes. Its head bows, and Harry's jaw hinges free. Then with a shaky hand, touches its forehead, his hand engulfing through pure, vivid brightness.

Harry looks to his side. Grinning at him with all of his teeth present.)

"Will you come back?"

Without hesitation, he responds, "No."

"But you will, right?" Harry says, ignoring what his first reply. "You've been watching me for a long time. I know that crow who spies on me at a basis somehow involves you, I've been seeing it since I was a baby. Now, I can see you."

"Listen here, brat." He points a claw on the sharp edge of his jaw, an inch away from piercing the skin. "I have other matters to attend, more important than playing tea party with a kid like you."

Harry remains motionless. Then, softly, adds with a cheeky smile, "...but you will, right?"

Voldemort Apparates.

(Every time he comes back, he thinks this time, I'll kill him this time.

Only to come back to his castle, annoyed at this boy who easily slept on his presence, who's moon-glasses hid the starlight of his eyes, who's scent of summer wind and sunlight follows him everywhere.

It repeats the next year.

Then the next.

And the next—)

How old is he? Somehow, Voldemort always forget. And each time, he asks—

"Fifteen. He's turning sixteen tonight," Barty answers. Staring at him intently. "Will this be the year, my Lord?"

The crow-animagus looks at him in question, withholding his breathes as if praying for something.

Voldemort knows Barty, throughout the years of being the boy's observer, has grown weak for him.

"We shall see."

Barty isn't pleased at the vague response, but he smartly keeps it to himself.

( Harry brightens at the sight of Voldemort. "You're here," he says, a little shyly. "You said something about a party?"

"I did." Voldemort's scarlet eyes slides at the boy's form. "You're wearing that?"

"What?" Harry pouts. "Is there something wrong with it?"

It isn't, but it's rather... revealing.

His dress shirt hangs loosely on his frame, collar hanging free to expose cold collarbones and long expanse of Harry's neck. If Voldemort observes any close, he could almost see the silhouette of his chest and nipples under the thin sheen material of his shirt.

"Nothing," Voldemort says a tinge too quickly. His voice drier than it should be. "Let's just go.")

Voldemort disappears the moment they step into the festivity.

With lanterns hanging above twisty twigs, with people, vampires, ghosts, faeries and a few centaurs all gather together to dance. All gaudy lights and loud music, Voldemort hates it in the same amount as Harry loves it.

Harry drinks a variety of liquor, from cherries, pumpkin and carrots. He explores the food he hasn't eaten, and glances discreetly to the creatures he's never seen up close before.

A vampire even asks him to dance, his eyes, for a brief second, lingering to the wide space of Harry's neck.

Harry cocks his head, considering, then nods, letting an arm curve around his waist and taking him to a moving crowd.

Voldemort does not care. He does not care when anger licks his temper, and the flames rise out to burn the vestiges of control he has left. The burning desire coils in his bones and he wants to—

To steal him away

To lick the teasing skin of his neck

To explore his hands under his shirt and watch him writhe under his touch

What he wants does not matter.

That boy will die, he swears to it, he swears—

( "I'm returning you to your godfathers—"

A tipsy Harry Potter pouts— pouts with fruit-scented lips, high off in the colour of his cheeks, and his dress shirt somehow draws looser and looser. "But I'm still dancing."

Voldemort then shoots a glare at Harry's partner from behind. "Not anymore. He left."

His partner pales, and does, in fact, leaves before disappearing out of sight.

Harry is stubborn, and wretches away his arm, folding his arms like a brat. "You didn't dance with me."

Irritable, Voldemort answers back, "You never spoke interest for it."

"That's because you left before I could," Harry grumbles, his dragon boot stomping on the ground.

"Next time."

The boy peers at his face, unconvinced. "You won't leave this time?"

"I promise."

And that seems enough to break Harry's dampened mood, he smiles, not to its usual cheerful extent, but its there, and it's still bright. Like his moon-lit glasses and starlight eyes. "Okay."

He grabs Voldemort's hand, tight and trustful.)

This is it.

Kill him.

Apparate to the furthest parts of the woods and kill him

Kill

Him

The boy is near-asleep, his fluttering eyelids and hazy irises, and gently, Voldemort places him to bed.

It never fails to surprise him of how his prophecy boy falls asleep lighter than a feather. And the boy is awake, only barely. "...will you ever tell me your name?"

"Not yet."

He lets out a quiet chuckle. "You said yet. Does this mean you'll tell me one day?"

"Maybe."

"You always seem to keep secrets from me. Will I never know or is that also a not yet?"

"Will you ever stop asking meaningless questions?

"And are they?" Harry whispers. "Are they really meaningless?"

Voldemort plucks the glasses out of the boy's face, ignoring how Harry's face seems softer without them. "For now, they are. Go to sleep."

He looks tired, his body sprawled in a position that could could sing a siren out to lure. And for a moment, he remembers Harry's earlier instance with the vampire. The beast inside of him bares its teeth, and so Voldemort bares his.

He sucks a small, pale mark on his neck.

Harry is fast asleep. And tomorrow he'd wake up with the sting of his fangs.

The boy, now aged sixteen at the stroke of midnight, lies asleep, neck claimed by a love bite and Voldemort watching him still, thinks next year, he will kill him, for sure.

(He is not aware the Fates above him shake their heads at the man who's not aware he has already fallen)

𝕤𝕥𝕣𝕒𝕪 𝕜𝕚𝕕𝕤

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maneater by Kamiizumi [oneshot] urban fantasy!au; demon hunters!au; enemies-to-friends-to-lovers; mild gore; mild horror; happy ending || mature

marble hearts & stone-carved hands by Lilywastaken [oneshot] ancient greek religion & lore!au; mythology!au; apollo!minho; fluff; light angst; happy ending || explicit 🔞

May the Mood Forgive Him by jellowrites [oneshot] abo!au; mating cycles; pack dynamics || explicit 🔞

✦ mistletoe’s for two by hanville [oneshot] friends-to-lovers; fake relationship; domestic fluff; christmas || teen and up

moon-fated by StarlitSnow [oneshot] abo!au; friends-to-lovers; light angst; mating || explicit 🔞

✦ mountain ash and dog roses by bullettbullettbullett [oneshot] creatures & monsters!au; strangers-to-lovers; shapeshifter!jisung; human!minho; human/monster romance || explicit 🔞

no-show mistletoe by glissandos [oneshot] college!au; holidays; fluff; kissing || teen and up

✦ Obsession à deux by jellowrites [oneshot] fashion & couture!au; mental health; recovery; angst; therapy; toxic relationship; ambiguous happy ending || mature

of cat slippers and fire alarms by dawnshine [oneshot] neighbour!au; enemies-to-lovers; slow burn; denial || teen and up

only fools rush in by hanville [oneshot] halloween; single dad!jisung; friends-to-lovers; mutual pining; domestic fluff || teen and up

Peanut Butter and a Bludger to the Face by orphan_account [oneshot] hogwarts!au; enemies-to-lovers || general

Pink Pearl by jellowrites [oneshot] mermaids!au; tentacles; angst & fluff & smut; minor character death; happy ending || explicit 🔞

Prairifire by jellowrites [3 ch] hanahaki disease; horror body; blood & gore; alternate ending (major character death & happy ending) || explicit 🔞

reach out and touch by liknow [oneshot] college!au; best friends; porn with feelings; first time || explicit 🔞

Red Room by milkilino [oneshot] DEAD DOVE: DO NOT EAT ;; torture; trauma; blood & gore; stockholm syndrome; character death; additional warnings in author’s note; fucked up with a sad ending || explicit 🔞

rent-a-boyfriend by hyunievrse & vmnesie [oneshot] college!au; fake relationship; fluff & angst; smut; happy ending || mature

satellites by Kamiizumi [oneshot] sci-fi!au; space pirates; friends with benefits; porn with feelings || explicit 🔞

scaredy cat by luckyday [oneshot] non-famous!au; vlogger!skz; haunted houses; established relationship; fluff & humor || teen and up

Scrumdiddlyumptious by SullenPast [oneshot] college!au; house party; hook-up; first time; happy ending || explicit 🔞

Sharpie Scented by jellowrites [oneshot] oblivious jisung & whipped minho; sticky notes & sharpies; fluff & humor & smut || explicit 🔞

✦ shotgunning by keros [4 ch] college!au; social anxiety; recreational drug use || explicit 🔞

Six Inches of Frustration and Charcoal by MistressScimitar [3 ch] college!au; strangers-to-something; getting together; suggestive themes || mature

so sweet like chocolate by luckyday [3 ch] college!au; strangers-to-friends-to-lovers; mutual pining; slow burn || teen and up

Stellar by bitsori [oneshot] actors!au; notting hill!au; strangers-to-lovers || mature

taste so good by liknow [oneshot] chefs!au; restaurant!au; pwp || explicit 🔞

The Bones in my Garden were for You by jellowrites [oneshot] serial killer; unhealthy love; unhealthy relationships; angst; ambiguous/open ending || mature

The Forest Beckoning by glissandos [14 chapters] high school!au; fantasy!au; strangers-to-lovers || teen and up

The Mystery of the Disappearing Man by Swtch_racha [oneshot] magical realism!au; feelings realization; fluff & angst; love confessions; friends-to-lovers || teen and up

✦ They Come Crawling in the Night by Stray_Anpanman [oneshot] zombie apocalypse!au; enemies-to-lovers; slow burn; found family; dad!jisung; son!jeongin; kid fic; violence || teen and up

✦ Time after time (night after night) by kersenvla [oneshot] time loop; convenience store; established relationship; magical realism; love confessions || teen and up

✦ tomorrow by Kamiizumi [oneshot] time loop; college!au; angst; happy ending || teen and up

Trapped by Str4y [oneshot] AW: major character death & graphic depictions of violence; zombie apocalypse!au; implied/referenced suicide; bad ending || explicit 🔞

✦ two birds on a wire by lucasfletcher [oneshot] roommates!au; marriage; han jisung is oblivious || mature

✦ underneath this raging storm by dulcetchan [oneshot] friends-to-lovers; yearning & pining; love confessions; idiots in love; trapped in ikea || teen and up

✦ waiting for rain by notzomi [22 ch] college!au; 1994!au; housemates; slow burn; enemies-to-friends-to-lovers; secret relationship; coming out; homophobia || teen and up

✦ We’ll Never Have Sex by bunsevng [oneshot] college!au; angst with a happy ending; confessions || mature

What Do I Call You by lovesoaked [4 ch] sugar daddy!au; college!au; strangers-to-friends-to-lovers; mutual pining; getting together || explicit 🔞

✎ what the duck? by minsungstreet2514 [4 works - ongoing] office!au; explicit sexual content || explicit 🔞

When The Morning Comes by bitsori [oneshot] non-famous!au; time loop; strangers-to-lovers; weddings || explicit 🔞

When The World Comes Down by bitsori [oneshot] post-apocalypse!au; strangers-to-friends-to-lovers; developing relationship || teen and up

✎ When Winter Turns To Spring by Theforeverbattles [17 works - ongoing] royalty!au; developing relationship; falling in love; kid fic; minor homophobia; implied/referenced domestic violence || explicit 🔞

When You’re Tired (I’ll Be Here) by jellowrites [oneshot] fluff; pining; nudity; hopeful ending || mature

where the grass was red by taotu [4 ch] hunger games!au; strangers-to-lovers; blood & gore; angst; choose your own ending || explicit 🔞

wither and bloom by tentoheaven [oneshot] zombie apocalypse!au; established relationship; fluff & angst; ambiguous/open ending || teen and up

you be the moon (i’ll be the earth) by bulletbulletbullet [oneshot] college!au; rivals-to-friends-with-benefits-to-lovers; getting together; time skip; implied sexual content || mature

✦ You got me feline some type of way by bluecalicocat [oneshot] supernatural!au; witch!jisung; accidental shapeshifting; getting together; friends-to-lovers; fluff || general

you’re driving me wild by shuijing [12 ch] modern!au; animal shelter; slice of life; light angst; slow burn || teen and up

Your hand in mine (it helps the psyche flow through) by kersenvla [oneshot] supernatural!au; acquantainces-to-friends-to-lovers; bodyswap; light angst; getting together || teen and up

your lips tell me about love by hanville [oneshot] hogwarts!au; 5+1; mutual pining; friends-to-lovers || teen and up

yule shoot your eye out by heaveninbusan [oneshot] fake dating!au; friends-to-lovers; misunderstandings; idiots in love; christmas fluff || teen and up

⸞ minho x seungmin ⸟

✦ makes the heart grow fonder by seasaltgasoline [oneshot] coffee shops & cafés!au; long-distance relationship; home for christmas || teen and up

⸞ ot8 / multi ⸟

Let’s be friends so we can make out by Irrelevantaverrageteen [oneshot] 3racha || au; best friends; recreational drug use || explicit 🔞

he’s with the band by TheSwingbyJeanHonoreFragonard [oneshot] chan x everyone-ish || band!au; pwp; kink discovery || explicit 🔞

New habit by LilJiji [oneshot] chan x jisung x minho || roommates-to-lovers; polyamory negotiations; fluff & smut; feelings realization || explicit 🔞

Duck(ed) by catsonthewindowsill [oneshot] felix x everyone || magical realism; domestic fluff; duckling!felix || teen and up

Complete by polyskz [oneshot] hyunjin x everyone || polu; domestic fluff; pwp || explicit 🔞

✦ Perfectly by Str4y [oneshot] jisung x minho x seungmin || office!au; open relationship; polyamory || explicit 🔞

day by day by seasaltgasoline [oneshot] minho x everyone || au; open marriage; polygamy; harem fic || mature

seven (칠죄종) by bulletbulletbullet [oneshot] minho x everyone || tag || explicit 🔞

Hideout by Theforeverbattles [20 ch] multi pairings || gang!au; graphic depiction of violence || explicit 🔞

Number 16 Universe by YourFutureWillBeBautiful [4 works] modern setting!au; parenthood; family dynamics; dad!jisung; dad!minho; dad!changbin; little!felix; little!seungmin; little!jeongin || explicit 🔞 > Number 16 [26 ch] -> jisung x minho|| neighbours!au; strangers-to-lovers; happy ending > Christmas At Number 16 [oneshot] -> jisung x minho || christmas!au; fluff; slice of life > The Folly Of Ambitions [20 ch] -> changbin x hyunjin || strangers-to-lovers; angst with a happy ending > Love Looks Not With The Eyes, But With The Mind [oneshot] -> changbin x hyunjin || established relationship; domestic fluff; declarationsh of love

Stories Sung in the Sunken Sailor’s Inn by softjohndae [4 works] pirates!au; supernatural elements; minor character deaths; happy ending || teen and up > Oceanbound [38 ch] -> changbin x felix || enemies-to-lovers > Oceanborn [oneshot] -> changbin x felix || changbin’s pov > Oceanlorn [4 ch] -> jisung x minho || spin-off; friends-to-lovers > Oceanflower [oneshot] -> hyunjin x seungmin || spin-off; established relationship

✎ three’s a company by seasaltgasoline [2  works - ongoing] jisung x minho x seungmin || rock band!au; poly || teen and up > rumour has it > even the familiar flow

✎ villainy verse by bulletbulletbullet [5 works - ongoing] space!au; space opera; hwang twins; eventual happy ending > scum & villainy -> jisung x minho || explicit 🔞 > love you like peaches -> changbin x hyunjin || teen and up > atmospheric electrical phenomena -> jisung x minho || explicit 🔞 > chemistry -> jisung x minho || explicit 🔞 > we’re long gone, baby -> jisung x minho || explicit 🔞

When this broke and healed you at the same time

an ending not quite attainable

jk. i’m too weak. best ending canon

some thoughts under the cut

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Exploring the Names of the Captive Prince Trilogy (1/3)

I’ve seen other people talk about it, but I wanted to do it too. :-\ 

I wanted to do every name, but there were too many. Please inform me if any information is inaccurate. 

Akielon Names 

Damianos (Damen) - Both names are derived from the Greek damazo, meaning “to tame”. The alternate spelling of Daimen also has the meaning of “gentle”. 

Nikandros - Means “victory of a man”. Derived from the Greek nike and andros, meaning “victory” and “of a man” respectively. Nike was also the Greek goddess of victory. 

Makedon - Makedon, also spelled Macedon or Makednos, was the ancestor of the ancient Macedonians and said to be a son of Zeus. Derived from the Greek makednos meaning “tall, slim”. 

Pallas - Means both “to brandish” and “maiden”. Pallas is one of the epithets of the goddess Athena, supposedly given to her after she slayed a giant of the same name. 

Kastor - Means “to excel” or “to shine”. The mythological Castor was a son of a Spartan king and the twin half-brother of Pollux, the son of Zeus. 

Jokaste - Derived from the Greek Iokaste, which is of unknown meaning. In Greek mythology, Jocasta was the wife and mother of King Oedipus. 

Erasmus - Derived from the Greek erasmios, meaning “beloved”. 

Isander - Derived from the Greek isos, meaning “equal”, and andros, meaning “of a man”. 

Theomedes - Possibly created by Pacat. Derived from the Greek theos, meaning “god”, and medomai, meaning “to think, to plan”. 

Egeria - Derived from either the Greek aigeiros, meaning “black poplar”, a type of tree, or the Latin egerere, meaning “to bring out”. In Roman mythology, Egeria was a famous nymph who pregnant women offered sacrifices to in order to “bring out the baby”. 

Hypermenestra - Comes from the mythological figure of Hypermnestra, one of the fifty danaides, the daughters of King Danaus. She was the only danaid not to kill her husband, as he had wished her to remain a virgin. 

Adrastus - Traditionally translated as “inescapable”. Also spelled as “Adrestus”. 

Lykaios - Comes from the Greek Lykaia, a festival held on the slopes of Mt. Lykaion (“Wolf Mountain”) in Greece. Zeus uses the epithet Lykaios, meaning “wolf-Zeus”. 

Euandros - Derived from the Greek eu, meaning “good”, and andros, meaning “of a man”. 

Eradne - Possibly created by Pacat. A similar name, Ariadne, belonged to a Cretan princess in Greek mythology who was abandoned by the hero Theseus and wived by the god Dionysus. Derived from the Greek ari, meaning “most”, and adnos, meaning “holy”. 

Agar - Greek version of the Hebrew name “Hagar”. Possibly means “flight”. 

Kydippe - Variation of “Cydippe”. Earliest source and meaning of the name are unknown. 

Treus - Derived from the Greek treo, meaning “to fear, to dread, to flee from fear”. 

Thestos - Possibly created by Pacat. Similar to “Thestius”, which is derived from the Greek theos, meaning “god” and esthein, meaning “to eat”. 

Timon - Derived from the Greek timao, meaning “to honor, to esteem”. 

Nekton - Derived from the Greek nekhein, meaning “to swim”. 

Arsaces - Hellenized form of the Old Persian “Arshaka”. Possibly a diminutive of arsha, meaning “bear”, or arshen, meaning “male”. 

Nisos - Variant of Nisus. Meaning unknown. 

Inachtos - Comes from Inachos, the first king of Argos. Cannot locate definition. 

Made an arcane fan animation hehe

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The Fall (2006) dir. Tarsem Singh

Costume design by Eiko Ishioka