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The Heaviest Stone by breadbowl
Fandoms: Dragon Age (Video Games), Dragon Age: Inquisition
19 Jun 2025
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In the last days of the Inquisition, Leo's struggling with what comes next. But first, he needs to get home.
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- Part 5 of Your Useful Idiot
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A disastrous expedition into an Elven temple changes everything in an instant.
A story about guilt, forgiveness, and learning to lean on your friends.
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- Part 4 of Your Useful Idiot
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Things aren't perfect for Dorian and Leo, but they are wonderful.
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- Part 3 of Your Useful Idiot
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Families are complicated, and sometimes we have to start building our own.
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- Part 2 of Your Useful Idiot
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Haven was a disaster, but nearly freezing to death could have turned out a lot worse.
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- Part 1 of Your Useful Idiot
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Gustave dies at Renoir's hand on the Stone Wave Cliffs. Then Gustave opens his eyes to the sound of a cane striking stone at the edge of the Continent. He dies again, he opens his eyes again. Again, again, and again, until he gets it right.
A slow-burn Verstave time loop from Gustave's perspective. The content warning is for time loop-typical death and violence.
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31 Dec 2025
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Verso knows his soul is not original to him. A stitched-up, fractured, and glued-together thing, stained with memories not his own and heavy with the grief of unimaginable loss. His very existence is a farce, a tragedy played out in canvas and ink. He wants nothing so much as to end it. To give the ragged remains of a soul back to the one who created him, let her find someone else to carry the burden and the memory of the man to whom it once belonged. And yet. And yet, still, buried deep inside him is the desire to make this second-hand soul his own. To take the old discarded thing and make it into something new. To live, as they all deserve to live. All he needs is someone to show him the way.
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22 Dec 2025
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”Gustave lights a lamp in the kitchen, rolls up his sleeves and starts making dinner.
He does it, step by step, follows the old family recipe even though he’s exhausted to the very bone-marrow, even though his muscles are sore and the lethargy drags him towards the floor boards like a lead weight.”
In which Gustave makes food, Verso keeps showing up and they slowly start healing together.
Or; five times Gustave cooks something and one time it's Verso's turn.
Bookmarked by breadbowl
16 Dec 2025
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12 days of Christmas by thevalesofanduin for theartsypumpkin (Kuroaloeart)
Fandoms: Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 (Video Game)
24 Dec 2025
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Gustave and Verso are out buying Christmas presents when they run into each other in the busy, narrow aisle of the Lumière bookstore. It's been years since they've seen each other, and their school days when they were friends are even further away.
But they weren't just friends, although neither was brave enough to admit their crush back then and teenage love was buried when their paths diverted when Verso moved to Paris for university.
Yet now that they are both in Lumière for the Christmas season, those feelings quickly rekindle.
Will they finally have their romance this Christmas?
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16 Dec 2025
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"I'm leaving Paris," Verso says brusquely, by way of a greeting. He has never been very good with words; that has always been Papa's strength, not his.Gustave inhales sharply, watching him in silence, his hands clutching his notebook so hard the spine begins to twist.
"You want me to come with you," he says finally, looking at Verso as though he has entirely lost his mind.
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Time is running out. With war looming over Belle Epoque Paris, Verso must make a choice between his duty to his family and the young Writer who has unknowingly stolen his heart.
He chooses Gustave.
Bookmarked by breadbowl
13 Dec 2025