A Feeling I Can’t Quite Name
A certain sort of melancholy? A dizzying ache? A yearning for a past that never did exist?
People, seeing each other. Jagged edges and bone-deep weariness. A hint of the fae, or of the fable. The almost inevitable. The could-be tragedies. The inexorable march of time and trauma. Connection, perhaps.
I don’t know what this feeling is but here are some examples.
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stay, i pray you by orphan_account
Fandoms: Marvel Cinematic Universe, The Avengers (Marvel Movies), Marvel, The Avengers (Marvel) - All Media Types, Iron Man (Movies), Iron Man (Comics), Black Widow (Comics)
28 Sep 2019
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There is a tap on the table top and a quiet, “Scusatemi, signorina,” and she looks up. There is a boy there, no more than twenty, and he is undoubtedly American, though his Italian is so polished that even she would be unsure if not for his hesitant slouch— discomfort, it says I am out of place. His gaze is not demanding. It is not cold, either— but intelligent, distant. Not assessing, but calculating. As if she is made of code, and he is reading her.
“I speak English,” she tells him, “better than Italian.”
He slumps with something akin to relief. “Oh- that’s. That’s cool. I’m really sorry to ask-“ and he looks it, wincing and pulling his own fingers, “-but would it be okay if I sit with you? My mamma is in a formaggeria across the piazza and I desperately don’t want to stand in there and smell cheese for an hour so I was gonna grab an espresso but every other table is filled and I don’t want to impose but—?” He looks at her. He is sharp, ardent with a wisdom that puts her teeth on edge. No young man should look like that: as if he has stared straight into the barrel of a gun and laughed at the bullet, swallowed it whole.
He looks old for his age. He just. He looks.
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The Birds Who Smile by Raberba girl (Raberba_girl)
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types, Batman (Comics), Dark Nights: Metal, DCU (Comics)
03 Aug 2019
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"Dark Nights: Metal" AU where Bruce adopts three of the Robins who once belonged to the Batman Who Laughs.
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- Part 2 of The Birds Who Smile
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It begins with another Bruce, looking around his cave and asking, “So where are the kids?”
Bruce has never thought about having a family before. But once the idea occurs to him, it's hard to think about anything else.
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- Part 1 of Flightless Birds
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Bookmarked by candlebreak
25 Oct 2023
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Real fucked up, and. Wow. Makes me feel a WAY. Mmmmmm.
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campus cryptid vs. future valedictorian by GlassRose
Fandoms: The Old Guard (Movie 2020)
04 Aug 2020
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Mara Glass did not care about "weird hot guy," the supposed "campus cryptid." She had heard of him her first couple years and had him pointed out to her by a classmate once, but what was there to notice? Okay, he was probably thirty, a nontraditional student, so what? There were a number of those around. Apparently he was hot--well congrats to people who were into people, they could keep him. And if you asked Mara, from her extremely objective perspective, those Disney-green eyes were doing a lot of heavy lifting. There was nothing particularly noteworthy about a thirty-something guy who didn't talk about himself to twenty-year-old classmates. He probably had, like, a real life. There were rumors he was married, although Brittany noted that the only reason people thought that was because one time someone heard him finish a phone call with, "You light the candles, I'll bring dinner. I love you." None of that was remotely interesting to Mara. He sounded like a normal person, and she wished people would shut up about him.
Then in third year, she had a history class with weird hot guy.