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far from any road by tabris52
Fandoms: Anne Rice's Talamasca: The Secret Order (TV 2025)
11 Dec 2025
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He can feel him before he sees him, like a thumb pressed to the inside of his skull, the soft scrape of a familiar mind against his. One life, Jasper thinks, and look at the mess we’ve made of it.
Neither of them move. Jasper has the ridiculous thought to pinch himself, see if he’s not transparent, as if he’s a projection illuminated only by want. Guy is thinner than he remembers. His hair is shorter (curious, that), shadows under his eyes darker than they used to be. He looks sharper. He’s focused, more precise, whittled after the year-or-so that he’s probably been on the run. Jasper is aware of the exact distance between them, the corridor of it; the want is suddenly almost audible, a roar in his ears, a string stretched between them.
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Jasper's free, Guy is God-knows where. They should probably never speak again, but they do.
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11 Dec 2025
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the blood you bled by moonbobwrites
Fandoms: Anne Rice's Talamasca: The Secret Order (TV 2025)
07 Dec 2025
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“You could leave the Talamasca any time you want. You can come with me right now, it could be us together like it should’ve been in the first place. I’ve told you that—”
“With you?” Guy laughs. And the thought you tried to kill me yourself crosses his mind, because of course it does and maybe it always will, and he knows Jasper is expecting him to voice it. But they’ve already fought about it, haven’t they? And it’s not what’s really concerning Guy right now. “From what I can see, you can’t even protect yourself.”
Post-season 1, after Jasper escapes Amsterdam and Guy is dragged back into the Talamasca, they continue to meet in secret when they can.
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- Part 2 of shelter, den, home
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08 Dec 2025
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like a song stuck in your brain by theothersideofsilence
Fandoms: Interview with the Vampire (TV 2022)
23 Nov 2025
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The thing about Danny Molloy is that watching someone burn alive in front of him doesn’t make him stop smoking. It just makes him bad at it.
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27 Nov 2025
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When Thomas Lawrence came by the papal apartments that evening, he came, unsurprisingly, with a bundle of papers under his arm.
Vincent tried on and discarded four separate teasing comments about it, but didn’t get to decide on one before Thomas silently handed them over, and he realized they were newspapers, opened and refolded over the weekly comics, his favorite. Three of them, one for each week he’d been away.
Ah, he thought, with the feeling of a sudden hard deceleration in his chest, the press it put on his heart. Ah. All right then.
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09 May 2025
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True to the name of his papacy, Vincent Benítez is untainted, noble. He is not the ocean, but the river. A river that does not surge or waver, but persists to flow in its chosen direction, determinedly. Unlike the ocean, that fickle, turbulent goddess of Fortuna, he will do his duties and meet his due.
But when Pope Innocent shines, into which shadow does the man Vincent Benítez hide?
If it means he may comfort the loneliness of the river, it wouldn't be so bad to drown in it, Thomas thinks.
(Thomas is drowning in his newfound love for Vincent, while Vincent is drowning in the loneliness of his position. They find each other—they drown together.)
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28 Mar 2025