futility

Tag · 41 works

24 works open to everyone here carry this tag; 96% are complete. The average one runs about 15,500 words. Read any of them in your browser, save it as an EPUB, or listen to it.

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Squid Game (TV 2021)

Street Spirit Fade out

by zzombifyy

“So when Thanos stopped performing under the guise of some “drug scandal”, Nam-gyu felt that same emptiness settle deep within his bones. His appearances in the club were fewer, and Nam-gyu longed to find a way to reach out to him. But he was weak, a bleeding dove hung out to dry, and fear never revoked its clawed hold.Their conversations dwindled, but Thanos kept an affectionate look in his two-toned eyes each time. Sometimes his pupils were blown wide, blooming like a shotgun had been taken to them with red sclera a sweet, candied red to accompany such a look. Sometimes he was evidently disgustingly sober.Nam-gyu decided he hated sobriety. On himself, on other people, on Thanos.”Or;Nam-Gyu and Thanos meet long before the games take place. Character analysis and personal interpretation.(FINISHED PRE-SEASON 3! An alternative s3 ending will be added soon in a separate chapter.)

General 3.7k words 1 ch Complete 262 kudos

Self-Harm · Implied/Referenced Self-Harm · Implied/Referenced Suicide · Suicide Attempt· +39 more

Tales of Arcadia (Cartoons)

Infinity Is A Figure-Eight

by moonlit_wings

Toby and Jim have been passing the Amulet back and forth between them, time-loop after time-loop, trying to save each other.Or,A headcanon I immediately got at the end of the movie, in fic format.

Teen 680 words 1 ch Complete 162 kudos

(you can't prove it's not) · Angst · Canon Compliant · Character Death· +4 more

Homestuck

Jade Drifting Away On A

by ArbitraryCrowfeather

Jade, listen. You are nine years old. Nine year olds do not build perfect rafts in 57 minutes out of some firewood and rope they found on that weird cat mummy they encountered upon in their giant mansion. Nine year olds, when doing this, instead make poorly-built rafts. . . . . . . Jade, if you didn't get what I'm saying, that thing is probably going to sink. Jade, stop. Jade, this is a bad idea. . . . Woah. Wait. Are you seriously pushing that thing into the sea? Jade, what. Jade. Jaaaade. . . . Jade, do not jump on that raft. . . . Jade, I command you to jump off that raft and swim back to your island right now. This is for your own good, Jade. Jade there is a storm. Right there. Jade no. Sighhhhh. It is a regretful, woeful life, being outside the fourth wall. It is most certainly regretful.

General 25k words 26 ch Complete 119 kudos

Other Additional Tags to Be Added · No AU's · Well I Guess You Could Call This The Drifting Away AU · There Are Trolls I Guess· +26 more

Last Life SMP Series

Encore

by Raichett

“I’ve dug two graves for us,” Scar tells Grian one morning, the sun bloody red as it creeps up the broken skyline. The air is cold this morning, his worn jacket not thick enough to keep it out. “Planning ahead, you know?”---Or: far, far into the future of the death games, Grian and Scar watch the sunrise.

General 813 words 1 ch Complete 83 kudos

Fate & Destiny · Past Character Death · post-apocalyptic world · hopelessness· +5 more

The Witcher (TV)+1

Ouroboros

by Octinary

Injured after a challenging hunt, Vesemir and Deglan take shelter in an abandoned cellar.Injured after a challenging hunt, Lambert and Vesemir take shelter in the basement of a local inn.What goes around, comes around.

Teen 4.4k words 1 ch Complete 82 kudos

Angst · Canon Compliant · Character Study · I Shook A Witcher And Intergenerational Trauma Fell Out (The Witcher)· +9 more

Persona Series+1

Living With

by Shianhygge

The reader was granted the ability to reset the events. The ability to save the one person they love. But remember... it's not canon.

Teen 3.8k words 1 ch Complete 59 kudos

Canonical Character Death · Resets · reader is not minato/minako · Reader can reset· +3 more

Marvel Cinematic Universe

Pain Is Inevitable

by Zaniida

Birthday Request:Lokiwhump. Have a short offering to get the creative juices flowing! This is Loki in the Void, betweenThorandThe Avengers, just meeting Thanos for the first time, and already broken enough to cave.(Note: I'd be just as happy with Finchwhump (POI). Other characters whose whump would be quite welcome: Anthony Marconi or Elias (POI again), Ben Linus (Lost), Kevin (WtNV), Eliot Spencer (Leverage), Spencer Reid (Criminal Minds), Sherlock or John (Sherlock), Simon (Firefly), Nightcrawler or Gambit (X-Men), Spike (BtVS), Winchester or Mulcahy (M*A*S*H), or (from variousStar Trekseries) Garak, Bashir, Odo, the Doc, Kes, Geordi, Chekov, Sulu, the new Spock, the original Spock, 7/9, or Data.)

Teen 800 words 1 ch Complete 56 kudos

(that's not the same as family-friendly) · Agony · Despair · Galaxy-friendly· +5 more

Macbeth - Shakespeare

Ruin This for Everyone

by nimblermortal

Teenaged Gruoch is bitter and angry and violent. Someone thought it would be fun to send kind and gentle squire Banquo to attend her in the middle of a fit. Gruoch thought it might be fun to break him.

Teen 1.4k words 1 ch Complete 33 kudos

Bitterness · Feminist Themes · futility

I Love Yoo (Webcomic)

Isolated Butterflies

by MzzMal

It seemed as though she was flummoxed at my state of consciousness as her eyes had widened some. She had a solitary narcissus within her hold. In a daze, she continued to the empty black chair that was situated near my bed.

General 1.2k words 1 ch Complete 28 kudos

Amnesia · Angst · Contemplation · Despondency· +12 more

Dark Souls (Video Games)+1

Another Pile of Dust

by TheArchimage

The Throne of Want gives whoever sits on it what they desire.

Teen 1.4k words 1 ch Complete 27 kudos

Depressing · Fridge Horror · Navel-Gazing · New Game Plus· +1 more

Sherlock (TV)

The Music Of Sherlock

by Hoodoo

Sherlock's music has become an obsession. He doesn't eat and rarely sleeps. John worries about him and tries to get to the bottom of it, never realizing that it is beyond his scope of experience, and that Sherlock's doing it all for him.

General 2.3k words 1 ch Complete 23 kudos

Horror · Lovecraftian · Obsession · futility· +5 more

Star Trek+2

Is That All There Is

by StellarLibraryLady

Struck by the futility of life, McCoy is reminded by Spock about the importance of 'little lives.'

Teen 1.5k words 1 ch Complete 22 kudos

futility · Sadness · Bickering · Philosophy· +8 more

Star Trek: Picard

From One Queen to

by Queen_Iacomina

Borg Queen Agnes Jurati uses her transtemporal awareness to send a letter to the Queen from the alternate version of 2401.

General 683 words 1 ch Complete 20 kudos

Epistolary · Love Letters · letters to yourself · Assimilation· +10 more

Pathologic

Roulette

by Just_Trying_To_Get_Around_You

In which the Bachelor plays a dangerous game of chance, and the audience holds its breath.

Teen 722 words 1 ch Complete 12 kudos

(eva) · Angst · Character Study · Implied Past Human Experimentation· +10 more