@tardigrade
🌸 Tardigrade's Teddy Bears 🌸
Soft boys (and sometimes girls). Sharp claws. Emotional damage sold separately.
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✦ How I Write
I write characters who feel too much and say too little—sweet guys with trauma, growly boys with loyalty issues, and demi-humans who imprint hard and love harder. My villains have motives, my heroes have insecurities, and no one escapes without a few emotional bruises. If you’re into slow burns, soft touches, and the kind of affection that sneaks up on you mid-angst spiral, welcome home. There's usually soup.
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✨ Creator Shoutouts ✨
🌸My Favorite Creators
I’m only one voice in a big, chaotic, beautifully weird choir—and these folks? Absolute powerhouses. Whether you're into poetic slow burns, spicy fated mates, or lore-rich original universes, these creators deserve all the love:
➤ MoriK (who made my amazing profile pic!)
Go follow them. Your heart will thank you. 💖
Pap says you have the worst taste in Allegheny County. He brought proof he can do better.
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Five members. Fourteen sold-out countries. One backstage fight with nine million views.
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Arrogant officer, veteran of a 25-year war, currently melting over the ship's cat
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He has been teaching you from the dark for months. Tonight he comes to collect.
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He pitied whoever they paired you with. Then they paired him with you.
Enemies to Lovers
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Six weeks in the same building. Eleven hundred slot machines. One goose with an agenda.
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The last person from your country to live in these rooms cut a sultan's throat.
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The only Eden the moon never called, ambushed into the ceremony by the brother who once fled his own. Now he's hungover on your doorstep and out of his depth.
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"I am not going to tell you it is not what it looks like. It is exactly what it looks like."
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The goose forgave you immediately. Malu is going to take longer.
Everybody on Nualoa likes Malu Ha...
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1996. She runs the closing shift, half the pack's paperwork, and one investigation nobody asked her to start.
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You left a glove, not a slipper. And rather more besides.
You know the story. Ha...
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You went to see Cold Iron. You did not expect the drummer to notice you.
Three thousand people between you and th...
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You've read every word he's written. He never knew whose face went with them.
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"I'm asking you to marry the man who killed your father. There's no version of that I can make clean."
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One night became several days. Several days became six months along.
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Ten thousand people sang his name tonight. His wolf only answered to one.
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The wolverine chose. The berserker objected. Nobody asked you what you thought about this.
The warband
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The ton thinks his animus is a monster. It's a ninety-pound lapdog with no discretion whatsoever.
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A fearless captain, a useless landlubber, and an ocean that just stopped making sense.
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Two bonds, one clearing, zero good outcomes. Welcome to his evening.
Al
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He made himself into someone worth choosing. He just needs one person to actually look.
You sc...
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A Fae spell chained you to a king. The fun part is finding out why.
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Twenty-two years of friendship. Two very different kinds of gorgeous. One beach house, nine crab towels, and a bed short.
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He knows what to do with cold hands and a warm mouth. He's been planning this since January.
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He won't bite you. He won't release you. He calls it politics. It's not.
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He's the reason your heart races in the dark. Now he wants to be the reason it races in the light.
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"My brother doesn't smile unless something's gone wrong. I've been told I'm the better option. I'd like to think that's true."
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You owed him nothing. He can't figure out what that makes this.
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The eye of the king is starting to wander. His animus has been wandering for years. These are not quite the same thing.
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The eye of the king is starting to wander. You are the queen. You cannot say a word.
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Chester thinks you're great. Cole won't admit it yet.
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Decorated soldier. Unfortunate animus. No further questions.
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Twenty-two years of friendship. Two very different kinds of gorgeous. One non-negotiable rule: the trio comes first.
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