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Drift can feel a smile tugging at the corners of her mouth. She turns to Avid, who is looking at her expectantly. When she shakes the envelope over the table, there is a clatter, and many, many small ruby-red pieces of rosygold come falling out.
“Avid.” Drift says triumphantly. “I think we have a case."
He lets out a little whooping sound.
(OR: The year is 1899. London has long since been consumed by the darkness of the Neath. The Unterzee stretches out like a hungry mouth; far to the South, the Ministry of Public affairs build a god; and in the North, something sleeps and dreams and waits, patient and inevitable, to be awoken.
However, this is not that story. Drift is an amateur detective working the streets of London with an amnesiac roommate and very little hope for the future. But when the mysterious Apo Apokuna contacts her asking to find a missing ally, things start to get much, much more serious.
Fear is one thing. Bravery is quite another. But if she wants to stay alive and stay human, Drift is going to have to figure it out- and quick. Because there are some things that cannot be changed.
And there are some reckonings that cannot be avoided.)
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Two places in one, there’s nowhere to run/ Either way you lose. by APOLOGETICINSECT
Fandoms: Vampires SMP
05 Dec 2025
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When Cleo leans forwards, her forehead rests on the top of Pearl’s shoulder, and their hand is grasped blindly in Pearl’s own. She can feel her too-slow, steady heartbeat through the twitch of her wrists, the slope of her neck. Arteries and veins. Not quite human- but not quite inhuman either.
Cleo has to bite back another sigh. It has been a month since the last massacre of Oakhurst, and they have both been trying to settle into a new normal. Normal being a very… subjective word.
(OR: One month since the end of Oakhurst, Pearl and Cleo try to make a home out of the ashes. This is much more difficult than it sounds, especially when chickens stop being able to sate Cleo's hunger.)
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And you'll never want for comfort, and you'll never be alone by APOLOGETICINSECT
Fandoms: Octopath Traveler II (Video Game)
22 Jun 2025
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AND AELFRIC MADE MAN AND AELFRIC MADE DAEMON: AND THEN AELFRIC SAID, NO MAN SHALL EVER BE ALONE AS LONG AS HE WALKS THIS WORLD, FOR I SHALL WALK ALONGSIDE HIM, AND NO MAN SHALL EVER BE WITHOUT COUNCIL, FOR I WILL BE THERE TO GUIDE HIM, AND NO MAN SHALL EVER BE WITHOUT CONFIDANTS, FOR I WILL BE THERE TO HEAR HIM. FOR I AM THE GOLDEN DUST, AND I AM THE GOLDEN DREAM, AND I AM THE LOVE THAT WILL SEE YOU THROUGH.
(OR: In a world very similar to the one you may know, daemons aren't that big of a deal, most of the time. Our travellers are, as always, exceptions to the rule. In which Agnea dances with six feet; Castti completely fails at identifying birds; Osvald plots with a co-conspirator; Temenos relearns faith; Partitio has a strange interview; Throné hunts some snakes; Hikari has a breakthough; and Ochette thinks her friends are deeply confusing people.)
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Things started to fall apart like this: When Riz Gukgak was a toddler, his father died. He saw.
OR: When Riz Gukgak- unlicensed paranormal investigator- decides to start digging into a series of paranormal attacks in his online friend Gorgug's hometown, they both get a lot more than they bargained for.
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I haven't had a dream / in a long time by APOLOGETICINSECT
Fandoms: Octopath Traveler II (Video Game)
19 Mar 2025
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It’s about three days after leaving Healeaks that Osvald tries to talk to Castti.
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Where Riz hunts his father's killer, Gorgug keeps going, Fabian lives up to high pressure, Fig has an identity crisis, the Abernants are a very lonely household, and Kristen finds herself an unwilling acolyte for the end of the world as we know it. TMA/Fantasy High fusion.
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"Aspirant Tyranny," said Wicander. "Are you bleeding?"
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Tyranny has been on the Material Plane for just short of a month.
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18 Jan 2026
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my roots have grown but i don't know where they are by friendly_ficus
Fandoms: Critical Role: Aramán (Web Series)
21 Oct 2025
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Occtis Tachonis falls out of his body.
Again, and again, and again.Bookmarked by APOLOGETICINSECT
16 Jan 2026
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"My brother lay yon by the river, the river,
My brother lay yon be dead.
My brother lay yon by the river, the river,
My brother lay yon be dead.[...]
My brother get up by the river, the river,
My brother stand up still dead.
My brother get up by the river, the river,
Though his body be without its head."Series
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15 Jan 2026
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"What," Lae'zel says, "is that."
Her voice sounds severe—but then again, her voice always sounds severe, and at least there's no accompanying sound of a greatsword being drawn. Shadowheart lets her hand drop from the handle of her glaive and turns around.
"What's what?" She glances up and down the street, but there's nothing out of the ordinary to be seen: just another street in the Lower City, thrumming quietly with everyday activity. There's a pair of kids whacking each other with sticks—a steel-gray dragonborn hawking potions and dyes—a noblewoman with a stupid little purse dog, the two of them turning up their noses at a selection of vegetables—a drow wobbling on his feet, supported by friends who seem nearly as unsteady as he is—
"That." Weeks of journeying together mean that Lae'zel doesn't outright point at people anymore, but the tilt of her head is just as obvious. "That—creature."
OR: Team Tadpole plays a game. Lae'zel confronts the complexities of taxonomy.
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11 Jan 2026
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Things that Haunt Our Hallways by ghostwriterofthemachine
Fandoms: 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia
18 Apr 2021
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“It was a kid,” Yagi gasped out. He had his hand balled up into a fist and the fist pressed to his lips, as if to remind himself that he could not start screaming. “Or. Young person, maybe 20. Homeless, I think. Activated their Quirk on reflex and then ran. The kids—” Here, he pressed his fist harder to his mouth, sucked in a wheezing breath, as if the air itself was pushing down something with physical weight. “The kids—”
“Scattered immediately,” Aizawa finished for him, and Yagi managed a nod.
Yagi’s eyes were so dilated that the blue was almost invisible. He shook violently. He looked like a scarecrow in a windstorm.
Someone activated a Fear-Inducer Quirk so powerful that it reduced All Might to this— of course Aizawa’s class had bolted.
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A Fear Gas fic, BNHA style.
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