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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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- Part 1 of so let the end-times roll
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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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to be buried alive by FromStarstuff
Fandoms: DCU (Comics), Batman (Comics), Batman - All Media Types
17 Oct 2024
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Bruce died and Cass couldn’t breathe for a week. She didn’t want to believe it at first, didn’t want to even think of it. She knew Bruce and she knew death and they didn’t fit together, not at all.
He was gone, gone like Brenda and Bludhaven, gone like Steph had been. Like Faizul. She felt it inside of her, so keenly it was as if she had killed him by her own hand. She could search the whole earth and not find a trace of him. It was too much. The pressure was squeezing her insides, left her constantly choking for air. She couldn’t stop dry heaving.
Or: Bruce is dead. Instead of leaving, Cass stays in Gotham. She learns a thing or two about being Batman.
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18 Mar 2026
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Linguistic Ambiguities in Vulcan Ethical Codes by elumish
Fandoms: Star Trek: Alternate Original Series (Movies)
07 Jun 2017
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The thing people always forget is that it was a Vulcan ship that reached Tarsus IV first.
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06 Mar 2026
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she's there when I wake up (at the end of my bed) by jadeandquartz
Fandoms: Critical Role: Aramán (Web Series)
29 Dec 2025
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Occtis freezes halfway through the final somatic step. The windowglass is thin - poor quality, but clearer than the mirror behind him. Light from the tavern across the street provides a backdrop, casting a gentle golden glow over the sill. It must be a hallucination, though, or some impossible trick of the light, because the face hovering outside the window is -
- his own?
His own. His own, but not his own. It's wrong, by which Occtis means it's right. The cheekbones aren't sunken; the flesh has blood beneath it; the eyes are just a normal shade of green. The brow - his brow? - is furrowed in frustration. The - his - eyes are red and welling with tears, which isn't right, because he definitely can't even cry anymore -
"Oh, fuck!" the other-Occtis says, making eye contact with him. "Oh fucking Hells, wait, it's actually you -"
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Occtis receives an unexpected visitor.
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22 Feb 2026
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A series of missives sent and recieved during the Falconer's Rebellion.
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13 Feb 2026
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Ms. Curnow was nice, Emily decided.
Not that her other teachers had not been nice, of course. The daughter of the Empress had only ever met the best scholars of the Isles.
But Ms. Curnow was nice in a way they hadn't quite been. She did things like this for her student: pointing her to her favorite part of the song, saving the music lesson for last, as a treat, because she knew how Emily liked it.
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- Part 1 of Interregnum
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10 Feb 2026