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"River was watching the shopfront across the road as if concentration could hold up his bones. The rain had the thin, needling quality London saves for January. He shivered; then he didn’t; then he did, hard enough that he had to put his coffee down in haste before it spilt. His skin had that too-bright sheen she remembered from other winters. Min, after a long night. Herself, once, unpleasantly. Fever."
Rainy stakeout turns fever spiral: Louisa drags stubborn River home and keeps vigil until the fever finally breaks.Bookmarked by Brightflame
06 Jan 2026
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"Wow, there’s a really big gender discrepancy here,” Shirley squinted at the website, disapproving, “Maybe they should start running diversity schemes to get women into international crime.”
River blinked at her, “That’s your takeaway from ending up on Interpol’s most wanted list? Really?”
She shrugged, "Someone's got to advocate for women in crime. It sure as hell isn't going to be your piece of shit father."My River and Shirley friendship thesis which got out of hand; in which Patrice survives, frames River and Shirley for mass murder, and the slow horses have to untangle the web Frank Harkness has left behind.
Written for the Slow Horses Big Bang 2025
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06 Jan 2026
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Getting four hundred men down three days' worth of Nazi-held road would be easier if Steve knew what the hell he was doing. Fortunately he's got Bucky Barnes and a stubborn disposition, not to mention a spare frying pan.
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11 Jul 2025
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Ronon's friendship with Chuck, the head Gate Tech of the Atlantis mission, leads him to discover the strange and alien ways of Canadians and helps him lay his past to rest.
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04 Jun 2025
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Rodney McKay, raised by a pod of telepathic whales. John Sheppard, mage with fae blood. Teyla Emmagan, rune-scientist. Ronon Dex, winged soldier. On the waystation of Atlantis, they're about to become embroiled in an age-old war against a brutal enemy.
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- Part 1 of Whaleverse
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27 May 2025
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And the Unethical Binding Contract by justafandomfollower
Fandoms: Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling
14 Apr 2019
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AU. What if the Triwizard Tournament took place in Harry's first year, not his fourth?
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25 May 2025
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Mark Scout wakes up alone in the stairwell. The panic is immediate: all the breath pressed from his lungs, his heart knocking wildly in his chest, something like electricity slithering under his skin. When last he’d been conscious, he had Gemma in his arms, her face pressed to his. Her voice still lingers in his mind: I’m sorry, she keeps repeating, again and again.
And now she’s gone.
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A week after the events of the S2 finale, Mark Scout attempts to put together the pieces of his life. An added complication? He's still reintegrating, dreaming in Mark S.'s memories, and attempting to ignore the fact that his innie is trying to tell him something.
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12 Apr 2025
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24 Dec 2024
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Merlin wants to know why Lancelot du Lac keeps turning up in A&E.
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03 Dec 2024
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He Says He Is An Experimental Theologian by ErinPtah
Fandoms: Welcome to Night Vale, His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman
05 Feb 2021
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Ever since Carlos was little, he and his daemon have been fans of Dr. Lyra Belacqua. Both as the most groundbreaking experimental theologian of the 20th century, and as the heroine of dozens of fantasy-adventure children's stories (based very loosely on her own mysterious childhood).
But Lyra's true legacy is still bigger than Carlos ever imagined...until he took a team of scholars to study Rusakov particles in the most theologically interesting community in Hispania Nova. Now his own day-to-day life is full of things like angels, witches, hooded spectres, portals between worlds, vague yet menacing branches of the Magisterium, and a man who walks around without his daemon and can read an alethiometer as easily as a stop sign.
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- Part 1 of Republic of Heaven Community Radio
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11 Jun 2024
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Steve goes through withdrawal, with some help from his friends. Set in the same basic universe as the Series 7 script, but this one is prose. Hopeful, but quite graphic. Strong language. Everyone in here is basically a nice person doing their best in a difficult situation.
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22 Mar 2024
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The people of Atlantis are woken up by a devastating explosion, and they soon realize that not only has their entire food supply been taken out, but the Gate is broken and Rodney is badly injured. A mysterious enemy has infiltrated Atlantis, and it is up to John and his team to stop him before it's too late.
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13 Apr 2023
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While on Atlantis, John is seriously injured in an assassination attempt, and he must hide out in Rodney's room to prevent another attack until the rest of the team stops the threat.
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11 Apr 2023
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It's Always the Little Things by Uncertainty_Principle
Fandoms: Spider-Man - All Media Types, Spider-Man: Homecoming (2017), Marvel Cinematic Universe, The Avengers (Marvel Movies)
29 Jul 2019
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Previously posted under username signofthree. This post-IW fic was written pre-IW, so it is pure speculation based on the trailers. And now, I suppose, a slight AU.
It’s been months since the Avengers defeated Thanos, and Peter’s doing fine. Really. Okay, so he has like, ten times as many villains to fight lately (and what is up with their costumes?). And sure, Tony has barely spoken to him since they got back. And, yeah, the whole coming back from the dead thing is a mind trip. But he’s dealing with it. All things considered, he’s doing a pretty good job of it too.
With everything else that’s going on, a bruise seems like such a little thing that Peter doesn’t pay it any attention, even when it doesn’t fade nearly as fast as it should. It’s just a bruise. It’s no big deal.
Enter an alien virus, throw in some Dr. Strange, inter-dimensional note passing, and a very, very angry Tony Stark, and suddenly it’s not such a little deal anymore.
It’s always the little things, isn’t it?
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24 Mar 2023
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Cities made of ashes by Skoll
Fandoms: Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling, 1984 - George Orwell
01 Sep 2011
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1984/Harry Potter crossover. Preslash SS/HP. - Harry works each day under Tom Riddle's gaze and returns home to more of the same, and, ever, the telescreens look on. TOM RIDDLE IS WATCHING YOU. Thank you for reminding me, Harry would like to say, his voice biting, his face twisted into a sneer. He never does.
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10 Mar 2023
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When Joe meets Nicky, it's love at first sight--at least until it becomes abundantly clear that Nicky hates him, for no reason at all. For lack of any better ideas, Joe decides to be the bigger man, suck it up, and just be polite when their social circle forces them to interact.
Of course, that would be easier if Nicky's daemon wasn't literally the sweetest, warmest, kindest, most wonderful daemon in the world.
How, exactly, does an asshole like Nicky wind up with a daemon like that?
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10 Mar 2023
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i'm here to share a secret; by LurkerHenn
Fandoms: Sherlock (TV), Sherlock Holmes & Related Fandoms
23 Oct 2022
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Manifests were… shapes that one’s soul took. Everyone had one, but only those who were taught could see and interact with them. They could be any shape - animals, plants, even inanimate objects and mythical creatures - and any size - though they rarely went much bigger than their human counterpart.
They were separate from the human form, yet not, at the same time. They had some autonomy, but rarely acted except to keep pace with their human, and never did anything the human half did not… allow, for lack of a better word. The soul and mind were one and the same, after all.
Manifests could interact with the physical world, to a degree. It was something that could be turned off and on; they frequently passed through walls and through closed doors, and ignored the laws of physics. But they could also carry light objects, or disturb dust patterns. And, if that was not enough, the human could, when unconscious or meditating, take control of the Manifest; even give it physical form, for a short period of time.
Still, it rarely had any effect on John’s day-to-day life, even if his own Manifest had an unhealthy obsession with Sherlock’s.
John did not let himself dwell on what that meant for him.
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10 Mar 2023
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Kaz Brekker had no daemon, people in the Barrel whispered.
He'd sold his soul to the devil in exchange for eternal life.
He kept his daemon locked in a safe so nobody could use her against him.
He was a demon, a ghost, a malevolent spirit, something out of a children’s story. Something other and soulless, to be avoided and feared from a distance.
Inej didn’t believe those stories.
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AKA the Six of Crows daemon AU nobody asked for
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08 Mar 2023
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Your heart is on your sleeve, dude. And her claws are digging in by WheatReceipt
Fandom Daredevil (TV), His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman
25 Jan 2025
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26 Jan 2023
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When a murder victim bearing a striking resemblance to a certain asshole civilian consultant shows up, Dan swears he can put his anger for Charlotte aside and be objective. His resolve and just about everything else is tested when he and Lucifer are kidnapped by a cult that has the Devil in its sights.
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16 Sep 2022