20 Bookmarks by Darter
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we rewind the gears by Calcifi, mechanicalUniverses
Fandoms: Hollow Knight (Video Games)
23 Oct 2025
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This heart; their lives; entwined, eternal.
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- Part 1 of Voices of the Citadel
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Prompt fill:
"Wheatley (any form will do) succeeds in killing Chell somehow. Unfortunately for him, the Chell came back- as a ghost. And now he can't ever get rid of her."
Alternately, "Wheatley is an idiot, Chell is dead and pissed, and GLaDOS is still a potato."
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Long before the events of Operation ACRI, Aperture's top financial advisor, Kris, is kicked out of his position to a lowly stock-supervisor one, three rungs down the ladder. It would surely be the worst thing to ever happen to him - if it wasn't for his new, stunningly beautiful coworker right next door.
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A Collection Of Imperfect Stories by Consequences_of_Salt
Fandoms: Wings of Fire - Tui T. Sutherland
23 May 2021
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These are not your normal faerie tales.
The heroine is not always breathtakingly beautiful, the prince is not always brave or noble. And the evil witches just might have stories of their own.
These are the stories that didn't make it into the dragonets books. They were cut out, held far from dragonets ears. Not for lack of happy endings (although there aren't many of those), but because perhaps they teach just a bit too much of the truth. These are stories woven with threads of darkness, the stories that are just a bit too close to reality for some.
You don't have to read them all, they don't connect in any way. They are just here for you to pick from, if you want something a bit different than ordinary tales.
You might not like these stories. They aren't for everyone.
But every story, no matter how strange, deserves a chance to be told.
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14 Dec 2025
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This is, quite literally, the story that changed my life forever. Never disappear. I never want to lose you again. I'm downloading you so I never lose you. You are beautiful. Black Cliffs, White Wings is eternally unfinished and I am suffering but it's okay because Mylinoe's story is here.
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As Cave Johnson succumbs to lunar poisoning, Caroline reckons with what comes next as her world collapses around her. Doug Rattmann, meanwhile, befriends a young orphan girl in the Self-Esteem Fund program.
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11 Dec 2025
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CAVELINE PAIN TRAIN FTW + Doug adopts Chell (essentially) 11/10 songs
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Escaping the Digital Circus was only the beginning. Weeks later, Pomni -Christine- runs into Jax -Felix- on the New York sidewalk. She thought she'd never hear his stupid voice again. Their unexpected reunion forces them to confront the weight of the past, and now, the trajectory of their future.
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The White Lady convinces her husband to let them keep just one egg for themselves. One child untainted by the void, one child among a sea of corpses.
But the egg cannot hatch outside the Abyss. They try everything, hold it close and treat it like a living child, then lose hope and leave it in the care of nannies. It doesn’t matter; that egg was doomed from the start to never hatch. The Pale King’s essence had been too tainted by void to sire a normal child.
The egg sits, frozen in time, until mere weeks before the Hollow Knight’s sealing. The Pure Vessel just can’t leave his parents alone, so he takes the egg to the Abyss to hatch it.
There are consequences to every action taken of free will, no matter how much self delusion is involved.
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Girl, so confusing by arsenicMonster
Fandoms: Hollow Knight: Silksong, Hollow Knight (Video Games)
30 Dec 2025
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Lace will spit on her mothers memory, take ownership of her body and have a damn good time while doing so.
Of course, Hornet's always happy to help.
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- Part 1 of Sympathy is a knife
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25 Nov 2025
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Lace's rebellion against her mother fails. When Hornet is abducted from Hallownest, there is nothing to disrupt her bindings long enough to allow her to break free of the Envoy's clutches. She finds herself imprisoned alongside a dirty, frayed thing that tells her it can help her take vengeance... if only she helps it escape the Cradle first.
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22 Nov 2025
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Lace and Hornet being fugitives and murdering shit but it's one of the most well written things I've ever read
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"No gods, no masters" was easier to say than achieve. Hornet falls prey to her own nature, and Lace is left to decide their fates.
At the end of it all, a decision must be made: what must happen with the new Weaver Queen?Bookmarked by Darter
21 Nov 2025
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All across Pharloom, millions of silkflies awaken memories of their former lives. Identities are restored, and friends are remembered. And oh boy is the Choir Administration not going to like this.
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- Part 1 of The Music of Machinery
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You make me sick.
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21 Nov 2025
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Lace thinks that the person she should be isn’t even a person that exists.
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23 Sep 2025
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The Moth from the Wastes by Mumbles (MumblesTheMoth)
Fandoms: Hollow Knight (Video Games)
01 Mar 2026
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"Save them. All of them."
Dropped right outside of Hallownest at the onset of the Infection, a nobody man-turned-moth is tasked with preventing the oncoming apocalypse, by any means necessary.
But what can one mere mortal do in the face of divine wrath?
Improvise, adapt, overcome.
Rise to the challenge.
Or die trying.
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Bookmarked by Darter
15 Sep 2025
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Oh hey, another isekai fic! Love this one, because MC isn't immediately OP.
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Her brilliant plan was as follows:
1. Hide right up against the wall next to the door out of the Abyss so the Pale Bellend didn’t see her immediately.
2. When he walked through the door, waste no time in hitting him in the back of the head, or the back of whatever she could reach with her club to stun him and give her more time to enact step 3.
3. Run like hell, and pray that getting unexpectedly whacked in the back of the head stunned him long enough for her to make a clean getaway, since he would presumably be coming down here alone.
4. Make good use of her intangibility to escape and haul ass to the Resting Grounds as fast as possible, putting all her ninja skills to good use in avoiding detection from basically everyone, since she could trust basically no one to not rat her out if the king put a bounty on her head or some shit like that.
She operated under the KISS method of planning. It was an acronym that stood for ‘Keep It Simple, Stupid.’
But then again, no plan survived contact with the enemy.
This was going to suck, wasn't it?
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- Part 1 of A Not-So-Hallowed Nest
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Years after the events of Portal 2, Chell was able to reintegrate herself into human society, or what was left of it in a post-Combine world. All she wishes to do is cut ties from the Aperture facility, yet something keeps her coming back to that small shed year after year. Up above the atmosphere, Wheatley still sits in the Earth's orbit before something finally takes hold of him.
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Self As A Construct by ChubsDeuce
Fandoms: Portal (Video Game), Aperture Tag (Video Game)
11 Jan 2025
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Nigel has tested enough humans in his timeframe of existence to know that they're unpredictable, but never could he have guessed what the sudden return of one could bring.
As truths unfold themselves and trouble keeps coming after them, Nigel begins to question his place in the world. He'd always been so sure of it, so certain about his role in the bigger picture.
But after everything that happened he begins to wonder if maybe there's more to existence than going in circles and following the program for all eternity.
[tags will be updated as the story progresses; no set posting schedule but I'm determined to see this fic finished eventually, even if it takes me years]
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A young university student moves into a dirt cheap manor, and she knows better than to let her guard down. Who are her new and unlikely roommates, and can she actually trust who they say they are? Ghost AU :)
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21 Mar 2025
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Awesome Ghost AU idea, plus well-done characterization.
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Mel finds herself trapped in Aperture once again, but this time while GLaDOS is back online and in charge. With the help of Virgil, the Maintenance Core, she must devise a way of escape before its too late, and the only way to go up...is to go down. { A sequel to the fan-mod, Portal Stories: Mel }