GhostInTheClawMachine
Fandoms
Recent works
-
Things Worth Searching For by GhostInTheClawMachine
Fandoms: Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling
09 Dec 2025
Tags
Summary
Sirius would be the first to admit that he was prone to unnecessary dramatics, but he couldn’t shake the feeling that something of the person he had been was lifted away with the curtain call. One version of Sirius had entered the tent and a different one walked back out into the sun. It was, in a way, exactly what Walburga Black had hoped for; what an enjoyable irony to comfort himself with as he reluctantly left the stage behind.
In post-war England with society on the precipice of a major shift, Sirius Black reaches the tipping point within his own family. With nowhere else to go, he turns to a new friend and his family's traveling circus for an escape. Even with the fresh start he hoped for and an unexpected chance at love, eventually, Sirius must admit that one family can never be entirely left behind for another.
-
One More Boy, One More Lie by GhostInTheClawMachine
Fandoms: Baldur's Gate (Video Games)
06 Dec 2025
Tags
Summary
The stories grew more fanciful, a snowball rolling downhill as it passed from person to person. The Blade had plucked a harpy straight from the sky and stolen its wings for himself. The Blade had felled an army of goblins with no weapon but the jawbone he ripped from the first of their corpses. The Blade would show up when your need was greatest and turn the tide of unwinnable battles as easily as one might snap a dying branch. The Blade would not confirm, and he would not deny. When a traveler more daring than most worked up the nerve to ask him the source of his triumph, his answer was always the same — some secrets are too important not to keep.
The Blade of Frontiers is the greatest hero the realm has ever known, a man of strength from mysterious origins. Astarion, a prostitute working in the Tourmaline Depths who has won the Blade's affection, is approached by a powerful patron with an offer - reveal the source of the man's strength and be rewarded. An easy bargain, yes? What reason could there be not to throw the Blade to the wolves?
-
Tags
Summary
The man in the woods didn’t inspire dread at first glance. He wandered as aimlessly as a week old lamb, lifting one hand to trail it through the sweeping branches of the willows on either side of him.
A strange man wanders near Forest Hills, straying near lingering danger. A callous prince controls the palace, holding Eddie’s fate in his capricious hands. They look the same, though they couldn’t be more different — two men in the same body in a way that shouldn’t be possible in the wake of magic being purged from the kingdom. It would be wiser to weather the consequences for thievery with his head down rather than involve himself in a mystery, but Eddie has never been known for his wisdom.
-
Tags
Summary
It had taken only a few days of playing unwilling host for Wyll to learn the signs that his dreams hadn’t remained his own; by now, he had thoroughly mastered it. As his eyes fluttered open, his temples ached. There was a rapidly fading pressure there, pulsing as the tadpole backed away from his skull and the tendrils that had projected his memories retracted under the weight of consciousness. At least it had been a kind memory this time. The party would wake cocooned in fond recollections of childhood with a father far softer than the one that existed now rather than choking on bile as they had after being subjected to glimpses of the Blood War.
After a fond childhood memory is accidentally shared with the party while Wyll sleeps, he discovers that the mermaid he once discovered in the harbor was not a mermaid at all. There are far crueler things in the waters of Baldur's Gate than the imagination of a child can picture.
-
Tags
Summary
They may very well not survive to celebrate the slaying of a devil in his own realm, or the city’s dictator in all but name, or the chosen of Bhaal herself, slippery like roaring rapids and twice as deadly. They could, however, celebrate doing one misguided constable’s job for her and prying loose one of death’s many claws sunk into the meat of the city. That would have to be enough.
Dolor has been slain, the Bhaalist murder plot has been interrupted, and the party has survived to see another day. This is a victory worth celebrating, and a major blow struck against Bhaal's Chosen...isn't it?
Recent series
-
I Am What I Am (I’m Not Apologizing) by GhostInTheClawMachine
Fandom Stranger Things (TV 2016)
27 Sep 2025
Summary
The Wounds Where Blood Just Won’t Congeal + related stories
- Words:
- 177,281
- Works:
- 8
- Bookmarks:
- 34
-
Whumptober 2024 by GhostInTheClawMachine
Fandom Baldur's Gate (Video Games), Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling, Stranger Things (TV 2016), Watch Dogs (Video Games)
31 Oct 2024
- Words:
- 54,066
- Works:
- 16
- Bookmarks:
- 1
Recent bookmarks
-
haunting out by the reeds by Raayide for stolenglow
Fandoms: Baldur's Gate (Video Games)
13 Nov 2025
Tags
Summary
Undead cannot become mindflayers. A living mind is required to be a host, and vampire spawns don't have one.
There's something growing inside Astarion's skull.
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 12,242
- Chapters:
- 1/1
- Collections:
- 1
- Comments:
- 4
- Kudos:
- 50
- Bookmarks:
- 10
- Hits:
- 430
Bookmarked by GhostInTheClawMachine
25 Dec 2025
-
Tags
Summary
Eddie doesn't see what is wrong with him saving posts by sending them to famous actor Steve Harrington's dms, it's not like the guy is ever going to see them, right? RIGHT? Except-
Steve.hrrgtn: Dude, you just made me laugh in the middle of a table reading
Batking: why are you looking at your phone in the middle of a table reading
Steve.hrrgtn: new season boring af
Bookmarked by GhostInTheClawMachine
11 Dec 2025
-
Tags
Summary
“I was ten,” Steve starts, because that’s how it always starts. That’s how the story of his life is told.
I was ten, begin a dozen unfinished, unsent college essays. I was ten, I was ten, I was ten.
***
When Steve is ten, he's kidnapped by a serial killer alongside another boy, a stranger named Ed. When Steve is nineteen, he finds himself walking through the Upside Down with a man named Eddie. These events are more linked than he thinks.
(Or: Steve and Eddie find each other in hell. Twice.)- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 24,103
- Chapters:
- 8/8
- Comments:
- 261
- Kudos:
- 1,754
- Bookmarks:
- 435
- Hits:
- 13,841
Bookmarked by GhostInTheClawMachine
08 Dec 2025
-
Tags
Summary
The story of Dracula if instead it is Count Szarr who is visited by the solicitor Wyll Ravengard. Unlike Dracula, Szarr will not be making it to London.
A fusion fic where Dracula’s original main cast is replaced with the charismatic monster hunter, lovable rogue, and the eminently hatable vampire lord of Baldur’s Gate. The style of this fic imitates and expands upon the original epistolary style of Bram Stoker’s original Dracula.
[No prior knowledge of the original novel required.]
Where English gentleman Wyll Ravengard, a hero at heart, cannot resist the call to action once he discovers monsters are real.
Bookmarked by GhostInTheClawMachine
22 Nov 2025
-
Snow Patrol by Gloromeien
Fandoms: Captain America (Chris Evans Movies), Captain America - All Media Types
22 Jun 2025
Tags
Summary
Brooklyn in winter is no one's favorite season. Especially for someone like the recently thawed Steve Rogers, adrift in the twenty-first century after decades on ice, searching for some people to call his own. A chance encounter on a snow-blanketed street one frosty winter night could change all that... if Steve can find a way to ingratiate himself with the gang of colossal fucking assholes who give him no end of grief while serving their community.
Bookmarked by GhostInTheClawMachine
20 Oct 2025