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“Why don’t you come over here?” she finally suggests, her voice deeper, lower than usual; it sounds like she’s flirting with him, but sometimes Dawn can’t tell with her. He doesn’t want to press into the line of whatever this is, shattering the illusion he’s built in his head. He’s imagined her face a million times before going to bed; sometimes, laughing, other times, gasping, with her mouth wide open and the shadows abound all around them as she shudders out a moan. He thinks about her all the time. He thinks about her too much.
Dawn looks down at his glass of liquor. Swirls it between the crystalline walls—and downs the entire thing in one gulp. It burns going down.
Strength. Wisdom. Fortitude.
This is neither of those things.
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18 Sep 2025
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Luck. They all wished it, but Gaal didn’t come here on luck. She came here on math—and the math was never wrong.
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12 Sep 2025
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History would come to remember him as The Alchemist, Tenth of the Cleonic line, but the child Twelve knew him only as Brother Dusk.
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Snapshots of Cleon XII's childhood, and the Cleon he knew as Brother Dusk.
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02 Sep 2025
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It doesn't benefit Gaal to sleep with him, not really. She still does.
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25 Aug 2025
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It's just a lesson by NightshadeSmoothie
Fandoms: Star Wars - All Media Types, Star Wars Prequel Trilogy
25 Oct 2021
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Following an incident of misconduct, Chancellor Palpatine summons his prized scholarship student, Anakin Skywalker, to his office to discuss how this behaviour might be rectified.
(Set in a real world university AU)
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03 Jun 2025
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Quatrains by salamanderinspace
Fandoms: Star Wars - All Media Types, Star Wars Prequel Trilogy
03 Sep 2022
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An entanglement on Coruscant.
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03 Jun 2025
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Dooku and Palpatine play chess together quite often.
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02 Jun 2025
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Providence, In Summer by orphan_account
Fandoms: Star Wars - All Media Types, Star Wars Prequel Trilogy
16 Aug 2024
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This is the birth of a woman, coaxed from statue.
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Padmé had made her acceptance speech while sweating under the weight of her outfit, layers of green-gold shot silk shining like the leaves on the trees of Theed. Eternal summer brought with it peace and plenty, cheer and merriment. The whole planet was thrumming with life, hibiscus flowers unfurled in the Royal Gardens, and before her a great crowd had gathered to listen to her speak, flower petals floating through the still air. Amidala had won by a strong margin, was young and popular and optimistic, and it was Padmé’s solemn duty to transform Amidala from idea into woman.
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This is the death rattle of trust.
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“I said, I’ll do what is right.” The tired father of the Republic was erased fully now, unbending steel in his place. The meeting, she knew, was over. Palpatine continued, “That should be enough for your,” he locked eyes with Padmé, said the next word with a sneer, “committee.”
Look how far you’ve fallen from the queen who understood the importance of action, his words whispered, Anakin unmoving at his side. A flash of fury burnt through her.
//Or: Padme Amidala, through her life.
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02 Jun 2025
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I've Got Your Heart by Anonymous
Fandoms: Star Wars - All Media Types, Star Wars Prequel Trilogy
10 Apr 2025
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Anakin doesn't know what he'd do if he lost Palpatine.
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02 Jun 2025
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Miss Sophia Turley Has Her Cake and Eats It, Too by sweetheart_cherry
Fandoms: Original Work
13 Aug 2025
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Approaching spinsterhood as the last of her friends to marry, Miss Sophia Turley is faced with a single choice from her father: marry the man whose proposals she has refused six times, or else.
Mr. Richard Hyatt, famed adventure writer, world traveler, gentleman in love, and threatening to grow wider than he is tall—is missing but one thing: the only woman he would ever consider making his wife.
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13 May 2025
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With a number of problems to deal with already, a new (and intriguing) addition to his parish is the last thing the Comte de Reynaud needs - and the foreign chocolaterie owner, who is rumoured to be atheistic, unmarried and strikingly beautiful, will be more trouble than he can possibly imagine.
Long fic, short chapters, a little bit of hurt and a lot of comfort.
2024 update: I originally wrote this fic over a very short period of time. Having now gone over and (hopefully) improved the overall work and added a lot of material, especially to the early chapters, as well as completing the epilogue, I'm happy to consider it finally finished.- Language:
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06 May 2025
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I may be ice: as frigid and deceptively fragile as frost at dawn—an apt crown for aphelion of the tantalising warmth that has ever tempted but never thawed me. Yet I’m also summer: mesmerising menace masked by mirth, debauched bearer of every earthly delight, purveyor of such luminescence that I rival Sol, although I’m damned myself to gloom that only a half–denizen of the Void can know.
He may be fire: as fervid and dazzlingly ferocious as wildfire at zenith, subjugated to the furious tempest that rages within him, mercilessly as surf ravages scar, demanding immolation on a protean pyre—for whom does he burn tonight? Yet he’s also winter: winsome woe of reckoning, scourge to the sublime and dread of the decadent, although all he covets in these worlds are the halcyon days he’s due.
We are both creatures of contradictions. It’s why we understand one another. But it’s not lost on me that ice and fire cannot mingle without the frailer’s demise, that summer and winter never meet anywhere but the Ice. We tried for temperance.
We failed.
_____What if Cassius and Darrow were lovers? A reimagining of Red Rising, told from Cassius’ perspective.
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- Part 1 of Alis Aquilae
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11 Apr 2025
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Honor is what echoes. The words of Cassius’s father have never seemed more difficult to live by than in this moment. Becoming an Olympic Knight was supposed to allow him to make a difference. So why is it that Cassius can do nothing but watch?
A retelling of the unboxing scene from the perspective of Cassius.
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26 Feb 2025
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“Please,” Cassius said quietly. “Let me.”
Cassius is faced with the harsh reality of Darrow's existence after his time with the Jackal. He makes a different choice.
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25 Feb 2025
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but be advised, no restitution comes tonight by This_world_of_beautiful_monsters
Fandoms: Star Wars - All Media Types, Star Wars Prequel Trilogy, Star Wars: The Clone Wars (2008) - All Media Types
27 Apr 2022
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Palpatine, Padmé, and Fox are good at keeping things respectful and in small doses. Perhaps that's why it all works so well. Perhaps.
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- Part 29 of Multiamory March 2022
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17 Jan 2025
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A Lesson in Attachment by Wolf_of_Lilacs
Fandoms: Star Wars - All Media Types, Star Wars Original Trilogy
08 Aug 2019
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"There aren't many Jedi left, are there? For those who know what to look for, you are impossible to mistake, dear boy."
He wasn't an Inquisitor. He wasn't Vader. Were there more Yoda and Ben hadn't known about? Given what they'd kept from him about his parentage, what else had they concealed?
"I'm not a Jedi," he said truthfully. He'd abandoned the training. "I don't know what a Jedi should be."
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06 Jan 2025
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The Subtle Arrangement of Stones by Nemo_the_Everbeing for Twilight2000
Fandoms: Babylon 5
20 Dec 2012
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Ambassadors Mollari, Delenn, and G’Kar are kidnapped by the Homeguard. It goes according to no one's plans: Earth dithers, Ivanova stews, Kosh is his usual helpful self, Franklin makes assumptions, Sinclair tries to hold everything together, the three aides mount a cockamamie rescue, and Delenn hopes only to keep Londo and G’Kar from killing one another long enough for someone else to do it. A first season ambassadorial romp.
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28 Dec 2024
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In the weeks following The Very Long Night of Londo Mollari, the apology G’Kar never expected to hear has brought more confusion than relief. In search of a more satisfying explanation, G’Kar visits Londo during his convalescence only to find that he, too, has a confession to make.
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25 Dec 2024
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Londo Mollari looked back on his life, at all the mistakes and all the missed opportunities, and thought how wonderful it could have been even as his feet turned to salt.
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25 Dec 2024
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A year after The Fall of Centauri Prime, Londo works to restore his planet and get his people off to a good start as members of the Interstellar Alliance. Not everyone approves of the changes he’s undertaking. When a sensitive negotiation session gets off on the wrong foot due to G’Kar’s questionable deference to the emperor, Londo is forced to weigh his personal integrity against the potential for conflict between the Republic’s core worlds and the border colonies. G’Kar has plans of his own.
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19 Dec 2024