1 - 20 of 234 Bookmarks by applecat
Navigation
List of Bookmarks
-
The International Treaty for the Protection of Antiquities by Margot_Lescargot
Fandoms: Rivers of London - Ben Aaronovitch, Indiana Jones Series
25 May 2024
Tags
Summary
… sneaking stealthily through the snow had reminded Nightingale of an operation in Tibet in 1938.
‘Chasing German archaeologists,’ he said. ‘Complete wild goose chase for them and for us.’
(Whispers Under Ground, chapter 10)Nazis, intrigue and romance clash in the high peaks of the Himalayas!
Chapter 1: How to get Nightingale on his way to Tibet in ~20,000 easy words
Chapter 2: Nightingale takes a trip, meets Indiana Jones at the end of it
Chapter 3: Capers
Intermission: Tibet, mid-13th century
Chapter 4: Shenanigans
Chapter 5: Wild goose chase
Epilogue: London, 1948Bookmarked by applecat
30 Dec 2025
-
Tags
Summary
Ghosts, I was thinking, memories—I wasn't sure there was a difference.
( – Moon Over Soho )Seawoll trips a curse-trap set for Nightingale. Nightingale has troubles of his own. Written on the Bujold principle of ‘what’s the
worstmost revealing thing you can do to these characters’, and also to answer ‘what would it take to make them friends’.- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 51,023
- Chapters:
- 10/10
- Collections:
- 1
- Comments:
- 84
- Kudos:
- 76
- Bookmarks:
- 5
- Hits:
- 1,883
Bookmarked by applecat
29 Dec 2025
-
Tags
Summary
People get attached to things, their clothes, their vehicles, that funny stone they found on the beach as a child. Sometimes even their SecUnits. To the SecUnit in question this is an unsettling new process.
[OCs stuck in one of those shitty mining facilities we keep hearing about]
[Murderbot doesn't show up until chapter 30. It's all OCs before then.]
Series
- Part 1 of Twenty-two and Mariss
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 128,715
- Chapters:
- 46/46
- Comments:
- 2,354
- Kudos:
- 505
- Bookmarks:
- 87
- Hits:
- 12,125
Bookmarked by applecat
28 Jul 2025
-
Tags
Summary
Alex leans forward suddenly. “You guys really don’t remember?”
Charles steals his watermelon juice, takes a sip and subsequently drops his head into his hands, the heel of his palm digging into his eyes.
“Remember what?” He asks, wondering if he really wants to know.
“You guys got married last night.”
Charles almost cracks a smile. “Are you ashamed of it?”
“Of what?”
“This,” Charles gestures between himself and Max vaguely, but for a split second, even he doesn’t know what he means. There is no this, there is no them. “Our marriage.”
Or, Max and Charles learn to fall in love in reverse.
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 15,063
- Chapters:
- 3/3
- Comments:
- 135
- Kudos:
- 2,305
- Bookmarks:
- 343
- Hits:
- 32,636
Bookmarked by applecat
04 May 2024
-
Tags
Summary
“You think you are so much better –“
“I know I am,” Max cut him off again. “But that doesn’t mean that I can’t be beat.”
“You want me to beat you?”
“I want you to fucking try,” Max said, and over the phone, Charles could hear his cocky little grin. Charles found himself grinning back.
Series
- Part 1 of salad days
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 48,662
- Chapters:
- 15/15
- Comments:
- 279
- Kudos:
- 2,602
- Bookmarks:
- 543
- Hits:
- 68,175
Bookmarked by applecat
12 Apr 2024
-
Tags
Summary
In this one, Charles wakes up in Max's bed - neither of them can remember the night before, though. Then, a video of them surfaces.
Bookmarked by applecat
07 Apr 2024
-
Tags
Summary
“You know… Those posters for missing cats and dogs always include some sort of reward.”
“Are you asking me for money?” Charles asks, sounding utterly bewildered.
Max cackles loudly, and it comes out a little hysterical. “No, Charles. I meant—”
“Ah,” Charles says, and then, without any hesitation, drops to his knees between Max’s legs, hands reaching for his belt.
or; a fat tabby cat, a presumptuous bottom, a ski trip, and an endeared max verstappen.
Bookmarked by applecat
29 Mar 2024
-
- Words:
- 18,000
- Works:
- 3
- Bookmarks:
- 16
Bookmarked by applecat
02 Mar 2024
-
Tags
Summary
A few years after the depositions, Mark sends Eduardo an e-mail. Now Eduardo just needs to figure out what it says.
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 15,939
- Chapters:
- 2/2
- Collections:
- 1
- Comments:
- 88
- Kudos:
- 1,493
- Bookmarks:
- 360
- Hits:
- 24,147
Bookmarked by applecat
10 Feb 2024
-
Things I Knew When I Was Young (Some Were True And Some Were Wrong) by skyline
Fandoms: The Social Network (2010)
21 Nov 2021
Tags
Summary
“Mark. You woke up one morning and said, what a lovely day to destabilize America, and that’s my fault?”
“Yes,” Mark replies stubbornly. “Somehow.”
Or, uh:
The one where Eduardo thinks the fall of Facebook is funny AF, makes a throwaway comment to Chris about sending Mark a consolation fruit basket, and Mark sees that as Eduardo wanting to reconnect because he is unhinged.
Bookmarked by applecat
30 Jan 2024
-
Buffy Season Noir by Anna S (eliade)
Fandoms: Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Angel: the Series
17 Mar 2004
Tags
Summary
He was the only person who ever left her whose abandonment she'd truly earned, and he was the only one who kept coming back.
Events went differently in Season 6, after "Gone", and Buffy and her friends try to get back to what passes for normal on the Hellmouth. But wouldn't you know, as soon as they beat back one interdimensional baddie, the portents of yet another "dark power rising" start to appear. Unfortunately, Willow has seen that this time the demon threat will succeed in wiping Sunnydale off the map — especially if it can recruit the Slayer of Slayers to its side — and that's the best case scenario. This permanent WIP is intended as an alternate season of Buffy.
Note from the poster: This story is entirely by Anna S. (eliade), who has generously allowed me to post her fic to AO3. It is a classic of Buffy fanfic, unfinished and likely to remain so. It has only been available via Wayback Machine for the last several years, and deserves a wider readership. A readership which will soon discover a rich and compelling tale by a master of dialog, characterization, and plotting.
Series
- Part 1 of Fics by Eliade (aka Anna S)
-
flatlands by ableedingheartdove
Fandoms: Game of Thrones (TV), A Song of Ice and Fire - George R. R. Martin, A Song of Ice and Fire & Related Fandoms
23 Mar 2025
Tags
Summary
Touch with Jon is so strange, so dear. She feels it like a living thing, a physical thing - this need to feel him, to grab him, to touch him, always. To make sure he’s there; to feel him there. No matter how difficult it is with him, it is always such a relief to have him with her. It’s like she wants him to crawl beneath her skin, settle inside her; another heart, so similar and yet so starkly different, beating in sync with hers.
Her eyes are still closed as he continues: ‘’It’s you and me now. We have to trust each other. We can’t fight a war amongst ourselves. We have so many enemies now.’’ For a moment there is only silence then, until finally, Jon continues - finishes, she can tell - voice darker, deeper: ‘’Do not hide things from me again.’’
She sighs. Squeezes him a bit, just a bit; ‘’Listen to me.’’ he squeezes her back, so strong and yet so gentle. Contained. She longs to wrap herself around him.
They remain as they are.
***
Jon and Sansa. A season six - onwards fix-it.
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 161,245
- Chapters:
- 31/?
- Collections:
- 1
- Comments:
- 1,265
- Kudos:
- 1,936
- Bookmarks:
- 597
- Hits:
- 107,298
Bookmarked by applecat
19 Jan 2024
-
then out of nowhere, somebody comes and hits you with an ooh la la la, ooh la la la, ooh la la la, ooh by three-fingered (calciseptine)
Fandoms: Spider-Man - All Media Types, Deadpool - All Media Types
17 Jun 2023
Tags
Summary
.
A man with spider-themed superpowers accidentally breaks into Wade's apartment.
or, that fic in which Wade shoots at a shadow, makes a twink some pancakes, attempts to read several scientific papers, orders a dozen bagels and winds up with fourteen, is accused of smoking too much weed, falsifies medical documents, eats churros in Central Park, sings opera, encounters a dead-end, pretends he's filming a movie about ninjas and wizards, and—somewhere along the way—meets the love of his life.
.
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 49,412
- Chapters:
- 12/12
- Collections:
- 3
- Comments:
- 558
- Kudos:
- 2,849
- Bookmarks:
- 655
- Hits:
- 30,653
Bookmarked by applecat
17 Jan 2024
-
- Words:
- 42,709
- Works:
- 3
- Bookmarks:
- 97
Bookmarked by applecat
28 Dec 2023
-
Tags
Summary
Since he was eighteen, Steven Harrington knew he would not marry: there were many factors, but chief among them were that he had, he knew, given up his chance for true happiness when he had allowed his mother to persuade him from accepting Edward Munson’s proposal.
Or: a Regency AU.
Series
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 102,211
- Chapters:
- 10/10
- Collections:
- 3
- Comments:
- 1,204
- Kudos:
- 1,443
- Bookmarks:
- 438
- Hits:
- 32,539
Bookmarked by applecat
23 Dec 2023
-
Tags
Summary
Caroll, Franklin R. Atlantis Revisited. New York and London, Routledge, 2011.
Chapman, Denise. Several Kinds of Genius: The Life of Rodney McKay. NY: Harper Perennial, 2015.
Croft, Rosalind. City of Spires: A Memoir. Toronto: The Mercury Press, 2009.
Dugan, Paul. A Political History of Atlantis. Oxford: OUP, 2012.Series
- Part 9 of Speranza Sampler
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 52,843
- Chapters:
- 1/1
- Collections:
- 11
- Comments:
- 292
- Kudos:
- 2,412
- Bookmarks:
- 1,643
- Hits:
- 66,108
Bookmarked by applecat
03 Dec 2023
-
Tags
Summary
“Paperwork for the new head of Q-Branch,” Tanner said.
“Of course.” The words were like glass in his throat. Smoke inhalation was a bitch. His brain felt slow and foggy, like it was full of smoke too. “Who shall I take them to?”
M lifted one white brow. “They’re for you, Quartermaster.”
Bond and Q are drawn together by names, work, and a certain Aston Martin. In which Q is kidnapped once, Bond is poisoned twice, and Eve is a badass on at least three occasions. AKA that time I tripped and wrote 80,000 words of 00Q.
All titles unapologetically stolen from Alfred, Lord Tennyson.
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 89,065
- Chapters:
- 15/15
- Collections:
- 1
- Comments:
- 801
- Kudos:
- 4,751
- Bookmarks:
- 1,583
- Hits:
- 81,020
Bookmarked by applecat
03 Dec 2023
-
the most remarkable thing, and other b-sides and rarities by greatunironic
Fandom Stranger Things (TV 2016)
04 Jul 2024
Summary
Stories set in a world where Vecna is defeated, Steve gets his degree in counseling, Eddie becomes a grunge pioneer, and everyone gets a slightly softer ending.
- Words:
- 62,076
- Works:
- 6
- Bookmarks:
- 1,352
Bookmarked by applecat
18 Nov 2023
-
the most remarkable thing about you standing in the doorway is that it’s you by greatunironic
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
20 Jul 2022
Tags
Summary
Sixteen years after the world didn't end for the last time, Max Mayfield showed up on Steve’s doorstep and said, “You gonna walk me down the aisle in May or what?” Or, it’s 2002 and Steve Harrington attends a wedding, a funeral, and a birth.
Series
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 34,987
- Chapters:
- 5/5
- Collections:
- 66
- Comments:
- 4,592
- Kudos:
- 19,884
- Bookmarks:
- 7,236
- Hits:
- 277,618
Bookmarked by applecat
18 Nov 2023
-
Summary
There is no such thing as a guarantee when it comes to war.
The outcome's known. Why try?
Return your rusty sword to battered sheath,
bow your head and bend your stubborn knee. Why
take the field when you cannot win the war?
But Harry -- he went down to Agincourt.
--Harry Takes the Field by bratfarrar (AO3 link here.)
- Words:
- 1,121,311
- Works:
- 4
- Bookmarks:
- 2,603
Bookmarked by applecat
01 Sep 2023