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Martin knows how he should feel about his lot in life—terrible. He should feel terrible.
After all, he’s trapped in a dungeon with a hungry god who will one day eat him, regardless of how either of them feel about the prospect. Martin should feel terrified and miserable as he’s slowly fattened up for the big event. He should be clawing at the walls, desperate to escape.
There’s also quite a few things he shouldn’t be doing. He shouldn’t feel sorry for the god; he shouldn’t find him oddly sweet; he shouldn’t want to feed him.
He should not agree when the god offers to play into his most humiliating fetishes in order to make him feel better about his impending death. (Even if he did agree, it definitely shouldn’t work.)
And most of all, definitely he shouldn’t fall in love with the divine being that’s going to gobble him up whole. That wouldn’t make any sense at all.
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- Part 1 of god is a collective noun
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Sam walks in on Alice and Gwen in a compromising position.
Their accounts of what happened differ.
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Neither Jon nor Martin have ever had much control over their lives. So, when they are ordered to marry as part of a mysterious ritual, both are fully prepared for it to be just one more horror. But once they meet, all of that changes. Perhaps after years of tragedy and loneliness, this marriage could finally be their chance at happiness. They just have to get through the ceremony.
However, neither of their lives have ever been that simple. Before they can wed, Jon finds himself reciting his vows out in the forest. What happens next could tear them apart forever, or it could be a chance for three lonely souls to finally find solace in one another.
(AKA: a JGM Corpse Bride AU)
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Tell Your Tears to the Sea (At the Turn of the Tide) by bresby
Fandoms: The Magnus Archives (Podcast)
05 Jun 2022
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Tell your tears to the sea, at the turn of the tide,
Old love shall return, sure as hot tears are cried,
The sea’s often cruel, but perhaps she’ll be kind,
So barter your tears for what you left behind.
Seven tears are what’s needed so seven tears you will give,
One mourns for the dead and one mourns those that live,
One for loss, one for gain, one for future and one for past,
And one final tear to make your love last.
When Jon and Martin arrive somewhere else, they hit the water. Martin makes it. Jon doesn't. But that's not the end of the story.
Based on the idea that selkies are the souls of the drowned. A story of grief, healing, and acceptance.
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Despite all the odds, Jon and Martin are old men now. Looking back, Martin reflects on learning to love and accept every part of Jon and, even harder, learning to love and accept every part of himself.
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Clarity of Purpose by Mithen
Fandoms: The Hobbit - All Media Types, The Hobbit (Jackson Movies), The Lord of the Rings - All Media Types, The Lord of the Rings (Movies)
27 Oct 2015
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Thorin Oakenshield and Bilbo Baggins have been parted for many years now, despite the love they bear each other. Now Thorin's research has uncovered a dire threat to Middle Earth--the Ring he carried a little while and then gave to Bilbo. Together with a group of companions composed of the different Free Peoples of Middle Earth, they must attempt to destroy the artifact before its Dark Lord can re-capture it.
Begins in 2968, twenty-six years after the events of "Clarity of Vision" and fifty years before the canonical events of "Lord of the Rings." Thus, characters' ages and the geopolitical situation will be different than LoTR canon!
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- Part 3 of Clarity of Vision
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14 Jan 2026
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No one was more surprised than Bilbo Baggins to learn he was being given a choice: go on to the afterlife of Hobbits and Men, or be reunited with Thorin in the Dwarven afterlife
There was only one problem. Thorin has been in a Hell of his own devising this whole time, one created by self-hatred for his crimes committed under the influence of dragon sickness, and the Valar are begging for Bilbo to talk some sense into him and thus free him.
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10 Jan 2026
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They say that everything can be cured by saltwater - sweat, tears or the sea. Bilbo Baggins chooses the last option, taking his recently orphaned nephew and moving to the charming Oak Cottage, overlooking England’s grislier shores. The house charms him instantly, and though he knows nothing at all about the sea, or about making ends meet on his own so far from everything he’s known his whole life for that matter, he’s quite determined to stay, and see his nephew get better, odd sounds in the night be damned. He’s living in a modern world, after all, and the nonsense he’s been hearing about the house being haunted by its former owner, the mysterious Captain Durin, is just silly superstition… isn’t it?
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01 Jan 2026
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The Unpractical Matter of the Ghost of Bag End by greeneggs101
Fandoms: The Hobbit - All Media Types, The Lord of the Rings - All Media Types
17 Jan 2016
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Hobbits were known to be practical. Everything was easily explainable, from a missing pie to a sudden chill in the air. No proper hobbit would dare risk their reputation by even suggesting a supernatural explanation for something that had a practical answer. And of course, with out a doubt, ghosts simply, irrevocably, definitely did not exist.
Too bad no one thought to tell that to the ghost currently haunting Bag End.
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01 Jan 2026
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“You’d like him, you know,” Thomas said.
“I do like him,” Aldo said automatically, twirling the stem of his wine glass, looking into its deep red like it was a scrying mirror.
“I mean as a friend. If you spent more time with him. You have a lot in common.”
“Do we use the same shampoo?” asked Aldo, raising an eyebrow. Thomas gave him a warning look but his mouth was tugging up.
“You’re both stubborn,” he said bluntly.
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Cardinals like Thomas Lawrence and Aldo Bellini know all too well how slowly things move within the walls of the Vatican. But with Vincent Benítez's election cracking their world open, and the new Pope cutting away the old branches to make room for the new, both find that change is flooding in everywhere, mostly within themselves.
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17 May 2025