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Lurien the Watcher is given an urgent summons from his King. A task—suitable for only he—is in dire need of doing, and Lurien would never deny a request from his Lord.
Though what that task entails has yet to be seen.
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16 Oct 2025
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(Dramatic Irony— lurien thinks this will be the worse week of his life. It is, in a way, but not in the tragedy he expected it to be.)
Watcher Lurien is tasked with an impossible mission; keep Princess Hornet and the Pure Vessel contained and alive for a week. Baby sitting, to put politely, should be a duty underneath him as he labors in preperation for the great Dream. But here he is, two small children saddled to him, filled with whimsy and chaotic energy.
Within the first day, Watcher Lurien has almost lost the vessel, promised to buy Hornet a blade, accidentally agreed to patron a pleasure house singer, and put his best worker on leave.
(It only goes downhill from there.)
((Also known as local political magistrate bonding with two children, learning about the true tragedy of Omelas, and house fires.))
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Things Eddie Brock flirts with on a regular basis: death, insanity, his ex, his ex’s new boyfriend, and also the alien symbiote that lives inside his body. Not bad for a loser with no game, really.
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- Part 1 of drawn into something
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07 Oct 2025
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In which folks are like puzzle pieces, and these four fit with some elbow grease and alien perspective.
(There’s symbolism in a yellow rose, an open door, and eating gallbladders.)
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Raptors in the Rainforest by DisaLanglois
Fandom jurassic - Fandom, Jurassic Park (Movies), Jurassic Park - All Media Types, Jurassic Park Original Trilogy (Movies), Jurassic Park Series - Michael Crichton, Jurassic World (2015), Jurassic World - Fandom, Jurassic World Trilogy (Movies), Stealth Agatha Christie tribute
28 Jul 2022
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How intelligent are velociraptors?
Very, very intelligent, as Owen Grady discovers in the aftermath of the Jurassic World disaster. But his quest to prove their intelligence and save his raptors will take him further than he ever expected, and the world will never be the same again.- Words:
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16 Jul 2025
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Velociraptors but they have their own culture and civilization while living next to humans? Where the scifi dragons are just as fleshed out as the humans??? Yes. YES.
(Got embroiled with this series when I read “the first dinosaur detective is here to solve a murder and then go home to his adopted human kid and platonic human life partner”, and then got Incredibly Distracted by “human and velociraptor saves local town from a cartel started wildfire”. This series is great.)
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11 Jul 2025
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Wow look! Emotional support au!
(There’s no ithilid invasion to band these folks together, but they make their way home all the same.)
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After Shadowheart lets her parents go to be with Selune and to truly free herself of Shar's curse, Shar decides to punish her and all her friends too by one last burst of amnesia.
Thankfully this is an experienced group of adventurers who can react to new, interesting problems with logical and rational thinking.
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01 Jul 2025
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The crew draw horribly funny conclusions based on context clues.
(Ngl, I would very much read an original story with the Amnesia crew. Fangs and Orchid are half siblings on a quest to resolve the vampirism and figure out how religion works, and everybody makes fun of their names. There’s a gith named after a dragon who’s There For Some Reason but Kicking Ass. There’s two run away demons, one who’s constantly on fire and the other made of weird magic (wait okay, that’s just them. That’s just Karlach and Wyll). And one confused shapeshifter that accidentally impersonated an archmage, and is being much more emotionally healthy about it.
Man I care for them.
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reading signs into patterns and colors by ushauz for modusponens
Fandoms: Baldur's Gate (Video Games)
13 Jun 2025
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Karlach put it together. An infernal Blade of Frontiers. She got it. She didn’t go further than secondary school, but she could puzzle this one out.
But what was she going to say? ‘Hey sorry your body and mind got melted because you didn’t kill me. I think I’m your soulmate though. Want to make out?’
In which being soulmates with someone doesn't actually improve any sort of confidence or communication skills into getting into a relationship with them.
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28 Jun 2025
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WHOOO BOy. AAAH GEEZ. These three have such distinct, yet similar voices. Top notch work!
(Three broken people learn to live. There’s a lot of dramatic irony, about the weight of being remembered.)
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“I mean,” Deidara growls, “you’re you from the future.”
“Of course I am,” Itachi says, like Deidara is a bit slow.
“And I’m me from the future,” Deidara continues, feeling a bit hysterical. Whatever Itachi did with the chakra nexus on the forbidden island, it ended with both of them traveling through time. “What the F––,” Deidara yells, and then tries to punch Itachi in the face again.
OR: Deidara unwillingly signs up for Itachi's personal time-travel fix-it fic.
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29 May 2025
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OHOHOHOHO-
(Deidara learns the meaning of Konoha, aka hypocrisy and codependence. Itatchi somehow backslides even further with his mental health. There’s bug facts!)
((INCREDIBLE FIC. IT’S WRITTEN SO WELL. I KEEP REREADING THE EEL TOILET FUCKSPLOSION SEQUENCE AND GIGGLING. OCS ARE ALSO CHERISHED AND LOVELY.))
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The room is too bright.
It’s quaint, in a nauseating sort of way. Polished floors glint from the gleaming honeycomb chandeliers overhead, make him squint. A few vases sprinkled here and there, filling the room with a sickeningly sweet scent – even a waffle-cone headrest framing the silken sheets of a neatly-tucked bed. Outside, the golden sun gleams, the gentle rays of light spilling past curtains that waver in the afternoon breeze.
It's meant to be beautiful. Luxurious. Welcoming.
With one sweep of his cane, Shadow Milk tears it apart.
[[ Completed ]]
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- Part 1 of Jamma Jambound's SDVN works
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22 Mar 2025
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WOOOOOAH OKAY HOLD UP HOLD U P
I cant believe you’re making me root for these two whole ass cookie men. I am looking at them with big ol eyes. The characterization and push n pull of these guys are insane.
(Shadow Milk Cookie’s slow integration to society is charged by spite. Pure Vanilla’s impeding mental breakdown is being held back by determination. It’s a pressure steam cooker explosion waiting to happen, except-
-except they care.
Maybe they care enough to slowly start patching up the cracks. Maybe it’s enough for two drastically different people to bridge a gap that spanned eons. Who knows.)
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All Zuko had been trying to do was wash some dishes. Or: The one where Zuko and Katara both mean well, but still can't find their footing around each other in time to prevent explosive shouting, broken dishes, an impromptu arrest, and Team Avatar's third- nay, fourth jailbreak. Fifth? They've lost count at this point, but at least they're not willing to lose Zuko... now, if only he realized that.
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26 Feb 2025
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Oh my god why is this so cute
(Charming dialogue and funny characterization aside, the story tackles themes of cptsd and its effects on people. That out the way, well-
Through a series of unfortunate events, Zuko finds his way in Jail. Katara follows. The domino effect is truly insane.)
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“You are not taking good enough care of yourself,” Caitlyn starts, looking towards the fountain. She’s lost weight and her cheeks are hollowed, the knuckles of her hand too pronounced into Vi’s grasp. “I need you now, more than ever, Violet.”
“You have me,” Vi says, as a matter of fact. As if she has anyone else to live for, to give her loyalty to. “In any way you’d want me.”
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- Part 1 of Coming Home
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07 Dec 2024
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Romance is a dandelion thriving in the bombed out remains of a city.
(A tender post canon caitvi, about the slow steady grueling process of healing. Also? Incredible observations about these ladies.)
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"Vi, you can either stay here with your severely injured girlfriend, or you can go desecrate a corpse. You can't do both."
"What the fuck kind of bullshit ultimatum is that?"
Vi finds Caitlyn after the climactic battle.
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02 Dec 2024
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In the direct aftermath of the Noxus Battle, Vi and Caitlyn sit down and figure their shit out.
(Pick yourself back up, grit your teeth, and face tomorrow. Or as Vi likes to say, life’s about foolishly punching a succesful warlord eighty pounds over your weight-class after getting stabbed in the gut. Caitlyn would be insulted by her jabs, if it wasn’t for the fact she had to stop Vi from desecrating her deceased noxian spy of an ex with urine. They make do.)
((After so many fics of the two falling apart, them briskly patching themselves up despite everything else is delightful.))
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There are two things every Zaunite knows.
One: You deserve nothing.
Two: You will take it anyway.
So when Viktor realizes he wants Jayce, the difference in their stations is entirely irrelevant. He's never wasted time in going after what he wants.
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29 Nov 2024
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Observing their scheming with deep affection.
(Mel and Viktor share many, many similarities. War is a failure of statecraft, and there is valued resource within the political minefield called Jayce Talis. Compromises are in order.)
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Missing scenes across Acts II and III and the aftermath.
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- Part 1 of Orbital
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28 Nov 2024
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The yearning is in fact top notch. Missing scenes from s2 that are canon to me now, and nobody can convince me otherwise. Everything about these character studies oozes depth AND it has my favorite blorbos
(Caitlyn has become something she doesn’t recognize anymore. All that grief and rage has warped her into something beastial and strange, but when Vi looks at her, she feels less like a weapon of terrible destruction, and more like a person.
“What would you do if she chooses me again?” Jinx had asked. “Will you still love her?”
“Yes,” Caitlyn said.)
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The Threads Of Fate Tangle And Twist by Misthios
Fandoms: Arcane: League of Legends (Cartoon 2021), League of Legends
07 Dec 2024
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“About that,” Vi says. “How’d you end up here? What did a girl like you do to get tossed into this two-star shithole?”
“Really? That’s how you ask? No subtlety in it?”
“Uh, yeah? I saved you from getting shanked in the shower, so fair’s fair. What’s your deal, topside?”
“Caitlyn,” she says. That isn’t right. That wasn’t the answer Vi was after. Names are easily given away but so seldomly remembered in Stillwater, but it echoes in Vi’s head. She almost doesn’t hear the actual answer. “And though I have no doubt a thousand people have given this answer before, I did nothing. I was doing my job, and then I was here. No trial. No sentencing. No crime to speak of.”
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Half a decade into Vi's stay in Stillwater, a topsider turns up, raving about being a Councillor's daughter.
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17 Nov 2024
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This is the ultimate coping fic, actually.
(Vi counts the time while in Stillwater, right up until her careful time keeping is interrupted by some inmate howling about being the Councillor’s daughter of all things.)
((There is no pursuit to be great in this house, just to be good.))
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sharpshooter by spookyscaryskeletons (Buttons15)
Fandoms: Arcane: League of Legends (Cartoon 2021), League of Legends
15 Nov 2024
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Jinx lowered her gun. She seemed outraged. “You’re the villain. You were going to shoot that kid, and you don’t even feel bad about it.”
Caitlyn tensed her jaw. “I was going to shoot you. I wasn’t going to miss. I shot your finger off. I don’t miss.”
“But what if you did miss?”
Caitlyn decided she should be honest with Jinx and, mostly, with herself.
“If I missed, I would shoot again.”
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- Part 12 of league of legends but i didn't read the lore
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16 Nov 2024
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When you look in a broken mirror, you don’t punch it unless you want glass in your hands.
(Caitlyn and Jinx are terribly alike. They both have shards in their knuckles.)
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“Do you want me to tell you a story?” Megatron said mockingly. “You won’t like it, Prime. It’s not a very nice one.”
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- Part 7 of Transformers works
- Part 2 of Astolat Sampler
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16 Nov 2024
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“We are always lying when we say here is all that I can give
When it feels the most true, still what we mean is
Here is where my heart stopsBut the universe doesn’t care where your heart stops.
That’s not the question it asks
It’s only the question we want to answer
But the universe asks us only
Where do your limbs stop?
Where does your breath stop?
Where do your eyes go dark?”(Old Tragic Robot Yaoi but it’s two guys trapped underground talking philosophy and poetry.)
((The Golden Age should have been called the Gilded Age. History is written by the rich and wealthy able to propagate their stories, and bury the unwanted loose ends in rubble. It was only a matter of time until that yawning rusting beast breaks through its glittering golden chains, for the hungry and bound to turn on their fat overseers, for revolution to till the land anew. It’s only a matter of time until those knives are unsheathed.
Optimus, Megatron said. Let me tell you a story.))
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Here I Go, Pretending To be You by ICanFlyHigher
Fandoms: The Legend of Zelda & Related Fandoms, The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild/Tears of the Kingdom
06 Feb 2025
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Zelda looked at her wrist closely for the first time. There was a ring of bruises around it, from the… the hand.
Even now, she was tempted to chalk the hand up to a panic-induced hallucination—but, no, now that she was out of the tree roots, heartbeat achy in her chest from gloom but still steady and calm, the marks on her wrists were clear. The hand, the same thing that had been pinning the mummy down, had grabbed her, hauled her up, up, up as she and Link fell, away from Link, away from her home, leaving her grasping at air as he fell below her and disappeared into a flash of green and gold. His gory fingers had brushed hers, so close but so far, almost but not enough, and then he was gone, and there had been nothing but the hand.She was alone. Completely and utterly, alone, high in the sky, with no way down.
Or, Link is missing, taken from Zelda after disappearing below Hyrule while face to face with a strange mummy, and Zelda will do anything to get him back. She just has to stop Hyrule from imploding while she does it.
(This is a sequel to Spider Meet Fly/Fly Meet Spider!)
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- Part 2 of Tear of the Kingdom Swap AU
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12 Jul 2024
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(Nothing like scrolling casually through zelda centric fics planning my own story stuff, only to get hit over the head with Emotional Damage! Anyways, big hopes for this story— the new world building to the world of Hyrule within the totk era is horrifying and beautiful.)
Zelda wakes up alone in the sky, and tastes blood.
((The zora are smothered by the treacherous rains, the gerudo overrun with the dead, the rito separated from the sky, the gorons withering under the monstrous Mount Eldin. Zelda runs, and runs, and runs— but it never feels like it’s enough. Link’s left behind a shadow longer than Zelda can even comprehend its horizon. All she can do now is grit her teeth, and carry the shards he’s left behind.
Careful, Zelda. Hold on too hard, and you’ll get cut.))
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WITH A MOUTH FULL OF NAILS, I SING TO YOU by perennials
Fandoms: Hyrule Warriors: Age of Calamity (Video Game), The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild
08 Dec 2020
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"You know, Daruk’s my idol,” Yunobo says. He pumps his fists in the air like a kid at a fun fair in line for the big pirate ship ride. “They say he was the coolest Goron there ever was. Plus he had a beard. I think beards are awesome.”
“Great,” Sidon says. He stops peeling the mandarin in his hands for long enough to look up blankly at him. "Mipha was my sister."
the age of calamity, side b.
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10 Jul 2024
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(One of my favorite character studies of Sidon and Mipha, Ever. Everything this author writes is gorgeous and tragic and beautiful. Anyways.)
Saving Mipha in one timeline wouldn’t bring back Sidon’s sister.
(There are five stages of grief.
Painkillers for Zora have not been invented yet.
Mipha’s always been good at cracking open durians, in a way that leaves the fruit unbruised. Her brother holds the crushed remains of durian in his hands, and mourns.) -
Punklorde Sentimentality (or: Silver Wolf does NOT Have Mommy Issues) by twelvekittensinatrenchcoat
Fandoms: 崩坏：星穹铁道 | Honkai: Star Rail (Video Game)
21 Aug 2023
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Silver Wolf doesn't have mommy issues, that would be ridiculous. The ache of longing she feels whenever she sees a kind, older woman doesn't prove anything. It's just a coincidence, right?
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06 Jul 2024
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Kafka and Wolf, sitting in a starship, plotting Crimes.
(Sometimes the trans experience is overcoming your mommy issues. Silver Wolf peers at the trojan horse of her mind, and her first reaction is denial. The second reaction is balking the mortifying ordeal of being perceived.)
((This author has SO many good hsr fics with such charming characterization, AAaaaaa. Don’t mind me as I splurge a bit like a happy rat digging through the rice bin))
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times you need to see her smile by FlowerCitti
Fandoms: Arcane: League of Legends (Cartoon 2021)
06 Dec 2021
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She’s not broken, but Silco is afraid that if he does not intervene, she will break apart into something barely salvageable.
So he begins to reach out to her in small ways, the only ways that he knows how to.
(Or, vignettes of Silco and Jinx’s life as he raises her.)
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- Part 1 of two birds on a wire
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25 Jun 2024
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A study of Jinx and Silco, told between silence and noise.
(The man with half a face is a quiet one. His daughter, on the other hand, chatters enough for both of them.
Drowning, Jinx, is not a loud event. It’s a quiet one— unobtrusive, cloying, and sudden. One moment he was there, and the next he’s gone.)
(((Crying in the club with this one homies. It single handedly makes me want to write my own stuff for these two)))