tauntedoctopus
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Sleeping in the Cold Below by tauntedoctopus
Fandoms: The Locked Tomb Series | Gideon the Ninth Series - Tamsyn Muir
13 May 2022
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Her body dances through the rhythms of the fight like quicksilver, always shifting, never where you expect her to be, beauty and deadliness in a single whole. After the last bout of the day is done, they click the locks home around her wrists, though they’ve lost any wariness they once had. The weight and constriction only matches that she’s buried her self in, or maybe it’s the opposite.
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Property of the Ninth by tauntedoctopus
Fandoms: The Locked Tomb Trilogy | Gideon the Ninth Series - Tamsyn Muir
30 Jun 2021
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“You see, Griddle, I need an heir. A necromantic heir. You’re going to give me that heir, Nav. We have almost five years. That’s time enough for five, six children? Seven if we get another one going before I leave. Thank the Emperor omegas are so fertile. Odds are good that in that time, you’ll have at least one who’s a necromancer.”
The summons from the Emperor arrives, effective in five years' time once all the heirs are above 18. Alpha Harrow realizes she needs a necromantic heir, and omega Gideon is her only way of getting one. Gideon wants nothing to do with this, but what Harrow wants, Harrow will get. Gideon is in for a godawful five years.
MIND THE TAGS. This is a very dark fic.
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in which Gideon says "fuck" a lot by tauntedoctopus
Fandoms: The Locked Tomb Trilogy | Gideon the Ninth Series - Tamsyn Muir
23 Apr 2021
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"As Alpha Primary of the Ninth House, I claim omega Reverend Daughter Gideon Nonagesimus as my mate. And under the Ninth House legal code, I assert my right as alpha to an omega necromancer to claim the title of her cavalier primary."
Harrow claims Gideon. Gideon goes into heat. Many fucks ensue.
Mind the tags.
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How to Babysit an Apex Predator by NevillesGran
Fandoms: S&D Tier - Lighthouse Raiders (Web Series)
09 Jan 2026
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Honestly, Kentucky James isn’t too sure about this whole “hero” thing. But when disaster strikes on her third mission with the Young Chastisers, it’s up to “Rex” to step up and…babysit her former babysitters? Quickly, before everyone is gruesomely killed!
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27 Feb 2026
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No Dawn, No Day by xiaq
Fandoms: Star Trek: Alternate Original Series (Movies), Star Trek
24 Jun 2025
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“I will not apologize for speaking the truth,” the child says. “However, I regret if that truth has offended you.”
“Jesus Christ, kid,” Jim mutters.
“I am not offended,” Spock responds, as blandly as he is able. “I was remiss in casting such hasty judgment upon your guardian.”
”Father,” she corrects.
”Your father,” he agrees.
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An academy AU + Tarsus aftermath fic in which James T. Kirk ends up accidentally parentally bonded to an orphaned Vulcan child. When the father/daughter duo enroll in Star Fleet, hijinks ensue (mostly at the expense of Spock’s previously immaculate but quickly deteriorating self-control).
Winner of the 2025 Philon Award for a novel-length fic (!!!)
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13 Apr 2025
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Nine Lives by machiroads
Fandoms: 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia
29 Oct 2022
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After losing a leg and an eye at Jaku, Aizawa Shouta spends three months in the hospital; it's the big damn Eraserhead recovery fic.
Spoilers beyond Chapter 282 / S6E9
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- Part 1 of Lullabies for Insomniacs
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29 Mar 2025
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Beyond the Broken Horizon by JoWithTheFlow
Fandoms: 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia
10 Mar 2024
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About a week after that, All Might asked Izuku if he was aiming for the hero course at UA. The question was so sudden that Izuku nearly dropped a microwave on his toes.
The truth was, if All Might had asked him that a week ago, there would have only been one possible answer to that question. All Might had gone to UA, UA was the best, so Izuku was going to go there too, if he could. But things were a little different, now that he was going to receive All Might’s Quirk.
“No,” he said, decisively.
All Might looked caught off guard, which was a very rare expression on him. “No?” he echoed, like he couldn’t believe it.
A laugh bubbled out of Izuku’s throat. He honestly couldn’t believe it either. “No,” he repeated.
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Or, All Might tells Izuku about All for One before he gives him One for All, and everything changes.
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08 Jan 2025
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journey to the past by aloneintherain
Fandoms: 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia
28 Jan 2019
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Izuku is five years old the first time he's saved by heroes. He's an instant fan of the woman in pink with her cheerful smile and the man with his ice powers and fine-boned features, even if they both refuse to tell him their names.
For most of his life, Izuku has been the centre of villain attacks, but he has never been injured. Every time, he's saved by bright, unknown heroes—heroes who smile at Izuku, and ruffle his hair or ply him with hugs, and seem mesmerised by how small he is.
Heroes that the rest of the world doesn't believe exists.
(Time-travelling Class 1-A AU)
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06 Jan 2025