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A Lick So Good, Or, Strange Comforts of the Road by clinamen (variative)
Fandoms: Critical Role: Aramán (Web Series)
25 Jan 2026
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A low, persistent growl was rumbling in Thaisha’s chest, and she curled her lips back, flashing the full length of her tusks and the cutting points of her incisors. “Didn’t you learn your fucking lesson already?”
“I thought you might have got sick of his attitude,” the alpha said, grinning.“Came to see if you’d like me to take him off your hands, teach him a lesson or two about respecting his betters.”
“You call yourself my better, you whoreson lickspittle goatfucking shitstain,” Julien started, taking a step forward.
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On the road to the Barrowguard, Julien beats himself bloody against an unpleasant reality. Thaisha would like to help him, but he doesn’t make it easy.
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It was the seventh month of the third year of the Spirit War. The Protectorate of Gaothmai had that week fallen before the banners of the Saraz Imperium. The Empire would soon turn its gaze across the sea to Rhuv, to bolster its badly overstretched front lines there.
This news reached the Wizard Sworn by speaking mirror, in a report given by a harried-looking Imperial lieutenant. Sworn himself had not set foot outside the tower in these last ten months; shortly after the civil war broke out in earnest he found himself permanently stationed in the Erien, under the direct command of the Sword.
He had that day overseen the last of the executions.
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Sworn wakes up at the bottom of a barrel. Something happened; something's different. Someone's come looking for him.
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The Secret-Keeper's Club by variative for countessofbiscuit
Fandoms: Star Wars Legends: Republic Commando Series - Karen Traviss, Star Wars - All Media Types
04 Aug 2020
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“Sometimes,” Atin admitted, “I feel like if I don’t kill him I’ll die. I shouldn’t feel that way. I know it makes me a bad person.”
“I don’t think it makes you a bad person at all,” Laseema said. “I understand completely.”
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Inclement Weather by variative
Fandoms: Star Wars Legends: Republic Commando Series - Karen Traviss, Star Wars - All Media Types
24 May 2020
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The next time Jaing slept he had a dream—it wasn’t the next night, per se, he didn’t think, but the next time he slept deeply enough to dream he had a dream. Or it wasn’t exactly a dream, or it was halfway between a dream and a fantasy, something that bloomed right in the space between the thoughts that Jaing had and the thoughts that happened to him.
The dream and the effect it had on Jaing shattered any optimism he might have harbored, regarding the possibility of leaving behind forever what had happened with Sev in the tent in the rain.
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lights out til midnight by variative
Fandoms: Star Wars Legends: Republic Commando Series - Karen Traviss
17 Mar 2020
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It's a quiet night on Kyrimorut, and Sev can't sleep.
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Sometimes the hunger felt so far away it was like she’d imagined it.
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Richie was lying awake when he heard a knock at the door. Nothing that wanted to kill him would have knocked, he thought, and quite honestly he didn’t really care either. So he got up and answered it.
But it wasn’t Pennywise the Dancing Clown back for another round after all. It was just Beverly, pale and bruised-up, her hair hanging lank and wet down her back.
“Hey, Richie,” she whispered. “Can I come in?”
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Beverly screamed when she saw them. Then she covered her mouth with her hands and just stared, tears standing bright in her eyes. Bill stood up so fast his armchair jumped back, and beside him Mike did the same. Ben got up slower, a painfully hopeful look on his face.
“Surprise!” Richie said. “We lived!”
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the picture in reverse by variative
Fandoms: IT (Movies - Muschietti), IT - Stephen King
08 Sep 2019
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Richie opened his eyes. That was the first unexpected thing. He was underwater. That was the second.
The light was diluted and green. His vision was strangely clear, even though he was underwater and his glasses were nowhere. Eddie was drifting nearby, his eyes open and dark and fixed. Tiny silvery fish darted around his face, and a turtle swam ponderously between them and vanished into the green. Richie swam closer, scattering the minnows, until their noses nearly touched. Eddie blinked slowly and a tiny bubble, formerly trapped in his eyelashes, escaped towards the surface.
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A Little Afternoon Delight by variative
Fandoms: Saturday Night Live, Weekend Update (SNL)
02 Sep 2019
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Colin runs into The Guy Who Just Bought A Boat at work. Colin has an office with a door that locks. Things more-or-less proceed as expected.
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- Part 2 of A Little Rib For Their Pleasure
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Megatron was certain that if he moved to trade physical or verbal blows with Starscream, he would only take them, and take them, and take them, until Megatron was forced to either kill him or grant him mercy.
Neither option was acceptable.
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Elijah’s eyes twitched open. “I forgive you,” he mumbled.
“Don’t say that again or I’ll hurt you,” the demon said, kissing the side of Elijah’s head. “I don’t accept it.”
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Michael gave him a look, one of his particular looks that involved a lot of eyebrow, and Colin wheezed with laughter that he struggled to control for a moment, taking a deep breath before he went on, “You really think he’s…”
Michael’s eyebrows made a second and equally expressive bid for his hairline, his mouth pursing into a smirk. “Yes homo, Jo-bro?”
“God, never do that again,” Colin said, muscling an expression of disgust through the grin that kept trying to take over his face. “Also, have you heard how bad he is at sex? From the horse’s mouth, Che. I’m not sure why I would do that to myself.”
“It doesn’t matter what he packs if he’s the one taking it,” Michael pointed out, leering. Colin, true to form, blushed.
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- Part 1 of A Little Rib For Their Pleasure
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Leave to Lay by variative
Fandoms: Star Wars Legends: Republic Commando Series - Karen Traviss
12 Feb 2019
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"To die, to sleep--
To sleep--perchance to dream: ay, there's the rub,
For in that sleep of death what dreams may come
When we have shuffled off this mortal coil,
Must give us pause."
-Hamlet, Act III Scene I"I don't sleep, I dream."
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Interplanetary by variative
Fandoms: Star Wars Legends: Republic Commando Series - Karen Traviss
12 Feb 2019
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Late at night on Kamino, Jaing takes a long-distance call.
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Eleanor tells Charles what he is. It doesn't make much of an impression.
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Coming to Shore by variative for kaasknot
Fandoms: Star Wars - All Media Types, Star Wars Legends: Republic Commando Series - Karen Traviss
05 Aug 2018
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Sev did miss what he’d had with Atin. It hadn't lasted long and it had been years and years since then, and whole damn lifetimes inside those years, but he was sorry that it was over. He missed feeling in control of something, anything. He missed the understanding that they'd had. He missed -
But Atin had Laseema now. It didn't matter what Sev wanted. It didn't matter if Sev wanted.
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“I want Mom to be dead,” Dean said.
The words fell into the room like a fucking gunshot.
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Sam and Dean's conversation doesn't end with the episode.
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Aftermath by variative
Fandoms: Star Wars Legends: Republic Commando Series - Karen Traviss
12 Jun 2018
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“I knew I was going to come here,” Jaing said softly, “To you. I knew I wanted to…” He took a breath and shifted closer, ran his fingertip up the line of Sev’s bare foot, murmured, “To have you.”
Sev shuddered. His head throbbed, a burning pain behind his eyes. “You can’t,” he said, noted distantly that it came out in a ragged sob and added that to the list of ways he was pathetic and unworthy and deserved, probably, to die. “Jaing. You can’t.”