Adertily
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Rumi’s hair has never been hers. She's ready to reclaim it.
“Hi,” She says, her smile crooked and honest. “Your hair’s down.” It’s not often. It’s such a rarity, in fact, that the statement has Mira glancing up too.
“Yeah,” Rumi swallows, feeling all of a sudden far too seen. “I, um. I want to cut it.”
“Oh?” Zoey says.
Mira won’t stop staring either. Eventually, she offers, at the continued silence, “I’m sure Bobby could get us booked in tomorrow. Eun-seo has been on my back recently about a touch-up.” The taller girl’s hand runs nonchalantly through her own unaturally coloured hair. It’s the usual procedure. Having anyone other than their personal stylists in close proximity with scissors and sharp things would be considered a sin.
“No.” Rumi responds. “No. I don’t want anyone else to do it.” And now they were looking at her with a whole new level of attention. Zoey had dabbled, back in America. Rumi did not need it to be neat and tidy and perfect; she just needed this first terrifying part to be done by the hands of someone she trusted implicitly. Who might actually understand what Rumi was asking of them.
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Can I go gently (can you not go at all) by Adertily
Fandoms: The Locked Tomb Series | Gideon the Ninth Series - Tamsyn Muir
16 Aug 2025
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Sick Harrow AU
"Pyrrha hadn’t explained what the pasta was for, or why number Nine was in particular need of neighbourly sustenance. Only that she’d been running late for work and that Gideon was to deliver it and not — look at me, no, look at me — not eat it herself.
Gideon knew how these things usually went. She expected a painfully old widower with grey hair and wrinkled skin, or a recently divorced and struggling mother of three, or maybe someone still going through the long and tormenting battle of their sickbed. So, when the door creaked open, and the sound was like something straight out of a Henry Selick movie — all theatrics and no actual threat, she found staring back at her the beady, black eyes of someone who couldn’t be much younger than herself."
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The Harrowing of Hell by Adertily
Fandoms: The Locked Tomb Series | Gideon the Ninth Series - Tamsyn Muir
26 Dec 2023
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An Orpheus and Eurydice inspired, canon-compliant mini fic.
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What had happened was that on the outskirts of a battle between a deity and a pretender, Harrowhark had been tossed around like a fruit fly caught in a storm wind.
Once it had kicked off, there had been really very little she could have done to stop it.
They’d breached the river, and as a drowning man is pulled below by the gravity of the very ship he is trying to escape, she’d been pulled down with them.
And what had happened was that Harrow had fallen through the river, had reached the dark bottom of it, and then had continued falling.
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- Part 1 of Griddlehark Ficlets
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when it's over by Adertily
Fandoms: The Locked Tomb Series | Gideon the Ninth Series - Tamsyn Muir
11 May 2023
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Harrowhark had sworn to herself to live to see the girl in the locked tomb awaken. Alecto has risen. Now God is dead, along with everyone who had ever been dear to her - and Gideon has returned as a distorted creature. The war is over. Harrow wishes she could be too.
Or: A character study based on Harrow's suicidal ideation and Gideon's determination to never run anywhere unless she absolutely has to.
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- Part 2 of Griddlehark Ficlets
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you hold me like it's a sin by Adertily
Fandoms: She-Ra and the Princesses of Power (2018)
15 May 2022
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For most, the soulmark appears in the first spring after their eighteenth birthday.
The pattern sprawls and unfurls over bare skin in the same way flowers bloom and passerines begin to sing their songs with the slowed rising and falling of the sun.
And, if Catra'd spent the last day of summer after she’d turned eighteen red-eyed and empty, with her face nestled into a sodden, cotton pillowcase due to a thoroughly absent pattern on her skin, then who else but the cat curled at the foot of her bed needed to know?
Catra’d searched. She’d grown frustrated and desperate until she’d scoured every inch of bare flesh until there was nothing left unexplored but the scalp of her own head, but she’d known her aunt would skin her alive if she shaved it all off in a fit of heartbreak.
Besides, marks are not meant to hide. They want to be seen, to be witnessed, what good are they if they’re hidden away the first time they take flight at the contact of your soulmate's touch.
Catra doesn’t have a mark.
Catra doesn’t have a soulmate.
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Griddlehark Ficlets by Adertily
Fandom: The Locked Tomb Series | Gideon the Ninth Series - Tamsyn Muir
26 Dec 2023
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my love will be your armor by TheKnightsWhoSayBook
Fandoms: The Locked Tomb Series | Gideon the Ninth Series - Tamsyn Muir
30 Sep 2022
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"The princess has a right to bestow her favor on whoever she wishes to win a match," Gideon tells her. "Are you going to?"
"Why would I? I don't want to marry him," Harrow answers bitterly.
"Do you want me to win?"
Princess Harrow will be engaged to the winner of the tournament, and her only champion is her useless bodyguard Sir Gideon Nav, who isn't going to save her. Unless...?
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30 Sep 2022
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In a world where the marks on your soulmate’s skin appear on your own, Adora wishes her soulmate would just talk to her for once, while Catra wishes her soulmate would stop trying to talk to her.
Hijinks ensue.
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06 Dec 2020
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A gem that never continued. Finally was continued!
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you did something to me by artemiswords
Fandoms: She-Ra and the Princesses of Power (2018)
27 Dec 2020
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“Seriously, Adora. All that money for, like, holding hands in front of a camera? It can’t get easier than that. You endured me for like, ten years? I’m sure you can power through these four weeks.” She gets up and leans on the back of her chair, getting closer to Adora’s face. “Just don’t fuck it up and we’ll be fine.”
Adora scowls at her and forces herself to not start another argument. Catra ignores it and turns away.
“See ya later, girlfriend.” She says over her shoulder.
Girlfriend. Adora shudders at that word.
Only after Catra is gone Adora remembers they didn’t even plan anything out. She closes her eyes and rubs her temples again, taking another deep breath. Four weeks of pretending to be Catra’s girlfriend. Those are about to be the longest weeks of her life.
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Fake dating college/modern AU!
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29 Apr 2021
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keep me in your glow by brightbolt, imperfectlyctor
Fandoms: She-Ra and the Princesses of Power (2018)
27 Feb 2021
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"“Oh my God,” Catra said, barely above a whisper. “You’re rich as fuck, aren’t you?”
“Guilty,” Adora said, cringing a little. “Sorry. I thought Glimmer told you.”
“I’m gonna fucking kill her.” Catra shook her head, trying to wipe the stunned expression off her face. “I can’t believe she set me up on a blind date with a goddamn millionaire.”
“Yeah,” Adora said awkwardly. “Oops.”
“It’s—” Catra shook her head. “Okay, Glimmer aside, how would you paying for my tuition even work? I mean, we—we’ve only been on one date, and it’s not even over yet.”
“It’s a crazy idea,” Adora said. “I know. Just—just forget I said anything.”
Maybe it was the buzz of alcohol, or maybe it was the shock of finding out she was on a blind date with a rich person, but Catra couldn’t stop herself from blurting, “Well, I didn’t say no.”
A beat.
Adora blinked, looking up at her. “What?”
Or: Catra is a physics PhD student struggling to balance life, work, and loans. When her friend sets her up on a blind date, she doesn't expect it to be with the most attractive millionaire she's ever seen. They work out an arrangement.
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29 Apr 2021
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If You Like Piña Coladas (And Getting Caught In A Lie) by SolarPoweredFlashlight
Fandoms: She-Ra and the Princesses of Power (2018)
19 Jan 2021
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Bow and Glimmer convince all their friends to go with them on their honeymoon to a couple's resort - but after Adora's already paid the non-refundable deposit, her longterm girlfriend dumps her, leaving her in a bind. The friend group scrambles to find a replacement "girlfriend" so that Adora doesn't have to lose her deposit and miss out on the week of fun in the sun with her friends that she was promised - which she obviously needs now, more than ever, on the heels of her breakup - and Scorpia finds a friend of hers willing to pretend to be Adora's girlfriend so that she can get a half price vacation, even if it means sharing a room with only one bed. The only problem? This friend of Scorpia's is absolutely gorgeous... and a complete and total asshole. But they have to keep up the act, or ruin the whole trip.
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