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here, side by side, at the end of tomorrow by CountingNothings for v838monoceros
Fandoms: Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood & Manga
01 Jan 2026
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The accusation the Truth had levelled at him had stung, but it had been — well, true. He’d trusted, blindly, in men who’d only been trustworthy according to some bullshit metric cryptically communicated to him by an old man with his own agenda. He’d trusted his contingencies and his double-blinds, his schemes and his whisper network. And what did all that get him? He’d completely lost the capacity to care for those who had entrusted themselves to him, much less the whole country he’d been proud enough to envision under his wing.
Can he really become worthy of their faith again? Does he have any capacity to care and to protect, now that the illusions have all been stripped away?
“I’ll be back in the morning, sir,” says the one person whose answer he already knows.Or: in the ten days after Roy leaves the hospital, he learns how to cook an egg blind, loses his comfortable pants, prepares for his reinstatement evaluations, dreams of Maes Hughes dying, ponders the domestic applications of flame alchemy, second-guesses everything he ever believed about his role in his country's future, and moves in with his lieutenant.
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as the heavens set fire by CountingNothings for FleetOfAdmiralLynx
Fandoms: The Locked Tomb Series | Gideon the Ninth Series - Tamsyn Muir
31 Dec 2025
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Trapped beyond death in a hell of someone else's making, Ortus discovers that "stop flirting with my wife" has multiple semantic valences. Some of which, when followed to their logical conclusion, turn out to be worthwhile exegetical opportunities.
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so shake the ground in front of me by CountingNothings for milleniumrex
Fandoms: Voltron: Legendary Defender
01 Jan 2025
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A chase, a getaway, a crash. Pidge's day couldn't get much worse, especially since she's enduring all of this with the biggest distraction in her life, who also happens to be a really annoying mission partner. But when Allura gets hurt, the life-or-death struggle becomes a little more urgent, a little more personal, and Pidge finds herself admitting to things she hasn't quite figured out for herself, yet.
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Advanced Dynamics of Homemaking and Leavetaking by CountingNothings
Fandoms: Community (TV)
15 Jan 2024
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She regrets the kiss much longer than a week.
This may be because Jeff clearly thinks it means something different than she intended, and it may be because, Troy's triumphant return notwithstanding, she really is moving on with her life and Jeff's inconvenient feelings are kind of harshing her vibe. But a Jeff Winger who's honest about what he wants is a remarkably seductive thing, and Annie's spin-off show may need a romantic lead after all. -
I can hear the bells (ringing joyful and triumphant) by CountingNothings
Fandoms: Instant Star
10 Jan 2024
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London is lonely, with all her bridges burned, but Jude’s writing more and better music than she ever has, and it feels like a perfectly legitimate trade-off. Only, when circumstances conspire to add a newly-divorced guitarist to her tour band, Jude begins to consider if, maybe, the music isn’t something she actually wants – or needs – to do alone.
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the midnight hours by ariex09
Fandoms: Nine Worlds Series - Victoria Goddard, Lays of the Hearth-Fire - Victoria Goddard
24 Nov 2024
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“I’m dreaming, and dreaming about you, that’s all,” Cliopher informed me. “For one, I don’t believe in fate, or destiny. Second of all, you’re dressed like Fitzroy Angursell, and that’s clearly not right.” Oh, but this really was dangerous, for you and for me. “Third of all, if this is real I’m probably going to get executed tomorrow for the really very egregious etiquette violations I’ve already committed, and I would prefer not to be.”
“Nobody’s executing you,” you said sharply. You were not going to let anyone. Not Cliopher Mdang, your competent, intrepid, unpolished secretary. (Your soulmate.)
“You see?” Cliopher said. “Unrealistic. Definitely a dream.”
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A Petty Treasons-era soulmates AU.
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14 Aug 2026
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Embers by alfgifu
Fandoms: Nine Worlds Series - Victoria Goddard, The Lays of the Hearth-Fire Series - Victoria Goddard
16 Apr 2023
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Kip Mdang returns to Solaara, hardly confident that the Imperial Service will take him back but sure that there is no place for him in the Vangavaye-ve.
The City of Cities is still expanding from the backwater village it was before the Fall; the work of reconstruction continues but it is no longer a simple crisis. In the Palace the big political beasts are circling for position under the newly awakened Emperor.
Despondent and determined to bury himself in work, Cliopher finds his former patron disapproving and the new Master of Offices openly hostile. But he is still a fifth degree secretary, and some problems are easier to solve when you feel that you have little left to lose... and don't care which enemies you make along the way.
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14 Aug 2026
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“So, I’m to understand that you’re upset because — barring further daring heroics in the name of frontier medicine — you may only attain the average human lifespan?”
Julian inspects his own toes. “A bit, yes.”
After a moment, Garak says, conversationally: “The meteoric trajectory of your medical career may have to be compressed, I suppose. Carrington Award rescheduled for, what, forty-five or so? Admission to the Interplanetary Consortium of Physical Medicine bumped up to seventy? Now, don’t scoff, my dear Julian. If anyone can do it, it’s you.”
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Julian's actions on Cardassia have bargained-for consequences, and Garak grapples with ghosts.Bookmarked by CountingNothings
05 Jul 2026
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Til They Retire Your Number by technicallyverycowboy
Fandoms: Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid
31 Dec 2025
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They lapse back into a comfortable silence. Shane looks at Ilya as he is and thinks about Ilya as he was at seventeen, smoking in the back of a Saskatchewan parking lot. The image is almost unbearably tender for Shane, where his own seventeen year old thrill at seeing Ilya Rozanov meets all the things Shane knows about that lonely boy now.
Shane thinks: Do you love number 81 more than you love this man?
"Hey," Ilya says, brushing his knuckles over Shane's cheek. "Whatever I do, I will be there when you come home."
Ilya decides to retire. Shane is very normal about it.
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25 Jan 2026
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Rec 592
Mystery Work
Part of PBTR private fics
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This is part of an ongoing challenge and will be revealed soon!
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23 Jan 2026