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The Long Way Home by Nikkicafeina
Fandoms: The Locked Tomb Series | Gideon the Ninth Series - Tamsyn Muir
12 Dec 2022
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Gideon Nav (28, no job, kind of spiraling) lands the audition of a lifetime with The Locked Tomb, an indie band hoping to enter a prestigious music program and earn themselves a record deal. Which would be awesome, if it didn't mean having to deal with her childhood nemesis straight out of the worst little town in Texas.
Modern-day Texas AU.
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Moderation by Nikkicafeina
Fandoms: The Locked Tomb Series | Gideon the Ninth Series - Tamsyn Muir
28 Jun 2022
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Self-control comes hard to Alecto. John demonstrates the virtues of letting go.
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That House at the Top of the Rock by Nikkicafeina
Fandoms: The Locked Tomb Series | Gideon the Ninth Series - Tamsyn Muir
03 Apr 2022
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All hell and its fires wait for us.
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Alecto hates the lyctors, they're ruining her God. She might also, perhaps, be losing her mind.
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As It Was by Nikkicafeina
Fandoms: The Locked Tomb Series | Gideon the Ninth Series - Tamsyn Muir
29 Oct 2021
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John Gaius is bad at letting go, accepting the inevitable, and just generally bad at being God.
A character study.
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Media: Here is the goodest most normal boy.
Me: Oh so he’s a lil fucked up, got it. Here he is developing a bruise kink on top of everything else going on.Something’s different, just in general. Like wearing sunglasses, a filter of sorts over everything, but if Shane was in any way honest with himself, he’d know it was more like going without for the first time.
He’s painfully aware of his body these days; how it looks, how it moves, how it responds to… stimuli. And it is responding, lately. His bruises, too: always just there, so used to them they’d barely registered anymore, but recently there’s been a sort of constant hum of them at the edge of his awareness. It’s a layer of input he really doesn’t need right now, busy as he is.
But he’s been woken up. Restless. Needy.
Late in bed, when all his chores are done, fingers travel up to his collarbone, where the newest acquisition is waiting for him.
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05 May 2026
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Ray pulled away from Pete like he wasn’t even there and fell into his mother like he’d tried to do before and this time Pete did not need to stop him. No guns swivelled and no voice cried WARNING, FORTY SEVEN. WARNING, TWENTY THREE.
Mrs Garraty at last put her arms around her son, and held onto him for a long long time.
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Pete and Ray, after.
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- Part 2 of footsore
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25 Mar 2026
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Someone’s posted a shaky video from the stands, just behind the whole altercation. It’s close enough to catch the snarl on Rozanov’s face as he charges up the steps. He’s so pretty, Shane thinks faintly. The video starts too late to show what set him off, but it catches the tail end of what the man is yelling, the things he's saying about Shane, before pivoting to calling Rozanov a cunt and bitch and a pussy instead.
Rozanov drops his gloves for Shane. He wishes he could just be grateful, but it feels a little bit like the end of the world.
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03 Feb 2026
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Hockey Things You Might Want To Know If You're Writing Heated Rivalry Fic and You Don't Already Know Hockey by circ_bamboo
Fandoms: Heated Rivalry (TV), Men's Hockey RPF, Original Work
11 Jan 2026
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This is not fic! This is meta about the basics of hockey that might be useful if you're coming from absolute zero but you like some gay hockey boys.
(Originally I posted it on tumblr but I was asked to cross-post to AO3 for accessibility.)
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12 Jan 2026
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we're kings among runaways (on the bus mall) by NotAFicWriter
Fandoms: The Locked Tomb Series | Gideon the Ninth Series - Tamsyn Muir
07 Aug 2025
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The night before Easter break, I went with you to the clinic for your abortion, and we weren't even friends. It was the last time I saw you.
OR; Harrow Aborts That Thang.
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18 Aug 2025