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    Mark Watney has survived 118 sols on Mars, and he wouldn’t exactly say it’s been a cakewalk, but he only has about three more years of listening to disco to go (ugh) before Ares IV picks him up and take him home. But when something crashes on the Martian surface only a few kilometers from the Hab, NASA wants him to leave the safety of his little home on the Martian prairie to go investigate…what could possibly go wrong?

    Ryland Grace has survived a long time in space and almost a decade on Erid, but the anxiety of not knowing if the beetles made it to Earth finally drives him to try the dangerous journey back home, and Rocky and Adrian come with him. Everything was actually going pretty good…until a horrible accident leaves them hurtling through space (and time) with no choice but to crash land on the wrong planet.

    How is Watney going to deal with the unexpected company (and their weird secretiveness over why they were in space)? Is Grace going to be able to adjust to being around another human being again? And how are Rocky and Adrian going to handle the uncertainty of a reception to an Earth that’s never heard of aliens before?

    More importantly…how the fuck is NASA going to get them all home alive?

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    02 Jun 2026

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    Mark gets jump-scared, hauls Grace to HAB, hysterically thinks he’s pretty, and prepares to do Operation with instructions from Beck

    Mark finds the ship, Adrian(?), and a bleeding Grace in the dark control room

    soooo we accidentally blasted ourselves faster than the speed of light and came out just in time to see mars approaching very very fast

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    Caleb should go back inside.

    Caleb should stand up, go back inside, and forget that he saw anything curled up in the filthy alleyway behind his building. Stay out of trouble. Things die all the time.

    When he lays two fingers at the vampire’s neck, its skin is chill as the wet cobblestones. He can just feel the tiny rise and fall of its ribcage.

    Damnit.

    (It's a Shadowgast modern-with-magic vampire!AU)

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    14 Dec 2025

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    Essek is not texted back and is def not feeling a bit antsy, and Caleb sits in the dome in a locked room of his locked apartment one stroke from finishing a teleportation spell and is too old for this shit.

    Essek: dreams about Caleb's hands
    Caleb: FUCK SHIT FUCK- gotta teleport the fuck outta here, gotta dip- oh god but things are complicated now aren't they and I don't wanna give up my friendddddd- DAMMIT i'm such a terrible fugitive but i need to know if my alias gets back to trent because that could put the Nein in danger...

    In which Bren does not have a good time, Essek has a good time, and CALEB LOOK BEHIND YOU-!

    Caleb dreams of canoodling with or attacking (or sharing his friends and life with) Essek

    Wistful apple cider Caleb and bundle-y Essek 🥰 The calm before the fuckery.

    Essek admits that (maybe) Caleb could (possibly) be considered a friend. Caleb recalls breaking and being “fixed” twice, where IkyThot pretends that vamps killed his family

    Essek is excited to talk to Caleb, and even when it only shows a little, Caleb notices the change and is like “what u buttering me up for? Not complaining or anything but…” and slips into a little flirtation.

    Essek is delighted by Caleb’s annotations in a wizard publication and wants to snag more of his copies… Also it mentioned a publication he wrote a while ago so excited for THAT to be revealed eventually. Caleb’s memory is sure to retain that little mention…

    Essek is NOT panicking in a bathtub because he has a very nice night, dammit. He’s also so so curious and cannot Suggest C tells him his backstory.

    spell taught, Caleb like “ooooooh Essek magic shiny. Essek shiny.” and shows his keen mind

    everyone is floaty and good! Riding the highs of a good feeding/envenoming and there are no dark histories of being on venom and tortured so one doesn’t learn to enjoy it not at all

    first feeding, explicit consent Essek let’s go, Caleb is more relaxed than he’s ever allowed to be and is now sleepy boi

    E and C set to meet up on Thursday (IITY?😉) for blood, Essek dropped of contract in the mail and will go over Caleb’s revisions when they meet, both are hanging on by a thread my guy. Essek like I’m so in control of my life and fine and Caleb’s pretending like his life isn’t a series of panicked Frumpkin snuggles.

    Essek has left after being saved by Caleb, and both of them are struggling against panic attacks in the following days.

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    *Previously titled "A Beautiful Lie"
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    Head Down. Mouth shut. Quiet. Survive.

    Peter knows the drill. Richard Parker has been carving it into him for years now. Follow. Repeat. Do as you're told. But things get complicated after Germany, after Tony Stark. And suddenly the line starts getting blurry.

    Meanwhile, with the Avengers scattered and the Accords in pieces, Tony's a mess who's ready to crash and burn. Enter Spider-Kid, complete with bruises, excuses and a deep, dark secret that stretches far further than Tony first thought.

    Disjointed, dysfunctional, disastrous.

    Nothing can seem to describe the sheer catastrophe in waiting that lurks closer every second they spend together. Tony's depressed. Peter's afraid. They're both wrecks apart. Imagine the chaos that would come by putting them together.

    Still, who better to help a hero than another hero?

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    11 Aug 2026

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    The kid was going to give Tony a heart-attack one of these days - always webbing into trouble. Until the day it's Tony in trouble, and Peter's world falls apart.

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    09 Aug 2026

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    …aka that time Ross took Tony’s Spidy-son, and Tony was 39237234% not okay with it.

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    09 Aug 2026