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The Bonny Bunch of Roses by halsinator
Fandoms: Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell - Susanna Clarke, Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell (TV)
01 Oct 2015
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In which Maria Absalom revisits Segundus's dreams and strikes up a bit of something. Well, more than a bit of something. Meanwhile, cakes are consumed, cows are displaced, and Segundus masters the art of magical gardening. Also: Childermass.
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27 Jun 2026
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Let the Good Times Roll by nevermordor
Fandoms: ジョジョの奇妙な冒険 | JoJo no Kimyou na Bouken | JoJo's Bizarre Adventure
17 Nov 2015
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A bad storm leaves the boys stranded and bored at their hotel, with only a deck of cards for entertainment. In a burst of inspiration, Polnareff suggests strip poker. It’s all downhill from there.
Or: the one where Polnareff ineffectively tries to seduce Avdol, Joseph is a shameless cheat, Kakyoin is just straight up shameless, and Jotaro fails to deal with his feelings.
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11 Jun 2026
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"I love you," Harry says on June 25, 51, halfway through a game of cribbage. Cuno has done nothing more notable than tell a joke that made Harry laugh.
Cuno doesn't know what to say. Nobody loves Cuno. Loving Cuno should probably be an interisolary crime. "Gross," he says.
An exploration of those Cuno has lost, those he's gained, and those he can't let go.
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08 Aug 2024
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A dead woman in an alley, a girl with a thousand faces, a fiancé with blood on his hands, a wealthy family with an agenda, and the two detectives who would solve the case at any cost.
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16 Sep 2022
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Aloth's mother sits behind him, her hands in his hair, and for once in his life, there is no risk of future hurt. She speaks to him in a calm, lilting voice – of vast and varied histories long passed, of infinite futures to come, of magical theorems that connect their souls through it all. It makes him almost drowsy – and he trained himself out of sleeping too deeply long ago, lest his slumber be interrupted by unwanted attention, but a part of him wonders if he could simply… rest here, and not worry about where he will awaken.
… and then, he notices the peasant woman. She looks ordinary, forgettable in her rumpled clothes and hunched posture. On any other occasion, he wouldn’t pay her a second glance – but his vision ripples, and the image solidifies until he can identify long, stringy hair and shadowed eyes. There’s only one possible explanation for that.
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"She was somehow plainer than he imagined; thin, flat-chested, freckled, with lank brown hair and dark brown eyes. Then she grinned, sly and wicked, and he was startled by how well he knew the expression."
Watcher Mirad finally bothers to ask Iselmyr how she died. This takes place late in the canon of the In-Between series, and is currently unconnected
TW: abuse, domestic violence, child death
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- Part 12 of The In-Between
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In the wake of the death of his Grace Sir Samuel Vimes, the various city watches across the disc are brought together in a way seldom observed among coppers.
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22 Dec 2020
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Locked away in a secret government lab with Phantom as her sole object of study, nothing stands between Maddie and the truth... except, perhaps, herself.
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- Part 1 of PoT/SoaD
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“So do you have a name?”
“Yeah.” The man who had saved his life less than an hour ago – the white-haired, absurdly buff, weirdly sexy man Jaskier might have called taciturn if he was feeling charitable and surly if he was feeling less so – dug into his second burger.
Jaskier waited. “Are… you going to tell me what it is?”
The man paused mid-bite, and looked at him reproachfully as if to say how dare you. How dare you interrupt me. Can’t you see I’m enjoying my cheeseburger. Can’t you see this cheeseburger is the most important thing in my life right at the moment. He swallowed, and said, “Geralt.”
It turns out almost getting eaten by a werewolf can make your whole life go careening off in a new, terrifying, wondrous, artistically flourishing direction. Who knew?
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10 Dec 2020
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on point modern AU with a zany, witty, queer Jaskier
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The demon arrives first, setting up shop across the street from Aziraphale's bookstore. The angel arrives second, setting up shop two doors down. They're both there on orders to watch Heaven and Hell's notorious traitors, but they don't expect Aziraphale and Crowley to watch them back.
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all i need, darling, is a life in your shape by deadgreeks
Fandoms: Good Omens - Neil Gaiman & Terry Pratchett, Good Omens (TV)
08 Jun 2019
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After everything, Aziraphale and Crowley, by unspoken agreement, begin sharing their lives.
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Why? Aziraphale wanted to ask him, why millennia of the way things were, and now this?But while Crowley seemed to have little issue upending every unspoken rule they’d ever written for themselves, Aziraphale was not so flexible, and they had spent thousands of years never quite addressing whatever it was this had stemmed from. Words, Aziraphale had always felt, were for bickering about where to eat for lunch, or hashing out ontological debates, or other trivial nonsense; there was no need to trifle with the imprecision of language, with phrasing and the possibility of being misconstrued, when it came to important matters if the other person simply understood, without needing it said. Six thousand years ago, when Aziraphale had met Crowley on the wall of Eden, watching the first two humans set out to begin the rest of history, something deep within him, more central even than his Grace, had thought, oh, it’s you, and that had been enough for him--for both of them, he assumed--for three millennia.
However much he wanted to ask, he didn’t know how. The words simply weren’t there.
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07 May 2020
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Demonology and the Tri-Phasic Model of Trauma: An Integrative Approach by Nnm
Fandoms: Good Omens (TV)
05 Oct 2019
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As soon as Aubrey Thyme, psychotherapist, had opened her office door and seen her new client, Anthony J. Crowley, sitting in her waiting area, she was observing and assessing him. At first glance, she paid attention to the following:
--His clothing was expensive and stylish;
--He wore very strange but noticeable cologne;
--His relationship to the seat he occupied could only, very loosely, be described as “sitting;”
--He looked angry;
--He was wearing sunglasses.What Aubrey Thyme, a professional, thought, upon first seeing her new client was: you’re going to be a fun one, aren’t you?
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09 Apr 2020
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The Watcher sacrifices Aloth to the Blood Pool in Skaen's Temple.
Iselmyr doesn't take too kindly to it.
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09 Apr 2020