Gray_Days
Fandoms
- Justice League: Crisis on Two Earths (13)
- Homestuck (9)
- DCU (7)
- DC Animated Universe (Timmverse) (5)
- Red vs. Blue (5)
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Summary
The twenties are roaring. The twenties are screaming. The twenties are whirling through a world grown increasingly incomprehensible in the wake of the Great War and the tide of shifting morals crashing against the dam of Prohibition.
For Drake Donovan, making sense of the incomprehensible is his life's work. He knows what it is to defy comprehension, and what it takes to chip away at the problem until it fits into everyday reality. But when a client goes missing and a new one threatens to upend his carefully-constructed view of the world, it's starting to look more and more like comprehension might be impossible — or worse, unconscionable.
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- Part 1 of A Good Man Is Hard to Find
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He should probably turn back now. He should probably have turned around and called the cops as soon as he saw the car he was tailing take a left into the waterfront district. He was here only a few nights ago; he knows what pier his target will be at, and the kinds of things they'll be unloading there.
But he doesn't know that it'll be the same one this time, or the same kind of transaction, or with the same people, and if he calls in details that don't match up with the evidence, there will be very pointed questions about why do you think that might be, Mr. Donovan?
He doesn't have enough of a reputation in this city to risk losing it.
He idles in the shadow of the Metropolitan Shipping Company depot until he can no longer hear the car ahead of him over the sound of his own engine, then follows.
Formerly titled “The role of perimortem curiosity in cause of death and subsequent revival rates: a human case study.”
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- Part 2 of A Good Man Is Hard to Find
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To Serve Satan: Miss deManners' Guide to the Heavenly Host by Gray_Days
Fandoms: Good Omens - Neil Gaiman & Terry Pratchett
26 Jan 2021
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Hastur and Ligur might be irredeemable wankers, but they're right about one thing: sometimes, art really does require that personal touch.
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But Be the Serpent Under ’t by Gray_Days
Fandoms: Good Omens - Neil Gaiman & Terry Pratchett, Good Omens (TV), Screwtape Letters - C. S. Lewis
18 Aug 2020
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"Get that body cleaned up and clothed, now; three days hanging from the yardarm should forestall any inconvenient questions." With that harbinger of ill-ease neatly delivered, Crowley turned Lobcock's head toward Stanton. "I'll have those keys, Sergeant."
Stanton, who had far too much experience with his captain's command style to ask questions, handed them over. Crowley gave him a nod, tucked the keys into a pocket, and then headed belowdecks without a word of explanation.
"Well, ladies, gentlemen, and those who know better," he announced in his own voice as he descended into the hold, "I have good news and bad news."
Series
- Part 2 of The Pirates of Pandaemonium
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The Seas Incarnadine by Gray_Days
Fandoms: Good Omens - Neil Gaiman & Terry Pratchett, Good Omens (TV)
01 Aug 2020
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This whole piracy lark had, Crowley reflected as he was hauled to his feet in front of the bloodied and shell-shocked remnants of his crew, gone a bit further than he'd originally intended.
Series
- Part 1 of The Pirates of Pandaemonium
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From the outside, Drake Donovan looks a lot like the straight white male detective that everyone expects. He works very hard to make sure of that.
After all, people like him don't get to be the protagonist of anyone's story.
They're lucky if they survive to end of the book.
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- 46,467
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The Pirates of Pandaemonium by Gray_Days
Fandom Good Omens (TV), Good Omens - Neil Gaiman & Terry Pratchett, Screwtape Letters - C. S. Lewis
18 Aug 2020
Summary
Gilbert and Sullivan, but make it unflinchingly anti-imperialist.
Swashbuckling adventure on the high seas! Naval battles! Grand larceny! Found family! Heartbreak! Betrayal! 'Orrible murders! Ruthless villains! Blood! Orphans! An absolute bevy of orphans! If we can't find any, we'll make some!
…even more blood!
Oh. Oh wow. That's, yeah, wow. That's a lot of blood.
- Words:
- 31,496
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- 2
- Bookmarks:
- 9
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Children of Pallas by Gray_Days
Fandom DC Animated Universe, DCU, JLA: Syndicate Rules, Justice League & Justice League Unlimited (Cartoons), Justice League: Crisis on Two Earths
27 Apr 2019
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Everything happens, somewhere in the multiverse. Every choice is reflected and refracted across infinity until the resulting images are unrecognisable — or all too recognisable, when they're wrong in every respect.
An orphaned boy sculpts himself into a murderer. The most powerful being in the galaxy craves nothing but what little power still eludes him. A woman with the blessings of the gods uses them to devastate the world.
And there are certain people — still, always — who say no. No more. This is where it ends.
If not me, then who?
- Words:
- 25,658
- Works:
- 11
- Bookmarks:
- 20
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Sublimity by Gray_Days
Fandom DC Animated Universe, DCU, Justice League: Crisis on Two Earths
10 Jun 2019
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Great power, Burke suggests in The Sublime and the Beautiful, should never aspire to be — and can never actually be — beautiful. What great power needs is sublimity. The sublime is the sensation we experience in the face of extreme pain, danger, or terror. It is something like awe but tinged with fear and dread. Burke calls it “delightful horror.” Great power should aspire to sublimity because sublimity produces the strongest emotion which the human mind is capable of feeling. It is an arresting yet invigorating emotion, which has the simultaneous but contradictory effect of diminishing and magnifying us. We feel annihilated by great power; at the same time, our sense of self swells when we are conversant with terrible objects.
— Corey Robin, The Reactionary Mind
It’s a very Greek idea, and a very profound one. Beauty is terror. Whatever we call beautiful, we quiver before it. And what could be more terrifying and beautiful, to souls like the Greeks or our own, to lose control completely? To throw off the chains of being for an instant, to shatter the accident of our mortal selves?
— Donna Tartt, The Secret History
- Words:
- 15,097
- Works:
- 4
- Bookmarks:
- 6
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Refractive Index by Gray_Days
Fandom Batman (Movies - Nolan), DC Animated Universe, Justice League: Crisis on Two Earths
25 Feb 2019
Summary
This series contains alternate-universe spinoffs from Children of Pallas's main continuity. Unless otherwise stated, works in this series are not canon to Children of Pallas and have no bearing on that continuity.
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- 9,277
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- 3