LinTheMermaid
Fandoms
- Doctor Who (2005) (5)
- Doctor Who & Related Fandoms (5)
- Doctor Who (4)
- Titans (TV 2018) (4)
- Batman - All Media Types (2)
Recent works
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Hidden Sky Full of Stars by LinTheMermaid
Fandoms: Earth Girl Series - Janet Edwards, Original Work
23 Feb 2026
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**Heavy spoilers for the Earth Girl series**
The year is 2890. All Natalyn Solaris has ever wanted was to prove that she is just as good as anyone else. Unfortunately, that gets a lot harder when she happens to be the only blind girl in the universe. Blinded in her infancy thanks to a risky Procedure, Natalyn is used to being babied – and she has no intention of letting that continue for the rest of her life. Now she has an opportunity for escape: a Military call to arms to fight the dreaded aliens, the shape-changing chimera. Natalyn knows she has the skills to succeed – now she just needs to prove it to the universe. Along the way, she’ll make allies, enemies – and she might just save humanity.
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None suffer to have me, but do from my lack by LinTheMermaid
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types, Batman (Comics), Batman: Arkham (Video Games)
27 Aug 2025
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This story takes place after Arkham City but before Arkham Knight, but you don't really need to know anything about the games to enjoy it - it's just simple h/c.
After the events of Arkham City, the Riddler wants revenge. He drives himself to exhaustion trying to create the perfect trap for the Batman, when that very man shows up to stop him ... or apparently, to force him to take care of himself?
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Why Truth, Why? by LinTheMermaid
Fandoms: Fullmetal Alchemist - All Media Types, Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling, Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood & Manga
22 Jul 2025
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On the Promised Day, just as Father is about to die, he uses his final trick to fling Ed and Al into another world - one with actual MAGIC - something neither of them can stand. But they'll have to adapt to magic if they want to learn enough to be able to get back home.
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In which Peter is not nearly as annoyed as he pretends to be by LinTheMermaid
Fandoms: White Collar (TV 2009)
26 Feb 2025
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“Why do you have a pillow in your backseat, Peter? Is work really that boring?”
“Ha ha,” Peter said sarcastically. “No, it’s an old one from home. Elizabeth told me to get rid of it yesterday, but I forgot, so I’m swinging by the dump on the way home. Of course,” Peter added, smirking at Neal. “This case is so easy, I could do it in my sleep, no problem.”
“Is that so?” Neal teased back. “Well, we can’t let you have all the fun.” And with that, he promptly laid down, setting the pillow on Peter’s lap and resting his head atop it.
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Or, Neal and Peter have some shenanigans on their way to arrest a perp. Some jokes, some cute moments. That’s it, that’s the fic.
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Sometimes we fall (but our friends are always there to help us back up) by LinTheMermaid
Fandoms: Daredevil (TV)
02 Aug 2023
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The whirring and clicking was definitely louder now, and he could swear it was speeding up. The damned thing was like a machine gun being fired right next to his ears, and Matt’s hands clamped down on them again.
Matt had lost all sense of anything else. All that existed in the world was that machine and his eardrums, the two locked in a never-ending battle.
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Or, the fax machine in the office of Nelson & Murdock malfunctions and the noises it's making are slowly driving Matt insane. It's a good thing Foggy's there to help.
Recent series
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Thirteen, Her Fam ... And River Song by LinTheMermaid
Fandom Doctor Who, Doctor Who & Related Fandoms, Doctor Who (2005)
04 Nov 2021
- Words:
- 21,239
- Works:
- 3
- Bookmarks:
- 18
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The Unreality of Reality by drunkenhayze
Fandoms: The Great Gatsby (2013), The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald
20 Sep 2025
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Gatsby believed in the green light that was almost in his grasp. But Nick yearns to be his green light.
Then Nick falls ill and all changes for the better.
Bookmarked by LinTheMermaid
26 Feb 2026
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Dream is not coping well post-imprisonment, after he has finally set things to order otherwise following the Vortex. There are unexciting times with migraines, dissociation, and panic attacks galore. Also copious references to sand and glass. Almost like a leitmotif / metaphor, even.
Title from "The Sound of Silence" by Simon & Garfunkel. (Opinion hours: 1964 acoustic version on Wednesday Morning, 3 AM album is the best version. You cannot change my mind.)
The head pains, the sparkling lights, the nausea - they come back. Again. And again. He gets better at hiding the signs, cursing whatever has caused this. He gets better at pretending he's not constantly behind a barrier of glass, that he's free, that he's fine. Dream is constantly behind glass. Stained glass, bloody glass, rounded glass, broken glass, all muffling the world around him, filling his head with cotton. Sometimes he wonders if it was easier being in the glass cage. At least then he didn't have to pretend.
Series
- Part 9 of Sandman one-shots
Bookmarked by LinTheMermaid
07 Feb 2026
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heartbeat of a lark (or the lark in my heartbeat) by celestarium (meadowziplines)
Fandoms: The Sandman (TV 2022)
03 May 2023
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Dream has a lot of stuff going on: organizing a big museum exhibit, dealing with chronic illness, and trauma following being kidnapped for four days - and that he's just moved flats recently because he couldn't stand everything around him looking the same when he wasn't. He's doing his best. Then he finds his neighbor's cat Molly loose in the hallway, and returning the wayward cat turns into something more than just neighbors in the block of flats.
Dreamling Bingo square D4: Just Moved In.
Title from "Lark" by Josh Ritter.
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- Part 12 of Dreamling Bingo 2023
- Part 1 of museum curator!dream
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- English
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Bookmarked by LinTheMermaid
05 Feb 2026
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You would not want your spiked fishbowl to be rotational. Or the fishbowl has spikes, and is also capable of rotation with Dream inside as a means of torture. Fortunately, Jessamy has escaped, and gone in search of help...
(He would learn, later, that the cruelty – watching him fall and gash himself open, bruise and break his bones – was the point. That the cruelty would only get worse and worse as Roderick Burgess realised Dream truly could not bring Randall back, and took whatever else he could instead).
Series
- Part 2 of Whumptober 2024
- Part 69 of Sandman one-shots
Bookmarked by LinTheMermaid
01 Feb 2026
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In hindsight, Neal Caffrey should’ve realized nothing good could’ve come from Peter Burke smiling at him with such a mischievous glint in his eyes. But Neal was nothing if not a little too optimistic—a little too romantic—to not croon gleefully when Peter had described the two month vacation to Paris he was taking Elizabeth on.
It was just two months with a different handler, after all? What could go wrong?
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Or, Neal gets abused by his new handler. Will Peter be able to stop it before its too late?
Bookmarked by LinTheMermaid
01 Feb 2026