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though fortune may forsake me (sweet dreams will ever take me) by ApatheticRobots
Fandoms: Malevolent (Podcast)
10 Feb 2026
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The delay is... more strange than the presence of the house itself. Raising a brow, Arthur prompts; "It's?"
I don't know, John murmurs, almost mystified. It's not quite a cabin. It isn't...rustic, exactly, but it's-- simple. Straightforward. It has a... purpose.
"What?"
What? Oh. He huffs. I don't know, Arthur. It's a house.
(Or; bad weather delays them from reaching Albany and continuing their trek downstate. There's something off about the house they stumble across. It wants to give them what they want, which is unfortunate, considering Arthur is less and less certain about knowing what that is.)
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12 Feb 2026
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John and Arthur are on the case of some missing people. They enter the pawn shop where all the clients were last seen. What they find has all the answers and more problems.
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11 Feb 2026
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They're trying to juggle running away from a killer, hunting a demon, and infiltrating a cult. John chooses this particular time to pester Arthur, time and time again, to play the piano.
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08 Feb 2026
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In the wake of the Eldritch Kama Sutra and the trouble it leaves behind, Arthur investigates the book without John—and discovers it’s far closer to its human namesake than either of them realized. Now, they must navigate the new intimacy this opens up while confronting their own insecurities, doubts, and unspoken truths.
(In other words: Arthur learns how to bottom from a book but is terrible at communication/knowing his own limits, and it snowballs from there. Lots of smut, but there's some plot. Bantering, bickering, and arguing aplenty. Suprisingly historically accurate)
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07 Feb 2026
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They separate, and Arthur gets his eyes back. Everything they've ever wanted, they've achieved. But John seems to be withering, spending sleepless nights pacing around their shared apartment, avoiding Arthur and—the strangest of it all—making a deliberate effort to never as much as bump shoulders.
Or: John and his relationship with physical touch, in Arthur's body and in his own.
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07 Feb 2026
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RECLAIM
verb (/rɪˈkleɪm)
to take back something that was yours.
SYMBIOSIS
noun (/ˌsɪm.baɪˈoʊ.sɪs)the living together in intimate association or close union of two dissimilar organisms.
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“Maybe not” Arthur interrupts John to keep him from despairing. “But that doesn’t mean Kayne gets to dictate how we think about any of this. We destroyed that stone. We defeated him. And we saved everything that matters to us.”
Hm, John hums, not quite convinced yet. Arthur refuses to let it dictate their thoughts any longer. He traces the scar’s shape with John now, slow and steady. As if cutting the throat with their tenderness.
“This scar….it’s here because I love you” he reminds John of its nuance. The day he inflicted it on himself, desperate to save him from the king. Their promise that if it really came down to it, they’d rather die together than be split apart. And that is just the thing.
Kayne tried to drive a wedge between them. Again and again. Hoping to leave his mark on him. Hoping to make a difference about that choice.
About their love for each other.
Never.
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05 Feb 2026
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Here the Frailest Leaves of Me by properpauper (royalmess)
Fandoms: Malevolent (Podcast)
29 Jan 2026
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When Arthur is asleep, John is haunted. Every bit of his surface area is too hot, too cold, too aching, too empty. John is convinced it goes beyond wanting. Every fiber of his limited existence craves touch and simultaneously rages with burning jealousy that it’s not easy to ask for.
or, 5 times John navigates his relationship to touch without a body + 1 time with a body
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03 Feb 2026
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Castle Karringford 2: Electric Boogaloo by lizardbraininging
Fandoms: Malevolent (Podcast)
01 Feb 2026
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Original fic title was, "Castle Kerringford but Barnabas Doesn't Jump the Gun So John is Just a Paranoid Attack Dog For the Rest of the Night.jpg" and I think that is a more effective summary than anything else I could put here. But, just in case:
After a very long evening of pretending to not be slowly succumbing to elder-god-granted consumption, Arthur isn't confident he can keep his eyes open long enough to keep himself and his passenger from getting murdered in the middle of the night. But, maybe John can.Bookmarked by Lythari
01 Feb 2026
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After Addison, Arthur and John didn't go to New York - they just went home, and set up shop in as PIs in Arkham. Now several months later, having completed work for a wealthy client, they find themselves invited to a fancy dinner party with New England's elite occultists. But among the rich and famous diners are two unexpected guests: "Andrew" Larson, Arthur's one time nemesis, and Peter Yang, back from the dead but not quite right. After an awkward dinner, and an introduction to a mysterious supernatural artifact, a corpse is discovered. It's up to Arthur and John to solve the murder and stop the artifact before it unleashes its eldritch magic on them all.
Or is it? Maybe instead, Arthur and Peter fool around in the back room and they miss the drama. Maybe Arthur and John can stop the murder entirely. In this Choose Your Own Adventure there are multiple endings and more than one way to make it to midnight.
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- Part 1 of What Was Left on the Mountain
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29 Jan 2026
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John and Arthur don't die in England. Neither of them knew who pulled them out and into safety at the last minute, but after returning to Arkham, they set off to stop Kayne. It soon becomes clear that something is happening to Arthur, and something worse may be happening to John. As they meet old and new friends who help them along the way, they must reconcile with their demons if they want to save the world, and each other.
A canon-compliant (mostly) divergence after Part 52, including an alternate ending for how their adventure could go. Now complete!
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12 Jan 2026
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John Lester. Arthur thought about him carrying that name around everywhere he went and grit his teeth like he was chewing sand. It was his own damned fault for telling John to pick whatever he wanted; he’d had plenty of opportunity to lay down ground rules, it wasn’t John’s fault Arthur had run out of other Lesters quite some time ago with no plans to bolster numbers.
Not that he’d been much more enthused to gift his name to Bella. Why couldn’t he seem to stop comparing the scrap of the King in Yellow he’d stolen to his dead wife?
(In which John and Arthur take up private investigating together once they find their way out of the Dreamlands and into separate bodies.)
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10 Jan 2026
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Arthur is a heavy sleeper. It would've been deadly if he didn't have John to prod him awake and drag him out of the jaws of another monster.
Now, John has a body and a burning certainty that something will happen to Arthur should John fall asleep.
The solution is simple—not to sleep.Bookmarked by Lythari
02 Jan 2026
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Cold As the Rain That Falls in December by captaincravatthecapricious for willoftitanium
Fandoms: Malevolent (Podcast)
06 Jan 2023
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There's no way Arthur just waltzes off to NY with a hole in his stomach sewed up by filthy thread and fishhooks, right?
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30 Sep 2025
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But This Kind Is New To Me, And I Refuse To Make You A Plaything by StarsWhisper
Fandoms: Malevolent (Podcast)
08 Jun 2025
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After leaving the Tower of Leng, they stumble upon a town throwing a festival. But all is not as it seems here and soon they're tasked with finding out what's killing the citizens of this surprisingly peaceful town. Of course, they have to do all this while struggling to communicate their feelings to one another. And while John adapts to having his own body.
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- Part 2 of To Be Loved By You Is A Holy Thing
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11 Aug 2025
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John has issues with the hand he's been dealt as far as control is concerned, and he finds a way to deal with it.
What Arthur doesn't know won't hurt him. Or so he thinks.
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20 Jul 2025
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The prison pits are fatally boring. John fears it's his nature to crave anything he can touch, bend, break. But there is nothing available to him— except Arthur.
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20 Jul 2025
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Closed Loop System by One_of_Them (greenbean_paste)
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
29 Jun 2025
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SecUnit Two: Atmospheric conditions optimal.
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19 Jul 2025
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Sharing a body has meant the utter loss of privacy. Arthur's feelings on that have changed over time.
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18 Jul 2025
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Shortly after his return to New York, Arthur Lester is found comatose and blind in an alleyway with no memory nor idea towards what put him there. That's what he says anyway, since he has some idea considering the amount of enemies he's made in the past year. It would be a lot easier if most of it wasn't faded in strange obscurity when he tries to remember; if he hadn't gone through it all completely alone.
And then he starts seeing the same faceless stranger in his dreams.
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18 Jul 2025
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At long last, Arthur and John have returned to Arkham, and have carved out a life as private investigators. The disappearance of a university student will send them back into a world of cults, monsters, and elder gods.
Or, a little whodunnit for Arthur and John, with some QPR feelings as a treat.
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17 Jul 2025