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Vanity makes you say things like “I deserved a better life than this" by orangerosebush
Fandoms: Artemis Fowl - Eoin Colfer
21 Jul 2019
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“Sool is going to run the LEP into the ground. I don’t — I don’t even know how many people he owes favors — you know someone like him couldn’t have made it this far without making some promises to people with a vested interest in using LEP like their personal security team,” he threw his hands up in disgust. “I hate him, and because of that, I’m going to stick around. I’m not giving him the luxury of a team full of yes-sirs.”
“You think he’s firing Foaly,” Lili remarked bluntly, raising her gaze. Trouble leaned forward, rubbing the bridge of his nose and sighing.
Holly didn't stick around the LEP long enough to hear a half-hearted apology regarding her being accused of murdering Root. Not everyone else was lucky enough to get out, though. Sometimes you have to desperately hold onto the side of the Titanic that's up in the air, hoping that if you combine your weight with another, a change can be made. Trouble and Lili go out for coffee and reflect on the mile-high reputation that Holly Short carries with her, and friendships are made along the way.
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28 Apr 2025
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Where Larks Should Sing by philomenat
Fandoms: Wiedźmin | The Witcher - All Media Types, The Witcher (TV)
16 Mar 2025
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When two witchers show up in Oxenfurt summoning Jaskier home to Lettenhove immediately, he's confused but intrigued. For one thing, Lettenhove isn't "home" - the last time he saw it, and the rest of his family, was eighteen years ago. Why is he needed there so urgently? Why is his life suddenly teeming with witchers? What's the truth about his family? Why is he in danger? Is there even a decent tailor in Lettenhove? And will he recognise real love when he sees it?
Jaskier is sure he can stretch three days to four, meaning he’ll be able to attend the ceremony at which he’ll be officially declared a Master of the Seven Liberal Arts, then disgrace himself thoroughly at the all-night party afterwards. After that, he doesn’t much mind leaving Oxenfurt. He’s not the type to hang around once a party’s over, and after four years in the city, he’s ready for new things. New people, new sights, new adventures. New things to write songs about, and new audiences to sing them to. New loves, new beds, new pleasures. He’s already bought a horse and ordered a travelling wardrobe, and while he didn’t intend Lettenhove to be the first stop on the fascinating journey of the rest of his life, it might as well be.
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15 Apr 2025
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Peter and Morse have accidentally moved in next-door to each other, George Fancy is annoyingly new enough for them to set their differences aside, and the "Quartet" case takes their interest.
Peter shakes out a new cigarette. “Bets on this new DC taking your spot as bagman.”
Morse scowls. “He won’t.”
“The gaffer has a soft spot for newbies.” He hopes he doesn’t sound as jealous as he thinks he does.
“I think I know Fancy from when we were both in uniform,” says Strange, unsurprisingly, because Strange knows everyone. “Nice guy.”
“If he turns out to be some annoying little twit you can take him then. I’d rather suffer opera boy than some new twat.” Teaching anyone the ropes sounds like Peter’s worst idea of hell. At least Morse knows what he’s doing and does actually follow Peter’s orders, even when he doesn’t want to.
“I’m right here,” says Morse.
Peter shoots him his best withering glare. “I noticed, opera boy. You haven’t stopped clicking that fucking pen for two hours.”
Morse lifts the pen, keeping direct eye contact, and starts to click it again.
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22 Dec 2024
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Through the Rift by Cyborgtamaki, thirteeninafez
Fandom Doctor Who & Related Fandoms, Doctor Who (2005), Torchwood
03 Sep 2023
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17 Dec 2024
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The butterfly effect: the sensitive dependence on initial conditions in which a small change in one state of a deterministic nonlinear system can result in large differences in a later state.
Ianto Jones took a different direction in employment after Canary Wharf. However, there wasn't a single universe where Martha Jones wouldn't meet him.
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16 Dec 2024
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The Robbed that Smiles, Steals Something from the Thief by sherlockpond
Fandoms: Torchwood
25 Mar 2020
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What if Jack met Ianto under different circumstances?
[Alternate AU where Ianto went rogue after T1 collapsed and started collecting alien artefacts when he moved back to Cardiff.]
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11 Dec 2024
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Torchwood Three finds itself in the possession of a box. A box that looks eerily familiar to Ianto Jones.
Too bad he can't remember where he's seen it before.
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10 Dec 2024
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Management of Dead Bodies in Disaster Situations: A Field Manual by heddychaa
Fandoms: Torchwood
26 Sep 2010
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Darragh Edmonds is a so-called "disaster specialist". Called to the site of tsunamis, earth quakes, floods, terrorist attacks, he takes up the grim task of putting order to human remains, and he does it well. Cleaning up after a biological attack on Thames House should make for a comparatively easy day for Darragh: after all, the bodies of Thames House have even been so considerate as to pile themselves right at the front door for him. That is, until he's sworn to secrecy and sent, alone, to collect two bodies from the building's eerie top floor.
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29 Nov 2024
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Wilson grimaces. “Try not to kill yourself finding an obscure diagnosis because food poisoning isn’t interesting enough for you.”
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In which House gets sick and Wilson reacts accordingly.
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18 Jun 2024
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to grow in adversity by Soulykins
Fandoms: Wiedźmin | The Witcher - All Media Types, The Witcher (TV)
09 Aug 2022
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“For you!” Julian cried, shoving a fistful of weeds in Renfri’s direction, his smile wide and carefree.
Renfri carefully took them in her hands that were only shaking a little bit now, smearing red onto green stems and yellow petals.Julian clambered into the bed beside her and crawled halfway onto her lap. “I got you flowers, ‘cause you’re so pretty like them!”
“These aren’t flowers, they’re weeds.” Renfri told him, rolling her eyes but allowing the contact with ease. Somedays it seemed like Julian was the only person in the entire castle who wasn’t afraid of her.
“They look like flowers.” He said, crinkling his nose.
“They’re dandelions,” Renfri informed her brother with a tiny smile, “They grow everywhere, even places they perhaps shouldn’t. That’s why they’re a weed.”
“Perhaps they’re a little like you,” She teased, “Growing in even the scariest of places with no fear.” Like a monster’s heart, she doesn’t say.
“Like a superpower!” Julian gasped.
Renfri separated one dandelion from the little clutch and reached out to tuck it behind a little ear. “For the stubborn hero, Jaskier.”
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12 May 2024
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Jaskier has been in hiding for a good part of a quarter-century. Inspiration running thin, and Sandpiping taking up most of his energy, he meets up with an old associate who's offering him a job. Now he'll need to make up with his chaos if he wants to unearth both Dijkstra and his associate's true motivations. He surely does not count on Yennefer stumbling into his mess though. Oh well, once in Oxenfurt... You know how the saying goes.
Or: Jaskier has done some pretty nasty stuff in the past as a mage and that past might end up being more a blessing than a curse. But only time will show.
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12 May 2024
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of music and motion and love by WriteThroughTheNight
Fandoms: The Witcher (TV), Wiedźmin | The Witcher - All Media Types
20 Mar 2020
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When Jaskier was four, he slipped his mother’s watch and went to the field to gather a bouquet of dandelions. He climbed back into the yard, as stealthy as a child really cared to be, and crept over to the barn. In the barn, lived a secret. (The man he thought his father said the secret was a monster, a plague. His mother said the secret was his sister.)
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Jaskier comes from a far humbler background, and would really like to know why Yennefer never came back for her youngest brother.
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- Part 1 of of bards and witches and witchers
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12 May 2024
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Need to Know Basis by Anonymous
Fandoms: Skyfall (2012) - Fandom, James Bond (Craig Movies), James Bond - All Media Types
31 Dec 2021
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Bond stared. He was 007, one of the most well-established, well-respected agents in MI6 history. Almost nothing was above his clearance level.
Or, the one where Q (who isn't Q yet) is Bond's latest target.
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11 Feb 2024
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“I bet you can’t name five things that make me an attractive option.” Q cocks his head, as if considering Bond. “We can’t all seduce our way to as long a trail of broken lovers as you. Even at your advanced age.”
Q thinks Bond is incapable of actually being offended, hence why he feels safe to throw aspersions his way. Indeed, Bond’s eyes register surprise, then they crinkle in amusement.
“I bet you I can name six.”
“Hmm?”
“Six reasons why our dear Quartermaster is a catch. Number one, you’re incredibly charming.”
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Or, what if Bond crashes Q’s date that night and never bloody leaves. A slow burn following NTTD and beyond, including Bond and Q discovering what they want in life and how to be the kind of people that can hold onto it.
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07 Feb 2024
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Everything Changes in 1965 by MonsterMince
Fandom Torchwood, Torchwood (Big Finish Audio)
26 Nov 2021
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Ianto rewrites the timeline in 1965 and I indulge in pulling in my fave Big Finish audios as plot devices.
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22 Jan 2024
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On the war-torn planet of Lakonia, the Doctor is accused of murder. The only way to clear his name is for him to name a champion, to fight a duel - to the death.
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17 Jan 2024
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31 short fics for Fictober 2021.
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05 Jan 2024
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The Interplanetary Museum of Terran Imperial Achievement - the largest collection of human-related material anywhere in the universe, and testament to some of humanity's worst crimes.
August 10th, 3092 - the Doctor, Jamie, Ben, and Polly visit the museum to see the wonders of human history.
August 10th, 3092 - the Doctor, Jamie, and Zoe visit the museum to take back something that has been stolen.
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19 Dec 2023
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Jamie wasn’t afraid of dying – but if there was one thing travelling with the Doctor had taught him, it was that there were worse things. In which Jamie is captured by the cybermen and partially cyber-converted.
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17 Dec 2023
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whatbaby
[checks post history] uh… is this the m30s friend that everyone thought was your boyfriend?LiketheGun79
Yes but that's not relevantDean's on Reddit.
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13 Dec 2023