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vignettes of life on the edge by fantasyandfreedom for ruggedindividual
Fandoms: Chess - Rice/Ulvaeus/Andersson
18 Jan 2026
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After the end of the Cold War, the USA and Russia dared to co-operate for the first time on space exploration. In 1994, a brand new organisation was launched: the International C.H.E.S.S project.
In 2026, the public were given access to select parts of the project's archive. Through the missing pieces, the heavy redactions and the few names allowed to be released, can you piece together the story?
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Florence, Svetlana and the Beauty of Losing to the USA by fantasyandfreedom
Fandoms: Chess - Rice/Ulvaeus/Andersson
24 Nov 2025
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1991. The first ever women’s rugby World Cup takes place in Wales.
The Soviet team, captained by Svetlana Sergievskaya, use unconventional methods to fundraise.
The England team, featuring powerhouse flanker Florence Vassy, just wants to grow the game.
The two of them meet for the first time since Bangkok on a wet, muddy rugby pitch in Cardiff. What could go wrong?
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In Need of a Pawn to Take the World by fantasyandfreedom for Twilfitt6
Fandoms: Chess - Rice/Ulvaeus/Andersson
27 Jul 2025
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Two years on from Bangkok, Anatoly, Florence, Freddie and Svetlana are living completely different lives. For some of them, it's almost like their chess careers never happened.
When the four of them are unexpectedly reunited at a grand mansion in rural Hungary, their luxurious evening seems to have turned into their worst nightmare.
Things turn from bad to worse when their host is found dead in the dining room. With all the doors and windows locked, there was no way in or out. That can mean only one thing: one of them must be the murderer, right?
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Introducing Bernard Spilsbury by fantasyandfreedom
Fandoms: Operation Mincemeat: A New Musical - SpitLip
09 Apr 2025
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Well, someone had to let him in? Hester Leggatt receives an order to welcome a very odd guest to MI5, who prefers to do things his own unusual way.
Or, what Hester was doing during the second Spilsbury section of Making a Man.
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well, chess is certainly not what it was. by fantasyandfreedom
Fandoms: Chess - Rice/Ulvaeus/Andersson
11 Mar 2025
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On this particular Friday evening, there was a strange man at the club. He was sitting in an armchair in the corner of the room, looking over his glasses with a pensive expression at the people that began to spill in as 6pm approached.
A friend of Freddie’s is taken ill. He volunteers at her chess club.
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if this could've been like the other times. by midnightmew for starful_nights
Fandoms: Chess - Rice/Ulvaeus/Andersson
10 Jun 2023
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You don’t know how to not care about Freddie, but you cannot stay forever.
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23 Aug 2025
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on cameras and phonecalls by starful_nights for fantasyandfreedom
Fandoms: Chess - Rice/Ulvaeus/Andersson
21 Jan 2024
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Florence during and after the world chess championship. (Queens/character study. Mid-slash-post-canon.)
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