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It's Not Paranoia if They Are Really Out To Get You by jest_tal
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells, Murderbot (TV)
28 Jun 2025
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Dr. Gurathin is fiercely protective of his friends and wise enough to know just what the Company is capable of. He is also not an idiot and can tell when someone is rummaging in his head....
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I Won't Let You Go Gently by jest_tal
Fandoms: Dragon Age (Video Games), Dragon Age - All Media Types, Dragon Age: Inquisition, Dragon Age: The Veilguard (Video Game), Dragon Age II
07 Jan 2025
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It had been months since Hawke and Varric had seen each other. Years since they'd spent more than a few days in each other's company.
And now he's dead.
And gone.
Or so everyone keeps telling her.
(or alternatively, Hawke refuses to let go.)
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- Part 3 of Things We Never Were To Each Other
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(Loose sequel to "The Perils of Dwelling".) It had to happen eventually.
New Hokage Tsunade finds her grandfather's eyes in the face of a wounded ANBU.
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(A "Missing" scene on the Tenchi Bridge) Members of ANBU are always aware of their priorities, even when facing with their ghosts.
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A delicate mission requires both a shinobi of the highest talent and a medical-nin capable of creating antidotes on the fly. Unfortunately, there's only a few medical-nin capable of filling that role - and only one that's available...
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Things We Never Were To Each Other by jest_tal
Fandom Dragon Age (Video Games), Dragon Age - All Media Types, Dragon Age II, Dragon Age: Inquisition, Dragon Age: The Veilguard (Video Game)
07 Jan 2025
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Times that Varric Tethras and Marion Hawke almost connected, or didn't connect quite enough.
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Snap Back to Reality by jest_tal
Fandom Spider-Man - All Media Types, Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse (2018)
21 Dec 2018
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Shepard's journey, from her re-birth at the hands of Cerberus, to saying goodbye to Thane on the Citadel. (Dreaming in the Fade is a continuation).
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It isn't Cole's fault that the lines between worlds, especially these two worlds, are thin in the fade.
And it is not in Compassion to turn a deaf ear to those in need.
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There's no answer to the question of her sanity that she can trust. But, insane or insane, she has to have a purpose. So she decides that she's going to save a life.
Just one life.
Thane's.
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The pings were all from Overse’s interface and routed from a transit ring called Trans-All, the kind of ping that was just are you in range – are you in range – are you in range. It was a call for help and it fucking terrified me, because I was answering it way, way too late.
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Ratthi goes missing. Pin-Lee isn't used to losing. Murderbot isn't used to having anything to lose.
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Bookmarked by jest_tal
15 Jan 2026
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Under Your Skin by Lizzie_The_Witch
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells, Murderbot (TV)
16 Nov 2025
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“However, I’m not a fan of one of the nicknames Ratthi likes to use. In fact it’s probably my least favorite, “Gugu” just sounds so irredeemably ridiculous. That said, I haven’t asked him to stop even though he would if I asked. I’ve thought about it, but I know it’s meant as a sign of friendship. And I’d suffer a lot more than a ridiculous nickname or two for the sake of the friends I’ve made since I came to Preservation.
So, in that particular moment, falling without anything to catch me. Ratthi still reaching for me even though it was already too late. His distraught voice still echoing off of the stone around us. I couldn’t help but think—I’d take any number of stupid nicknames over having to hear him scream my name like that ever again.”
(While on a research expedition with PSUMNT Gurathin trips into a Horror Movie situation when he gets separated from the group. Now he has to try and stay alive until Murderbot can pull off a rescue.)
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- 12,818
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- 6/?
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Bookmarked by jest_tal
08 Jan 2026
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Reruns & Resets by Lizzie_The_Witch
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells, Murderbot (TV)
16 Oct 2025
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“ Maybe I would be less annoyed had it not been brought up a subjective one million times (and an objective two dozen) how it was “nice to have everyone back together” on a “peaceful survey this time”. Ratthi had made sure to comment that for all that the first survey had been a “total nightmare” it was “worth it to have met you SecUnit!” That had given me the same melty feeling in my chest that I’d gotten when Mensah had told me she saw me “as a person just trying to help” back on that first survey together.
I was trying not to think about that though. Not that, or the way my drones captured Ratthi’s grin when he’d spoken. Or any of the melty and soft feelings my humans gave me sometimes. But especially not Ratthi. Because if I thought about him at all, I’d have to think about his blood on my face.”
Set in a mix of the Book Universe & the TV Universe, Murderbot and the PresAux crew are on another planetary survey mission. Everything is peaceful until it isn’t and Murderbot gets trapped in a nightmarish Time Loop like something out of one of its serials. Murderbot is hellbent on saving its humans and breaking free of the loop whatever it takes.
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Bookmarked by jest_tal
08 Jan 2026
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The Boy Who Spoke With Ghosts by AvocadoLove
Fandoms: Inception (2010), The Sixth Sense (1999)
20 Jun 2011
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No one suspects Arthur. He's too practical, too organized, too sensible to believe in the supernatural.
Based on the kink meme prompt: Arthur's real name is Cole Sear.
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- English
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- 6/6
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Bookmarked by jest_tal
08 Jan 2026
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On a mining colony, SecUnit suffers through the daily tedium of life as a corporate murderbot. But all is not as it seems. And it has more friends than it knows.
Bookmarked by jest_tal
08 Jan 2026