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Lucretia stops dead in the doorway when she sees it. The letters are six feet high, charcoal black; the edges of the "P" are still smoldering. For a moment she is completely empty. She can't form a single thought, she can't breathe, she's fairly certain her heart stops beating.
And when her brain restarts, all she can think is: no one here knows Lup's name.
Lup has been erased, as thoroughly as Brian or Bain or any of the other fallen Bureau employees--more so, because she’s been erased by Fisher’s child, too. No one here should know Lup's name.
So how can it be here?
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When Lucretia finds Lup's name burned into the wall of the Bureau of Balance, it doesn't take her long to connect the dots. And once she knows where Lup is, she can't just leave her there. She has to find a way to get her out.
AU where Lucretia frees Lup early, and they team up to try to fix their mistakes, reunite their family, and save the world in the process.
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Barry can feel himself beginning to lose control, lose track of the edges of himself. He’s been on the brink of this a few times, over the years, and has always been able to pull himself back. But now, he’s not sure if he can. What’s more, he’s not sure if he wants to. If Lup is truly gone, then why should he keep going, why shouldn’t he let himself just dissolve into nothing, what is the point—
But then
Then a face surfaces in his mind, and he realizes that the face is not Lup’s.
It’s Taako’s.
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Barry finds Lup's body at Wave Echo Cave and has to try to hold himself together at the prospect that she may be truly gone. Luckily, Lup is not the only person Barry loves.
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The story of a moment by journalofimprobablethings
Fandoms: The Adventure Zone (Podcast)
03 Sep 2025
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Balance is full of so many stories, and not all of them take years to tell. So many of them are contained in just a moment.
(collection of unconnected TAZ snippets of various moments, slices of time, etc. A lot will be angst because apparently that's what I write. Tags will be updated as needed!)1. How did Magnus get Julia's ring back after Raven's Roost?
2. You should have known something was wrong when they boys returned from Wonderland.
3. The Director always has music playing in her office.
4. Thoughts on the Light of Creation and craveability,
5. The birds take a day off (Stolen Century fluff)
6. A quiet Starblaster moment with Dav & Lucy.
7. Davenport goes to sea. Lucretia says goodbye.
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following the echo down by journalofimprobablethings
Fandoms: The Magnus Archives (Podcast)
10 May 2024
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Jon looks up at Tim, whose eyes are fixed on the road, two fingers tapping out a rapid tattoo on the steering wheel. Who, Jon realizes, hasn’t actually looked at him once this whole time.
“This is real,” Jon says. His voice is hoarse with disuse.
Tim’s fingers go still on the wheel. He finally looks over at Jon—just a quick glance, before he returns his gaze to the road.
“Yeah, Jon,” he says. He sounds exhausted. “This is real. Put your seatbelt on.”
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Tim rescues Jon from the Circus. Jon isn't quite sure why.
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For a moment, Martin allows himself to imagine what it would be like—to stay in this house, to build a life here with Jon, to cook and go on walks, get to know the people in the village and turn this temporary refuge into a home.
What would it be like, to belong here, together?
The image makes his chest hurt with a fierce wanting—all the more painful because it's been so long since he allowed himself to want—to feel—anything so keenly.
Martin shakes himself, picks up another mug to wash.
It doesn't do any good to imagine something that's probably impossible.
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Martin comes back early from his walk, and manages to burn Jonah's statement before Jon can finish reading it--at the price of Jon's voice.
Even so, Jon finds the courage to finally tell Martin something important.
UPDATE: Now with bonus Jon POV content in Chapter 2!
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tim & jon's excellent american adventure by journalofimprobablethings
Fandom The Magnus Archives (Podcast)
24 Aug 2023
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In short, what if Tim went with Jon on his travels in s3?
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taako and lucretia make me sad, y'all by journalofimprobablethings
Fandom The Adventure Zone (Podcast)
23 Jan 2021
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A series of oneshots exploring Taako and Lucretia's relationship, both within and post canon, often through food and cooking. Cameo by our favorite boy detective Angus McDonald, and maybe others.
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Carey mourns.
Set at the end of ep. 58.
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04 Feb 2026
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And Together We Can Still Achieve What We Set Out To Do by scribefindegil for Flyingbooks42
Fandoms: Imperial Radch Series - Ann Leckie
16 Dec 2025
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Planning a protest is always difficult, and planning a large-scale protest against a tyrannical ruler while under lockdown with an AI that can see and hear everything you do . . . well, that's certainly a challenge. But Athoek Station's residents are clever and determined, and Station itself is committed to helping and protecting them in whatever way it can.
(Messages and security feed excerpts from the leadup to the sit-in protest that occurs towards the end of Ancillary Mercy)
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02 Feb 2026
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“I just—” the fleet captain’s answer was for all of them— “need a moment to adjust.”
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27 Jan 2026
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“We're fleeing Radch space? Of course we are. I refused an order, and you...” She paused. Then, very clearly and feelingly, she said, “Fuck.”
Sometimes the path of justice and beneficence is clear. Sometimes you have to make your own.
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24 Jan 2026
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six times breq nearly got herself killed and seivarden had a freakout by venndaai
Fandoms: Imperial Radch Series - Ann Leckie
09 Aug 2016
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"Do you anticipate not being worried?" "Over you? Never."
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17 Jan 2026