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A Perilous Thing by luthienne
Fandoms: Daredevil (TV), Daredevil (Comics), The Punisher (TV 2017)
16 Jan 2022
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Perhaps it’s an inevitable juncture of the hero’s story: the fateful moment when they are brought to their knees that will mark the separation of who they were before and who they must become after, if there is to be an after; the bitter moment of recognition that all their choices have led them here and no one is coming to help. And it’s one thing to go looking for blood and another altogether to be delivered into the merciless hands of the hunters, stripped and shorn of fight.
There is something unbearably beautiful in the reluctant yielding of his body: the uncurling of his hands, the tilt of his head thrown back and the naked bewilderment of his unfocused eyes. Red looks the way saints are portrayed in the final moments of their martyrdom, blood like holy oil anointing his lips, his throat. Trailing down and across his skin.
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- Part 2 of light as memory, light as myth
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Fisk gets put away again, and it feels like that should be the end of it, but it’s not. Of course it’s not. The FBI needs a win. Who better to take that out on than the lawyers who exposed their corruption.
I am not Daredevil, Matt says so many times in so many spaces that he almost believes it.
His ability to maintain a concept of self was difficult enough before this: this new judgment day, this thing that has fractured him beyond what he thought was possible. He feels like he’s been dropped into the ocean, all his limbs weighted with stones, unable to find which way is up and which way is down, which way is surface and which way is gone.
Later, he'll try to think about it objectively, distance himself from this new kind of violence that inhabits his body. He'll grapple with the defined edges of his constantly shifting memory, carefully delineate the before from the after, turn his conclusion over and over in his mind. As it turns out, he observes, living feels a lot like drowning.
[An exploration of trauma and memory, of what it might look like if Matt's identity as Daredevil was exposed. Prison fic. Post-S3.]
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- Part 1 of light as memory, light as myth
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light as memory, light as myth by luthienne
Fandom Daredevil (Comics), Daredevil (TV), The Punisher (TV 2017)
16 Jan 2022
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Neal's left home a few times, in his life. Most of the time, though, he's blinked and home's been gone. (Spoilers through 4x04 (Parting Shots) of White Collar.)
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- Part 1 of (and you live with a ghost)
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26 Jan 2026
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Officially, Neal died; that's usually what happens just before people go into WITSEC. But it's been two years, and now he's in trouble, except the person best suited to find him thinks he's dead.
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18 Jan 2026
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Welcome to the future, where the New and Improved Marshall's system has gone electronic - and there are a few glitches. Glitches that might cost Neal his life.
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In which Neal is Subject NC391, and he really didn't deserve to be taken by an interceptor and put in a holding cell. He definitely didn't deserve to be effectively held hostage by a computer with heatstroke. Yet there they were.
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12 Jan 2026
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A month after France and Frank Harkness, Slough House is floundering beneath the weight of grief none of them quite know how to deal with. Fortunately, Catherine has returned, and she’s determined to fix things — starting with River, who’s carrying a secret that’s affecting how he acts both with her and with Lamb — until she and River are kidnapped from Slough House by a group of former slow horses that have a very serious bone to pick with Jackson Lamb.
It will be fine. Catherine knows that Lamb will come for River, and River knows that Lamb will come for Catherine, and until he does they simply have to keep the other alive long enough to be found. But what they’re not expecting is that these former slow horses don’t just want to hurt Lamb; they want to break River, and force Lamb to watch it happen.
But the former slow horses have made a significant error of judgement. With every recording they send of River’s torture, the more determined Lamb becomes to rescue his boy, and when he finally does get River and Catherine back he is never going to let them go. It’ll be a long, difficult road to recovery, but they’ll walk it together, all three of them.
[ or: the camcorder kidnapping fic, at last. ]
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02 Nov 2025
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A Fresh Body to Bury by DonotNomi for AgarthanGuide
Fandoms: Slow Horses (TV), Slough House - Mick Herron
21 Jun 2024
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In the end, River Cartwright successfully completed a mission—a genuine triumph.
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21 Jan 2025