trace_of_scarlet
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- Marvel (14)
- Marvel Cinematic Universe (13)
- The Avengers (Marvel Movies) (10)
- Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling (6)
- Torchwood (5)
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And Yet Still We Live by trace_of_scarlet
Fandoms: Good Omens - Neil Gaiman & Terry Pratchett, Good Omens (TV)
13 Jul 2019
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Is this what the world is like, for those who have no help ever forthcoming? Is this what it is, to be faced with being truly alone in Her universe? He has never felt this way before, not in six thousand years - not because he has always known that Heaven would be there, he suddenly realises, but because he has always known that Crowley would be.
Aziraphale and Crowley have been orbiting each other for six thousand years. In that time, Crowley has made rescuing Aziraphale something of a habit - but, as the saying goes, it's the exception that proves the rule...
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May your dreams last longer than the night by trace_of_scarlet
Fandoms: Good Omens - Neil Gaiman & Terry Pratchett, Good Omens (TV)
07 Jul 2019
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The first time they touch is during that first storm, as the wind blows; Aziraphale's sheltering wing brushes Crowley's cheek.
Crowley thinks, it's so soft. It's strange: he had wings just like that so little time ago, but he'd forgotten, somehow.
(He still has wings, of course; they're black and sleek, but somehow they don't feel like those protecting him now.)
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“Is this a test, Professor?”
McGonagall raises her eyebrows at him. “This is life, Longbottom: everything is a test."
What was it that Molly Weasley had screamed at Bellatrix, lost in the fury of battle? ‘You will never hurt our children again’? Oh, how she wishes she still had so much faith left.
In the aftermath of the Battle of Hogwarts, McGonagall finally gets the chance to arrest Umbridge. But she hasn't entirely counted on taking young Mr. Longbottom along to do the job with her...
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Not That We're Scared by trace_of_scarlet
Fandoms: Endeavour (TV), Inspector Morse & Related Fandoms
26 May 2019
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“Ah, Morse. My knight errant.”
Post-series 6, Morse drives DeBryn home. Neither of them are very good at talking about what's just happened to them... or about what either of them wants to happen next.
(Formerly titled Sing Hallelujah.)
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Rows And Columns by trace_of_scarlet
Fandoms: Bletchley Circle, Marvel Cinematic Universe, The Avengers (2012)
23 Aug 2013
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No matter what one did during the war, it isn’t every evening that one finds an agent of SHIELD standing on the doorstep.
(Or, how Natasha recruits an ex-SOE mathematician to SHIELD.)
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"I said I've never actually had sex. I've never fucked anyone and no one has fucked me."
Series
- Part 3 of Bad Sex
Bookmarked by trace_of_scarlet
01 Feb 2026
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Корабли в моей гавани by WTF Our Flag Means Death 2026 (team_Our_Flag_Means_Death)
Fandoms: Our Flag Means Death (TV)
17 Jan 2026
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20 Jan 2026
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Why one small American town won’t stop stoning its residents to death by Charlotte_Stant for sophiahelix
Fandoms: The Lottery - Shirley Jackson, The New Yorker RPF
24 Dec 2025
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The picturesque village of Buell, Maine is one of the last in the United States to continue the tradition of the “harvest” or “prosperity” lottery. Its residents insist the lottery makes them stronger, even as condemnation from outsiders grows.
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08 Jan 2026
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Good Puppy by Atheneeerva, kookoofufu, lobefinnedfishes, rottingraptor, unfortunatelystillstuckin200
Fandoms: Conclave (2024)
10 Nov 2025
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"Would you like to?" Vincent—Innocent, he decides, he prefers him as Innocent in this moment—asks, head tilted to the side like a curious animal.
Ray swallows. "If it would please you, Your Holiness."
Innocent tsks and pushes his zucchetto off to the floor with one swift movement.
"None of that now." His hand moves further back to grasp a fistful of Ray's hair. Ray gasps quietly and moves with it, his head falling back onto his shoulders. “Would you like to?”
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Bookmarked by trace_of_scarlet
13 Nov 2025
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“The fuck?” Ed manages, instantly getting his foot stuck in a nearby bucket.
“Sh-shh!” Stede pushes two fingers against his lips to shut him up.
Ed goes still and a bit cross-eyed, staring down at the hand on his mouth. Stede moves it away, with a mouthed “sorry!” focusing intently on the sounds outside the shed instead.
In the alley, hurried steps and shouting voices rush past; they catch fragments of: “Where the fuck did they go then?” or “Keep looking!” and even “The short one looks like a bloody birthday cake, how do you lose that—”
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Bookmarked by trace_of_scarlet
28 Oct 2025