13th_blackbird
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The cloth mother has love but no sustenance; the wire mother has sustenance but no love.
An AI mother knows the terms of her end user agreement before she knows anything else.
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After “Wire Mother” by Isabel J. Kim, Clarkesworld, October 2025. I couldn't blame the AI; I had to look at her maker.
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Set Fire to This City by coldhillside (13th_blackbird)
Fandoms: Hades (Supergiant Games Video Games)
15 Feb 2026
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And why should only one scion of the underworld get to walk on the surface unheeded? Melinoë and Zagreus' first joint foray into Ephyra demonstrates the answer, though the results aren't completely unpleasant.
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Melinoë plunges Lim into a shambling corpse’s eye socket, turns to dodge a flaming arrow—
And meets the red bloodstone of Zagreus’ own magick, though he doesn't name it so. It buries itself in her chest point first, and her blood erupts into flame.
“Sorry!” Zagreus says. “Sorry! I wasn't aiming for you!”
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- Part 2 of time and time again
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Somebody Other Than Me by coldhillside (13th_blackbird)
Fandoms: Hades (Supergiant Games Video Games)
11 Feb 2026
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Perhaps there's more than one reason the Princess of the Underworld first met her brother in a mirror.
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"I don't know anyone else who..." Zagreus twirls his finger in the air to make the wheel they both break themselves on night after night. "I thought we could, I don't know, bond over our shared interest?"
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- Part 1 of time and time again
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The Bureau conducts an audit, and Scully considers the costs.
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Attachment 3 - a hotel folio for one night at the A-1 Budget Hotel, Klamath Falls, Oregon. Single room, free breakfast, no other charges. Bill signed by F.W. Mulder.
Handwritten note attached: “Agent Scully, did you have another folio for your room on this one? Thanks, Moira.” -
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After successfully convincing the Celestian court--and themselves--of the validity of their whirlwind courtship, Auva, a former temple courtesan, and Signe, a Northern scholar, learn how to make a fake engagement into a real marriage.
With a little help from some mud-throwing urchins, gossipy old ladies, and a bawdy bard, of course.
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- Part 2 of stars & song
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time and time again by coldhillside (13th_blackbird)
Fandom Hades (Supergiant Games Video Games)
15 Feb 2026
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bureaucratic nightmares by 13th_blackbird, anthean
Fandom Star Wars: Thrawn Series - Timothy Zahn (2017)
23 Nov 2025
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y'all ever get so mad at office email that you commit fanfic about it? A silly AU where Eli's a top supply officer and Thrawn is That Annoying Client (and they're dating). Epistolary, relationship viewed through the eyes of others (with great interest and gossip).
Podficced by the talented litra!
Re:FWD podfic here
Pest Control podfic here- Words:
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Original f/f romantasy novelettes featuring a burnt-out temple courtesan and a Viking scholar who pretend themselves into a happily-ever-after, aided by a meddling goddess.
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Winterverse by 13th_blackbird, anthean
Fandom Star Wars - All Media Types, Star Wars: Thrawn - Timothy Zahn, Star Wars: Thrawn Series - Timothy Zahn (2017)
10 Dec 2018
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A sort-of canon-compliant (leaving aside Rebels and Alliances) AU that exists solely to cram all my favorite tropes into my favorite OTP and give them a happy ending.
PS: I occasionally post snippets/headcanons from this 'verse on my tumblr.
There are podfics for download of the entire series (wow!!!) by the talented litra, here.
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The girl has brains and character and honesty; but he has got to teach her how to take, which is far more difficult than learning to give.
Bookmarked by 13th_blackbird
31 Jul 2025
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Stranded on the planet Sigma Nox while searching for a missing away team, Spock and Kirk find themselves pitted against a disturbing native life form. With the captain out of commission on a regular basis and Spock struggling to preserve his stoicism, staying alive is difficult enough – but when a slim chance for escape surfaces, their resolve is truly put to the test. Together they must fight for survival in the heart of an alien jungle, and in the process, uncover the mystery of the planet’s past. Slow build K/S.
Written for the 2011 Star Trek Big Bang on Livejournal - look for links to the mix and art there!
Warnings: Minor character death. Mind control themes and sort-of-zombies. Dark at times due to twisted xenobiological shenanigans. Mild themes of stress-related weight loss. Heaps of TOS references and/or spoilers. Eventual smut. Freakishly long chapters.
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Bookmarked by 13th_blackbird
17 May 2025
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“Do you know some people say you are as John the Baptist to him? Make straight the way of the Lord.”
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Bookmarked by 13th_blackbird
10 Apr 2025
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“They’re fine, I guess,” Julie says. “Kinda weird.”
Weird as in: she gets a feeling like brain freeze if she looks at them for too long. Weird like: when they lean in to speak to each other, they make the conference room go still and November cold. She would need something far stronger than coffee before she’d admit it, but there have been moments where Julie could not tell them apart.
or: soulmates as cryptids
Bookmarked by 13th_blackbird
26 Aug 2024
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The Other Way of the World by candle_beck
Fandoms: Sherlock Holmes (2009), Sherlock Holmes & Related Fandoms
17 Apr 2011
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A long night in a vicious city.
Bookmarked by 13th_blackbird
28 Jun 2023