Ad_Valorem
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Christmas, 2020. Over a year after the Lighthouse War, an Erusean Royal Navy pilot thinks about her survival and future.
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The year is 2030, and an Erusean Navy pilot experiences a morning.
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Two mercenary pilots encounter a UFO over the sunless seas of Nordennavic.
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Would you become God, if you had the chance?
(come for the alien from outer space, stay for the lengthy discussions on guilt, morality, and power)
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THE WORLD, Inverted: Inertia, fixity, stagnation, permanence.
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From the Isle of Madrigal comes a lizardman temple-host, their ongoing mission, tasked by none other than the Slann mage-priest Annat'corri, is to traverse the lands of the warmbloods, to track down and remove any potential threats to the Great Plan before they have a chance to grow into actual threats.
But, in order to perform their duty, it was decided early on in their mission that the temple-host needed to adapt. It would be easier to seek out these threats if they could communicate with the warmbloods native to these lands. To that effect, these lizardmen have adapted, taken to wearing the garb of the warmbloods, followed their strange rules about what defines a civilised race, and learnt to speak their tongue.
Now, these lizardmen sell their services in exchange for information, gossip and rumours. They are the Legion, and this is their tale.
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06 May 2026
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Give Our Lives to Normandy by F-117 Nighthawk (F117_Nighthawk)
Fandoms: Mass Effect Trilogy
14 Jun 2021
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“Nobody knows why we got these,” Kezk shrugs when Aubine asks about the words painted over her armored hump, “Some people say they’re reminders of people that affected the course of our lives. Some people say they’re soulmates or some other bullshit like that.”
“What do you say?”
Kezk laughs and slaps her tiny shoulder. “I say that if you ever want to charge like a krogan, you’ve got to get a handle on those biotics first.”Aubine Shepard has more words on her than anyone probably should. She has dozens of 'thank yous,' several sets of words from those she's fought and come out the only one standing, and a set of sapphire on her arm she uncovers when she needs to. She's a war hero, one of the most famous Alliance operatives at this point, so she supposes it's a little expected.
The Reaper is not.
(Or: a soulmate mark subversion that follows Shepard through the trilogy, looking at the consequences of the trope. Like words from a Reaper.)- Language:
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01 May 2026
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the city that nurtured my greed and my pride by revanchxst (BadWolfGirl01) for weakinteraction
Fandoms: Star Wars - All Media Types, Star Wars Legends: Knights of the Old Republic (Video Games)
30 Nov 2020
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This is how it begins (though in truth, it began long before).
The Jedi are getting desperate, Revan finds herself thinking as she stares at the half-trained padawan with the golden lightsaber, standing defiantly (but foolishly) among the corpses of her fallen Jedi. Oh, the girl is powerful, burning bright as Tatooine’s suns in the Force, but she’s young, grips the hilt of her lightsaber too tight as she lifts it into a defensive guard. (An admirable effort, but flawed; Revan is clearly her superior, and a defensive strategy is the wrong way to go - but of course the Jedi train defense into their padawans as the best tactic to take in any fight.)
This is how it begins: a betrayal, and a bond.
[or: Revan remembers.]
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14 Apr 2026
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In the Kodak Theatre of Hollywood, an award-winning director vanishes from stage following a temporary power outage. Hours later, he is found in a closet, strangled to death. In Manaus, Brazil, a prison riot ends in disaster after the gang executes the hostages in response to the unforeseen deaths of the gang leader and his two best assassins. It's speculated that someone within their ranks killed the three, but the case for who runs cold. In Copenhagen, Denmark, a day at the amusement park becomes catastrophic as the company CEO, the park manager, and a foreign tourist turn up dead. The truth behind the park unearths in the aftermath, and several conspiracy theories form around the deaths; but nothing is concrete.
Agent 47 takes on a multitude of contracts that will solidify his status as an urban legend. From a coal mine in China to the hunting grounds of a red room livestream; from the top 1% to human sex traffickers, each chapter focuses on a singular contract and different targets. At the same time, a global conspiracy grows larger and larger.
Not every chapter will feature the warning content. Ones that do will have the appropriate warnings in the top notes.
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01 Apr 2026
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The Care and Keeping of A HITMAN: The Quintessential Guide to Raising a Daughter Assassin by studioRa
Fandoms: Hitman (Video Games)
18 Dec 2020
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47 could only wish such a manual existed. He hadn’t realized he was signing up for a full-blown therapy session with his ward when he agreed to get her out of the house for the day. Having recently passed the Initiate program, Victoria is well on her way to becoming a fully-fledged assassin in her own right. But some things still haunt her about her past, things that she wishes she could talk about with parents she doesn't have. 47 doesn't feel fully equipped to handle all her baggage...he can barely figure out his own.
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01 Apr 2026