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• Remembering the Director of the Seventh Recitation: Oral Histories from the Imperial Archive by CenozoicSynapsid for raspberryhunter

  Fandoms: Her Smoke Rose Up Forever (anthology) - James Tiptree Jr., The Women Men Don't See - James Tiptree Jr., The Last Flight of Dr. Ain - James Tiptree Jr.  

  • Teen And Up Audiences
  • Major Character Death
  • Gen
  • Complete Work

  23 Dec 2025

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  • Major Character Death
  • Ruth Parsons
  • Oral History
  • Post-Canon
  • "Main Character Death" Just In the Sense That Everyone Dies Eventually
  • Background Ruth Parsons & Althea Parsons
  • Vietnam War
  • Lunar Forestry

  Summary

  Five memories of Ruth Parsons, afterwards.

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• That the Deity Who Kills for Pleasure Will Also Heal by CenozoicSynapsid for raspberryhunter

  Fandoms: Her Smoke Rose Up Forever (anthology) - James Tiptree Jr., On The Last Afternoon - James Tiptree Jr.  

  • Explicit
  • Graphic Depictions Of Violence, Major Character Death, Rape/Non-Con
  • No category
  • Complete Work

  17 Dec 2025

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  • Graphic Depictions Of Violence
  • Major Character Death
  • Rape/Non-Con
  • Original Characters
  • Rape
  • Explicit Sexual Content
  • Ecocide
  • Agoraphobia
  • Background Human Sacrifice
  • Background Harm to Mice
  • Penis Fencing
  • Perhaps Something Will Be Saved From the Wreckage
  • Post-Canon

  Summary

  Mysas says you’re gods from the sky, like the elders warned us. I think you’re just people. Gods wouldn’t look so frightened all the time, or sweat so much...

  Ten thousand afternoons later, space travelers make contact again.

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• Sweet Chariot by CenozoicSynapsid for RobberBaroness

  Fandoms: John the Balladeer - Manly Wade Wellman  

  • General Audiences
  • No Archive Warnings Apply
  • Gen
  • Complete Work

  24 Dec 2024

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  • No Archive Warnings Apply
  • John the Balladeer
  • Singing
  • Biblical Allusions (Abrahamic Religions)

  Summary

  “I feel like when a man sings out on a bare hillside, his people might hark to him somehow, however far off they might be.”

  “I like that,” I said. “What shall we sing?”

  “Do you know this one?” he said, and he started in:

  Oh Lord, You know I have no friend like you,
  If Heaven's not my home, Oh Lord, what would I do?
  Angels beckon me from Heaven's open door,
  And I can't feel at home in this world anymore.

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• Minutes of the Board of Deacons Meeting (Dungeon Subcommittee) by CenozoicSynapsid for raspberryhunter

  Fandoms: Nethack (Video Game)  

  • General Audiences
  • No Archive Warnings Apply
  • Gen
  • Complete Work

  24 Dec 2024

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  • No Archive Warnings Apply
  • Original Characters
  • Committee meetings

  Summary

  The subcommittee has found a suitable set of darts in the rec room, and of course our chosen adventurer will need to make sure their phone is fully charged with the camera flash set to ‘on’...

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• But Never Jam Today by CenozoicSynapsid for moon_custafer

  Fandoms: Night of the Jabberwock - Fredric Brown  

  • General Audiences
  • Major Character Death
  • F/M
  • Complete Work

  22 Dec 2024

  Tags

  • Major Character Death
  • Elsie Minton / Doc Stoeger
  • Doc Stoeger
  • Elsie Minton
  • Implied/Referenced Character Death
  • Implied/Referenced Alcohol Abuse/Alcoholism
  • Racism

  Summary

  We’d been engaged for four years by then, but Doc Minton— he was the other kind of doctor— was dead set against us setting a date. First I wasn’t good enough for her. Now that I had a degree and a steady job, it was her health, or so he claimed.

  Doc and Elsie, 25 years before.

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