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If dark the night, be the light (when all other lights go out) by harrenhals
Fandoms: A Song of Ice and Fire - George R. R. Martin
24 Apr 2026
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"You ask, who will answer? / In need, who will come? / When the last line is broken / When the day is all but done." - The Rider, Paris Paloma
The howls start at dusk.
Isn’t that always how it goes? When Nell was small she would curl up next to Helicent, smelling flour and apple cider, and every story the old nurse-maid told would start it was a cold, dark night, or a man found himself at a crossroads, at dusk. Always night. Monsters can only come out at night.
But these aren’t monsters howling outside the walls of Ashemark, only men.
(In which the Young Wolf takes the seat of House Marbrand.)
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24 Apr 2026
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Where the world was empty, save you and I by harrenhals
Fandoms: A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms (TV), A Song of Ice and Fire - George R. R. Martin, A Song of Ice and Fire & Related Fandoms
04 May 2026
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"And it hurts to miss you, but it's worse to know / That I'm the reason you won't come home / But I still call home that house in Nebraska / Where we found each other on a dirty mattress on the second floor / (Where I needed you, and I need you still)." - A House in Nebraska, Ethel Cain
In the end it had fallen to Ser Quentyn to separate them, furious, though he turned on Baelor before he did Daemon, berating him, telling him that a prince did not brawl on the floor like a drunkard. Baelor had brushed himself off, still dignified even with blood pouring from his nose.
“If you touch my sister again,” he had said to Aegor, quite calmly, looking around Ser Quentyn’s restraining arm, “I will kill you.”
Maera had always loved her brother, but after that day she had worshipped him, almost shamelessly.
(In which the fourth and final child of King Daeron the Good and Queen Myriah Martell is a girl.)
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22 Apr 2026
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That once there was a fleeting wisp of glory by harrenhals
Fandoms: A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms (TV), A Song of Ice and Fire - George R. R. Martin, A Song of Ice and Fire & Related Fandoms
10 May 2026
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“CHORUS: Brave girl.
KASSANDRA: People never say that to a lucky person, do they?” — Agamemnon, by Aeschylus (trans. Anne Carson)It had seemed like the bells had tolled funeral marches without end. First had been Prince Rhaegel, the King’s sickly middle son, and then his second-born, Prince Aerys. Then most shocking of all, Prince Matarys. He had only been four-and-ten, a hale and healthy princeling. With his brother Prince Valarr dead on Ashford Meadow, the primary line of succession was wiped out in a single stroke. Fools on the street began saying that House Targaryen was cursed, that the price for their incest and fornication and tyranny was finally coming due.
(In the aftermath of the tourney at Ashford Meadow, House Targaryen reels.)
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- Part 2 of fem!Daeron AU
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21 Apr 2026
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Harry Potter never went to Hogwarts. In fact, he had only been back in England for a few months. An auror now, he's got a new partner named Weasley and they've just caught a case that will eventually change... everything. AU, inspired by season 1 of True Detective.
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01 Apr 2026
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In the Shadow of the Hammer by jeeshadow
Fandoms: A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms (TV), A Song of Ice and Fire & Related Fandoms
02 Apr 2026
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"The king is old. When he dies, Valarr will climb the Iron Throne in place of his father. Each time a battle is lost or a crop fails, the fools will say, ‘Baelor would not have let it happen, but the hedge knight killed him.’”
Valarr Targaryen clings to life while so many others do not. And yet still the sickness will rage, the drought and famine shall come, and the Blackfyres and Ironborn shall descend upon the weakened realm.
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21 Mar 2026
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The Kingmaker by captaingondor
Fandoms: A Song of Ice and Fire & Related Fandoms, A Song of Ice and Fire - George R. R. Martin
12 Mar 2022
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The Targaryens are not like other men, and they win their crowns in fire and blood. As the kingdom awaits the duel between dragons that will follow the death of the king, Dunk and Egg discover that tensions within the family are already rising into something dangerous.
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- Part 1 of Kingmaker universe
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05 Mar 2026
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Oh, drunken gods of slaughter by harrenhals
Fandoms: A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms (TV), A Song of Ice and Fire & Related Fandoms, A Song of Ice and Fire - George R. R. Martin
19 Mar 2026
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"You don't believe me? No matter. What is coming will come. And you will have to watch it. Then you will pity me." — Agamemnon, by Aeschylus, translated by Ted Hughes
The first time she had tasted wine, she thought she would have been about five or six. Her grandfather King Daeron had hosted a great feast to celebrate the royalist victory on the Redgrass Field and the death and defeat of the Pretender, Daemon Blackfyre. Dany remembered only impressions of the night – a hundred thousand candles burning, the rustle of silk on silk, the clamour of shouting and singing hammering her ears.
(In which Daenys the Drunken dreams of a dragon, dead, and a knight victorious.)
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- Part 1 of fem!Daeron AU
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02 Mar 2026
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The Dornish Knight by your_fav_vampire
Fandoms: House of the Dragon (TV), Game of Thrones (TV), A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms (TV)
11 May 2026
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Baelor Breakspear died beneath a summer sky, struck down in a tourney meant to celebrate peace. The songs called it noble, the histories made it simple. He had expected darkness, but instead he woke to dragons, to salt and smoke, and to a past that should have already turned to ash.
On Driftmark, he found Princess Rhaenyra Targaryen not as a distant legend, but as a woman standing at the edge of her fate. He knew how her story would end and what it would cost her, yet his presence began to change the course of it in ways he could not fully control. The closer he drew to her, the more uncertain everything became, including the life he once belonged to.
If he rewrote her fate, what would remain of his own? Would the future that held his family simply disappear, or had it already begun to fade the moment he arrived? Was he meant to save her, or was he only delaying something that could not be undone?
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01 Mar 2026
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A Very Narrow Path by dedras_starpath_unit
Fandoms: Andor (TV), Star Wars - All Media Types
07 May 2025
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There’s nothing in her stomach to come up when she retches. Her body heaves for the sake of heaving. It all seems wrong. If she opens the door, she should see him standing proudly in his brown coat and his beret, with a scarf wrapped around his neck. She should be able to look into his eyes, smile, and tell him they’ve won. That they’re the Imperial heroes they’ve always dreamt of being, and now, having claimed victory, they can go home and be together for the rest of their lives. They can put this Ghorman mess — and all the smaller messes it encompassed — behind them.
I didn’t want this.
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Syril dies. Dedra mourns.
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28 Jan 2026
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Uzumaki Naruto grew up with lofty goals, guts, and determination. Instincts of a born fighter made him grow; duty to his home drove him. As the battle lines begin to blur, he must find a way to reconcile all he's ever known with the man he hopes to become. Large AU.
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27 Jan 2026
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In which Robert gets blown up and Malevola intervenes. She’ll never admit it, but she might (as a part-demon) have a soft spot about the metaphysical evidence that their new dispatcher is, in fact, a good person. And she’s not gonna watch him die in a fucking lab explosion. AKA: A few missing scenes and speculation on Malevola’s whole deal.
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- Part 8 of Dispatching, Depression, & Donuts
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15 Nov 2025
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Beef is smart. Beef is fast. Beef is rotund.
Beef can do many things — except get Mecha Man to take care of himself.
As he's brought through the doors of the Superhero Dispatch Network, Beef sets his sights on a new mission: Recruit a strong pack to take care of his human.
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- Part 1 of Z-team Polycule series
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15 Nov 2025
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Not a Date by blancwene for Elsajeni
Fandoms: Star Wars Legends: Thrawn Trilogy - Timothy Zahn
13 Feb 2019
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Mara and Luke go for a test flight. (She insists it is decidedly, most definitely not a date.)
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27 Oct 2025
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The Jade Protocol by dwellingondreams
Fandoms: Star Wars - All Media Types, Star Wars Sequel Trilogy
13 Aug 2024
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Six years ago, Mara Jade led a happy life with her loving husband, Luke, and his family, who were striving to rebuild the Jedi Order and lead the New Republic into an era of peace and prosperity. Six years ago, her niece Jaina was killed, the Senate threw out her sister-in-law, and the First Order came to power.
Tormented by her nephew Ben's betrayal, guilt-ridden over the destruction of her husband's cohort of young Jedi, and determined to restore Kylo Ren to the Light- or kill him in the attempt- Mara seeks out a powerful but uneducated Force-sensitive named Rey, believing the young woman holds the key to striking the first blow against the First Order.
But just as Mara can never quite put her past as the Emperor's Hand- a brutal assassin and aspiring Sith- to rest, nor can Rey quell her own rage at the world that abandoned her and the future that Ren ripped from her- and if the two of them cannot stop him, they may find themselves falling with him.
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17 Aug 2025
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The Miskatonic Project by copperbadge
Fandoms: Marvel, Marvel Cinematic Universe, The Avengers (Marvel Movies), LOVECRAFT H. P. - Works
02 May 2018
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Abraham Erskine may have invented something new with the Serum -- or maybe he re-created something very old. Something...Elder. And now the elect of some very peculiar new heroes are gathering for a fight against horrors they can't even imagine yet...
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11 Aug 2025
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The Island Man by Amber_Skye
Fandoms: Marvel Cinematic Universe, Captain America (Movies), The Avengers (Marvel Movies), The Avengers (Marvel) - All Media Types, Captain America - All Media Types
19 Jun 2021
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SHIELD never find Captain America.
But one spring, the Valkyrie melts anyway, and Steve Rogers wakes up in the ice, alone.
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He tried to move – and it burned. There was fire wrapping around his body, dragging cold tongues of pain across every inch of him. There was nothing but the screeching pain and the blackness and the silence -
He breathed, and choked, because his lungs were full of ice.
Water trickled delicately from his nose, dribbled over shrivelled lips. He jerked reflexively, throat cracking free from frost. He tried to gulp, tried to swallow, tried to snatch at air.
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09 Aug 2025
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To the Success of Our Hopeless Cause by marroniere_m
Fandoms: Star Wars - All Media Types, Andor (TV), Star Wars: Thrawn Series - Timothy Zahn (2017), Star Wars: Rebels, Star Wars: Rebellion Era - All Media Types
01 Aug 2025
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A discovery Grand Admiral Thrawn makes leads him to an unexpected alliance — and Luthen Rael needs all the heroes he can get.
UPD: now with beautiful illustrations by fieldofheathers-stuff. Links in the notes.
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07 Jul 2025
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Beneath the Hood of Darth Sidious: Unraveling Truth and Myth in the Legend of the Sith Lord Who Ruled the Galaxy by EmperorNorton150
Fandoms: Star Wars - All Media Types
04 May 2025
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Professor Golon Wag
Galactic University of Coruscant
Coruscant
New Republic
The Galactic Empire Reconsidered: Perspectives on the Third Centenary of the Battle of Endor
304 ABYIt is time, and long past time, for a critical reexamination of Palpatine’s rise to power, specifically in regards to some of the most popular and sensationalist beliefs that persist about the Clone Wars and the coup d’etat of 19 BBY. In short, let us ask the following questions: Was Palpatine really a Sith Lord? Were the Clone Wars really the result of a secret Sith plot? Did Darth Sidious, as we must call him, really rule both Republic and Confederacy simultaneously? And what does it mean for our understanding of the Interregnum if none of this is true?
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05 May 2025
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A God Adrift: THORHAMMER by WiseTomato
Fandoms: Thor (Movies), Marvel Cinematic Universe, Warhammer Fantasy
06 Jul 2024
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Cast adrift in a foreign world, his boon companions far from his side and strange local customs to navigate? Must be a Thorsday.
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- Part 2 of Adrift
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- 166,241
- Chapters:
- 10/?
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- 159
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01 Dec 2024
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A Soldier Adrift: Captain Westeros by WiseTomato
Fandoms: Marvel Cinematic Universe, A Song of Ice and Fire & Related Fandoms, Captain America (Movies)
10 Mar 2025
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The Infinity Stones are not to be wielded lightly, as Steve Rogers discovers when he washes up on the shores of Westeros. In a world of swords and spears, what difference can one shield make?
Follow Steve as he makes his way across Planetos, starting in Westeros just before Robert's Rebellion. You can expect wandering knight adventures, Steve doing Steve things when faced with injustice, and the inevitable consequences of setting a super soldier loose on a medieval battlefield.
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- Part 1 of Adrift
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 614,379
- Chapters:
- 42/?
- Collections:
- 6
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- 1,122
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01 Dec 2024