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All in the Subtext by Gray Cardinal (Gray_Cardinal)
Fandoms: Batman: The Animated Series, Batman - All Media Types, Miraculous Ladybug
11 Sep 2025
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Ninety-five percent of the volumes on Codex Antiquaria's shelves were simply old, and little more than that, each waiting for one of the half-dozen people on Earth with a unique interest in the particular topic whose subject that work concerned.
Not surprisingly, the remaining five percent – the grimoires, the spell-books, the alchemical field guides, the encyclopediae of magical artifacts – drew most of the paying customers.
[Written for a long-overdue prompt for the Ficathon That Goes Into A Bar: Gabriel Agreste
goes into a barwalks into a bookstore and meets...Barbara Gordon!] -
Why Me? by Gray Cardinal (Gray_Cardinal)
Fandoms: Nancy Drew - Carolyn Keene, Jacqueline Kirby - Elizabeth Peters
02 Aug 2025
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Jacqueline Kirby
goes into a barvisits a jail … and meets Ned Nickerson.Series
- Part 3 of Nancy Drew: 21st Century Girl
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Where You Need to Be by Gray Cardinal (Gray_Cardinal)
Fandoms: Power Rangers Dino Thunder, Gargoyles (Cartoon)
16 Jul 2025
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Death by drowning, Tommy Oliver reflected, was totally unfair.
I'd always wondered how Tommy survived the aftermath of Dino Island blowing up (as we see in an early episode of Dino Thunder). And then the dice-rollers at the Ficathon That Goes Into A Bar handed me the answer....
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The Affair of the Statutory Duel by Gray Cardinal (Gray_Cardinal)
Fandoms: Sherlock Holmes - Arthur Conan Doyle, The Grand Duke - Sullivan/Gilbert
30 May 2025
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Either the following material is an out-and-out forgery...or just possibly, Gilbert and Sullivan owe the central plot device of their last operetta to none other than Sherlock Holmes.
(Which is to say, the story to which this summary is attached raises a hell of a lot more questions than it answers.)
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Written by the Winners by Gray Cardinal (Gray_Cardinal) for Audrelite
Fandoms: Power Rangers Time Force
25 Apr 2025
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If the poem had really been written to Lucas' car, then none of what had happened made any sense. Unless....
Piece by piece, Nadira unravels the tangle of mixed signals and unintended consequences.
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Subject to Change Without Notice (the Domino Theory Remix) by Gray Cardinal (Gray_Cardinal)
Fandoms: Doctor Who (1963), Star Trek: Strange New Worlds (TV)
21 Apr 2025
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Even if one plan fails, the Master always has another waiting in the wings....
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Thrust and Parry by Gray Cardinal (Gray_Cardinal) for Eisoj5
Fandoms: Gargoyles (Cartoon)
18 Dec 2024
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Puck would claim afterwards that he'd intended to out-Vogel Preston Vogel.
Neither he nor Elisa ever mentioned the theory she'd floated much, much earlier....
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The Affair of the Command Performance by Gray Cardinal (Gray_Cardinal) for mundungus42
Fandoms: Sherlock Holmes - Arthur Conan Doyle, The Muppet Show
21 Jun 2024
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Holmes and Watson are invited to an evening at the theater - only to find themselves guests at an unexpected celebration with an even more unexpected mystery behind it, and an even more unlikely performance as its featured climax.
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A Strange Correspondence by Gray Cardinal (Gray_Cardinal) for coralysendria
Fandoms: Doctor Strange (Movies), Marvel Cinematic Universe, Elementary (TV)
27 Apr 2024
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Sometimes, even a Master of the Mystic Arts needs to call on others for assistance.
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It may be more accurate to say that what follows was inspired by its title than it is to say that I wrote it for the "Insert Title Here" challenge. Then again, it may also be more accurate to say that this was written in collaboration with my dream-self. Or to put it another way...
This is my brain on dreams.
Confused yet? Not to worry - so am I.
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Ladies Who Lunch by Gray Cardinal (Gray_Cardinal) for OhIamslain
Fandoms: Jackie Chan Adventures
17 Dec 2023
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Seattle's Pike Place Market is notable for a great many things, not least of them a certain giant bronze piggy bank named Rachel. So why is there a yakuza following the small girl who's admiring Rachel...and what are two of the most dangerous women on the West Coast going to do about it?
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A Problem of Trust by Gray Cardinal (Gray_Cardinal)
Fandoms: Sherlock Holmes - Arthur Conan Doyle
25 Nov 2023
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The astute reader may wonder why neither Watson nor his literary agent were ever brought to court by Professor Moriarty or his relations. The truly serious reader is likely to to ask the more intriguing question: given the sterling public reputation ascribed to the professor, and the care which Moriarty took to protect it, why would he, his heirs, or his business associates not take legal action against Watson and Conan Doyle?
Some few of those devoted to the close study of Watson’s writings have deduced the answer. Insofar as I am aware, however, no one has ever satisfactorily explained who – or why – someone might have chosen to invent Moriarty in the first place.
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As Lucky Can Be by Gray Cardinal (Gray_Cardinal) for sinkauli
Fandoms: Murder She Wrote, Mary Poppins (Movies)
19 Aug 2023
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Some career decisions are more life-changing than others....
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New Plan by Gray Cardinal (Gray_Cardinal)
Fandoms: Austin & Murry-O'Keefe Families - Madeleine L'Engle, The Muppets - All Media Types
07 Jul 2023
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In plain language, he was a Muppet. Except, of course, where there are Muppets one usually expects Muppeteers, and the Dr. Honeydew who’d just hopped off a stool behind a cluttered laboratory table to greet us landed on two perfectly ordinary feet (if you can use “ordinary” to describe plush feet wearing black rubber-soled sneakers) with no sticks, strings, or other Muppet manipulators in sight.
“I should advise you,” the scientist said in a mild, apologetic voice, “that this is a secure area, and anyone attempting to enter secure areas here at Q-36 is subject to potential shrinking, rabbitizing, multiplication, spectrographic diffusion, gravitational flux…”
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- Part 2 of Stars In Their Courses
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Under the Hill and Far Away by Gray Cardinal (Gray_Cardinal)
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types, Mary Russell - Laurie R. King
18 Jun 2023
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It's been almost half a century since Alfred Pennyworth, long-retired from British intelligence, has seen one of his oldest colleagues in spycraft. Now he's about to find out what she's been up to...and where.
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The Mice and the Mastermind by Gray Cardinal (Gray_Cardinal) for Vernets
Fandoms: Basil of Baker Street Series - Eve Titus, Without a Clue (1988)
26 May 2023
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The Sherlock Holmes of the mouse world has learned all he knows of detection and investigation at the feet of the Master himself. And then one evening in Baker Street, he and Dr. Dawson discover that they may not know Sherlock Holmes quite so well as they think.
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Getting Things Started by Gray Cardinal (Gray_Cardinal)
Fandoms: Buffy the Vampire Slayer (TV), The Muppet Show
08 May 2023
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"Tell me again," said the frog, "why we got such a good deal buying this theater."
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Gargoyles, She Wrote by Gray Cardinal (Gray_Cardinal)
Fandoms: Gargoyles (Cartoon), Murder She Wrote
08 May 2023
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It was almost refreshing when the hostess of the present banquet ran screaming into the dining room and straight into Owen's arms, gasping out an urgent cry for help between inarticulate wails.
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Studies in (Relatively) Contemporary Egyptology by Gray Cardinal (Gray_Cardinal) for Huntress79
Fandoms: Stargate SG-1, Indiana Jones Series
22 Apr 2023
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Egyptology is one of those academic disciplines in which everyone inevitably knows everyone else. Sometimes this is a good thing...and sometimes, it makes one's life inordinately complicated.
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A Matter of Memory by Gray Cardinal (Gray_Cardinal) for Blueinkedfrost
Fandoms: Judge Dee Mysteries - Robert van Gulik
18 Dec 2022
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An American visitor has an unusual experience at the tomb of a well-known detective from Chinese history.