HolmesianDeduction
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"We keep up the good fight
We keep our spirits light
But they drop like flies
And there's a stomach-churning shift
In the way the land liesFreddie has been aware of the loop for a while when he realises that he might not be alone. Florence has been testing the limits of what her new reality is capable of, and Anatoly, only newly awakened to his situation, has doubts about Florence's claims and makes his own fail-safe.
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- Part 2 of Dead Draw
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"There is no plan we can fall back on
The road this far can't be retraced
There is no punchline anybody can tack on
There are loose ends by the score
What did I come down here for?"Just this once, when Freddie comes to her hotel room in Bangkok, Florence opens the door without really understanding why.
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- Part 1 of Dead Draw
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At first all Thomas could bring himself to feel was a great, yawning void – an emptiness that seethed and churned and ached deep within his chest cavity with a mind all its own. There was nothing else.
A short sketch of Thomas Hutter in the immediate aftermath.
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Orpheus Revisited by HolmesianDeduction
Fandoms: Доктор Живаго - Борис Пастернак | Doctor Zhivago - Boris Pasternak, Doctor Zhivago - Simon/Korie & Powers/Weller
23 Feb 2024
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After escaping to Paris, Lara begins a new life - first with Tonia and then later joined by Yurii - and for a time, she finds an uneasy peace. And then she comes across a phantom in the marketplace.
This is part of an AU in which the main quartet all survive and end up in Paris at the same time (eventually - arrivals are staggered). It's part fix-it fic, part an excuse to have the conversations that never got to happen.
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- 2,107
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The Alliance of Demeter and Hades by HolmesianDeduction
Fandoms: Доктор Живаго - Борис Пастернак | Doctor Zhivago - Boris Pasternak, Doctor Zhivago - Simon/Korie & Powers/Weller
28 Dec 2023
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When Tonia is unable to bring her husband back from the edges of the Underworld, she learns to send him to the only person who can.
A prompt fill, based on the lyrics "I don’t know how to reach you when you get like this, I’ve been waiting for you to come home".
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- Part 3 of Doctor Zhivago Shorts
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"Each game of chess
Means there's one less
Variation left to be playedEach game got through
Means one or two
Less mistakes remain to be made"Freddie, Florence, and Anatoly don't know how long they've been in the time loop, only that they each think they are the only one in it.
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The Streets Were Full of Strangers - A Prohibition Era AU by HolmesianDeduction
Fandom Les Misérables (2012), Les Misérables - All Media Types, Les Misérables - Schönberg/Boublil, Les Misérables - Victor Hugo
08 Jul 2013
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A Les Misérables AU set in Chicago during the American Prohibition.
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-The ABC Group Bootlegging RingCast Graphics:
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"It is an awful thing to know about yourself, but the freedom."
-Jonah Magnus, The Magnus Archives, Episode 160 - "The Eye Opens"
A character study of Jonah Magnus, told largely - as is custom - through the fragmentary glimpses of others.
[Note: While I have put them in a loosely chronological order, they need not be read in that order - they may be read together in any order you like, or singularly]
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- 7,204
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- 6
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Doctor Zhivago Shorts by HolmesianDeduction
Fandom Doctor Zhivago - Simon/Korie & Powers/Weller, Доктор Живаго - Борис Пастернак | Doctor Zhivago - Boris Pasternak
28 Dec 2023
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A series of short stories - mostly flash fiction, centred on the characters and settings of Doctor Zhivago, drawing mostly upon the novel and the musical (though occasionally the film) for inspiration.
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25 Days of Holiday Fic 2k12 by HolmesianDeduction, orphan_account
Fandom Smiley's People - John Le Carré, Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (2011), Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy - All Media Types, Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy - John Le Carré
26 Dec 2012
- Words:
- 8,266
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- 22
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Evergreen, Ever Sun, Ever Moon by ravenbringslight
Fandoms: Wiedźmin | The Witcher - All Media Types, The Witcher (TV)
22 Mar 2026
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Resuming friendship with Geralt after the dragon hunt is both easier and harder than Jaskier thought it would be. He's fallen for Yennefer in the meantime, is the problem, as well as never having dropped his torch for Geralt in the first place.
Now Geralt can't stop falling asleep mid-conversation, and Yennefer is nowhere to be found.
Who decided that leaving cursebreaking up to the lovesick bard was a good idea, anyway?
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- 16,108
- Chapters:
- 3/5
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- Comments:
- 35
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- 45
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- 9
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- 382
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17 Mar 2026
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Winter in Toussaint by ravenbringslight
Fandoms: Wiedźmin | The Witcher - All Media Types, The Witcher (TV)
19 Nov 2025
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“Your precious bard,” Yennefer said to Geralt, enunciating each word, “has been two breaths from dropping his trousers for you since the moment I met him. I always knew he’d been pining for you. I didn’t know until today that you’d been pining for him.”
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Geralt kisses Jaskier on the forehead as a joke and starts a boulder rolling down a hill.
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When Yennefer encourages her husband to fuck his boyfriend and then realizes he's her boyfriend too.
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03 Nov 2025
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Three Things Griffith Got Back After the Torture by Enisy for quietface
Fandoms: Berserk (Anime & Manga)
28 Jun 2025
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“You must choose,” says the stranger — some Kushan mystic, swaddled in colorful fabric that conceals everything except his eyes. They are brown and beady, remarkably plain, which does nothing to undermine his air of mystery. “Skin. Tendons. Tongue. Which one will it be?”
Guts is stunned to profanity. “You — bastard,” he growls. “That’s fucking sick.”
“And yet, you must choose,” the man repeats. “Skin. Tendons. Tongue.”
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 2,416
- Chapters:
- 1/1
- Collections:
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- Comments:
- 22
- Kudos:
- 126
- Bookmarks:
- 31
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- 1,185
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28 Jul 2025
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a poison that never stung by a-m (ante__meridiem)
Fandoms: The Magnus Archives (Podcast)
05 Aug 2021
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Melanie is grateful to Jon three times.
The first, for coming back at all. Not that she missed him, not that she’s glad he’s not dead. But the last few months in the Institute have felt hollow and it’s a sickening relief to have a target for her anger again.
The second, for asking to remove the bullet, and allowing her to refuse. This is a more complicated gratitude, because she doesn’t want it. But she can’t bring herself to wish he’d kept this meagre measure of control, of choice, from her. So she is grateful, and she hates it.
The third, for being the obvious monster everyone has their eye on, so they never think to ask about the blood under her nail, don’t wonder when she slips out the door of the archives with a knife in hand. Maybe she should feel guiltier for letting Jon take the fall, knowing full well that everyone involved in their little intervention has at least as much blood on their hands. But she still hates him just enough to be able to swallow down the guilt, so she lets Basira threaten him and swears that she won’t let any of her victims make it back to the Institute with their stories.
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06 Aug 2021
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There is nothing about Jonah that does not make Jonathan wonder.
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03 Aug 2021