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Marriage on the Bone Road by InsectKin for Storm_Elf
Fandoms: The Grisha Trilogy - Leigh Bardugo
15 Sep 2025
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An accidental marriage binds Nikolai, Alina, and the Darkling. It's what keeps it going that scares her.
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Aleksander and Baghra take a walk around the lake. Set a few weeks post-A Hundred Lifetimes Ago.
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- Part 2 of The Grisha Trilogy Immortals Series
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The Sankta’s Reading List by tirkdi (InsectKin) for jammerific
Fandoms: The Grisha Trilogy - Leigh Bardugo, Shadow and Bone (TV)
29 May 2025
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Sankta Alina takes up reading. The Darkling has some questions.
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In a Name by tirkdi (InsectKin) for jammerific
Fandoms: The Grisha Trilogy - Leigh Bardugo
14 Apr 2025
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Alina doesn't get much alone time anymore. It could be a lot worse.
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- Part 2 of The Path Forward, and Home
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Forging the Future Ourselves by tirkdi (InsectKin) for goblins_riddles_frocks
Fandoms: The Grisha Trilogy - Leigh Bardugo
14 Apr 2025
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Once the Fold is destroyed, the obvious next step is for Nikolai to get married. Of course, it's never as simple as it sounds.
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It’s hard when you’re the most observant one in the pair. It’s even harder when you’re not.
aka a dark darklina pregnancy fic
aka Aleksander Morozova stop being insane and awful for one single minute challenge (impossible)
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When the Path Forward Leads Us Home by tirkdi (InsectKin) for goblins_riddles_frocks
Fandoms: The Grisha Trilogy - Leigh Bardugo
04 Aug 2024
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Circumstances may have required it, but Nikolai wasn't first on Alina's list of marriage partners. Nikolai and the Darkling was even further down the list.
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- Part 1 of The Path Forward, and Home
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Falling Leaves by tirkdi (InsectKin) for jammerific
Fandoms: Nikolai Series - Leigh Bardugo
04 Aug 2024
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Zoya is frustrated and lonely enough to finally attend one of Count Kirigin's balls. It turns out to be just what she needs.
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Dr. Morozova is a surgical prodigy and master of the cut. Dr. Starkov has the luck and misfortune of becoming his intern.
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At the beginning of Rule of Wolves, Zoya and Nikolai debrief after visiting the revived Darkling in his sun prison. Nikolai shows Zoya that his demon can exist outside of himself, and the demon removes the ribbon from her hair.
In this fic, the demon keeps going.
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The Dragon and the Loneliest Boy in the World by InsectKin
Fandoms: Nikolai Series - Leigh Bardugo
20 Mar 2024
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Zoya takes Juris to visit his old friend. She learns more than she’d bargained for.
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"You were so willing to die to stop me, Alina. Are you unwilling to live, instead?"
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This fic explores the answers to three questions: What happened to Aleksander and Baghra in those years between Demon in the Wood and The Grisha Trilogy? How might the Darkling and Alina have pushed and pulled and eventually shaped each other if he had reacted to events at the Spinning Wheel differently? And, most importantly: after everything that was done to them, and everything they did to each other, what would it take for our Grisha trilogy immortals to be happy — or at least, have the potential to be?
This is a story of familial love and loss, and other types of love, and anger, and fear. It’s a story about what it means to be alone — and what it means to be together.
In other words: there was a feeling he knew the name for a hundred lifetimes ago, and now he has to re-learn what it means, and what it doesn't.
(In which Aleksander gets what he wants, and it turns out to not be what he wants at all — but rather, what he needs.)
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- Part 1 of The Grisha Trilogy Immortals Series
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Three scenes between Genya, Ivan, and then-Lieutenant Morozova, including how Genya and Ivan each met the Lieutenant, as well as a scene between Genya and Ivan after chapter twelve of The Shadow of War
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- Part 4 of The Shadow of War Verse
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An Ancient Echo, At Home by InsectKin
Fandoms: Shadow and Bone (TV), The Grisha Trilogy - Leigh Bardugo
01 Aug 2021
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Alina and her friends escape, leaving the Darkling by himself in the Fold. But in the Fold, he is never really alone.
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The first scene, immediately post-The Shadow of War. Light smut.
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- Part 3 of The Shadow of War Verse
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Three's a Crowd by InsectKin
Fandoms: The Grisha Trilogy - Leigh Bardugo, Nikolai Series - Leigh Bardugo
22 Mar 2021
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Alina and Mal's quiet night in Keramzin is interrupted by a newly not-dead visitor.
They never made a very good trio.
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Balancing the Equation by InsectKin
Fandoms: La Passe-Miroir | The Mirror Visitor - Christelle Dabos
26 Feb 2021
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Kissing was still new to her, and she marveled at how a mouth so severe could be so soft. His lips between hers, the smooth-shaven skin of his face — the two of them were here, finally, able to take the time they needed. When he kissed her back, she thrilled at each new part of him that touched her — his breath, his teeth, his tongue.
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An alternate ending to the last scene in The Memory of Babel that doesn't immediately fade to black. Featuring Ophelia's insecurities and Thorn's Extreme Emotional Baggage.
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A triptych of scenes with Zoya & the Darkling set before, during, and after Shadow & Bone. Includes rumors, amplifiers, broken ribs, and Alina's escape, all in the context of two egos large enough that one wonders they can fit in the same room.
Alternate title: Two Times the Darkling Got What He Wanted, and One Time He Didn't.
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A backstory for the ambassador and Grace that takes place before The Shadow of War. Contains semi-spoilers but it's kind of hot.
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- Part 2 of The Shadow of War Verse
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What To Expect When You’re Cutting Out Your Own Death by InsectKin
Fandoms: Deathless - Catherynne M. Valente
20 Jan 2021
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A brief guide to the process and perils of achieving immortality.