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Legacy by payroo
Fandoms: Star Wars: The Clone Wars (2008) - All Media Types, Star Wars Episode VII: The Force Awakens (2015), Star Wars - All Media Types
02 Apr 2016
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Finn finds an old holo about clone troopers while recovering on the Resistance base.
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11 Nov 2017
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Beautifully-crafted pain.
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"She stood firm, her clutch steady against his forearm. 'You are my brother.'
'No,' he said, and his voice was gravelly. 'No, I am no brother of yours, Sansa Stark.'"
The war has taken much from both of them. But when Jon Snow returns from the south as the new Region-King of the North, Sansa Stark knows that the best way to secure Winterfell for the both of them is a marriage that neither of them want, but the marriage that they both know that they need.
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11 Nov 2017
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Tender and true.
She took a step closer, felt her face burning with the sting of rising impatience. “It isn’t my confidence that’s the issue, Jon. If you keep acting so nonchalant about your title, there will be someone who will be inspired to take Winterfell away from you.” She stopped, had to swallow an unexpected sob from her throat. “There will be someone who will want to take Winterfell away from us. And I’ve fought too hard to stay here… I’ve given my blood and my youth and my maidenhood to stay here. I will not go gentle from my home, Jon Snow. Do you understand me?”There was only the howl of the dogs for a long second. His eyes were on her, and she found the air inside her lungs hot and furious. Then, slowly, he dismounted his horse, pulled down his kill and stalked quickly towards her. He was only a few inches away from her when he stopped, and stared down at her. She was prepared to glower back at him, a fire inside her belly. However, when she met his eyes, she saw them as sad, pleading, so apologetic that she could only blink thoroughly in surprise.
Then, finally, he said, “I wanted to make good on your promise last night.” He raised the rabbits in the air and said unnecessarily, “For the stew.”
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Not everyone can be oblivious.
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10 Nov 2017
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Enjoyable original characters, good dialogue, and the ever-satisfying use of outsider perspectives.
Normal servants did not spill food (creating suspiciously timely distractions) and remain employed. Normal servants did not steal food (every meal in order to check for poisons) and remain employed. Normal servants did not talk back (and give surprisingly good advice) and remain employed.Normal servants also did not locate the charm some idiot had put under the king's bed, destroy them with appropriate methods, hunt down those responsible and . . . Well, Relius hadn't seen that suspicious kitchen maid recently, and in their business that meant he didn't really expect to see her this side of the Cailleach's veil.
Normal servants didn't spend their midnight hours carefully blocking the spyholes in the king's guest room. Normal servants didn't divert arrows from assassins who got too close.
Normal servants didn't have magic, particularly in Camelot, particularly if they directly served the king.
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In the Midst of the Ruins by Idday
Fandoms: A Song of Ice and Fire - George R. R. Martin
29 Aug 2013
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"The raven comes to the Jon on the Wall one day, one day when it's all over and he's stopped counting days. The note contains only two words. If this was one of her songs, the parchment would be faded from her hands, the ink would have run with her tears, and the words would be sweet and desperate. 'Please,' they would say, 'I need you.' This is not one of her songs. 'Come home,' it reads, and that is all. And that is enough."
"The raven comes to Sansa on a day that she almost gives up on. If this was one of her stories, the note would come with a flower, with a knight on a horse, and she would let him wear her favors. This is not one of her stories. It comes alone, tied in black. There is no name, and but one word."
Jon and Sansa after the war, rebuilding Winterfell and each other.
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10 Nov 2017
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Jon comes home to Winterfell, Sansa takes back control of her life, and the two of them begin to heal together. Gentle and leisurely.
He examines her work intently, and Sansa feels herself color, as though it is she he is looking at so attentively. She is scared, for a moment, that he will not like it, that he remembers their family differently than she does, but he reaches out one finger to trace Father’s face tenderly, then Robb’s.“Sansa,” he says, “You have forgotten yourself.”
She bites her lip. She has not forgotten, exactly. She knows she has not added herself to the picture. [...]
“I don’t know how to add myself,” she admits, and struggles to elaborate. But how can she explain that she is not even sure she fits into this family anymore, or how she fits in? Where would she put herself, in between the father that she watched die and the mother and brother she called traitors? Next to the sister that hated her or the young boys she would hardly know today? “It has been so long, Jon, since we have been like this… where do I fit, anymore?”
“There,” he says, pointing to the spot on the tapestry at his own side, the spot that would have her nestled in between Jon and her Father, mirroring her mother on Ned’s other side.
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How the Other Half Lives by reedroad
Fandom: Star Wars - All Media Types, Star Wars Original Trilogy, Star Wars: Rebels
16 Sep 2023
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A series of fics following Luke and Leia's journey if Obi-Wan had taken Leia and Bail had taken Luke.
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24 Oct 2017
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A well-written AU that feels at once very familiar and entirely new. Manages to believably show the impact that Luke and Leia's changed upbringings have had on them—and on the galaxy—while still keeping the characters recognizably themselves.
He saw Padmé at times, when he observed her from afar. She was so intelligent, viciously witty and remarkably kind. At least to those who she deemed deserving of her kindness.He wondered for not the first or the last time how her twin was fairing on Alderaan. If Bail was having as much difficulty wrangling the child of two impossibly willful individuals as Obi-Wan was.
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Let Me Steal You by rideswraptors
Fandom: A Song of Ice and Fire - George R. R. Martin, Game of Thrones (TV)
06 Oct 2017
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24 Oct 2017
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Warm, lovely, and infinitely more upbeat than anything we'll ever get as a canon endgame.
But Jon needn’t have worried so. A sennight and a day after sending his raven, he received a prompt reply from Sansa. There was no greeting or signature, just her seal and two words.
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Age and Treachery by shinealightonme for NightsMistress
Fandoms: Tortall - Tamora Pierce
09 Jul 2016
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Alanna asks Neal to be her squire. They spend the next year wondering if that was really such a good idea.
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25 May 2017
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By turns funny and poignant, this story serves as an excellent companion to Squire. Superb character voices and interactions.
It was even a relief to hear a too-loud voice call him one day, "What do you know, it's Queenscove!" and turn around and see Cleon of Kennan. "You're alive. I thought for sure the Lioness would have torn you apart by now.""Shows what you know," Neal told him loftily. "She is obviously saving that as a Midwinter surprise. Unfortunately I plan for my Midwinter gift to her to be my absence."
"But that's what I was hoping for, for Midwinter," Cleon said, and tugged Neal's ear once he was close enough.
"A squire's first duty is to his knight master," Neal said. "Not to lumbering oafs they had the misfortune of meeting as pages."
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Kindness, Not Fear by deweydecibelsystem
Fandoms: A Song of Ice and Fire - George R. R. Martin
15 Oct 2013
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In the wake of Daenerys' triumph, Sansa comes to King's Landing. Multi-POV post-series short fic.
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25 May 2017
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Sansa and Tyrion meet again as adults and equals... and eventually become a power couple to be reckoned with. An ASOIAF fic with a Tyrion who resembles his show and fanon counterparts more than his book character.
As Tyrion and Sansa begin to take walks along the walls and in the gardens together, riding through the city together, dining together in the privacy of Tyrion's solar in the Tower of the Hand, sitting together at the feasts Dany and Aegon host at least twice a week, people begin to remember that they were, in fact, married.
Aegon raises the matter in jest during a council meeting, and Tyrion informs him that no, they were not married, that they are married.
[...] Silence greets his calm announcement, everyone present realising that between them, Sansa and Tyrion have claim to all of Dany's kingdom aside from the lands in the south – and everyone knows that the Tyrells are Tyrion's because he saved the beautiful Ser Loras from dragon-fire, the Stormlanders the same because it was he who begged the Queen to be merciful to Shireen, Stannis' daughter and the last Baratheon in the realm. It is a marriage that can't be allowed to stand, that shouldn't be allowed to stand, that- -
Jedi Shmi AU by MirandaTam
Fandom: Solo: A Star Wars Story (2018), Star Wars - All Media Types, Star Wars Prequel Trilogy, Star Wars: Clone Wars (2003) - All Media Types, Star Wars: The Clone Wars (2008) - All Media Types
19 Mar 2022
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23 Dec 2016
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Wherein female characters aren't ignored or fridged, the narrative doesn't ignore the GFFA's slavery issue, and the Jedi Order is (slightly) more open to change. Lots of lovely character and culture building.
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Hogwarts, to welcome you home by gedsparrowhawk (FaceChanger)
Fandoms: Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling
25 Sep 2016
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“You understand, Professor,” Harry began, after a moment, “that I don’t have my N.E.W.T.s. I never even finished seventh year. Between everything, I never had a chance the first time around, and then afterwards there didn’t seem to be much point. Hermione argued for it, of course, but I was so tired of Britain. So technically, I am completely unqualified for the position.”
“Quite a way to begin an interview, Mr. Potter,” McGonagall said, dryly.
Or, three years after the war, Harry Potter becomes Hogwarts' newest Defense Against the Dark Arts professor.
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23 Dec 2016
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The HP fic equivalent of comfort food.
In all, McGonagall thought that every student who had stayed behind for holidays was gathered in the room.“Headmistress McGonagall,” Harry said, looking up, glasses askew, “I see you’ve uncovered our secret gaming room. Are you here to give me detention?” A smile flitted around the edges of his mouth as he struggled to keep a straight face.
“Certainly not, Professor Potter,” McGonagall answered primly. “Though if you think you are teaching chess you’re sorely mistaken. He’ll have you in three moves.”
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A journey of a thousand miles by greyathena
Fandoms: Star Wars - All Media Types, Star Wars Original Trilogy
09 Jun 2017
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Relationships have to start somewhere. Or, once you've jumped into a garbage chute with people you kind of either decide to like them or you don't.
Basically, Han and Leia from trying-not-to-think-about-her to declarations of love at the least convenient times. (ANH through just after the end of ROTJ)
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- Part 1 of A journey of a thousand miles
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Bookmarked by Phosphorescent
18 Dec 2016
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Spot-on characterizations and character voices, as well as some a+ relationship-building. A thoroughly enjoyable read.
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The Beginning After the End by notbecauseofvictories
Fandoms: Star Wars - All Media Types, Star Wars Prequel Trilogy, Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith
18 Dec 2016
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Padmé wakes to the back of Obi-Wan’s head, his hair mussed and his arms spread, outstretched over her knees as though to shield her from all that would come. (Too late, Padmé thinks, feeling the dull ache around her throat, where phantom hands tightened. Much too late for that now.)
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19 Dec 2016
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Bittersweet and evocative. Padme lives, she mourns and she rages, and she raises her children with the aid of a small circle of friends and family.
She turns her gaze to Palpatine, whose delight is obscene, badly-hidden behind his mask of concern. “Get him out of my home. I will not speak with a man who murdered children in cold blood. Who did irreparable harm to me, and to his—his own unborn—get him out. Take him with you and go.”
“My dear—” Palpatine begins, but she is past caring, she is past rational thought, she has gone beyond the threshold of anger into some pure white country, cold and absolute.
“Leave, Emperor,” Padmé Amidala says. “And take your Sith pet with you.”
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Anakin has a question,
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30 Oct 2016
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Anakin conducts a survey in the Temple for an ethics assignment and realizes how imperfect the Order's modus operandi is when it comes to structural oppression... and where his personal breaking point lies. Thoughtful, painful, and compelling.
"You thought that the Jedi helped everyone," Obi-Wan said, quiet.
"Yeah," Anakin muttered. "That. And I know why they can't, I mean… I know there's only so many Jedi and that the work never ends and there are thousands and thousands of worlds always in need of Jedi assistance, there are huge, huge issues the Jedi need to handle and… and in the grand scheme of things I know a little back water planet like Tatooine, it doesn't really matter in the galactic scheme of things. So in a way I get where everyone was coming from, when they were telling me off. When they were telling me to concentrate on the bigger picture. But…" -
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“The Resistance needs you,” she says, urgently. “General Organa needs you. We all need you. You have to come back.”
He doesn’t answer her for weeks.
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30 Oct 2016
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Succinct, evocative, and chilling in the best of ways.
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On the Cold Hill Side by marycrawford
Fandoms: The Lord of the Rings - All Media Types, The Lord of the Rings - J. R. R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings (Movies)
08 Jul 2014
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In the end, Gimli thinks, Legolas will steal his heart and sail away with it, and even the wonders of the Glittering Caves are not enough consolation for that loss. But when Aragorn calls for Gimli’s help in dismantling the hidden traps of Orthanc, everything changes.
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20 Sep 2016
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Sweet and faintly melancholy, with excellent character voices and a satisfying slow burn relationship. (Also, budding matchmakers Merry and Pippin are a thing of delight.)
“I am yours to command,” Legolas said, smiling faintly, “and where you go, I will go, even into the heart of the mountain.”
But where you will go, I cannot follow, came the thought, and a swell of bitter grief came with it that Gimli tried hard to suppress. Why spoil the wonder of the caves with regret, or what brief time they had left with the knowledge of what would come after?
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One is the personal assistant to a billionaire-playboy-turned-superhero. The other is an ambitious journalist with a political conscience. Together, they fight crime!
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20 Sep 2016
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Glorious, in-character fix-it fic that gives Christine (and Pepper) the treatment they deserved.
Pepper hesitated for a moment, then tapped the woman's shoulder. "Excuse me. Is that the '92 Oxford Press edition?"
The woman turned around with a polite smile that abruptly turned brittle when she saw Pepper's face. Pepper felt her spine stiffening in response. Oh, hell. "Miss Everhart. What a surprise."
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A series of "what if" rewrites of Harry Potter, books 1-7. Cross-posted from tumblr (ink-splotch).
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Bookmarked by Phosphorescent
03 Sep 2016
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Some things change when you change Harry's circumstances; others remain very much the same. A series about the power of personal choice and love in all of its forms.
https://web.archive.org/web/20221201192730/https://archiveofourown.org/series/285498
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Haruhi is a mystery to her university professors -- but not to Kyoya, who knows her better than she knows herself.
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03 Sep 2016
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Thoroughly delightful and believable.
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legacies by inkatesbush
Fandoms: Star Wars Episode VII: The Force Awakens (2015), Star Wars - All Media Types
29 Dec 2015
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“I’m not afraid of you,” Rey says. Her heart is pounding. “It’s everything else.”
“I am afraid.” Luke does not look at her. “Of you.”
She stares at him. She knows that he is not lying to her—he has not lied to her at all while she has been here, and she doesn’t expect him to start doing so. But she cannot fathom what he means—why Luke Skywalker would ever be frightened of her: of no one.
(Rey and Luke, immediately following the events of Episode VII.)
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03 Sep 2016
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Bittersweet and powerful, with evocative language.
“This is an old weapon,” Luke says. “It has more history upon it now than it can bear. You fought with it?”
It is a question, but it is not.
“Yes,” Rey says.
Luke looks down at the lightsaber hilt. Closes the metal fingers of his right hand around it, slowly. “You should not have had to.”
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turn my sorrow into treasured gold by cosmicocean
Fandoms: Star Wars - All Media Types, Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope
09 Jul 2016
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“It might be better for you to die,” Obi-Wan muses as she holds her children in her arms. Padmé looks up at him and arches an eyebrow.
“I didn’t mean literally,” he clarifies.
“I know what you meant. I’m thinking about it.”
Padmé survives childbirth, dies as far as the rest of the galaxy is concerned, takes her children with Obi-Wan, and runs.
Pay me back in kind and reap just what you sow.
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- Part 1 of rolling in the deep
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03 Sep 2016
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Gently bittersweet, with an easy and natural progression of Obi-Wan and Padme's relationship.