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In the Flares of the Sun by Puzzle_with_Infinite_Pieces
Fandoms: Sofia the First (Cartoon)
24 Feb 2025
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“send all the heat of the flaming sun
into their veins till life is done.
spread it fast as the seeds on the wind
till they find themselves good and thinned.
then, strike royals down with fatal blow
and set to grief our dreaded foe.
though, should he successful be,
in healing all and setting them free,
let the fires be thrice as hot,
and let those who care for him see him rot.
yes, when all is passed and all is through,
strike him down and bid him adieu.”With a magical plague spreading through Enchancia, being cast by the heavens only knows who, and from Stars only knows where, it's up to one of the last Restoration sorcerers in the Kingdoms to keep the people of Enchancia alive long enough to figure out what is causing this madness to occur.
Yes. Cedric will have to draw on every memory he has, even ones he wishes he could forget, to save Enchancia, his Apprentice, his once like-brother, and maybe even himself.
(See the beginning of each chapter for specific content warnings + opening note for general warnings beyond those in the tags)
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Desperate Times Call for Desperate Measures by Puzzle_with_Infinite_Pieces
Fandoms: Sofia the First (Cartoon)
18 Jan 2025
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"Sorcerers used to be great scholars. They used to follow magic not be led by the whims of monarchs. Now, magic is dying because there is no path forward. There is nothing else for them. For, the Kings of this age are bent on war and useless party tricks. They have no ears for creativity and scholarship! They don’t want anything interesting or new. They don’t even want anything useful and old!
Long have Royals shunned what sorcerers have to teach them."
Grimtrix has been waiting for Morgana to deliver this spellbook from the Sorcerer-King of Rosas for a long time now. They have been plotting this for ages, and it has finally come to fulfillment. Tonight, they are going to set the first steps of their plan into motion, if it's the last thing they do.
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There's Such a Fine Line Between a Good Man and a Bad by Puzzle_with_Infinite_Pieces
Fandoms: Sofia the First (Cartoon)
14 Jan 2025
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"I want you to remember that if it wasn't for Sofia, you would have been on the next carriage out of the kingdom." His Majesty had said.
Cedric cannot forget it. For once, he had been cursed and his heart restrung together by memories of loves many of which have long since passed from this Realm to another.
He was, and still is, a fragile thing, tethered together by bits of magic. He is an accident waiting to happen.
But none of that matters anymore. No one must ever know of the frozen heart repaired by magic in his latter years at Hexley - it would simply be an excuse for all he has done.
For, he is no hero. He is a monster split from a man who once made oaths to do no harm.
(Pardon me. I completely forgot to include a summary!)
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This One's for the Herbs by Puzzle_with_Infinite_Pieces
Fandoms: Sofia the First (Cartoon)
09 Jan 2025
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Fionn has learned to listen for double meanings when Cedric talks because, if he doesn’t, he misses important things. It's one of the first lessons he has learned in the years he has been Cedric's teacher. So, when Cedric names his familiar, Fionn is going to listen to the name. He knows whatever Cedric chooses will be of the utmost importance, and it will likely tell him something significant.
(I suddenly realized last night that I'd forgotten to give this a summary. Oopsy! Pardon my pixie dust as I add this now.)
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Someone to Fall Back On by Puzzle_with_Infinite_Pieces
Fandoms: Sofia the First (Cartoon)
20 Dec 2024
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"You'll never see
Any scars or wounds-
I don't walk on coals,
I won't walk on water:
I am no prince,
I am no saint,
I am not anyone's wildest dream,
But I can stand behind
And be someone to fall back on." - "Someone to Fall Back On;" Jason Robert Brown***
Once upon a time, before a summer evening and a spell gone wrong, there were two little boys who sat under stars and chased each other through leaves. They ran, they laughed, they played, and they sang. For so long, cares flew like birds far, far away.
Until one fateful summer day, when everything changed.
Baileywick remembers how he half raised those boys.
Miranda never knew them.
Roland has found himself again.
James, Amber, and Sofia are finding the pieces of a puzzle their grandfather left behind.
Tilly reconnects with one of her oldest friends.
While Cedric is left to wonder just how much he can trust them with all that's passed between "once upon a time" and where the journey's gone.
A brief prequel to "In the Flares of the Sun" set in the aftermath of "In Cedric We Trust."
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Something Short of Paradise by Puzzle_with_Infinite_Pieces
Fandoms: Undertale (Video Game)
23 Apr 2024
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"A little bit less than we might like/
I know this ain't heaven/
It's close enough for me" ~ Tim Curry "Something Short of Paradise"Where Papyrus looks for order in a world full of chaos, Mettaton is content to let chaos be chaos and, yet, Mettaton still looks for meaning in the disarray.
No. There may never be order in Mettaton’s world. There may not be a pattern. There may not be a puzzle, a painting, or a picture. But, there is something.
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- Part 5 of Papyton Week 2024
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Take a Break by Puzzle_with_Infinite_Pieces
Fandoms: Stardew Valley (Video Game), Undertale (Video Game)
18 Apr 2024
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Mettaton really wants this novel to be written yesterday, but writer's block has been kicking his butt. Papyrus offers him a day off. Eventually, he decides to take it. In the end, it pays off even better than he could have ever expected.
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- Part 4 of Papyton Week 2024
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Papyrus just smiles and shakes his head because, for all the time the two of them have spent together, Mettaton still just doesn’t quite seem to understand that this is Papyrus’ favorite part of Mettaton. It isn’t the suave part. It isn’t the famous part. It isn’t the part that takes him to fancy restaurants. It isn’t the part that sings pitch perfect on CDs. It isn’t the part that poses for paparazzi just right. It isn’t the part that knows how to do the perfect smokey eye. It isn’t the part that knows how to behave just right in each social situation, though, that part has been unbelievably helpful.
No. This is his favorite part. This part right here.
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- Part 3 of Papyton Week 2024
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"He would have hated it." He thinks.
It is true. Papyrus would have hated this.
He is nothing like he envisioned he would be.
He is not beautiful.
He is not flirtatious.
He is not tender.
He is not what he dreamed.
He looks like the Terminator.
He is a weapon.
He is the Iron Giant - a gun with a Soul.
A gun that wants to be anything other than a gun.
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- Part 2 of Papyton Week 2024
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You Are Right Where I Belong by Puzzle_with_Infinite_Pieces
Fandoms: Undertale (Video Game)
14 Apr 2024
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Papyrus hasn’t seen this movie in a long time. No. Papyrus hasn’t seen this since he was small, and he and Sans watched it Underground on the TV in their house in Snowdin. He liked it well enough, but they didn’t usually have much time for movies. Besides, Sans always fell asleep which made it boring to want to watch movies anyway. There was no one to share the suspense and joy with when Sans decided to nod off.
However, Papyrus finds that watching movies with with Mettaton is very different.
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- Part 1 of Papyton Week 2024
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He isn't sure what possesses him to pick up this water damaged VHS, but he knows that he wants it more than he wants anything else. It's like it calls to him with a siren song he cannot ignore. So, he doesn't, and it changes his life forever.
(Please see beginning note for trigger warnings as well as [optional] information on lore, in that order.)
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- Part 1 of Our Children of the Underground
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"If I should live forever, and all my dreams come true/ My memories of love will be of you" - Perhaps Love, John Denver
What is magic really?
For time out of mind, monsters have been studying the nature of magic. Truly, all Soul Studies are simply a lens through which to study what comprises magic - love, hope, joy, and compassion. Though, as humans have shown them, that is not all that exists within a SOUL.
For as long as Mettaton can remember, those questions were purely the domain of those educated at the university. They were boring questions that he occasionally pondered when he had nothing better to do than stare at the ceiling.
Yet, the Surface is not the place of answered wishes that Mettaton, Alphys, Undyne, Papyrus, or any monster dreamed. Instead, it is filled with hostile humans, accidental miscommunications, and crushed dreams.
Though, maybe, there is still love to be found on the Surface in romance, adoption, or found family of all kinds. Who could ever hope to tell?
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- Part 2 of Our Children of the Underground
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For the Wretched of the Earth by Puzzle_with_Infinite_Pieces
Fandoms: Loki (TV 2021), Marvel Cinematic Universe
02 Mar 2024
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On his ninetieth time slip, Loki enters it with a terrible migraine that causes him to pass out. Mobius' comfort solidifies Loki's plan for after this time slipping Hel can be over.
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- Part 1 of More Burden than Glory
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For Love is Everlasting by Puzzle_with_Infinite_Pieces
Fandoms: Loki (TV 2021), Marvel Cinematic Universe
26 Feb 2024
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"That’s it. One step at a time. Be brave. You’re being so brave. Keep going. One foot in front of the other. Well done. That’s right. Well Done."
Or, Loki hears his own words to Victor in his friends' voices as he ascends the throne at the End of Time.
(Set during the page break of "On this Page, I Write My Last Confession," but you don't need to have read that to understand this fic)
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- Part 3 of More Burden than Glory
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On this Page, I Write My Last Confession by Puzzle_with_Infinite_Pieces
Fandoms: Loki (TV 2021), Marvel Cinematic Universe
23 Feb 2024
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He knows what he has to do, but he also knows not to leave him with nothing.
Mobius deserves more than nothing.
Thus, he finds himself wandering the halls of the TVA until he stops at Mobius’ desk. As if waiting for him, there is a stack of blank TVA stationary.
Loki sits at Mobius chair, and he writes.
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- Part 2 of More Burden than Glory
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Forgive Me All My Tresspasses, and Take Me to Your Glory by Puzzle_with_Infinite_Pieces
Fandoms: Loki (TV 2021), Marvel Cinematic Universe
20 Feb 2024
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There is little to content him now, as he sits alone, on the single throne in the heart of time itself.
There is no castle. There is no chess. There are no apples.
No, not for him.
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- Part 4 of More Burden than Glory
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Nobody's Corner of the Sky by Puzzle_with_Infinite_Pieces
Fandoms: Deltarune (Video Game), Undertale (Video Game)
03 Feb 2024
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He.
He sings.
When he sings, he dreams.
When the music ends, he's nobody again.
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And All of My Fingers Calloused and Worn to the Bone by Puzzle_with_Infinite_Pieces
Fandoms: Dimension 20 (Web Series), Mentopolis - Fandom
18 Sep 2023
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Dan Fucks has always been a man of business, but with no newness, no peace, and most importantly no stock it's hard to feel like he serves any purpose at all.
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- Part 1 of Walk in the Rain
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Spiritu Sancto et Igni by Puzzle_with_Infinite_Pieces
Fandoms: Hunger Games Series - All Media Types, Hunger Games Trilogy - Suzanne Collins
27 Dec 2020
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5 times Cinna reflects on Katniss and one time he reflects on himself.
(Or, the closest glimpse into my writing style possible before I publish a full novel.) -
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"Now that Goliath had returned, Hudson had to forfeit his position as Brooklyn’s mentor, and a feeling of sadness and envy Hudson couldn’t quite name lingered like a shadow over his heart for the briefest moment. The feeling quickly replaced itself with chastisement for the longing of his younger days. He, out of all of them, encouraged the others to embrace the Clan’s movement into the next generation, and he needed to remain steadfast in that belief."
Or, Hudson reflects on his complex relationship with Brooklyn as mentor, friend, and father.
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