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They'd worked out a deal: after Damon lives a full human life the cure will go to Rebekah.
Now it's time to collect.
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Damon, your problematic fave, your cancelled white man, your terminal case of main character syndrome, has been informed he owes some people an apology. This is his notes app confession.
(Set somewhere in season 2 or early season 3.)
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- 177
- Chapters:
- 1/1
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- 8
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This is hell. It's every torment imaginable (and plenty that aren't). Pain. Grief. Loneliness. She's earned her place in the worst circle of the inferno and Cade is prepared to show her anything but mercy.
Well. She's Katherine frigging' Pierce. Think she's scared of a little fire and brimstone?
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HOBAMA: The greatest love story ever told by ShannonXL
Fandoms: One Direction (Band), Historical RPF
04 Jun 2026
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Finally someone brave enough to speak the truth.
(I made a video about Hobama).
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Takes place during S4. Damon and Elena are on their way to New York when she feeds from someone rolling on molly. High on drug blood, Elena starts showing brief glimpses of the humanity she's turned off.
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Katherine didn't always use sex as a tool to manipulate - and she didn't come up with the idea all on her own.
She learned to care for someone only to learn that caring is a liability. While she caters to the desires of men to survive, it's the desires she has for women that almost, almost, give her a reason to actually live.
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Shit My Sherlock Does: Video Series by ShannonXL
Fandoms: Sherlock Holmes & Related Fandoms
14 Sep 2025
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A series of videos I made within the 'Shit My Sherlock Does' universe. Sherlock is AFAB and genderqueer.
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- Part 15 of Shit My Sherlock Does
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- English
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- 0
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- 1/1
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Goncharov: These film students have definitely seen it by ShannonXL
Fandoms: Goncharov (1973) dir. Martin Scorsese - beelzeebub
13 Jul 2025
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This is what happens when you invite film students to a party.
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- 1/1
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- 13
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The Handbabe's Tale Podcast Episode 351 by ShannonXL
Fandoms: The Handmaid's Tale (TV), The Handmaid's Tale Series - Margaret Atwood
30 Jun 2025
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The text of The Handmaids Tale was recorded on cassette tapes which were discovered in Bangor, Maine and published as a manuscript.
That manuscript became the basis of The Handmaid's Tale television series, airing from 2199-2207, and was part of a second wave of cultural interest in the Early Gilead Period. While the series was criticized for its romanticization of the past and its failure to connect with the descendants of Gilead survivors, it was also praised for its performances and scenic design.
In 2200, three university friends came together to discuss the series. This is episode 351 of their inevitable podcast.
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The Art of Drowning by ShannonXL
Fandoms: Dune - All Media Types, Dune (Movies - Villeneuve), Dune Series - Frank Herbert
23 Jun 2025
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A shame she never learned a fear of drowning.
Chani begins to dream of water the day she meets Paul Atreides.
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After Remmick and the others die, how do Stack and Mary decide what to do with all of eternity ahead of them?
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O Mahda ho Fremin! by ShannonXL
Fandoms: Dune - All Media Types, Dune (Movies - Villeneuve)
28 Mar 2025
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“Jamis, my brother,” said Stilgar. “Rise.”
He was still. He did not want to stand. This was not part of his duty to his people, and anything beyond one's duty was a waste, was abhorrent, was the antithesis of what it meant to be Fremen. Jamis felt his body rebel, even though his heart was conflicted. He trusted Stilgar, had followed him into battle countless times. Had never once doubted that Stilgar was the right man to lead. But he could feel Jessica’s work in this, and wavered.
There was a hissing in his ear, a moment lost, and Jamis found himself standing.
“We should have known you, Mahdi,” Stilgar said, fist over his heart. “You were born to lead us.”
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In which Paul Atreides dies so that the Kwisatz Haderach can rise. And he does. He leads his people to Paradise. But before that, he was a Fremen named Jamis, and he did more than survive.
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A Long Winter (podfic) by ShannonXL
Fandoms: Captain America (Movies), The Avengers (Marvel Movies)
19 Oct 2024
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In 1945, Steve Rogers jumps from a nosediving plane and swims through miles of Arctic Ocean to a frozen shore.
In 1947, Steve Rogers marries Peggy Carter.
In 1966, the New York Times finds the lost letters of Sergeant James Buchanan Barnes.
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When The Rain Washes You Clean by ShannonXL
Fandoms: Dune - All Media Types, Dune (Movies - Villeneuve)
07 Sep 2024
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After the Fremen overtook Arrakeen and the Mahdi overtook Muad’dib, Chani left. She wasn't coming back.
But Chani is carrying a secret, and it draws her to Paul even as her fury pulls her away.
When he asks her to join him on Caladan, where water falls from the sky, she says yes.
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When seven Harry Styles impersonators wake up in a locked room, there's only one logical explanation: Management!!
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Postmortem by ShannonXL
Fandoms: Black Widow (Comics), Marvel Cinematic Universe, The Avengers (Marvel) - All Media Types
25 Apr 2016
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The war is over. Long live the war.
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- Part 3 of Body of Evidence
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The Pinocchio Illusion by ShannonXL
Fandoms: Marvel Cinematic Universe, Black Widow (Comics), Captain America (Movies), The Avengers (Marvel Movies), The Avengers (Marvel) - All Media Types, Winter Soldier (Comics)
25 Apr 2016
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You might not want to pull on that thread.
Natasha has never been good at taking her own advice. She has a trail to follow. A history to unravel. She can feel it in her bones. Without anyone issuing commands, without any covers to hide behind, who will the infamous Black Widow become? The events following Captain America: The Winter Soldier.
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- Part 2 of Body of Evidence
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5 Times Wanda Used Her Powers to Change Reality (+1 time She Didn't) by ShannonXL
Fandoms: Marvel Cinematic Universe, The Avengers (Marvel Movies)
13 Sep 2015
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"He's fast and she's weird," but that's not quite it, is it? She can alter reality. Change it to suit her needs. But it's not fully under control, is it?
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Victor Trevor stopped answering to Victoria at the age of 9.
He's a Rhodes scholar, a revolutionary, and a gentle womanizer.
Sherlock Holmes doesn't have many friends. Victor makes sure that she has him.
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- Part 13 of Shit My Sherlock Does
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Phoenix Ascending by ShannonXL
Fandoms: Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling, The Hunger Games (Movies), Hunger Games Trilogy - Suzanne Collins, Hunger Games Series - All Media Types
24 Mar 2015
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After Draco is abducted by the Capitol's agents, Harry is at a loss. He tries to be the symbol of the revolution, but he can't help but reckon the cost.
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- Part 3 of Phoenix/Mockingjay