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When I Wake From This Dream With Chains All Around Me by dropout_ninja
Fandoms: Hollow Knight (Video Games)
25 Nov 2022
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The Hollow Knight was never intended to live.
The Hollow Knight had never been given the chance to live.
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Hornet doesn't know how to be a caretaker. Hallownest doesn't remember how to be a kingdom. The higher beings left in its dying territory don't know what to expect of the god in the Abyss.
And through it all, a vessel that wished to be pure now doesn't know what they should be wishing for in a world that changed so much while they were contained.- Language:
- English
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- 295,461
- Chapters:
- 60/60
- Comments:
- 957
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- 1,044
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Bookmarked by Shirley_Exception
26 Oct 2025
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Supererogatory Beast (Et en Arcadia Ego) by Flying_Fangirls for leaveslikefeathers, clovercow8228
Fandoms: Malevolent (Podcast)
14 Oct 2025
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Noel knows he is going to die one day. Except, when he walks into what he is sure would be certain death, he survives, somehow, as always, crawling to another day. Tossed to the side before he can even take a dying breath, Noel finds himself thrown from the Order of the Fallen Star back to the one place he’d sworn to never see again: the Dreamlands.
Yellow knows he is going to be King one day. But just before he could grab ahold of the power he deserves, the only power he had ever even had the chance to take for himself, Yellow wakes up in an unknown land with a dying Larson at his side— and in his own body.
Together, Noel and Yellow know that they're fucked.
Both are trapped in a land that one calls Hell, and the other home, and neither can agree on. A strange power keeps them bound together and unable to part ways, and so without a choice, they must find a path forward, even if they cannot agree upon which path that is. No matter where they head or what challenges they face, they’ll have to find out whether they will drag each other to the depths and suffocate, or if they can manage to lift each other’s heads above the water and swim to shore.
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 50,609
- Chapters:
- 10/10
- Collections:
- 1
- Comments:
- 18
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- 23
- Bookmarks:
- 4
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- 283
Bookmarked by Shirley_Exception
17 Oct 2025
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Broken Open Revealing Hollowness and Vibrance by JaxxCapta
Fandoms: Hollow Knight (Video Game)
13 Apr 2020
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Hornet woke in the Black Egg Temple to the sight of her sibling's fractured mask. For the walk from the temple's central chamber to its exit, she thought herself truly alone in the world once more.
When Hollow followed her out, she realized that wasn't so. But now she has to try and take care of her older sibling as they recuperate and learn to live in a world where they do not have to be pure, figure out what to do about what Little Ghost left of a body, and try to piece together two kingdoms which fell long ago.
Life keeps throwing her surprises, too, which does not help.
(Post-Dream No More ending, though it's fudged and mixed with the Godseeker endings some. Characters and tags will be updated as more chapters are posted.)
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 154,572
- Chapters:
- 57/57
- Comments:
- 1,630
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Bookmarked by Shirley_Exception
16 Oct 2025
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Overdue Maintenance by supersubjuicer (auntwilmascrosswordchallenge)
Fandoms: Look Outside (Video Game)
21 Jul 2025
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Audrey gets a can stuck, dooming her to silence and discomfort. Thankfully, someone thinks to check up on her, and offer help with "repairs".
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A normal retelling of Look Outside where everything is exactly the same I swear by Anonymous
Fandoms: Look Outside (Video Game)
11 Sep 2025
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Sam left his curtains open on the day of the apocalypse. Whoops.
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- Part 1 of Woke Up on the Wrong Side of the Bed
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 35,568
- Chapters:
- 11/?
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- 1
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- 380
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- 668
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Bookmarked by Shirley_Exception
30 Aug 2025
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The Lernaean Hydra (Ancient Greek: Λερναῖα ὕδρα, romanized: Lernaîa Húdrā), more often known simply as the Hydra, is a serpentine monster in Greek and Roman mythology. The Hydra possessed many heads, the exact number of which varies according to the source. Later versions of the Hydra story add a regeneration feature to the monster: for every head chopped off, the Hydra would regrow two heads. To prevent this, as Heracles severed each mortal head, Iolaus was set to the task of cauterizing the fresh wounds so that no new heads would emerge.
Or, alternatively: A peek into the moment when Harriet begins seeing Jeanne less like a monster, and more like the neighbor she never properly got to know.
Bookmarked by Shirley_Exception
28 Aug 2025
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even after I have died by lysdunkel (enheduane)
Fandoms: Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 (Video Game)
31 Jul 2025
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The chroma does this sometimes; wrenches his mind to wakefulness while still working on his other remains. It creeps through his cells like an infection, merging and splitting and weaving him as it likes. It blooms through his gut in an array of color, flakes off his skin like stardust.
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Verso dies, as he often does, but this time he returns to unexpected company.
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The eldritch horrors let up just long enough to allow Arthur to process a more human concern: what blindness means for him and his future.
Bookmarked by Shirley_Exception
05 Jul 2025
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Such a good look at disability and grief
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Kayne promised to give the King in Yellow his own body when it was all said and done. John was not the only fragment without a vessel.
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Or; Yellow finds Himself inside His own body but without the means to take care of it. Noel is the only available option, but the strain on his sanity babysitting his torturer is a recipe for disaster.Bookmarked by Shirley_Exception
02 Jun 2025
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Arthur Lester is the best IT architect in the world, and the reason Carcosa, Inc. has its fingers in every pie. Government, medical, everyone in the world uses its systems.
Arthur is also going blind, with a rare genetic condition that can’t be fixed.
The looming depression is bad. He can’t imagine a life where he can’t create anymore. Arthur nearly gives up… until a deeply annoying cybersecurity programmer prods him into trying something new.
Great, right? Now, if only this John Doe weren’t clearly hiding something so wild that not even PI Parker Yang can dig it out….
Bookmarked by Shirley_Exception
23 Feb 2025
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And a voice growled in his ear, "Don't turn around."
Arthur's entire body tensed under the restraint. "What—what's behind me?"
"I am."
- Language:
- English
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- 2,123
- Chapters:
- 1/1
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- 143
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- Bookmarks:
- 280
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Bookmarked by Shirley_Exception
15 Feb 2025
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carpets in the basement of heaven by sink_eden (swiftishere)
Fandoms: Malevolent (Podcast)
25 Jan 2025
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All those years ago, freshly orphaned and adrift with nothing but a voice in his head for company, Arthur couldn't have imagined surviving another decade—much less finding himself with a child to look after, and some semblance of a stable life to do it in. But here he is. He and John have made their peace, are closer than he would've thought possible. They've found something adjacent to stable work. And they have her—their perfect girl, their universe. Their Faroe.
It's closer to happiness than he ever thought he'd get. It's good.
He just needs to figure out how to keep it.
Bookmarked by Shirley_Exception
01 Feb 2025
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All of my “canon” Faroeverse writing in chronological order :>
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Bookmarked by Shirley_Exception
27 Jan 2025
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Reunited in the Dark World, but finding themselves with two separate bodies, John and Arthur realize that neither of them are enjoying the distance.
And, well. John’s body is physical, but it’s malleable enough that they can still make it work. It’s not going to be an elegant rejoining, per se—but anything’s worth it if they can be together again.
Bookmarked by Shirley_Exception
21 Jan 2025
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it's strange, but it's such a delight (to hear your voice again) by handsofink
Fandoms: Malevolent (Podcast)
08 Dec 2024
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“He should wake soon.”
That’s what Yorick had told him. After Arthur had initially awoken, screaming in agony and gasping with terror. He’d told John that, assured him of that. Because the talisman had brought him back and would heal him, would make him better.
Fucking load of shit, John seethes and taps his claws on the same rotten wooden table he’s been tapping for the past five hours.
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The aftermath of the boys' encounter with the Witch, wherein John struggles with his new body and worry for his partner.
Bookmarked by Shirley_Exception
21 Jan 2025
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formaldehyde (or, The Case of the Missing Lilly) by SupposedToBeWriting
Fandoms: Malevolent (Podcast)
21 May 2023
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Half of the King in Yellow gets ejected through a portal on a failed ritual. To return, he must perform a human sacrifice - harder than it first seems, as the entity struggles to adapt to the peculiar ways of mortals. In a stroke of luck, he finds the perfect sacrifice in the form of one drunken, surly ex-PI: Arthur Lester.
In the meanwhile, Arkham is in the swing of Prohibition and everyone knows how things work around here. A chance meeting and an abrupt kidnapping put John and Arthur on a case: one where secrets lurk behind every mask and blood flows thicker than gin.
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 109,948
- Chapters:
- 20/20
- Comments:
- 504
- Kudos:
- 580
- Bookmarks:
- 133
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- 12,803
Bookmarked by Shirley_Exception
12 Jan 2025
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whimsy and dearth (or, A Lighthouse Refuge) by SupposedToBeWriting
Fandoms: Malevolent (Podcast)
18 Sep 2022
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At the lowest Arthur has ever been, Kayne offers a deal: John will be freed from the King in Yellow, but he will kill someone that Arthur loves.
It's not a difficult choice at all.Both men are transported to a lighthouse near Innsmouth, Massachusetts. Bizarrely, they seem to have gotten something else out of the deal: John has a body, and learning to cope with his newfound corporeality is more of a challenge than he realized. They try to find some small comfort with one another, even as the shadows of Innsmouth grow around them - until an impossible face comes to town and shatters their illusions of safety.
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- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 72,964
- Chapters:
- 17/17
- Comments:
- 559
- Kudos:
- 1,279
- Bookmarks:
- 211
- Hits:
- 25,089
Bookmarked by Shirley_Exception
10 Jan 2025
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the poem ends, soft as it began (I loved my friend) by SupposedToBeWriting
Fandoms: Malevolent (Podcast)
03 Mar 2023
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Arthur Lester does not survive his encounter with the King in Yellow. In the tumult, John is rocketed back to Earth, the sole occupant of Arthur's body. Six months pass as John grieves. During an investigation into the old mansion where they once found a baby and a wraith, John encounters a strange piano on the premises -- and realizes that some part of Arthur Lester might have been left behind after all.
Bookmarked by Shirley_Exception
09 Jan 2025
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Divine Gravity by Artistic_Witch
Fandoms: Malevolent (Podcast), African Diasporic Mythology
13 Apr 2024
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At a hotel in Boston, Arthur and John receive a queer offer from an unexpected new ally, who promises John his own body, and Arthur his vision, but only for one night...
Or: a former private detective, a fractured Great Old One, and an Orishan deity walk into a bar.
Bookmarked by Shirley_Exception
07 Jan 2025
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The universe must have a fetish for interrupting Arthur Lester's sleep if John's newest ability is anything to go by. Like everything else, it must be taken in stride.
Bookmarked by Shirley_Exception
05 Jan 2025