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When Etho, a retired adventurer turned postman, finds Beef’s home ransacked, his old friend missing, and the only clue as to his whereabouts in the form of a letter addressed to a former adventuring buddy of theirs, his quiet life in the idyllic Spawn Valley comes to an abrupt end. Joined by Gem, a young spirit promised a favour if she helps him out, he must brush off his adventuring skills and journey out into the world in search of his friend—only to unwittingly find far more than what he’s looking for along the way.
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Two Ugly Creatures (Two Sinister Preachers) by SlashMagpie
Fandoms: Life Series | 3rd Life SMP Series
24 Dec 2025
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Pearl thought she knew where she stood in life, right up until she started spewing blue flames. There are some people who are always meant to be on your side, but she's not too sure that's a good thing anymore.
(Or: Grian wants to have his cake and eat it too. Pearl may not entirely understand the turn of phrase, but she's pretty sure the sugar is going to make them both sick if he keeps it up.)
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Calling Out to an Echo (Hoping for a Different Refrain) by BackslashMagpie (SlashMagpie)
Fandoms: Criminal Minds (US TV)
26 Sep 2025
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It starts like this: Dr Spencer Reid jerks awake from a nightmare with a pounding heart and dry mouth and he knows without a shadow of a doubt that his father is a murderer.
(Or: Reid's conviction of his father's guilt is a symptom of something more serious and no amount of evidence will make that easy to accept.)
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Ghost hunting's not an easy gig. While the rewards can be great, the sacrifices can be greater, and Joker, Impulse, Tango, and Skizz found this out the hard way. Years after they go their separate ways, Tango and Joker are approached by Gem, a member of Impulse's new ghost hunting team—a team that has gone mysteriously missing on a job gone wrong.
Gem needs help, and despite all of their years out of the business, Tango and Joker can't resist the call to return to the world of ghost hunting. There are still so many questions they need to answer, after all—like why did Impulse stay, even after everything went wrong? What happened to Gem's team? And why did no one tell them about Skizz?
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Zero Evidence by BackslashMagpie (SlashMagpie)
Fandoms: IDOLiSH7 (Anime), IDOLiSH7 (Video Game)
02 Aug 2025
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Nanase Riku meets a stranger by the river.
Approached by the ghost of legendary idol Zero for help in finding his killer, IDOLiSH7 find themselves playing detectives in an attempt to solve a case fifteen years cold. They may not have the qualifications for this, but what they lack in skill and experience, they make up for in enthusiasm, determined to help a fellow idol out.
Meanwhile, it’s just another week for TRIGGER's Kujou Tenn as he attempts to balance his overwhelming workload, navigate friendships with his coworkers, and please his seemingly unpleasable adoptive father. With TRIGGER's reputation still on the rocks and his younger sister's birthday coming up, Tenn has too much on his plate to allow himself to be distracted, even if that means ignoring his estranged brother's recent entanglement with a ghost.
One misstep is all it takes to send Tenn crashing into a secret long buried—and if Riku doesn’t tread carefully, Zero’s case won’t be the only thing quickly going cold. Chasing the same ghost, the two of them find answers to questions they're beginning to wish they'd never asked.
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The Secret Garden by BackslashMagpie (SlashMagpie)
Fandoms: Ao no Exorcist | Blue Exorcist
07 Jun 2025
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Yukio meets his mother in a garden at the end of the road. Their meetings do not go as either of them expected.
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Following a devastating Quizbot attack, Grian and Cleo are both left aimless. In the depths of her despair, Cleo is approached by a magical snail, promising her power beyond her wildest dreams and the chance to win a Wish in exchange for playing the very same dangerous game that had gotten them into this mess in the first place. Accepting grants her something even more unexpected: two lippy zombies bearing the faces of the magical girls that had died to protect her in the attack.
Grian, grieving his two best friends and teammates, is left searching for his place in both the world and the game—up until he meets the new magical girl on the block, whose powers have brought Mumbo and Skizz back from the dead. This presents an enticing opportunity: maybe he doesn’t have to find something new.
Maybe he can just go right back to the way things were.
All he has to do is steal a couple of zombies.
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There is a plague sweeping Pearl's hometown.
One by one, she watches as her friends fall to the infection, the colour and life drained out of them and leaving hollow, apathetic husks behind. Even with the devastating loss of her friends, her village, and her regular life, the worst part of this situation is not the infection.
It's that Pearl knows that Gem is the one spreading it.
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- Part 11 of Author's Favourites
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A year and a half after the end of the world, Grian once again finds himself travelling north for the summer to join the employ of Scar Goodtimes, conman, criminal, and proprietor of strange and magical goods. This summer, however, is a little different: Grian isn't going alone. He has to admit, it's kind of nice to have a friend by his side as he leaves behind his friends and family and attempts to rob a fight-club-running-horse-taxidermist.
He does wish Mumbo would be just a little less nervous about the whole ordeal though.
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- Part 8 of Lifeline AU
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Things have changed in the half a year since the end of the world. Impulse has a new job, for one, following his former employer's newfound infamy and suite of legal suits. Skizz has a new lawyer, because of those legal suits, and Impulse is trying not to worry too much about it. Things have changed, after all. Tango has a new friend, Pearl has a newfound stability, and Cleo has a new outlook on life. Things have changed.
...Impulse doesn't think he's changed at all.
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- Part 7 of Lifeline AU
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Scott barks a disbelieving laugh. “Don’t die again! It’s my life too, you know!”
“I don’t know what that means!” Lizzie yells over her shoulder.
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“Hey Grian?” Pearl calls, scurrying to catch up on Lizzie’s short legs.
“Yeah?”
“What’s a task?”
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Pearl starts forgetting things. Lizzie has strange dreams. Pearl has strange dreams, and Lizzie starts to forget.
(There's a spider caught in the web of time. What can two lonely players do to get it untangled?)
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Bdubs dies. Life moves on.
Etho and Cleo don't.
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- Part 10 of Author's Favourites
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Game design is simple, really.
Decked Out is not a game.(In which Tango is missing somewhere in the depths of the dungeon, and the hermits must save him from his own creation.)
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- Part 6 of Life & Death, Blood & Snow...
- Part 9 of Author's Favourites
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She’s surprised Tango hasn’t caught her yet. She knows he’s there somewhere too, in the dungeon, watching with eyes that aren’t his own. She doesn’t know how she knows that, exactly, but—she knows. It’s like…
(In which Gem isn't quite herself, and the dungeon has plans.)
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- Part 5 of Life & Death, Blood & Snow...
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The Champion dodges a ravager. The Champion dodges a vex. The dungeon’s heart pounds, tha-thump, tha-thump, overwhelming and fast and loud. The dungeon hungers. The dungeon hates. The dungeon does not want the Champion to escape. The dungeon wants to swallow the Champion whole.
(In which Decked Out is alive and very, very angry.)
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- Part 4 of Life & Death, Blood & Snow...
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It’s silliness, really, that makes Tango creep through the hollows in Decked Out’s walls to his mess of shulkers full of in-game items. He keeps his footsteps light, his breathing shallow, picturing himself a ghost as he slinks through the shadows and stone. It’s silly, but he can’t help but think that maybe, if he’s quiet enough, he might be able to—
Steal from the dungeon.(In which the dungeon is grumpy, and Tango just wants to have some fun.)
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- Part 3 of Life & Death, Blood & Snow...
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“Jeez, Tango, oh my gosh, I thought you were a ravager."
(In which Scar is a little on-edge.)
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- Part 2 of Life & Death, Blood & Snow...
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Bdubs can’t feel the chill of the dungeon, but a chill runs down his spine nonetheless as Tango looks at the ravager with cub’s blood on its teeth with affection and pride. And—okay, the whole point of the game is getting killed (or, preferably, not killed) by ravagers, they’d all signed up for this, they knew what they were in for—but did Tango have to look so… happy about it? So fond of the murderous beasts he’d wrangled for their entertainment? Did he have to look so—
(In which Bdubs needs more sleep, and Tango is not what he seems.)
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- Part 1 of Life & Death, Blood & Snow...
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A House That's Full of Smoke by SlashMagpie
Fandoms: 3rd Life | Last Life SMP Series, Hermitcraft SMP
05 Jul 2023
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In which Tango freezes in the face of his enemies, tries to flee his own body, and attempts to fight the moon.
(A roleswap AU of doctortrekkie's Our Solemn Hour.)
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- Part 7 of The Lights Have Long Burned Out
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“No, wait, slow down,” Impulse says, holding up a hand. “You found what?”
“A secret world!” Bdubs says, a little too loud. “Beneath Hermitcraft! Maybe beneath every server, I dunno!”
“Right,” Impulse says, dragging out the word. “And it’s full of… bird people?”
“Well—they’re kind of—they’re not exactly birds, per se, not like how Grian is a bird person, but they’re—they squawk!”
“Squawk.”
“Exactly!” Bdubs flails, nearly trips, and regains his balance with the most inelegant of hops. He puffs out his cheeks and pretends Impulse didn’t see. He definitely did. “And they—they wear masks of our faces! And they talk about us, like, all the time, in this super secret language! They watch everything we do!”---
In which Bdubs discovers Twitter, gets a makeover, makes some friends, experiences true love, and learns the secret of life, not necessarily in that order.
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- Part 8 of Author's Favourites