16 Works by Star_flaming
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Common superstition in Zaun had it that there were five bad luck days in a year. So at the end of the year, you kept your head down, so Fate wouldn't notice you and make certain you had more than your fill of bad luck. Viktor couldn't say he believed it on a logical level, but still he followed the tradition - it just felt plain wrong to do otherwise.
Only this year, he had a Partner who was more than willing to take those same days off, and abandon his own traditions to do math in Viktor's apartment with him. Because to Jayce, what was a dizzying cavalcade of new year's parties next to five days at Viktor's side?
Risks are not to be taken. Changing the parameters of Partnership was a risk. How do you survive five days in close quarters, under those two truths?
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Extant documents from 17th century Connecticut are very rare. As such, most of what is known about Caleb and Philip Wittebane is their names on a record of church membership, and the oral histories passed down from the time of their disappearance.
But what of before they vanished?
(A oneshot series exploring how Caleb could have turned out the way he did)
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Argus' life was a largely thankless one (unless you counted the thanks of the paintings he maintained), working on keeping a thousand year old castle from falling down around the ears of students who didn't care. He had his cat, his work, his books, and a constant boil of self hatred and resentment to get him by.
And then a sixth year handed him a letter from her aunt, thanking him for acting as conservator of Hogwarts and calling him Dr. Filch. It was the first time he had been called Doctor since he started at the castle. He had little choice but to write back, after that.
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To Pay and To Purloin by Star_flaming
Fandoms: The Witcher (TV), Wiedźmin | The Witcher - All Media Types
19 May 2020
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The town of Dalnacreich had a curse upon its wells, and Geralt was more than confident he could get the Good Neighbor who lay it to remove it in turn. As to the price he must pay, that was a little more up in the air, and not for lack of Jaskier's attempts to pin it down.
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The Kindest Thing (Is To Never Leave You Alone) by Star_flaming
Fandoms: The Witcher (TV), Wiedźmin | The Witcher - All Media Types
23 Apr 2020
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Sometimes, when Jaskier said he loved him, Geralt's eyes were veiled with disbelief. Which was fine, he'd just get to court him again to prove his point.
Until he realized that Geralt didn't disbelieve his love, just his intention to stay. That was going to be harder to prove, it turned out.
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The Sevenfold Path by Star_flaming
Fandoms: The Witcher (TV), Wiedźmin | The Witcher - All Media Types
20 Apr 2020
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Geralt had known Jaskier studied at Oxenfurt University, but he had thought of it as a sort of formal music education. It was becoming abundantly clear that while he had indeed studied music and composition, he also knew a lot more than Geralt had ever learned. And it was impressive. And humbling, too.
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find your way home (let your cuts and bruises heal) by Star_flaming
Fandoms: The Hobbit - All Media Types
22 Mar 2020
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None of Bella's stories had ever told of the hard work of cleaning up a battle, there was no glory in it. But it was better to throw herself into the work than face the fact that she had very nearly lost the ones she loved, face the trauma of the battle, of the dragon sickness, of all the darkness that loomed over her shoulder. After all, tears were for when you were in privacy, and there was precious little of that when one was named regent for a grievously wounded king.
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Despite her family being painfully rich, even Anathema is not immune to visas, and has to return to America from time to time, and each return prompts a welcome back party held in Jasmine Cottage, even if the hostess is incredibly jet lagged. On one such occasion, the Them start wondering what Aziraphale and Crowley's auras are like.
None of them think very much about what viewing the auras of supernatural beings might do to a person.
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Ad Augustana per Sciencia by Star_flaming
Fandoms: Star Wars Episode VII: The Force Awakens (2015)
03 Feb 2018
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Hux prided himself on being a man who managed to have interests outside of the military. His newest interest; history so old that many thought it useless in the modern age. And he could have been quite content, reading articles and books on ancient cultures if it wasn't for Kylo Ren, who seemed to have made it his goal to inject himself into Hux's academic pursuits when he wasn't destroying the ship through his apparent self-destructive tendencies.
Or: Academia brings two idiots together and builds a new regime
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In which Hux has recurring stress nightmares and Kylo very clumsily tries to help his insomniac General and probably accidentally traumatizes him in the process.
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The Beloved Artist, A Close Reading of the Clos Luce Collection by Star_flaming for IdrisEleven
Fandoms: Da Vinci's Demons
14 Mar 2017
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Abstract: The Clos Luce Collection, a groundbreaking find in the scholarship of Leonardo da Vinci, has been studied for it's explicit revelations of the relationship between Leonardo and Count Girolamo Riario. Close reading of marginalia, however, opens this collection to be read in a controversial new light, perhaps revealing one of the earliest polyamorous relationships.
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“Mother, who are they, exactly?”
“She was your father’s mistress,” spat Maratelle. “He fathered that boy and left them behind when we fled. Finally saw reason.”
“So Armitage is our half-brother?” -
Cornflakes and Other Lists by Star_flaming
Fandoms: Star Wars Episode VII: The Force Awakens (2015)
09 Aug 2016
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“Ben, what are you doing?” asked Rey.
In answer, Ben just pointed to the window and said, “People.”
“Yes, Ben, those exist.”
“I know that, but they’re moving in. Who’s letting them move into the crazy neighborhood?”
“Ben, we’re the crazy house. No one else is crazy. Just you.”
“I’m not crazy, Rey. I was just kidnapped and brainwashed by an abusive militant cult leader. There’s a difference." -
The Crow is Black (You Know My Love) by Star_flaming
Fandoms: Star Wars Episode VII: The Force Awakens (2015)
06 Mar 2016
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The Knights of Ren come bearing a body, and the General falls apart.
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Discreet Lines of the Poet by Star_flaming
Fandoms: Star Wars Episode VII: The Force Awakens (2015)
06 Mar 2016
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kink meme de-anon for the prompt: "While it's not often discussed on the Finalizer, Hux is actually married--it was an arranged marriage, of course, as befitting the officer/general of the First Order, suiting both parties' class and status.
One day, Hux's wife comes aboard the Finalizer to visit him. Kylo is both horrified ('she married Hux out of all people?' 'Hux is married?'), intrigued (as to what kind of woman would willingly marry Hux, or at least, agree to an arranged marriage with Hux, because come on it's General Hux he's talking about), and maybe a little jealous, although the last part is a little startling to himself as well."
AKA Kylo Ren didn't know Hux was married and doesn't trust Mrs. Hux on sheer principle.
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The Pazzi conspiracy has just been defeated, and the Basilisk is on it's way across the ocean--without Leonardo. AU/extended version exploring what could have happened if things had gone differently.