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‘What’s this?’ Alison asks, looking down at the scrappy piece of note paper that Mike has just put down in front of her.
‘It’s a list of ways I can talk to them,’ Mike says, sitting down beside her at the kitchen table.
‘Who?’
‘The ghosts. See,’ he says, pointing at the list he’s made, ‘I’ve thought about the powers some of them have and how we could use those so I can speak to them, even if I can’t see them.’ He taps the underlined words at the top of the paper. ‘I call it Project Chatterbox.’
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27 Dec 2023
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After the break-in, Mike spends some time with the ghosts.
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27 Dec 2023
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Her name is derived from Old Elvish. Aelwyn. Great future. In the archaic tongue, the words for future and forever are the same.
Adaine’s name is also derived from Old Elvish. Second-born.
In which Aelwyn Abernant puts abjurative shields up on everything, including herself, and she doesn't know what exists beneath all that when they're gone.
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09 Dec 2023
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It all begins when the Captain meets the Roman centurion ghost next door.
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13 Nov 2023
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“I have heard Mary explain the correct way to prepare potatoes four hundred and fifty three times.”
Alison couldn’t help but look back up at that. Four hundred and…
“I have successfully taught Robin the alphabet no fewer than eleven times.” He drew himself up, his steps animated, eyes gleaming. “He always forgets. I have seen other ghosts go half mad with tedium, trapped too long with their own thoughts and ennui after mere decades, before finally being sucked o— blast, Mary —before moving on."
AKA why are the residents of Button House such nightmares to live with?
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13 Nov 2023
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Feeling comes in aid of feeling by Eccentric_Hat for CousinShelley
Fandoms: Ghosts (TV 2019)
14 Feb 2023
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Thomas may be a little oblivious to troubles that are not his own, but long acquaintance provides occasions to offer comfort.
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13 Nov 2023
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Julian gets a smartphone, except because the universe hates him, he doesn't actually get to use it very much
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08 Nov 2023
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In which Mike makes a New Year's Resolution, with varying degrees of success
(Or, a story of Mike spending time with the ghosts)
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08 Nov 2023
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Over the years, the centuries, the millennia, the residents of, and visitors to Button House and the land it's built on have experienced strange things, and heard strange tales. Multiple mysterious, macabre deaths. Unruly electrics. Blurry shapes in photos. St Elmo's Fire. Burning smells, a mysterious, singing voice in the cellar. Rumours of witchcraft, an ancient amulet and visions of Satan himself. Is the land truly cursed? Or is this just a place of 250,000 years worth of human sadness?
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06 Nov 2023
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When their hands finally make contact it is nothing whatsoever like anything she could have anticipated.
“I’ll be damned,” Julian murmurs, eyes suspiciously bright, and Alison is suddenly and painfully reminded that he has gone nearly thirty years without even the simplest of touches.
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04 Nov 2023
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Alison stumbled from bed, grim and grumbling as she got dressed, and stomped up to the attic with a look of utter disinterest plastered across her face. As she swung open the narrow door, she closed her eyes and hoped that somehow, magically, the chaos strewn about the room had magically sorted itself overnight.
Or: Mike goes out of town, leaving Alison home alone for the weekend. Unfortunately for her, the time to herself ends up not quite as relaxing as it initially seemed. Luckily, her makeshift family of mismatched ghosts is there to help.
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04 Nov 2023
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Is That What a Dinosaur Would Do? (You Can't Just Give Up) by Etheostoma
Fandoms: Ghosts (TV 2019)
04 Mar 2021
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It was hard for Alison to remember sometimes that Kitty was one of the older ghosts, at least in terms of actual time spent dead. She was so young physically, and so sweetly naive, that it was all too easy to get caught up in that facade and forget that the cheerful, friendly young woman was also a centuries-old specter who died well before her time.
Even the most optimistic soul would have to have a lifetime’s worth of regrets after all of that.
Or: Kitty and the Captain have a heart to heart, with Alison and the gang not far behind.
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04 Nov 2023
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Dying is, of course, incredibly tragic. It is also the most wonderful opportunity.
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[“Oh, there’s no point.” Said Pat bitterly, “Julian already told me about Italia ’90. He’s ruined that as well.”
Alison took a breath. “Pat,” She said gently, “It’s a compilation of an entire decade. Even Julian can’t spoil a whole decade.”
“Oh yes I can! Party conference, ’88, Anne Widdecombe told me I’d ruined her whole month but I’d barely gotten the engine running, only asked -in the spirit of charity- if she fancied popping round the back by which I mean-”
And finally she could hold it no longer. In a glorious moment completely devoid of thought Alison reached out and fulfilled the desire of her last fifty years on earth.
She cuffed Julian upside the back of the head.]
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04 Nov 2023
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“I’ve just remembered,” she said, as Mike gingerly rested a tea towel full of ice on her wrist for the third time — it kept slipping off. “The uncle was hanging about. Following the nieces around looking like a wet weekend, the poor guy.”
Mike hummed thoughtfully. “Didn’t know ghosts could do that. Our lot are stuck in the grounds of the house, right?”
“Yeah,” she said, chewing on her lip. “I guess it’s not exactly a science, is it? I mean, a lot of the ghosts I see out and about are sort of… uncommunicative. Maybe there’s lots of different types of them.”
“Like Pokemon,” said Mike.
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04 Nov 2023
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The ghosts decide to have a group discussion about one topic that should be mystical, dreamy and oozing happiness — love.
The Captain literally can’t think of anything worse than sharing his experiences of love to this lot.
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02 Nov 2023
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Green Party Fundraiser Time! Rachel Fawcett comes to Button House, despite struggling with her feelings regarding a certain extremely unfortunate death there. Ghosts and the living alike are thrown into turmoil, especially when it begins to look like someone at the event may be attempting to harm the up-and-coming young politician. Can Julian stand idly by? Well, he's a ghost, so yeah, he has to.
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02 Nov 2023
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Post-season-two. Crowley's moping, Aziraphale wants to fix things, and turns out, there's enough blame to go around.
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“You’re being ridiculous.”Crowley very nearly falls over.
Like, actually. He very nearly loses balance for no reason at all and tumbles to the sidewalk next to his car. He’s been playing Aziraphale’s voice in his head for weeks, he’s been trying very hard to drown out the sound of it, in fact, and now suddenly, abruptly—
“What are you doing here,” is all he can think to say. He whirls around, and there he is. On Crowley’s right, standing there like he’d never left. Where he belongs, Crowley’s mind helpfully supplies. He wishes he could punch himself in the brain, knock the thoughts right on out of there.
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11 Sep 2023
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weep not for roads untraveled by TigressinCreamSilk
Fandoms: Dimension 20 (Web Series), Dimension 20: A Crown of Candy
18 Feb 2023
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In the world we know, Lapin dies staring into the eyes of the Pontifex, the voice of his patron whispering for him to come home. The Sugar Plum Fairy ushers him into her Realm of paradise, and he remains there until it crumbles.
In another, kinder world, he still dies with his patron whispering in his ear. They just refuse to let him stay that way.
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- Part 1 of his journey's just begun
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19 Jul 2023
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all the best high school stories start with a detention.
(or, the lemonade mouth au no one asked for)
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18 Jul 2023
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birds of a feather flock together, or, more specifically: gay kids somehow know and find other LGBT kids to be friends with, even before any of them know they're LGBT.
this is my take on the 6 bad kids and their 6 journeys with their sexualities - because no two coming out journeys are the same.
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14 Jul 2023