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Beneath the Darkened Skies by Szelanya
Fandoms: Mass Effect Trilogy, Mass Effect - All Media Types
04 Jan 2025
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Shepard wakes up on a destroyed Earth post the Catalyst firing and has to live with the consequences of her actions.
This is an in-progress prelude to a time travel fix-it fic. Things are going to get dark before we see the light.
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- Part 1 of The Shepard in the Dark
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The Shepard in the Dark by Szelanya
Fandom Mass Effect - All Media Types, Mass Effect Trilogy
04 Jan 2025
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This is a series about F!Shepard from a dark AU where she survives the destroy ending and lives with the consequences of her choice. As her world gets darker from its inevitable end, and hopelessness settles into her bones, she finds herself in a futile final stand with the last of her found family... only to awaken on a craft touching down on Akuze.
Cue Fortunate One blazing out of a tinny speaker whilst this PTSD wreck of a woman panics.
This is a female Shepard, Sole Survivor, Infiltrator, Destroy Ending.
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A Side of Ham by seeing_blue
Fandoms: A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms (TV), A Song of Ice and Fire & Related Fandoms
08 Apr 2026
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At the tourney of Ashford Meadow, a particular servant meets a particular hedge knight and his squire.
All of Westeros will come to know the tale.
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- Part 4 of ASOIAF Fics
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22 Apr 2026
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“Lady Morgana,” The lord said, his brows furrowing as he took a step back “Pardon me for the assumption, but I was told the king’s ward never left the East tower?” He asked and gestured vaguely around the gardens. Morgana smiled and Merlin smirked from his hiding place as he watched Arthur consider swooping in to save the man, but clearly thinking better of it.
“Ah, of course.” Morgana said “You must be confused. There are two wards of the king. I’m afraid you won’t be able to meet Merlin today.”
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Uther took in Balinor’s child as a baby and claimed him as his ward. Merlin thinks he’s being held hostage, but whatever.
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07 Jan 2026
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All in all, Arthur was one of those men about whom it could be said that their heart was in the right place, although he did take great pains to hide it. Still, the core of decency made Merlin endure the thick layers of arrogance (and their thin crispy crust of arseholery) with more patience than he’d ever thought possible. There was indeed a promise of greatness about Arthur that Merlin was willing to believe in.
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Merlin learns to live and work by Arthur's side. And vice versa.
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08 Nov 2025
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When the attempt at healing Uther backfires and kills him instead—thereby reinforcing Arthur’s hatred of magic—Merlin decides that the time has come to give up on destiny and leave Camelot before he can make things even worse. After giving up his magic so that it might guard the citadel in his absence, he sets out for Ealdor for some much-needed rest. He is pleasantly surprised when Gwaine rides out after him to escort him on the journey. The question is why…
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03 Nov 2025
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Camelot is a far-off dream, a place which was made for men. They travel through the forest, hunting.
Merlin lays with the deer and they with him, and he cannot bear their suffering the way he once cared about the suffering of men, so he splinters arrows before they pierce flesh and leaves the rotting bodies of unlucky creatures on the hot stones that circle the men’s fires.
If they cannot be taught their place in the forest, then they will leave it at least unsettled.
Men fear decay and death.
Merlin fears neither anymore.
(Arthur banishes Merlin from Camelot, so Merlin goes to the forest and slowly loses himself to its magic. By the time Arthur learns what he's lost, it's too late to bring Merlin back by his own will.)
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31 Oct 2025