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A re-imagined scene from the Caiphas Caine novels, by Sandy Mitchell. Or is it?
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The party wizard was secretly a medusa. Except that she wasn't. Or maybe she was. Or maybe not? A tavern tale of many-layered masks, by Althis the Bard, in a generic D&D setting.
(I had a character concept that grew in detail to the point she had her own fanfic, so I wrote it down)
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With his city doomed within days, Lord Copperhills turned on the huge wierd lighthouse that had been his families work for generations. And from strange directions, folk rallied to it....
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A science-fiction start that veers through fantasy a few times. We start with a successful alien invasion of Earth, a large group of humans escapes to somewhere unexpected.... Told from the POV of a surviving time-lost veteran of the start, as he realises that neither his planet, nor his own body, nor especially his descendants, are anything like what he'd expected them to turn out like.
"Hell is empty, and all the devils are here."
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In a fantastic version of India, a foriegn ambassador gets caught up in a curse slowly producing mutated bimbos for many months....
(This was a sexual daydream that turned into a novella in my head, and refused to get out until typed up. It's got a lot of story for porn.)
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El does not want to be seen as Galadriel, or as a dark goddess of ominous power, or really in charge of anything. Never mind the responsibility, it'd be so embarassing!
But in the desperate efforts to escape the Scholomance, somebody painted her into that position....Told as a story, well after the events of the books.
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During the Draconic Purge, a small force of Solamnic knights digs in to hold the pass. There are draconic armies to front and rear, but they are not the same....
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Everyone needs a lift sometimes by Ysthrall
Fandoms: KPop Demon Hunters (2025), The Elric Saga - Michael Moorcock, Eternal Champion Series - Michael Moorcock
17 Mar 2026
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In which Rumi Kang, at a low point, is assisted by the Knight in Black and Gold. A restful and needed interlude.
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The Knight in Black and Gold by Ysthrall
Fandoms: The Elric Saga - Michael Moorcock, The History of the Runestaff - Michael Moorcock, The Eternal Champion Series - Michael Moorcock
16 Mar 2026
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The Knight in Black and Gold is there for backup, to aid the Eternal Champion when they really need it. Their story loops in and out of the main heroic saga. Here's a tale with a somewhat longer loop in it, of sacrifice and loss and rebirth and conclusions. Original setting, borrowed character.
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(Set during book 10, Small Favor)
When the hobs attacked the train station and fought Harry and Michael, some folk got caught inbetween. One of them kept her head and did all she could. Here's the story of Carol, customer service rep.
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An old enemy is maybe a new friend, and wants to get on Harrys staff. No, not that staff. Not that one either, stop it.
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A story eclipsed, the workers who laid the rails for the Uberwald Run of Iron Girder....
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An expanded scene from a David Gemmel novel, a fantasy siege coming to an end
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Rewind tells a story, in which a song of loss and pride echoes down history, a memory of light in times of darkness, to end before it begins.
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In a matriachal society, an orphaned and "cursed" girl is alone for years. But on the other side of a sealed door, she is not forgotten.
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A piece of fanfic for "If I Pay Thee Not in Gold", by Mercedes Lackey, published 1993. I re-read it recently and this idea got stuck in my head. So you get it too :)
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(the scene in the book, for contrast, is from Xylina's POV, and a lot more lonely and despairing.It's a nice start to a book that, as I've seen it reviewed, "loses an interesting concept in sub-plots all too quickly")
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A simple and cliched story of revenge, with a whole fantasy kitchen sink and a couple of twists, done in reverse order, as an exercise in nested flashbacks.
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"And there unfurled a banner..." by Ysthrall
Fandoms: The Lord of the Rings - J. R. R. Tolkien
26 Sep 2024
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When Aragorn came to Minas Tirith during the Battle of Pelennor Fields. there was at least one who saw his banner, and knew exactly what it meant....
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A Clash of Faith by Ysthrall
Fandoms: Warhammer 40.000, Honor Harrington Series - David Weber
18 Jul 2024
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A ship from the 40k setting runs into one from the Honor Harrington setting. It gets messy...
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A very silly meta-fictional look at a LARP game, during covid lockdown. Written as portentious observation.
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Into the lands of the Dawn came the swarming venomous armies of the Druj. And the knights of Dawn met them in glorious battle, but the Druj commander had the numbers, and the control, and a large bag of tricks.... Told from the POV of the Druj general!
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