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Alpine Lupin and Other Small Miracles by aster_risk
Fandoms: Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling
03 Jan 2026
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May, 1994: Excommunicated from his church and family, Sirius Black moves into his dead Uncle's lodge in Grimmauld, Idaho, determined to chase a local legend.
Instead, he finds Remus.
An exploration of love, lost faith, and the agonizing impulse to make monsters mean something, especially when you feel like one.
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Death in the IMF is a fickle thing. It's often temporary, riddled with holes and unanswered questions. The dead could always be trouncing about in a foreign bar, with a new name, and you won't know until you meet them again, by chance.
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Ilsa Faust meets a woman in a diner who calls herself a saint.
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Ethan hates tape, he admits one day, showing her the scars on the backs of his knuckles. It's a necessary evil on a long climb, but it's the rock scraping and pinching his hands that makes him feel alive. Ilsa compares it to the Black Swan—the pas de deux and its famous turns, known for leaving dancers breathless.
Like her, the only way Ethan knows how to live in his body is to push it to the limit.
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When pirates seeking a mythical treasure take Mulder captive, Scully sails to his rescue. Venturing into the unknown, she encounters a ship bound by a deadly curse, manned by drowned souls and captained by the alluring Stella Gibson.
Swashbuckling romance abounds.
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An ongoing collection of unrelated vignettes from the Swan Songs universe. All the little character studies and scenes that I liked but didn't fit into a larger fic.
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- Part 7 of Swan songs
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Jane is retired. Seriously, she means it this time.
Ilsa Faust is (by Jane's estimation) gorgeous, mysterious, and legally dead.
So she approaches Ilsa's hotel room with no small degree of caution, and at least two deadly weapons, and an understanding that this conversation will probably send her back to fieldwork.
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Grace has spent her whole life flirting with Death. One day, Death flirts back.
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- Part 6 of Swan songs
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"I'm old, and tired."
"You've been old and tired since you were fifteen, Moony."
All the ways that Remus and Sirius fall back in love over time. Stories about re-learning the heart and body of someone you used to know better than yourself.
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Deductive reasoning by aster_risk
Fandoms: Mission: Impossible (Movies), Mission: Impossible
14 Apr 2024
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The family who raised her did not treat love like a zero-sum but a well that never empties. And so, the myths collapse.
(One day Ilsa will tell Helen the story of how she was conceived. How she hatched from an egg as though made to fly. How her mother put a gun to the head of a holy swan.)
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- Part 5 of Swan songs
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Pomegranate seeds by aster_risk
Fandoms: Mission: Impossible (Movies), Mission: Impossible
29 Aug 2023
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On the sixth anniversary of Ilsa's death, springtime comes to Greece. She is surprised to see it.
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- Part 4 of Swan songs
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The stories we tell ourselves by aster_risk
Fandoms: Mission: Impossible (Movies), Mission: Impossible
11 Aug 2023
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Conversations in the safe house in Nafplio, prior to the birth of Helen.
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- Part 2 of Swan songs
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Friends on the other side by aster_risk
Fandoms: Mission: Impossible (Movies), Mission: Impossible
05 Aug 2023
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This is the custom: one hero ventures to the Underworld, seeking the guidance of another.
Two women meet in a traincar and talk about Death.
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- Part 3 of Swan songs
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No such thing as gods by aster_risk
Fandoms: Mission: Impossible (Movies), Mission: Impossible
04 Aug 2023
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The story goes that Zeus came to Leda in the form of a swan on her wedding night, and her children hatched from eggs.
In this story, Leda breaks the swan's long neck. She cooks its flesh and devours it. She has no husband nor want of one; she sleeps in the passenger seat of a red Corvette, with three passports in her hand.
All the same, the bird eggs hatch.
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- Part 1 of Swan songs
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Five pivotal moments between Jenny and Kate, beginning and ending with a white sailboat.
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Here's how the game works:
Each chapter tells a different story - some closer to canon, some wildly AU, but all of them Heist Wives in some respect. 5 vignettes that make up a larger scene.
Welcome to the picture show!
Chapter 5: To the surprise of no one, Debbie Ocean is sorted into Slytherin. To the surprise of everyone—most of all herself—Lou Miller is sorted into Gryffindor. But hot damn, do red and green look good together.
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Mulder and Scully finally go on that first date I promised. An uplifting second chance, twelve years after the night they met.
Final installment of the 'Sinners' universe.
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- Part 3 of Sinners
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Cactus Flower (or There ain't no grave) by aster_risk
Fandoms: Ocean's (Movies), Ocean's 8, Ocean's Eight
27 Jun 2018
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Lou crashes the bike in desolate New Mexico, and Debbie—rife with unresolved attraction and what she suspects people call 'love'—goes after her.
(With apologies to Johnny Cash for stealing his song title.)
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15, 6, 23, 11. The numbers tattooed on Lou's arm are an ever growing list of milestones and memories, most of which involve Debbie Ocean in some romantic capacity.
(Or, people wondered what Lou's tattoo was and what it meant, so I made something up.)
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It takes a bar fight, two thousand miles, and a red horizon for Debbie Ocean to admit she's in love with her partner.
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Twelve years after his affair to remember, Mulder stumbles into a familiar face in a Reston dive bar.
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- Part 2 of Sinners