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Temptation//Override by beltsquid for Kahika
Fandoms: Mass Effect - All Media Types, Destiny (Video Games)
24 Mar 2026
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Tali's comms were suddenly no longer silent.
"They're not statues! They're synthetics!" Liara's voice boomed into her ears. "Everyone, get out!"
Tali ran for the door but found it sealed, and unresponsive to her attempts at hacking. She turned to look behind her, and to her horror saw the brass figures emerging from the walls, animated and gazing at her with baleful red eyes. The circular mechanisms on the walls were gates.
And one of them looked like the way out. She ran for it.
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“So. What were you two up to? Getting ready for the show tonight?”
“What show?” Tali appeared at Shepard's side, hooking her elbow around hers.
“Fleet and Flotilla live at Armax? You know, the 'immersive experience' thing they do? I heard the end credits when I walked in so I figured—”
“—The what?!” Tali pulled away from Shepard and advanced on Garrus. “How could you not tell me about this before?!”
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Lina receives a message from Zelgadis requesting her help in researching his cure. To her surprise, it's a request to join him on Mipross Island.
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Celebrations of the victory on Rannoch are cut short when Shepard stops answering her comms. Tali and Garrus find themselves unable to determine what has happened to her.
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Why one small American town won’t stop stoning its residents to death by Charlotte_Stant for sophiahelix
Fandoms: The Lottery - Shirley Jackson, The New Yorker RPF
24 Dec 2025
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The picturesque village of Buell, Maine is one of the last in the United States to continue the tradition of the “harvest” or “prosperity” lottery. Its residents insist the lottery makes them stronger, even as condemnation from outsiders grows.
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13 Jan 2026
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Want to code in ao3?
Heres how!
This work will teach you how to code on ao3 from simple to more advanced techniques.
Some code featured in this work is credited to their respected authors, so be sure to check them out as well!
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03 Aug 2025
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Closed Loop System by One_of_Them (greenbean_paste)
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
29 Jun 2025
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Unit Communication Log:
SecUnit Two: Atmospheric conditions optimal.
SecUnit One: ...
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02 Aug 2025
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Hawke is captured and branded in a failed Rite of Tranquility, but the longer she is forced to hide the truth the harder it is to find again.
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13 Jul 2025
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Your father’s variety of betrayal once seemed to you rather romantic. To break from the constraints of an arranged Chandrilan marriage, to conceive a child for love alone - such a wonderful story that brought you into existence, wasn't it? Surely one worth at least some of the weight you’d had to drag around of its consequences. It was only in later years that you came to see the tarnished and tawdry reality of it all, the disappointment that your father really was.
It’s not, of course, that you fear you carry some taint of his betrayal with you as if such things can be inherited. Nobody believes that - certainly not on civilised Chandrila. Perhaps you are simply more attuned to your own weakness. Perhaps, through the result of your own heritage, you have been given a conveniently sharp reminder to dig into you like your nails into the meat of your palm: don’t romanticise this. Don’t be stupid. There are no grand love stories here - you’re a starstruck boy with a crush. You’re thankful she was kind to you, that’s all of it. You respect her. It will pass.
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24 May 2025