16 Works by cartesiandaemon
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Segoy recreates the world. Penthe recreates the Place of the Tombs. Serret recreates herself.
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The Limpet, the Goon, the Romantic, and the Brat by cartesiandaemon for eye_of_a_cat
Fandoms: Archer's Goon - Diana Wynne Jones
23 Dec 2023
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Torquil, Erskine and Howard test the red typewriter by having Quentin write a historical scene from their childhood and from the missing thirteen years.
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The Staff of Kthothethos by cartesiandaemon for nirejseki
Fandoms: A Night in the Lonesome October - Roger Zelazny
17 Dec 2022
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Some time after October, Jack and Jill and Malk and Snuff live quietly but determinedly together, and the Count appeals to them for mutual help.
My name is Snuff, and I am a watchdog. With my master, Jack, we have guarded the Way for more than two hundred years, and for half of that time we have been accompanied by Jill and Malk. Jill and Malk are not watchdogs, but they help keep the Way closed. Jill is a friendly and experienced witch. Malk, also called Gray, or Kin, is a cat who is brave and tricksy. I trust her more than any other cats, and more than quite a few non-cats.
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In Which Doctor Sextus Chokes his Elongated Bone Snake by cartesiandaemon
Fandoms: FAQ: The "Snake Fight" Portion of Your Thesis Defense - Luke Burns, The Locked Tomb Series | Gideon the Ninth Series - Tamsyn Muir
25 Dec 2021
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Palamedes and Camilla banter. He has discovered a short-cut in the regulations that could further his academic promotion in the sixth house quickly enough to help him become a warden in time to try to help cure his wasting remote love from the seventh house. But it is really ridiculous. Can the young teens stop laughing long enough to seriously investigate the opportunity?
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- Part 4 of Snake-Fight Crossovers
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The Snake Fight Portion of the Jacksonian Thesis Defence by cartesiandaemon
Fandoms: FAQ: The "Snake Fight" Portion of Your Thesis Defense - Luke Burns, Vorkosigan Saga - Lois McMaster Bujold
16 Dec 2021
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Potential Dendarii recruit super-soldier Taura collapses when her overclocked metabolism goes haywire. Can the lovelorn Miles Vorkosigan, sarcastic medtech Cari Ostrach, and insufferable incognito biotechnologist Hugh Canaba save her?
"No' H'ugh" Taura slurred. "Not him. Gut him."
Miles crouched down next to her, taking her large, terrifyingly hot hand gently in his, and she flinched slightly. She fumbled and gripped his hand tightly, a tiny squeak of pain leaving his soul and fractionally escaping his lips.
"You'll be okay, Taura," he told her.
"O' course," she mumbled automatically. "Mm tough. M al'ays pull through."
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- Part 3 of Snake-Fight Crossovers
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The Snake Fight Portion of the Svartalfheim Thesis Defence by cartesiandaemon
Fandoms: FAQ: The "Snake Fight" Portion of Your Thesis Defense - Luke Burns, Norse Religion & Lore
23 Nov 2021
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In which there is father-son bonding, Loki sets out to do an impossible task, and Jormungandr describes his trip to China.
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- Part 2 of Snake-Fight Crossovers
- Part 4 of A Selection of Favourites
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Interview with a University Snake Wrangler by cartesiandaemon for ionthesparrow
Fandoms: FAQ: The "Snake Fight" Portion Of Your Thesis Defense (McSweeney's Post) - Luke Burns
24 Dec 2020
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Someone from the student newspaper interviews Mr Wright, the person who takes care of the snakes for the university and finds the right one for the Snake Fight Portion of Your Thesis Defence.
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- Part 1 of Snake-Fight Crossovers
- Part 1 of A Selection of Favourites
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Phase Wasps in the Library by cartesiandaemon for teethandstars
Fandoms: Scholomance - Naomi Novik
18 Dec 2020
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El and Orion explore an increasingly ominous part of the library seeking a particular one of Purochana's journals in order to help translate another of the Golden Stone sutras.
Also, El, Aadhya, Liu, Liu's cousins, and some adorable mice decorate El's dorm room as it becomes an increasingly cosy home base for alliance.
El and Orion both have Feelings about their place in the world. Nothing romantic happens except bickering and being each other's unexpectedly best friend.
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Drifting Free by cartesiandaemon for Greenygal
Fandoms: Falling Free - Lois McMaster Bujold
18 Dec 2019
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Leo, Silver and the rest of the quaddies in Cay Habitat have moved beyond Orient system in the first step in their long Crossing, but they need to rise to ever more engineering, diplomatic and democratic problems and grow into their adult selves? Can Leo tactfully guide the new polity through four simultaneous crises in the first system they travel through, without infringing the nascent democratic governance evolving amongst the quaddies?
Featuring slapstick with slingshotting an inhabited space station round an uninhabited planet. Featuring over half the quaddies ever named in Falling Free, so you better appreciate it. Mentions an EPIC SPACE PIRATE BATTLE IN ZERO-G BALLET FORM which very nearly, but not quite, appears in the story.
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- Part 2 of A Selection of Favourites
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Guacamole Excitement Hyperbole by cartesiandaemon for molybdomantic
Fandoms: Spaceteam (Video Game)
18 Dec 2019
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Can Pachyform Specialist Ellana and insectoid Space Detective Bettan figure out why space travel has such monumentally nonsensical dangers, and survive when their ship starts increasingly disintegrating and the entire universe becomes at stake?
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- Part 2 of Original Works (and Original-ish Works)
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Of Slapstick and Touching Emotional Conversations by cartesiandaemon for EcclesCake
Fandoms: The Order of the Stick
16 Dec 2018
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After the Roy is resurrected and the party are reunited, they seek a random encounter before departing on the ship to the western continent.
In which Roy is not meticulous, Durkon isn't taken for granted, Haley doesn't search for gold, Vaarsuvius cares what people think, Elan isn't useless, Blackwing isn't forgotten, and Belkar listens to reason.
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Fief of Blood (A Vampire Story featuring Greta, Annie and the Pale Mistress) by cartesiandaemon
Fandoms: Original Work
26 Feb 2018
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Greta is the grumpy, female/enby vampire enforcer for the Pale Mistress, the spider queen of Cambridge living in hidden crypts under Trinity College. When students show up breaking into the vaults, and foreign vampires are found trespassing on the territory, can Greta unravel the mystery despite the eccentricities of her superiors?
Featuring tender female friendship, quips, and reluctant but devastatingly efficacious resolutions to violent situations. An original novella written during nanowrimo 2017.
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- Part 1 of Original Works (and Original-ish Works)
- Part 3 of A Selection of Favourites
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Cordelia, Gregor and Ivan: Conversations about Flirting, Philosophy, and Phoenixes by cartesiandaemon for izzybeth
Fandoms: Vorkosigan Saga - Lois McMaster Bujold
24 Dec 2017
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When Ivan sneaks into the Imperial Archives in the middle of the night he meets Emperor Gregor doing the same thing. When they find Cordelia has snuck in as well, Will Ivan be able to defend his sudden historical interest in the philosopher, adventurer, and prole folk hero captain Ingsol, friend of Vorthalia the Bold from the time of Isolation?
And will Gregor be able to cope with the difficult personal history they uncover about Aral, and Serg, and learn how to express romantic interest without turning into a copy of his father?
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Escape from the Orc Lair of Unnecessarily Revealing Armour by cartesiandaemon for Nary
Fandoms: Rat Queens, Oglaf (Webcomic)
16 Dec 2016
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The rat queens are imprisoned by Orcs wearing gratuitously revealing bikini armour, after Betty makes a convoluted deal to supply them. Can they work together to escape in a flurry of hijinks and blow-jobs?
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Ivan, By and Illyan by cartesiandaemon for karanguni
Fandoms: Vorkosigan Saga - Lois McMaster Bujold
20 Dec 2015
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Byerly notices that newly-retired Illyan is not coping well when he excoriates his former subordinate. Can Illyan's not-son-in-law Ivan rise to the occasion open up to Simon, and in the process find out about a sordid episode in Byerly's impsec past, and the highest politics it touched on?