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• Always Summer by cg_writes for angstmuffin

  Fandoms: The Grisha Trilogy - Leigh Bardugo, Shadow and Bone (TV), Nikolai Series - Leigh Bardugo  

  • Mature
  • No Archive Warnings Apply
  • F/F, F/M, M/M
  • Complete Work

  18 Mar 2023

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  • Nikolai Lantsov/Zoya Nazyalensky
  • Zoya Nazyalensky/Alina Starkov
  • The Darkling | Aleksander Morozova/Alina Starkov
  • The Darkling | Aleksander Morozova/Nikolai Lantsov
  • Zoya Nazyalensky
  • Nikolai Lantsov
  • Alina Starkov
  • The Darkling | Aleksander Morozova
  • Genya Safin
  • David Kostyk
  • Original Grisha Character(s)
  • bird migration
  • Nikolai Lantsov is a whore but for exactly one person
  • unless you count his emo boyfriend Sasha
  • then it’s two
  • horny depressed Russians throw a dinner party
  • Sasha cannot do small talk
  • everyone gets an existential crisis
  • Everyone Needs a Therapist
  • birthday-related anxiety
  • who doesn’t use baking and gardening as coping mechanisms
  • fight scene ft. sexual tension
  • baked goods make everyone’s day better
  • let’s pepper in some childhood trauma
  • the bisexual subtext is just text
  • Zoya plays a game of fuck marry kill with Nikolai Alina and the Ravkan throne
  • me attempting to write something less depressing
  • IT IS A LOVE STORY WE ARE TRYING
  • I finished this an entire year ago but here we finally are
  • season two is almost here so I’m back on my bullshit
  • secret secret scavenger hunt
  • be on the lookout for hints
  • Book 1: King of Scars Spoilers
  • Book 2: Rule of Wolves Spoilers
  • stick with me until the end
  • I swear it pays off
  • Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence
  • Romantic Fluff

  Summary

  Zoya is head of the Second Army by day and lover of the King of Ravka by night. She has faced tragedy and loneliness and prejudiced Fjerdans, but today, her greatest challenge is this: facing the reality of her thirtieth birthday.

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  English

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• Reunion by cg_writes

  Fandoms: The Grisha Trilogy - Leigh Bardugo, Shadow and Bone (TV), Nikolai Series - Leigh Bardugo  

  • General Audiences
  • No Archive Warnings Apply
  • F/M
  • Complete Work

  07 Mar 2022

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  • The Darkling | Aleksander Morozova/Alina Starkov
  • General Kirigan/Alina Starkov
  • The Darkling | Aleksander Morozova
  • Alina Starkov
  • Book 1: King of Scars Spoilers
  • Book 2: Rule of Wolves Spoilers
  • Post-Book 2: Rule of Wolves
  • good morning are you ready for some emotional suffering
  • it's Ravka: it can always get worse
  • playing the violin on the sinking ship that is the KoS duology
  • non-arboreal closure for Sasha
  • Comfort
  • but comfort that hurts us
  • throwing ironic wrenches into Ravkan religion
  • Ilya Morozova gets no respect here
  • Aleksander faces the consequences of his actions but only repents a little
  • he has layers
  • Alina finally gets to call him out for his nonsense
  • POV The Darkling | Aleksander Morozova

  Summary

  Peacetime has finally arrived in Ravka. A veteran soldier travels to a small village on the fringes of the country: a place to heal his mind and body from the ravages of war, or, perhaps, a place to immortalize his mistakes.

  Quiet isolation suits him well.

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  English

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• The Passion by cg_writes

  Fandoms: Shadow and Bone (TV), The Grisha Trilogy - Leigh Bardugo  

  • Mature
  • Major Character Death
  • F/M
  • Complete Work

  09 Feb 2022

  Tags

  • Major Character Death
  • The Darkling | Aleksander Morozova/Alina Starkov
  • General Kirigan/Alina Starkov
  • The Darkling | Aleksander Morozova
  • Alina Starkov
  • Mal Oretsev
  • Alternate Ending - Ruin and Rising
  • alternate third amplifier
  • Consensual Sex
  • author has read the books more thoroughly than they wish they had
  • Alina is tired
  • Aleksander is tired
  • everyone needs a nap but they have other plans
  • there will be softness
  • there will be anger
  • there will be pain
  • Canon-Typical Violence
  • both of them are stubborn and it is going to hurt
  • alternate explanation for the massacre at Keramzin
  • Tomikyana is no longer in West Ravka because that was silly
  • filling the plot holes in this book was like damming a river with Lincoln Logs

  Summary

  The night before battle, the general of the Second Army plays her final hand to sway the enemy.

  She has kept a secret locked in her heart, and now is the time to reveal the truth.

  Language:

  English

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  12,520

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  3/3

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• A Dance by cg_writes

  Fandoms: The Grisha Trilogy - Leigh Bardugo, Shadow and Bone (TV)  

  • Teen And Up Audiences
  • No Archive Warnings Apply
  • F/M
  • Complete Work

  22 Dec 2021

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  • The Darkling | Aleksander Morozova/Alina Starkov
  • General Kirigan/Alina Starkov
  • The Darkling | Aleksander Morozova
  • Alina Starkov
  • Genya Safin
  • Ivan (The Grisha Trilogy)
  • Tatiana Lantsov
  • Pyotr Lantsov
  • The Winter Fete but make it Anastasia
  • period drama dance fic
  • the Small Science gets some adjustments
  • author has read the books more thoroughly than they wish they had
  • Alina is allowed to have power and desire in this one
  • Aleksander is a lovestruck disaster
  • come for the tension
  • stay for the pain
  • Baghra is not welcome here

  Summary

  Alina had not planned to kiss him. Aleksander had not planned to want her.

   

  A Winter Fête retelling.

  Language:

  English

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