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can people untie themselves, uncurling like flowers by annemari
Fandoms: 陈情令 | The Untamed (TV), 魔道祖师 - 墨香铜臭 | Módào Zǔshī - Mòxiāng Tóngxiù
19 Aug 2020
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"Are you alright?" Jiang Cheng asks. "What happened?"
"Jiujiu!" Jin Ling says, his voice panicked. "Jiujiu, it's Wei Wuxian! He's hurt!"
Jiang Cheng freezes.
Wei Wuxian gets hurt on a night hunt. Jiang Cheng is displeased to find out that he's been wandering around on his own instead of living with Lan Wangji in Cloud Recesses. He ends up fixing it.
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08 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: ...
SecUnit One: Indeed.- Language:
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19 Jul 2025
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"I don't want to pry," Xisuma said when they were speaking before his official invitation to join. "And not answering won't change whether or not you get whitelisted. We admins just prefer to have a heads up if anything's likely to come trying to dig you up, so we can keep you and everyone else safe."
Grian thought back to obsidian and endstone and blood, to tattered wings and torn robes and so so many unseeable eyes, and swallowed hard.
"No," he said, his voice shaky. "No, I don't think anyone will come looking for me."
"Okay," Xisuma answered, and that was that.
Until they invited two new people to the server.
or, the Hermitcraft Backstory Rule says that you don't ask other people about their backstory, you let them tell it if they want to and leave it be if they don't.
Unfortunately for Grian, one of the newest Hermits was also a player on his old server - one he'd thought had been dead for years - and she's going to drag his backstory kicking and screaming into the light whether she means to or not.
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04 Dec 2024
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It's 1988. Grian and Mumbo are roommates living in the US. Mumbo leaves on a solo camping trip at Grian's suggestion to get away from his job for a while. But when he fails to check in at the end of his trip, Grian is forced to report him as a missing person. And now the clock is ticking.
It's 1989. Grian takes a job in Shoshone National Forest as a fire lookout, prepared to spend the summer alone in the wilderness. But his primary goal isn't finding forest fires: it's finding Mumbo, who went missing in this location a year ago, alive and well. He expects to be alone. What Grian doesn't expect is having the company of the other nearby lookout, a man named Scar. Their relationship grows through their conversations held via two-way radio, as Grian begins to let Scar into the truth about why he's really here and mystery he's unraveling.
A Hermitcraft Firewatch AU.
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- Part 1 of Serotiny
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01 Dec 2023
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The Fires by Driverpicksthemooseic for ShakyHades
Fandoms: Star Wars - All Media Types, Star Wars Prequel Trilogy, Star Wars: The Clone Wars (2008) - All Media Types, Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith
26 Aug 2016
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He wakes quickly and without thought, breaking through the barrier of unconsciousness to find himself face down on the floor of a starfighter.
(OR, Groundhog Day. ROTS, Battle of Mustafar, Full-On Groundhog Day. Yes, I am a masochist, thank you for asking.)
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- Part 4 of Works Dedicated to Shaky
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27 Nov 2023
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Blade-Three, also known as Three, is the living weapon of the Watchers. Conditioned to follow orders, it is meant to use its considerable strength, combat abilities, and total loyalty to obliterate the enemies of the Watchers. Of course, the "following orders" part comes first, which is how, when Listener agent Martyn InTheLittleWood comes along with the right command words, he manages to steal it.
Now, instead of missions that make any sense, Three must navigate as Martyn and his roommate Jimmy attempt to teach it how to be human, or at least enough of a person to be itself. It would help if either Martyn or Jimmy knew how to be human either, and if they weren't falling apart at the seams after the death of an old friend.
(And of course, there's the matter of Three's original identity, a question no one thinks to ask...)
Or: in which Evo had a bad end, and five years later, the pieces that were left behind start to accidentally fall back together.
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05 Aug 2023
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one good thing by Yuu_chi
Fandoms: 魔道祖师 - 墨香铜臭 | Módào Zǔshī - Mòxiāng Tóngxiù, 陈情令 | The Untamed (TV)
11 Dec 2019
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Wei Wuxian has been haunting his childhood home for three years. He's perfected the fine art of scaring away all the tenants, and has grown used to living with the dying flowers in the garden as his only company.
When Lan Wangji buys the house, Wei Wuxian fully intends to drive him off too. Except Lan Wangji is beautiful, and interesting, and captivating company - even if he supposedly doesn't know Wei Wuxian exists.
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- Part 1 of heart, home, spirit & soul
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06 Jun 2023
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So, Tango isn’t dead. That’s a good thing, because if he’d gone through all that trouble to die now, he needn’t have bothered with all the effort. What’s less good is that he’s trapped somewhere beyond a black hole, with no way home and no idea what to do. Oh, and the aliens. The aliens are here too.
Pearl isn’t dead. Which is weird, because she’d rather thought she would be, and she’s not really sure what to do now that she isn’t. She’s also trapped on the other side of a magical portal with no way to get back—but maybe that isn’t so much of a bad thing. Or, at least, it wouldn’t be, if it weren’t for the fact that this place is riddled with demons.
Impulse is tired of waiting for a message. It’s time to send one of his own.
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- Part 4 of Lifeline AU
- Part 7 of Author's Favourites
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24 May 2023
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fill in the shadows, block out the light by relic_crown
Fandoms: Rusty Quill Gaming (Podcast)
03 Oct 2021
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In the twisting underbelly of London, blood runs black and explosions are the closest thing to flowers.
Sasha drags the monochrome of her home up to the surface with her. Drags the violence and scruffiness and brutality of it into the light. Of course, as far as reminders go, he could do far worse – Hamid likes Sasha.
(Snapshots of Hamid and Sasha’s friendship, from beginning to bitter end.)
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21 Dec 2022
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The Atsign Agency: run by Joe Hills and the zombie Cleo, they're here to solve all of your supernatural problems, hauntings, magical accidents, and also just about any contracting work or errands you need if you're willing to have it done cheaply by two unqualified odd jobbers struggling to make rent. After over a decade together in the city of Carrows, the two of them frequently see things and deal with things that are probably a bit too ridiculous to name, and have the experience to handle it, if not particularly frequently the money.
When the mysterious (and clearly very rich) Pearl Moon walks into their agency, offering them a massive payment for a simple job, what are they to do but accept?
Yeah, they may be about to regret that one. This job is going to be anything but simple, and the entire City of Angels may be at stake. Careful, Atsign Agency: the past is watching.
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24 Sep 2022
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Nothing happened, Tango is sure of it. He just inexplicably fell asleep for 5 weeks straight, that’s all. He woke up fine, everything is fine. Besides, Xisuma would have told him if something was wrong. The hermits would have told him.
...Right?
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04 May 2022
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In which Mumbo crosses several towns, learns some creative methods of self-defense, fights some monsters, sees things no human is meant to have seen, befriends a stranger, steals multiple cars, has inconvenient moral scruples, grows increasingly terrified of his own culpability in the apocalypse, grows a spine, blows up at least one building, accidentally prevents a murder, and attempts to find his best friend in the futile but ever-burning hope the man’s still alive.
He has to say, he’s so exhausted and terrified that he thinks he might just be mad?
(OR: the one where, after most of humanity turns into a series of terrifying monsters, Mumbo decides he’s going to risk his life on an apocalypse road trip to try to find out if Grian is alive. Things, as you might imagine, devolve from there.)
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18 Jan 2022
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yeah theyre just bros thanks for asking by victortor for victortor
Fandoms: 魔道祖师 - 墨香铜臭 | Módào Zǔshī - Mòxiāng Tóngxiù
29 Mar 2020
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When meddling friends trick Wei Wuxian into having a date with his best friend Lan Wangji, parts of their relationship he hadn't questioned in years suddenly tumble into the spotlight.
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25 Sep 2021
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there will never be a brighter day than this by distanceseventeen
Fandoms: Deltarune (Video Game)
26 Feb 2020
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The world of a video game cannot move onward without the player.
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21 Sep 2021
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The Sabbatical by morelikeassassin
Fandoms: The Magnus Archives (Podcast), Archive 81 (Podcast)
06 May 2020
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Nicholas Waters is in need of an all-knowing eldritch entity beyond the confines of human imagining to help with his latest ritual. He'll have to settle for Jonathan Sims, who happens to have nothing better to do.
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21 Aug 2020
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Five times Rita didn't meet Peter Nureyev, and one time she did.
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18 Mar 2020
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The rumor was that Jon Sims had a secret patron at the Institute. In a way, it was true.
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05 Jan 2020
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