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A Brief Epilogue by Hornet Enjoyer (TerminalMiraculosis)
Fandoms: Hollow Knight (Video Games), Hollow Knight: Silksong
26 Oct 2025
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MAJOR SPOILERS FOR SILKSONG'S TRUE ENDING.
After her close call with the void below all things, Hornet wishes nothing more than to retire to her bellhome and rest. Unfortunately, Lace is a nuisance, and will not stop bothering her with petty insults and boorish innuendo.
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- Part 1 of A Verbose Epilogue
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- English
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- 43,292
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- 8/?
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Bookmarked by cubicmessier
04 Nov 2025
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History isn't all that it's cracked up to be, and Bloom seems to be the only one to know that.
What do you get when you toss a victim of the American public education system with a deep interest in history into a highly propagandized world of magic, fairies and justice?
Bloom. You get Bloom. And making friends with her enemies, apparently. And making enemies with her friends, apparently. And it's going to be fine, honestly. They're at Alfea to change the world. Why not start with its past?- Words:
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Bookmarked by cubicmessier
29 Oct 2025
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Avid finds Scott after all the chaos. It doesn't go well. Will he be the last like Owen said?
(Vampires Win Timeline/AU diverging from after episode 3- before 4ish)
Bookmarked by cubicmessier
29 Oct 2025
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Apo has decided to infiltrate the Coven as a means to garner information that could help Oakhurst in the long run. The only problem is that the longer she stays around these people, who truly aren't too different from the rest of the village, she finds herself not wanting to leave. They care about her, in their weird and twisted ways.
Or Five times the Coven shows Apo she belongs and the one time she believes it.
Bookmarked by cubicmessier
24 Oct 2025
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It was far from perfectly applicable to her own death. It was a piece of evidence that would never have held up in court, one would have had all her credentials laughed to pieces, but why would that matter when she would never be able to return home to where and who she once was. Why would that matter, when this was only her trying to figure out if the threads of her thoughts were free of someone else’s strings.
It was a proof of character.
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- Part 3 of Charred Vampires SMP oneshots
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- English
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- 3,189
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- 1/1
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Bookmarked by cubicmessier
22 Oct 2025
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“They just attacked you, didn't they? Like you and Scott did to me?”
“Well, yes,” Pyro said, quicker on the uptake this time. “We're vampires. That's how it works.”
“That doesn't make it okay, though. You know that, right?”
“I don't get what you mean.”
“You don't just get to attack someone, and change them into something else, and expect them to be okay with it,” Apo said. “I may have agreed to the change, but I didn't have much of a choice. And you didn't have any choice, they just did this to you. Doesn't that bother you? Doesn't that make you want to do something about it?”
Bookmarked by cubicmessier
20 Oct 2025
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I’ll Meet You Halfway Between the Night and the Day by VenetaPsi
Fandoms: Vampires SMP, Minecraft (Video Game)
28 Sep 2025
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“...Scott wants to talk to you.”
Pyro’s head snapped up. “W-what?”
“To us both,” Owen corrected, as if his words hadn’t immediately kicked Pyro’s fight-or-flight into full gear. “He thinks it’s time we stop playing pretend with the humans and actually get on the same page.”
“Right. Of course.” Pyro’s hands clasped in front of himself and he wrung them anxiously. “H-he wants to see me?”
“I was sent specifically to get you,” Owen intoned. “So I would say so, yes.”
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“What do we do?” Martyn whispered, eyeing the decayed door with horror. It was truly the only thing keeping the vampire lord outside at bay.
“I don’t know!” Cleo paced wildly, one hand clutching at their hair. “We have minutes at most. If he breaks down that door or—or the ceiling or something—”
“Then we’re fucked.” Martyn’s lips pressed into a thin line.
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The vampires come together to talk out their differences; Pyro has a bad time; Cleo and Martyn take a daring risk to protect themselves from Scott.
Part 3 of AEOE1
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- Part 3 of An Elaboration on Episode One (VSMP)
Bookmarked by cubicmessier
20 Oct 2025
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But then Scott stopped talking, and Pyro quickly followed suit. The nobleman’s nose scrunched up, his now pointier ears (seriously, how had nobody noticed that? He wasn’t crazy! They just refused to look!) twitched. All that Avid could hear was his own heartbeat. He wasn’t breathing, he wasn’t moving. He refused to let out a single sound. He wasn’t ready, not to go against two of them. Maybe if he’d just come across one of them by themselves, he could have… surely if it was Pyro. Scott he was far more afraid of.
“It sounds like we have company”. Following Scott’s words, everything moved in slow motion. The vampire’s head turned, their eyes locked together, and then Avid was running.
He didn’t know where he was going. There was nowhere for him to run. He was far away from town, outside of any proper path, and, most importantly, nobody believed him. Nobody had tried going after him. He had no allies left. Nobody would have known if he had died.
Avid was going to die.
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or, after running away from Oakhurst, Avid stumbles across Pyro and Scott. He doesn't manage to go unnoticed
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- Part 4 of Stell's VSMP Fixation
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- English
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Bookmarked by cubicmessier
19 Oct 2025
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all is fair in love and war but i can't fight with you anymore by rabbit_with_a_sword
Fandoms: Vampires SMP
15 Oct 2025
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If asked, Pyro would definitely say that living in Scott’s castle is good. It’s amazing, even—there’s cattle to eat, chickens to bleed, it’s grand and beautiful and really lives up to the hype, Scott’s got a wonderful eye for decorating and it shows—and he’s not only saying that because of the Nightly Affirmations! It really is a lovely castle! Pyro has passed many a late morning crouching in the shaded part of the courtyard and watching the blood fountain trickle! There are lots of bats to watch… he doesn’t have to eat anything if he doesn’t want to, even if he’s hungry…
“I still don’t want to come out,” Apo says from within her room. Prison. Whatever. It’s her room, technically, but Scott said if she was going to sulk like a teenager over being turned she could stay in her room until her attitude improved, and Pyro knows how futile it is to try and work around direct orders like that.
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- Part 1 of Apokuna & Pyroscythe
Bookmarked by cubicmessier
19 Oct 2025
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The infection is a disease of the mind caused by an angry god who is dying from a lack of worship and belief.
So what happens when they believe a simple item can keep her from their minds?
After all, what is a god to a nonbeliever?A frightened human who doesn't know how she ended up in Hallownest tells a white lie to some children to help them with their irrational fears. It spirals out of control.
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- Part 1 of Belief and Strings
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- English
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- 193,180
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- 29/29
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Bookmarked by cubicmessier
12 Sep 2025
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How to Become a Bard (And Other Stories) by BritishAssistant
Fandoms: Baldur's Gate (Video Games)
23 Nov 2024
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“Have any of you ever worked willingly with someone you disliked before?” You demand. “Ever?”
Gale scratches at his beard. Astarion pretends his gaze has been caught by Gale’s boots. Shadowheart opens her mouth and then slowly closes it again.
“There were many of my cousins in creche K’liir who were jealous of my prowess, and made it known to me by word or deed.” Lae’zel retorts.
“Did you kill them for it?” You ask.
She actually sets her shoulders back with pride. “Naturally. One does not become a kith’rak by suffering the impudence of fools.”
You stare at them all in mute horror.
“Dear Companion, we’ve got a lot of work to do.”(In which a refugee from Elturel takes an unwitting ride on the Nautiloid)
Bookmarked by cubicmessier
21 Jan 2025
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Gale Dekarios of Waterdeep is on a noble quest to rid himself and his newfound bosom friends of the mindflayer tadpoles which were implanted in their heads aboard the nautiloid!
There’s just one small problem.
Gale isn’t infected.
Bookmarked by cubicmessier
21 Jan 2025
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"Remind me," Mystra asks Elminster. "How long is a year? Put it in context."
Elminster sighs. "I have lived over three hundred of them."
"And Gale?"
When he speaks, it is with the weight of all those years hanging heavy in his voice. "Nineteen."
Bookmarked by cubicmessier
21 Jan 2025
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The Last Will and Testament of Cazador Szarr by AbigailMoment
Fandoms: Baldur's Gate (Video Games)
03 Nov 2025
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"First," said Gale. "Do not kill any thinking creatures in Waterdeep unless you must to protect yourself or you have my express permission."
As Gale spoke, he could feel the weight of his words sinking into the person sitting across from him. It was like casting a spell, but took no effort. Astarion had been staring hollowly into his goblet of blood, but at this he made a faintly interested noise. As if the rule were novel and he was considering the shape of it.
"Second, you will obey me in all things," said Gale. There didn't feel like there was any honest way of softening that. Astarion didn't make any sound at all.
"Third, do not leave the tower without permission." Astarion made another speculative noise, considering this one too. But then his shoulders hunched and his eyes skittered down, as if he didn't want to look at what was about to happen.
"Fourth," Gale said, and paused. He started with some context: "There is a tressym upstairs."
Astarion's head twitched. He looked up at Gale, blinking, startled. He had the air of someone who had been bracing for a blow and instead had just been handed a balloon animal.
"A what?" he asked.
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- Part 1 of Will & Testament
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- English
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- 213,055
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- 52/57
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Bookmarked by cubicmessier
20 Jan 2025
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This is my AU where Astarion gets to process his emotions a bit earlier, and Gale is a bit more volatile, and those two things match up quite well.
Thing’s are not being written in consecutive order, but will be added to the right spot in the timeline once posted.
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Bookmarked by cubicmessier
18 Jan 2025
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Gale had been steadily trying to get to know his newfound camp mates, which had proven difficult given everyone was hiding something, himself included, but slow progress was still progress all the same. Today's subject was their resident warlock.
Or, a bit of bonding takes place over fencing practice.
Bookmarked by cubicmessier
17 Jan 2025
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Wyll, Karlach, and Lae’zel speak with a Gur monster hunter in a bog and Astarion happens to be there. It’s a very awkward way to get outted as a vampire to your (mostly) unsuspecting teammates. AKA: Tav-less Act 1 party jumps the team rogue and holds him down for questioning. It's fine.
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- Part 5 of Astarion Origin Party Nonsense
Bookmarked by cubicmessier
15 Jan 2025
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Lyf had been having a very peaceful and fulfilling few decades, at least in terms of work fulfillment and being able to afford to bail out of the system at the very first moment anything happened.
So of course that was when the Mechanisms appeared over the horizon.Series
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- English
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- 116,615
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- 19/19
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Bookmarked by cubicmessier
22 Dec 2024
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“We were just discussing our quarry for today. Have you ever met the Beast of the Northern Forest?”
“No,” Jon replies. The title does register as somehow familiar in his mind, but he immediately buries the feeling. The last thing he needs is a personal connection to today’s victim.
“You were still very young during the last social season, I suppose,” Elias says. Jon doesn’t respond to the comment, doesn’t allow himself to feel anything about it. Elias continues, “He’s a coveted prize among hunters. Many members of the guild, myself included, have been trying to trap him for years, with no luck. He’s very—”
Jon stops listening.
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- English
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Bookmarked by cubicmessier
22 Dec 2024
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Enough Rope by Amber_and_Ash
Fandoms: Marvel Cinematic Universe, The Avengers (Marvel Movies), Captain America (Movies), Iron Man (Movies)
30 Jul 2017
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Tony can't get himself back from Siberia, and it takes the night for him to be rescued. While waiting to see if he'll die of hypothermia, he realises something for the first time. It wasn't that he failed because he hadn't tried hard enough. He had failed because he had tried too hard. His so-called team-mates had formed the habit of blaming Tony for everything because he had let them. He had shouldered the blame, let them attack him without consequence, and cleaned up after their mess, all so they could continue to feel self-righteous in peace. But it wasn't just him they were attacking, and saving the world didn't give them a free pass to be the very bullies that Steve claimed to fight against.
Tony woke up in hospital, still sustained by the relief of his realisation. Things sucked, but they would get better. He was Tony Stark, and no challenge was too much for him. It was odd how much easier it was to plot when he actually did intend ways to manipulate the ex-Avengers into falling in line. And since that was what they seemed convinced he was doing all along, they didn't deserve a warning that it would now be true.
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- Part 1 of Enough Rope
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 89,164
- Chapters:
- 24/24
- Collections:
- 27
- Comments:
- 1,912
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Bookmarked by cubicmessier
04 Nov 2024