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velvet burns by flynnwb
Fandoms: The Locked Tomb Series | Gideon the Ninth Series - Tamsyn Muir
14 Oct 2024
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“Whoa, hey, shh,” the woman touches her upper arm solicitously, and when Gideon shrugs her off she lifts both hands up, palms open. “I was only joking, silly. Pushing your buttons. Don’t you joke with your friends?”
Gideon settles slowly, lips still pressed in a thin line but less ready to bolt. “I’m trying to say I’d like us to be friends. On an ongoing basis. Not just one-life-saved, one-drink, one-night. Real friends.” That worms its way right into the center of something old and knotted in Gideon’s chest. She’s not stupid, this woman very obviously wants something extra too. But she can count on one hand the amount of times someone’s said that to her in her short life. “So, what do you say?”
Haltingly, Gideon nods.
Gideon thinks she’s getting herself a sugar mama. Harrow feels she’s getting sabotaged by a scrupleless competitor for the next official Lyctoral appointment in the Los Angeles First Central Church of the Great Resurrection. Cytherea knows she’s getting an excellent bargain for the price she’s paying, but that won’t stop her from wringing the most bang possible out of her buck.
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let them weep to speak of us by flynnwb for apredatorywasp
Fandoms: The Locked Tomb Series | Gideon the Ninth Series - Tamsyn Muir
22 Sep 2024
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“Doesn’t this make you feel so alive? Our power: us, here, together?” Ianthe breathes. Harrow glances over at her. Ianthe is looking into the far distance, eyes bright with a hungry fervor, pinpricks of blood-red excitement high on her cheeks. This system’s star has a rosy hue, burning colder late in its life cycle, and the daylight offsets Ianthe’s usual sickly pallor. The Eighth Saint glows in her dirty white robes, looking warm and alive here on this planet in a way she never does in the icy illumination of their shared shuttle.
Harrow hates her.
(From the request: ‘dark universe Harrianthe Lyctors, cruelty and fucked up dynamics,’ a story in which Ianthe gets what she wants, but Ianthe doesn’t tend to want things that are all that good for her.)
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with a little help from my friends by flynnwb
Fandoms: The Queen's Thief - Megan Whalen Turner
23 Feb 2023
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The king turned and pressed the (still generously full) wineskin into Aris’s hands. He leaned up conspiratorially and Aris had no choice but to bend his ear, catching a whiff of alcohol on the king’s breath. “It seems poor Costis’s homing pigeon sense of duty can’t allow me a moment of peace, but I’ve been told in no uncertain terms to go to bed. You’ll keep your friend occupied and out of trouble for me, yes?”
“Uhh,” said Aris.
“Well said,” agreed the king, clapping Aris on the shoulder, and then he disappeared through the closet doors on the opposite side of the room, and did not come back out.
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at the foot of my bed (I can lay down next to you) by flynnwb
Fandoms: The Locked Tomb Trilogy | Gideon the Ninth Series - Tamsyn Muir
03 Nov 2021
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At first, she had slept. She’s not even sure how long it lasted; how can one mark time in the white blank bliss of oblivion? But then, the dreams had begun. Just snippets, initially. An alien ship, familiar faces; Ianthe’s disdainful washed-out loveliness, the dark, unassuming features of the Emperor Undying, the violently unwelcome Ortus- no, Gideon the First.
And yet, Gideon’s (her Griddle, not that desiccated ass) roguish, lopsided grin is excruciatingly absent. Lucid dreaming is clearly a pernicious fiction, because Harrow can’t manage even for one brief instant to relive the certainty of those strong arms eclipsing her like gravity in the weightlessness of dense saltwater. In rare moments of clarity she finds herself wishing that, if the dreams weren’t to be of Gideon, they might cease entirely and leave her to rest in tranquil nothingness.
They do not.
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- Part 4 of relief next to me
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I will call you pretty darlin', tell me what I am by flynnwb
Fandoms: The Locked Tomb Trilogy | Gideon the Ninth Series - Tamsyn Muir
07 Sep 2021
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Gideon had insisted on Harrow’s body remaining fully clothed, a pretense so absurd in light of the situation that Ianthe had struggled to suppress a laughing fit when Gideon first said it. But Ianthe had (mostly) been circumspect with her amusement, and later, when Harrow - no, correction, when Gideon was stumbling over her tongue, saying (in that voice with such a familiar timbre but completely unfamiliar heat) “please,” and “god,” and “I need-,” Ianthe had simply slipped the loose black trousers down around Harrow’s bony knees and let Gideon keep her tunic and robe. Ianthe is, above all things, self-possessed; she isn’t about to lose her hold on the chivalrous little cavalier now by tightening her grip too hastily. After all, without Gideon to toy with, how else is she supposed to pass the time on this lonely cruiser limping along through an even lonelier corner of space?
This work can be read as a stand alone, but is a sequel to: first in the series
And: second in the seriesSeries
- Part 3 of relief next to me
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relief next to me by flynnwb
Fandom The Locked Tomb Trilogy | Gideon the Ninth Series - Tamsyn Muir
03 Nov 2021
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“What’s wrong with a little quid pro quo?" Ianthe asks, sweetly. "I’m giving you exactly what I know you need-” Harrow’s-no, Gideon's nostrils flare at that, “and in return you’re giving me something that I want very much.”
Post-HtN Ianthe has missed her chance with Harrow, hopefully only until some later date. In the mean time, there's always the naïve cavalier who wears Harrow's body awkwardly, like it's two sizes too small. Gideon may play-act the immovable object at first, but Ianthe is at her core an unstoppable force, and she learned long ago precisely how to identify fault lines in solid rock.
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Mandalore at Night (Greetings From!) by BucketofWater
Fandoms: Star Wars - All Media Types, The Mandalorian (TV)
28 Mar 2023
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au: The Jedi Temple requires access to resources on Mandalore. As per Mandalorian custom a familial tie must be established to justify the request. The solution presented is simple: wed an accomplished Jedi to a member of Mandalorian aristocracy. Knight Ahsoka Tano is selected for the honour and finds herself presented to the Mand'alor.
Her padawan, Luke, is brought along for the journey.
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06 Jul 2026
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listen, there's a hell of a universe next door by storm_petrel
Fandoms: Star Wars - All Media Types, Star Wars Original Trilogy, The Mandalorian (TV)
07 Nov 2021
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As it turns out, no one ever taught Luke how to tie a little green baby to his back one-handed, but Luke thinks he's pretty gods-damned good at problem-solving under pressure, thank you, and the baby is at least semi-cooperative. When he's sure the kid is strapped in as tight as he can get, Luke pauses, and reaches back. His fingers graze the wide point of the baby's fuzzy ear. "Well, kid," says Luke, and his voice is a little rough, but not bad, all things considered. "Carrying you on my back while getting the absolute banthashit kicked out of me, at least this feels familiar."
The baby coos in his ear, and then kicks him hard in the kidney. Yoda used to do the exact same thing. Somehow, it's a lot more endearing now.
Or: Luke Skywalker solves a number of life-or-death problems, makes some new friends, falls abruptly in love, and gets shot into space, all in the same day.
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- Part 1 of it's a hell of a universe
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Bookmarked by flynnwb
20 Jun 2026
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Cheeky, snappy pacing, badass fights! A light, fast, fun read.
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oh the things we left behind by furiosophie
Fandoms: Star Wars Original Trilogy, The Mandalorian (TV), Star Wars - All Media Types
04 May 2021
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After he commits every single weapon in the hold to memory, Din finds himself cataloging more and more things about Skywalker instead, small observations that carve out a space in his mind unbidden.
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As much as Din likes to tell himself that he’s just been taking a well-deserved break, the truth is that for the six months following their daring rescue he’s been nothing but truly and utterly lost. That is until Luke Skywalker gives him a ship and hires him to help figure out what the hell the Empire needed the Child’s blood for.
As they drift through the empty void of hyperspace, they slowly find unexpected companions in each other and realize their respective paths might not be as set as they once thought.
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- Part 1 of oh the things that shine bright
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11 Jun 2026
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Where There's a Will There's a Way by xiaq
Fandoms: The Mandalorian (TV), Star Wars - All Media Types
01 Nov 2022
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Luke walks straight to Din and Din suddenly feels like he should be doing something with his hands.
“Hi,” he says.
“Hi,” Luke agrees, grinning. “So. I didn’t get your name, before. Grogu just calls you ‘Daddy’ in his head but I’m assuming I should call you something else.”
Din chokes a little.
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This is basically an Accidental Warlord Din Djarin fic in which Din plays the role of reluctant DILF leader with a heart of gold and Luke plays the role of initially distrusted twink who quickly becomes beloved by all (especially said warlord). The Mandalorians are like, "we've only had Luke Skywalker for a day and a half but if anything happened to him I would kill everyone in this room and then myself."
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Bookmarked by flynnwb
27 May 2026
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“You don’t mind, do you?” Shane asked, before he could stop himself.
Ilya looked at him like he’d said something stupid. Shane cringed. “No, it is good for me,” Ilya said, his lip curling up. “Healthy competition.”After Sochi, Shane starts sleeping with another man. After Vegas, he picks back up with Ilya, too.
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26 May 2026
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This story is SO on the nose "in your twenties, hot, messy and autistic" it's physically PAINFUL to me oh my god. Never in a million years would I want to live this life again but it feels extremely authentic to read it