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All Gem wanted was solitude. What she got instead: one shattered window, three magical tricksters, and a moonlit forest that doesn’t take kindly to loners. She may be a witch, but she’s not sure she’s ready for whatever kind of welcome this is.
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Creatures Such as We by lightningskys for TimeToCommitCrimes
Fandoms: 3rd Life | Last Life SMP Series
26 Mar 2025
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Pearl laughs. Shrugs. Looks at Scar with her sharpened teeth and her wild hair and her red red hood to match her red red axe. She grins.
“Would you like to help me kill someone, Scar?”
The part of Scar’s brain that should be focusing on plausible deniability and contingency plans is suspiciously but blissfully quiet.
“Yeah, okay,” he says.
or: Scar spends a night running alongside Pearl’s pack of monsters
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They Never Promised You Mercy by lightningskys
Fandoms: 3rd Life | Last Life SMP Series, Hermitcraft SMP
27 Jan 2025
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Three days before he bleeds out on a courtroom floor, Ren shakes the hand of the man that will kill him.
or: A life series/hermitcraft Paradise Killer au, as told by the rebel, the witness, and the doomed
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Caleb and Beauregard have been partners since childhood, a magician and a brawler working to ascend through the Sixth House's convoluted hierarchy, united in the purpose of saving Jester Lavorre.
But Caleb faces the thing wearing Jester's face alone.
or: a mighty nein locked tomb au
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You've never told him your name. He's never asked.
or: EMF, Evbo, and the weight of a name at the end of the world
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recognize them by their fruits by ceruleanVulpine
Fandoms: The Locked Tomb Trilogy | Gideon the Ninth Series - Tamsyn Muir
07 Sep 2020
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You have a not-especially-vested interest in not bringing up the Emperor’s dead Hands, those who betrayed him (at least half) and those he preferred to you (probably all, you anemic milk-slick, you eclipse-shadow of greatness). Your position is precarious. You are intimately goddamn aware of it.
But at least you have the same old advantages as always: in the deep and twisty vessel of you there is not one scruple nor drop of shame. And you are accustomed to being the overlooked sister.
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John and Ianthe deal with the fact that his only remaining Lyctor is the one he never liked much. Maybe they can bond over the fact that they're both egotistical manipulators who lie like breathing? No?
Also, God sees ghosts. Ianthe doesn't help.
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21 Nov 2025
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and that which entwines by CorvidFeathers
Fandoms: Ginga Eiyuu Densetsu | Legend of the Galactic Heroes
18 Oct 2025
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If Imperial society requires the Mittermeyers to attend the theater, it is only appropriate that they invite Reuental to see the opera his own flagship is named after. This turns into a more taxing evening than anyone planned.
(Eva Mittermeyer loves Oskar von Reuental for her husband's sake. Some moments make this easier than others.)
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29 Oct 2025
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the night the comet hit the library by polyphenols
Fandoms: Ginga Eiyuu Densetsu | Legend of the Galactic Heroes
01 Feb 2023
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After a near-death experience, Anton Ferner reflects on his peculiar, indefinable relationship with Oberstein over the years. But there is more about Oberstein that he does not know, and yet more that he will not see coming as the era draws to a close.
Or, how to get away with being an emotionally unscathed observer 99% of the time and faceplant at the finish line.
This is fairly dark, but at points also darkly humorous. Spoilers through the end of LoGH.
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28 Oct 2025
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Quench the Thirst of Your Heart by apersea
Fandoms: Ginga Eiyuu Densetsu | Legend of the Galactic Heroes
31 May 2019
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Reuenthal’s ambitions threaten to turn him into a supernova. Wolfgang would give him what he needs, even if it could destroy him. That is, if only Reuenthal would let him.
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30 Sep 2025
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Morituri Te Salutant by natsinator
Fandoms: Ginga Eiyuu Densetsu | Legend of the Galactic Heroes
21 Sep 2021
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Two men prefer to remember fate, while everyone else prefers to forget.
On the day before destiny, Reuenthal and Kircheis share their secrets.
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30 Sep 2025