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A third-year student has to complete a practical project for xir Uplift course. This requires running an experiment on a less-advanced alien civilization to remedy its real or perceived social ills. One student has picked Earth as xir subject.
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A Whisprey is something that attaches itself to an unlucky girl, appears in water cups, tea cups, or any vessel with a liquid in it, and whispers the victim's innermost thoughts out loud. One day Mena discovers she has a Whisprey of her own.
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Do not try to test whether the monolith really, physically takes you to the Iaunti galactic sector. People thought they could experiment with it, and the entire planet reaped the consequences.
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Training for Darkness by logonaut
Fandoms: Nightfall - Isaac Asimov (Novelette), Original Work
06 Feb 2026
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Loosely inspired by Isaac Asimov's novelette "Nightfall". The planet Lagash is constantly illuminated by six suns, and darkness does not exist here, because at least one sun is present in the sky at any given time. All Lagashians possess an intense, instinctive fear of the dark that causes them to go insane after just a few minutes of exposure to the dark. Once in several thousand years the suns and the moons align into a total eclipse that plunges the planet into darkness that all but guarantees extinction of civilization. The planetary authorities and clergy decide to train the people to tolerate darkness in advance of the event. They need volunteers to prove to everyone that it's possible.
The protagonist has a deeply personal reason to be the first volunteer.
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Impossible Colors by logonaut
Fandoms: Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell - Susanna Clarke, Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell & Related Fandoms
04 Feb 2026
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On her first night in Lost-Hope, Arabella is being dressed for a ball in an outfit of fairy colors. She believes she can leverage her understanding of fairies and their colors for her release.
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Nobody knows the true shape of the ruler of the Anamorphic Realm; his reflection in a cylindrical mirror shows a frog, but that's not what he is. A young woman who is being pressured to marry him thinks she has figured it out.
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In a hard-hit human colony on an inhospitable planet lives 13-year-old Orila, who almost never speaks. When an abusive authority figure tries to force her to speak, Orila becomes a conduit for something that will forever relieve her of a need to use words.
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The Shape of Exhalation by logonaut for tsukinousagi
Fandoms: Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell - Susanna Clarke, Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell & Related Fandoms
24 Dec 2025
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In Hurtfew Abbey, under the Pillar of Darkness, Jonathan Strange runs into a fairy that tries to read his memories. To avert the damage that the malicious creature might cause to his and Norrell's friendship, he suggests that they tell each other everything that a fairy might blackmail them with. But Norrell has secrets he would rather die than let Strange know.
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As a ship flies past a black hole's event horizon, the pilot notices that the blueshift of the visible stars is unexpectedly increasing. The realization of what means brings equal measure of happiness and dread to the characters.
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A box the color of symmetry by logonaut
Fandoms: Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell - Susanna Clarke, Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell & Related Fandoms
23 Nov 2025
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As Emma Pole's guardian at the Starecross Hall, Segundus is tricked by the Gentleman with the Thistle-down Hair to come to Lost-Hope and do something he would find unthinkable in real life.
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Rockmist is the only inhabitant and maintenance person of a space station that's used as a transit point for cargo that passes between the Diaspora's stations. One day she hears voices and fears that these are intruders - something unheard of in any space station. What they really are turns out to be something stranger.
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- Part 2 of The Sphere Gives
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The Orb and the Dagger by logonaut
Fandoms: The Lord of the Rings - J. R. R. Tolkien, TOLKIEN J. R. R. - Works & Related Fandoms
28 Oct 2025
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This is a reimagining of the scene from Lord of the Rings where Pippin, driven by a mischievous impulse, steals a Palantir from the sleeping Gandalf, looks at it, and makes contact with Sauron, who interrogates him.
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Two members of an advanced civilization are brainstorming what sign they should leave for an indigenous population of a planet so that many millennia later the natives would get in touch with them.
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Scientists modify a vampire's DNA so she could feed on color red, instead of blood. Unexpected consequences ensue.
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The Reverse Sun by logonaut
Fandoms: The Lord of the Rings - J. R. R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings - All Media Types
28 Sep 2025
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Driven by the darkness and restlessness inside, Berenga Goodchild used to wander the distant outskirts of The Shire and dream of roads leading to places where there were no second breakfasts to be had. A black rider on a winged beast in the sky embodies that which the young hobbit longed for, and Berenga becomes filled with something greater than one's own self.
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Freedom of Oblivion by logonaut
Fandoms: Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell - Susanna Clarke, Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell & Related Fandoms
21 Sep 2025
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After Segundus and Honeyfoot visited Hurtfew Abbey, Norrell struggled to figure out why he thought of Segundus so often.
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After the civilization on Earth collapses, the only hope for survival is to upload one's digitized mind into the Substrate. This final step proves very difficult for Dana to take. As her friend tries to help her, the boundaries between coercion and kindness blur.
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The protagonist must pass a test: to walk a narrow path over a kilometers-deep abyss in a space arcology. When her fear of heights turns into panic, help comes from an unexpected place.
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Indistinguishable to English Magic by logonaut for Predatrix
Fandoms: Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell - Susanna Clarke, Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell & Related Fandoms
01 Sep 2025
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Norrell once thought that English magic could no longer tell him and Strange apart (Chapter 63). Strange becomes very interested in what this indistinguishability means and what implications it could have for their relationship.
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Teshmir was told that zir Rite of Ascent will be administered by an alien of a species Teshmir has never seen before. Teshmir didn't know what to expect. The task the alien gave zir seemed deceptively simple.