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  1. Chiaroscuro by

    Fandom Batman (Comics), Batman - All Media Types, DCU, DCU (Comics), Super Sons (Comics)

    18 Sep 2021

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    Chiaroscuro—the use of strong contrasts between light and dark, usually bold contrasts affecting a whole composition.

    Gotham is a filthy city, filled with sharp-edged, unpleasant people, but it works. They're making it work.

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  2. nothing blossoms here, this is blighted ground by

    Fandom Star Wars - All Media Types, Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope, Star Wars Original Trilogy

    10 Jun 2015

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    {A retelling of the Original Trilogy; currently discontinued}

     

    A collection of one-shots for the universe where it is Obi-Wan, and not Anakin, who leaves his humanity burning on the black sands of Mustafar.

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    The Curse of the Deserted Heart: A Tantalising Tale of Love and Adventure Amidst the Dunes of the Lost City That Will Thrill, Chill and Delight You! by

    Fandoms: The Mummy Series, The Mummy (1999), The Mummy (Movies 1999-2008)  

    20 Apr 2023

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    “Jonathan,” says Evy, walking straight into his living room without so much as a hello and standing directly in front of him. Her voice is saccharine, so sugary that it puts Jonathan’s teeth on edge. “Did you happen to become a bestselling author while Rick and I were in Luxor over summer?”

    Jonathan clears his throat, sinks a little lower in his armchair, and lifts yesterday’s edition of The Egyptian Gazette higher, obscuring the blush he knows he can’t control.

    “I have no idea how I’m supposed to answer that, dear sister,” he replies, “seeing as I have absolutely no idea what the current bestselling novels are.”

    When Jonathan writes an adventure—definitely not a romance, thank you—novel based on the whole Imhotep debacle, he doesn't expect it to become the bestselling pulp sensation of the decade. With hindsight, perhaps he should have made some of the real life parallels less obvious, especially when it comes to the dashing romantic lead, Abir Rey.

    Thankfully, there are no bookshops in the desert, so the chances of Ardeth reading it are blessedly slim.

    Probably.

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    05 Dec 2025

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    where no storms come by for Mavariel

    Fandoms: The Silmarillion and other histories of Middle-Earth - J. R. R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings - J. R. R. Tolkien  

    06 Sep 2021

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    There were many empty rooms in Rivendell. But there were many guests, too, Elves who had arrived in order to cross the sea in the same great convoy as Elrond himself. They were waiting for the last to arrive, and then they would depart, streaming across the wilds and plains of Eriador, over the Ered Luin, down into Lindon. With them would go history, wisdom, learning and memory: beauty and song. And it would not come back.

    Among this throng, Maglor passed, perhaps, as a wild Elf, who had come in from the wilderness to make that journey with them.

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    At the end of the Third Age, Maglor finds his way to Rivendell, and must decide whether or not to sail West with Elrond.

    (Written to partner this beautiful piece of art by mavariel - #133).

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    14 Oct 2025

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    A Road Bright and Swift by for venndaai

    Fandoms: The Lord of the Rings - J. R. R. Tolkien  

    05 May 2019

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    Gimli, freshly-wakened, was lying with his head propped on one hand, his blanket at his waist. And he said, his voice morning-hoarse, "If my memory doesn't fail me, we'll be reaching the River Limlight soon. I'd dearly love a wash."

    Legolas's heart seized and tightened. The Limlight was in the very north of the forest, and once across it, they would emerge from their easy wandering, cracking out of the chrysalis to the pain of the open air. No more Fangorn, no more careless peace, no more Gimli at dawn stretching his muscles limber and grumbling about the wear of a bootsole.

    And all the future losses lined themselves up.

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    13 Oct 2025

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    Traveling Bodies by

    Fandoms: The Lord of the Rings - All Media Types, The Lord of the Rings (Movies), TOLKIEN J. R. R. - Works & Related Fandoms, The Lord of the Rings - J. R. R. Tolkien  

    13 Oct 2017

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    Chapter 2 added: now complete!

    Bodies, sex, gender, culture, politics: everything is different between them, and nothing fits.

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    I like it, Legolas thinks. How he looks, how he is. And it’s just too strange a thought to handle.

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    12 Oct 2025

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    On the Cold Hill Side by

    Fandoms: The Lord of the Rings - All Media Types, The Lord of the Rings - J. R. R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings (Movies)  

    08 Jul 2014

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    In the end, Gimli thinks, Legolas will steal his heart and sail away with it, and even the wonders of the Glittering Caves are not enough consolation for that loss. But when Aragorn calls for Gimli’s help in dismantling the hidden traps of Orthanc, everything changes.

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    10 Oct 2025