mourningafterdark
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A Higher Consciousness by vonquixote (mourningafterdark) for SpecsySpecs
Fandoms: Warhammer 40k (Novels) - Various Authors
15 Dec 2025
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Lysikor has survived the downfall of a dynasty, outrun his former allies, and found himself in command of a ship. He has yet to discover exactly what that means.
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the sum of our memories will not resolve true by vonquixote (mourningafterdark) for SpecsySpecs
Fandoms: Warhammer 40k (Novels) - Various Authors
15 Dec 2025
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Khemet knows this cannot have happened. She never came to Kheretesh in the time of flesh, never knew Ahnuret before biotransference, and certainly never knew her like this. This memory is a lie.
That knowledge does not help.
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The Hunt For Black October (1984) by mourningafterdark
Fandoms: The Locked Tomb Series | Gideon the Ninth Series - Tamsyn Muir
11 Mar 2023
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It's late 1984, and Nine While Nine are about to hit the big time. Our intrepid reporter tracks them down in Manchester and gets an earful from Nova, Nav and Nigenad. God help him.
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- Part 4 of Some Girls Wander By Mistake
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this letter will not find you well by mourningafterdark
Fandoms: The Locked Tomb Trilogy | Gideon the Ninth Series - Tamsyn Muir
15 Dec 2020
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FROM THE REVEREND DAUGHTER HARROWHARK NONAGESIMUS, HEIR TO THE NINTH HOUSE, NINTH SAINT TO SERVE THE KING UNDYING, NOW DECEASED,
TO GIDEON NAV, CAVALIER PRIMARY TO THE NINTH HOUSE, IN THE EVENT OF HER RESURRECTION,
TO BE READ IN ITS ENTIRETY.
(Seriously, Griddle. You will be furious. This is fine. But read the whole damned letter through, please.)
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Left on Mission and Revenge (The Quietus, 2012) by mourningafterdark for stazybo
Fandoms: The Locked Tomb Trilogy | Gideon the Ninth Series - Tamsyn Muir, The Sisters of Mercy (Band)
15 Dec 2020
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Thirty years ago, skint broke Gideon Nav and university dropout Harrow Nova started a band.
Twenty-nine years ago, they hired Ortus Nigenad, because he could actually play guitar.
Twenty-five years ago, he quit, due to "musical differences."
He is now legally permitted to tell his story.
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- Part 3 of Some Girls Wander By Mistake
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Some Girls Wander By Mistake by mourningafterdark
Fandom The Locked Tomb Series | Gideon the Ninth Series - Tamsyn Muir, The Locked Tomb Trilogy | Gideon the Ninth Series - Tamsyn Muir, The Sisters of Mercy (Band)
11 Mar 2023
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In the late summer of 1981, Harrow Nova had just dropped out of Leeds University and Gideon Nav’s visa was about to expire and they both owed several months’ back rent. Unemployed and desperate, they did what everyone unemployed and desperate in the North of England was doing, and started a band.
This is their story.
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Another Kind of Vengeance by magistralucis (Solitary_Shadow) for CthosEris
Fandoms: Warhammer 40.000, Warhammer 40k (Novels) - Various Authors
25 Dec 2025
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What's true does not throw sand into one's oculars. So sleep, Zahndrekh. Sleep in your sworn-brother's grace.
Millions of years after Yama, Setekh finally confesses the intensity with which no part of him has moved on.
As a last resort, he appeals to the Stormlord to take Zahndrekh with him to Doahht. A monologue signifying nothing.[Written for the WH40K Secret Sanguinala Exchange 2025. Setekh→Obyron/Zahndrekh. References past events of Severed.]
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Bookmarked by mourningafterdark
26 Dec 2025
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Deep in the darkness, he catches the faint glint of a polished golden Aquila on the commissar’s hat. Kill him—cut off the head, and the battle is already won. They don’t know how to fight without orders. They don’t feel the rhythm of eternal war. Their corpse-god won’t save them.
He inhales deeply, his lungs expanding, the dull ache in his side rippling through his body. Pain sharpens him. Pain connects him to the Truth. It is a necessity.
“Architect of Fate, let luck be in my favor,” he whispers.
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Merek Randon, a traitor guardsman, sees a divine vision on the battlefield.- Language:
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Bookmarked by mourningafterdark
26 Dec 2025
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Harrow The Ninth After Action Report by the_heretic_redeemed
Fandoms: The Locked Tomb Series | Gideon the Ninth Series - Tamsyn Muir
27 Feb 2022
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After completing an experiment in media consumption, results must be summarized and published. Consider this as such. Seriously, this isn't fanfic, this is my actual human response to reading a real physical book.
Bookmarked by mourningafterdark
28 Feb 2022
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#4exgfs by knockforaloop (tiac), tiac for DarkVeracity, jpnadia
Fandoms: The Locked Tomb Trilogy | Gideon the Ninth Series - Tamsyn Muir
17 Oct 2022
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CW for four people being their worst selves. Gideon and Harrow are roommates in a shitty yet expensive apartment. Ianthe and Corona live together too, in a lavish pre-war 3-bedroom that has been rent-controlled in their family for generations. Ianthe and Harrow are in the same grad sciences program, and Gideon is front-desk staff at the boutique gym Corona frequents. YES Gideon moved to New York so that Harrow could get her bioengineering PhD there and YES they had zero further discussion of what Harrow owes her or what plans Harrow will include her in after graduation 🥰
This story is about their lightning-bolt present and long slow future. Please be clear there are major Gideon/Harrow feelings, but they do not get intimate except in a way that fully exists to work out the author's fucked-up obsessive queerplatonic (?) early 20s. Enjoy but don't make eye contact with me!!
Bookmarked by mourningafterdark
03 Feb 2022
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God Will Regret Us by skeletonraiser
Fandoms: The Locked Tomb Series | Gideon the Ninth Series - Tamsyn Muir
09 Dec 2021
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an alternative universe that paints harrowhark and ianthe as lifelong friends and lovers who are going to kill god or die trying. [ written as an rp ]
Bookmarked by mourningafterdark
11 Jan 2022