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The winter after the Darkling is defeated, Alina and Mal decide to stay in a cabin before officially settling down. After a fight, Alina is left to live alone. It's not too long before shadows start to follow her.
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- Part 1 of TWAverse
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An expansion of the time Alina and the others spent aboard Nikolai’s ship in Siege & Storm.
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the winter after (extra scenes) by nightMotif
Fandoms: The Grisha Trilogy - Leigh Bardugo
01 Dec 2020
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Extra scenes from the winter after! I'm not too far along in the fic yet, but I already have a few things I feel like throwing out there. Just for shits and giggles.
The rest is just a random hodgepodge of scenes that I feel like sharing but that don't warrant their own fic.
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- Part 2 of TWAverse
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I looked into Mal’s eyes—his familiar blue eyes that I knew even better than my own. Except they weren’t blue. In the dying lamplight, they glimmered quartz gray.
He smiled then, a cold, clever smile like none I’d ever seen on his lips.
“I missed you too, Alina.”
Instead of responding with fear, Alina responds with anger. A different take on the scene where he comes to her.
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In which Alina regains her power, leaves Mal, and marries Nikolai. In time, she finds her way to the Darkling. Post Ruin & Rising, except Alina is the only sun summoner. Aleksander doesn’t truly die.
Somewhat based on the fic Start a War, which I adore with my entire heart and soul.
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Dave Lalonde is an internationally renown movie director arguably more famous than God, and indisputably richer. He certainly isn't expecting the bizarrely dressed stranger he runs into in the bathroom of an Academy Awards afterparty to indelibly interpose himself into his life in the worst possible ways. However much he might want to, Dirk Strider inevitably proves to be a man that Dave will never be able to forget.
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26 Jan 2026
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written by one of the hs epilogue authors, a horror story deconstruction of hs fic tropes in the most glorious and terrible trainwreck. jesus fucking christ.
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24 Jan 2026
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All time favorite, so tense and frustrating and downright romantic.
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“I’ve been trying to integrate some Alternian samples into my mixes lately,” Dave said, with a little half-shrug. “You know - appeasing our new overlords by totally appreciating their sick beats. I thought maybe that’s why you keep coming to see me.”
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30 Dec 2025
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think I processed some stuff I thought I was long over while reading this
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Fighting fire with fire is okay in theory but Detective-Summoner Dave L. Strider figures trying to summon corporeal demons to the mortal plane to fight other demons is likely to backfire spectacularly. Sadly for him his inner Knight gets the vapors at the thought of letting anyone else play guinea pig.
Yup, he is totally hogging the demon. What could go wrong? (Oh no, Dave, why did you have to think that.)
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20 Dec 2025
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wow, just….
AGONIZING pining, in the sense that their relationship is so complex and fraught with imbalance, then later trust and affection. The alien-ness of the trolls was translated well with a genuine queer relationship that takes different species’ emotions into account. Love how broken up Dave was about sex. Was very raw, left me pretty emotional.
Crazy world building. Will honestly need a reread to pick up on everything that went over my head before I realized how many moving parts were under the surface here.
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I liked the Homestuck Epilogues, but they aren't canon, and they make no pretense at being canon. If you're uninterested in taking Andrew Hussie's word for it, maybe you'll take my several thousand ones.
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11 Dec 2025