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Eight moments in the lives of some of those who live and work in Stardew Valley.
[drabbles written for the Labor Day drabble challenge hosted by the Stardew Valley Fic Writers Guild, including two written post-challenge.]
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The wasteland's full of jobs to do and people to do them, from soldiers to raiders, from merchants to thieves. Question is, what do the people think about what they do to make a living?
[Interviews with wastelanders, where they "talk about what they do all day and how they feel about what they do." Based off of Working by Studs Terkel.]
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Time marches on, and, as always, she keeps pace flawlessly.
[Six 100 word drabbles on Chell and GLaDOS post-game.]
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But you were running on one point six volts. You had no energy to make metaphors and allegories. You only had enough energy to think, barely, and to talk. Nothing else. Unfortunately, nothing else.
[GLaDOS, post-finale, reflections on the tragedy of a megalomaniac. Largely an introspective fic. "Spoilers" for the co-op storyline.]
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Of all the things she's been through, she still believes Aperture's cruelest trick was the windows.
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"Smile, lady, and look up to your future – for that land goes by the name of Skyrim, and you are in it already."
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Bookmarked by oldmanatom
14 Jan 2013
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What I love about Skyrim is that it's a setting where you could write a thousand different smaller stories that have little to nothing to do with the main plot, or the main character. There are a ton of jumping off points to work with given the vastness of the world, and I think this story is an excellent example of that.
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Narrow Parameters by ASongofSixpence
Fandoms: Star Trek: Alternate Original Series (Movies)
03 Jul 2025
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When Vulcan is destroyed, everyone feels it. Isolated in the wilderness, Pavel's aunt and her Vulcan colleague have no choice but to help each other pick up the pieces.
(A look into Katreen and T'Parr's story, set during and after the events of The Seventeenth Mile.)
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- Part 2 of The Seventeenth Mileverse
Bookmarked by oldmanatom
04 Jul 2025
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look. i don't even go here. i know truly jack and shit about Star Trek, in any iteration. but i know people, and that's all you really need to know in order to appreciate what the author's doing here. a wonderfully thoughtful look at these two characters and how they slowly but surely come together, because and in spite of themselves.
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When she sees her next, she wants to push her against a wall with her forearm pressed to her throat. She wants to hear the gasp Eve makes when she finds her breath again.
When she sees her next, she wants Eve to beg her for this. She wants to be wanted beyond sanity. She wants to know in all this time, while she was imprisoned in some godforsaken Alpine compound, detached from the rest of the world, Eve was waiting, wanting, miserable at the thought that she might have killed the one thing that could get her off anymore.
Hardly romantic.
A post-Season One fic, and an alternative to Season Two.- Language:
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Bookmarked by oldmanatom
26 Jun 2020
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But the meaning is really that clear, sitting right on the surface: whatever Eve would like to do, Villanelle is more than happy to oblige. If Eve wants to tie them together forever, Villanelle will get the needle and sew the stitches in their flesh. If Eve wants her heart, she’ll offer scalpel or soul-bonding metaphors. If she wants a shower, she can have a lovely shower, Villanelle will hand crank the pump herself if necessary, or walk from canal to Eve, over and over, a bucket of water to pour over her skin.
i don't have huge issues with how season 2 went—not yet, at least, not after watching it once—but this is a fantastic imagining of how it could have gone. i think it's going to take the show a long time to get to the heart of Villanelle, Eve, and the two of them together like this fic has done, if it ever gets there at all. between that and how unexpectedly enamored i was of Mother, and not to mention the plot...i was left with the feeling of "okay, but what happened next?" all throughout it, the same feeling that made me sit and watch a season and a half in the span of a day. it's a fucking masterclass in pacing and tone, in constructing a story that lures you in and doesn't let you go until the very end.
i don't know what else to say besides this fic wrenched me around in the best possible way. even if you don't know much about Killing Eve's story, you'll be able to enjoy this fic.
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Sometimes there's a moment where you either risk it all or fold.
(College!Sara meets Stripper!Catherine)Bookmarked by oldmanatom
20 Jan 2018
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i read this back sometime around 2009 or 2010, when it was first posted, and was obsessed with it for a lot of reasons, but the main one—and what i remember best about the fic years and years down the line—is the narrative device that makes up the ending, and the writing that introduces it. i'm still looking to borrow it for one of my stories...maybe someday i'll be able to work it in and do it justice.
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