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In many ways, the rhythm of life didn't change very much after her father died.
Kiku reflects on a different life than the one she expected
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Cath spots her Sexy and the Detective out and about at the Feastival, and sees more than they do
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A sunny morning in Vancouver
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Wandering Star by palimpsestus
Fandoms: Mass Effect Trilogy, Mass Effect - All Media Types
23 Jan 2021
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In the years to come, Kaidan would spend long nights trying to piece together the sensation of falling through time. But when it happened, it almost didn't occur to him that it was strange.
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In which the Crucible's action is to hurl one person back through time, and Kaidan Alenko finds himself on Eden Prime, the only one who remembers what the next three years will bring. And yes I am writing this because I'm that excited about the remaster.
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Its not every night that your younger self crosses a dimensional portal to speak with you. The least Kathryn can do is offer a coffee.
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'Anything' was the very first word he ever said to her, and it would be last thing she would ever say to keep him.
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The Thaw by palimpsestus
Fandoms: Star Wars Original Trilogy, Star Wars - All Media Types
21 Mar 2018
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The frozen ice world of Hoth, the gravity well, was the perfect hiding spot. The Rebellion wrapped up warm and hunkered down, made their walls of ice. Leia built her own. She wasn’t sure, but she thought Han might have been building too, laying the groundwork for his flight, keeping the distance between them. He would leave, and break Luke’s heart, and she would miss out on the one of the greatest generals the Rebellion might hope to have.
But there was no way to keep him.
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Kid Gloves by palimpsestus
Fandoms: The Defenders (Marvel TV), Jessica Jones (TV), Daredevil (TV)
11 Sep 2017
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To 'treat someone with kid gloves', implies gentle handling. Gloves made of kid-leather were fine and soft, and regularly used to handle precious things. Some people believe it is a boxing analogy, to wear the gloves of kids, but this is a misconception.
Or conversations between a blind man and an alcoholic.
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Since finishing the newest 'Detective Dog' book, Angharad has been stewing. Why would Detective Dog leave all his friends behind? When she spots her favourite author, lurking between the shelves of her favourite bookshop, she takes matters into her own hands. Max Rockatansky doesn't know what's hit him.
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For almost seven years, I drafted my relationship with Jess Mariano, and tried to craft something from the patchwork of late night meetings and single beds. For seven years, Jess detailed us perfectly in the things he never wrote.
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For Kaidan, falling in love was like balancing an equation. But Shepard was an infinity, and could not be counted.
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A Kaidan-focussed exploration of the events of the Mass Effect trilogy. Part of the 'Chaos-verse' but can stand alone.Series
- Part 2 of Chaos
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It's called a post war population boom and politicians love it. But why would you want to, in a galaxy like this? A series of shorts looking at the post-Reaper life of the Normandy crew, mutated from the previous fic "Three's Good"
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- Part 6 of Chaos
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They all know Corvo Attano, the respected, regal Lord Protector from Serkonos. They know he is kind, they know he is faithful. They believe they know what he might do.
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Endgame spoilers! Companion piece to 'Against Type' but stands alone. -
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In the years since the Institute fell, complications and entanglements have grown around Valentine's heart, and now he can no sooner cut them away than he could cut away parts of himself. When Kasumi Nakano sails over the sea, Valentine worries more about the people he might lose, than any strange apparitions that might loom out of the fog.
Fourth in the 'Tin Right Hand' series, but could reasonably stand alone. Will get spoilery after a few chapters.
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- Part 4 of Hidden in His Coat Is His Tin Right Hand
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The Resistance thinks a lot more of Finn than Finn has ever thought of himself.
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Each year, Delilah brings new books to the Shoshone. It feels like she's returning the paper to its ancestral home.
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"Two hands, one nearly flesh and one nearly steel, were clasped over his chest. They rose and fell with the mimicry of his breath, the steel glinting in the half light that made it through the sackcloth curtains."
Since the fall of the Institute, Nick Valentine finds himself staring at his hands, wondering what they feel like to her. All he knows is that he wants to feel whole, he wants to feel real.
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- Part 3 of Hidden in His Coat Is His Tin Right Hand
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Nora loved Christmas. Loved the family coming round and the snow on the ground, loved the food on the table and the presents under the tree.
There is none of that in the Wasteland.
*endgame spoilers*
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- Part 2 of Hidden in His Coat Is His Tin Right Hand
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*Spoilers for the mission: Institutionalised*
The Nick that-used-to-be had always found her attractive, at least as she’d been as he’d first met her, with all that perfect hair and those soft curves barely contained beneath scavenged armour and leather, and the socialite airs and graces that spoke of a kind of background he’d never come close to. But then so did half the men and women they came across in the Commonwealth. Nora would never have been short a bed warmer, if she hadn’t been missing her husband so fierce.
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- Part 1 of Hidden in His Coat Is His Tin Right Hand
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By Furiosa's count, Max loves five wives who aren't her.
And she hates it.
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Technically a sequel to 'The Things Men Do', but easily stands alone.Series
- Part 3 of Max of the Blue Place