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a life, a line, a light (and die) by patiencespardon for atropinecapra
Fandoms: The Locked Tomb Series | Gideon the Ninth Series - Tamsyn Muir
30 Dec 2025
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God – John – Dad? – passes her a tiny badge, glittering golden under the Mithraeum’s fluorescent sterility. “There’s a squadron of Cohort soldiers at your co-command, First Lieutenant, if you’re interested. A good, engaging problem for you to sink your teeth into, and you’d be doing the system a favor. Win-win.”
For about fourteen years of her former existence, Kiriona would’ve stone-cold killed just about anyone she knew for an opportunity like this one. Now she isn’t sure if she feels much of anything about it, apart from a vague, muffled something that she has to consciously identify as curiosity.
“I mean, I guess I’ll do it,” she tells him. It’s not like she has anything better to do. And maybe it’ll get her away from – “Wait. You said co-command?”
Or, what the hell happened with Kiriona and Ianthe on Antioch.
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desperado (you better let somebody love you) by patiencespardon
Fandoms: Our Flag Means Death (TV)
13 Jun 2025
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After Stede Bonnet's untimely exit from his life, Izzy Hands can't wait for things to finally go back to normal. Several months on, though, Edward isn't snapping back as quickly as anyone had hoped.
It would really help matters if there wasn't an assassin trying to kill the both of them. And, as time passes, it's becoming increasingly apparent to Izzy that it would be much easier to find a way to get along with Jim instead of constantly hauling them back to the brig. Perhaps he'll even find that they have more in common than he'd anticipated.
(He doubts it. But it's worth a try.)
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these inconvenient fireworks by patiencespardon
Fandoms: Arcane: League of Legends (Cartoon 2021)
07 May 2025
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If someone had told the Ekko of three months ago that he’d be starting the school year in Professor Cecil B. Heimerdinger’s office at the Piltover Academy, he would’ve point blank, straight up, no hesitation laughed in their face.
But he's somehow managed to luck his way into a full-ride, four-year scholarship, complete with a double major in mechanical engineering and fine arts. It's everything he could ever ask for.
The only problem? Who he has to share it with.
Or, a childhood friends to academic rivals to lovers art school AU.
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loose ends to tie up by patiencespardon
Fandoms: Arcane: League of Legends (Cartoon 2021)
22 Jan 2025
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Jinx'd had big plans involving herself and a date with an airship headed who-knows-who-cares-where. But if she’s too busted-up to crawl in a straight line through a fucking ventilation shaft, she doesn’t have a chance at clambering through rigging.
Time to think about this critically. Where’s a girl to go, after she’s faked her own death? What hidden hearth is she to crawl to, what savior is there to give her refuge?
Well. Of all the girls in the world who have faked their own deaths, she must be an especially lucky one, because, even if she has to scoot on her ass through an air duct to get there, she knows exactly where she’s going.
Or, a season two post-finale timebomb fix-it, wherein some very important conversations are finally had and some very long-term pining is finally resolved.
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love will abide by patiencespardon for stranded_star
Fandoms: The Locked Tomb Series | Gideon the Ninth Series - Tamsyn Muir
31 Dec 2024
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In the remnants of the Empire, Harrowhark Nonagesimus, former Reverend Daughter and Ninth Saint to serve a dead lord, doesn't know what to do with herself, let alone her former cavalier. So she responds by doing the only thing she can think to do: pushing her away, so they'll both have the chance to start fresh, with the promise that she'll come find her again when she's ready.
It takes some time, and tears, and trials. Quite a lot of all those things, if she's honest; healing is messy work. But slowly, slowly, she starts to get there. And when she's ready to make good on her promise, all there is left for her to do is find out whether there's still someone waiting for her.
Or, a tryptich about love lost, unearthed, and reconstructed.