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The Attic by Orneryjackal
Fandoms: Arcane: League of Legends (Cartoon 2021), League of Legends
05 May 2025
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Jinx looked over at him, at the way he was crouching to gently pull a scrap of wire out of Isha’s fingers before she broke it—or herself. His voice was soft when he explained what it did, fingers brushing hers as he showed her the switch mechanism. The girl nodded seriously, enthralled.
Something twisted and loosened all at once in her chest.
“You really don’t do things halfway,” she said, a little too quiet, a little too honest.
Ekko glanced over at her and gave a crooked smile. “Not with you.”
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A chance meeting in a derelict attic.
Accidental at first. Then deliberate.
Neutral ground — until it isn’t.OR
Sometime shortly before season 1 episode 4, Jinx and Ekko start meeting up in a ruined attic. On opposite sides of a war, their meetings are fragile and tense, but something keeps pulling them back — to the dust, the silence, the quiet space between past and future, where nothing is said and everything matters.
[A very long slow burn spanning season 1 and season 2]
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16 Apr 2025
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take me back to the person i was by paintingcranes
Fandoms: Arcane: League of Legends (Cartoon 2021)
10 Jan 2025
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Vi feels like a third party observer of herself. She can see her own mangy, unwashed, snarling, disgusting desperation – so stark and violent against the Topsiders' unsullied joy and easy wealth.
These people in Topside are so beautiful. But survival is so ugly.
Oh, Vi realizes. I never stopped thinking they’re better than me.
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Vi finally finds her way back home – to her sister, to the Undercity, and to herself.
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01 Apr 2025
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She’s fifteen when it happens. Jinx has no one to blame but herself and her own curiosity, but in her defense, Sevika got drunk and just wouldn’t shut up about all the fun she got up to in Babette’s brothel. And in the Undercity, kids don’t stay kids for long. Jinx has grown up around this nonsense for years. So she bites the proverbial bullet and decides to see what all the fuss is about.
“It was one time!” Jinx complains in sheer disbelief. “It wasn’t even that good!”
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- Part 1 of Ankle-Biter
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01 Apr 2025
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“Why am I here, Lord Bridgerton?”
“Because a few hours ago, you heard my deepest, darkest thoughts. Thoughts not intended for your ears. Thoughts I have needed a decade to be able to speak out loud to my own mother. And upon hearing those thoughts, the only thing you had to say was that I was selfish. Call me weak—call me vain—but I need to know why, Miss Sharma. Tell me why, and you are free to leave.”
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After Kate accidentally overhears Anthony speaking to Violet at Edmund’s grave, he confronts her, leading to a fiery, passionate exchange in his study.
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- Part 1 of A Big, Beautiful Life
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19 Apr 2024
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for a hundred visions and revisions by aventria, iluxia
Fandoms: Marvel Cinematic Universe, The Avengers (Marvel Movies), Iron Man (Movies), Doctor Strange (2016), The Avengers (Marvel) - All Media Types, Thor (Movies)
05 Aug 2023
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Dr. Strange looks at the world after Thanos and, faced with its seemingly irreparable brokenness, breaks his own oath. Tony, Stephen, and Loki go back in time for one more chance - an intentional choice, because they are each other's insurance against repeating the same mistakes. Tony wakes up shortly before the Stark Expo with the reactor's palladium core still poisoning him. Stephen wakes up with undamaged hands and a flourishing medical career. Loki wakes up in Asgard one day before Thor's coronation.
"Do I dare disturb the universe? / In a minute there is time / for decisions and revisions which a minute will reverse."
[ Yet another take on that time travel fic with lots of worldbuilding, hand-wavey comic book science, political intrigue, inventing, nerding out, and a broken Tony trying to fix a broken world - but this time he's not alone. ]
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20 Feb 2024