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It Wouldn't Be Make Believe (If You Believed In Me) by poisonivory
Fandoms: Super Sons (Comics), Robin: Son of Batman (Comics), Batman (Comics), Batman and Robin (Comics), Superman (Comics), Superman/Batman (Comics), DCU (Comics)
27 Apr 2020
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When Damian traces the source of a lethal new party drug to Metropolis University, it only makes sense to go undercover as a student to ferret out the culprits. He doesn't expect to run into Met U student Jon Kent, and he definitely doesn't expect to get mistaken for Jon's boyfriend. But hey, what harm could it do to play along?
This is going to get complicated fast.
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20 Aug 2024
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"It was sort of like the day Jon’s telescopic vision had kicked in. He’d been at his grandparents’, looking out across the fields—and suddenly he could see the Lang fields, and the ones beyond that, and people walking down the street in Wichita, two hundred miles away. One long moment of staring at this new world and he couldn’t imagine how he could have ever seen things so differently, so much smaller.
He felt like that the day he looked at Damian and realized suddenly that he was beautiful."
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Damian ends up in an alternate universe where he had a relatively normal childhood. Kon has to run interference on a ten-year-old assassin. Bruce and Clark struggle to deal with one version of Damian, let alone two. And the rest of the kids are just trying not to get murdered.
Sequel to “Worlds Collide” and “Altered State” but can be read as a standalone (with an introductory author’s note giving context).
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- Part 3 of Crash World
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20 Aug 2024
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"Kon took a breath, and the fire was gone from his eyes already. Damian was confused again. Kon was angry, yes, but not at him. Damian couldn’t tell who he was angry at.
'I was only a kid for three years, and I wasted it trying to act grown-up,' Kon explained. 'You’re lucky. You still have eight years left. That’s so long. Don’t waste it.'"
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the journey & the destination (are the same) by britishparty
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types, Batgirl (Comics), Batman and the Outsiders (Comics)
18 May 2022
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The first time Cassandra speaks to Batman, it's in the language David Cain taught her. The way bodies speak is simple. Cassandra watches Bruce Wayne go, and thinks that people are not.
She goes back to Barbara. "I want," she says, and stops. She doesn't know the words for what she wants.
There's a story Cassandra heard once, about a boy made out of wood. He wanted something like this, too.
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there are a lot of steps in between being a weapon and being a person.
Cassandra Cain becomes Batgirl. Batgirl becomes Cass Wayne. Cass isn't sure what it means, to be a person, and Batman isn't very good at teaching that. luckily Bruce has a protege or five to help her figure it out.- Language:
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11 Aug 2024
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"Bruce takes her to ballet.
That. Cass watches that, and she reads it, the bodies on stage. Their performance is spotted with imperfections; she can see a dancer favor her right foot over her left, can see the emotions they feel underneath the acting, the exhaustion and the dedication and the love of it. It’s a conversation, a story, and the entire stage moves in practiced routine, like old sparring partners, except this isn’t a fight, it’s something better."
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Three weeks into their delightful slog across Westeros, during yet another charming day of shitting in the woods, eating half-raw squirrel, and trudging his feet bloody, the single most dour and uninteresting woman Jaime had ever met in all of Westeros stopped in the middle of a field, drew a deep breath, and said, “When I was seven, my aunt came to visit with her son. My father told me that as the daughter of the house, it was my duty to show hospitality to my guests and to be gracious to them. I wanted to make him proud. So for three weeks, I let my cousin follow me around and talk to me about spiders.”
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- Part 8 of Game of Thrones works
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11 Aug 2024
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"She seemed to mean it, outrageously. What the hell business did she have roaming around the world earnestly trying to do good and keep her vows and her honor like some storybook knight. It was—a bad joke, and he wanted to laugh; he had been laughing, for the last three weeks, and suddenly he couldn’t anymore. It was incredibly irritating. He seethed in silence the rest of the evening. When the rabbit was ready, she handed him half."
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“And you’re still a bleeding heart.” Astarion said it like an insult, with pity in his voice. “I would have thought your chosen line of work would have put a tourniquet to that.”
“I’ve been up against worse than patriars before and kept my head straight and my aim true.”
Astarion seemed to consider that. “I’ve witnessed just how true your aim is, so I would avoid bragging about it as such.” It surprised a laugh out of Wyll. For the briefest moment, something like satisfaction shown on Astarion’s face. “I never said I was lucky,” Wyll said in return.
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One year after the fall of the Absolute, Wyll Ravengard walks into a bar and finds a lost friend.
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11 Aug 2024
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“'Every gift she’s ever given has been laced with poison, but I accepted them all. This is what it earned me. And what I think about sometimes is…' he paused, closed his eyes again briefly. This was a heavy thing to say, a thing he wasn’t sure he had ever come close to saying to anyone before. 'She feels like she crafted me, I think, like I was a lump of raw clay before she etched me into a man of her own making. Perhaps she’s right.'
'What has she ever been right about before?' Astarion argued."
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part one: are you now, or have you ever been... by splicejunction
Fandoms: X-Men (Comicverse)
30 Jan 2025
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“Can I be honest?”
This question has always been confusing. One can always be honest. He nods
“You don’t seem like somebody who has everything he’s ever wanted. And I don’t think I can help you, ‘cause I don’t think you know what you’re missing.”
James looks at him for a long time, and Shatterstar feels small, and too looked-at. Which doesn’t make sense. He’s always been looked at. Maybe there’s a difference between being looked at and being seen.Series
- Part 1 of Extraction Point
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24 Jun 2024
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"All around him, the desert, black and blue, is singing. The sky is pricked with stars. He’s been outside at night before, but not with his eyes this well-adjusted to the dark, and not this far from any artificial light. The stars seem infinite and as he studies them, he realizes some are bluish, some reddish, and they range in brightness as well. Shatterstar looks down at his hands, then back out into the open desert, then back at his hands, then back up into the night sky. He is becoming aware of a strange, tight feeling in his chest, and suddenly he does not like how small he feels."
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Rain on Familiar Skylines by tihsho
Fandoms: Star Trek: The Original Series, Star Trek: The Original Series (Movies)
05 Aug 2022
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A happy woman doesn’t leave her whole life behind to follow a pair of whales three centuries into the future.
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23 Jun 2024
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"It’s not like she didn’t realize back then the enormity of what she meant to do. She knew it when she made the choice. She does not regret it.
Yet still she stands. In the rain.
Suddenly all the weight is on her shoulders, like she threw it up into the sky a while ago and just now had it fall down on top of her."
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“Oh here he is,” Stiles says, gesturing wildly. “The guy that had to almost die when I was busy, couldn’t wait for a few minutes.”
Isaac leans against the lockers on Allison’s other side. “Take it up with the hunters,” he says, and then looks at Scott and shuts his mouth.
“We don’t know they were hunters,” Scott says quickly.
Oh. So they’re treating her like she’s a basket case. “It’s okay,” Allison says to all of them, including Stiles who is uncharacteristically quiet. “I’m not going to fall apart if you mention…” God, how to finish that sentence.
“Fall apart, no,” Isaac says. “Stab me again, maybe.”
“Yeah, what a loss that would be,” Stiles says sarcastically. “Whatever would we do without you.”
A canon rewrite post-S2, removing most of the insane elements and focusing on Scott's pack. No kanima, no darach, no nemeton, and Peter and Kate both died for real.
UPDATE: sort of sequel here.
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09 Nov 2023
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"Allison finally, for the first time since Mom died, feels like she has a handle on what’s happening. Maybe connecting all these dots is getting her somewhere, exposing some kind of bigger pattern. Argent women are leaders. She can direct herself out of what her family became."
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“If you’re going to get married,” Jiang Cheng ground out, “then you’re going to damn well get married at Lotus Pier.”
Wei Wuxian blinked once. Again. Then: “what?”
Or: the one with sibling reconciliation, brother-in-laws from hell, and Jiang Cheng trying to sort through his feelings while acknowledging them as little as possible.
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- Part 35 of Author's Favorites
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30 Oct 2023
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"Like water welling up from an underground spring, the grief arrived. Old and familiar but also fresh all over again, now, like he’d been thrown back in time, and for a dizzying moment he wasn’t sure who he was mourning. Then the world settled back in and he was back where he’d been, in Lotus Pier, alone.
Not entirely, anymore."
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“You got a good support system?” his PO asks when he meets him.
“No,” Mickey says, because he doesn’t. But after a while, he realizes that might not be true.
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- Part 1 of broad-shouldered beasts
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25 Oct 2023
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"The irony of the role reversal is not lost on him. It used to be Ian pushing, Mickey running. But then Mickey stopped running. Maybe that’s why everything fell apart. Neither of them knew what to do when they were both in the same place."
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"I was pretty harsh last time we spoke. Didn’t think you’d wanna see me.”
"It is your absurd stipulation that we cannot see each other when “broken up”.”
Julio sighs through his nose. “That’s what being broken up is, Star.”
Rictor and Shatterstar work their relationship out in ten tough conversations over about half as many years. Relationships, like detective work, often require communication.
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05 Jun 2023
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"Longshot is almost translucent in the pale wash of moonlight, hair spilled out around him like a watercolour halo. Things are so simple for him. He doesn’t know why he knows the things he does, and he’s long past feeling tragic about it. Shatterstar stares down at his hands, with their five fingers and the weighty memories of twenty four seasons he never thought he’d live to see."
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“Well, for one thing, where are you going to stay?”
“That’s the best part!” Cooper says. “Now that I’m going to culinary school, my parents bought a pied-à-terre in Cambridge -”
Katie’s eye twitches.
(Or: Taylor chaperones a trip to Cambridge.)
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08 Mar 2023
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"She’s five again, feeling the mud squelch between her toes. The rain tastes like the ocean, the earth is opening its gaping mouth to suck everything down, and gravity can condense the entire universe into her backyard. When she's five, she's not listening to people (even the well-meaning ones) telling her what it is she means when she talks, she doesn’t get in the car and drive to the Westport city limits and just sit there, hands clenched around the steering wheel, the highway a Hail Mary, and she’s most definitely not caught between two boys, neither of whom she feels certain about. She’s a pirate, an astronaut, a pop star, a doctor who saves animals in her free time, and whatever the hell she wants to be."
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In which Cuba doesn't break them apart, but that doesn't mean that their futures are tied together. (Except that it does.)
A Days of Future Past AU where only one person can defeat the Sentinels and save the future: the man whose imprisonment and torture created them, and Charles Xavier's ex.
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- Part 1 of A Timeline of the Impossible
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17 Jan 2023
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“Flight is easy for her; once she goes up, up, up until she’s not going up anymore, she’s going away, she can see the curve of the earth—
and the stars—
and she wants.”
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Isabel calls to tell them Eddie's been shot on a Thursday afternoon and by lunch on Friday Helena and Ramon are landing at LAX. When they land, they learn Eddie's already home recovering and has been for two weeks.
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Or, Helena (and Ramon) tries to find a way back into Eddie's life and doesn't know what to make of finding Buck around every corner she turns.
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29 Sep 2022
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“It occurs to her, slowly, creepingly, that her son is outside, smiling freely and easily, surrounded by people he’s made his new family, while Helena stands inside watching his life through a glass window in a stranger’s house.”
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Bug Out: Part 1. Peg by justalittlegreen, PrairieDawn
Fandoms: MASH (TV), Star Trek: The Original Series
14 Apr 2019
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When Peg Hunnicutt gets a frantic call from Radar O'Reilly telling her to make a sudden cross country trip to visit his mother in Ottumwa, she does what any reasonable person would do: Packs the car and the baby and goes to Ottumwa.
Peg Hunnicutt-centric. Not a whole lot of Star Trek in this one. Not a heck of a lot of MASH either.
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- Part 4 of Welcome to 1951
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24 Jul 2022
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“There was no way of knowing what tomorrow might bring. And there was no way of knowing either what might happen to her linoleum floor, her aquamarine refrigerator, her china, all of it left back in San Francisco. It didn't matter to her, not really, not at all, not with Erin here. She told herself she believed that, but the feeling of being lost, anchorless, burned stronger. She couldn't know if there would ever be anything to come back to, or anything for BJ to come looking for. All she knew was that she was headed east, across the mountains, and that something was coming, something was happening, and she was alone.“
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After a lab accident, Peggy wakes up in 1948, with no memories of anything since early 1946.
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17 Apr 2022
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“Sometimes you took a leap of faith and there was nothing there at all, nothing but a long fall. She'd had it happen to her.
But sometimes the landing could be gentle, after all.”
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"I love you," Harry says on June 25, 51, halfway through a game of cribbage. Cuno has done nothing more notable than tell a joke that made Harry laugh.
Cuno doesn't know what to say. Nobody loves Cuno. Loving Cuno should probably be an interisolary crime. "Gross," he says.
An exploration of those Cuno has lost, those he's gained, and those he can't let go.
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24 Jan 2022
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“Storyweaver? his tarantula says. She has not told him her name, so she remains nameless. Cuno doesn't need to know a creature's name to love them. Hungry.
‘Okay,’ Cuno says. ‘You'll like this one. Once upon a time, there was a city of locusts.’
Yum, she says.”
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Breaking and Entering by Cavatica
Fandoms: Animorphs - Katherine A. Applegate, Animorphs (TV)
05 Dec 2022
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Marco already has a best friend. It's Jake. The thing is, Jake doesn't exactly have time for him anymore, between saving the world and kind of having a girlfriend. Anyway, he can't ask Jake to help him when his dumb heist goes wrong and he has to fix it with a double heist. Ax already has a best friend too, but he's bored enough and oblivious enough to be the perfect co-conspirator. But is Ax really the oblivious one?
(This is a full rewrite of a fic originally released in 2016, now with more jokes and a coherent plot.)
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- Part 1 of Lies Agreed Upon
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“We going to get somewhere anytime soon?” Dom said.
Brian was staring out the windshield. “Do you trust me?”
“What the fuck kind of question is that?” Dom said.
“If you say yes, I’m going to take you on the worst fucking ride of your life,” Brian said. “Do you trust me?”
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- Part 4 of Fast & Furious works
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04 Oct 2021
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“‘I thought love was just bullshit, actually,’ Brian said, as if he hadn’t said anything. ‘I thought everybody only pretended to love people, that it was just something people said. So when I say I remember to the second when I fell in love with you, I’m not talking out of my ass, Dom. I remember to the second because the whole fucking world changed. Like I’d been in the dark my whole life, and then the sun came out.’
He looked at Dom straight on. ‘And for all I know, maybe that was your mutation,’ he said. ‘You and Mia, maybe you did make me fall in love with you or something. But the thing is, Dom, I don’t really give a shit, because if somebody tried to take it away from me, I’d kill them.’”
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Anastrophe by kittykatthetacodemon
Fandoms: Hobbs & Shaw (2019), Fast and the Furious Series
31 Aug 2019
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Anastrophe (noun): a rhetorical device; the inversion of the usual order of words or clauses.
In which Deckard Shaw is good with kids, Samantha Hobbs gets what she wants, Hattie Shaw is always right, and Luke Hobbs is along for the ride. Shaw and Hobbs do everything backwards, and the macho manly idiots would rather take a bullet than admit to having stupid fiddly little things like "feelings."
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04 Oct 2021
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“If he didn’t move, breathed shallow and slow and careful, maybe he’d be lucky enough to stay alive for the full hour it would take to bleed out. If a lung went, he was looking at a couple minutes.
So the phone was a pipe dream. Just close enough to taunt him, and just far enough away to be hopeless. The one thing that could save him would almost certainly kill him for trying.
Story of his life, probably.“