trace_of_scarlet
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- Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling (6)
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And Yet Still We Live by trace_of_scarlet
Fandoms: Good Omens - Neil Gaiman & Terry Pratchett, Good Omens (TV)
13 Jul 2019
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Is this what the world is like, for those who have no help ever forthcoming? Is this what it is, to be faced with being truly alone in Her universe? He has never felt this way before, not in six thousand years - not because he has always known that Heaven would be there, he suddenly realises, but because he has always known that Crowley would be.
Aziraphale and Crowley have been orbiting each other for six thousand years. In that time, Crowley has made rescuing Aziraphale something of a habit - but, as the saying goes, it's the exception that proves the rule...
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May your dreams last longer than the night by trace_of_scarlet
Fandoms: Good Omens - Neil Gaiman & Terry Pratchett, Good Omens (TV)
07 Jul 2019
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The first time they touch is during that first storm, as the wind blows; Aziraphale's sheltering wing brushes Crowley's cheek.
Crowley thinks, it's so soft. It's strange: he had wings just like that so little time ago, but he'd forgotten, somehow.
(He still has wings, of course; they're black and sleek, but somehow they don't feel like those protecting him now.)
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“Is this a test, Professor?”
McGonagall raises her eyebrows at him. “This is life, Longbottom: everything is a test."
What was it that Molly Weasley had screamed at Bellatrix, lost in the fury of battle? ‘You will never hurt our children again’? Oh, how she wishes she still had so much faith left.
In the aftermath of the Battle of Hogwarts, McGonagall finally gets the chance to arrest Umbridge. But she hasn't entirely counted on taking young Mr. Longbottom along to do the job with her...
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Not That We're Scared by trace_of_scarlet
Fandoms: Endeavour (TV), Inspector Morse & Related Fandoms
26 May 2019
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“Ah, Morse. My knight errant.”
Post-series 6, Morse drives DeBryn home. Neither of them are very good at talking about what's just happened to them... or about what either of them wants to happen next.
(Formerly titled Sing Hallelujah.)
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Rows And Columns by trace_of_scarlet
Fandoms: Bletchley Circle, Marvel Cinematic Universe, The Avengers (2012)
23 Aug 2013
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No matter what one did during the war, it isn’t every evening that one finds an agent of SHIELD standing on the doorstep.
(Or, how Natasha recruits an ex-SOE mathematician to SHIELD.)
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Good Puppy by Atheneeerva, kookoofufu, lobefinnedfishes, rottingraptor, unfortunatelystillstuckin200
Fandoms: Conclave (2024)
10 Nov 2025
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"Would you like to?" Vincent—Innocent, he decides, he prefers him as Innocent in this moment—asks, head tilted to the side like a curious animal.
Ray swallows. "If it would please you, Your Holiness."
Innocent tsks and pushes his zucchetto off to the floor with one swift movement.
"None of that now." His hand moves further back to grasp a fistful of Ray's hair. Ray gasps quietly and moves with it, his head falling back onto his shoulders. “Would you like to?”
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13 Nov 2025
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“The fuck?” Ed manages, instantly getting his foot stuck in a nearby bucket.
“Sh-shh!” Stede pushes two fingers against his lips to shut him up.
Ed goes still and a bit cross-eyed, staring down at the hand on his mouth. Stede moves it away, with a mouthed “sorry!” focusing intently on the sounds outside the shed instead.
In the alley, hurried steps and shouting voices rush past; they catch fragments of: “Where the fuck did they go then?” or “Keep looking!” and even “The short one looks like a bloody birthday cake, how do you lose that—”
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28 Oct 2025
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“If you got turned into a fish what kind of fish would you be?”
“Mermaid,” John replies, instantly, as if he doesn’t even have to think about it. And, fair enough, it’s a very badass answer. Frenchie kind of wishes he’d thought of it, even though he’s not completely sure that it counts.
“Are mermaids a kind of fish?”
“Yes.”
“Oh, okay.” Frenchie squirms a bit in the hammock, gets properly comfy. “I’d be a shark.”
“A shark? Nice. How come?”
“Cos sharks are fucking terrifying. They’ve got knives in their mouths.”
“Good point. Maybe I’d be a mershark, then we could be friends.”
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best of men by kookoofufu for Atheneeerva, rottingraptor, lobefinnedfishes
Fandoms: Conclave (2024)
18 Aug 2025
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“Tell me what you’re feeling,” Thomas murmurs as he pushes in another finger, enjoying the way Ray tilts himself forward, pressing their bodies closer together. Instead of answering, Ray whines, clutching at his shoulders as he rocks his hips back in an attempt to push Thomas deeper.
Thomas purses his lips, displeased. He hates having to repeat himself.
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Bookmarked by trace_of_scarlet
18 Aug 2025
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Stede is genuinely determined to have things resolve to everyone's satisfaction, and instinct tells him Edward prowling around on deck in the middle of the night won't be warmly received, bell or no.
He ties a robe on, hurried and careless, and heads out on deck in slippered feet. But once he's out there, squinting across the deck in the pale silver light of the full moon, there's nothing. He'd wondered if he'd find Edward at the helm, or propped in some of the rigging, staring out into the night. There's no sign of him, except for the occasional faint metallic jingle on the breeze, whipped away as soon as he hears it.
The breeze. It's hitting them just off the bow.
Stede's preoccupation with Edward's new accessory leads him to an interesting discovery.Bookmarked by trace_of_scarlet
17 May 2025