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i have named you queen (listen) by Damkianna for chasing_givenchy
Fandoms: Original Work
25 Apr 2017
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Grandmother ruled Gir Niajra, and always had.
Jummai felt certain this was so, mostly because it was impossible to imagine otherwise: anyone, anyone at all, seated so comfortably on that great golden throne except Grandmother? Anyone who could look or speak with such authority, to whom so many great and worthy people bowed down? No—only Grandmother. It had always been Grandmother, and it always would be.
Then Grandmother died; and there was a war.
(Or: Jummai is a princess without a throne—but she has no intention of leaving to others what is rightfully hers. She needs a wife with an army, and gets one; but her wife seems impervious to her tactical charm, she keeps making mistakes, and her cousin still wants her dead.)
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22 Sep 2026
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Azula is the prodigal daughter of an all-time great and the best junior tennis player on the planet. Katara is the new kid on tour and coming for her crown.
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21 Sep 2026
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“You probably do not think this is cruel,” GLaDOS says suddenly, not taking her gaze from the mouse for a second, “After all, you have such enormous capacity for cruelty, I doubt you can recognise mistreatment even when it is right before your eyes. However, a normal human with basic abilities of empathy, love, and compassion, would correctly identify my treatment of this animal as cruel.”
Chell says nothing.
“However, if this experiment were to be submitted to an ethics committee, it would receive full approval. Cruelty, in and of itself, is not wholly banned in science, after all. It is simply needless cruelty, the kind you excel in, that is not permitted. What I am doing is necessary for testing conditions. What I do is the only way for knowledge to progress.”
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Chell, GLaDOS, and the end of the world.Bookmarked by violetshrike
26 Jul 2026
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“Nothing about our lives is conventional. You’re a career woman. I’m a single mother. We were both duped into bigamy, and now, after divorcing the same man, we’re raising his son together.”
(aka: 1950s housewives experience bisexuality)Bookmarked by violetshrike
26 Jul 2026
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Lieutenant Kathryn Janeway boards the USS Elba, excited to start her commission as the ship’s senior science officer for a year-long mission in space. Except nothing goes quite according to plan.
A time travel story based on episode 05.24: “Relativity."Bookmarked by violetshrike
26 Jul 2026
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Absently, instead of paying attention to the boring old vows, she wonders if it’s still considered slumming if the girl has gone and married rich.
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or, an exploration of how Sylvia Fowler went from interrogating Crystal and storming away to washing Crystal’s back in a bathtub, told through a small collection of scenes
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18 May 2026
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In a city in a saltmarsh, there lived a dead woman and her wife.
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19 Sep 2025
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In Pursuit by Queerdinary
Fandoms: World of Warcraft, Sir Gawayn and þe Grene Knyȝt | Gawain and the Green Knight - Anonymous | Gawain Poet
01 Aug 2026
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The baying of hounds.
Closer this time. Much too close.
Panic thrummed in her ears. She wasn’t sure what she feared more; the vicious teeth, the hunters, or the mob behind.
She ripped herself free, charged again headlong into the dark.
You only have to reach the line, they won't cross the line.
“You have nowhere left to run witch!” Calia- once a friend, a sister- “And when I catch you my hounds will glut upon on your heart!”A Drust/fae AU
Heavily cannon divergent.Series
- Part 1 of The Woods are Dark and Deep
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03 May 2025
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Imagine, Sylvanas thinks, how merciful my death would've been had a Lich Queen been chosen over a King. Jaina Proudmoore has no need of a Banshee. I would have been slain cleanly, as would all of Azeroth. Efficiently.
"A marriage of state," says Jaina. "A mutual surrender for a mutual victory."
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16 Sep 2024
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Ruby can't decide if White would do exceptionally well in prison like she did— and she could admit it: lockup had a certain charm and, in the women's wing, was even fun at times, another exciting ecosystem for her to slink around in and control without working too hard— or if she'd collapse entirely beneath the weight of incarceration. Probably the latter. Even now, every inch of her speaks of a boring, anxious insomniac with paranoid delusions and a total inability to relax around others. Solitary confinement, Ruby's worst nightmare, would probably suit White just fine.
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16 Sep 2024
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“I wasn’t expecting company.”
Jaina wants to assure her she didn't come to stare at her like she's some sabercat in a cage—teeth dulled on the bars, roar hoarse and failing. Only she realizes now that this is exactly why she's come. A wave of shame threatens to crash over her, but she dismisses it. She came to deliver Veressa’s letter, and to banish the notion that Sylvanas Windrunner truly was a stranger to her.
Staring at Sylvanas, waiting for her to rattle the bars of her would be cage, would do neither of those things for her.
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02 Jul 2024
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The terrifying truth was that Lord Admiral Jaina Proudmoore has known for many years who her soulmate was. The problem she faces now is that she’s pretty sure that woman hasn’t had a soul in over a decade, and they now stand against one another as enemies. So why has she started to feel a connection over that bond again?
This is my community choice fic, where I let the audience pick the tropes I include, the setting and general direction of the fic, and other fun things! We're going to have more polls for more choices as the fic continues, so follow me over on tumblr if you're interesting in voting!
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02 Jul 2024
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Cold Burn by whitesheets
Fandoms: Cinderella (1950), Disney - All Media Types, Cinderella - All Media Types
19 Aug 2025
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If she is to choose one word to describe her stepmother, Cinderella will choose ‘ice’.
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- 9/?
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29 Jun 2024
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you search the mountain by orphan_account
Fandoms: World of Warcraft, Warcraft - All Media Types
29 Jun 2020
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The borders of Kul Tiras are closed to all outsiders. Sylvanas, Banshee Queen, hopes to use the impending civil war in Boralus to her advantage, and thereby lure Kul Tiras to the side of the Horde. A Drust AU.
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25 Jun 2024
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Lady Dimitrescu's final encounter with Ethan Winters doesn't kill her--instead, she escapes to a nearby farming village, where a young woman finds her final form crash-landed and mortally wounded in a corn field. For reasons unknown to them both, the girl decides to take in and rehabilitate the strange creature that she calls "the Hagbeast."
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25 Jun 2024
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the gallows in paradise by anecjotes (klickitats) for silveriris
Fandoms: Dragon Age - All Media Types
26 Mar 2017
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The war against Corypheus approaches its natural end. Leliana finds his general, Calpernia, half-dead in a river and attempts to make her a tool for Inquisition use. But knives cut both ways, and Calpernia discovers a mystery to unravel Leliana's entire world.
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25 Jun 2024
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schatten der nacht // shadows of the night by neednot
Fandoms: Rebecca - Daphne du Maurier, Rebecca - Daphne du Maurier & Related Fandoms, Rebecca - Levay/Kunze, Rebecca (Movie 2020)
12 Feb 2025
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Her fingers brushed mine as she passed me the gloves, and I was shocked to find that her hand, somehow, was colder than my own. As I took the gloves from her I caught her gaze, and felt then with a sudden, chilling certainty--though I could not say how--that she knew exactly what I was.
Grappling with her status as a newly-turned vampire, Mrs. de Winter hopes her marriage to Maxim can provide some security with regards to her "condition." But she quickly realizes she's out of her depth in society life—and life as a vampire—and finds herself turning to the one person she can trust for help.
That is, provided Mrs. Danvers can keep her secret.
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21 Jun 2024
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In their efforts to protect Briar Rose, the fairies cultivated within her a dangerous curiosity.
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21 Jun 2024
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The soul makes the woman. Or dragon, in this case. The course of history changes when one dragon, driven by isolation and the consistent kindness of a human, makes a choice to repay that mortal at the cost of her own life.
Or: What if Jaina was actually a dragon in a previous life before becoming a Proudmoore.
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- Part 1 of Tides' Blessed
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21 Jun 2024
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An exploration of various 'what if' s centered somewhere (maybe third war ish??), in Theramore.
“Ah. I see.” He scanned the contents, his mustache twitching occasionally as he reacted silently. “What does Kristoff think?”
Jaina looked at the floor, her boots leaving dark depressions on the thick rug. “I... Haven't asked him yet.”
“Because you know his answer.” He confirmed, folding the letter and handing it back. “So what are you really asking me?”
“Tell me everything you know about her.”
“Sylvanas Windrunner, or The Banshee Queen?”
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21 Jun 2024