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kindlingkeen · 3 months
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Chapter 4: Suppressive Fire
In which Bruce keeps it together, and it all falls apart.
Chapters: 4/5 Fandom: Batman - All Media Types, Batman: Under the Red Hood (2010) Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings Relationships: Barbara Gordon & Dick Grayson, Barbara Gordon & Bruce Wayne, Tim Drake & Barbara Gordon, Dick Grayson & Bruce Wayne, Tim Drake & Bruce Wayne, Talia al Ghul & Jason Todd Characters: Barbara Gordon, Dick Grayson, Bruce Wayne, Tim Drake, Alfred Pennyworth, Jason Todd, Talia al Ghul, Crime Alley | Park Row Residents (DCU) Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Canon-Typical Violence, Jason Todd is Red Hood, Competent Jason Todd, Smart Jason Todd, Scheming, POV Alternating, Tags May Change Series: Part 2 of Asymmetrical Warfare Summary:
Jason watches the black and whites swarming what used to be his third favorite safehouse and fumes. Ever since the skirmish at Black Mask’s warehouse, the bats have been relentless. Maybe it’s time he brought the fight to their door for a change.
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purplesauris · 1 month
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Wash Over Me Like a Hurricane (4)
Pairing: Dream of the Endless/Hob Gadling Rating: Explicit (soon)
He allows himself the night to sulk and lick his wounds, nursing his battered heart, and come morning, he spends a bit of extra time ensuring his feathers are neat and his talons polished to a gleam, delicate silver jewelry woven around his horns before he makes for the main room.
Hob may not want him, may have only been playing a game, but Dream will show him all he has thrown away with his narrow-minded view. 
When he steps into the room the first thing he notices is that Hob is nowhere to be found, and the fire he normally has roaring by now to warm the cave is nothing but ashes, long cold.
A familiar pain burrows into his heart, spearing through his lungs and making it difficult to breathe, but Dream refuses to be cowed by it. To let it fester anymore than it already has. Hob has been with him for a scant seven months— he will not fall apart over a human he barely knows, one who shied away when Dream finally rose to meet him.
He builds the fire to a roar, the flames nearly licking the ceiling, and sits there staring for a while, watching the dancing of the fire as he waits for Hob to slink back from wherever he ran off to.
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theoriginalladya · 6 months
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Everybody Loses It - Chapter Update
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(commissioned art of Rhys Shepard and Kaidan Alenko by @xla-hainex)
Everybody Loses It
Summary: One of the first human biotics, prothean specialist Dr. Rhys Shepard has fought for years to distance himself from the events at BAaT and distance himself from his parents and their military careers. When a prothean beacon is discovered on Eden Prime, he snatches the chance to finally prove himself.
Until the geth attack and he comes face to face with a part of his past he thought long dead...
Chapter 3: Welcome to the Citadel
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Rhys is foolish enough to think walking away from the Normandy – from Kaidan, for a third time in his life – will be easy.  He ends up calling himself all kinds of foolish as he, Sara and the rest of the ground team from Eden Prime hit the docs of the Citadel together.  They’re at the heart of galactic civilization.  The Council, the ambassador – Someone’s going to want to hear about what happened, even if it happened on a backwater human colony. Sure enough, the very second the elevator doors open just outside of C-Sec headquarters, they’re greeted by an escort and an aide sent by the ambassador to greet them. “More like herd us to the embassies,” Rhys mutters beneath his breath.  Out of the corner of his eye, he catches Kaidan’s glance at him, but Rhys lets it go.  He’s never met Ambassador Udina, but he’s heard stories.  He isn’t expecting this meeting to go well.  What I’d give for the days of sunshine and bunnies back home.  At least there I can use my shotgun to take care of the wolves.
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Just a few things to note:
1) Rhys is a slightly older Shepard, a combination of a spacer and Earthborn background, and non-military. He goes off to college and graduate school and becomes a prothean specialist
2) He and Kaidan have known one another since BAaT. They have a history together.
3) Kaidan is the Commander of the Normandy. He essentially takes over the role of Shepard in the ME canon timeline
This story isn't a retelling of all of game 1, but will use bits and pieces of it that fit for their story.
I hope you enjoy it as much as I've enjoyed writing them!
For anyone interested, Rhys has two playlists on Spotify.
This one is associated with his story The Barn called Shore Leave on Mindoir
And this is his general playlist that I listen to while writing for him. It may change some as his story continues.
If you have any questions about Rhys, feel free to drop an ask! I love to talk about my characters! :)
Enjoy!
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phynoma · 12 days
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an extant form of life- chapter 4!!
There are limited luxuries in Jon's life, and he enjoys them where he can. The bathroom, for example, is large for his flat– something about it being a handicap accessible unit– and it even includes a shower/bath combo, rather than one or the other. The tub is ancient, but it works, and Jon can fully stretch out in it when he's feeling decadent enough to run his water bill up for a bath. Now isn't the time for such things, but there's an inherent comfort of this room. Jon allows himself to lean back against the bathroom door and admit, for a moment, that he's not quite as in control of this situation as he'd hoped.
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redlightofdawn · 5 months
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Chapters: 2/? Fandom: Superman - All Media Types, Batman - All Media Types Rating: Explicit Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Clark Kent/Bruce Wayne Characters: Clark Kent, Bruce Wayne, Alfred Pennyworth, Some friendly aliens, Jor-El, Dick Grayson, Tim Drake, Jason Todd, Cassandra Cain, Stephanie Brown, Damian Wayne, Lois Lane Additional Tags: Established Relationship, Alpha/Beta/Omega Dynamics, Non-Traditional Alpha/Beta/Omega Dynamics, Kryptonians have secondary genders Humans don't, Major Character Injury Series: Part 7 of Oh No, Not Another Kryptonians With Dynamics AU! Summary:
Together and mated, Bruce and Clark really thought they were about to catch a break and have an easy time of it for a while.
They really should have known better.
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Continuation to Heliotropism and part of an ongoing series.
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mischievouschan4 · 7 months
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Fic update!!!
Obi-Wan experiences a bit of an emotional metamorphosis as he goes through his Trials for a second time. Maul suffers and Dooku reveals his hand.
It only took a month of writing and then another week of sitting on it wondering if it was good enough before I decided to post 🙈
Hope you enjoy!
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i-logophile · 6 months
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The Glass Pawn Ch. 8 posted!
Chapter 8: Deception is My Métier is up!
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Doubt began niggling at the back of Leo's mind. Doubt and confusion.
Bishop was the bad guy. He was the villain. Like Krang Prime.
But Krang Prime had beaten Leo to a bloody pulp, and Bishop… had never actually laid a hand on him.
“Leonardo,” Bishop said, stepping closer. “Trust me. I’m telling the truth. You know I’m telling the truth.”
I do?
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kitsunefaux · 6 months
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Chapters: 6/? Fandom: Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Monsters (Anime & Manga), Yu-Gi-Oh! - All Media Types Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings Relationships: Bakura Ryou & Yami Bakura, Bakura Ryou/Yami Bakura, Bakura Ryou & Thief King Bakura, Bakura Ryou/Thief King Bakura, Bakura Ryou & Marik Ishtar, Bakura Ryou & Mazaki Anzu | Tea Gardner, Bakura Ryou/Zorc Necrophades Characters: Bakura Ryou, Yami Bakura, Thief King Bakura, Marik Ishtar, Yami Marik, Zorc Necrophades, Sera (Yu-Gi-Oh), Mazaki Anzu | Tea Gardner, Ishizu Ishtar, Diabound (Yu-Gi-Oh) Additional Tags: Alternate Universe, Angst, Unreliable Narrator, Non-Linear Narrative, References to manga canon, Post-Ceremonial Duel (Yu-Gi-Oh), Tendershipping, Gemshipping, Leechshipping, Hints of Conspireshipping, Background Relationships, Unhealthy Relationships, human!Zorc, Out of Character Aigami | Diva, Out of Character Sera, Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD), Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD), Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD), Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID), Depression, Social Anxiety, Dissociation/Derealization, Obsessive Behavior, Possessive Behavior, Emotional Manipulation, Codependency, Sennen Items | Millennium Items, Soul Room as Mind Palace, Magic, Memories, Ghosts, Gods, Avatars, Possession, Creative License: Egyptian Mythology, Taking a hatchet to DSoD’s plot and using the pieces to make something new, Rating May Change Series: Part 3 of Chiaroscuro AU Summary:
A spirit carves a hole into a boy's heart that he might crawl inside and nestle in its warmth. Now, he is gone, and Ryou is left with a gnawing wound, memories, and the certainty that he will get Bakura back.
Behind the curtain, gods meddle, resetting the board for the start of another game. A new cycle of the world has begun.
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mareenavee · 8 months
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The World on Our Shoulders | Chapter 28: Never Quite Awake
Thank you to @rainpebble3, @paraparadigm and @changelingsandothernonsense for your amazing beta work <3
Chapter 28: Never Quite Awake
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Nyenna hadn’t known darkness to shift so much — switching from the sort of crushing deep black to which she was accustomed — to the clear deep blue of a night sky, though the stars were starkly absent. Sometimes the air smelt of mushrooms, if there was any air at all. Sometimes she thought she saw silhouettes against the dark backdrop, or heard the sea. There was a sense of movement through the ever-present ache. And a chiming. Such a chiming. She’d heard this before. It had been so, so long ago. She tried to look around, but found only an expanse of nothing in any direction. All was still. Was she?
When the image, such as it was, shifted, she was floating, lifted from the depths. The heavens were like water wrapping around her limbs. Then, the familiar smell of lavender soap, a strange comfort. Where she had been numb, warmth crept through her skin. Her neck felt too weak to hold her head up and she could not open her eyes. Instead, she tilted her head back until she breathed in the sky; if any stars were hidden underneath, they now lived in her lungs, tiny sparks like diamonds uncovered from ashes.
That was the other smell — mushrooms, lavender and now ashes. This time, she’d almost opened her eyes. Almost, if not for the pain. Her mind was flooded with questions in languages she couldn’t understand. Figures clad in shadow pulled at her arms, her hair. The words were soothing, but she could not be calmed. The shadows cast their spells, and still she could not find her own words to answer them. A screech tore through her throat and echoed in her skull. The voices became frantic, the figures skittering around her in the haze. The sky-turned-water pulled her under. There was no air. Her half-consciousness was torn from her, and she returned swiftly to the crushing darkness. Familiar — but why? And again that chiming was louder than the waves.
She did not know how long it lasted. This time, she heard the wind before she felt the morning mist on her skin. Different. She opened her eyes, not having realized they’d been closed before. She could feel her hands and feet where they’d only been vague concepts previously, and liminal ones at that. She sighed, flexed her fingers, and looked out at the edge of the horizon, if that’s what it was at all. Things were slowly greying, like a bloom of watercolor touched to sodden paper. As if light was crawling pigment, the sun, maybe, lit the field she was standing in — though she couldn’t recall when last she’d felt its warmth. Whatever this was, with how quickly the image changed, she was thrown off balance at best. So long she had floated in nothingness, unable to order anything at all. And yet here she stood on solid ground. Beneath the whisper of the wind, chiming faded. She could still hear it, barely.
But the mist — yes. This felt familiar in a different way. Something like Whiterun, out by the river. The tundra cotton. She could see it now in tufted bunches dotting the landscape. Grasses, too, dried in places but bright green by the water. She’d never seen Skyrim in the height of summer, but she’d always imagined it like this — warm, plenty of flowers. Mudcrabs chittering in shallow ponds. Red foxes running across open fields. Elk grazing in the distance. Even bees buzzing, working as if all was exactly as it had always been and not this odd dream-version of things. Beautiful regardless of the weather, the rain, the mist, the surreality. She didn’t feel misplaced here.
Nyenna turned her face to the sun, let herself bask in its warmth as if she was one of the scraggly trees which dotted the landscape. She reached her arms toward the light, the clouds, and a dusty blanket fell from her shoulders with a strange, muffled, heavy sound. She hadn’t figured out where it came from, and didn’t care. She felt strangely present in a way she’d forgotten she was able to feel. She kept her arms raised and sighed, content. The bees still buzzed around her.
“What are you doing?” came a voice. Smooth, with a heavy New Balmora accent, tinged with just the barest hint of Nordic brogue. Familiar, but distant. Like he was too far away. Something ached in her chest at the sound.
Athis. -> Read the rest on AO3
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oftirnanog · 2 years
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Chapters: 7/11 Fandom: Stranger Things (TV 2016) Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Steve Harrington/Eddie Munson Characters: Robin Buckley, Nancy Wheeler, Dustin Henderson, Lucas Sinclair, Erica Sinclair, Maxine "Max" Mayfield, Jim "Chief" Hopper, Joyce Byers, Mike Wheeler, Will Byers, Jonathan Byers, Argyle (Stranger Things), Eleven | Jane Hopper, Wayne Munson Additional Tags: Fix-It, Slow Burn, Mutual Pining, Minor Robin Buckley/Nancy Wheeler, References to Canon, Everybody Lives, except barb, Getting Together, Bisexual Steve Harrington, Gay Eddie Munson, Bisexual Nancy Wheeler, Other Additional Tags to Be Added, Rating May Change, Period-Typical Homophobia, Recreational Drug Use, Nightmares, Cohabitation, Steve Harrington Has Bad Parents, Good Uncle Wayne Munson, POV Steve Harrington, Panic Attacks Summary:
"He tries to not think too hard about the way Eddie flirts with him, because it is flirting, but it’s also clear that this is simply the way Eddie interacts with people. It doesn’t mean anything. And even if it did, Steve wouldn’t care. Why would Steve care? He wouldn’t. He would have absolutely no reason to care. That little tingle of warmth and fluttery nerves that he feels is just how anyone reacts to flirting. It’s nice, getting that kind of attention. It doesn’t mean anything."
Or, the party defeats Vecna, Eddie lives, Max is fine, and Steve does his best to go back to life as usual, now with the addition of one Eddie Munson, who definitely flirts with him, but it also definitely, positively, for sure, doesn't mean anything. (Except that it means everything.)
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kindlingkeen · 3 months
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Chapters: 3/6 Fandom: Batman - All Media Types, Batman (Comics), Red Hood: Lost Days Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings Relationships: Talia al Ghul & Jason Todd, Jason Todd & Bruce Wayne Characters: Jason Todd, Talia al Ghul, Bruce Wayne, Joker (DCU) Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Canon-Typical Violence, Temporary Character Death, Jason Todd-centric, Lost Days-Era Jason Todd, Unreliable Narrator, Past Talia al Ghul/Bruce Wayne, Emotional Hurt/Comfort, Manipulation, Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder - PTSD, Dissociation, Panic Attacks, Flashbacks, Minor Character Death Summary:
Do not seek him out. You remain unavenged.
In the beginning, Jason viewed Talia’s words as the fire that forged the knife point of his rage and shaped a quest for revenge.
With time and space, and after a lot of bruises, he came to appreciate Talia’s words for the warning they truly were. An attempt to impart insight that while Jason was alive, his life, his old life, was still over. That he’d changed so much, he no longer fit into the place he used to fill. And that the safety he used to find there had never been real.
But that understanding came later, after time, and space, and a lot of bruises.
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Update!
Sorry for the long hiatus, we have both been very busy with university and personal life but we would like to thank all of you who have still been waiting for an update. You can expect the next page by around the end of December!
Here’s some old concept art of Imani in the meantime 💖💖💖
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Artwork by: A.M. Minnittee
All rights belong to A.M. Minnittee and Lily Barmoha
Any artwork or writing as part of “The Humanity Experiment” is not permitted to be shared/sold/posted on any other website.
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am3mb3r123 · 2 years
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Chapters: 3/? Fandom: Star Wars: The Clone Wars (2008) - All Media Types, Star Wars: The Bad Batch (Cartoon) Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: CT-21-0408 | CT-1409 | Echo/CT-27-5555 | ARC-5555 | Fives, Clone Force 99 | Bad Batch & CT-7567 | Rex, CT-21-0408 | CT-1409 | Echo & CT-7567 | Rex, CT-27-5555 | ARC-5555 | Fives & CT-7567 | Rex Characters: CT-21-0408 | CT-1409 | Echo, CT-7567 | Rex, Hunter (Star Wars: The Bad Batch), Wrecker (Star Wars: The Bad Batch), Tech (Star Wars: The Bad Batch), Omega (Star Wars: The Bad Batch), Ahsoka Tano, CT-27-5555 | ARC-5555 | Fives Additional Tags: CT-27-5555 | ARC-5555 | Fives Lives, romp across the galaxy, CT-21-0408 | CT-1409 | Echo and CT-27-5555 | ARC-5555 | Fives Reunion, eventually, Minor CC-2224 | Cody/CT-7567 | Rex, Clone Troopers Speak Mando'a (Star Wars), Emotionally Intelligent Wrecker, omega is one smart cookie, Clone Trooper Humor (Star Wars), maybe more tags to add?, idk if crosshair will show up i haven't written that far yet tbh, CC-2224 | Cody's Name Is Kote, < that's really not important to the story but it's important to me that y'all know that Summary:
Months after the Order, Rex learns from Ahsoka and one of her contacts that a trooper meeting Fives' description is alive somewhere in the galaxy; on one of five planets that is. He enlists the help of the Bad Batch to search for him, but can't bring himself to tell the others, especially Echo, who they're really looking for. Bonding, hilarity, and fights ensue.
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purpleneutrino · 3 months
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He thought they’d be cold against his finger as he touched them, but they were warm from the heat of Zoro’s skin.
Art for Chapter 3 of ‘Because It’s You’
here on ao3
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venator-signum · 6 months
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kamala khan would have the most horrendous ao3 author's notes known to man
"hey guys sorry the update is late i switched places with an avenger (ajdgrhsh literally crying) and a really cool space scientist lady and then got into a fight and some alien dudes wrecked my house and then I met Nick fury and I was literal space it was crazy and I had to help save the universe and saw said scientist lady give up her life to save all of us... anyways hope you like the new fic, branching out with an arranged marriage au for this one!!!"
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lilybug-02 · 2 months
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Pain is a great motivator…
Part 26 || First || Previous || Next
—Full Series—
Meanwhile Toriel:
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(Loud noises don't wake her up usually.)
Artist note: I’m so proud of this :))) I know it’s a lot of dialogue and reading, but dialogue is grueling work for me. I’m glad with the art and for the amount of pages I made in such a relatively short time span -w- page 5 was super fun to work on. A lot of blood, sweat, and hours here... :) The backgrounds were a big bore tbh, but I finished them! Yippie!
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