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Zuko botches his escape on the day of the eclipse and sits out the war in prison. What will the Gaang do with a new Fire Lord they can't trust? Season Four "Zuko never joined the Gaang, and he's really bad at being good" AU.
Featuring Azula's extended field trip, June not signing up for this, and Sokka's increasing desire to scream. Come get your international politics with a side of baby dragons.
Podfic and German translation now available, see chapter one notes!
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- Part 1 of Towards the Sun
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shall i find rest by dog_fish
Fandoms: Compilation of Final Fantasy VII, Final Fantasy VII, Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children
19 Dec 2024
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On the Planet of his birth, Cloud had destroyed Sephiroth years ago. The reactors are long cold, the world is saved, and he and Tifa keep their little family in remembrance of the dead.
In this new dimension, it's like the apocalypse Cloud remembers was half-averted. Mako's still around, ShinRa's in business, and Tifa supposedly died years ago under Cloud's JENOVA-fueled rampage. The other problem? Everyone's alive, looking for answers, and this dimension is a little more different than it seems.
It's hard, taking out reactors while being hunted across the continent by the people who are apparently your soulmates. It's hard, and no one understands.
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- Part 1 of we eat well in summer
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(The end is never the end. There's too much blood on too many hands and too many unhappy endings. Six years is a long wait for a grieving mother and a damning curse. It's time for more desperate measures. Perhaps resourcing one of the counselors - as she had watched so many do before - will prove benign. Looks like it's time to save the sole survivor.)
Dylan wakes up in a blind panic, kicking out and falling backward off of the log bench he's sitting on. Maybe it's a bit dramatic, but in his defense, he was just being pinned down in the kitchen, about to get his throat torn out by a goddamn werewolf. Sue him for startling.
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- Part 1 of take me back & back again
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caught between the dark and the dreaming by Raayide
Fandoms: Baldur's Gate (Video Games)
26 Jan 2024
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Marcus holds the goblet up, still stinking with klauthgrass, and ponders them, clutched in the wretched claws of his undead monsters. "Well," he says, and smiles. "If you will not willingly drink it, I have a manner of encouragement."
And then he raises his dagger, pricks his own wrist until scarlet pools over his pale skin, and lets blood drip into the goblet.
Before he can help it, Astarion stiffens.
Astarion has spent two hundred years with truth as a bitter enemy. Fitting, then, that his choice to say it is taken from him.
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Cover of Knight by ErinPtah
Fandoms: Moon Knight (TV 2022), Doctor Strange (Movies), Spider-Man (Tom Holland Movies), Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings (2021), Hawkeye (TV 2021), The Falcon and the Winter Soldier (TV), Guardians of the Galaxy (Movies), Ms. Marvel (TV 2022), Iron Man (Movies), Deadpool (Movieverse), Thor (Movies), Eternals (Movie 2021), Captain Marvel (2019), She-Hulk: Attorney at Law (TV), Loki (TV 2021), Daredevil (TV), Black Panther (Marvel Movies)
27 Apr 2023
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Steven, Marc, and Jake have finally learned to be a mostly-functional system. Coordinating their home lives. Sharing the Fist of Khonshu powers to carry out missions around the world. They've even started doing team-ups with other superheroes!
...None of whom need to know personal details about their psych history, thank you very much.
A series of times when Avengers notice Moon Knight switching/dissociating/just plain talking to himself...and the growing collection of (inconsistent, mostly ad-libbed, increasingly complicated) cover stories they get for it.
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- Part 1 of Cover of Knight Cinematic Universe
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Barbara has a routine. Every evening, at around seven o’clock, she pulls up a live feed of the Joker’s cell.
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Someone had to inform Light's family. What remained of it.
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The staff at Gotham Cemetery are not paid enough to deal with this.
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Twilight on Owl Creek Bridge by yellow_caballero
Fandoms: Star Wars - All Media Types, Star Wars Prequel Trilogy, Star Wars Original Trilogy
07 Dec 2021
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SUBJECT: Regarding Senate Guard Objectives For Today
This is a polite reminder to all guardsmen that patrol schedules for the Senate vote ratifying dictatorships are posted in the breakroom. I am also issuing a warning to linear time that days should follow sequentially and are not intended to repeat. Please cease repeating. I am getting a headache.
Additionally, I'd like to remind all guardsmen that it is illegal to harbor invisible women in the Senate. If you see a ghost claiming to be Leia Organa, please remove her from the premises. She will be making a scene.
Thank you for your cooperation in preserving the peace of the Republic, and all hail the Empire.
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At Sokka’s behest, the Gaang skips rescuing Zuko during the Siege at the North Pole. Instead they leave him, unconscious, buried in the snow.
In completely unrelated news, Sokka’s haunted by a ghost now.
(If you'd like more details before deciding to read this story, look here for spoilers.)
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Mid-Season-One Zuko is held for ransom by Chief Hakoda. Ozai's replies to the Water Tribe's demands are A+ Parenting. Hakoda is… deeply concerned, for this son that isn't his, and who might be safer among enemies than with his own father.
Podfic and translations in Dutch, German, Hungarian, Russian, Spanish, and Ukrainian now available! See chapter one author notes for links.
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Jonathan Sims listens to a tape and makes a choice.
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Hope, Etc. (Dickenson et al.) by yellow_caballero
Fandoms: The Magnus Archives (Podcast)
10 Mar 2021
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"What therefore God hath joined together in human and daemon, let not man put asunder." (Mark 10:9)
Jonathan Sims, six months after the Unknowing, wakes to find himself without a daemon - without humanity, without a soul. It's a cursed half-life, but existence as a shell without a heart isn't so bad: between solving the mystery of a persistent illusion cast over his friends and some light pseudo-cannibalism, a life as a monster is better than no life at all. At least, it would be, if it wasn't for the fucking Owl.
Or: break free, Jon. You have nothing to lose anymore.
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Sokka’s ready for everything. He’s got his gear. He’s got his tickets. Nothing can shake him, the best-prepared spectator at the 2020 Olympic Games...
Until he meets Lee, a young dancer with a strange knack for broadswords, and they fall into a game all their own.
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Prince Zuko is born with eyes of pure gold, the surest sign of a strong inner flame.
Prince Zuko is born unlucky. He has no fire to speak of. No spark of potential.
(Until swords start bending to his will.)
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The Monster at the End of This Book by yellow_caballero
Fandoms: The Magnus Archives (Podcast)
28 Oct 2020
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Every year, the Supernatural Society of Britain holds its annual academic and social conference EvilCon. This year, it will be held in 1999, Bournemouth, England - and almost-teenager Jonathan Sims is going to make it an EvilCon nobody will ever forget.
Easier said than done, when Jon has to evade time-traveling history teachers and overbearing parental figures. When it comes to dealing with Messiahs of the Eternal Flame, rare book hunters, and the looming threat of a future apocalypse, he needs all the help he can get. Can Jon untangle these games of mistaken identities - and will he ever find out who the mysterious figure known as the Archivist truly is?
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Despite the fever and the barely-healed burn scar, the boy’s fast. June avoids his blade, but still he jams his limbs into her, desperate to scratch and kick and bite off her hand…
(Just like a baby shirshu, spitting poison from behind the bars of its cage. The comparison shouldn't be so endearing.)
Or: the AU where Zuko flees the palace after his Agni Kai, running right into Nyla and June.
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- Part 1 of Two Drama Queens Loose on a Shirshu
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Tim
Things get creepier the closer they are in proximity to “The Archivist” these days. It’s just a fact of life now.Cass
“The Archivist”??Tim
Apparently it’s a thing. He introduces himself as “Jonathan Sims, the Archivist”Cass
That’s…. Weird??
It’s not just me, right?
That’s weird?Tim
Like I said.The events of The Reverb in These Holy Halls look a little different from the outside.
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- Part 2 of Reverb
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The Chips Didn't Work by Peppermint_Shamrock
Fandoms: Star Wars: The Clone Wars (2008) - All Media Types, Star Wars Prequel Trilogy, Star Wars - All Media Types
18 Aug 2020
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Darth Sidious: Execute Order Sixty-Six
Clones: eXeCuTe oRdEr SiXty-sIX
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He fell into a deep bow, smiling the whole while. “I’m the ringmaster, of course.”
“Is that skin— Is it yours?” Old wood groaned as the Archivist shifted his weight. “Originally.”
“It is!” the ringmaster said as he swooped back upright. “Nikola decided I wore it well, so she let me keep it. Why do you ask?”
The Archivist gave him another once-over. “You just… you look familiar. Like someone I know.”
On relearning, reconnecting, and redefining.
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- Part 1 of Come What May