CaughtInATalespin
Fandoms
- Top Gun (Movies) (14)
- Dune (Movies - Villeneuve) (6)
- Dune - All Media Types (6)
- Dune Series - Frank Herbert (5)
- DCU (2)
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“I think,” the imp squeaks from where he dangles upside-down by the ankle, “there’s been a misunderstanding.”
Scowling, Jason gives the grappling line a little push. “Start talking. Where were you the night of June 20th?”
Or: Following a close call one night, Dick and Jason go from unlikely allies to friends-with-benefits. Dick, who’s been in love with Jason for ages, wants more, but knows it’ll never happen. But when he saves a deal-making demon, Dick is unwittingly “gifted” his heart’s desire. At least he thinks so — why else would Jason suddenly be trying so hard to woo him?
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a war in my name by CaughtInATalespin
Fandoms: Dune - All Media Types, Dune (Movies - Villeneuve), Dune Series - Frank Herbert
10 Sep 2024
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“Your life belongs to me now,” Atreides says coldly. “You’ll die when I say you can, and no sooner.”
Feyd turns his head to spit a globule of bloody saliva to the side, in a mockery of the Fremen gesture of respect. “You should know, your Majesty, I will not bend to your whims so easily. I won’t back down without a fight.”
To his unease, Atreides’s grin only widens. “Oh cousin,” he laughs, “that’s what I’m counting on.”
OR: Rather than killing Feyd-Rautha during their duel, Paul spares his life and gives him exactly what he needs: a reason to fight.
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I can hold the weight of worlds (but I'm only human) by CaughtInATalespin
Fandoms: Dune - All Media Types, Dune Series - Frank Herbert, Dune (2021)
19 May 2024
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Time Travel AU: On the night he is to be tested with the Gom Jabbar, Paul wakes up on Caladan in his younger body. Armed with foreknowledge of future (past) events and his powers already awakened, he is determined to alter the course of history and save whomever he can. But fate does not take kindly to meddling, and at the end of the day, despite his omniscience...Paul is only human.
Series
- Part 1 of The Imprint of Dust
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walked this road before by CaughtInATalespin
Fandoms: Dune - All Media Types, Dune (2021), Dune Series - Frank Herbert
07 Apr 2024
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Paul does not understand why when a visiting Bene Gesserit sister lays eyes on him, she goes white with shock, trembling to the tips of her toes as she names him Abomination.
Or: Eldritch!Paul discovers his destiny
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the subject of your dreams (your sickening desire) by CaughtInATalespin
Fandoms: Dune - All Media Types, Dune (2021)
17 Mar 2024
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Paul is running reconnaissance in Arrakeen when he hears Feyd-Rautha has killed the last loyal retainers of House Atreides in a gladiatorial spectacle. The rage that fills him is so all-encompassing that he doesn't realize he's missed his rendezvous with Stilgar until he's already inside the palace walls.
Feyd-Rautha Harkonnen dies tonight.
Or: Instead of Lady Margot Fenring, it's Paul who meets Feyd-Rautha on his birthday.
Recent series
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"Family...what can you do?" by CaughtInATalespin
Fandom: Mission: Impossible, Mission: Impossible (Movies)
24 Jul 2023
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A series of fics set in the Mission: Impossible universe, in which Alanna Mitsopolis (The White Widow) is Ethan and Max's daughter.
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The Imprint of Dust by CaughtInATalespin
Fandom: Dune (2021), Dune - All Media Types, Dune Series - Frank Herbert
19 May 2024
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A bunch of unrelated "what if" scenarios based in the Top Gun universe
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Hold me like water by stillnotovermylordsixth
Fandoms: 呪術廻戦 | Jujutsu Kaisen (Manga), 呪術廻戦 | Jujutsu Kaisen (Anime)
29 Feb 2024
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Satoru watched his future self cradle the broken body of the man he loved. He pushed the hair out of Suguru’s face and tenderly touched his cheek. Then he leaned down to press a lingering kiss to his forehead. Older Satoru’s lips were stained red when he straightened again.
The world around Satoru dissolved into mist and he closed his eyes to settle the nausea that threatened to overtake him.
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When a fun night of drinking (and a little bit of fortune telling) reveals a horrific vision of Suguru’s death at his hands, Satoru takes it upon himself to change their tragic fate at all costs.
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- Part 1 of Hold me like water AU
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- English
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Bookmarked by CaughtInATalespin
16 Apr 2025
Bookmarker's Notes
Made me SOB 😭 Such good sugusato feels, 10/10 would cry again.
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the lone traveller, standing strong by bubblewrapstargirl
Fandoms: Game of Thrones (TV), A Song of Ice and Fire & Related Fandoms
12 Jan 2018
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Sansa wakes to find herself a girl again, and quickly realises she must find a way to marry a decent man before Robert Baratheon comes North, prevent Jon from taking the Black, tie Theon to House Stark before Balon rebels, and save all her siblings from the wrath of the Lannisters. Sansa refuses to be a bystander to tragedy any longer, but can she ever hope to win the game of thrones?
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- Part 1 of the lone traveller multiverse
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- English
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- 15/15
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Bookmarked by CaughtInATalespin
04 Jan 2018
Bookmarker's Notes
Possibly the best and most unique take on GoT time travel I've read!
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Brave Soldier Boy by EagleInFlight
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types, Batman (Comics), Deathstroke the Terminator (Comics), Teen Titans - All Media Types, Nightwing (Comics)
05 Mar 2023
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Dick and Slade’s grief forged an unusual bond between the two.
Only Slade doesn’t know Dick’s vigilante identity, or his real civilian identity.
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Bookmarked by CaughtInATalespin
09 May 2023
Bookmarker's Notes
Amazing worldbuilding, implied Dick Grayson/Grant Wilson, meaningful Slade & Dick regular human interactions
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Jason has put his life back together just in time to see the whole world fall apart. As the pandemic spreads across Gotham, he's struggling to maintain his new and fragile equilibrium in the face of two separate pressure points:
One, he's back working in Bruce's restaurant while his own joint's launch seems to be dying before it can even get off the ground, frustrated and beset by relationships still fraught with trauma. And two, he's walked back into a Gotham he can barely recognize, with people locked down in their homes, the streets paved with fear of a choking, ugly, infectious death, and an attack on Alfred that he can't avenge.
With the high stress, high stakes world of haute cuisine combined with the Wayne family drama in daylight and pounding empty streets feeling like an idiot in armor watching people die at night, it's only a matter of time before he cracks for good.
Then, suddenly, he gets a reprieve.
One night a vigilante food truck rolls up to his corner of the world, offering Red Hood a shot at redemption.
And during the day, there's the Table's new pot scrubber, Tim Drake, who might need some redemption of his own...
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Bookmarked by CaughtInATalespin
24 Apr 2023
Bookmarker's Notes
Set in pandemic-era where the Batfam are still vigilantes but civilian identities are in the food industry; deep exploration of social issues (food insecurity, homelessness, elitist fear-mongering, etc); masterpiece worldbuilding and characterization - DESERVES A READ, PREPARE TO BE BLOWN AWAY