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• The Sankta’s Reading List by tirkdi (InsectKin) for jammerific

  Fandoms: The Grisha Trilogy - Leigh Bardugo, Shadow and Bone (TV)  

  • Mature
  • No Archive Warnings Apply
  • F/M
  • Complete Work

  29 May 2025

  Tags

  • No Archive Warnings Apply
  • The Darkling | Aleksander Morozova/Alina Starkov
  • Alina Starkov
  • The Darkling | Aleksander Morozova
  • it's like a book club
  • But not quite
  • Bad Puns
  • Established The Darkling | Aleksander Morozova/Alina Starkov

  Summary

  Sankta Alina takes up reading. The Darkling has some questions.

  Language:

  English

  Words:

  1,476

  Chapters:

  1/1

  Comments:

  9

  Kudos:

  43

  Bookmarks:

  5

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  330

• In a Name by tirkdi (InsectKin) for jammerific

  Fandoms: The Grisha Trilogy - Leigh Bardugo  

  • Teen And Up Audiences
  • No Archive Warnings Apply
  • F/M
  • Complete Work

  14 Apr 2025

  Tags

  • No Archive Warnings Apply
  • The Darkling | Aleksander Morozova/Pregnant Alina Starkov
  • The Darkling | Aleksander Morozova/Alina Starkov
  • The Darkling | Aleksander Morozova/Nikolai Lantsov/Alina Starkov
  • The Darkling | Aleksander Morozova
  • Alina Starkov
  • background nikolai/alina
  • handling a little of that childhood trauma together

  Summary

  Alina doesn't get much alone time anymore. It could be a lot worse.

  Series

  • Part 2 of The Path Forward, and Home

  Language:

  English

  Words:

  943

  Chapters:

  1/1

  Collections:

  1

  Comments:

  4

  Kudos:

  29

  Bookmarks:

  2

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  481

• Forging the Future Ourselves by tirkdi (InsectKin) for goblins_riddles_frocks

  Fandoms: The Grisha Trilogy - Leigh Bardugo  

  • Teen And Up Audiences
  • No Archive Warnings Apply
  • F/M
  • Complete Work

  14 Apr 2025

  Tags

  • No Archive Warnings Apply
  • Nikolai Lantsov/Alina Starkov
  • Nikolai Lantsov/Pregnant Alina Starkov
  • Nikolai Lantsov
  • Alina Starkov
  • A already pregnant with ex's baby when B gets together with them
  • Learning how not to inflict intergenerational trauma on your child
  • Alternate Ending - Ruin and Rising

  Summary

  Once the Fold is destroyed, the obvious next step is for Nikolai to get married. Of course, it's never as simple as it sounds.

  Language:

  English

  Words:

  1,295

  Chapters:

  1/1

  Collections:

  1

  Comments:

  8

  Kudos:

  39

  Bookmarks:

  7

  Hits:

  211

• The Nature of Things by tirkdi (InsectKin)

  Fandoms: The Grisha Trilogy - Leigh Bardugo  

  • Mature
  • Choose Not To Use Archive Warnings
  • F/M
  • Complete Work

  21 Oct 2024

  Tags

  • Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
  • The Darkling | Aleksander Morozova/Alina Starkov
  • The Darkling | Aleksander Morozova
  • Alina Starkov
  • Genya Safin
  • Pregnancy
  • Dark fic
  • Canon Divergence - Winter Fete
  • book!Darkling
  • POV The Darkling | Aleksander Morozova
  • Additional Warnings In Author's Note
  • Trust Issues
  • so many trust issues

  Summary

  It’s hard when you’re the most observant one in the pair. It’s even harder when you’re not.

  aka a dark darklina pregnancy fic

  aka Aleksander Morozova stop being insane and awful for one single minute challenge (impossible)

  Language:

  English

  Words:

  6,007

  Chapters:

  1/1

  Comments:

  19

  Kudos:

  191

  Bookmarks:

  26

  Hits:

  2,166

• When the Path Forward Leads Us Home by tirkdi (InsectKin) for goblins_riddles_frocks

  Fandoms: The Grisha Trilogy - Leigh Bardugo  

  • Explicit
  • Choose Not To Use Archive Warnings
  • Multi
  • Complete Work

  04 Aug 2024

  Tags

  • Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
  • The Darkling | Aleksander Morozova/Nikolai Lantsov/Alina Starkov
  • Nikolai Lantsov/Alina Starkov
  • The Darkling | Aleksander Morozova/Alina Starkov
  • Alina Starkov
  • Nikolai Lantsov
  • Genya Safin
  • The Darkling | Aleksander Morozova
  • Alternate Ending - Ruin and Rising
  • cherrypicked canon from King of Scars
  • Political Marriage
  • sex for the purposes of an heir
  • Mal stays dead
  • the darkling of course does not

  Summary

  Circumstances may have required it, but Nikolai wasn't first on Alina's list of marriage partners. Nikolai and the Darkling was even further down the list.

  Series

  • Part 1 of The Path Forward, and Home

  Language:

  English

  Words:

  12,238

  Chapters:

  1/1

  Collections:

  1

  Comments:

  20

  Kudos:

  89

  Bookmarks:

  19

  Hits:

  1,229