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Post-Divorce, Rennala seeks to reconsolodate her power by remarrying. Her choice of spouse? Her long term academic rival - Sellen.
Sellen is confused by the situation but decides to capitalise on it. Where is a better place to plot the downfall of Caria then from within the family itself? All she has to do is stick to her plan, play nice, and most importantly - Don't Fall In Love.
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Left adrift after witnessing the massacre at the albunauric village, Nepheli searches answers as to why her once father would order such an act.
Mired in grief after the death of her other half, Latenna is ready to admit the end of her quest until a tarnished woman appears seeking justice against those that harmed her.
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noun / the expression of sorrow for someone's death. by dustlybright
Fandoms: Elden Ring (Video Game)
13 Jun 2023
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Rogier is dead. The Tarnished chooses not to cope.
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The time has come for Sellen's long awaited coup against Rennala. She wasn't expecting for it to go down without a fight.
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As he and Preston lie in bed one night, Sammy realises something. Maybe they don't have a working shower yet, but some things about the future are a hell of a lot better.
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Gender is a Construct But This Construct is Not Gendered by heavyshadows
Fandoms: Murderbot (TV), The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
14 Jul 2025
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We had (somehow) survived GrayCris. There was just one problem. My humans kept calling me he now.
I didn’t know what to make of this. It made me feel like they weren’t quite seeing me. Like at the beginning of the survey, when I first saved Bharadwaj and they started acting all team-y around me. But from the way they had talked, it was clear they didn’t understand what a SecUnit was. Instead, it was like I was their pet bot. It wasn’t until I blew LeeBeeBee’s head off that they realized they had been trying to befriend a murderbot. They saw me for what I was; a killing machine.
When they said he, I hated it. It made my organics flinch. My performance reliability dropped a percentage each time. And it felt like the pet bot incident all over again; like they weren’t seeing me, but what they wanted to see. I didn’t want to be their pet bot, but I didn’t want to have to act like I was human either. Especially not some human man. Is that how they saw me? Is that what I would have to be now on Preservation?
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In which Murderbot struggles with stupid human assumptions about gender, has a heart-to-heart with its favorite human, and submits to the mortifying ordeal of being known.Bookmarked by dustlybright
17 Jul 2025
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There are a lot of security cameras. Usually that means very bad things, especially for secret human spies and their murderbot accomplices. Was I an accomplice? I planned the whole thing. Maybe the mastermind would be better. I knew Gurathin would take issue with that—because that made him the accomplice to a terrifying murderbot, rather than the one in control, and I knew how much it annoyed Gurathin 1. not to be in control, and 2. admit that I was right.
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Or: Murderbot, Gurathin, a heist, and some (probably) ill-advised kissing.
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16 Jul 2025
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Feeling abandoned by his family, an emotionally vulnerable Dean investigates a strange commune alone. With Sam at Stanford and John off the grid, help seems unlikely when the young hunter falls under the influence of the group’s charismatic leader.
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05 Jan 2024
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Tom Jopson never desired an interesting life. He served King Francis. He daydreamed about the day he would be able to marry Edward Little, the man he had loved since childhood — a childhood spent in a town that believed him to be a girl, despite the fact that he knew otherwise.
And yet was happy, he thought — or at least something close to it — serving and dreaming and pretending to be someone he wasn’t. But then came the King’s despair, leaving him unfit to rule. Then came Sir John, with his heavy taxation policies and brutal hand over the people. Tom’s careful peace had begun to fall apart, and he was forced to take matters into his own hands.
With the Sheriff of Nottingham on his tail, only a handful of other criminals and one of the Sheriff’s own deputies on his side, and the man he loves stuck in the castle under Sir John’s control, Tom is left with only one option: see his home set free, or die trying.
Written for The Terror Big Bang 2023
A trans, polyamorous Robin Hood retelling.
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29 Aug 2023
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In the awful night after George has attacked Tuunbaq, Tuunbaq has attacked Blanky, and Crozier has attacked his addiction, Jopson is pulled from his Captain's side by the sound of mysterious tapping. Romantics (Gothic), eat your heart out.
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14 Feb 2023