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Serial killer Wallace Larson has been murdering children for his ritual, and the cops won't stop him. Private investigators Parker Yang and Arthur Lester choose to get involved... and everything goes wrong.
Interrupting the ritual leaves Parker missing, Arthur in chains, and a piece of the King in Yellow in Arthur's head. But this piece knows who he is, and knows what he wants: to complete his ritual and rule Earth.
Unfortunately, Arthur is incredibly stubborn, maudlin over his missing partner (stupid Parker Yang), and John, it turns out, is not the only piece of the King seeking power right now.
It's a race against time, and John has a heavy handicap. With Larson in pursuit, a trail of murdered victims in their wake, and a host whose body is failing, John is determined to win at any cost... even if the cost includes Arthur Lester.
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The day of the ceremony dawned like any other day. Which is to say, there was no warning of what was to come.
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In Yellow City chapter sixteen, Hastur briefly mentioned an embarrassing incident from his time in Cloud City.
He didn’t want to tell you that story. Unfortunately for him, he’s not in charge.
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Arthur Lester has been taken by the King into the Dreamlands.
Arthur Lester has gone quite mad.
As promised, Arthur will suffer… but his presence will have a bigger effect on the future of Earth than anyone planned.
A continuation of Cloud City, because some people wouldn't stop inspiring me.
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- Part 2 of Cloud City
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Blood and Sand by Trin (ssjtrinity) for vmprsm, AKTrashPanda
Fandoms: Malevolent (Podcast)
12 Apr 2024
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When John Luke was nine, Parker stopped writing back.
It took a while before John Luke was sure, before he allowed the worry to slither into his bones, and take flavor and color away, and leave only trembling cold behind. Parker had never been quiet this long. Something had happened.
John Luke Yang wants his brother back. When he learns about a wish—offered by a god, in exchange for winning some kind of game—he's willing to leave everything behind in pursuit of it.
But the Dreamlands are not safe, and the King in Yellow has gone mad. The Games are not designed to be survived.
Luke has fallen into deep and dangerous waters. Fortunately, he won't be swimming alone.
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God of Cowboys and Fools by Trin (ssjtrinity) for vmprsm, futuresoon
Fandoms: Malevolent (Podcast)
11 Apr 2024
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Well. No time like the present. “I am the King in Yellow, and you are now my slave,” I tell him, because that is the truth and we might as well get it done.
He is a god, awakened in the crater of his birth. Somewhere out there is the Wizard he needs to ensure his misplaced immortality.
Now, if only the Wizard would just do as he was told instead of fighting back, they could get on with the business of living forever.
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Treasure by Kraiva, Trin (ssjtrinity) for Somniate, IchthyOccult
Fandoms: Malevolent (Podcast)
13 Jan 2024
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John just keeps remembering the bad things first.
This one lands hard.
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- Part 118 of Surrogate: The Director's Cut
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The sun never rises in Cloud City. Owned by distant gods, the world creaks along in techno-magical paralysis, making Contracts with spirits, and limping along in isolated enclaves while monsters run wild in the Wastes.
Five years ago, Arthur Lester, a private investigator, made a Contract with a Summon called Hastur. The deal? His soul in exchange for the identity of his daughter's murderer. Until the time Arthur's soul is ripe for harvesting, Hastur will give him power, and eventually must find Faroe's killer. If he doesn't, they both die, so failure is not an option.
Hastur, however, is not a normal Summon... and it turns out he's come here and chosen Arthur in order to stop a threat that will destroy the entire universe if it succeeds.
Unfortunately, humans aren't meant to channel power like Hastur's, and Arthur's body is beginning to break down. It's a race against time to solve Faroe's murder and stop the incoming threat before he simply drops dead.
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- Part 1 of Cloud City
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This Dark Thing That Sleeps In Me by Trin (ssjtrinity)
Fandoms: The Magnus Archives (Podcast)
10 Sep 2023
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In a world where the End won and Jonah Magnus is its Heart, the cycle of death and rebirth is a given: no one lives past thirty, the Other Fears scramble for scraps, and any infant without an Alignment—called Uncertain—has until the age of ten to be claimed, or they are sacrificed.
Jon, an Uncertain child, knows things he shouldn’t, has memories he shouldn’t, and also has a purpose: apparently, he’s been called to do what no Aligned person can do and stop Jonah.
Sometimes, there is no happy ending, only the right one. Jonah broke the promises he made to take over the world, and Jon is here to make it right.
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I Took the One Less Traveled By by Trin (ssjtrinity) for Somniate
Fandoms: Malevolent (Podcast)
25 Aug 2023
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Faroe is given a choice.
A choice six years in the making.
She could never have predicted the result.
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- Part 69 of Surrogate: The Director's Cut
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The cliffs loom, dark and jagged.
This ship cannot be saved.
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- Part 68 of Surrogate: The Director's Cut
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Martin crawled back into bed like he’d crawled through the burned-flesh hole in his heart, and knew he still loved Jon.
Martin knew Jon loved him, too.
Jon had thrown away godhood for him, like it hadn’t mattered.
Maybe it hadn’t.
Jon loved him, and that meant they could fix this.
All Jon had to do was wake up.
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Five Times John Wanted to See a Movie, and One Time Kayne Made it Suck by Trin (ssjtrinity)
Fandoms: Malevolent (Podcast)
21 Apr 2023
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In which Arthur struggles with right and wrong, bemoans the Hays Code, tries (and fails) to define love, and gets a second chance.
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I Prefer My Heart to Be Broken by Trin (ssjtrinity)
Fandoms: The Magnus Archives (Podcast), Malevolent (Podcast)
15 Apr 2023
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Somewhere Else isn't right, and they've never talked about what happened in the Panopticon, but so what? They're together. The Fears aren’t gone, no, but behind a curtain, subdued.
Martin actually loves the small-village life, farming and friends and found family. Jon is... managing. They're making it work.
But the universe they landed in is occupied, and its current rulers are very interested in the new kids. Entities made of Fear, attached to a damaged ex-human and his surprisingly sneaky lover? Who could resist playing with that?
Everyone has plans, and plans under those plans. What happens when a web grows too heavy to support its own weight?
"Tears and blood, blood and tears," says Kayne.
He is not wrong.
Now with FANART! Ahh! It will be posted in the final chapter, because it's spoilerific, but ahh! Thank you, Pikachic!
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The voice gets under his skin. Is it pleasing or terrifying? Inside his head or out? Is it even real, or is his still-human brain just cobbling monster-sounds into something he can comprehend?
It’s impossible to get out of his head, whether literal or not.
Doesn’t matter, though, because the answer Michael gives is a terrible one, and ends the same way: Gertrude could protect herself, Jon can’t, and he’s going to die for her sins.