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[They started far off…but they resound, sharp as they sound. You can’t mistake the sound. First the click, then the visible breath, both parting the biting cold of the night. They came, they come in time…]
The coming of the grim-grinning suits in their identical yellow neckties was a strange portent for the change that overtook Night Vale so suddenly. They'd come from the middle of nowhere (which was somewhat surprising, given that Night Vale him/it/themself was the literal middle of nowhere) saying they'd bought the town from City Council and thus—
("I didn't know you were for sale."
Eyes flashed, dangerous. "Neither did I.")
—Cecil himself.
[Warning: mildly unfinished]
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- Part 4 of genius loci
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"I know you could kill me if you wanted." Donia is sitting on a ledge, legs dangling above the abyss. "I've done the research. I know what you're capable of."
The moonless night is bitterly cold, stars scattered across the sky like inclusions in stone. But the rock underneath them radiates warmth, either stored from the day's sunlight or generated by some terrible power underneath.
"Instead you're catching me like you would a small child, and then foisting me on a bunch of other Blaseball players."
Donia Bailey expects jumping into the Hellmouth to kill her. But you should never expect an eldritch entity to do what you want it to do.
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Heart of Whitestone (Residue Animate) by Monarchetype
Fandoms: Critical Role (Web Series)
30 Mar 2022
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When Gwendolyn steals a gun from Percy's workshop, he ends up learning a crucial secret about his city.
Whitestone has a heart, and it has decided to make itself known.
(Mooren Lake in the Tal'dorei Sourcebook is sentient due to trace amounts of residuum in the whitestone that washes downstream. So what about the city that's made of the stuff?)
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- Part 1 of Live As Long As
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Children lost in the woods, a tale as old as time.
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- Part 9 of Battleship 2023
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Grow Home by starandrea for marcicat
Fandoms: 魔道祖师 - 墨香铜臭 | Módào Zǔshī - Mòxiāng Tóngxiù, 魔道祖师 | Módào Zǔshī (Cartoon), 魔道祖师Q | Módào Zǔshī Q (Cartoon)
04 Aug 2023
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The nature of Yiling is more than the tidal flow of yin and yang, death flowing forth and life surging back, the brilliance of the sky making deep shadows across the land.
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- Part 3 of Heart of My Home
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"This city is so close to being what I wanted. But everything is wrong."
Furnace Ancona burnt herself out in the final leadup to what she'd assumed was becoming a city. Then they found someone else.
(Also featuring: January learning to build something, April in the deaf community of the Neath, and the anarcho-communist government the Tracklayers' City should have had.)
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The forest is alive.
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Уверуй в силу чуда by Izverg, WTF Kylux and Co 2025 (Our_Own_Star_Wars)
Fandoms: Star Wars - All Media Types, Star Wars Prequel Trilogy
28 Feb 2025
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Шми Скайуокер узнаёт о месте, которое исполняет любые желания, и решает выяснить, исполнит ли оно её желание.
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- Part 5 of ЗФБ-2025: Время заброшек
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"Before we cross the threshold, I want to be sure you're okay with the risks. If you don't feel comfortable, for any reason, we can turn around - "
"Adam," Ben interrupted. "Relax. This is an easy one. Nothing's going to chase me. No bugbear trying to claw through my leg. I can do my job lying down."
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AU where the Jet Lag boys are also kinda-sorta paranormal investigators, written for a Keep Fandom Weird bingo challenge
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Don’t Pity Me by hit_the_books
Fandoms: Daredevil (TV), Doctor Strange (Movies), Marvel Cinematic Universe, Marvel
05 May 2026
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It's been years since Midland Circle and the fall of Fisk, but Matt still isn't okay. Brought in on a minor case involving Doctor Stephen Strange, the Sanctum Sanctorum finally drives Matt past his limits in ways he could never have anticipated. Thankfully, Stephen Strange decides not to be an arrogant dick for once.
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- Part 5 of May Trope Mayhem 2026
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Wilhelmina Graham knows storms before they break.
At eleven years old, she runs from her father with no plan beyond away. No coat, no money that matters, no map, and no faith that any adult will believe danger before it becomes proof. The human world offers roads, hunger, police questions, and the possibility of being sent back.
Then the woods change.
Wil steps into Star Dew Valley and finds a farm waiting for her: a rickety cabin, rusty tools, fifteen parsnip seeds, strange gold coins, and a letter from Mayor Hannibal Lecter welcoming the new farmer. The Valley is too green, too watchful, too kind in ways that feel like teeth hidden behind a smile.
But the soil grows food. The door closes. The town buys what she harvests. And for the first time, Wil is not called runaway, problem, or child.
She is called farmer.
This follows Wil’s first desperate days in the Valley as she chooses survival over safety, learns that help can be another kind of claim, and meets the Antlered Mayor who will change the shape of her life forever.
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- Part 1 of The Summer Court’s Little Farmer
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The Valley Teaches Rules Through Festivals by TheCuriousCat
Fandoms: Hannibal (TV), Stardew Valley (Video Game)
05 Jul 2026
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Wilhelmina Graham has survived her first planting, her first bargains, and her first season under Hannibal Lecter’s careful hospitality. Now Star Dew Valley begins teaching her its older rules.
A calendar appears on the farmhouse wall, and with it comes a year of festivals: eggs hidden like lessons, dances built from invitation and refusal, soup that judges what is offered, jellies that drift like memory, fairs that turn labour into proof, masks that reveal more than faces, ice that teaches patience, markets that arrive by impossible water, and gifts that bind even when no debt is named.
Wil tells herself she attends because festivals are useful. Seeds, tools, food, information, survival. But with every ritual, the Valley learns her habits — and she learns its rhythms. By the end of the year, the calendar no longer looks like a threat.
It looks familiar.
And that may be the most dangerous thing of all.
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- Part 3 of The Summer Court’s Little Farmer
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Salazar Slytherin woke up in the body of a three-year-old boy with the most ridiculous head of black hair & a runic scar carved into his forehead. The last thing he recalled was dying. Now it is over 900 years in the future. There are a million things to deal with between new inventions, lost knowledge, missing spirits, & parasitic dark lords.
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- Part 1 of Ouroboros
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Bookmarked by Zela_Night_Phantom
02 Feb 2023
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A Salazar Slytherin reincarnated as Harry Potter fanfic.
Godric and Salazar have the same vibes as Fred and George (because druidic rituals gave them magical bonds)The house and Familia magics and Worldbuilding for how magic works, the Wizarding World's governing system, and the academic rants on warding and runes are all delightful and captivation in equal measure.
Godric has his turn on the angst train.
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Hush Now Dear Child, It Must Be This Way, Too Weary Of Life And Deceptions by Sica520
Fandoms: Danny Phantom
10 Aug 2021
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When Danny Fenton was little, he had nightmares. Whenever he'd wake up shaking from the shadows that stalked him in his dreams, he'd run to his parents' room. Hopefully, he'd get lucky and they wouldn't be down in the lab working.
Then The Accident happened, and his nightmares became reality. And so much had changed, and he knew he couldn't go to his parents. No, his mom and dad were no longer safe... So in a time of absolute vulnerability, where he was desperately seeking the welcoming arms of a trusted adult... Where could he go? Who would let him hide under their covers and snuggle up with them? Who would care to comfort an abomination like him?
No one. Danny had no one to turn to. So after yet another nightmare reliving The Accident, in his fear and desperation, so lost he barely knew where he was going, he finds himself being drawn somewhere. A strangely horrifying voice that should not be comforting was whispering to him. Calling to him. Telling him that he belonged with them. And to Danny, an abomination that belonged nowhere, those sweet words were intoxicating.
Bookmarked by MistingDreams_ThunderingSeams
08 Jul 2023
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The Ghost Zone speaks, calling to the ghostling that should belong, but refuses
But death lasts longer than life, does it not?
Loneliness is a rot that eats the soul from the inside out. But what is rot to the dead?
There will come a time when the desperate break and the hopeless dare to take a leap of faith
Death will wait for the child, it is inevitable after all