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Costis’s eyes were drawn to Eugenides’s face, the rings on his hands, the place under his coat where Costis knew there was still a scar. Eugenides never looked at him, but Costis still had the uncomfortable feeling that the king knew. The king knew everything.
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21 May 2026
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Saint Miles dy Vorkosigan by tuval
Fandoms: Vorkosigan Saga - Lois McMaster Bujold, Chalion Saga - Lois McMaster Bujold
09 Mar 2013
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Miles, aged fifty, discovers a portal into Chalion and rides off to save Mark with the Bastard's aid.
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07 May 2026
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Aral Vorkosigan Interplanetary Festschrift by TimeTravelersBookshelf
Fandom Vorkosigan Saga - Lois McMaster Bujold
29 Apr 2022
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- 5
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19 Apr 2026
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Intermundial Studies by rattyjol
Fandoms: Vorkosigan Saga - Lois McMaster Bujold, Nine Worlds Series - Victoria Goddard, Greenwing and Dart - Victoria Goddard
19 Sep 2025
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Gregor arrives at university.
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17 Apr 2026
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Something Better by gleesquid
Fandoms: Spider-Man - All Media Types, Spider-Man (Comicverse), Marvel 616
10 Mar 2020
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Eugene is 6-years-old. He's seeing The Lion King. And Peter Parker is holding his hand.
A love story through the years, and through the radio.Bookmarked by Rory_String_of_Pearls
11 Apr 2026
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Infanticide by grainjew for acrosticacrumpet
Fandoms: Vorkosigan Saga - Lois McMaster Bujold
30 Mar 2026
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“Did I ever tell you,” says Miles, “about Raina?”
Mother and son discuss escape, loyalty, feeding your children to the cannibal planet Barrayar, and other heritable duties.
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10 Apr 2026
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When Peter Parker storms into the Osborn townhouse, he discovers Harry Osborn terrified and alone. Of course he doesn't leave him there by himself—he leaves him there with MJ.
It's anyone's guess whether this makes things better or worse.Bookmarked by Rory_String_of_Pearls
17 Mar 2026
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Despite his oath to serve the king of Attolia, Laecdomon is his baron’s man until the end.
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13 Mar 2026
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Vorkosigan Saga by Ferith12
Fandom Tortall - Tamora Pierce, Vorkosigan Saga - Lois McMaster Bujold
29 Sep 2022
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For subscription purposes
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21 Feb 2026
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there's a touch of you in me by cameliawrites, tough_n_dumb
Fandoms: Six of Crows Series - Leigh Bardugo
15 Aug 2024
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Kaz shrugs the proffered coat on one arm at a time, transferring his cane from hand to hand, and Wylan releases the thick fabric to settle snugly on his shoulders. Wylan is always quick to withdraw his hands, careful not to let them linger or brush against Kaz. But he hopes Kaz can feel the gesture for what it’s supposed to be anyway—a hug at the door; a friendly pat on the arm; the clasping of hands in parting. A thank you for bringing his home to life once more.
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Or: Five times Kaz was given affection without touch, and one time Kaz returns the favor. Post-CK.
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12 Feb 2026
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Why one small American town won’t stop stoning its residents to death by Charlotte_Stant for sophiahelix
Fandoms: The Lottery - Shirley Jackson, The New Yorker RPF
24 Dec 2025
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The picturesque village of Buell, Maine is one of the last in the United States to continue the tradition of the “harvest” or “prosperity” lottery. Its residents insist the lottery makes them stronger, even as condemnation from outsiders grows.
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15 Jan 2026
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After the disastrous invasion of Escobar, Aral Vorkosigan is refusing to speak to his Emperor. In Ezar's final interrogation of Simon Illyan, he asks about Vorkosigan, Vorrutyer, and Sergeant Bothari. Simon does not wish to speak of it.
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Aral's breath trickled out of him. He was exhausted by his younger self. What a legacy. There was a man once, clever, with beautiful eyes that appreciated beauty and engendered art and could see so clearly into Aral's livid soul, bruise and fury alike... A man now twisted with a madness that had Aral at its centre, that sadistic insanity infecting Prince Serg, and Ezar's plot circling all four of them like a great gyre.
Five, Aral corrected himself, glancing at Illyan. All five of them. The lieutenant may not know of the wider world of atrocity he aided in executing, but he was in it with Aral just the same, and Aral culpable for all of it. From Vorrutyer's lovingly crafted torture of Bothari to Ezar's mericilessly calculated disposal of Prince Serg.
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09 Jan 2026
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Eleutherophobia: n., Greek, the fear of freedom
Tom survived Rachel's assassination attempt; the yeerk in his head did not. Now he's left dealing with his overprotective but traumatized parents, a little brother battling survivor guilt in a world that thinks he's a superhero, his terrifyingly awesome ex-neighbor determined to change the world, the girl from high school who he loved enough to follow to a Sharing meeting, and a whole bunch of other former hosts who think that just because a yeerk wearing his body once led a revolution Tom actually knows what he's talking about half the time.
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01 Jan 2026
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Lot 57 by blackbentley for Tweague
Fandoms: Biggles Series - W. E. Johns, Gimlet Series - W. E. Johns
24 Dec 2025
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Bertie was on the verge of giving the whole thing up as a bad job. It had been an early start from Chedcombe, the old horsebox a considerably slower affair than the Jaguar, and even without any cargo it would be a long drive home.
At the sales looking for a new hunter, Bertie runs into a friend.
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29 Dec 2025
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Almost no one in the room would look at the bridegroom’s cup.
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10 Oct 2025
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10 Oct 2025
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Well, fine. She wasn’t stooping to his level. Inej squared back her shoulders and leaned her mouth close to the door.
“These walls are thin,” she informed him. “And some of us are trying to sleep for the first time in days. So…could you stomp quieter? Please.”The walls are very thin in the old rickety house they called The Slat. Inej attempts to quiet the strange boy who lives above her, but, over the years, gets a whole lot more than she bargained for.
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26 Sep 2025
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all the self-loathing in the world won't change a thing ('cause you can't go back, darling) by Yevynaea
Fandoms: Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood & Manga
06 Mar 2020
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Esdras Al-Ridha is born in 1899, in his mother’s family home. His birth certificate, when it’s written a month later by Dr. Yuriy Rockbell, will declare his name Edward Elric. It will name his mother Trisha, and it will say nothing of her white hair. It will say nothing of the blue desert sky he first opens his eyes under, the way he is passed to relative after relative and is held and blessed by each.
(Even before the war, tensions are high, and hatred is brewing. Tirzah holds her newborn son, with eyes as gold as his father’s, and pale-sun hair halfway there, and she decides that if Ishvala wants him hidden, then Tirzah will not brand him where his genes have not.)- Language:
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10 Aug 2025
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Who You Are Behind Closed Doors by nevertheless_turtle
Fandoms: Stormlight Archive - Brandon Sanderson, Cosmere - Brandon Sanderson
25 Nov 2024
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"No. Absolutely not. You are not asking me about something to do with your sex lives."
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12 Jun 2025
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Wax & Wayne by ramblemadlyon
Fandom Mistborn - Brandon Sanderson, Wax and Wayne Series - Brandon Sanderson
04 Mar 2026
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My Wax & Wayne fics, organized in chronological order. All fics are canon compliant except for These Small Hours (canon divergence AU).
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28 May 2025