12 Works by WithoutAQualmOfConscience
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Under the watchful eye of President Nikiforov, the small Baltic country of Galkechnia has made a fortune selling invasive military technology. Then, on a nearly bloodless morning, Nikiforov’s reign comes to an abrupt end. But revolution gives way to bureaucracy. A war crimes trial exposes national traumas, and a messy, prolonged regime change forces personal secrets out of hiding. As the trial falters, and a vacuum of power expands, eight citizens must decide for themselves what the future of their country holds.
Told across a decade via interconnecting narratives, from Karina, estranged daughter of the dictator seeking to free her family from its bloodied name, to Max, an agender would-be political assassin who must weigh vengeance against the opportunity for a new life, and Dounia, an Afro-Russian expat politician whose hunger for power previously denied to her tests her legacy, DACHA is a speculative drama about tyranny, family, and moral compromise.
(BIG content warnings for transphobia, homophobia, war, and stupid convoluted politics that I think anyone who actually cares about international relations or political theory would have a hard time reading without cringing to death. )
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II. Dreigroschenfinale by WithoutAQualmOfConscience
Fandoms: Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling
30 May 2025
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Peter had the look of a man whose luck had long run dry and who was now digging into the solid rock that had once been a wellspring, which, as Severus recalled, was also how he had looked in 1981.
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Canon divergence. While Severus Snape keeps watch for newly escaped fugitive Sirius Black, he encounters another former schoolmate he never expected to see again.
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aka a story that gives any degree of psychology or motivation or backstory to The Rat
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Practical Marine Bio-Anthropology by WithoutAQualmOfConscience for steviatea
Fandoms: Better Call Saul (TV), Breaking Bad
30 Jan 2022
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Kim Wexler has a 25k grant to research the economy of the Northwest Pacific mermaid population. She also has a pain-in-the-neck ex-boyfriend and an ethical quandary about the patrons of her research. She also, and this is perhaps the most important, has an all-consuming crush on one particular mermaid.
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Five Times Ishmael Did Not Tell Queequeg That He Loved Him, and One Time He Did; or, The Whale by WithoutAQualmOfConscience
Fandoms: Moby Dick - Herman Melville
07 Dec 2020
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"1923 or 1851 or 1760 or any time before, it doesn’t matter. The ship could be made of pure steel and still, without fail, there it would be. White as a bone, big as the moon, impossible to stop as death."
Ishmael/Queequeg and the existential horror of being constantly reincarnated just to return to the boat.
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Anything You Put Your Mind To by WithoutAQualmOfConscience for Sylvestris
Fandoms: Better Call Saul (TV)
12 Jan 2020
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Kim Wexler decides she's going to have a really good day, regardless of the circumstances.
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A Collapsible World by WithoutAQualmOfConscience for princesspaws
Fandoms: Breaking Bad, Better Call Saul (TV)
19 Jan 2019
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Awaiting their fate, Walt acts out in anger while Saul draws connections.
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Is it memorial enough, to see him?
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Sometimes you meet people in the oddest of places. Sometimes you get a new co-worker. Sometimes you get trapped in a cycle of work and fear and memory and then someone you thought was dead shows back up. That's just how luck works.
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Set in Eternal Winter, the food doesn't rot and neither do the corpses. Hans has a fear of wolves, of ghosts, of freezing.
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Internal and Foreign Exile by WithoutAQualmOfConscience for logopheliac
Fandoms: Historical RPF
02 Jan 2014
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You can't help but think of him, no matter how inconvenient the time and place. And the woman you're with thinks she could understand. But the thing about the foreigners is that no matter how well they try to understand, they just don't have the same history with your old friends as you do.
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Inevitably, things go missing from Lydia's life.
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We Do Not Make Servants of Each Other by WithoutAQualmOfConscience
Fandoms: Breaking Bad
24 Sep 2013
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She is afraid of you, of your longing for her, and you do not understand.