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A recently-divorced Jaina Proudmoore is taking a break from overseeing the renovation of her soon-to-be-opened bookstore. A convenient time to finally introduce herself to the owner of the art studio across the street. She's watched her through the storefront windows more than she cares to admit, because how could she not? There wasn't really anything else to do in this town, after all.
That introduction, as inconsequential as Jaina intended for it to be, sets both their lives on a course that feels too perfect for either of them to believe. But Sylvanas has a secret. Sylvanas has so many secrets. Skeletons in her closet that haunt her even now. Even as far away as she's run.
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03 Nov 2024
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“I wasn’t expecting company.”
Jaina wants to assure her she didn't come to stare at her like she's some sabercat in a cage—teeth dulled on the bars, roar hoarse and failing. Only she realizes now that this is exactly why she's come. A wave of shame threatens to crash over her, but she dismisses it. She came to deliver Veressa’s letter, and to banish the notion that Sylvanas Windrunner truly was a stranger to her.
Staring at Sylvanas, waiting for her to rattle the bars of her would be cage, would do neither of those things for her.
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21 Oct 2024
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The Dark Times are nothing more than ancient history to the humans. Fearsome tales told to all the children of the human kingdoms of Azeroth of satyr and wyvern and trolls and all the wild, fearsome things that once ruled the land. They are almost as fabled and feared as those that tamed the wilds with magic so powerful as to be incomprehensible.
High Elves, the humans called them. Ruled by an all-powerful queen. Hidden away behind invisible barriers in a land of perpetual warmth and beauty. For the elves had tamed all things. Even nature, itself.
The betrothal of Jaina Proudmoore, the first human with magic in her veins, to a Lord of the elven royalty was a convenient way for the humans to rid themselves of the perceived threat of a dangerous young woman with a gift none of them understood. It had also solidified a long-standing, tenuous truce between them. And Jaina? Well. Jaina never felt like she belonged, anyway. She has always wanted more.
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21 Aug 2024
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You wouldn't know it by looking at it. If you drove by, you'd just assume it was another small farm, fallen on hard times and abandoned to nature. But Jaina Proudmoore knows better. She knows very little about the ghost that haunts this place, save that it is powerful, and that very power is the most delicious thing she'll ever taste.
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15 Jun 2024
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Imagine, Sylvanas thinks, how merciful my death would've been had a Lich Queen been chosen over a King. Jaina Proudmoore has no need of a Banshee. I would have been slain cleanly, as would all of Azeroth. Efficiently.
"A marriage of state," says Jaina. "A mutual surrender for a mutual victory."
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18 May 2024
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The war has not gone well for anyone. The Alliance has three months left before collapse. The Horde is not much better off. With neither victory or death as options, Sylvanas proposes an alternative. A treaty, to ease tensions and open borders, with a political hostage to ensure that both sides stay in line. A marriage with many political implications and Sylvanas would only accept one person. Jaina Proudmoore.
And Jaina Proudmoore made for the perfect hostage. If the Alliance moves wrong, Jaina dies. The Horde attacks, and Jaina reduces Orgrimmar to a wisp of a memory in the minds of children.
Of course, no one expected Sylvanas and Jaina to be anything more than uneasy partners with each other, least of all Sylvanas and Jaina...
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- Part 3 of Last Resort
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08 May 2024
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Untitled Stardew Omens Fic by Atalan for ThunderheadFred
Fandoms: Good Omens (TV), Stardew Valley (Video Game), Good Omens - Neil Gaiman & Terry Pratchett
22 Apr 2020
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Crowley has decided to give up on life in the city and move to the countryside. Aziraphale is intrigued by the new arrival in Pelican Town. Fluff ensues in such enormous quantities I am compelled by law to recommend a dental check-up after reading.
A series of Good Omens/Stardew Valley ficlets I've been posting on tumblr as I play through thunderheadfred's "Stardew Omens" mod (which replaces Harvey with Aziraphale as the town doctor). Knowledge of the game provides some additional context for the NPCs etc but really it's all about the ineffable farm romance here.
Note: E rating is for the end of chapter 4 only. The rest of the fic is all very tame.
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19 Dec 2023
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His fingers tremble as he dials and he can’t force them steady. Familiar number, even though he hasn’t used it in two years. He isn’t even sure he should be calling it now, but she’d asked. She’d made him promise.
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14 Nov 2023
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which I shed for you by darcylindbergh for NarumiKaiko
Fandoms: Good Omens - Neil Gaiman & Terry Pratchett, Good Omens (TV)
09 Apr 2023
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The cigarette burns slow between Crowley’s fingertips. The taste of smoke in his mouth drags memories from his lungs, dusty as ash and cold as. The church opposite is grey with it, too—the build-up of centuries, the soot and stain of humanity blackening its very foundations.
He would have hated this building, Crowley thinks, looking up at the spire, piercing white and imposing. He’d have liked the pub better.
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08 Nov 2023
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A Fete Worse Than Death by jessthereckless
Fandoms: Good Omens - Neil Gaiman & Terry Pratchett, Good Omens (TV)
16 Jun 2025
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Happily Ever Afters are not always happily ever after, especially when your neighbours are dicks.
Sequel to The Lady Gardener. Total fluff, at least for now. Who knows how these things turn out?
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- Part 2 of The One With the Carrot
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29 Sep 2023
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Pray For Us, Icarus by Atalan
Fandom Good Omens (TV), Good Omens - Neil Gaiman & Terry Pratchett
18 Sep 2019
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For three centuries, Crowley has been reincarnated over and over as a human with no memory of his past. Aziraphale has tried to find a way to restore him to his true self, but all he seems to do is hurt them both. This time, he only means to steal a brief moment when he walks into Crowley's flower shop. But Crowley can't let it go...
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11 Aug 2023
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The Lady Gardener by jessthereckless
Fandoms: Good Omens - Neil Gaiman & Terry Pratchett, Good Omens (TV)
25 May 2020
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What if Crowley had known in advance about Aziraphale’s ‘Brother Francis’ disguise and talked him out of it?
And what if Aziraphale had followed Crowley’s example and also gone undercover as a woman?
It’s an Undercover At The Ambassador’s Residence AU! (The porn starts in chapter three.)
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- Part 1 of The One With the Carrot
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- 9/9
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10 May 2023
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We like to swim (We're not drowning. Chill) by orphan_account
Fandoms: Once Upon a Time (TV)
30 Oct 2017
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No one believes Regina and Emma are just friends, and it's obvious why; to everyone, but none more especially than them.
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29 Jan 2023
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Regina Mills has a plan to get rid of the Savior, once and for all. It goes a little like this
Step One: Gain the Savior’s trust.
Step Two: Win the Savior’s heart.
Step Three: Crush the Savior’s heart so completely that she runs far away from Storybrooke and never returns.Simple.
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23 Dec 2022
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so does this make us both the other woman? by coalitiongirl
Fandoms: Once Upon a Time (TV)
30 Jun 2014
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Set after 3b in a peaceful Storybrooke where Regina is with Robin and Emma's fallen into a relationship with Hook.
Shame about all that subtext that's rapidly threatening to become text.
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- Part 1 of awkward idiots
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20 Sep 2022
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it takes two to tango, and other dance cliches by wistfulwatcher for fievre
Fandoms: Once Upon a Time (TV)
12 Sep 2015
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“Hey,” Regina hears from behind her, and when she turns she sees Emma standing there, hands stuffed in her back pockets. “So I guess it’s you and me?” Looking around, she sees that the entire rest of the class has in fact partnered up. Emma doesn’t look very promising, but considering her only other real option is to continue practicing on her own in front of a dozen or so other adults, it seems Emma will have to do.
In which Regina signs up for ballroom dance lessons and Emma turns out to not be the worst possible thing to happen to her. Not that she would ever say such a thing out loud.
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20 Sep 2022
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Emma Swan is newly divorced and enlightened re: the fact that she's desperately in love with Regina. Now, if she can only get a hold of the queen of all the realms for long enough to date her. But Regina only seems to notice that Emma exists when there's a crisis.
Lucky for Emma, she knows a lot of villains who might be interested in starting crises in beautiful, romantic venues.
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15 May 2022
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On day one of her junior year at Boston College, Emma makes a fool out of herself in front of the most beautiful woman she’s ever seen. She tries not to dwell on it, though – after all, it’s not like the woman is going to end up teaching one of her classes.
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12 Sep 2021
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Frankie's moving to Santa Fe, probably, and Grace is fine. Honestly. Everything's just fine.
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08 Aug 2021
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Andy doesn't leave Miranda in Paris, and learns that a single decision can change your life. But the main thing about decisions? You don't get to stop with one.
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- Part 1 of Truth and Measure-verse
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- 7/7
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15 Jun 2021