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Her Kingdom as Great by MarbleGlove
Fandom Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling, Labyrinth (1986), Stargate SG-1
03 Aug 2020
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What's said is said, and Sarah said, "My Will is as Strong as Yours and my Kingdom as Great." And then, of course, she lied.
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Bookmarked by SlowMercury
13 Apr 2025
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Sarah becomes Queen of her own kingdom, the Near Endless Plains, which is definitely as great as the kingdom of the Labyrinth but also a lot less established. This is what happens next, to Sarah and Jareth, to their subjects, opponents and allies, and to Sarah's brother Toby as he enters Hogwarts during the outset of the second round of the war against Voldemort.
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The Grand Larceny Gang by ChipAndDealer
Fandoms: Carmen Sandiego (Cartoon 2019), Marvel, Kim Possible (Cartoon), Teen Titans (Animated Series), Miraculous Ladybug
20 Mar 2022
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Carmen: Well, good luck to you, then. I hear Hawkmoth's awfully slippery to get a hold of, but anything you can do to bring a guy like that down, I'm all for
Shego: ugh that guy's the reason i haven't been to paris recently
Shego: what is it with people and mind control just stop already
Carmen: Hear hear
Black Cat: I am *shocked* that a gang of people who never listen when someone tells them to do something normally would have a problem with compulsory directions. *shocked* I say.
Red: I'm pretty sure that was sarcasm.
Shego: you're getting better at this
Series
- Part 2 of You Have (1) New Message
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- English
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- 71,926
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- 17/17
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Bookmarked by SlowMercury
04 Sep 2024
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A chat fic with a hilarious premise -- three thieves and a superhero accidentally (and plausibly!) end up in a group chat -- that spirals out into solid friendship and a wild heist with a serious plot and heartfelt emotional beats
Black Cat: Just put down where you're going to be, so we don't tread on each other's toes during jobs anymore. That's it. That is supposed to be the whole reason for this chat.
Red: Well I can do that but I don't think it will be very interesting. I'm going back to Paris and I'll be staying there for a while at least. Leaving Paris recently was really more of a special occasion than anything. I probably won't be repeating it any time soon.
Red: Unless Hawkmoth suddenly gets caught in the next couple weeks which I guess could happen.
Carmen: Wait, is that because you're doing a job for Hawkmoth or because you're doing one on him?
Red: I'm not working for Hawkmoth so I guess I'm doing a job on him? Never heard it phrased like that before but that sounds about right.
Carmen: Well, good luck to you, then. I hear he's awfully slippery to get a hold of, but anything you can do to bring a guy like that down, I'm all for
Shego: ugh that guy's the reason i haven't been to paris recently
Shego: what is it with people and mind control just stop already
Carmen: Hear hear
Black Cat: I am *shocked* that a gang of people who never listen when someone tells them to do something normally would have a problem with compulsory directions. *shocked* I say.
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Do not fall in love with faeries. Or, In Which Aisling Fails Step One.
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- English
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Bookmarked by SlowMercury
25 Jan 2024
Bookmarker's Notes
A clever mortal and her justly beloved go to Faerie, where the mortal must pass a series of tests to earn a place there.
Do not fall in love with faeries.
This was a universal wisdom. It barely had to be said; even a child knew the dangers of the fae, would shake their tiny heads at the foolishness of allowing yourself to fall in love with one. Faeries were fickle. They ensnared your heart and your mind until there was nothing left but a shell, entranced and faded. When a young man disappeared in the night, when a farmer’s wife walked in the woods on a new moon and never returned, or returned pale and changed, there was no question as to why. Even if the body was lucky enough to return to the mortal world, the spirit never would.
It could only end in misery, to give one’s heart to a being without a soul.
Well that was all very good advice, Aisling thought, but it was a bit late for it now.
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Following the events at Hill House, everyone is arrested and taken to jail for their various crimes.
And then...
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Bookmarked by SlowMercury
27 Dec 2023
Bookmarker's Notes
A perfectly in-character follow-up to the third ending. The dialogue and the plot are as fantastic and ridiculous as the film
A moment of silence.
And then someone turned on the lights.
Everyone screamed.
Briefly.
At that point, they all realized they probably shouldn’t make so much noise and everyone started hissing “Shhh!” at each other like a room full of angry snakes.
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The Heart With Which He Loved You by anduefex for Elizabeth Culmer (edenfalling)
Fandoms: Darkangel Trilogy - Meredith Ann Pierce
20 Dec 2022
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Sabr, Queen of Avaric, makes the journey to see an old rival with one last demand.
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- 1/1
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Bookmarked by SlowMercury
27 Dec 2022
Bookmarker's Notes
"Carry a message then." Sabr shifts in place to ensure she has fully blocked the entrance. "Tell the witch that Sabr, queen of Avaric, will not be rendered defenseless to her sorcery nor cowed by her servants. She may allow me entry as I am, or come to me where I am."
Spot on characterizations of everyone, and a very believable future.
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Argus' life was a largely thankless one (unless you counted the thanks of the paintings he maintained), working on keeping a thousand year old castle from falling down around the ears of students who didn't care. He had his cat, his work, his books, and a constant boil of self hatred and resentment to get him by.
And then a sixth year handed him a letter from her aunt, thanking him for acting as conservator of Hogwarts and calling him Dr. Filch. It was the first time he had been called Doctor since he started at the castle. He had little choice but to write back, after that.
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Bookmarked by SlowMercury
15 Aug 2021
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Dr. Argus Filch does his best for history, art and himself at Hogwarts.
“Are you here for the lost and found?” he said.
“No, I…” Jane took a breath and said, all in a rush, “My aunt is a squib, and she works at the Wallace Collection in London and this last summer she took me on a visit and explained that the old works of art need specific humidity and light and some need to be in a special cases to keep them from withering, and she told me all sorts of what needs doing, and I realized you do that for Hogwarts and we don’t have special cases or special types of light to keep them from darkening or dirtying and I wanted to say thank you.” She stuck out her hand towards the man at that, hand shaking a bit as the man stared at it, before looking back up at her in confusion.
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"Don’t be fucking absurd," said Ford. "If you can't remember, it's your loss, Cooper. We are better at sex than two people have ever been since the history of the world began. We are the fucking Torvill and Dean of sex."
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Bookmarked by SlowMercury
26 Oct 2020
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Spy is a ridiculous film, and so is this. Susan, Nancy, Ford and Rayna do a job together.
Crocker's new swear jar was in fact a repurposed terrarium, and at the end of every month its contents were converted into a donation to the DC Youth Orchestra. During those months when Ford spent most of his time in the field, the donations were much smaller. Crocker called it Rick Ford's Cultural Tax. Ford called it a fucking disgraceful attempt at fucking victimisation, and insisted on tossing pound coins into it. Or Euros. Or rubles. Or dongs--the Vietnamese currency, apparently, much to Nancy's disappointment. Anything but actual American dollars, was the point.
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About the size of a turkey, the velociraptors were basically feathery coyotes with sickle claws. The little buggers were escape artists too, and managed to escape their enclosure at least once every week. Once free they would usually venture into the guest areas and raid the garbage cans, beg tourists for food, and try and lure the pigeons into a false sense of security by fluffing their feathers and pretending to peck at the ground.
The Other Velociraptors on the other hand, were six foot tall, super intelligent, scaly freaks of nature that only existed because the science department was a bunch of nerds. Surprisingly however they were much better behaved than their smaller, more natural counterparts. Too bad the chief of security was an asshole, and their trainer had a habit of getting drunk and teaching them things they really shouldn't know.
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Bookmarked by SlowMercury
23 Feb 2020
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When Sasha Deling had first started working for Prehistoric Paradise dinosaur theme park, she had thought her job would involve things like escaping velociraptors.
She was right.
However instead of screaming people running in terror from prehistoric killing machines, there was garbage scattered across the food-court and people complaining to management.
About the size of a turkey, the velociraptors were basically feathery coyotes with sickle claws. And like coyotes, the raptors had adapted very well to human presence. After all, a sickle claw was perfect for disemboweling garbage bags, half-eaten fish sticks didn’t fight back, and tourists would just give your food if you looked at them and made the right noises.
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Reports of Witches Falling by raven (singlecrow) for st_aurafina
Fandoms: good luck roomba witch - ofsparrows (Artwork)
23 Dec 2018
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The Roomba is great. You can just switch it on and leave it. It gets in all the corners. The attending physician says Anurag is lucky he didn't die.
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- Part 17 of author's favourites (don't read in order)
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- English
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Bookmarked by SlowMercury
25 Jan 2019
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If they came right out and asked, Anurag, are you a witch, he would have said, why, how perspicacious of you to be asking, yes I am and my speciality is credit card fraud. Instead they sold the old Hoover – which, okay, was not in the best of condition after being smashed against various parts of the Cambridge built environment a few times – without considering the implications for anyone's burgeoning new identity.
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DLC: The Noble Lady's Kindness by MarsDragon for whitedandelions
Fandoms: I reincarnated into an otome game as a villainess with only destruction flags (Light Novel & Manga)
25 Dec 2018
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The popular otome game Fortune Lover is getting an update! Go on a brand-new route to romance former rival Katarina Claes!
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- English
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- 7,371
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- 2/2
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- 1
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Bookmarked by SlowMercury
31 Dec 2018
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Social media comments on the Maria/Katarina route of the popular otome Fortune Lovers, and it is hilarious.
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Bookmarked by SlowMercury
21 Jan 2018
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One of my favorite Harry Potter "everyone got sorted into different Houses" stories - Luna in Gryffindor is amazing.
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The day her mother gives birth to a horse is the day Persephone decides that she really needs a plan.
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Bookmarked by SlowMercury
15 Jan 2017
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Asexual Greek gods and good family members.
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Maggie Fitzgerald and the Saltwater Drip by antistar_e (kaikamahine)
Fandoms: The Amazing Spider-Man (Movies - Webb)
05 Apr 2014
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Google politely tells her there are no poisonous spiders in Manhattan. Judging by her symptoms -- fever, superstrength, newfound desire to shove herself into small dark spaces, and sudden reputation as a masked vigilante -- Gwen would beg to differ. [Spider!Gwen AU.]
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- 1/1
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Bookmarked by SlowMercury
20 Aug 2015
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Gwen Stacy slides into the role of NYC's big sister almost automatically.
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Bookmarked by SlowMercury
08 Jun 2015
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I loved this story on livejournal and now it's on A03! Yay! It's the creepy, angsty version of how a bunch of PTSD-ridden child soldiers get debilitating psychic powers and fight crime.
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Hana finds that it’s difficult to take care of your best friend when your best friend has all the self-preservation instincts of a lemming.
Hana doesn’t know how this happened. No, wait, she does know how it happened. Kyoko made that pleading face, and Hana is weak to the pleading face. She knew Kyoko made poor life choices, but she didn’t realize they were contagious.
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Just a Normal Girl: The Seven Lessons of Being Buffy by St_Salieri
Fandoms: Buffy the Vampire Slayer
12 Apr 2006
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Buffy writes a letter to future Slayers.
Bookmarked by SlowMercury
03 Dec 2013
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"I didn't choose this life. You know that, right? I mean, everyone knows the story."
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The Proper Care and Feeding of Indefinable Things by websandwhiskers
Fandom Resident Evil - All Media Types, Sherlock (TV), The Avengers (2012), Thor (2011)
25 Feb 2013
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Bookmarked by SlowMercury
25 Dec 2012
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Great characterizations of all the Avengers, with bonus crossovers, including Red Queen Rosie from Resident Evil. Very well done.
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Henry needs to disappear. Frank and the gang are just the ones to... make it happen?
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- 2,374
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- 1/1
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- 33
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- 1,762
Bookmarked by SlowMercury
06 Nov 2012
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The one where the record-keeper retires in style
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Five Secrets Maria Hill Would Like To Pretend She's Keeping From The Rest of SHIELD by psocoptera
Fandoms: The Avengers (2012)
14 Jul 2012
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Fury is a lying liar, Coulson is a good coworker, except when he's not, and Maria never meant to work for SHIELD. Maria/Helicarrier or possibly slightly Maria/Natasha if you squint.
Spoilers for the movie. Movieverse only, I have no knowledge of the comics.
Bookmarked by SlowMercury
13 Aug 2012
Bookmarker's Notes
Good look at Maria Hill (pilot!), fleshing her out much better than the film did. This author also wrote a wonderful Inception fic, "Unclaimed Luggage and Unscheduled Departures," where the Inception team realizes that they're stuck in an airport.
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A Dream You Dream Together is Reality by lady_ragnell for vennefic
Fandoms: Inception (2010)
30 Apr 2012
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Phillipa Cobb grows up knowing that she’s not the only daughter her parents have with her name, and that only her mother knew which one was real. It’s not a nice thing to know.
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- English
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- 7,814
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- 1/1
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- 46
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Bookmarked by SlowMercury
12 Aug 2012
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Great post-film story; a good piece on families, too.