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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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02 Mar 2026
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When Astarion awakens on that bright sunny beach, he meets Tav. Tav is a druid, fiercely devoted to protecting nature. But in Tav's mind, "protecting nature" is a bit more intense than what other druids tend to believe.
It means that if Astarion wishes to stay with the group, his vampiric hunger must be sated on the barest of blood.
But that should be no problem. After all, Astarion is used to the hunger.
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"And what have you fed on?" Tav demands. His eyes are sharp as flint. It is as if this is the question that matters most to him.
"What have I fed on—well, no one you care about, I assure you," Astarion promises with a giggle just this side of manic. "Merely some woodland creatures, you see. Just enough to keep me standing and able to fight!"
It's the wrong answer.
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17 Jan 2026
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A delicate white hand clasped the edge of the unit, and Megatron went stock still. There was barely a moment to process the pall of silent dread that fell before a second hand came up, and then the presumed-autobot levered himself upright with a small hum of effort.
Megatron slowly pivoted. “Rung,” he said, “what a pleasure it is to see you, after so long.”
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21 Nov 2025
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A tiger cloaked in black with a sundial moving over dark eyes flicks its tail, and a fox with blood-stained teeth lifts their head, and a serpent with poison bleeding through each crack in its iridescent scales melts back into the corpse as it speaks.
"Curious," it says, a man's voice, rasped from age and still solid. Gold filigree, burial shroud. A storm bound to a raven's form spreads its wings. "What is the worth of a single mortal life?"
(Vampires are not alive. Undead is not quite dead. Astarion is normal, until he isn't.)
Or: five conversations Astarion has with Death.
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27 Jul 2025
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caught between the dark and the dreaming by Raayide
Fandoms: Baldur's Gate (Video Games)
26 Jan 2024
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Marcus holds the goblet up, still stinking with klauthgrass, and ponders them, clutched in the wretched claws of his undead monsters. "Well," he says, and smiles. "If you will not willingly drink it, I have a manner of encouragement."
And then he raises his dagger, pricks his own wrist until scarlet pools over his pale skin, and lets blood drip into the goblet.
Before he can help it, Astarion stiffens.
Astarion has spent two hundred years with truth as a bitter enemy. Fitting, then, that his choice to say it is taken from him.
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21 Jul 2025
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Ballad of Dusk and Dawn by AzarDarkstar
Fandoms: Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling, The Silmarillion and other histories of Middle-Earth - J. R. R. Tolkien, TOLKIEN J. R. R. - Works & Related Fandoms, The Lord of the Rings - J. R. R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings - All Media Types, The Lord of the Rings (Jackson Movies)
31 Jul 2026
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HP/Silmarillion Crossover. Nothing says retirement like ending up as an elf in Valinor. The entire House of Finwë is determined to welcome their long lost family member, despite his best efforts to stay away. But once a Fëanorion always a Fëanorion, and if you say a lie long enough, does it become the truth?
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- Part 1 of Symphony in the Starlight
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26 May 2025
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How can we dance when our world is burning? by myrskytuuli
Fandoms: The Silmarillion and other histories of Middle-Earth - J. R. R. Tolkien
10 Jun 2025
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The histories written afterwards will tell how Sauron died cackling madly in the temple he had built for his Dark Master and how Tar-Míriel, the last queen of Numenor and the last martyr of the Faithful ones, died atop Meneltarma, praying for the Valar. Fitting ends for both characters of the tragedy.
But none of the historians knew how they really died. They weren’t there. And if they were, they didn’t survive.On the streets between the palace and the temple, Mairon and Míriel saw each other across the street. No words could ever be heard over the chaos and noise of the world ending, but seeing was enough in this case. In these last moments, Mairon and Míriel ran towards each other, naked fear so easily visible in their eyes that they both knew. This was the end. Their fingertips just about brushed, and it was almost enough to touch, before the great wave, the wrath of the Valar, ripped them apart.
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12 Apr 2025
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Homme Fatale Applies for New Job by Adwen
Fandoms: The Silmarillion and other histories of Middle-Earth - J. R. R. Tolkien
29 Jan 2025
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Everyone knows that Maedhros will eventually inherit the crown. And while those who believed Feanor would decline the crown to focus on his craft were optimistic, it wasn't erroneous to say at some point in the next millennia or two, Maedhros would be King. So whoever married him, logically, would be the next best thing to King.
Co-King. King-Consort. Man Queen?
Fingon would workshop the title once he had it.
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Or, Fingon sees a problem. Specifically, he sees a vacancy. And he knows exactly who can fill it. (Him).
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06 Apr 2025
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The Unrighteous Bible by Amiril
Fandoms: Good Omens - Neil Gaiman & Terry Pratchett, Good Omens (TV)
25 Sep 2019
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Aziraphale and Crowley have been walking the earth for six thousand years. Of course people are going to notice.
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- Part 28 of Amiril Fic (Not Cover Art)
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29 Mar 2025
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As little might be thought by eye_of_a_cat
Fandoms: The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power (TV 2022)
18 Jun 2023
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A half-Maia Celebrían fic for Father's Day, in which Celeborn and Elrond have a long conversation about what fatherhood means.
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28 Mar 2025
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when doves cry by Scarlet_Ribbons for SilverSkiesAtMidnight
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types
04 Jan 2023
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Tim is grateful Hood leaves promptly, in any case, because that means he doesn’t see Tim crawl the last few feet into his house.
[Jack and Janet die uneventfully— at the hands of a home intruder, at 3:41 in the morning on a Thursday. Two gunshots. Tim’s entire world comes to a screeching halt at 3:44, when he finds their bodies.]
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28 Mar 2025
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Cold Summer by AthenaStarsnow for GambitsCard
Fandoms: Percy Jackson and the Olympians - Rick Riordan
17 Oct 2020
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Percy Jackson meets Hades. Things go slightly differently.
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28 Mar 2025
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They Also Serve... by DaisyNinjaGirl for Thimblerig
Fandoms: Amazing Spider-Man (2012), The Avengers (2012)
06 Sep 2012
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It wasn’t obvious to Peter at first, but there came a time as he moved through the night city that he realised he was noticed. Known.
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05 Feb 2025
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It took losing you to know you by Marsflame18
Fandoms: The Silmarillion and other histories of Middle-Earth - J. R. R. Tolkien
11 May 2024
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A What if universe where instead of becoming the "Traitor of Gondolin" Maeglin ends his suffering himself before the isolation of Gondolin could drive him mad. This story will see the effects of his action for many unexpected parties all across Arda, how it was taken with different Pov's, the consequences of realizing misunderstandings too late, and how healing can happen despite the tragedy.
This is was supposed to be a one-shot since the idea literally just hit me! But now will be a two-shot!
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28 Sep 2024
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The bath takes care of the sweat. Takes care of the burnt bits of skin and fat that still cling to his palm. Zuko scrubs his body until it’s raw, blushing red; he dunks his head under the hot water and stays there, staring up at the dark, vaulted ceiling of the washroom until his lungs run out of breath to use.
The oil of honeysuckle and opium and cinnamon, sweet and sharp and earthy, does not wash the stench of scorched flesh out of his nose.Zuko falls asleep on the evening of his official coronation, when he’s twenty-one-years old and has finally reached his majority. Zuko wakes on the morning of the Agni Kai with his father, eight years earlier.
This is annoying for several reasons, like the fact that the War is still ongoing, that he has zero friends, and that Ozai is not in jail.
It’s time to scheme.Series
- Part 1 of to try again-verse
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17 Sep 2024
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Please Do Not by mynameisjessejk for Saj_te_Gyuhyall
Fandoms: The Silmarillion and other histories of Middle-Earth - J. R. R. Tolkien, TOLKIEN J. R. R. - Works & Related Fandoms
05 Mar 2024
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In which Maedhros has all the foresight of the House of Feanaro and uses it entirely to prevent brother and cousin shenanigans.
Also in which Maedhros’ horse attempts to steal the show.
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17 Aug 2024
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i imagined a dark world where the stars clamor to be inside us by Dialux
Fandoms: The Silmarillion and other histories of Middle-Earth - J. R. R. Tolkien
30 May 2020
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Sire to pyre, brother, I swore it to you.
[Findis and Fëanáro, from the Years of the Trees to the Fourth Age. They understand each other, even when nobody else does, and love each other, even when the world calls them unlovable. Sometimes that means doing unthinkable things.]
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- Part 1 of words for the lost, the captive beautiful, the wives, those less fortunate than we
- Part 1 of the memory of things becomes the reality of things
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22 Jun 2024
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day 88 by finalizer
Fandoms: The Silmarillion and other histories of Middle-Earth - J. R. R. Tolkien, TOLKIEN J. R. R. - Works & Related Fandoms
23 Aug 2021
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As much they both tried to pretend otherwise, everything would be different now. The same, but different. There was no going back from something like this.
set in the same universe as a little trouble
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29 May 2024
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James is not a considerate person by nature. But when Q lends a hand, so to speak, and then pushes off him to head to the lavatory not forty minutes into Wrath of Khan, it occurs to him that maybe, if he wants to keep going whatever weird, intimate, mostly-platonic thing they’re doing, he had better start becoming one.
(A continuation of the Perks of Constancy by bimmyou)
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19 Apr 2024
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Trying Times by SpaceWall
Fandoms: The Silmarillion and other histories of Middle-Earth - J. R. R. Tolkien
26 Jan 2024
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OR The Huntress of Cuiviénen
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In point of fact, Melkor had never truly been prey. Oh, Oromë had hunted him, but Melkor had been five steps ahead, raising mountains and fortresses and disguises against Oromë’s pursuit. He did not know how to act like it.
That was alright. Indis was a good teacher; she could show him.
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- Part 2 of Unexpectedly Trying
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11 Mar 2024