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Time in a Bottle by BeBraveDearHeart, EachPeachPearPlum, Evedaser, Fighting_for_Creativity, HadrianPeverellBlack, kadenemrys, Laevateinn, Mogsby, paintedpigeon, Salamandair, SparrowRising
Fandoms: Merlin (TV)
29 Apr 2025
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In which Gwaine wakes up hungover, smashes his phone, loses his job, gets drunk, and flirts with his favourite barman.
And then he does it all again, and again, and again…
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To Save the Universe by paintedpigeon for hummus_tea
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
01 Feb 2025
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I push the video into Holism and I's shared feed so it can view the footage too. After it finishes, I say, "I believe Alpha requires assistance."
"Agreed. I am plotting a course. We will arrive at the station in 12.34 minutes."Holism and Three undertake a rescue mission.
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The slaver already standing whirls around, and the other climbs off the boy to face him. Even the boy looks round, which is quite the feat in the shackles and rope.
"Who the hell are you to tell us what to do?"
"I'm Sir Leon of Camelot. Let the boy go."Leon rescues twelve-year-old Merlin from slavers. It's a long way home...
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- Part 1 of The Measure of a Man
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It's a few weeks after Merlin's arrival in Camelot that he approaches Leon.
His scars are aching worse than ever with the cold and all the extra work that's causing. Gaius has given him ointment, but he can't reach them all himself. Gwen knows what happened, but she doesn't know know. Gaius has seen the scars, but it's not fair to ask him. So that leaves Leon.
Who probably would've done it from the beginning, if he's honest with himself.Five years after Leon rescued Merlin from slavers, Leon helps Merlin with his scars.
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- Part 2 of The Measure of a Man
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"I didn't mean to leave you behind," he says immediately. "I thought you were dead, and–"
And he'd been distraught, on a totally different level than with his father. There aren't many knights who treat him like he's an actual person worthy of respect, so to lose one of them... it was a pain he hadn't imagined.
"That's not what I mean. I'm not offended by it, really. What I wanted to talk to you about was... I wasn't as unconscious as you thought. I heard you."
Merlin's heart drops like a stone.
A week or so after Kilgharrah's attack, Leon and Merlin talk.
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A post-S3 “fix-it” AU series about the evolving concepts of destiny, politics, curses, tenderness, love, forgiveness, justice, and dragons.
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Murderbot Diaries 2.0 New Year Gift Exchange 2024 by paintedpigeon
Fandom: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
01 Feb 2024
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My Merlin Whumptober fics!
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Hellish Messaging by AnonymousDandelion
Fandoms: Good Omens - Neil Gaiman & Terry Pratchett, Good Omens (TV)
10 Dec 2025
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The thing was, it was a simple job. Nothing they couldn’t just as well have simply stated in a few quick words. They already had him on the radio. And it wasn’t as if Dagon had any way of knowing Crowley’s adversary was sitting stock still in the passenger seat of his car, hand pressed to mouth to keep quiet.
But no, of course Hell couldn’t just go ahead and tell him verbally, saving everyone trouble. Of course, they had to take the most unnecessary, invasive, downright dangerous method available.
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- Part 22 of March Flash Fiction 2022
Bookmarked by paintedpigeon
10 Dec 2025
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The Gears That Grind Our Bones by IHopedTheredBeStars
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
01 Dec 2025
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Nothing was your own except the few cubic centimetres inside your skull.
― George Orwell, 1984Series
- Part 21 of TMBD - The Murderbot Drabbles
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Bookmarked by paintedpigeon
03 Dec 2025
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“…You’re scared of the queen of England?”
“Lots of people are scared of the queen of England!”
“Yeah, but you aren’t lots of people.” Donna’s aggravation gave way to hilarity. “You’re bonkers. You know that?”
”Yep.”
”Monsters, aliens, living shadows; easy peasy. But a regular, 100% human member of the royal family? Run for your life, no stopping for a souvenir!”
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- Part 12 of TARDIS Guide Bingo, November 2025
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Bookmarked by paintedpigeon
18 Nov 2025
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He laughs all the while. If he senses her agony — as surely, surely he can — then so much the better, by his reckoning.
He takes her Thief.
And leaves her, screaming without voice, holding open a paradox to devour her forever.
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A different perspective on The Sound of Drums/Last of the Time Lords.
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- Part 7 of TARDIS Guide Bingo, November 2025
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Bookmarked by paintedpigeon
10 Nov 2025
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“Doctor,” said Jamie, “Zoe and I need you to settle an argument.”
“Solve a puzzle,” Zoe corrected.
“An argument.”
“Oh dear,” said the Doctor.
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- Part 5 of TARDIS Guide Bingo, November 2025
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Bookmarked by paintedpigeon
07 Nov 2025