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The vampires who emerged with the closing of the Fold don’t trouble the Geldstraat. Ketterdam’s rich live securely, with powerful wards against the supernatural built into the fabric of their houses and private security to walk their streets after dark. The rest of the city does what they can to keep safe, but the last line of defense for the poor, the helpless, and the unlucky are the Flames. Chosen by the University of Ketterdam’s Night Science Institute and sponsored by the city in the interests of preserving their labor force, Flames hunt vampires through the streets, accompanied by University-trained Wardens who strengthen and protect them.
Ever since Inej’s parents were killed, she’s devoted herself to a single ambition: becoming a Flame. But on the streets of Ketterdam, the future she dreamed of may not look much like the future she gets.
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Jesper says it must be blackmail. Maybe murder. There’s no other way Kaz Brekker could already be holding a full professorship at the University of Ketterdam, no matter how many books he’s written. Inej, trapped by an adjunct’s contract which is the only thing standing between her and deportation, is willing to risk the obvious dangers of his company in exchange for the advantages, professional and otherwise. But when the department’s budget comes up suspiciously short, Inej’s job is on the line, and Kaz isn’t ready to let her go without a fight.
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Lord Send Me a Mechanic (If I'm Not Beyond Repair) by LinearA
Fandoms: Six of Crows Series - Leigh Bardugo
18 Mar 2025
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Vegas is far behind them, and so is their mark. They're safe, and they've got their money. In a cheap hotel room, Kaz and Inej have time to kill. They start playing games.
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Every night, The Crow opens its doors on Commerce St, and the patrons come to break the law — laws against gambling, laws against indecency, laws protecting the public order. If the police decide to raid, they can shut down the bar, but they can do much worse to patrons caught wearing the wrong clothes or dancing with the wrong people. So every night, Inej walks the maze of the West Village, and watches for the cops. And she thinks about Kaz.
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Two months after his letter was sent, Kaz comes home to what seems like an answer. But when foreign affairs violently intrude on the lives of the people they love in Ketterdam, Kaz and Inej must cross back to Ravka, to take up old roles even as they try to negotiate new ones.
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- Part 2 of Service Work
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Cinta Kaz never looks at him. Lieutenant Gorn doesn't mind.
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Leida Mothma is a married woman. Her mother is a criminal in exile, her location unknown. Leida ought to be safe from her. But somehow, she's not.
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She sells the diamonds one by one.
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He points angrily to the badge embroidered on his chest. “I’m with the Fire Department!”
“Okay, and? Is there a fucking fire?”
“There’s an open hydrant,” Ben says, gesturing with the wrench again. Apparently the little fucks think that’s funny too.
“There’s been an open hydrant all morning,” the girl says, around a dripping spoonful of bright-orange helado. “So why’s it an emergency now?”
Ben's come to close an open hydrant. The kids playing in it don't want him to, and a pretty girl on the street is backing them up. [Originally written for twitter.]
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Strays by LinearA for HealthNotAssured, Bombastique, earth_is_a_star, villainous_child
Fandoms: Star Wars Sequel Trilogy
12 May 2022
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Someone asked for this. Literally, at least one person requested each of these drabbles. (Whether they were satisfied or not is another question.) And then someone suggested I rope in my tumblr strays on AO3, so here we are.
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Inej does not like the job Kaz has for her, but the queen of Ravka is a living Saint, and it's at her request. So, in order to expel a murderous Fjerdan diplomat without causing an international incident, she's posing as the diplomat's mistress. It would be bad enough, just having to masquerade as someone she isn't. But he's cast himself in this charade too.
As her servant.
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- Part 1 of Service Work
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As New York City takes to the streets to demand justice for its people, protesters are being struck down by a new and dangerous kind of teargas. Activists are searching for information to help them treat the injured and protect themselves.
Rey's in the streets as a volunteer medic, and she's seen the gas at work. She knows all about biochemistry, but she doesn't have access to the First Order labs that made the gas. Ben, in-house counsel for FO, can get access but doesn't know shit about biochem. Plus he tends to waver a little bit on the whole "doing the right thing" thing. They have to find a way to get together.
Ben, impulsively, decides to pass her off as his girlfriend. Without asking Rey first.
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Kaz and Inej crisscross state lines, organizing workers into unions. Sometimes they win. Sometimes they lose. And one time, on a cold night in Pittsburgh, they lie together in a very small bed, and they talk. And more than talk.
Our lives shall not be sweated, from birth until life closes;
Hearts starve as well as bodies; give us bread, but give us roses! -
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With her ship dry-docked for repairs, Inej finds another way back to Ketterdam. But Kaz isn't waiting for her at the Slat. He's in a solitary cell in the Stadwatch headquarters, and they're tying a noose to hang him in the morning.
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In the depths of his cycle, Ketterdam says, Kaz Brekker is the worst kind of monster, a koper who kills any ankopje he gets his hands on. All Inej knows for sure is that he disappears completely every six months. But now, in the confined space of the boat back from Fjerda, with Van Eck's thirty million waiting for them, their cycles have fallen into sync, and Inej is in danger of finding out just how true the rumors really are.
(Or: I made a Kanej A/B/O and applied a Grishaverse linguistic skin and I do not expect anyone to forgive me.)
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- Part 1 of Ballads
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In All the World by LinearA
Fandoms: Star Wars Sequel Trilogy, Buffy the Vampire Slayer (TV)
10 Jul 2021
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Of course Rey hates her day job. But she didn't ask for this night shift, either: an unpaid gig fighting the forces of evil with pointy wooden sticks. She doesn't want to risk her life fighting vampires; she wants a living wage and health insurance and her parents back. She's old, to be a Slayer, and she's nobody, and New York doesn't even have a Hellmouth.
Yet.
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Nessun Mi Tocchi (None May Touch) by LinearA
Fandoms: Six of Crows Series - Leigh Bardugo
19 Jun 2021
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There always seems to be one last job he needs her for. The jobs, according to Jesper, are "unnecessary" and “really transparent excuses to see Inej again.” But this one isn’t. Obviously. And he’ll prove it. By being brusque and cold and businesslike.
Inej does not want brusque and cold and businesslike. She wants, at least, a proper goodbye. And, Kaz discovers, she didn't sail back to Ketterdam in a filthy, humid summer to not get what she wants.
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I Said to My Soul, Be Still by LinearA for Bombastique, binkleyIncognito, vulpines
Fandoms: Star Wars Sequel Trilogy
30 May 2021
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Her black boot lashes out, the heavy heel against his shoulder, throwing him on his back in the dirt. "Show me your heart, Jedi.” But it’s not his heart she’s looking at as she stands over him. Her weapon is deactivated and fastened to her belt in one gesture; without its red blaze she looks more human. Younger. But there’s a lurid glow in her gaze as she rakes his bare chest with her eyes and lingers appraisingly on the point of his humiliation, his loss of self-control.
(Originally posted to Tumblr. Ben Solo makes a desperate stand to save the Resistance, but Snoke's apprentice isn't quite ready to kill him.)
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A collection of drabbles and cut-scenes set during and after Kohelet 3:16. Some previously published to Tumblr, some new.
(When two lie together they are warm, but how can he who is alone be warm?)
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- Part 2 of Ketuvim
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The play Rey is trying to direct is dark -- violent and sexually explicit. Ben is a non-union actor with no resume to speak of, but she's taken a chance and cast him as the male lead. That's not going to work if he keeps mumbling all his nastier lines to his shoes.
Rey's going to have to do some intensive work to get the performance she wants from him.