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The Measure of the World by Adavellis
Fandoms: Warcraft - All Media Types, World of Warcraft
05 Mar 2022
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Jaina Proudmoore is the most powerful mortal mage of Azeroth, and she is sick of every other Horde Warchief turning out to be a despot like clockwork. When Sylvanas Windrunner wins her mak'gora against Varok Saurfang, Jaina's patience comes to an end - and so does Sylvanas' reign.
Sylvanas is spared execution so that she will not become a martyr to her loyalists and to Horde sovereignty, but she is demoted and placed under house arrest - and Jaina herself will be the banshee's watcher. Because if there is one other thing Jaina is sick of, it's the collapse of every community she tries to nurture, her seemingly poison touch. But this vigil over a single banshee seems like something she can manage without it wilting and crumbling in her hands.
Cut off from her resources and forced to exercise what power she still has through intermediaries, Sylvanas spends her days mostly alone under Jaina's watch. She worked to protect the Forsaken against an evil that lurks beyond Death; she tried to save her people from eradication; she tried to draw out and crush their enemies. Now, unable to pursue these enemies real or imagined, what is left for her to become?
Covers a divergent BFA and Shadowlands timeline.
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23 Jun 2026
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where you die I will die (and there will I be buried) by julesby10
Fandoms: Warrior Nun (TV)
16 Nov 2023
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Oh.
Love tastes like lemon drops and the iron of blood, smells like fresh laundry, soap, and the sweet undertones of argan lotion, sounds like a low, level voice and a marked British accent, love is earthy tones and navy and the texture of linen. Love, Ava discovered, feels like home.
Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood.
Or what it feels to go from strangers to tentative friends, to being friends, to suddenly realizing that you can't live without this person.
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27 Feb 2023
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the world will come and go in the tide of a day but here is her hand with my future in its palm
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14 Dec 2022
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i’m not going the road i’d known as a child of god (fold your hands into mine) by possibilist
Fandoms: Warrior Nun (TV)
14 Dec 2022
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'i think, in my heart, i renounced my vows a while ago.' you don’t know how to say you stopped praying to god and started praying to the nape of ava’s neck in the middle of the night, lavender bar soap and laundry detergent, her skin smooth above the scar of the halo, before she would laugh and turn around and shove your hip until you rolled over with a groan, for show, and then hold you tight.'
or: bea, before & after
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- Part 3 of girls against god
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14 Dec 2022
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Because it turns out the Halo can want things now, sort of. Not the way a human would, with thoughts or motivation or articulable desires. The Halo wants things the way a tree wants water and shoves a taproot through flagstone to get it, which is all well and good for the tree, but less so for the idiot trying to keep her patio intact. Unfortunately for Ava, she’s both the idiot and the taproot. The flagstone is her dignity. The water – for reasons becoming rapidly and unavoidably apparent – is Beatrice.
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the one where the halo imprints on beatrice like a duckling and is dead-set on making it ava’s problem
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- Part 1 of sentient halo au
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- 9/9
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14 Dec 2022
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Recently, Ava had been watching Youtube videos on mindfulness in an effort to try to increase the percentage of her thoughts she was able to keep just in her head. That training was about to fail her spectacularly. “One of the nuns is kind of cute.”
Mary’s fingers paused mid stitch. Ava’s fork paused halfway to her mouth as her brain caught up with what she’d just said.
“Ava, what the fu—”
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Ava has to spend several weeks in a church archive. The person running the archive is a nun, and also hot. She is totally normal and respectful about this.
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12 Dec 2022
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“Trust Beatrice,” Mary had said.
That rings in the back of Ava’s head when she lies to Beatrice’s face, says "I’m fine," says "I know what I have to do," tells her nothing of what exactly that’ll be.
Warrior Nuns don't survive, Ava knows that much, and even if that's going to be her own fate, too, she’s not going to put that weight on Beatrice’s shoulders. The night after she c'ommunes with Reya and finally understands, she lies and says "Everything’s okay. This is where the Ark is." The next day she lies and says "He split off to find the Ark. Everything's okay." She lies and lies her way to victory, until Beatrice (and Yasmine by proxy) is led safely away from where the real battle will begin.
One of the last things Mary had said to her was, “Trust Beatrice,” but Ava thinks Mary would understand this particular deception.
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Through Switzerland and through the portal and through whatever comes after, Ava learns Beatrice. Learns to love her, to trust her, to live with her.
Learns from her, too.
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12 Dec 2022
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“Aren’t you gonna ask me?” Ava said suddenly, almost startling Beatrice, who furrowed her brow in confusion.
“Ask you what?”
“If that’s the only reason I came back,” Ava finished, softly, her voice suddenly vulnerable in a way it hadn’t been since her arrival at Beatrice’s Airbnb.
“Oh,” Beatrice replied dumbly, her heart skipping a beat before starting to thump furiously. “Isn’t it?” She muttered.
Ava grabbed her hand atop the table again and shook her head, chuckling softly but incredulously, then smiled warmly at Beatrice, and the only thing the older girl could only read in her eyes was love.
“No, Bea, it isn’t. I came back for you. I would’ve always come back for you, even if I had to jam another Halo on your back and drag you back to Heaven with me.”
or: the holy war is coming, the ocs is regrouping and ava only wants to go back to the alps with the girl she loves, but has to fight the devil instead
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10 Dec 2022
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Beatrice finds herself musing not over duty and sacrifice and God, but the truth of angels, if they can be created rather than summoned. If they can take the form of women with overeager mouths and careless limbs and eyes with a depth that beckons - a crooked finger, a spiral staircase - if they can be both human and not, both beautiful and terrifying.
Ava asks, What do you want, Beatrice?
(Tell me and I’ll give it to you. Tell me and I’ll build you a home there. Tell me and I’ll rearrange the universe to make it all fit, angels and demons be damned. Tell me it’s me. Me. Me.)
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03 Dec 2022
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In which The Party tries to play matchmaker (enthusiastic), Robin tries to play matchmaker (reluctant), and the person least concerned with Steve Harrington’s love life is, for once, Steve Harrington.
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- Part 2 of On Wednesdays We Roll Dice
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04 Aug 2022
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Time and Again by Kuurakettu
Fandoms: Spider-Man (Movies - Raimi), Spider-Man (Tom Holland Movies), Spider-Man - All Media Types
17 Sep 2022
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When Otto feels the world around him again, and opens his eyes, he is not surprised that the first thing he sees is a miniature sun. His sun. Otto had no idea what exact moment he would return to, and while returning in the middle of his second failed fusion experiment is far from ideal, it isn’t surprising.
He can deal with this. He has to; the alternative does not bear considering.
What he hears next, however, makes Otto lose track of any plan he had been formulating: it is a woman’s scream, and the sound chills him to the bone.
He would know that voice anywhere.
“…Rosie?”
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29 Mar 2022
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Catra doesn’t belong around soft colors and rounded edges. She threatens them with the jagged sharpness that is Catra to her core, and if Bright Moon’s guards had any sense at all they’d realize that and toss her out to the Whispering Woods.
They don't, of course. But what about the long-lost king?
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19 Sep 2021
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the push and the pull by stammiviktor
Fandoms: She-Ra and the Princesses of Power (2018)
16 Sep 2021
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Suddenly, not even her entire body pressed against the length of Catra’s feels close enough—and to think that she had never even thought to want this! She even remembers being proud that she didn’t. Now she’s drowning without it, pressing her face into the soft fur of Catra’s neck like she can sip oxygen from her skin.
-The war is over, and they are beginning.-
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18 Sep 2021
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It's obvious that Catra and Adora are hopelessly in love with one another. Obvious to everyone except Catra and Adora, that is.
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a collection of canon-compliant studies detailing various characters' perspectives as they come to one simple realization about two useless lesbians. a realization that somehow takes the two useless lesbians in question a lifetime of being best friends and five seasons of a Netflix Original Series to reach.
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10 Aug 2021
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12 Jul 2021
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tiebreaker by ariesnoctua (SleepyMaddy)
Fandoms: She-Ra and the Princesses of Power (2018)
16 May 2021
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5 times Catra tried to use the sword of protection to win, and one time she succeeded (sort of)
or: Catra, with Adora’s sword
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18 Jun 2021
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Where The Lost Children Go by Adertily for Amadeaur
Fandoms: She-Ra and the Princesses of Power (2018)
25 Jan 2021
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In which the war orphans adopt a war orphan.
Catra and Adora stumble across a group of scrappy youngsters, including Finn, living alone in the Crimson Waste. They offer to take them to the children's home Scorpia reformed from the old Horde barracks. But by the time Darla makes the trip, they find there’s a little someone who’s snuggled into the deepest, most treacherous crevices of their hearts. And they can’t make themselves let go.
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23 Apr 2021
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for Having Wept in the Darkness by Lycaonpictus77
Fandom She-Ra and the Princesses of Power (2018)
06 Jun 2023
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“This homosexual dream of perfect metaphysical union is not so much a reflected heterosexual ideal as it is the compensation for having wept in the darkness.” -Thomas Yingling
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19 Mar 2021
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Catra, Adora and the lessons they learn. But with even more castles, swords, and organizational materials.
Standalone, for values of standalone.
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18 Mar 2021
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“If you’re not here for a treaty and you’re not commanding the attack, what do you want, Adora?”
“You don’t want to talk about land?” Adora asks lightly. At Catra’s narrowed eyes, she continues. “Fine. I guess we can just catch up with each other then.”
Catra’s mind is screaming 'what the actual fuck' but she pretends to wait patiently.
“I’m going to get married,” is what somehow leaves Adora’s mouth. Like she’s talking about the weather or something and not shifting everything in Catra’s brain.
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The war finally ends, not with one final dramatic stand but with Hordak crushed in the foundry like a coward. So if everyone could just stop lecturing about friendship and forgiveness and stay out of the Fright Zone, that would be cool, ok? But a year later, in saunters that blonde idiot, dragging Catra out of her peaceful depression and into a bunch of princess nonsense. She-Ra is gone. Etheria has a chance for peace. But Adora’s got a new secret mission. Would be nice if she’d bother letting Catra in on what it is though since, you know, Catra’s kinda the key to it all…
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17 Mar 2021