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a half-step to the left by PenAndInkPrincess
Fandoms: The Last of Us (TV), The Last of Us (Video Games)
26 May 2023
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It’s not that Ellie means to stalk the couple she catches lurking in the shadows at 1 in the morning after sneaking out of her dorm because sitting in the room alone was making it hard to breathe, but fellow curfew-breakers can hardly expect privacy. All’s fair in love and rule-breaking or whatever their English teacher said in one of the rare classes when they were learning something not related to FEDRA policy.
And there’s something in the way the man holds his hand out to help pull the woman up over a crumbled brick wall that she just can’t look away from.
There’s a gentleness there despite his size and obvious strength that makes her breath catch for just a second. It’s too far for her to hear what they’re saying, but the woman says something with a little half-smile and presses her hand to the man’s shoulder, and the casual affection of the gesture fills her with a nameless want.
So, trailing them at a distance it is.
(AU in which Ellie follows Joel and Tess around and meets them with no Fireflies involved)
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- Part 1 of a half-step to the left
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20 Jul 2026
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it's like hearing a ticking sound coming from unmarked packages (something isn't right here) by geicogecko
Fandoms: Hatchetfield Universe - Team StarKid
01 Dec 2023
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Peter Spankoffski was born laughing.
If you ask anyone with a medical degree they’d tell you no he fucking wasn’t. Newborns don’t laugh, they can’t. They don’t even smile until a couple weeks out, and laughing is a multi-month project. It’s a developmental stage, you start with socialization, and eventually they start cooing, and then, only then, do you get laughter.
And yet, Peter Spankoffski was born laughing.
(Alternatively titled: What if Tinky was Pete's 'imaginary friend' the way Webby is Hannah's)
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- Part 3 of Hatchet Town
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04 May 2026
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over shoes, over boots Brit. fully committed to continuing something, especially in a reckless manner
A silly little what-if where Tadius convinced the Prince not to shit in the river and gets roped into his own Cinderella plotline as a result
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28 Apr 2026
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An Ever-Fixed Mark by AMarguerite
Fandoms: Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice & Related Fandoms
28 Oct 2017
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One would think that having the name of one's soulmate appear on one's wrist on one's sixteenth birthday would make matrimony much less complicated. It mostly does not. And not at all for Miss Elizabeth Bennet of Longbourne.
(A deconstruction of the "soulmate identifying mark" trope, using "Pride and Prejudice." Trigger warnings in the tags.)
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- Part 1 of An Ever-Fixed Mark
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17 Sep 2025
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Memory Persisting by Vee (Vera_DragonMuse)
Fandoms: Candela Obscura (Critical Role Web Series)
06 Jan 2025
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There were two dead men arguing in Jean’s parlor again.
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04 Sep 2025