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Murphy's Law, and Other Universal Constants by Light_In_Shadows
Fandoms: Our Flag Means Death (TV)
05 Aug 2024
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The payday alone would have been reason enough to pull this job, Ed had thought. Never mind how eager Stede had been to give it a go. And combined with what it would mean for Izzy, for what Ed would be able to offer him... It would have been well worth the effort of slightly breaking his own ship, if all went to plan.
But then, maybe he'd forgotten just how rarely things ever went to plan for the three of them.
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- Part 3 of so we'll define our own ontology
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And This the Shape of Your Electrons by Light_In_Shadows
Fandoms: Our Flag Means Death (TV)
11 Oct 2023
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Ed's head spins with the pain and the first dark tendrils of genuine panic. If he can't get the bullet out…
But there is no if. No other option. Either he sorts himself out, or he dies where he's lying, and leaves Izzy trapped forever in the mainframe of an empty ship, drifting through the black until the day the Anne's power cells fail and take Iz with them.
Ed picks up the scalpel again.
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- Part 2 of so we'll define our own ontology
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The EMP goes off with an understated pop followed by a brief and nearly-imperceptible whine, but the effect is instantaneous. The two security drones hit the ground, and so does Izzy.
Ed's boots ring out against the floor panels as he throws himself down the corridor at a dead sprint. Get up, he silently demands, as the poorly-recycled air burns in his lungs. Fucking get up! But Izzy remains an unmoving black shape crumpled on the grating.
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- Part 1 of so we'll define our own ontology
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Izzy wakes in a pitch-black room with a leather-clad palm over his mouth and a blade at his throat.
“Not a sound, Hands,” a rough voice growls. And Izzy silently curses his own stupidity and Edward’s in equal measure. “I’ve got a proposition for you.”
It's not the first time a man with too much greed and far too little sense has attempted to take Blackbeard's ship for himself—in the five or so years since Edward had taken the name, a number of fools had tried. But no man had yet been fool enough to seek Izzy’s help in the matter.
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- Part 2 of Stay the Night (like an execution)
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“You always used to stay,” Edward says, “on nights like these.”
Nights like these. Nights where thick clouds and driving rain blotted out the moon and stars, turning the Queen Anne into the only real and solid thing in an endless sea of black. Nights when the entire world was reduced to a creaking ship and rain spattering against the windows, to Edward’s pain and Izzy’s attempts at distraction, to a warm cabin sweet with opium smoke. Those nights had been common, a lifetime ago.
But this isn’t the Queen Anne. And Edward hardly needs Izzy for distraction now.
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it's been a few years of doing the dating thing, so prompto doesn't think much of it when noct asks if he'd like to come home with him for some big wedding and finally meet his family.
except that noct had left out a couple of pretty important details, there.
1. that family? it's the insomnian royal family.
2. that wedding? it's noct's.Bookmarked by Light_In_Shadows
01 Aug 2026
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In his first life, L died in the arms of his greatest enemy.
In his brief second one, he died alone.
And in his third, too-long life, L died anticipating finally getting even with the man who'd won their game one too many times.
And Light Yagami? If he'd known this is what picking up the Death Note would bring....well, he'd probably still have done it anyway.
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14 May 2026
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The aftermath of a mission isn't usually like this.
But then, this was no usual mission.
The others are lost in their remembered worlds, repressing like talented amateurs, and it’s painful to watch. Bruce is no great actor, but he has eaten repression for so long now that it’s effortless; no-one can see how galling it tastes to him. These people, though. They can’t hide it from him, not him. He’s a professional.
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23 Dec 2025
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Space age country girl, stone cold miracle by thembonesthembones
Fandoms: Star Trek, Star Trek: Alternate Original Series (Movies)
01 Dec 2023
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“Call me Jim. I’ve heard a lot about you in the last hour. Is it true that you’ve suggested looking into the Terran botanical process for oxygen production as a model for mechanical air recycling?”
Spock lifts one perfect brow. “That is not generally the first question I am asked by people aware of my work.”
“Jim and air have a history,” Uhura says, and Jim could strangle her until he sees something change in Spock’s gorgeous, gorgeous eyes about it.
“Air and I are on perfectly fine terms.” He self-consciously touches the mouthpiece of his breather, which is in its magnet holster at his hip just like it always has been, to really punctuate what a massive liar he is.
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08 Feb 2025
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A tall ship and a star to steer her by by Moreta1848
Fandoms: Star Trek, Star Trek: The Original Series
23 Oct 2024
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Napoleon is at war with England, oceans have become battlefields, and James T. Kirk has just taken command of the HMS Enterprise.
But who is the mysterious first mate with the strange ears, who never smiles?
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01 Dec 2024