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The Split River High Afterlife Support Group by StillTryingToFly
Fandoms: School Spirits (TV)
25 Jan 2024
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The Split River High Afterlife Support Group has been meeting since 1958, even if the two oldest members have been lying to all the others about it from the moment there was anyone else to lie to. I wondered what it was like for them, for all of them, and what better way to explore that than from Janet's point of view.
Also, why did they even bother adding those other three ghosts to the support group if they gave them zero lines and no names?
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Nikandros would eventually come to the conclusion (the same conclusion his parents had reached some fifteen years earlier) that the only saving grace with his Words, was that they were in Veretian and he lived in Akielos where the number of people who could read Veretian was fairly small.
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Part 5(?) of a series. The Apocalypse has been averted and the Commission dealt with, so now its time to deal with all the loose strings of trauma, and oh yeah their thirteen year old brother from the original timeline.
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Four and Seven have been been gone for almost a year but for everyone else, it was just a few hours. Everything is different now and no one has all the pieces. What will happen next?
Part 4 of a series, will not make much sense if you haven't read the others first.Series
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“But I’m--I’m just ordinary, how could I be dangerous?”
Ben gave an involuntary snort at that blatant lie. Ben had been given a front row seat to the Banana Incident of 1999, okay? Vanya had been plenty dangerous even when she had been “just ordinary”.Like most things that went horribly wrong in the Umbrella Academy it wasn’t the actions of one single person that caused everything to go to hell in a hand-basket; it was a group effort. But The Banana Incident of 1999 did start, as many disasters did, with Four.
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How Four and Seven Learn To Love Themselves And Stop The Apocalypse by StillTryingToFly
Fandom The Umbrella Academy (TV)
03 Mar 2020
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A canon divergent AU where Hazel kidnaps both Klaus and Vanya after the fight at the Academy. Featuring torture, sibling bonding, time travel, and love in wartime; this is my self indulgent angst with a happy ending because I like to suffer but don't crush my soul you know?
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People Mark Watney needs to buy a beer by StillTryingToFly
Fandom The Martian (2015), The Martian - All Media Types, The Martian - Andy Weir
17 Jan 2016
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Mark is back on Earth and ready to have drinks with the people who helped save his sorry ass. Told in no particular order and filled with head canons about minor and major characters alike, these are my self-indulgent "missing scences" from both the book and the movie.
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Answers from NASA by StillTryingToFly
Fandom The Martian (2015), The Martian - All Media Types, The Martian - Andy Weir
30 Nov 2015
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“Uh,” he says, looking up from his screen and feeling his ears go hot, realizing for the first time that this habit of his hasn’t actually come up before until this exact moment.
“What?” Rozanov asks, sounding more amused than anything else. “You are one of the people who does Instagram for food now?”
“No,” Shane says, stalling between answering and finishing his Snap so he can send it to Melissa, “one sec.” He finishes typing out 'Tuna melt. Chips. Pickles. It smells really good. Swiss cheese, I think.' before he looks back to Rozanov, putting his phone facedown on the coffee table. “Just sending it to someone on the staff. She likes knowing what I’m eating.”
He doesn’t know if Melissa likes knowing what he’s eating, per se, but she also seems pleased when he talks about enjoying food for things beyond how many grams of protein it has in it.
“Ah,” Rozanov says, in a tone Shane can’t quite read. “You always send her your food then, this girl?”
(shane has a habit of sending his team's dietitian his meals for approval) (the problem with this habit? he forgets to tell ilya exactly what it is that melissa does) (how the tuna meltdown is AVERTED through the power of miscommunication)
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03 Sep 2026
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GoT: The White Wolf and the Blood Queen by Iwritesometimesgot
Fandoms: Game of Thrones (TV), A Song of Ice and Fire - George R. R. Martin, A Song of Ice and Fire & Related Fandoms
27 Sep 2026
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Jon Snow dies beneath a black sky—and wakes where his life first began.
At the end of Robert’s Rebellion, two children are born beneath the shadow of the Tower of Joy. One carries memories that should not exist. The other bears the remnants of something far older.
Hidden in Winterfell, they grow beneath false names while forgotten blood, broken promises, and ancient magic begin to stir.
The realm remembers only one Targaryen conqueror.
It has forgotten the other.
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17 Aug 2026
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Between the Calls by NotMyProudestTroupe
Fandoms: Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid
10 May 2026
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Ilya Rozanov, a professional dom, lives in the space between. Between shifts, between countries, between versions of himself. Control is what keeps things from falling apart. Control, and distance.
Shane Hollander lives the life that might have been his. He spends his NLH career closing distance, closing gaps, moving toward things instead of away from them.
When a chance meeting at the animal shelter crosses their paths, something unexpected carries between them, like a call, waiting to be answered.
*This work is a remix/ heavily inspired by Wolfbird (OpalApparition), including people and locations. Previous read of Wolfbird not required.
a *what could have happened if they met in a different way and made different choices.*
It’s sweet, has (mostly/eventual) soft landings, and features many puppies who absolutely did not ask to be a part of this, and one very dramatic chiweenie who did.
*Thank you to OpalApparition for the permission to write this*
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- Part 1 of The Loon’s Call
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28 Jul 2026
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Coming out to the Pike's was not the plan for the evening.
It wasn't even in the top 10 list.
And yet, here Shane is, sitting on their living room floor, having fought Rose Landry to get his phone back, and making a Face. He knows he is making a face, he can feel his forehead scrunching and his jaw aching and he can do nothing about it except wait for -
"So who's Lily?!"
Fuck.
This is mostly a series of vignettes focusing on Shane's friendships with Rose, Jackie and Hayden, in that order.
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18 Jun 2026
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And Home Followed With Us by ajsmellslikebooks
Fandoms: Project Hail Mary - Andy Weir, Project Hail Mary (2026)
18 Aug 2026
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Ryland Grace wakes up in space... and he's not alone.
All three members of the Hail Mary wake up en route to the Tau Ceti system. One of them doesn't know who he is. All the answers they need are here for them to find, deep in interstellar space. They just don't know it yet.
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03 Jun 2026