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No Last Pale Light to Follow: A Diablo IV Story by panda_reads
Fandoms: Diablo (Video Games)
16 May 2025
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A rogue learns of the past. An old scoundrel goes in search of what he’s lost. An old scholar fades. Darkness is ever present, and one man’s Sanctuary is another man’s Hell.
Whose is whose is up to you to decide, dear reader.
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I Know the Gods Will Abandon the Heavens Just to Find Us: A Dragon Age: The Veilguard Story by panda_reads
Fandoms: Dragon Age (Video Games), Dragon Age: The Veilguard (Video Game)
21 Apr 2025
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Lucanis’s eyes are on fire. The world is hazed in violet and crimson, and he cannot see. He can’t separate his own emotions from Spite’s. The demon is screaming, raging, roaring. If a demon’s heart can break, Lucanis feels it.
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Everyone is exhausted. Even Spite is worn out. Lucanis still won’t (can’t) let Rook go. Taash could easily take her, but Lucanis needs to do this. He needs to keep Rook safe. She’s carried him long enough. Now it’s his turn.
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My Mind’s Been Spent Payin’ All These Midnight Dues: A Dragon Age: The Veilguard Story by panda_reads
Fandoms: Dragon Age (Video Games), Dragon Age: The Veilguard (Video Game)
16 Apr 2025
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Five sleepless nights. Five long conversations with friends. Five opportunities to see the team at their best after everything they’ve been through. Five nights where Lucanis has stayed awake, holding Rook. Five nights where he hoped he might finally let his guard down long enough to catch an hour or so of sleep with her, but each time he closes his eyes, another horror invades his mind, unbidden, unwanted. After five nights, even Spite is exhausted by the nature of Lucanis's dreams.
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Let Go of the Hate From My Name and Sing Songs For Our Escape: A Dragon Age: The Veilguard Story by panda_reads
Fandoms: Dragon Age (Video Games), Dragon Age: The Veilguard (Video Game)
03 Mar 2025
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Illario tells Viago everything, and, worse, he smiles the entire time. Illario is in control of the conversation, the wine, and the flow of information. He is remorseless and doesn’t fear retribution. After all, he is a free man, and free men can say and do as they please. Once the doors are open and the streets are his to roam, Illario won’t worry about a Maker-damned thing.
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Illario looks up to see his unexpected visitor. He smiles. “Did you come back for more, cousin? Or were you hoping that everything I said earlier was just for that silly little scribe’s benefit?”
Lucanis stands against the wall, silent.
“Oh, Lucanis,” Illario sighs. “I promise you, everything I’m saying now? Complete truth.” His smile widens. “How long before they turn on you, cousin? How long before they can’t overlook what you really are?”
To Illario’s surprise, Lucanis smiles. “You’re alone,” he says quietly. “How long before the only conversations you have are with the birds in the aviary? How long before you are on your knees in front of me, begging for the silence to stop?”Series
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‘Till the Particles Part Like Holy Water: A Dragon Age: The Veilguard Story by panda_reads
Fandoms: Dragon Age (Video Games), Dragon Age: The Veilguard (Video Game)
12 Feb 2025
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The prison’s bone-numbing cold penetrates her clothes and skin, burns through her muscles and bones. A sickening chill starts behind her eyes, slithers through her mind, drags its claws down her back, and coils into a fist. Those clenched, phantom fingers around her spine tell her she is not alone, and she is almost afraid to look at the source…
Spite stares at her through stolen, crimson eyes, and croaks in a voice that doesn’t belong to it, and yet sounds nothing like Lucanis, Welcome. To hell. Rook.
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The demon gets in Rook’s face, hissing and spitting. I want out. Make him let me out. Its stolen face contorts with rage and it whirls to face Lucanis. You never listen. You listen to her. It looks between them, furious. Make him leave this place. Rook. Crow-witch. Make. Him. Leave.
I can’t, she thinks. I can’t make him do anything. Not after all that’s been done to him. I can’t be the one who breaks him.
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Two Crows & A Demon (Dragon Age: The Veilguard) by panda_reads
Fandom: Dragon Age (Video Games), Dragon Age: The Veilguard (Video Game)
21 Apr 2025
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Dragon Age: The Veilguard - short to multi-chapter stories during the adventure, featuring a developing relationship between Antivan Crows Rook & Lucanis, with friendships among the team members in the background.
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How do I know you're really here? by ProfessorAerii
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
24 May 2021
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"You're aboard Perihelion. Do you remember that?"
Its jaw clenched tighter and it nodded slightly. She felt her frown deepen.
"You don't believe me, do you?"
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Aftermath of one particular branch of the Lab Hell AU where memory wipes have left Murderbot scared it wasn't really rescued.
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26 May 2025
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“I don't remember what I did,” I said, rallying enough to try and sound annoyed, despite the fact I was completely shaken. “So can I go back to my bunk and let you yell at me when I know what you're yelling at me about?”
If you try to leave this room before we have had this discussion, ART said, its voice barely able to stay even, Three will shoot you. Nonlethally. But it will shoot you.
I paused for three whole seconds.
“Okay,” I said.
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26 May 2025
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Star Wars Outlaws: Final Mark by DanieMarie
Fandoms: Star Wars - All Media Types, Star Wars Original Trilogy, Star Wars: Outlaws (Video Game)
09 Dec 2024
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Final Mark is the main storyline of Outlaws told from ND-5’s perspective, and further explores his personal growth and developing desires that we only get glimpses of in the actual game. Consider this a companion piece, with in-game moments and dialogue woven in between original content.
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- Part 1 of Star Wars Outlaws
Bookmarked by panda_reads
17 May 2025
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One tends to lose one's mind by Belsmomaus
Fandoms: Rogue One: A Star Wars Story (2016), Star Wars - All Media Types
07 May 2017
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Bor Gullet isn’t the only one of their kind. Bodhi knew this of course. On some level.
Facing it, though – again as a prisoner – seeing the proof with his own eyes, coming towards him on strong, writhing tentacles, that’s something totally different.
It’s a nightmare.
At least this time he’s not alone. Cassian and the others are with him.
Question is, does that make it better… or much, much worse?Series
- Part 2 of I can't lose you!
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12 May 2025
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where the fields are painted gold by deadgreeks
Fandoms: Star Wars - All Media Types, Rogue One: A Star Wars Story (2016)
27 Mar 2017
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Hanahaki disease is rare, caused by unrequited love, and symptoms manifest in the form of patients coughing up petals. The disease can be cured by surgically removing it, but the feelings are removed as well. If it is not cured, the patient will die.
The first time Cassian coughed up flowers, he and Bodhi were spending a rare moment alone, outside in the sun
Bookmarked by panda_reads
11 May 2025