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"I love this whole desperate world, every inch and breath and corpuscle of it, and I don’t want it to be taken from me, and I don’t want to be taken from myself.”
1957, and the first US clinical trial of lithium carbonate has just started at Columbia;
or; Hawkeye, one queer, sultry summer in New York.
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Hawkeye can see ghosts, probably. But it's not the ghosts he's afraid of.
(Or: All Hallows Day, after the long and haunted night.)
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everything we do is stitched with this colour by raven (singlecrow)
Fandoms: Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
15 Nov 2020
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On his way back to the habitat ring, he wonders what it would be like to walk home hand in hand with Garak; to fall asleep with him; to stay.
Garak teaches Julian to sew.
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Things by raven (singlecrow)
Fandoms: Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, Star Trek: The Next Generation, Star Trek: Voyager, His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman
07 Jul 2014
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"Needs must in a time of war, sir."
Starfleet and its daemons.
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Lilies of the Field by raven (singlecrow)
Fandoms: Vorkosigan Saga - Lois McMaster Bujold
29 Apr 2011
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"Cordelia," he interrupted, "I presume that at some point you're going to explain how you came to be reading Gregor's prospective mother-in-law's doctoral thesis?" Cordelia and Alys, doing women's work.
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Night Vale, Carlos has decided, is like deserts everywhere: vast and unknowable, with bad cell phone reception. Also, there are angels.
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Geoffrey's first winter, afterwards.
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Aliens have invaded Pawnee; Leslie and Ben are fighting a lot.
April isn't actually sure which of those is scarier.
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Stand In The Place Where You Live by raven (singlecrow) for soupytwist
Fandoms: Parks and Recreation
10 Nov 2013
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Snapshots from the Knope presidential campaign.
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everyone says, this love will change you, and I ask, isn't that what love's supposed to do by raven (singlecrow) for Doyle
Fandoms: Parks and Recreation
21 Oct 2013
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"Who hasn't had gay thoughts?"
Well, exactly.
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- Part 10 of author's favourites (don't read in order)
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sing for the angel a psalm of shadows by raven (singlecrow)
Fandoms: Good Omens - Neil Gaiman & Terry Pratchett, Good Omens (TV)
24 Jul 2019
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“Sahib,” Aziraphale says. “I am not named for Israfel. I am the one to whom Allah gave the name.”
Five times Aziraphale attempted to tempt a human being and failed, utterly and completely, in service of God’s plan.
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- Part 11 of author's favourites (don't read in order)
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who were captured, who would not yield by raven (singlecrow)
Fandoms: Good Omens - Neil Gaiman & Terry Pratchett, Good Omens (TV)
21 Jun 2019
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“Why do you keep pronouncing the P in ‘psychically’?” Aziraphale asks.
“Because, angel, I am exceedingly inebriated.”
(On psychic bonds, wings, and fear of falling.)
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- Part 12 of author's favourites (don't read in order)
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The Supervision and Oversight (Irregularities) (EU Exit) Regulations 2017: a post-exit regulatory regime for the Magnus Institute by raven (singlecrow)
Fandoms: The Magnus Archives (Podcast)
29 May 2020
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The Department is grateful for the time and input of its stakeholders and welcomes in particular any observations by the European Agency for the Oversight of Irregularities and/or the Magnus Institute, London.
Don't worry, everything is fine.
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- Part 13 of author's favourites (don't read in order)
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"It is very tedious,” Professor Shen agrees, setting down his cup of tea. “I admire your forbearance.”
“I have no forbearance,” Zhao Yunlan assures him. “I get drunk a lot and throw things.”
or, the lawyers AU that no one asked for.
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- Part 14 of author's favourites (don't read in order)
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Feel The Earth Move When You Speak by raven (singlecrow) for st_aurafina
Fandoms: Lynes and Mathey Series - Amy Griswold & Melissa Scott
19 Dec 2014
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"Lynes. Do you believe in ghosts?"
(He doesn't. But Ned might be losing any choice in the matter.)
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- Part 15 of author's favourites (don't read in order)
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"Trust Addison at that last moment, when you know all that matters is the fall."
Ian and Addison's friendship, through time and space and a bunch of other things besides.
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- Part 16 of author's favourites (don't read in order)
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Reports of Witches Falling by raven (singlecrow) for st_aurafina
Fandoms: good luck roomba witch - ofsparrows (Artwork)
23 Dec 2018
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The Roomba is great. You can just switch it on and leave it. It gets in all the corners. The attending physician says Anurag is lucky he didn't die.
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- Part 17 of author's favourites (don't read in order)
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The Light Always Burning by raven (singlecrow) for Taabe
Fandoms: Nation - Terry Pratchett
20 Dec 2012
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We, the People: a thirty-year retrospective and an examination of the role of the Nation in world history, for Earth Atlantic, 7 December 2035, excerpt.
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- Part 18 of author's favourites (don't read in order)
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at dusk through narrow streets by raven (singlecrow) for Petra
Fandoms: John Finnemore's Souvenir Programme Season 9
24 Dec 2021
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Newt, Susannah and Gally, on one winter's day in 1923.
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- Part 19 of author's favourites (don't read in order)
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some things you just can't speak about (wherever they come from, they'll never run out) by raven (singlecrow)
Fandoms: MASH (TV), Star Trek, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
26 Jul 2023
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The stranger is wearing a science-green uniform dress with a bloodstained white apron over it and a red dressing gown over that, and they don’t look like any Starfleet officer BJ has ever seen.
BJ Hunnicutt is sent by Starfleet to a front-line medical ship in the Dominion War, where amid terror, boredom and daytime drinking, he falls for his sweet-but-crazy maverick of a chief medical officer.
(Hawkeye, as ever, is doing their best in a difficult world.)
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- Part 20 of author's favourites (don't read in order)
- Part 1 of a ship like a lantern in space (mash/ds9)