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Of Wingbeats and Wildflowers by ApricusAme
Fandoms: The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett, Hermitcraft SMP, 3rd Life | Last Life SMP Series
16 Feb 2025
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Listen. Grian is not some tragic, misunderstood child in need of a redemption arc. He is not here to make friends. He is not interested in fixing whatever is wrong with this place.
And yet.
Between the nosy house staff, the strange boy in the west wing, the other boy everyone seems to know, and the locked garden that no one will talk about, it’s starting to feel like maybe the universe has different plans for him.
Which is rude, frankly.
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The Secret Garden, but make it Minecraft. Grian has a lot of character development to get through, but at least he has a mystery to get him going.
|| Small hiatus! - Exam season ^^ ||
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Black and Blue, purgatory is for you by ApricusAme
Fandoms: 3rd Life | Last Life SMP Series
13 Feb 2025
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The game demanded a winner. It always does. And Scar had made his choice before Grian ever swung. A quiet surrender. A gift wrapped in blood and regret. Grian only understands once it's too late—once Scar is gone, once the game is over, once the world turns to ruin beneath his feet.
And then he falls.
But there is no release in the void. No peace in the end. Not even a final battle against captors. He wakes to a desert that never shifts, a sky that never darkens, an ache that never fades. He wakes to memories that slip like sand through his fingers, faces he should know but cannot name. He wakes to hunger—something gnawing, something wrong, something that was never meant to be his.
And he wakes alone.
There is a mountain in the distance, graves half-buried in the dunes, flowers that grow where they should not. Every time he returns, the weight in his chest grows heavier. Every time, the whispering wind carries a name he cannot quite remember.
Every time, he wonders if he was ever meant to leave.
(He was the winner, after all.)
(And this is his prize.)
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The celestial entities of the Solar System are cast down to Earth’s surface, transformed into mortal beings. Unaware of the perilous journey ahead, they must navigate the complexities of human existence while striving to uncover the truth behind Earth’s mysterious slumber that predated their current plight.
As they embark on a quest to find their friend and unravel the mysteries of their newfound mortality, they soon realize that their fates are intricately intertwined with the fate of Earth itself. With the search for a return to space taking on a desperate urgency when it's revealed that their very lives are at stake, they must confront humanity, unearth long-buried secrets, and confront the shadows lurking in the heart of the habitable planet they call their friend.
Little do they know, The Earth’s fate rests in their hands.
Humanity will do whatever it takes to preserve itself.
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The charm of history and its enigmatic lesson consist in the fact that, from age to age, nothing changes and yet everything is completely different - Aldous Huxley
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Gregory was never a mean child, but he was never a very sympathetic or empathetic one either, but sometimes he does wish he knew more about his own life than he seems to be able to recall. Trapped and manipulated, our main character desperately searches for a way out of this unwanted and traumatizing way of life, but nobody said it would be easy, nor that it would be a short journey.This is the reimagined story of our Steel wool era MC, Gregory.
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“It was in the corner of the screen that Grian saw it; graffito of a purple, haphazardly drawn eye with the words, “Vident Malum” messily scrawled below. He frowned as the translations began to register in his mind as he continued to stare at it in the background as the reporter wrapped up his segment. It was shit Latin and was just two Latin words mixed together in a way that Grian was unsure even worked in that context. Yet even as the screen jumped to an ad break, Grian's eyes never left the spot where the eye once was on his screen. He knew what it meant.
The graffito wasn’t there the day before. It wasn’t even there as they were running from the exploding building. It was fresh.
A chill ran up his back at the possibility that they could know. That they were still watching. That even over ten years later he couldn’t escape.”
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The Villies are the most feared villains in the city but they only have one purpose: to blind the hero agency The Watchers, an agency that has haunted them for far longer than two of them would like to admit. The Villies must find a way to free themselves from their pasts while Grian tries to find a sense of normalcy when a mysterious art teacher enters his life.
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- Part 1 of Saiph's HC/LS Fics
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13 Jan 2026
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Really interesting premise, glad Grian’s the villian in one of these stories for once, and the Villies as a team up is great!
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There Are No Blueprints For Falling In Love by Hunter_says_so
Fandoms: Life Series | 3rd Life SMP Series, Hermitcraft SMP
16 May 2026
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Scar has transferred to start his second year at Hermiton University of Craft and Engineering in London, ready to leave America behind. What he doesn’t expect is to recognise one of his fellow students from his flight –Grian, and his adorable cat.
Grian is back in England after a decade in the States, settling into business classes and hiding his cat in a dorm he technically shouldn’t have. Seeing his friends again is a breath of fresh air and meeting an attractive dude on his flight that happens to be attending the same university him was certainly a bonus.
With Scar adapting to the differences between America and England, and Grian finally feeling at home after ten years, the two grow close.
But not everything can be a fairy tale.
A University AU full of pining, miscommunication, and gayness
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This fic now has a discord! https://discord.gg/cFU7PCYrAc- Language:
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Bookmarked by ApricusAme
05 Jan 2026
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Saw it recommended on TikTok, been needing more long fic Scarian works!
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Hot Tourist Destinations In Your Neighbourhood by Anonymous
Fandoms: Hermitcraft SMP, Marvel Cinematic Universe
31 Mar 2026
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The Rift is big, mysterious, and decidedly not a proper (or legal) interserver portal. Of course it isn't. Grian literally built it in his basement and doesn't remember a good part of the process.
It's genuinely impressive that it's functional at all. Scar certainly didn't expect it to be when he touched it.
Oh well. They were due for a vacation anyway, weren't they?
(or: In which the Rift spits out three Hermits in the middle of Antarctica, a couple of weeks after the battle of New York. Stranded in a server larger than anything they've seen before, disconnected from the Hub and built on different rules than what they're familiar with, finding their way back home proves much more difficult than previously assumed — how do you even build an interserver portal in the middle of a deadzone while the world's code fights you every step of the way? Dealing with just one of these things is difficult enough.
And that's without throwing shady government plots, persistent superheroes and long-dead gods into the mix. The Admin Training Camp didn't prepare Grian for this.)
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- Part 1 of Minecraft Extended Universe
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25 Sep 2025
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Super cool crossover I haven’t seen before- 3/?
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I Shouldn't Play With Fate (But What If Once I Could Make You Safe?) by G1zmo_the_Goat, StimmingRose
Fandoms: Hermitcraft SMP, Dream SMP
20 Jun 2026
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Wild Life is officially over. Back on Hermitcraft, the rest of the hermits are left to pick up the pieces as the lifers return. Unfortunately for them, several wrenches are thrown into their plan when an unexpected player, who is definitely not on the whitelist, ends up on their server.
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Or: my best friend and I love our blorbos and desperately needed them to interact. Please enjoy and read the tags!!Series
- Part 2 of Preybirds
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23 Sep 2025
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Haven’t seen one of these (Tommy in Hermitcraft) in years! Sick!
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It had almost been a year since he last woke up from his most recent hundred-year-nap, and yet, nothing really interesting has gone on. It was nice, of course, to see the progress of the little kingdom throughout the years. Each time he woke up, it was always a pleasant surprise to find that the scenery had changed yet again. But other than that, really nothing much.
He supposed it was kinda his fault for not expanding his horizons, so to speak. He hadn’t left this mountain for quite a while. All he really does nowadays is sleep, wake up, stare blankly ahead, sleep again, repeat.
It was definitely quite the change from his earlier days, when he used to never be able to sit in one place for too long, always on his feet to see something new, do something fun. Together with his most precious person, his…
Grian rams his head into a particularly big tree in frustration, making the poor tree snap in half with a big thud as it crashes down the ground.
God, he needs to get a grip.
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Grian finds a human child one day after being depressed for centuries wallowing over his ex. The future is bright and full of fireworks (spoilers: they WILL eventually get back together again).
Bookmarked by ApricusAme
18 Sep 2025
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I followed this AU on Twitter and tumblr! So so good! I don’t know if this person will turn this into a fic series, but I hope so! The writing and story is so peak!