Mothlight_Witch
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In the summer of 1990, one year before Harry Potter first steps into Hogwarts, Dumbledore discovers Ravenclaw's Diadem in the Room of Requirement.
"And when she tired of wandering, Luna would go to the meadow and lie down amongst the flowers, enjoying the feeling of the sun on her bare arms, the tickle of grass against her neck. There, drenched in sunlight, she would close her eyes and imagine what it would be like to be utterly transparent— to have the ability to receive and transmit in equal measure, like moonlight passing through clear air. Perhaps light would filter down through the chambers of her heart and glisten upon the beetle shells in the dirt below her. And she would wonder if Demiguises and Thestrals and Wrackspurts were transparent, like she imagined herself, or if their invisibility was instead a perfect camouflage, just like the Disillusionment charm.
But it’s at Hogwarts where Luna learns what it really feels like to be invisible, without the artifice of Disillusionment or Demiguise hair."
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A certain mindflayer grapples with identity & personhood in the past, present, and future. BG3 from the Emperor’s perspective.
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METACOGNITION by Chaos Theory (Mothlight_Witch)
Fandoms: Sonic the Hedgehog - All Media Types, Sonic the Hedgehog (Video Games)
10 Oct 2023
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Earth has long been threatened by the Eggman Empire, but each scheme for world domination is always thwarted by Sonic & co. Year on year it’s the same Sisyphean cycle. Not everyone is thrilled to play their part, not even the ageless, unchanging minions of Robotnik.
Now Sonic the Hedgehog has disappeared, and Metal Sonic struggles with his own relevance in a rapidly changing world.
A very-AU version of Sonic Forces told from the perspective of various anti-heroes & anti-villains, including: robo-angst, drawn-out redemption arcs, convoluted origin stories for obscure comic book characters, hand-wavey sci fi explanations of how Chaos Emeralds and Chaos Energy works, and a few other twists and turns.
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As Above, So Below by Mothlight_Witch
Fandoms: The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild/Tears of the Kingdom, The Legend of Zelda & Related Fandoms
16 Jun 2023
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“As everyone else started to settle into their new lives, Link only grew more restless.
When he looked out upon the beautiful, cloud swept landscape of Hyrule, he could only think of one thing. Beneath it all, far below the fields and forests and mountains, the Depths were waiting for him. And when he lay down to sleep at night, all he could dream about was that deep windless landscape, where darkness lay thick like water.”
A short story speculating about the cosmology of Hyrule.
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Episode eight goes a little differently when Jentry tries to keep Michael out of danger. . . and Kit realizes that even a centuries-old yaoguai can fall victim to a moment of No Thoughts, Head Empty.
Or: what I thought was going to happen when Michael showed up at the door.
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Bookmarked by Mothlight_Witch
08 Feb 2025
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Sisyphus Smiled by stilitana
Fandoms: I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream - Harlan Ellison
04 Dec 2018
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In which Ted attempts to adopt a variety of philosophical outlooks in order to survive his condition, AM hears a bedtime story, and we conclude somewhere marginally less bleak than in the original so that your poor faint-hearted author can sleep at night.
(“I have so many bones now,” I mumble. “God. Good God. Wow. Did I always have this many—”
“Yeah, Ted, you always had bones,” Gorrister says.)
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- Part 1 of Animal, Vegetable, Mineral
Bookmarked by Mothlight_Witch
12 Aug 2024
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My heart is a fist of barbed wire by dwellingondreams
Fandoms: Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling
19 Oct 2019
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"Now I have three heads: one for speech, one for sex, and one for second guessing." - Analicia Sotelo. 'South Texas Persephone'.
Her door clicks open and nearly clips her in the face. It could be a sudden draft, but Amy is doubtful. Her fist clenches shut around the marble. It is pretty. She could look at it for hours, the way it catches the light. It’s almost like a sweet. Want curls up in her chest like a cat. She thinks she’ll keep it. A gift from the big grey orphanage, just to her.
“That’s mine,” comes a thin, cold voice, and she sees the boy across the hall for the first time. His room is directly across from hers. He is pretty, she thinks, like a drawing from a book. The lines of his face are smooth and pale. His hair is dark and neatly parted. He holds himself very rigidly, like a miniature soldier or a wind-up toy. “That’s mine,” he repeats, sharply.
(In which Tom Riddle is not the only strange child to come out of Wool's.)
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- Part 1 of Barbed Wire, Grass Crown
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Bookmarked by Elderflower (Mothlight_Witch)
24 May 2024
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Percy Weasley is not particularly reckless, until he is, once, on the anniversary of his brother's death. For most people, the idea of sending oneself through time to correct one's mistake would remain a fantasy, something to dwell on in the middle of the night, but Percy has always been too capable for his own good.
Featuring: a reluctant spy, an unlikely friendship between a ghost and a lonely student, a portrait, very few friends, several very lengthy conversations about soul magic, and far too many Horcruxes.
(Or, an attempt to answer the question, if someone intelligent was sent back through time, armed only with the word 'Horcrux' and a general knowledge of the main timeline––not to mention a keen understanding of the Hogwarts curriculum––could that person logic his way to defeating the Dark Lord? Only time will tell).
COMPLETE.
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- Part 1 of A Study of Resonance Universe
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Bookmarked by Elderflower (Mothlight_Witch)
20 May 2024
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Lavender takes one step forward and – just like the snap of a finger, the blink of an eye, the drop of a pebble – Hogwarts is left behind. There's no jump, no flashes of light, no whirlwinds of disconnected images. Just one little step; behind stood her war and in front stands 1947. "Huh," she says to herself, "didn't see this in the tea leaves."
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Bookmarked by Elderflower (Mothlight_Witch)
20 May 2024