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1. Public Bookmark 52

   Corruptive Shell, Rotten Core by Nellaplanet

   Fandoms: Portal (Video Game)  

   • Teen And Up Audiences
   • No Archive Warnings Apply
   • F/F, Gen
   • Complete Work

   10 Apr 2025

   Tags

   • No Archive Warnings Apply
   • Chell/GLaDOS (Portal)
   • Mel & Virgil (Portal)
   • Chell (Portal)
   • Mel (Portal)
   • GLaDOS (Portal)
   • Virgil (Portal)
   • Emilia Conly (Portal)
   • Wheatley (Portal)
   • Stirling (Portal)
   • Test Subject 18 (Portal)
   • Post-Game: Portal 2
   • welcome to the ‘fucked up women making each other worse’ show
   • also featuring some spherical men and a sentient roomba
   • chell and glados can be read as romantic or platonic but WILL be read as obsessed and repressed
   • and also weird as fuck
   • contains spoilers for the main games (including co-op) as well as several fan made mods
   • let's examine the line between man and machine
   • and the inherent horror in stepping over it
   • Enemies to Lovers
   • well. Sort of

   Summary

   After coming across a strange device and a message calling for help in the ruins of the outside world, Chell finds herself heading back to Aperture, this time in the company of a fellow survivor.

   But in returning, will she ever be able to escape the clutches of Glados – and of the Facility itself?

   Language:

   English

   Words:

   112,816

   Chapters:

   17/17

   Comments:

   152

   Kudos:

   205

   Bookmarks:

   52

   Hits:

   6,345

   Bookmarked by Windswept_Uni

   02 Oct 2025

2. Public Bookmark 18

   Go make some new disaster by jammerific for mousemooon

   Fandoms: Portal (Video Game)  

   • Teen And Up Audiences
   • No Archive Warnings Apply
   • F/F
   • Complete Work

   26 Aug 2023

   Tags

   • No Archive Warnings Apply
   • Chell/GLaDOS (Portal)
   • Chell & GLaDOS (Portal)
   • Chell (Portal)
   • GLaDOS (Portal)
   • Unconventional Format
   • Alternate Universe - Different First Meeting
   • Uneasy Allies
   • Humor
   • Gen or Pre-Slash
   • Selectively Mute Chell (Portal)

   Summary

   Chell is a hacker trying to uncover the truth of her father's disappearance, or at least take revenge on Aperture Science. GLaDOS is... helpful. Possibly.

   Language:

   English

   Words:

   1,616

   Chapters:

   1/1

   Collections:

   1

   Comments:

   52

   Kudos:

   129

   Bookmarks:

   18

   Hits:

   879

   Bookmarked by Windswept_Uni

   12 Apr 2025

3. Public Bookmark 23

   A Long Way Home by actingwithportals

   Fandoms: Portal (Video Game), Half-Life  

   • Teen And Up Audiences
   • No Archive Warnings Apply
   • Gen
   • Complete Work

   01 Jan 2022

   Tags

   • No Archive Warnings Apply
   • Chell (Portal)
   • GLaDOS (Portal)
   • Alyx Vance
   • Gordon Freeman
   • Uriah (Half-Life)
   • Other characters get mentioned but the ones tagged have the most focus
   • POV Second Person
   • Mild Language
   • Injury
   • Chronic Pain
   • Mute Chell (Portal)
   • Mute Gordon Freeman
   • Recovery
   • Character Study
   • no romances implied here
   • brief and mild violence
   • (it's against a headcrab zombie)
   • vague discussions of depression?
   • recovery is hard and Chell has been through A Lot
   • ultimately a positive ending though
   • Gift Fic

   Summary

   "Good people don't end up here."

   You know.

   Language:

   English

   Words:

   4,440

   Chapters:

   1/1

   Comments:

   5

   Kudos:

   142

   Bookmarks:

   23

   Hits:

   957

   Bookmarked by Windswept_Uni

   11 Apr 2025

4. Public Bookmark 20

   Exes by Arriva

   Fandoms: Portal (Video Game), Half-Life (Video Games)  

   • Teen And Up Audiences
   • No Archive Warnings Apply
   • F/F, Gen
   • Complete Work

   20 Jun 2023

   Tags

   • No Archive Warnings Apply
   • Chell/GLaDOS (Portal)
   • Chell (Portal)/Alyx Vance
   • Chell (Portal)
   • GLaDOS (Portal)
   • Alyx Vance
   • Civil Protection Officers (Half-Life)
   • this is a romcom i swear
   • Minor Violence
   • Interrogation
   • Implied/Referenced Torture
   • Reunions
   • AU where Chell joins the Resistance and kisses Alyx Vance on the mouth

   Summary

   Against her better judgment, Chell calls in a favor.

   Language:

   English

   Words:

   2,561

   Chapters:

   1/1

   Comments:

   10

   Kudos:

   179

   Bookmarks:

   20

   Hits:

   1,469

   Bookmarked by Windswept_Uni

   09 Apr 2025

5. Public Bookmark 16

   The Scratch by Dame_Harmony

   Fandoms: Portal (Video Game)  

   • Mature
   • Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
   • F/F
   • Complete Work

   26 Oct 2022

   Tags

   • Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
   • Chell/GLaDOS (Portal)
   • GLaDOS (Portal)
   • Chell (Portal)
   • Alien Intelligences
   • Full-Contact Courtship Rituals
   • Revenge As A Personality
   • Cube-And-Button-Based Romance
   • Self-Bondage
   • One-Sided Relationship
   • Post-Canon
   • Post-Game: Portal 2

   Summary

   GLaDOS meditates on the nature of her relationship with her test subject.

   Language:

   English

   Words:

   1,276

   Chapters:

   1/1

   Comments:

   16

   Kudos:

   163

   Bookmarks:

   16

   Hits:

   1,520

   Bookmarked by Windswept_Uni

   09 Apr 2025