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The power fluctuated, lights going out. Phil was lying on the floor, staring at the ceiling, but his eyes might as well have been closed. The darkness was so complete it was like it clasped its fingers in his, breathed through his throat-- and then, slowly, he became aware of a shift on the other side of the glass. Faint, distant movement. A soft pulse of light, pinkish-red mingled with off-white, gentle bioluminescent flickers in the engulfing blackness. Fear twisted so far around that it turned to wonder.
He thought the lights were multiple creatures close together, at first. Then the emergency lights hummed back on, and the lights on the other side suddenly resolved into a being, a huge one with a long snaking tail and brightness down its side and shoulders and flowing hair and was that a goddamn fucking mer--
The mer reeled back and disappeared into the gloom. Phil stared after it and said blankly, forgetting it was only a plush crow listening: "What the actual fuck."
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- Part 34 of dream smp fic my beloved
- Part 8 of dsmp/smpearth sampler [personal favorites]
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23 Apr 2024
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Tanguish is Tango's hels, and they get along a lot better than most hels and their hermits should. Unfortunately, the universe wasn't made to house both of them. Helsmets were made to return to their hermits eventually, making a complete person.
Except what happens when the hels is the stronger of the two? What happens if they really don't want to be?[This fic started as a handful of one-shots on Tumblr and has slowly snowballed into something bigger. If you notice a writing/tonal shift throughout the course of the fic, especially in the earlier chapters, this is why!]
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19 Apr 2024
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your angel ellipsis, your devil of dots by Gladumf
Fandoms: Hermitcraft SMP, 3rd Life | Last Life SMP Series
29 Mar 2024
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A scientist hurried past his cage in a rush, and Grian tensed, drawing his leathery wings up around himself protectively. They didn’t seem focused on him in the slightest, but one could never be sure with these people. They could be preparing some new method of torture for him, some new experiment that he would have to endure. Or at least, that’s what he thought, all the way up until they brought in the angel.
Grian knew immediately that the person they were dragging through the doors was an angel. Even if they didn’t have their large feathery wings out, even if they didn’t have a dull halo encircling their head, he would have still recognized them for what they were. There was an energy to them, a power of pure good radiating off of them that made him feel almost sick to his stomach. Or maybe it was the smell of their built up emotions, slamming against the walls of their semi-mortal body, begging to be given away.
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or, Grian has been locked away for a very long time by a research team for unknown reasons. One day, they bring him a friend.
or or, demon!grian and angel!scar get put into a horrible situation together and have to find a way out together, despite their differences
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- Part 1 of angel/demon au
- Part 16 of glad's platonic scarian manifesto: volume 1
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22 Mar 2024
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Roier's crazy fun roadtrip up highway 200 with the hacked up corpse of his ex in an ice chest in his trunk and an escaped convict in his passenger seat. What could go wrong?
my take on the f!cell/c!roier crazy murderer road trip concept. i love them.
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15 Mar 2024
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My Grian was sorry too, reads the note pinched between Grian's fingers. His skin feels cold under Grumbot's acid-green glow. What exactly does that say, he wonders, about the other timeline? What did Grumbot do?
What did he do?
Or: in another universe, Mumbo wins the mayoral race, Scar founds the world's least underground resistance, Grian vanishes mysteriously, and in search of her missing friend, PearlescentMoon logs into a season 7 that never ended.
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06 Dec 2023
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Zed gasped and heaved and tried to clear his airways, all to no avail, his struggling becoming weaker and weaker as black spots danced in his vision, until he was overwhelmed and the world faded out.
Then, all of a sudden, he was awake again. He heaved air into his lungs, a sense of relief washing over him as he realised he was alive, he was okay, he had another chance. He had another chance to save Tango, to save himself, to save the Hermits.
His communicator pinged. He was right back at the start. He could do this.
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Or, Zed died when the moon hit. So did everyone else. Thankfully, Zed is Blorbo from the End Poem Entities’ Universe and also a stubborn fool who would rather stay another round in a 6-months-per-loop time loop than let any of his friends die.
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06 Dec 2023
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Months after the Prentiss attack, Martin Blackwood is having a bad day.
Relationships among his coworkers have fallen apart, their boss is stalking them, and no one can quite shake the feeling that danger is still close by. Martin's doing his best to hold everyone together, but tea and sympathy aren't working like they used to. The sole bright spot is that it's much easier to have a crush on Jon now that he's decided Martin isn't a murderer. Mostly, though, Martin's just glad to make it through the day...
...until he wakes up and has to live the same bad day all over again.
Martin finds himself caught in a loop, reliving the 19th November over and over again, struggling to understand why this is happening and what he has to do to get out. His dear coworker Sasha is acting very strange, spiders keep crawling over everything, and at the center of it all is a man with long, sharp hands, who might be to blame... or might be the key to escaping all of this.
(Or: Michael, Not-Sasha, and Annabelle have a three-sided tug-of-war over Martin's brain, while Martin hooks up with the guy who got him into this mess and keeps trying to Fifty-First-Dates his boss.)
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14 Oct 2023
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His eyes are at once dead and horribly, horribly alive. The milky film over his cornea does little to hush the luminous golden brown of his irises, huge around pupils so shrunken that Martin can hardly see them.
Jonathan Sims blinks. Then he frowns.
“Am I to take it you’ve never met a vampire, then?”
Oh, Martin is going to get a rubbish review.Or,
Struggling for income, Martin registers with an app that connects vampires with willing blood donors. His first client is not at all what he expected.
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11 Oct 2023
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Martin Blackwood, beloved archival assistant, who is always there with tea and a soft word of comfort isn't exactly who he says. Actually he's exactly not who he says: he is Not-Martin, a monster who didn't expect to have anything to do with the archival staff beside feeding off their terror that Something Wasn't Right. But then he started feeling something akin to "emotions" when it comes to a certain Archivist who is always in trouble.
Trying my best to update weekly on Mondays
Currently in Season 5.
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07 Oct 2023
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“What if– y’know…” There’s a pause where Parvis struggles for words. He heaves a sigh when he can’t quite find them, and turns his face a little further into the comforting warmth of Will’s thigh instead. “Vampires.”
“Vampires?” asks Will, exhaustedly.
It’s gone four in the morning, the sun just beginning to rise over the horizon, and he’s sat on a bench in a park with his best friend draped over him and a stranger leant against him because they all decided it would be a good idea to watch the sun rise. He’s really not drunk enough to be able to justify this to himself – to be able to justify any of this evening to himself – but here he is.
(In which Parvis acquires a strange man during a night out drinking with Will, and it's all downhill from there. Or uphill. Perhaps both, simultaneously. What ensues is a slow-burn story of romance, miscommunication, and unutterable stupidity.)
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- Part 3 of Your Smile 'verse
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30 Sep 2023
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there are many downsides to being a marine biologist by donnerstag
Fandoms: 3rd Life | Last Life SMP Series, Hermitcraft SMP
24 Sep 2023
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The Coastal Laboratory for Abnormal Wildlife Studies has found themselves in possession of a live, captive, and dangerous siren—something previously unheard of in the scientific community. Doc, one of their top researchers, is assigned leadership of the study on Specimen 9201223, later nicknamed ‘Martyn’.
Over the course of the project’s run, he and the siren develop an intense rivalry that eventually mellows into a far more complex relationship, as Doc discovers that Martyn is far more human than they’d initially assumed.
Unfortunately, the rest of the organization does not have the siren’s best interests at heart. As Doc grows closer to Martyn, he finds himself forced into increasingly-risky decisions in the name of protecting him, trying to prove his humanity to people who only see a monster.
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- Part 1 of Fis AU
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- 27/27
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16 Sep 2023
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On a joint NASA-ESA mission to the dwarf planet Ceres, Iskall and Zedaph aren’t expecting much. A long, boring trip, several weeks of stress and excitement, and then a long, boring trip back.
There’s just one slight snag: they’re not alone up there.
With the rest of humanity millions of miles away, will they be able to make it back? Or are our astronauts doomed to sail the stars forever?
(Or: The astronaut AU nobody asked for. Updates Mondays! This fic is fully written!)
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- Part 2 of ZITS in space with Iskall
- Part 1 of Sailing Windwards
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07 Aug 2023
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"A Great Light is coming, and will destroy us all"
For as long as CreekClan have existed, they have been at war. Young apprentice Pinepaw knows this, despite the doubts that plague her thoughts. After a tragedy during her first battle, she is desperate to prove herself as a loyal CreekClan warrior, ready to fight for, and die for, her Clan; but another war is raging downriver in the city and the Clan's way of life is thrown in disarray as Pinepaw finds herself having to work with the enemy to save her family.
TL;DR Pinefrost, Or How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love The Bomb
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- Part 1 of The Great Light (Warriors)
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31 Jul 2023
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Strangely He Feels at Home in this Place by mar_im_o
Fandoms: Hermitcraft SMP, 3rd Life | Last Life SMP Series
15 Feb 2023
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Doc would never have considered himself a relatively profound friend of Ren’s. They were friends, for certain, but in the same way Doc would consider himself a friend of Joe’s or a friend of Scar’s. They interact. They spend time together. They sometimes collaborate on builds.
And, on occasion, Doc supposes that friendship extends to pulling the man from lava and attempting to salvage what bits of him have been destroyed and mangled from a near disastrous end of a season.
But, really, he should know the man better. He should have some sense of who Ren is, of what he needs, what he does, yet the man sat before him… He’s not certain it’s Ren at all.
And Doc doesn’t know enough to explain why…
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Also known as: Ren has DID, Doc has no clue, and they're both stuck on a ship together for two months
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- Part 1 of Strangely He Feels at Home in this Place
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- 27,404
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- 12/12
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20 Mar 2023
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He was standing on one side of a pane of glass, taking notes on what the testificate on the other side was doing. They were carefully adding droplets to a small beaker from a distance, making the liquid inside fizz and pop before turning a foul shade of brown. The testificate inside looked up at him questioningly and, as he nodded to go on, the door to the room flew open.
“Xephos!” yelled Honeydew, “Come and have a biscuit!”
(aka Honeydew interrupting Xephos until he becomes a better person)
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19 Mar 2023
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Evil Xisuma is finally back on the server. Xisuma- his own brother- had banned him to the void for what felt like centuries. He was sure he’d gone insane long ago, nobody with a sound mind would break down crying at the sight of the night sky.
But he couldn’t rest, not yet. The void had drained almost all of his energy, and he wasn’t going to be able to fight or hide from any Hermits.
Unless he used what little strength he had left to shift into something else. A form that didn’t take so much energy to hold, but would be looked over.A flock of white cockatoos perched in the trees above caught his eye.
That could certainly work.Evil Xisuma breaks back onto Hermitcraft, and in a last ditch attempt at survival, takes the form of a bird.
Team ZIT are immediately in love with their new pet, a sassy and dramatic cockatoo they found near spawn.Just their totally normal pet, a totally normal bird.
(Formerly titled “Caught in a web” before I decided a bird was easier to write than a spider)Bookmarked by zedaph
12 Mar 2023
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“Parvis,” Will repeated, a little more commanding this time.
Parv did not move. Parv did not respond. Parv was dead. William Strife knew this.
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Where Parvis dies after the explosion, leaving Strife to cope.
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06 Mar 2023
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Soulmate AU: Your soulmate's name is written on your wrist. Strife never had a soulmate and he liked it that way. Romance was repulsive, he was lucky to be free of any of that bullshit. Even though the people around him showed pity or sympathy for his lack of a soulmate, he was happier without it. And maybe that was why he was so close with Parv: his best friend was the same way.
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“I mean, I assume that for me, it’s because I’m socially awkward and hate people,” Strife answered readily, earning a snort from his best friend. “For you, I just have to assume it’s because you’re the most obnoxious person on Minecraftia.”
“Oh, fuck you,” Parv said. There was a shuffling sound and when he glanced down, Parv was getting to his feet and walking over to Strife’s desk. He just watched him silently as he rooted through Strife’s pencil case, pulling out a highlighter. “Y’know, I reckon I don’t have a soulmate because I’d spend too much time with you instead.”
Strife grinned, feeling his cheeks warm up at Parv’s words. “Oh, really now?”
“Yeah, really, because you’re always bothering me.”
“Says the guy who crawled in through my window.”
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- Part 19 of Travvy's Fated February
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05 Mar 2023
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Sylnan stops by the Thieves’ guild once more, and the crease in Ugarth’s forehead eases when he says he’s not there for a job. He ends up being pulled into a game of poker and loses two copper to some tiny gross goblin. It’s a good day.
It’s a good day. But as the ground under his feet slopes upwards and he climbs silently onto the rooftop, something feels… not right. Off.
And then he slips through the factory window, and the world breaks.
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Sylnan buys a flute, counts stars, and doesn't walk away.
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- Part 1 of Mutually Assured Destruction
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16 Jan 2023
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How to Be Home by happy_hermit
Fandoms: 3rd Life | Last Life SMP Series, Hermitcraft SMP
22 Jan 2023
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When his blurred vision came into focus, all he could see was Grian. The avian was sitting on top of him, pinning him to the floor with sharp, taloned fingers and glaring down at him with dangerous eyes, wings arched high above him, brushing the ceiling. A low, rumbling snarl was building in his friend's throat, and though he was looking at him — very intensely, he might add — he got the feeling he wasn’t actually seeing him.
Mumbo’s heart raced in his chest, in his throat, everywhere, as he stared back up at Grian with wide eyes, suddenly afraid to even blink. From behind, a broken shard of glass was placed delicately at his throat, and out of the corner of his eye he could see Scar, kneeling down next to him with an uncharacteristically blank look on his face. Neither of them seemed to register where they were, or who he was. A bead of sweat dripped from his hairline to his jaw.
He would respawn, if he died. But Grian and Scar were looking at him like they didn’t know that. Not right now, anyway.
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Eight Hermits go missing for eight weeks. They don't quite come back the same. [Desert Duo & Mumbo-centric]
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24 Dec 2022