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Fireworks by @purlturtle

<1k, rated G, Fluff, New Year's in New York

All those fireworks and you’re only looking at me?

Heaven, I'm In Heaven by @purlturtle

1k words, rated G, fluff, dancing

Something a little Ginger and Fred, takes place early in Helena's reinstatement.

A Soul To Sacrifice by @purlturtle

1k words, rated T, fix-it

"On your quest for revenge, people often said to you, 'Killing him wouldn’t bring her back.' The thing is, you found a way to resurrect her perfectly. You just need a soul to sacrifice, so might as well get the one who killed your loved one."

I have wanted to know you, lover of books by @purlturtle

1k, rated M Werewolf and Vampire AU

Warnings: Graphic Depictions Of Violence, pregnancy loss, hurt, gore

A different vampire!Helena.

Airport by @birdofdawning

2k rated G, post-canon, slice of life

Helena finds herself waiting at an airport with a nine-year-old Child that won't stop talking (just like its father).

Surprise Tomatoes by @purlturtle

3k, rated G, Grief/Mourning, pandemic mention, Alternate Universe - Modern Setting

You don't have a green thumb, but you decide to try one last time to grow a plant - and promptly forget about it. You step outside and nearly faint from shock when you see the healthiest plants you've ever seen. And then you get hit by a squirt from your neighbor's water gun.

Secrets of a Haunted House by lilolilyrae

4k T, Established Relationship, Case Fic

Myka goes on a supposedly easy artifact retrieval in a house in the suburbs with Helena. She won’t believe Claudia’s theory about a ghost being involved, no matter how much it seems like they are stuck in a haunted house! Claudia, Helena and Pete have watched too many horror movies, that’s all. Myka is sure of it.

Or: can you snag, bag and tag a ghost?

Sometimes dæmons change by @purlturtle

5k rated G, His Dark Materials AU, Daemons, starts before episodes Buried/Reset

From there, I came to the conclusion that Helena's dæmon would change with both Christina's death and her bronzing, and then I wondered how the Janus Coin would affect someone with a dæmon. And here's the result! I've thrown in a Claudia whose dæmon, despite Claudia being over twenty, hasn't settled yet - it just felt right to me.

Christmas in Clement by @birdofdawning

9k rated G, Christmas Romcom AU

Workaholic Myka Bering and superior Helena Wells are the jilted other people in a Christmas romcom who meet trying to catch the first flight out of the quaint little town of Clement. However, escaping other people's Christmas romances will not be that easy.

Fake Married in May by lilolilyrae

10k T, Pining, Case fic, Artifact Shenanigans

Myka is sent on an undercover assignment: she has to pretend to be married to Helena, living in a small town in the middle of nowhere as they search for the artifact causing havoc in the area.

Curiously Cozy by @amtrak12

10k G, canon-divergence post S3, Pre-Relationship, Introspection

When given the chance to look through Emily Lake’s belongings, Helena discovers a wide collection of cozy mystery novels. She’s initially skeptical of them — the titles use puns and there are far too many cats featured on the covers — but then the books turn out to be a useful distraction while the Regents debate her fate. They even inspire Helena to explore a new avenue that helps her work through her conflicted emotions.

Or: Helena discovers cozy mysteries and — slowly — learns to heal after Season 3.

Appeal by @purlturtle

10k, rated T, Alternative Universe - Opera

"Leading tenor died? Then appeal to the audience for any student of music who knew the part, and give him his big chance while his predecessor's body cooled gently in the wings."

Lucifer's Servant by lilolilyrae

17k, rated T, Pre-Relationship, Alternative Universe, Alien Helena, Photographer Myka

Myka and Claudia visit Leena in Scotland, where she has recently moved into an old castle. Part of the lands she has inherited is an abandoned abbey, where they find a strange figure that will bring Myka back in contact with someone she would love to meet with more often...

Thank You For The Music @lavendelhummel

26k, rated T, post-canon, fix-it

Helena likes singing ABBA lovesongs to Myka. Post-series, post-marriage, post-working through everything, she does so at breakfast. Certain witnesses to that occurrence call for a Mamma Mia movie night. But they are still associated to the Warehouse… and the Warehouse tries its hand at ABBA-meddling (pun intended).

Delivered by a_windsor

74k words, rated G

“I didn’t sign up for the Warehouse to mess with us like this.”

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seems like everyone i know who's getting this is posting fic snippets so uhhh okay here you go:

Ava's life ends with a fire, and with a dark sky, and with the world collapsing around her.

She crashes onto a rock, stumbling legs barely making the jump, and falls entirely onto her face.  Her whole body thrums with pain, with a loss that feels like peace, with the understanding that they succeeded, they saved the world, they saved everyone.

Beatrice lands at her side, inelegant and crumpling, filthy with volcanic ash ash and the grime of keeping them both upright after so long, from hauling Ava up the mountain when the ring had worn down the last of her strength.  She’s bleeding from a gash just over her temple, hands and knees blistered from the superheated rocks she’d landed on to drag Ava back from the edge, back from her own failure.

They saved the world, but not for them.  They saved the world, but only for everyone else.  There’s no ring left, no Sauron. No destiny anymore, no future, no journey home to a realm and a throne and a people that have been waiting generations for her to find her way to them.  Just Ava and Beatrice, here alone at the end like it had for so long been just Ava and Beatrice, a lost heir and a discarded outcast, alone together at the beginning.

Ava curls onto her side, her breaking body resisting the effort, until she can bury her head in Beatrice’s neck and drop her hand onto the ragged worn shirt covering Beatrice’s stomach, armor long lost.  There’s always been a familiar scent to Beatrice, constant as her steady heartbeat, warm and clean.  Now, though, as the world ends around them, ash settling light on them and lava creeping closer and closer, Beatrice smells like blood and sweat and exhaustion.

Distantly, the tower crumbles, a shockwave that shudders the mountain and the fading ache of Ava's pulse as she finally, finally, lets herself rest. Closer, a hand curls along the back of Ava’s neck, up into her hair, and a small choked noise escapes into the side of Beatrice’s neck.

16. "Stay Still."

Hen tilted her head and raised an eyebrow. “What part of ‘stay still’ was too hard to understand?”

Karen huffed. “I’m bored though.”

Hen sat on the armchair close to Karen who was situated at the end of the couch.

She pointed toward the coffee table littered with notebooks and journals. “Scientific journals not doin’ it for you?”

Karen rolled her eyes and plopped her head against the arm of the couch. “I read them all.”

Hen leaned forward and kissed her forehead. “How about cheesecake and President Roslin?”

Karen smiled. “Watch with me?”

Hen winked. “That was a given.”

Here's the cover I made for "Dawn of the Dragonborn: Heart of a Hero, Heart of a Predator, Heart of Dovahkiin” by @rinari7 and beta’d by @amtrak12

Summary: A vampire. A Dragonborn. Two women, a little in love. Coffee? Mead? Or maybe save the world…

M'aiq'a is an investigative agent for the Penitus Oculatus, the Emperor's personal bodyguard, sent to Skyrim to try and figure out what's behind these damned vampire attacks that killed her foster brother. Hlenea, clutching an ancient scroll and beset by gargoyles, is the woman she quite literally unearths, sought after by vampires and hunters alike.

'Beware of becoming the very thing you despise' has never been more true. Never mind falling for one...

(Teaser for story #1) (Teaser for story #2) (Teaser for story #3)

Coming in on April 22, we have @rinari7 (writer), @amtrak12 (beta reader) and @sharkbatez (artist), offering you this story:

What makes a monster? Fangs, killing, feeding from prey? Murder for survival? A focus on personal vengeance? Circumstance can be a funny thing. Story of M'aiq'a's life, really, especially now that she's arrived in Skyrim, hunting the vampire that killed her brother. 'Beware of becoming the very thing you despise' has never been more true. Never mind falling for one...

Look at that! Vampires and other monsters, vengeance and murder - honestly I can't wait to read it, despite having no idea about Skyrim at all! 😅 It sounds so intriguing, though!!

Happy Halloween dear Amtrak, you get

SPINCH

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LOL! Flailing Kermit gifs does sound like me, and I was around on Time and Chips, although I was more active in other communities like Doctor/Rose Fix and dwrewatch and the SPDN newsletter. But that definitely could have happened. XD