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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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You have my deepest apologies; it is not finished, and I have not yet reached the happy ending you requested.

I have not even managed to digitize it from the pencil-and-paper version that is its current form.

Nonetheless, here is the first chapter, with more to come (and a proper type-up by the time I'm home, which will be Monday or Tuesday).

OH YES EASY‼️ IT IS CHIRP CHHIRP CHIRP CHIRP BY CHIRP.

IT IS BEST SUNG IN my mom’s EAR👂

CHARTING WORLDWIDE!!!‼️‼️

banff (lake moraine)!!!/jasper national park

vancouver/vancouver island (@leveebreak-s 🖤)

new york

boston

los angles

for the writing ask game

Belated Happy Halloween!

For this I'm going with a new fic idea.

It's a Big Damn Epic idea I do not have the spoons to do but, maybe someday.

My idea is inspired by something I read from the Marvel Comics wiki about Lady Death and the Death of Death arc or something similar where Death is in danger.

I don't know how to go about it but the encompassing idea is that someone, or an intergalactic group/cult wants to end Death ala the group from 12 Monkeys. The Monkeys wants to end time so no one will die.

It's the same idea, they think the source of all their grief is Death, and learn the Concept of Death is a literal walking and talking entity. They are a group that's existed for centuries across the stars.

Leaping off from Gorr's god-killing spree, the group gods can die, they go for the Gods of Death. They have killed some Death Gods but death and dying still exist.

Until they hit on the existence of the Cosmic Beings and the second oldest entity in the universe: Lady Death.

Somehow word gets around that the Lady Death loved a Human, and the intergalactic cult descended on Earth searching for the Human Death Loved.

A Diviniation Witch gets hold of this news, it is not a future but a near future warning, passed from one seer to another, a resistance against the Life Cult--and this reaches Ghost Agatha.

Agatha hears the news and just cackles. "What're they going to do, I'm dead. Also, please, nothing will kill Rio, she's Death."

Agatha is acting blasé about this and Billy is puzzled why she's being cavalier. She gets roped in to help save Death.

"I'm telling you guys, she doesn't need help!"

Billy refuses to hear this and tries to find a way to 'save Death'.

Agatha: "That's not even a cool band name!"

Agatha gets emotionally invested in the middle of it, and she can't really let Billy die. Because if Billy's spirit jumps bodies again, Rio will really appear and find a way to kill a ghost.

So, even though she thinks it's still a bad idea to get involve, Agatha helps.

"Also the group is also looking for me! They want me for LEV-ER-AGE!"

Billy: "What can they do to you? You're a ghost!"

TLDR, Agatha is right. They trap Agatha in a device that can entrap souls. Agatha is terrified for herself because the Cult leader claims that the device can destroy souls.

The group urges Agatha to call out to Death (they have an infinity stone ready to entrap Death). Agatha refuses. She's terrified and wise, and telling all kinds of jokes.

Billy and Kamala try to reach Agatha (yes, Billy recruited the Young Avengers for this. Kate: "I'm in my twenties! I'm not a teenager! Why am I a part of this group??").

When things are looking hopeless, suddenly a figure in black appears with a skull face and dark hair.

The device explodes, and Agatha is freed.

"Is that Death?" Kamala asked, awed.

Kate still has her arrow nocked. "Hey, I thought you said, Death was a lady?"

Billy: "She is."

Kate gestured towards the figure standing over Agatha. "Are you sure? 'Cause Death looks more like a dude."

"What?" Billy turns his head. Agatha was looking up at the figure before her, looking stunned.

"Hi," the boy, who looked almost like Kate's age said. It's not that his face was a skull, there was still some flesh but it looked like his skull was superimposed over his face. "Mama."

"Nicky?!"

There's a moment of shock and a huge wave of emotion hits Agatha and she lunges forward. There was so much emotion in Agatha that she looked like she gained physical form.

"I missed you."

"Thank you for making an appearance, Death's Child."

And then, it's apparently all an elaborate trap for Nicky, to get to Lady Death.

Rio would do almost anything for Agatha, but Lady Death would break worlds for her son.

And before her eyes, Nicky is siphoned into a reforged infinity stone.

Agatha is fury but as a ghost, there is not a lot she can do. Rio finally appears, fury incarnate and demands they free Nicky but the group vanishes.

Leaving behind a voice message.

"We will make demands now, Lady Death. If you want to keep your son safe."

It turns out that in the act of trying to save Death, they triggered the very thing that could be Death's downfall.

(And many more things happen, that will end up with Rio and Agatha teaming up).

Lyra invites you to come sleep. Yes, it's daylight, but she's showing you how sleep is feasible even so.

You can also, very carefully and gently, pet the floofy belly. She will tolerate that.

Oh Lyra, you beautiful floof!!!