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Adventures in Team-Building by Gray Cardinal (Gray_Cardinal) for RynRose4
Fandoms: Marvel Cinematic Universe, The Marvels (Movie 2023)
23 May 2026
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See, for the team thing to work, we’ll need a way to coordinate stuff. Not quite like these,
[gestures at tablet]
but something that’s private and secure and doesn’t scream “I BELONG TO A SUPERHERO” if it falls out of somebody’s backpack.Kamala Khan wants more than just warm superpowered bodies in the Young Avengers; she wants properly organized warm superpowered bodies. And for that, she needs the single most organized being in the MCU....
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Equal and Opposite (The Ingeniously Villainous Remix) by Gray Cardinal (Gray_Cardinal)
Fandoms: Doctor Who
18 Apr 2026
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After yet another defeat and the associated retreat at the Doctor's hands, the Master contemplates a change in strategy.
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What the Butler Saw by Gray Cardinal (Gray_Cardinal) for angelheadedhipster
Fandoms: Batman Beyond, DCU, DC Animated Universe (Timmverse)
16 Dec 2025
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In order to be the Batman going forward – even with Bruce backing him up in the Batcave – Terry McGinnis needed to become at least as good a detective as Bruce.
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The Hologram, the Android (but not the Trained Cormorant) by Gray Cardinal (Gray_Cardinal) for LadyofthePhantomKnights
Fandoms: Sherlock Holmes & Related Fandoms, Star Trek: The Next Generation
24 Nov 2025
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No, not that hologram - and not that android, either. This story addresses the mystery of why we never saw the genuine Holmes and Watson during the events of "Elementary, Dear Data" or "Ship in a Bottle".
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The Mutual Benefit Encounter by Gray Cardinal (Gray_Cardinal) for coralysendria
Fandoms: The Phantom (1996), The Shadow (1994)
12 Oct 2025
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A chance meeting in a hotel bar may just set a series of events in motion that will draw the Ghost Who Walks into a dark confrontation with the Shadow...
...and then again, maybe it won't.
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All in the Subtext by Gray Cardinal (Gray_Cardinal)
Fandoms: Batman: The Animated Series, Batman - All Media Types, Miraculous Ladybug
11 Sep 2025
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Ninety-five percent of the volumes on Codex Antiquaria's shelves were simply old, and little more than that, each waiting for one of the half-dozen people on Earth with a unique interest in the particular topic whose subject that work concerned.
Not surprisingly, the remaining five percent – the grimoires, the spell-books, the alchemical field guides, the encyclopediae of magical artifacts – drew most of the paying customers.
[Written for a long-overdue prompt for the Ficathon That Goes Into A Bar: Gabriel Agreste
goes into a barwalks into a bookstore and meets...Barbara Gordon!] -
Why Me? by Gray Cardinal (Gray_Cardinal)
Fandoms: Nancy Drew - Carolyn Keene, Jacqueline Kirby - Elizabeth Peters
02 Aug 2025
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Jacqueline Kirby
goes into a barvisits a jail … and meets Ned Nickerson.Series
- Part 3 of Nancy Drew: 21st Century Girl
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Where You Need to Be by Gray Cardinal (Gray_Cardinal)
Fandoms: Power Rangers Dino Thunder, Gargoyles (Cartoon)
16 Jul 2025
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Death by drowning, Tommy Oliver reflected, was totally unfair.
I'd always wondered how Tommy survived the aftermath of Dino Island blowing up (as we see in an early episode of Dino Thunder). And then the dice-rollers at the Ficathon That Goes Into A Bar handed me the answer....
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The Affair of the Statutory Duel by Gray Cardinal (Gray_Cardinal)
Fandoms: Sherlock Holmes - Arthur Conan Doyle, The Grand Duke - Sullivan/Gilbert
30 May 2025
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Either the following material is an out-and-out forgery...or just possibly, Gilbert and Sullivan owe the central plot device of their last operetta to none other than Sherlock Holmes.
(Which is to say, the story to which this summary is attached raises a hell of a lot more questions than it answers.)
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Written by the Winners by Gray Cardinal (Gray_Cardinal) for Audrelite
Fandoms: Power Rangers Time Force
25 Apr 2025
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If the poem had really been written to Lucas' car, then none of what had happened made any sense. Unless....
Piece by piece, Nadira unravels the tangle of mixed signals and unintended consequences.
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Subject to Change Without Notice (the Domino Theory Remix) by Gray Cardinal (Gray_Cardinal)
Fandoms: Doctor Who (1963), Star Trek: Strange New Worlds (TV)
21 Apr 2025
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Even if one plan fails, the Master always has another waiting in the wings....
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Thrust and Parry by Gray Cardinal (Gray_Cardinal) for Eisoj5
Fandoms: Gargoyles (Cartoon)
18 Dec 2024
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Puck would claim afterwards that he'd intended to out-Vogel Preston Vogel.
Neither he nor Elisa ever mentioned the theory she'd floated much, much earlier....
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The Really Final Problem by Gray_Cardinal for althusserarien (ArmchairElvis)
Fandoms: Elementary, Mary Russell - Laurie R. King
30 Nov 2024
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Joan Watson's Sherlock Holmes has just come back to life.
Mary Russell's Sherlock Holmes has just come home with a copy of Joan Watson's book.
One Holmes is looking for an inheritance; the other has already bestowed it.
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The Affair of the Command Performance by Gray Cardinal (Gray_Cardinal) for mundungus42
Fandoms: Sherlock Holmes - Arthur Conan Doyle, The Muppet Show
21 Jun 2024
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Holmes and Watson are invited to an evening at the theater - only to find themselves guests at an unexpected celebration with an even more unexpected mystery behind it, and an even more unlikely performance as its featured climax.
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A Strange Correspondence by Gray Cardinal (Gray_Cardinal) for coralysendria
Fandoms: Doctor Strange (Movies), Marvel Cinematic Universe, Elementary (TV)
27 Apr 2024
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Sometimes, even a Master of the Mystic Arts needs to call on others for assistance.
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It may be more accurate to say that what follows was inspired by its title than it is to say that I wrote it for the "Insert Title Here" challenge. Then again, it may also be more accurate to say that this was written in collaboration with my dream-self. Or to put it another way...
This is my brain on dreams.
Confused yet? Not to worry - so am I.
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Ladies Who Lunch by Gray Cardinal (Gray_Cardinal) for OhIamslain
Fandoms: Jackie Chan Adventures
17 Dec 2023
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Seattle's Pike Place Market is notable for a great many things, not least of them a certain giant bronze piggy bank named Rachel. So why is there a yakuza following the small girl who's admiring Rachel...and what are two of the most dangerous women on the West Coast going to do about it?
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A Problem of Trust by Gray Cardinal (Gray_Cardinal)
Fandoms: Sherlock Holmes - Arthur Conan Doyle
25 Nov 2023
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The astute reader may wonder why neither Watson nor his literary agent were ever brought to court by Professor Moriarty or his relations. The truly serious reader is likely to to ask the more intriguing question: given the sterling public reputation ascribed to the professor, and the care which Moriarty took to protect it, why would he, his heirs, or his business associates not take legal action against Watson and Conan Doyle?
Some few of those devoted to the close study of Watson’s writings have deduced the answer. Insofar as I am aware, however, no one has ever satisfactorily explained who – or why – someone might have chosen to invent Moriarty in the first place.
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As Lucky Can Be by Gray Cardinal (Gray_Cardinal) for sinkauli
Fandoms: Murder She Wrote, Mary Poppins (Movies)
19 Aug 2023
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Some career decisions are more life-changing than others....
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New Plan by Gray Cardinal (Gray_Cardinal)
Fandoms: Austin & Murry-O'Keefe Families - Madeleine L'Engle, The Muppets - All Media Types
07 Jul 2023
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In plain language, he was a Muppet. Except, of course, where there are Muppets one usually expects Muppeteers, and the Dr. Honeydew who’d just hopped off a stool behind a cluttered laboratory table to greet us landed on two perfectly ordinary feet (if you can use “ordinary” to describe plush feet wearing black rubber-soled sneakers) with no sticks, strings, or other Muppet manipulators in sight.
“I should advise you,” the scientist said in a mild, apologetic voice, “that this is a secure area, and anyone attempting to enter secure areas here at Q-36 is subject to potential shrinking, rabbitizing, multiplication, spectrographic diffusion, gravitational flux…”
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- Part 2 of Stars In Their Courses