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The Split River High Afterlife Support Group by StillTryingToFly
Fandoms: School Spirits (TV)
25 Jan 2024
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The Split River High Afterlife Support Group has been meeting since 1958, even if the two oldest members have been lying to all the others about it from the moment there was anyone else to lie to. I wondered what it was like for them, for all of them, and what better way to explore that than from Janet's point of view.
Also, why did they even bother adding those other three ghosts to the support group if they gave them zero lines and no names?
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Nikandros would eventually come to the conclusion (the same conclusion his parents had reached some fifteen years earlier) that the only saving grace with his Words, was that they were in Veretian and he lived in Akielos where the number of people who could read Veretian was fairly small.
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Part 5(?) of a series. The Apocalypse has been averted and the Commission dealt with, so now its time to deal with all the loose strings of trauma, and oh yeah their thirteen year old brother from the original timeline.
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Four and Seven have been been gone for almost a year but for everyone else, it was just a few hours. Everything is different now and no one has all the pieces. What will happen next?
Part 4 of a series, will not make much sense if you haven't read the others first.Series
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“But I’m--I’m just ordinary, how could I be dangerous?”
Ben gave an involuntary snort at that blatant lie. Ben had been given a front row seat to the Banana Incident of 1999, okay? Vanya had been plenty dangerous even when she had been “just ordinary”.Like most things that went horribly wrong in the Umbrella Academy it wasn’t the actions of one single person that caused everything to go to hell in a hand-basket; it was a group effort. But The Banana Incident of 1999 did start, as many disasters did, with Four.
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How Four and Seven Learn To Love Themselves And Stop The Apocalypse by StillTryingToFly
Fandom The Umbrella Academy (TV)
03 Mar 2020
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A canon divergent AU where Hazel kidnaps both Klaus and Vanya after the fight at the Academy. Featuring torture, sibling bonding, time travel, and love in wartime; this is my self indulgent angst with a happy ending because I like to suffer but don't crush my soul you know?
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People Mark Watney needs to buy a beer by StillTryingToFly
Fandom The Martian (2015), The Martian - All Media Types, The Martian - Andy Weir
17 Jan 2016
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Mark is back on Earth and ready to have drinks with the people who helped save his sorry ass. Told in no particular order and filled with head canons about minor and major characters alike, these are my self-indulgent "missing scences" from both the book and the movie.
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Answers from NASA by StillTryingToFly
Fandom The Martian (2015), The Martian - All Media Types, The Martian - Andy Weir
30 Nov 2015
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Coming out to the Pike's was not the plan for the evening.
It wasn't even in the top 10 list.
And yet, here Shane is, sitting on their living room floor, having fought Rose Landry to get his phone back, and making a Face. He knows he is making a face, he can feel his forehead scrunching and his jaw aching and he can do nothing about it except wait for -
"So who's Lily?!"
Fuck.
This is mostly a series of vignettes focusing on Shane's friendships with Rose, Jackie and Hayden, in that order.
Bookmarked by StillTryingToFly
18 Jun 2026
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And Home Followed With Us by ajsmellslikebooks
Fandoms: Project Hail Mary - Andy Weir, Project Hail Mary (2026)
13 Jun 2026
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Ryland Grace wakes up in space... and he's not alone.
All three members of the Hail Mary wake up en route to the Tau Ceti system. One of them doesn't know who he is. All the answers they need are here for them to find, deep in interstellar space. They just don't know it yet.
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03 Jun 2026
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Message in a Beetle by ConalltheLibrarian
Fandoms: Project Hail Mary - Andy Weir, Project Hail Mary (2026)
30 Apr 2026
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It’s been nearly 27 years since Eva Stratt forced Ryland Grace to board the Hail Mary and sent him off to his death for the greater good of mankind. Meanwhile, Eva and the Project Hail Mary team have been fighting a losing battle against the cooling sun—and their own demons—trying to make sure there were still people to be saved by the time the crew could send a solution home. Right on schedule, the beetles are returning to Earth, hopefully with the answer to saving the world. But Eva has something else to worry about; there’s every possibility Ryland Grace’s last words would be coming home, and all the time in the world couldn’t make her ready to face the consequences of her actions, or what will happen when her colleagues find out what she did to their friend.
It was time to find out if it was worth it for her to sacrifice Grace, and her soul, to save humanity. And to find out if she was ready to face him after all these years…- Language:
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02 Jun 2026
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Operation O Canada, or The Hollander-Rozanov Method of Soft Launching a Marriage by robbinscinquefoil
Fandoms: Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid
01 May 2026
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“Can’t hang out tonight, Hayd. I have plans.”
“Bullshit,” Hayden responds. “You never have plans.”
Objectively, this used to be true. Nowadays Shane has many, many plans, between his nightly plans to look at Ilya’s penis through Skype and his various long-term plans laid out helpfully in his notebook, Canva (For Ilya’s sake. He is a visual learner), and more recently, Excel. Shane loves that excel sheet. He’s colour coded it.
In 2017, Shane Hollander spirals and proposes to his boyfriend of 4 days (or 7 years, or 9 years, or not his boyfriend at all, depending on how you look at it), which leads to a lot of plans, weird theories in the Montreal Voyageur locker room, some Twitter drama, and Ilya Rozanov entering his WAG era.
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- Part 1 of Operation O Canada
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Bookmarked by StillTryingToFly
28 May 2026
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I Keep You Safe by ShutUpGwen
Fandoms: Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid
16 Apr 2026
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How did he let this happen?
Shane's not sure.
One moment, he was on the gym floor not staring at Rozanov's
gorgeoussweaty body. Then Shane was standing up, but his legs were weak for some god forsaken reason and Rozanov was there, just an arm around his waist to keep him upright, and now...Well.
Now Shane's on his knees on the floor of Ilya Rozanov's shower.
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Heated Rivalry, but the boys are forced to have an honest conversation around 8 years earlier than they do in canon.
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- Part 1 of Finding Family
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30 Apr 2026