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Loss Assessor by alden for Evil_Sapphyre
Fandoms: Mass Effect Trilogy, Mass Effect - All Media Types
24 Mar 2025
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After C-SEC carted Udina off the Presidium in a body bag, Kaidan Alenko swallowed his nerves and his pride, and asked to rejoin the Normandy. Shepard— his one-time mentor, one-time idol, one-time friend— smiled, refused, and left.
Alone in a bar in the bowels of the wards, caught between loyalty and reason, Kaidan agonizes over his past choices.
Miranda Lawson could empathize. But she won’t.
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“Chakwas said it wouldn’t be a full-strength heat cycle, but I’m still leaking pheromones all over the place. Bumping into an Alpha at the wrong time could make things messy. I’d rather just... keep to myself for a while, if it’s not going to be a problem for the team.”
Shepard stilled. “Define ‘a while.’”
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The Returners slowly stitch the pieces of their broken world back together, economically, politically, ecologically— but spells and swords don't make one fit for public office.
A late winter afternoon. Setzer flies Terra back home, and thinks about his career.
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New Game by alden
Fandoms: Mass Effect, Mass Effect Trilogy, Mass Effect - All Media Types
07 Nov 2023
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She'd woken up in an unrecognizable galaxy, jammed together from spare parts, a Cerberus logo stamped on her ass. She'd been handed a beautiful, expensive, top-of-the-line mockery of her old ship, crewed by beautiful, expensive, top-of-the-line terrorists.
The Alliance wanted her to shut up and go back to being conveniently dead. Kaidan, it seemed, felt the same way. Anderson was the only family she'd ever had, and he wouldn't even answer her emails.
And either Shepard's sanity had splintered under the stress, or she was now some kind of unkillable demigod. Or both.
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Dry Harvest in a Small Season by alden for ginbiscuit (gin_tonic)
Fandoms: Mass Effect Trilogy, Mass Effect 3 - Fandom, Mass Effect - All Media Types
11 Feb 2022
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Shepard ground her teeth and watched Garrus lever open another barrel. She got it. She really, really did. It didn't make it any easier. Especially not when James was there twenty meters off, kicking up dust in a sullen, angry cloud, expressing with a twist of his mouth and a contemptuous flip-snap of his omni-blade all the things she wished she could say herself.
Garrus was calm and steady as a sunrise, and James Vega itched like a scab, and that was why she brought them both down here to this shitty moon today, because she knew herself well enough to know that she was losing it.
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In the thick of the Reaper war, as planets melt under their combined might, Shepard takes her most and least experienced squadmates out to hunt for a morale boost.
A belated gift for Ginbiscuit for Holiday Harbinger 2021 :)
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vanishing point by niim
Fandoms: 地縛少年花子くん | Jibaku Shounen Hanako-kun | Toilet-bound Hanako-kun (Manga)
31 Oct 2021
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There past the bushes, a cigarette in his hand and a body at his feet, is a man. He’s young: maybe early or mid-twenties, with a sharp, boyish face and a shock of black hair. Draped in brambles and nighttime, he’s like an old painting or low-quality photograph, vivid and indiscernible all at once, smudged out into nothing in the corners.
And he’s looking at her.
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A serendipitous meeting with a stranger alleviates a certain problem of Nene’s. Things only get worse from there.
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- Part 4 of JSHK Spooktober 2021
Bookmarked by alden
23 Sep 2025
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Grounded by Margo_Kim
Fandoms: The Falcon and the Winter Soldier (TV), Marvel Cinematic Universe
27 Jun 2021
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Doc asked about writing, I said it's going good, she said can I see, I said no it’s a journal it’s private, she said so you haven’t been writing, I said I’ve been writing, she said okay I don’t have to read it just flip through the pages, I didn't say anything, she said that’s what I thought James.
A sporadically maintained journal of wanting to die and not dying anyway, and also how hot it is to move to Louisiana in the summer.Series
- Part 1 of author's favorites
Bookmarked by alden
21 Aug 2025
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How to Mess Up Like a Dummy Because You're a Dummy, Stop Being a Dummy: An Amy Santiago Report by Margo_Kim
Fandoms: Brooklyn Nine-Nine (TV)
20 Feb 2014
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Amy really messed up when she kissed Rosa, and that's a statement with multiple layers of meaning. Good thing Jake's here to make her feel so much dumber. Also maybe to help her work out some feelings. But mostly the first one.
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"What? No we aren't, that's-- oh my god, we're dating Rosa."
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15 Aug 2025
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In fall of 2009 Rosa showed up at Jake's apartment unannounced to propose marriage. Which was weird for a number of reasons, primarily because Jake had no idea she even knew where he lived.
"No seriously," he said, once he stopped laughing. "Why're you here."
She looked at him with a raised eyebrow. "One thousand push-ups."
"Cool," Jake said. "Let me get my coat."
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