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When the eggs didn't come back, the world didn’t end. The sun rose and set the same as it always did, though it was certainly a little less bright in their absence.
But that was a long time ago. And the world is ending now, for real this time.
Or, It's time for the two remaining immortals to leave Quesadilla Island.
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Our New North Star by CrypticSymbol
Fandoms: Spider-Man - All Media Types, Deadpool - All Media Types
22 Dec 2022
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Peter Parker is dealing with the loss of Wade Wilson pretty badly- his malevolent Parker Luck having a hand in killing the only un-killable person on the planet. It’s safer for all his loved ones if they think he’s gone too. He’s fine. It’s all fine. But his quiet, lonely life is up-ended when the strange dreams start and this new ‘Deadpool’ appears, claiming to be from a different universe and looking for the antidote to his own immortality.
Wade Wilson saved the world, got the guy, got his happy ending and the t-shirt. But that's all over and now he wants off Mr. Bones’ wild ride, thanks. He may have finally found what he’s looking for on Earth-4046, he just has to convince this universe’s reserved, cold Spider-Man to help him find his own killer and get them to do it again.
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stories we’ve heard, and others we tell ourselves by CrypticSymbol
Fandoms: Our Flag Means Death (TV)
02 May 2022
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“One calling card and you come running, is that it?” Izzy had asked, disgust oozing from his voice. Ed noted a hint of disappointment too. He just couldn’t help himself from doing so, it seemed. The renewed adoration that bled out of Izzy just months before had been cauterized.
And it had been more than one calling card, to be fair. Though there was no point in arguing semantics with Izzy Hands.
The previous mysterious parcels had been trinkets and gifts left waiting for him to find, like the least challenging treasure hunt in the history of piracy, but this last one was different.
or, Jeff the Accountant is invited to a masquerade ball, and sometimes it's easier to talk things through when you're Jeff and he's Godfrey Thornrose.
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approach the asymptote by lizardhands
Fandoms: Project Hail Mary - Andy Weir, Project Hail Mary (2026)
04 Jun 2026
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"There is no point in any of this rumination. You are gone. You are nothing now but a muse, something that I can conjure upon command and listen. You are nothing more now than a lullaby, a prayer, a dissonant, augmented, ugly, beautiful melody."
Rocky and Grace part ways for their respective planets. It should feel like a victory. It doesn't.
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10 Jun 2026
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An alternate first meeting, where Ghost and Soap meet each other in the field under infinitely worse circumstances than either of them would have liked:
Ghost wakes up in a pit under a building with a bomb attached to him, certain he's going to die. Soap, an EOD tech amongst his other specialties, is the only person available to at least try to save him. It should be fraught, and tense, and miserable all around, and it is; a whole lot of Ghost slowly losing his mind while Soap does everything he can to save his life. But it would probably be easier if Ghost wasn't a stress-flirter, and if Soap wasn't the kind of endlessly competent that he loved, and if, by virtue of their situation, they didn't keep ripping open each other's wounds and then patching each other back up again after.
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06 Apr 2026
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He wades in it now, eyes still open, fixed on the speckled ceiling, begging himself not to crave bomb blasts and artillery fire in his childhood bedroom. Although…there might be something beautiful about it all, Johnny supposes, those noises in the thick. The gasps in between discharge that say: I’m here, I’m a part of this song too.
After a near-fatal injury, John MacTavish finds himself back in his hometown in Scotland. Fresh off an untimely discharge, he's forced to cope with disability, his dysfunctional family, and the lingering knowledge that there are some things he's just not ready to leave behind...
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14 Mar 2026
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How do you tell a dog from an SAS sergeant?
Soap's been trying to think of a punchline, but so far, all he's got is a dog’s gotta shit in the woods and bury it slightly more often than an SAS Sergeant.
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26 Feb 2026
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Ghost lets himself be pulled up slightly, his hand just as steady on Soap's thigh. "That what you need, Johnny?" he asks, licking his lips behind the balaclava. Soap’s eyes drop to his mouth, flick back up. "You wanna draw blood? Be in control?"
"Lt–" Soap starts, lips parted on a rough exhale. A plea or a warning, Ghost can't tell. He's too focused on the way Soap's pupils dilate, and the way the edge of the knife digs into the fabric at his throat.
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When Graves rears his head not ten days after Las Almas Ghost starts questioning Soap's loyalty, and with it whatever's left of his own sanity.
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26 Feb 2026