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A Quality of Mercy by Shirley_Exception
Fandoms: Hollow Knight (Video Games), Hollow Knight: Silksong
26 Jun 2026
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Runt hatched the last of Huntress's brood: small, weak, and destined to die in the harsh wilds of Pharloom without the support of the brood. That's just how the world works, nature red in tooth and claw. But sometimes, a completely different world reaches out a helping claw. A foreign stranger introduces the little hunter to another way to live, where "I" is not weak without "us," and people have more to offer than the strength of their shell alone.
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Decades after the defeat of the Radiance, the Abyss is at peace and the rebuilding of Hallownest has ushered in a new era of stability, one free of divine machinations. Until Hornet is taken. The Hollow Knight mounts a rescue only to find their efforts unnecessary and not entirely welcome. They just want to go home. Too bad there's a pesky little apocalypse standing in their way, and a wild Pharloom bug intent on treating them like some sort of... role model.
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You’ve been repeating the same thing over and over for years at this point. Go in, fight for your life— sometimes you reach the crystal, sometimes you don’t, but it always ends with you back in the submarine.
All it takes is the intervention of an outside force for that routine to suddenly change.
Title from “Won’t be slain here” by Muscislide
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Bookmarked by Shirley_Exception
19 Jun 2026
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Sometimes I'd forget
Rocky has been stranded, alone and light years away from home for 46 years. For a long time it seemed like nothing would ever change. But a new arrival in Tau Ceti system is about to alter the course of history; For Rocky, for Erid, and for another world far, far away.
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Beta read by chez_levi! Thank you for your notes, and curse you for your implications about metaphors
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Bookmarked by Shirley_Exception
07 Jun 2026
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Enrichment by alatarmaia4
Fandoms: Project Hail Mary - Andy Weir, Project Hail Mary (2026)
02 Apr 2026
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The Eridians have finally gotten the water feature in Ryland's personal zoo enclosure just right (even if Rocky would like him to stop calling his dome that).
Rocky refuses to believe that humans naturally float. There is no way Ryland's entire species regularly goes into deep water for fun.
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Bookmarked by Shirley_Exception
03 Jun 2026
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" 'Many who had fallen comatose with the infection are waking up, seeming healthy and whole.'
The king dismissed the courier, and began the process of ordering further studies."
Some unknown force has resulted in the disappearance of the Radiance, just before the infection could reach its peak under the Pale King's rule. The mystery soon takes a back-burner to a rearranged custody agreement over Herrah's brood, some clumsy attempts to re-establish marital trust, and some long overdue re-evaluations of the Pure Vessel. The king will send his newly unusable creation to train under the Great Knights, and become their sixth.
Court intrigue, sibling bonding, goddess hunting, different brands of motherhood, and accidental arson are abound.
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- Part 1 of Royal Nonsense
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Bookmarked by Shirley_Exception
14 Apr 2026
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"And I have, perhaps, exhibited a display of dramatics un-befitting of royalty."
"What is nobility, if not partly a lifelong show of hysterics over imagined regulations?" -
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It has always been more, more than what was asked of it, more than what was ever needed. Faster. Stronger. Perfect. Pure.
And now, when it is inches away from what it was made for, when the title many have already begun to whisper is a breath away from truth, it has failed.~
Just prior to being knighted, the Pure Vessel receives its armor—and, for the first time, reaches its limits.
Or: the Pale King sees an opportunity to make the Pure Vessel stronger by giving them the magical equivalent of cyborg implants. This does not go well.Bookmarked by Shirley_Exception
12 Apr 2026