Cult Deprogramming
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Gamzee Makara needn't have been. Either as he was, or at all. An exploration of a potential recovery arc post-retcon.
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Rotten Oranges by Quillamore for PatchworkPoltergeist
Fandoms: My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic
27 Aug 2020
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Valencia Orange, former business magnate and heiress to the Orange fortune, is an absolute wreck. Her prominent husband has divorced her, her reputation has fallen into ruin, and she still can't bring herself to get over the trauma her creepy aristocratic cult of a family inflicted on her. Out of options, she finds herself staying with Coco and the rest of the Pommel family, but everything changes when she mistakenly confesses her darkest secret to one of them. They're about to find out just how rotten Valencia can really get, and to her immense surprise...they accept her anyway?!
A "director's cut" story set in the If You Give a Little Love universe that fully explores the psychological implications of being in an incredibly creepy, incredibly sheltered aristocratic family that can be every bit as convoluted as an IRL royal family. This was based off a concept that did not make it into the fic proper due to some controversial topics it addressed. As such, reading it is completely optional, and you can choose to take it as IYGALL canon or just a deleted scene.
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- Part 2 of If You Give a Little Love
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Fault Lines by howlingshame
Fandoms: Star Wars Sequel Trilogy, Star Wars - All Media Types
23 Jan 2022
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Ben Solo is a cult deprogrammer down on his luck hired to abduct and deprogram Armitage Hux and convince him to leave his doomsday cult and come home. Despite the oddity of the request, Ben accepts. Ben takes Hux to an isolated location and goes to work chipping away at his defenses, although Hux isn't anything like he thought. Hux is self-possessed, confident, and consistently undercuts Ben at every turn, making him start to doubt his own beliefs. As things get stranger, Ben tries to stay on track and keep from getting sucked into Hux's world.
Essentially: Ben is hired to deprogram secret cult leader Hux, but Hux ends up indoctrinating him instead.
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There are words that get stuck in this throat, memories that ache at the touch like an old wound, thoughts he would never admit to having. It would have all stayed hidden behind the curtain and off the stage, if he had any say in it. But he doesn’t have a say. Because they’ve always been in control.
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Character Study for Daken Akihiro where I fill in a lot of blanks left in his backstory, (based on one-off lines, certain things writers have implied, generally accepted fanon, and my own apologetics for incongruences in canon). Exploration of evil and of healing.Content warnings will be given by chapter, it is not Dead Dove but it does deal with some heavy subject matter, so please be cautious.
((Hiatus while i literally rewrite everything because i hate this now))
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don't stop if I fall and don't look back by ShastaFirecracker
Fandoms: Trigun (Anime & Manga 1995-2008)
05 Mar 2023
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"Did you see this? They're making a lake!"
"Hm?"
"We should go."Nicholas Wolfwood has complicated feelings about dying to save the world and then waking up to find that world constantly changing around him.
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- Part 5 of VWL OT3
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“'Do you feel any sort of shame? Remorse?'
Landry stared directly through Nacht.
He had no clue what those words meant."In which Landry allows his rage to win, just this once.
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The first excerpt of a much larger project.
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There are unsavoury rumours about the Tyler Twins but Asuka doesn't pay them any mind as she finds herself crushing on Grace.
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- Part 6 of Femslash Friday
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in the depths of winter; an invincible summer by edelgarfield
Fandoms: Baldur's Gate (Video Games)
26 Dec 2023
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How do you grieve a life you can't remember? How do you ache for something you've never known? You watch the course of grief on your allies' faces as they reconcile everything they've lost, and everything they've gained in turn.
Beneath the dark shadows cast by the Lady of Loss, you learn what it means to grieve. Only then, can you find the strength to move forward. In the darkest shadows, you find a beacon of light.
You leap into Karlach’s arms nearly before she’s even turned to face you.
“Careful, soldier!” Karlach laughs into your ear, voice wet. “You’ll get burned!”
You burrow your face into the warmth of Karlach’s neck. “You’re worth burning for.”
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- Part 4 of cardinal, sunrise, morning star
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A collection of moments where Cammy was there for her many siblings. Whether it's protecting George from bullies, taking Decapre to the library, helping Noembelu with her vegetable garden, or literally carrying Marz through jungle foliage to safety, she has done her best to do right by her siblings (both blood and adopted).
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Told Me You Could Fix It With Salt by RosebudBasilton
Fandoms: All For The Game - Nora Sakavic
16 May 2024
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AU in which Thea was still in the Ravens when everything fell apart and she gets a chance to go back to normal. Title from Salt by Teen Jesus and the Jean Teasers.
if u read the first version of this chapter, no u didn't <3
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Two years after escaping the Bhaalist cult she was born into, Tav has built herself a new, peaceful, happy life. But a car accident on Baldur’s Gate’s biggest highway shatters her sense of safety and of self. She and the other survivors are forced to grapple with wounds old and new and soon, love and friendship begin to bloom where they least expect them.
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Let Me Crash by cowboy_emoji
Fandoms: Trigun Stampede (Anime 2023), Trigun (Anime & Manga 1995-2008)
22 Mar 2025
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Nicholas had wondered many times in his life if there was something fundamentally wrong with him. It took about a year after leaving the orphanage for him to decide that there was. Not because he was a murderer or a freak science experiment, but because he couldn’t stop himself from making his own life harder than it needed to be.
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Wolfwood's first solo assassination. What kind of person is he when no one is watching?
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Your Guilt is Not Your Own by BruisingandBeautiful (FollowerofMercy)
Fandoms: 崩坏：星穹铁道 | Honkai: Star Rail (Video Game)
31 Mar 2025
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Professional irritant and hedonistic trash goblin Stelle propositions Sunday, hoping to uncork 2.5 decades of sexual repression to get to know him better. Unfortunately his issues run much deeper than simple prudishness.
Or, the story of a cult’s sacrificial lamb realizing that some things weren’t his fault and finding comfort in a friend.
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In a hidden, authoritarian city called Homeworld, a brutal regime led by three powerful women known only as White, Yellow, and Blue Diamond.
In Homeworld, there is White Pearl, a young 23-year-old woman who has known no life outside of submission. Taken as a child and raised in near-total isolation under White Diamond, she has endured the trauma of being loved, used, and worshipped in equal measure. Alongside her were Blue and Yellow Pearl, her closest companions, more like sisters than friends.
But everything changes when Garnet, a 25-year-old fighter bred in the pits of Homeworld, makes a snap decision: she breaks rank, kidnaps White Pearl during a chaotic escape, and flees with her found family—Ruby, her retired fighter mother; Sapphire, her calm and clairvoyant doctor mother; Rose, an ethereal rebel with dreams of a normal life; and a young Amethyst, who has no past or future in Homeworld. Pearl is stunned, grieving, and confused. She clings to what she was taught: men are unclean, women are divine, and Diamonds are everything.
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Uriel (POV) is utterly devoted to his Creator, until Lucifer returns from the dark at the edge of His light to pull him away to a place that asks nothing of him, where he can rest his burning wings and do some good old-fashioned self discovery.
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