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When James unexpectedly receives a wedding invitation from his ex-girlfriend, he’s torn. He doesn’t want to decline the invite in case it seems like he still cares, but he also can’t face going alone. Erin offers a solution: she’ll pose as his new girlfriend for the weekend.
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Erin is fresh out of a long-term relationship and crashing at Michelle’s. James returns to Derry just in time for a chaotic reunion, only to find himself catching old feelings at the worst possible moment. Erin tries to bounce back, James tries not to get in too deep and Michelle tries to solve everything with tequila and unsolicited advice about riding.
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When Erin was 16, she tried to stop James from hooking up with Katya at a Jenny Joyce party. Now they’re 25, somehow at another Jenny Joyce party, and she’s at it again. Only this time, the girl is called Katie and the stakes feel weirdly higher.
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With Love, From Derry by honeyfluxx
Fandoms: Conclave (2024), Conclave - Robert Harris, Derry Girls (TV)
11 Jul 2025
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A few decades after graduating from Our Lady Immaculate College, the Derry Girls take a trip to the Vatican City to visit Erin's little sister Anna, who works as an archivist in the Vatican archives.
After arriving, however, their vacation plans are interrupted as news of the pope's death breaks, and preparations are underway for the coming conclave.
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The fourth instalment in my Derry Girls series. Now approaching the post canon content. The girls embark on life after Our Lady Immaculate College, just before and following the Good Friday Agreement finale
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- Part 4 of Derry Girls: A new arrival
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[pride month ficlet 2025 #2] It's Clare's eighteenth birthday, and Michelle generously takes it upon herself to provide her with a little pre-university sex education (granny pants and nosebleeds notwithstanding).
(Set after the second-to-last episode of Season 3, b/c I do headcanon that Erin and Orla are the babies of the group.)
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June of Doom 2025 by alechardys
Fandoms: Doctor Who (2005), Back to the Future (Movies), Stranger Things (TV 2016), Peaky Blinders (TV), Downton Abbey, Derry Girls (TV)
18 Jun 2025
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Thirty days. Thirty stories. A collection of short ficlets I want to write for the June of Doom prompt challenge.
1. Tenth Doctor & Donna Noble
2. Marty McFly & Emmett Brown
3. Steve Harrington
4. Tommy Shelby & Ada Shelby
5. Sybil Crawley/Gwen Dawson
6. Thomas Barrow
7. Claire Devlin & James Maguire
8. Tenth Doctor/The Master (Simm)
9. Einstein the Dog
10. Thirteenth Doctor/Yasmin Khan
11. Robin Buckley/Nancy Wheeler
12. Thomas Barrow & Anna Bates
13. Max Mayfield/Lucas Sinclair
14. Tom Branson/Sybil Crawley
15. Orla McCool*ON HOLD UNTIL I DECIDE TO WRITE ONE-SHOTS AGAIN*
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“Ears are important.”
“Your ears stick out.”
“I know. That’s why I’m getting them pierced again, once I’m eighteen and Granda won’t pitch a fit. I’ll hide them somehow.”
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Erin Quinn loses a lot of things over the course of her life — her back teeth, her Doc Martens, her car keys, and maybe, just maybe, her mind. Somewhere between the dentist’s chair and the quiet seat in Foyle’s, everything starts to unravel. A missing scene turned sideways — and then forward.
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“I will not be taking that chance. We nearly got attacked by Travelers and then hitched a ride with someone who I’m still not entirely sure wasn’t a serial killer. Never mind the escaped polar bear,” Erin recalled, her gaze now very distant as she was transported to all the potential dangers their gang had faced before, colored a lot differently when she thought about the same happening to her Matilda.
Matilda blinked. She was always a bit confused whenever a bit of lore came out about her parents' younger days. She could never quite decide if it all happened as her Ma remembered it so.
“… I can’t imagine that is an experience that would happen a second time Mammy,” she said.
__________James and Erin have had a lot of adventures (and misadventures) over the years and now their daughter Matilda starts to have her own.
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James receives some bad news which leads to a butterfly effect of events.
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Next April’s the 10th anniversary of the Good Friday Agreement and I want to do a short documentary about Northern Ireland. Nothing huge, just a retrospective over the past 10 years with a personal angle.
And I want you to write the script.
__________Eight years after an ill-fated summer romance, 27 year old James and Erin make a film.
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- Part 3 of Maybe Someday
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you fancy you're a rebel so let me hear you shout by royalsampaguita
Fandoms: Derry Girls (TV)
03 Apr 2025
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He wondered what a sight it would be, him kneeling in front of Orla, one hand resting gently on the hem of hir skirt, the other being held steadfast by James. Orla looked like an avenging angel, in his opinion, as the lights from the ceiling and from the early evening sun outside the door caught hir hair and spanned out in a halo. Blood on hir hands and the beginnings of a stain on hir skirt where his hand was. The fierceness, the protectiveness, the passion in hir eyes as xe bent over to look at him. James genuflecting next to him, one hand gripping his, the other running through his hair, subtly gripping at his curls. Both of them, on the ground in deference to this, this, this Otherworldly Being in front of them. Supplicants at the base of Heaven.
Oh, to be so close and not get burned…
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- Part 1 of there's a rat in my wall
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Chelsea’s Weekend In Derry by MadWheelerShipper28 for Sitcom_Fan
Fandoms: Derry Girls (TV), Real Person Fiction, Political RPF - UK 20th-21st c., Political RPF - US 20th c.
02 Apr 2025
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AUS2E6. What if Chelsea Clinton had gotten the girls & James’s letter, what if she decided to take a risk for once? Chelsea decides to sneak out & meet up with our girls & James to spend a weekend in Derry; avoiding the secret service as she seeks to be a regular teenage girl to enjoy all the experiences & emotions that come with it, even if only for a short while.
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Set when the girls are all adults, go through the months as they build their families. Shown through both their hangouts and spotlights on certain girls. What I imagine they would do after the show ended and university.
Clare is a teacher at Our Lady Immaculate. Orla is a host on the local radio show which is the perfect job for her. Erin and James work and live in London but they are back for a visit. Michelle works at a bar in Derry and has recently gotten engaged to her boyfriend, Patrick. He is the calm to her chaos. -
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James waits for Erin, just like he promised.
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you say you can’t stay (but, god, i wish there was a way) by royalsampaguita
Fandoms: Derry Girls (TV)
12 Mar 2025
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“I can’t believe you’ve had that,” Clare blinked rapidly, trying to make sense of it.
“Well, Clare,” Michelle flicked her curly ponytail back over her shoulder. “Some of us are just born to experience life faster and better than others. One day, I’m sure you’ll all get there.”
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- Part 24 of 76 Kisses to Valentine's Day
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Basically a what if scenario if the pilot took the wrong route and landed them in Derry instead of Seattle.
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A Derry Girls fanfiction set immediately after the events of Season 3.
As Michelle Mallon and her friends finish their last few months of school, she finds herself caught between the wild recklessness of youth and the weight of impending adulthood. A chance meeting at a student party leads her to Flynn, a charming but complicated bartender with a past more entangled with hers than she could ever imagine.
What begins as a thrill—a secret romance, late-night drives, and stolen moments—quickly spirals into something Michelle isn’t prepared for. When an unplanned pregnancy threatens to upend everything, Michelle is forced to navigate love, loss, and the harsh reality of growing up in a world that isn’t always kind to girls like her.
Told from Michelle’s perspective, this story explores the friendships, struggles, and tough choices that shape her journey, all set against the backdrop of 1990s Derry, where the past lingers, the future looms, and nothing ever goes quite to plan.
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Erin achieved everything she wanted, or at least, everything she thought she wanted. But all that she left behind for this seemed to be haunting her. Her family, her friends, and him. So she takes a trip to Derry, and down memory lane, and begins again.