IncomingAlbatross
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- Gravity Falls (11)
- Doctor Who (10)
- Doctor Who (2005) (6)
- The City Between - W.R. Gingell (6)
- Doctor Who (1963) (5)
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Dreams are strange and double-sided things, when you have a mind like Athelas'.
And regrets like his.
(Includes spoilers for the end of the City Between series. No spoilers for Worlds Behind.)
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So I got kidnapped.
Flaming embarrassing, really, and we won’t get into the hows and whys. The important thing is, I got herded onto a ship about to leave Hobart docks, and ended up locked in a cabin in the middle of the ocean; an iron cabin, and more importantly, one that was flaming well wiped of Between.
I turned on my side in the cot they’d given me, still staring into the dark. “Can’t even dream,” I muttered at it. “I’d be lucky to even get a proper nightmare…”
And then I shut my mouth, because I’d had a thought, and it felt too important to let out into the air.
Alternate POV of "Pet Names" - can be read in either order. Extensive spoilers for City Between! Some spoilers for Worlds Behind as well.
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- Part 2 of all your sums and your pieces
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JinYeong, still relatively fresh from being turned, finds an unfamiliar blue-blood in the house while Hyeong is out. He looks like easy prey.
This judgment leads to stabbings, threats, poorly-made tea, and a ruined shirt. None of which can be blamed on a certain steward, of course, except perhaps for the tea.
(Pre-canon, no real spoilers for the series.)
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It all started when I was at the supermarket to pick up some emergency steak, and walked past a display of school supplies. Those weren’t something I spent much time thinking about, given I hadn’t even been homeschooled for the past four years, but my eye was caught by a pack of shiny, star-shaped stickers. And I got an idea.
A silly idea, you might say. Well, maybe. But it made me grin, and pets need enrichment, don’t they? And even psychos need some positive reinforcement.
So I dropped the sticker pack in with the groceries, checked out, and trotted back home with a sheet of shiny gold stars in my pocket.
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Pet Names by IncomingAlbatross
Fandoms: The City Between - W.R. Gingell, The Worlds Behind - W.R. Gingell
18 Jun 2025
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Pet has a nightmare. Relatedly, Athelas is here.
Turns out that it's a good thing, in a complicated way, that neither of them are quite who they were five years ago.
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- Part 1 of all your sums and your pieces
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all your sums and your pieces by IncomingAlbatross
Fandom: The City Between - W.R. Gingell, The Worlds Behind - W.R. Gingell
21 Aug 2025
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Maybe the Real Mystery was the Father-Son Relationship We Found Along the Way by IncomingAlbatross
Fandom: Gravity Falls
26 Apr 2020
Summary
Stan and Soos, in the ten years between Soos finding the screwdriver and the Mystery Twins' arrival.
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Jack O'Neill's Multiple-Choice Past by IncomingAlbatross
Fandom: Percy Jackson and the Olympians - Rick Riordan, Rise of the Guardians (2012), Stargate SG-1
14 Feb 2018
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We know the rough outlines of Daniel, Sam and Teal'c's childhoods - we've heard about (or actually seen) what happened to all their parents, and know where Daniel and Teal'c, at least, grew up. We've even met Nick and Jacob and Bra'tac and Shan'auc in person. But Jack?
Jack apparently sprang into existence as a full-grown member of the Air Force. Aside from vague suggestions of roots in Minnesota and Chicago, we know nothing earlier than his Black Ops mission in "The Gamekeeper."
So I'm making the most of this hole in canon by filling it with as many cool alternatives as I can think of.
(Each fic is in its own universe, but every one of them should be canon-compliant.)
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The Brigadier tells his daughter a bedtime story
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01 Jul 2025
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sometimes a drink feels like family by Duck_Life
Fandoms: Hunger Games Trilogy - Suzanne Collins, Sunrise On The Reaping - Suzanne Collins
19 Jul 2025
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He already lost Burdock a long time before the mine collapsed. Or Burdock lost him. One of those. Still, it's hard to think of the girl as anything other than his best friend's daughter.
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13 May 2025
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Five years doesn't sound like a lot, until suddenly you’re staring down the barrel of re-living those years, growing up all over again. Luffy, of course, couldn’t give less of a shit, but the rest of the crew have their own opinions on the matter.
Written for the OPBB 2024, with art by Dex.
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20 Aug 2024
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The Benefits of Drinking with Strangers by Cherry_Sundae
Fandoms: One Piece (Anime & Manga)
04 Feb 2024
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It’s a face Law can recognise in his sleep, thing is. Oh, his memory, ever-fallible and ever-cruel, has dulled the details over the years. But when he sees the face again (changed though it may be, paler and hollow-cheeked), in his mind’s eye it snaps once again into perfect clarity. It’s like rereading a passage from a well-loved book – a few sentences in, and you find yourself quoting the rest off by heart.
Or maybe it’s like seeing a ghost.
“Law,” the stranger says, sounding remarkably like he’s also seeing a ghost. Law wonders if he is professionally qualified to diagnose his own psychotic break.
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Also known as: Penguin, Shachi, and Bepo walk into a bar...
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28 Apr 2024
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Singing, When You Don’t Know How to Pray by ghostwriterofthemachine for loosingletters
Fandoms: One Piece
08 Nov 2021
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So why was Luffy so determined to get a musician for his crew?
Or: Song, singing, and shanties on the high seas.
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17 Apr 2024