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Cloned Governor KA3-5555555 of the Blue-hat Cat colony ‘Curiosity’ is in trouble. The crops are struggling, the population is stagnant, and communication with home is at an all-time low on account of the nearby galactic GELF civil war nearing its conclusion ‘any day now’ and a government that seems more interested in self-congratulation than actually helping those posted in the outskirts of their glorious empire.
Still, short of Cloister himself showing up uninvited; he might just about turn this dustbowl around.
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Still recovering from their time impression in floor 13, the crew take a small break from their attempts to use Wildfire’s jump drive to get Kochanski home to check out a nearby terraformed planet populated by a small settlement of Cats.
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- Part 2 of Nanobotti Manicotti
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everybody's got a plan until you're punched in the face by notAleks, Sherb42
Fandoms: Project Hail Mary - Andy Weir
16 Aug 2023
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“Worry about him later,” Yáo ordered, “for now, make the farm. We can’t let both missions fail because we got distracted."
The 3-person crew of the Hail Mary are headed back home to Earth, Taumeoba in hand.
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The Fantastical Jonathan Kent by Sherb42
Fandoms: Superman - All Media Types, Superman: Son of Kal-El, Superman & Lois (TV 2021)
20 Apr 2022
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Impossibly tenacious (and powerless) Jonathan Kent moves to the big city after spending time out of commission in the hopes to try and repair his relationship with his estranged fraternal twin, Jordan, who has recently taken up the mantle of the next Superman.
Deep underground and forgotten by time, powerful ‘locust’ nanobots once created to destroy biological remnants leftover from failed Superman clones have been unearthed by pure chance (and a big drill), and will stop and nothing to destroy any Kryptonian DNA out there. At the same time as all of this is going down, Jon has a job interview for a position up at Lexcourp.
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With an engineering fault trapping civilians on board an aeroplane attached to a launching space shuttle, a mysterious ship straying close to a cosmic fault line and sending out a distress signal only old computers can read, an underwater resort sunken with people slowly suffocating within, and an earthquake trapping people under a mountain landslide, it was safe to say that international rescue were having a bit of a busy day.
Oh, and Alan Tracy has just been expelled from school. Oh boy.
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- Part 1 of Thunderbirds: Supercharged
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The Disappearance of James T Kirk by Sherb42
Fandoms: Star Trek, Star Trek: The Original Series, Star Trek: Alternate Original Series (Movies), Star Trek: Discovery
07 Jun 2021
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It’s July of 1969 and the entirety of the USA seemed to have space fever. That is, however, aside from James T Kirk, a very recent military school dropout who’s come back to his hometown to try and sort himself back out. When he encounters a wounded alien who’s crash-landed in the middle of a neighbouring farm, it’s a race against the clock, the US government, and the alien’s rapidly deteriorating health, to try and bring him back home.
Oh, and also their growing feelings for each other, but that's quite low on their shared priority list among the chaos of everything else.
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A story told in part by two people who really should be doing something better with their time than hosting a conspiracy-based podcast episode on Kirk’s mysterious, possibly alien-related, disappearance.
[This is a work in progress, any comments, critiques, and other such interactions would be greatly appreciated.]
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Back to Reality by Sherb42
Fandom: Star Trek, Star Trek: Alternate Original Series (Movies), Star Trek: The Original Series
09 Nov 2020
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The misadventures of an understaffed Federation ship as they move cargo, people, and other oddities around the universe and deal with whatever problems-of-the-week that come up while doing so. All oc crew with some oc species, set from 2415 onwards.
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When Spock wakes up the morning after a drunken sexual encounter to find that Kirk has no memory of it, he stays silent, afraid of risking their friendship. But the decision not to tell Kirk becomes more complicated when he discovers he is pregnant.
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02 Oct 2025
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Another series of Red Dwarf one shots. This year's prompt list by me, inspired by an idea by Tumblr user @a-literal-toaster-wtf.
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(Find my contributions to Smegtober 2023 here.)
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19 Aug 2025
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Eridians are pretty resilient, but their cells are even more susceptible to radiation than humans’ are. I’d imagine that even though he spent most of his time around the fuel tanks and thus was shielded most of the time, Rocky still didn’t come away from his 50 or so years in space totally unscathed.
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16 Apr 2025
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From Pacifica, With Love by pastelplastic
Fandoms: Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons, Stingray (UK TV)
09 Aug 2024
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About two weeks after the Pacificans arrive on Cloudbase, Scarlet passes by Captains Cerulean and Turquoise in the hall. He is leaving the Control Room, and they are walking towards it. Ochre’s right, the two women are beautiful, with their enormous silver eyes. They give him closed-lipped smiles as they pass and he nods congenially.
Then he hears the words.
Isn’t that the one they told us about? The one that doesn’t die?
He hears the words, despite the silence.
I think you’re right. This is a different voice. Still feminine, but different. Poor thing.
Poor thing, agrees the first voice.
Scarlet stops short and looks back over his shoulder. Cerulean does the same. Their eyes meet. She grabs Turquoise by the arm.
I think he can hear us, she says.
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30 Jan 2025
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Captain Scarlet sleeps like an asshole by MeowtantAuthor for bogusbyron
Fandoms: Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons, Captain Scarlet - All Media Types
31 Oct 2024
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Inspired by the amazing "In a Chilly Farmhouse" By BogusByron, which I read, adored and then had crackhead thoughts about the whole “there was only one bed” trope
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30 Jan 2025