Vorpal_Sword
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money or music by Vorpal_Sword
Fandoms: Leverage (US TV 2008), His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman
02 Nov 2025
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Tara Cole owes Sophie too much to give anything other than her absolute best to filling Sophie's spot on the team. But how can a fox ever work with a bloodhound?
Or, The Runway Job, with daemons.
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- Part 12 of the soft animal of your body
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several ways of looking at a daemon by Vorpal_Sword
Fandoms: Leverage (US TV 2008), His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman
30 Oct 2025
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In a world where everyone is accompanied by an animal-shaped extension of their own soul, people develop a lot of different ways of interacting and thinking about each other. This is a bit of meta/background description of how the Leverage team thinks about and interacts with other people's daemons.
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- Part 11 of the soft animal of your body
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now that you're choosing this by Vorpal_Sword
Fandoms: Leverage, His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman
27 Jun 2024
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Before Bering Aerospace, before Leverage, each member of the team shocked and, sometimes, devastated, their loved ones by abandoning the path laid out for them in favor of the road that would eventually lead them to each other. Except for Parker. Until Leverage, no one cared about Parker enough to be shocked or devastated by her choices. She did manage to surprise Archie a time or two, though.
These are those stories.
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- Part 7 of the soft animal of your body
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When Hardison learns that neither Eliot nor Parker has been to Disney, he is determined to plan the Greatest Trip Ever. Disney may not be ready for this queer neurodiverse chaotic-good trio, but if Alec Hardison has anything to say about it, they will be ready for Disney.
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Call It Good by Vorpal_Sword
Fandoms: Good Omens - Neil Gaiman & Terry Pratchett, Good Omens (TV)
24 Jan 2023
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When bookshop owner Esther Fell invited mysterious author AJ Crowley to give a talk on her new novel, Call It Good, she hoped for a chance to meet an author she admired and to sell some books.
When Crowley sent off a caustic response to the bookseller, she hoped to have the invitation rescinded to get her publisher off her back so she could go back to grading papers, yelling at her plants, and glaring at the rough draft of her next book.
Neither expected it to blossom into a lively correspondence, nor to find a new friend...or maybe more.
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the soft animal of your body by Vorpal_Sword
Fandom: His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman, Leverage, Leverage (US TV 2008)
02 Nov 2025
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Leverage Daemon AU.
Title from Wild Geese, by Mary Oliver:
You do not have to be good.
You do not have to walk on your knees
for a hundred miles through the desert, repenting.
You only have to let the soft animal of your body
love what it loves.- Words:
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During and after the events of The Goblin Emperor, Csethiro and Csevet's relationships with Maia and with each other develop.
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04 Nov 2025
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Absolution by Miles_2_Go
Fandoms: Batman: Under the Red Hood (2010), Batman - All Media Types, Batman (Comics), Red Robin (Comics)
13 Jul 2023
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Batman is dead and Damian has taken his place. Damian, who spit on Tim when he was alive, when they were supposed to be brothers. Damian al Ghul who shares blood with Tim's former Master, his kidnapper, his torturer. Damian, who doesn't deserve to stand in their father's shoes. Damian, who treats the new Robin like the little brother Tim always wanted to be to him. Back then. Before.
And Tim has some things to say about all that.
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"Damian?" Tim chokes out. And it is. Damian is crouching in front of him. Older, bigger, wearing Bruce's suit, but his face is bare and his brow is knit in concern.But he has his grandfather's eyes and all Tim can see is Ra's between blinks.
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- Part 1 of Absolution
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- 10/10
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21 Oct 2025
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Damian is Nightwing.
Tim is the Red Hood.
Jason is Robin.
Dick is a ball of sunshine whose brothers love him very, very much.- Language:
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- 5/5
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21 Oct 2025
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Wings over Gotham by icarus_chained
Fandom: Aquaman (Comics), Batman (Comics), Batman - All Media Types, DCU, DCU (Comics), Green Lantern - All Media Types, Justice League - All Media Types, Martian Manhunter (Comics), Nightwing (Comics), Superman - All Media Types, Teen Titans - All Media Types, Wonder Woman - All Media Types
05 Sep 2025
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“Eighteen years ago, an earthquake ripped through Gotham City, and in the aftermath, instead of helping, the US government sealed the city under a ‘quarantine’ and left them to die. Two years later, when signs of life and even civilisation were still detectable inside the shattered city, the government sent the military in to reclaim and rehabilitate Gotham. Gotham has not forgotten, and they have not forgiven either.”
An AU where an altered version of No Man’s Land happened while Bruce was in his late teens/early twenties, and Batman was born in the hellish crucible of a trapped city that was left for dead and then violently retaken. Gotham may pretend to run by mainlander rules for the sake of those who would have died otherwise, but under the surface, Bruce, Jim, Leslie, Ivy and Oswald and their pack keep their own council, and look with jaundiced eyes on the mainland.
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10 Oct 2025
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Hope didn’t come from nothing. It died as fast as anything else if it stemmed from nothing. Hope was a thing you built. Step by agonising step.
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Worship the Ashes by meregalaxiesandgods, patentpending
Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender
08 May 2022
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All Azula wants is for things to go back to the way they were – her father on the precipice of conquering the world, her own position secure at his right hand. Now, the only secure thing is her, trapped in a gilded cage in her brother's new Fire Nation. Lonely and adrift, Azula would do anything to make it end, until an unexpected connection rekindles a light she long-thought had burned to ashes. But falling for Suki isn't something Azula can let herself do, especially with the world as they know it threatening to crumble around them.
Or: Azula goes to therapy, has an identity crisis, stops actively trying to kill her brother, makes a few friends, and falls in love along the way.
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- Words:
- 75,328
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26 Sep 2025