under the shadow of death, light endures (MDZS / TGCF)

[firstfairytale]

Title: under the shadow of death, light endures
Author: firstfairytale
Fandom: Mo Dao Zu Shi / Tian Guan Ci Fu
Word Count: 8096
Rating: Teens and Up
Warnings: Violence against monsters but the narration doesn't dwell on that, most characters are undead, kissing between ghosts and fierce corpses
Summary: During their second encounter, Wen Ning gathers the courage to ask Jian Lan permission to court her. Instead of saying no, she issues a seemingly impossible challenge, unaware that the Ghost General is more resourceful and has better connections than any other fierce corpse out there, which leads to an even more complicated quest, now given to them by a god.


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The Cover Charge (Babylon 5)

[kanadka]

Title: The Cover Charge
Author: kanadka
Fandom: Babylon 5
Word Count: 26,058
Rating: Explicit
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Summary: Here's the problem with Minbari. Because they don't want to outright lie, they're accustomed to getting around it in the most marvellous of ways, all of them perfectly honourable despite being genuinely deceitful in action. Some Minbari have a tendency to lie by omission. Others misdirect through facial expression or feigning some tell. Still others go just shy of an actual lie by remaining in the space of nuance, that the listener infers incorrectly through their deliberate ambiguity. Things can mean many things simultaneously; nowhere is this truer but the religious caste. Marcus thought himself well-prepared by the Minbari priesthood for these little Minbari tricks.

He ought to have taken a lesson or two from the warriors, because as it turns out, they can be just as bad.

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In The Night Of Our Despair (Silmarillion)

[ladybrooke]

Title: In The Night Of Our Despair
Author: LadyBrooke
Fandom: The Silmarillion - J.R.R. Tolkien
Word Count: 5301 words
Rating: Teen
Warnings: Canonical Character Death, Illness
Summary:Míriel returned to find Indis weakened by the birth of her youngest son, for she had poured all she had into Finrún after Finwë's death.

There were many meetings and partings from that point, but in the end, their family found its way together again.

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