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Alternate Parallels: Star Trek: The Original Sequences by liquidCitrus
Fandoms: Star Trek: The Original Series
16 Aug 2013
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"My name is James T. Kirk, and I did not graduate first in my class from Starfleet Academy for you to take me for one who could be fooled by reckless use of scientific-sounding words!"
One-shot spoof written in the "rationalist fanfiction" style.
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Jade tries to exploit the alchemy system and runs into unexpected results.
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- Part 2 of Homestuck rationalfics
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Rose begins to discover the nature and origin of sburb.
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- Part 1 of Homestuck rationalfics
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Jojo's Rational Adventure: Cold Summer by SnowSage4444
Fandoms: ジョジョの奇妙な冒険 | JoJo no Kimyou na Bouken | JoJo's Bizarre Adventure
18 Mar 2017
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After his wife died in a carriage crash, George Joestar remarried himself to a bright young author hiding her works under a pen name, and their son grew up with a taste for literature and the strength of mind necessary for a Stand. Then came his research on the Stone Mask, and a world of intriguing new possibilities to exploit. Inspired by HPMOR. Rational!Fic with a Rational!Jonathan.
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- Part 1 of Jojo's Rational Adventure
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17774 by liquidCitrus
Fandoms: 17776: What Football Will Look Like in the Future - Jon Bois
28 Jul 2017
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A few people, by which I mean several million, were not fazed by the practical cosmic speed limit. They left Earth in 3115 and set off towards the void beyond.
And then one day they picked up a transmission.
It was the word "fart", ASCII-encoded, repeated sixteen hundred times.
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In your arms I shall not fear the night by Swimmer963
Fandoms: Valdemar Series - Mercedes Lackey
20 Apr 2018
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This is a rationalfic take on "The Last Herald-Mage", inspired by HPMOR and other works. Accessible regardless of whether you've read the original series. Though far from perfect, the characters are trying to do their best with the information, intelligence, and skills they have. Unfortunately, their enemies are also doing that, and sometimes even reasonable decisions can turn out badly.
[Meta note: this starts out a bit slow, and book 1 is kind of a different genre from the rest. In particular, the rationalist content is fairly subtle at the start, and the effective altruism themes come out a lot more towards the end of book 2 and early book 3. If you’re moderately enjoying book 1 but a little bored, try sticking it out until the end of book 2.]
Ashamed of him, Vanyel's father sends his disappointing son to live with his strict aunt, the Herald-Mage Savil. Although he knows things will change, Vanyel dramatically underestimates just how different his life is about to become. Sparks fly as he discovers both love and magic.
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- Part 1 of A Song for Two Voices
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Help me bear the burdens I have yet by Swimmer963
Fandoms: Valdemar Series - Mercedes Lackey
14 Sep 2018
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[This is part 3 of a series. You *can* start here, especially if you have read Magic's Pawn, but I would recommend starting at the beginning]
War is coming to Valdemar. Herald-Mage Vanyel sees a vision of his future, a destiny that apparently only he can fulfill. He expects to die for his Kingdom, in ten or twenty years, fighting a mysterious dark mage in the north. In the meantime, all he can do is try to put his life back together, learn to be a Herald, and prepare for what's coming, with the support of his aunt Savil and the community of Heralds.
However, it turns out that the future is a lot more complicated than he expected.
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- Part 3 of A Song for Two Voices
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Honor Among Exiles by DwarvenGatorade for Swimmer963
Fandoms: Valdemar Series - Mercedes Lackey
20 Nov 2019
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In the distant past, Leareth happens upon a once-in-his-lifetime opportunity to take over a powerful empire. There’s just one thing standing in his way: an incredibly obnoxious OC.
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- Part 1 of Cracks of Valdemar
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Closer to the Horse by DwarvenGatorade for Swimmer963
Fandoms: Valdemar Series - Mercedes Lackey
03 Jan 2020
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Two Groveborn Companions bicker their way through time (slash meta-time). Rolan tries to keep Valdemar's timeline on the straight and narrow, while Taver seems to believe he's in a crackfic.
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- Part 2 of Cracks of Valdemar
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"Dagger" Is My Middle Name by DwarvenGatorade for WhatWouldEnderDo
Fandoms: Star Wars Sequel Trilogy
19 Jan 2020
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Years before the events of Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker (a movie some have called "the greatest of all time"), a dedicated smith has some explaining to do regarding a certain ludicrously implausible dagger.
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For with you I shall come home again by Swimmer963
Fandoms: Valdemar Series - Mercedes Lackey
23 Jul 2020
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Returning from a year trapped in the ruin of Urtho’s Tower, Herald-Mage Vanyel and King’s Own Dara have some of the answers they sought – secrets of Leareth’s past as Ma’ar, from an outside source. What they don’t have is a final decision, or anywhere near the resources Valdemar would need to mount a war. Vanyel’s next steps involve a number of conversations – with the King and Senior Circle, with his aunt, and of course with Leareth.
Meanwhile, Jisa is growing up fast, and Bard Stefen is on his Journeyman circuit, headed north.
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- Part 9 of A Song for Two Voices
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Truman Burbank doesn't know he lives in a TV show. Can his father's secret book set him free?
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Magic's Prawn by DwarvenGatorade for Swimmer963
Fandoms: Valdemar Series - Mercedes Lackey
12 Jun 2020
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When rational-ish!Vanyel Ashkevron changes his mind at the end of Book 6 and decides to [REDACTED FOR SPOILERS], the story takes a turn for the crack-y.
Walking his own path, Vanyel leaves the Heralds behind, and together with his longtime archenemy/dream-buddy Leareth he hatches a plan to save the world on his own terms. But is Vanyel enough of a main character to deal with how weird it's all going to get?
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- Part 3 of Cracks of Valdemar
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Oathbreakerbreaker by DwarvenGatorade for Swimmer963
Fandoms: Valdemar Series - Mercedes Lackey
31 Jul 2020
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Vanyel wakes up to find that he's been
kidnappedbrought into custody byvicious psychopathall-around standup guy Leareth to betortured to deathheld accountable for his many crimes using the ancient, totally canonical magic of the Oathbreaker ritual.Series
- Part 6 of Cracks of Valdemar
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Anything But An Eternity With Him - Sasori and Orochimaru Go Rogue by PortoDioVilla
Fandoms: Naruto
20 Mar 2021
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Sasori is tasked with supervising Akatsuki's newest recruit, Orochimaru, but they soon find out that they have more in common than they thought. What can two immortal geniuses do with infinite time and the might of the Akatsuki behind them? Who's going to break the news to Deidara? Just how many spare lab coats does Sasori have exactly? Find out in this fic that explores the very essence of the Naruto universe through the shenanigans of two of its weirdest characters.
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Never would I shrink from your embrace by Swimmer963
Fandoms: Valdemar Series - Mercedes Lackey
21 Jan 2021
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Valdemar prepares for a war with Leareth that they have to assume is coming, gathering allies and resources, even as Herald-Mage Vanyel still hopes he can avert the future that his Foresight dream shows, and find a way to avoid repeating Urtho's history.
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- Part 10 of A Song for Two Voices
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There's bookcases on the walls, several populated with books. Math selects one. It describes a game called blaseball. Math puts it down and picks out another one. It is also about blaseball. A third is about blaseball. In an increasing panic, Math looks at another, and another, and another -
An unexpected sound. Someone else is there.
"Where is this? Who are you? Do you know what's going on?" the interloper says.
The Spies live, love, and only occasionally die, in a universe where there is nothing for Blaseball players to interact with outside of Blaseball itself.
...Or, rather, where there's supposed to be nothing for them to interact with outside of Blaseball itself.
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If you tried to create air, but you had to use entirely different elements, would it even still be air? Suppose you could still breathe it just fine, somehow, but no matter what you’d always be able to feel how different it is from normal air. A plastic plant can look incredibly real but no matter what, a caterpillar can never gain the same nutrients from eating it as a normal plant.
A young girl finds herself in Merle Ambrose's office.
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Alternate Parallels: The Not Quite Absolutely Safe Capsule by liquidCitrus
Fandoms: Mother 3 (Video Game)
25 Nov 2023
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The Absolutely Safe Capsule was billed as "Even what's outside of the Absolutely Safe Capsule is absolutely safe [from what's inside]."
But if light can come out its window, as demonstrated by the fact that they can see Porky sticking out his tongue from inside, then that means that technically there is a way, even if it is probabilistically effectively impossible, for Porky Minch to affect the world outside...
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A wandering street performer called Silverdore visits San Francisco, only to find that a pair of fantasy performers headed by the knightly Goldengate consider the city their patch. A rivalry that the newcomer initially thinks of as friendly escalates and turns nasty.
Written to explore information warfare themes. This was fun to write!
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Kris is more determined than normal; but with every advantage a vessel gains, their opposition must gain one greater than that. A more outgoing and charismatic Kris can tackle some of their problems head on, but they very quickly find that they’re not the only one with agency they lacked before. And while they can finally reach for what they truly desire, sometimes that’s in contrast to what they think they want.
With a soul that whispers prescient instructions, and friends that seem very worried about the Dark World they find themselves in, Kris can only hope that, in the end, they can make things work out in their favour.
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Bookmarked by recurse (liquidCitrus)
10 Jan 2024
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Astonishingly good rationalfic that does not lose the "fic" part for the "rational"
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"What inspired your latest movie?"
"Well, I was butt-fuck drunk and trying to make myself a good ol' pb&j at 2 AM because fuck if I know how to make anything else and I couldn't see the numbers on the phone straight enough to dial for take-out..."
The full, exclusive, uncut, uncensored interview with the one and only Mr. Dave Strider.Series
- Part 1 of Guardiancest AU
Bookmarked by davariax
20 Apr 2017
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Alpha!Dave completely roasting an overly prying interviewer.
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Your revolution failed. Your moirail is dead. Your body's dangling helpless in the grip of a thousand burrowing biowires.
But your mind -- your mind is free.
[prequel for One Of Our Submarines]
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- Part 1 of One of Our Submarines
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Bloodborne Pathogen (Cordyceps Horrorshow Remix) by lantadyme for Xelfi
Fandoms: Homestuck
07 Feb 2013
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Being a rainbow drinker isn't quite the same as all her books described.
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This is the better option: Rose can eat sugar, and drink water. It will be a very slow starvation.
This is the worse option: the renal arrest will kill her, and the Condesce will bring her back.Rose Lalonde, Seer of the Fleet, serves at the pleasure of the Empress. Terezi Pyrope is something else altogether.
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Jade tries to exploit the alchemy system and runs into unexpected results.
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- Part 2 of Homestuck rationalfics
Bookmarked by davariax
20 Apr 2017
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Jade is about as nerdy as Sollux is probably, except with more adorableness.