cartesiandaemon
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Interview with a University Snake Wrangler by cartesiandaemon for ionthesparrow
Fandoms: FAQ: The "Snake Fight" Portion Of Your Thesis Defense (McSweeney's Post) - Luke Burns
24 Dec 2020
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Someone from the student newspaper interviews Mr Wright, the person who takes care of the snakes for the university and finds the right one for the Snake Fight Portion of Your Thesis Defence.
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Phase Wasps in the Library by cartesiandaemon for teethandstars
Fandoms: Scholomance - Naomi Novik
18 Dec 2020
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El and Orion explore an increasingly ominous part of the library seeking a particular one of Purochana's journals in order to help translate another of the Golden Stone sutras.
Also, El, Aadhya, Liu, Liu's cousins, and some adorable mice decorate El's dorm room as it becomes an increasingly cosy home base for alliance.
El and Orion both have Feelings about their place in the world. Nothing romantic happens except bickering and being each other's unexpectedly best friend.
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Drifting Free by cartesiandaemon for Greenygal
Fandoms: Falling Free - Lois McMaster Bujold
18 Dec 2019
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Leo, Silver and the rest of the quaddies in Cay Habitat have moved beyond Orient system in the first step in their long Crossing, but ever more engineering, diplomatic and democratic problems follow them. Leo fixes many problems at once. Everyone grows into their adult selves. Slapstick with slingshotting an inhabited space station round an uninhabited planet. Features over half the quaddies ever named in Falling Free so you better appreciate it. Mentions although sadly does not depict an EPIC SPACE PIRATE BATTLE IN ZERO-G BALLET FORM.
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Guacamole Excitement Hyperbole by cartesiandaemon for molybdomantic
Fandoms: Spaceteam (Video Game)
18 Dec 2019
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Pachyform Specialist Ellana and insectoid Space Detective Bettan debate why space travel is so monumentally screwed up.
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Of Slapstick and Touching Emotional Conversations by cartesiandaemon for EcclesCake
Fandoms: The Order of the Stick
16 Dec 2018
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After the Roy is resurrected and the party are reunited, they seek a random encounter before departing on the ship to the western continent.
In which Roy is not meticulous, Durkon isn't taken for granted, Haley doesn't search for gold, Vaarsuvius cares what people think, Elan isn't useless, Blackwing isn't forgotten, and Belkar listens to reason.