Chortleby's Field Guides
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Chortleby’s Field Guide to the Monsters and Magical Beasts of Storybrooke, Vol. 1: Zombies — The Not So Much Walking, More Shuffling Very, Very Slowly Dead by lytwriter
Fandoms: Once Upon a Time (TV)
30 Oct 2022
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“I’m so sorry the zombie apocalypse is boring you, Miss Swan,” Regina snapped.
Emma groaned, “This is hardly a zombie apocalypse. More like a zombie… annoyance.”
As they try to work through the awkward (and occasionally tender) moments of their new relationship, Emma and Regina keep getting interrupted by very, very slow undead.
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- Part 1 of Chortleby's Field Guides
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Chortleby’s Field Guide to the Monsters and Magical Beasts of Storybrooke, Vol. 2: When Pigs Fly - A Lesson In How Not To Do Magic, or, Just Because Magic *Can* Do Something Doesn’t Mean Your Kinda Homicidal Girlfriend Appreciates the Coitus Interruptus by lytwriter for DitchingNarnia
Fandoms: Once Upon a Time (TV)
18 Sep 2023
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Adorable little flying piglets are menacing Storybrooke, and Emma has to figure out why. Even though she’s having trouble controlling her magic right now, it’s not Emma’s fault they’re here, is it? Now if she can only convince Regina and save their budding romance.
“Chortleby’s Field Guides” is a series of “Swan Queen versus Monsters in Storybrooke” mostly-humorous one-shot stories. Each story is completely self-contained: they're all unrelated, they don't build on one another, and they can be read in any order.
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- Part 2 of Chortleby's Field Guides
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Chortleby’s Field Guide to the Monsters and Magical Beasts of Storybrooke, Vol. 3: Gibbering Tentacularia — A Gigantiform Benthic Multicephalopod, Frumious in Nature, That Got Beat Real Bad With the Ugly Stick by lytwriter
Fandoms: Once Upon a Time (TV)
12 Dec 2025
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A tentacled sea monster attacks the shaved ice stand at the docks, and Emma and Regina rush to stop it. And it’s FUGLY, my friends.
Emma holstered her empty gun and pulled out her backup weapon.
And because law enforcement in Storybrooke was the most insane job in the world, her backup weapon was her father’s old sword. Emma sighed and shook her head as she stepped forward. “Yeah, everyone facing nightmare creatures with forty-foot tentacles wants to fight them with a three-foot pointy stick. They do not pay me enough for this job.”
“Chortleby’s Field Guides” is a series of “Swan Queen vs Monsters in Storybrooke” fics. Each story is completely self-contained: they're all unrelated, they don't build on one another, and they can be read in any order.
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- Part 3 of Chortleby's Field Guides