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Today, and Tomorrow After That by hermitknut
Fandoms: Nine Worlds Series - Victoria Goddard
01 Dec 2025
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Conju has a quiet day to himself in Gorjo City.
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as the morning steals upon the night by hermitknut
Fandoms: Nine Worlds Series - Victoria Goddard
28 Jul 2025
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Kip is gone, lost in the torments and tortures of Eritanyr, and there is no going back. But time passes no matter the deeds of mortals, and it may be that while going back is impossible, going forward can take you somewhere you’d never think to reach.
A response/fixit to Alfgifu’s ‘Cross Your Heart’ that slightly tweaks the ending; please see the warnings on both this fic and Alfgifu’s, this is extremely dead dove territory.
Huge thank you to the support of Fennel, Silks, and Alfgifu on the discord, could not have pulled this one off without your help <3
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When Varenechibel IV and his three eldest sons are killed in an airship crash, the eyes of the court turn to the only surviving heir: the nine-year-old Maia Drazhar. Facing down the near-hopeless precedent of child emperors, however, is not something he will have to do alone.
Please note that, due to the structure of the fic, all tags apply to all chapters.
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Circled Around My Throat That Breathes by hermitknut
Fandoms: Nine Worlds Series - Victoria Goddard
15 Jan 2025
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Kip is alone in the retirement house when something about his mind... changes.
Fixit fic to Alfgifu's 'Incandescent'. Thanks to electropeach for the beta and sounding board!!
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He would have been content with the clock and the quiet, he thought, but that didn’t mean that the coffee and the book and Rhodin’s company weren’t welcome.
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Quick little thing I wrote for the discord discussion of potential Conju endgame ships. Ended up less explicitly shippy than intended, so can be read as almost gen if you like.
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A series of one-shots about the members of the Green Rider Corps. Compliant with the Queen Rider series (and thus canon-compliant up to book three but not later), but most can stand alone. One or two of the later ones will only make sense in the context of Queen Rider, but that will be noted at the start of the fic.
Sixteen planned, not posting to a specific schedule - just fitting it around other things. Reviews and feedback appreciated!
Update: this series is on indefinite hiatus. The individual fics do stand alone.
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The Edocharei Trilogy by hermitknut
Fandom The Goblin Emperor Series - Katherine Addison
12 Apr 2022
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The Shakespeare Quartet (or, three angsts and a crackfic) by hermitknut
Fandom Merlin (TV)
07 Aug 2020
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In a world of strict tradition, change is coming. Not easily, and not smoothly - but maybe, just maybe, under the right circumstances, a common Rider can become Queen. Post-HKT, BV+MS disregarded.
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The ants go marching by Drel_Murn
Fandoms: Nine Worlds Series - Victoria Goddard, The Lays of the Hearth-Fire Series - Victoria Goddard
01 Sep 2025
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Eight Mdangs came to visit Kip at the Palace of Stars. Only seven are mentioned.
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- Part 6 of Tales by the Fire Bingo 2025
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spoken for by ariex09
Fandoms: Nine Worlds Series - Victoria Goddard, Lays of the Hearth-Fire - Victoria Goddard
24 Dec 2024
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As the doors closed on the cheering, jubilant crowd, welcoming their new Lady Magus with full-throated shouts, you thought that you had — I had. That I had forgotten what it could be like, to be the Lord Magus of Zunidh, to be the Last Emperor. I had thought — stupidly, foolishly —
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Fitzroy's having a difficult time with the Jubilee. Kip helps.
Bookmarked by hermitknut
17 Jan 2025
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halyard fork by iniquiticity
Fandoms: Nine Worlds Series - Victoria Goddard, The Lays of the Hearth-Fire Series - Victoria Goddard
13 Jul 2023
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It would only be one game, after all. He had sent Cliopher to Littleridge for less. Cliopher had relentlessly uprooted corruption in the examinations without him even asking. It was not too bad - he was not abusing his power - to play one game of chess with him, was it?
Bookmarked by hermitknut
26 Oct 2024
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Embers by alfgifu
Fandom Nine Worlds Series - Victoria Goddard, The Lays of the Hearth-Fire Series - Victoria Goddard
28 May 2024
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12 Oct 2024
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how it tastes to be alive by WhenasInSilks
Fandoms: Nine Worlds Series - Victoria Goddard
01 Aug 2024
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The roses had withered long since.
Two lonely men, adrift at the end of the world.
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written for the kink meme prompt: Ludvic has been out in the world for quite a while now. He’s gotten used to the idea of men having sex with each other (he thinks). Doing that himself, though, has always been a step too far. (Probably.)
But it’s the end of the world, and if he’s going to break his own rules, he may as well break them with the one aristocrat in this entire palace who is capable of propositioning him without making him feel like some kind of museum exhibit.
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- Part 4 of Nine Worlds off the cuff
Bookmarked by hermitknut
09 Sep 2024