Squinch's Recommendations of Completed Works
Fics from diverse fandoms that are completed, and I've really enjoyed reading them and will probably re-read them again.
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A week passes between the devastating attack on the Tower and the memorial massacre. Viktor recovers from his surprisingly minor injuries, and he and Jayce determine what comes next.
OR, how to mend a broken relationship.
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After discovering the truth about his origins, Loki is devastated. The betrayal cuts deep and he realizes he can’t stay in Asgard anymore. So he sets out to find himself again and make sense of his life without all the lies and trappings of the Golden Realm that has stifled him for centuries.
Or: Loki goes on a trip through the Nine Realms and makes himself some friends.
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- Part 1 of Loki and crew's space adventures
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The Talent by Bottan
Fandoms: Thor (Movies), The Avengers (Marvel Movies), Marvel Cinematic Universe
05 Sep 2024
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1920. London’s magical society is dying. Plague sweeps the streets and monsters lurk in shadowed alleyways.
Amid hunting monsters and trying to establish himself in his father’s eyes, Loki finds himself thoroughly distracted by American millionaire scientist Tony Stark. And when he realizes Stark might hold the key to end Britain’s suffering, Odin tasks him with securing the engineer’s help.
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“Alright, alright, you got me,” Stark sounded exasperated, incapable of bearing the silence. “I will do one business meeting – as in the number one, a singular meeting – in exchange for dinner. Look at me, do you want me on my knees, begging? I just really want to pick your brain.”
“Wednesday,” Loki said automatically. “Eleven. Bor & Sons offices.”
“Done,” Stark said with a grimace. “Dinner on Friday, and I get to pick the place!”
Loki blinked at the mild chaos that Stark left in his wake and found that he hadn’t agreed to dinner, at all.
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AU-Canon Divergence:
King Paimon of the Ars Goetia had his son’s entire future planned out. He found him a wife when he was ten, taught him how to use the spells out of his grimoire, and raised him to be a proper prince. True, Paimon did it because that was the expectation as the father of a Goetia prince, but also because it made taking care of this annoying little owl a Hell of a lot easier. All Paimon had to do was sit back and let the action take its course.
That was until a month before Stolas’ wedding.
They had one month to go, one fucking month when Paimon stumbled upon his son making a goddamn nest in the goddamn greenhouse.
Story written for StolustWeek, told over seven days using seven prompts.
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- Part 1 of Known
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to see the world (as you do) by lethewren
Fandoms: Marvel Cinematic Universe, Thor (Movies)
11 Feb 2024
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When Odin finds a newborn babe in the war-torn wasteland that is Jotunheim, he takes it home; Frigga is the one to insist they must treat it as their own, and Odin loves her, so he obliges.
And then she dies, and Odin has no time for a child that only reminds him of the very thing he lost - he barely has time for his own young, grieving son.
So he locks it in the Vault, and calls it a trophy from the frozen realm.
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All Loki knew for a long, long time were the four walls that held them, and the distorted view into the room beyond - filled with trinkets they couldn't name.
There were flashes of something else, of a woman who held them close and hummed lullabies, of a boy with hair like the sun, and a bright blue sky - but the memories were insubstantial and fleeting, slipping through their fingers like smoke.
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(when you just can't seem) to shake the weight of living by WingedQuill
Fandoms: The Witcher (TV), Wiedźmin | The Witcher - All Media Types
07 Feb 2022
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Geralt's muscles heave backwards, flinging him down against the bed. He tries to struggle upwards but it feels like he’s been buried beneath a mountain. Every inch of him is pressed completely still. His eyes close, and he’s left in the dark with nothing but his racing heart for company. He’s not tired, he’s never been less tired. But the curse wants him to sleep, it seems. It’ll force him to lie here until he does. How much of his life will it start to control, now that he’s declared war against it? Now that he knows it’s lurking in his bones, now that it doesn’t have to be subtle?
He swallows. Takes a long, deep breath, gathering every bit of courage he has to stop himself from slipping back into panic. He still has control over his lungs. He still has that.
For now.
(Or: Witchers don't retire. They stay on the Path until it kills them. They hunt monsters and they want nothing from life. This isn't exactly by choice.)
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(when you just can't seem) to shake the weight of the living by WingedQuill
The Witcher
Witchers don't retire. They stay on the Path until it kills them. They hunt monsters and they want nothing from life. This isn't exactly by choice. -
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Geralt had no damn idea what to do with a vineyard when Anna Henrietta gave him Corvo Bianco, but he figured it couldn’t be that bad.
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- Part 6 of Witcher works
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alpha vs Alpha by Artemis_Neardos
Fandoms: Star Wars - All Media Types, Star Wars: Clone Wars (2003) - All Media Types, Star Wars: The Clone Wars (2008) - All Media Types
26 Aug 2022
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Times are changing around the galaxy, but so many still view omegas as weak and lesser. Omega Obi-Wan has tried to hide what he is for most of his life, thanks to prejudice and trauma from his childhood. What Obi-Wan never expected was to find an army of clones, composed of alphas and betas, who view the dynamics in a completely different way than the majority of the galaxy. As time goes on, his relationship with the Vode Pack grows and develops to a point where Obi-Wan starts to find a confidence and pride in being an omega that he’d never thought he’d feel. He also learns that there’s a difference in what the galaxy thinks is alpha and what Alpha really means.
This story comes in at a point where Obi-Wan is just starting to feel safe and comfortable with the Vode. We follow him as his relationship with the troopers starts to evolve, with possible flashbacks giving glimpses into the past, and all building to a future that is far different than Obi-Wan ever expected for himself as an omega.
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- Part 1 of alpha vs Alpha
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Severus had always known that he would die in a painful, most horrifying way ever since back when he was almost beaten to death by his father, then mauled by a werewolf, then thrashed around by a maniac overlord. His miserable, luckless life only seemed to lead to that one day when he would be struck down by a bloody snake, of all things.
Bleeding out in front of Harry Potter was just the last humiliation Lady Destiny had in store for him.
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Owen Grady had always had a talent for animals. Like his grandfather. It was a talent that ran in the families.
Masrani Global recruited him to train raptors. It was an intriguing, novel idea, something only a crazy or insane person would attempt.
Owen wasn't crazy or insane. He knew he could do this.
He just didn't know how deep he would get into it, how strong the connection to the pack would become, how close... they, the four of them, would become to him.
His grandfather had always warned him: don't get too close. Don't let them connect. Well, it was too late for that now.
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- Part 1 of Pushing Boundaries
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Tainted by Macx
Owen Grady had always had a talent for animals. Like his grandfather. It was a talent that ran in the families.
Masrani Global recruited him to train raptors. It was an intriguing, novel idea, something only a crazy or insane person would attempt.
Owen wasn't crazy or insane. He knew he could do this.
He just didn't know how deep he would get into it, how strong the connection to the pack would become, how close... they, the four of them, would become to him.
His grandfather had always warned him: don't get too close. Don't let them connect. Well, it was too late for that now