DarkTidings
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- The Walking Dead (TV) (45)
- Teen Wolf (TV) (6)
- 9-1-1 (TV) (6)
- Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling (5)
- Suits (US TV 2011) (4)
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“This is the way the world ends / Not with a bang but a whimper." - T.S. Eliot
The world ended. They lived.
In the uneasy safety of the quarry, survival is a constant negotiation. It’s a choice of who to trust, a question of who to become, and what leadership costs in a world stripped bare.
Shane Walsh held the group together. Rick’s return doesn’t feel like salvation; it feels like a reckoning. His presence cracks the fragile balance Shane built—and Scout Dixon, a Marine bearing her own scars, sees the fractures with unsettling clarity.
Scout didn’t arrive by chance. She came overland, convoy in tow, with siblings and survivors who’d already faced the worst. A burned combat veteran with an intel background, she reads people like terrain—and in Shane, she sees the dangerous slope between protection and control. She’s not here to take over. She’s here because someone has to remember how to hold a line.
As others—Lori, Daryl, Carol, Merle—grapple with shifting identities, the camp teeters. Not just between life and death, but between who they were and who they must become to survive. Hope is a distant shore. For now, survival has to be enough.
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- Part 1 of Homestead's Echo
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On Guam in 1980, a pragmatic marriage between a nurse and a Marine begins as a bargain and grows into a covenant. Rita and Merle learn that love can be built in steady work, shared burdens, and the quiet faith of family, not the lightning strike of romance.
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- Part 1 of Homestead's Echo: Foundations
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A lonely officer’s son navigating his mother’s slow decline, Malcolm “Huck” Huxley finds his true north within the lively Dixon fold. From a boy seeking refuge to a deputy seeking justice, he becomes the steady witness to Scout’s fire, proving that the deepest devotion isn't found in romance, but in the lifelong vow to remain each other's person when everything else falls away.
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- Part 2 of Homestead's Echo: Foundations
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The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others - Mahatma Gandhi
AU: The Allied Communities are stable and well established, with years of peace and growth behind them before refugees begin appearing in Virginia, fleeing a community of self-titled Saviors who are led by a man called Negan. Taking on a madman isn't a tale about war or strength, but instead one of just how far a person will go to protect others, even at the cost of their own soul.
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- Part 2 of Homestead Georgia
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“The pauses between the notes are as important as the notes themselves.” - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
In a world coming apart, two teens on the edge of adulthood discover that not all first loves are meant to last. Some are meant to tune you for what comes next.
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- Part 1 of Homestead's Echo: Kitchen Table Stories
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A prequel cycle tracing the lives that shaped the world of Homestead’s Echo long before the world collapsed. From a pragmatic marriage forged on Guam to five children raised across bases, borders, and loss— and the found family drawn into their orbit—Foundations examines how character is built through work, grief, devotion, and choice. They trace the bloodlines, scars, and hard-won loyalties that forged a family capable of weathering the end of the world.
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A chronicle of survival, secrecy, and consequence set at the beginning of the apocalypse. Following Scout Dixon and her family, the series unravels a gray-ops human intelligence experiment embedded in the chaos of collapse, where couriers, codenames, and classified missions blur into lived reality. As the world ends, survivors must navigate the blueprint of a societal collapse designed to test the limits of human resilience.
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A companion collection of short stories and scenes, alt-POVs, and ephemera from the Homestead's Echo universe: small, character-rich stories that fill the margins with food, family, and the logistics of survival.
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The Lost Deputy stories are not actually a series, but a collection of unrelated stories featuring Shane Walsh if he left the farm prior to the attempt to kill Rick (or otherwise became separated from the group before the scene in the field). All stories will feature the journeys Shane could have taken as one of the most interesting characters in seasons one and two.
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Greene Farm AU Collection by DarkTidings
Fandom Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling, Leverage, The Walking Dead (TV)
25 Dec 2025
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Unrelated works written in response to reader requests that alter some aspect of the Greene Farm and Season Two, with a focus on at least one Greene family member.
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- 141,420
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Ice may have earned his callsign for his technique in the air, but Maverick has to imagine half the students think Ice got it from his ability to dole out brutal freeze-burning remarks.
Well. Leave it to the Iceman to find a way to make his callsign define him through and through.
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From the moment they met, Mav knew Kazansky had a mouth on him. It isn't until they're both instructors at TOPGUN, though, that Mav learns just how brutal Ice can be.
One thing's for sure: Maverick's never bored, teaching alongside Iceman. He's just not sure he's going to survive the job unscathed, himself.
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05 Sep 2025
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Harry and Draco meet in Madam Malkin’s and instantly take a liking to each other.
Just kidding. They don’t, but Harry does get sorted into Slytherin, and they do become extremely good friends.
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- English
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- 204,813
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- 37/37
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16 Aug 2025
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Tommy's busy fighting a wildfire at the edge of the Angeles National Forest, but every time he checks his phone, he has an increasingly unbelievable series of text messages.
(Or: Over the course of eighteen hours with Buck and the 118, from a distance and then up close and personal, Tommy keeps having to reassess.)
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07 Aug 2025
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Inspired by the concept and stunning art by the talented Suis0u on Tumblr. Everything was different. The world he knew was gone. It’d been a long time since he’d started thinking he was probably one of the last humans on earth, that out there the only sentient beings were those that would devour him whole. He wasn’t sure why he continued with the radio broadcasts, continued to talk into nothingness. The only explanation was that there was a spark of hope in him yet that he wasn’t alone. The lonely safety Stiles has built around an old radio tower in the middle of nowhere is about to be broken. Stiles isn’t sure if Derek is a harbinger of chaos or hope at the end of the world.
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- English
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- 130,208
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- 12/12
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03 Aug 2025
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Everyone knows the Hale’s take in strays—maybe it's in the hope that one day they’ll be willing to take the bite, or maybe it's just that they're pack creatures that take one look at a human without a family and immediately have to adopt them. Stiles isn’t sure which it is. Maybe it’s both.
He just never thought he'd be one of those strays.
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- English
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- 16,456
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- 2/2
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07 Apr 2025