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It Gets Better by CloseToSomethingReal
Fandoms: Good Omens - Neil Gaiman & Terry Pratchett, Good Omens (TV)
04 Jun 2026
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Crowley never remembered why he hated the fourteenth century. He knew it was a terrible time. After Armageddon, now happy with his angel and their growing family and friends, the last thing he expects to have to do is revisit those long-suppressed memories.
If you are not here for non-consensual snake sex but would like to find out about this story, please skip chapter 1, and be advised that I will mark chapters with flashbacks in the notes at the top.
NOT S2 OR S3 COMPLIANT. Certain small events might exist, but none of the major plot of seasons 2 or 3 will be present within this story.
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Puppet Loosely Strung by CloseToSomethingReal
Fandoms: Thor (Movies), Marvel Cinematic Universe, Norse Religion & Lore
07 May 2026
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After subduing the Jotunn king and claiming the Casket of Ancient Winters, Odin found one last treasure. A Jotunn infant, abandoned in a temple to die. Sympathy and a hint of compassion moved him to take the child, a natural shapeshifter, back to Asgard as his own.
He made plans for the boy. Political plans that would benefit Asgard and Jotunheim. But a good father would eventually set those plans aside and focus on what was best for his son.
Unfortunately, Odin had always been a better king than he was a father. And as Loki grew, he never forgot his purpose for the child. It was what was best for Asgard. Even if the boy would have to repeatedly pay the price.
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- Part 1 of Master of Puppets
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The Show Must Go On by CloseToSomethingReal
Fandoms: Good Omens - Neil Gaiman & Terry Pratchett, Good Omens (TV)
22 Apr 2026
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After all that has befallen their family, Crowley, Ezra and Rosie prepare for the future and try to grow and move on from where they are.
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- Part 3 of Hammer to Fall
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Place My Gun Upon The Table (in blood I draw the line) by CloseToSomethingReal
Fandoms: Marvel Cinematic Universe, Loki (TV 2021)
17 Feb 2026
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"The TVA's name was not its best feature by any stretch of the imagination. The Transitional Vampire Agency was a name chosen to seem more innocent on purpose for the inevitable day that knowledge of vampires grew more widespread and naive people worried about the welfare of the creatures. They 'helped vampires transition to a new state.'
Specifically, they forcibly transitioned vampires from a state of undead to a state of true death."
Mobius spent most of his life defending the world from an unseen threat, stalking them in the darkness, hunting them like animals. He was prepared to spend the rest of his life doing the same thing.
But following a doctrine is so much easier when you don't know the person on the other side. Now, hunting down a vampire with a face he knows - someone he once cared very deeply about - Mobius must struggle to find the line between truth and lies, before it's too late.
TVA agents are dropping like flies, the pressure is rising, and at the centre of it all is the one vampire Mobius isn't prepared to face.
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The Best Part Of Believe (Is The Lie) by CloseToSomethingReal
Fandoms: Loki (TV 2021), Marvel Cinematic Universe
26 Sep 2025
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When the Tesseract fell at Loki's feet, he was not one to allow the opportunity pass him by. He escaped from custody, creating a branched timeline where he tried to earn Thanos's forgiveness with the Tesseract. There was none. Only suffering at his hands and later the Frost Giants eager for vengeance.
Three years later, Mobius arrived to collect a broken Loki for a very specific purpose. To help track down another Variant of himself for the benevolent TVA. And after years of torture and abuse, even the smallest kindness was a gift.
Mobius saved him and Loki gave him unquestioning loyalty and trust in return. He would do anything not to lose that kindness. Whatever Mobius asked of him.
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What If... Loki Outlived Thor? by CloseToSomethingReal
Fandoms: Thor (Movies), Marvel Cinematic Universe, What If...? (Cartoon 2021)
26 Aug 2025
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Loki had barely been paying attention to the plea being given by Thor's friends. He had plans to make and a realm to destroy, and Thor was best placed on Midgard until everything was said and done.
And then Heimdall walked in with news that changed everything.A continuation of What If season 1 episode 3: What If Earth Lost Its Mightiest Heroes?
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Love Is A Dagger by CloseToSomethingReal
Fandoms: Loki (TV 2021), Thor (Movies), The Avengers (Marvel Movies)
16 Aug 2025
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Loki once described love as being like a dagger, though he didn't explain it well then.
Like a dagger, love was beautiful. Mesmerizing to see it at work. It could be forged into different forms to serve different purposes. It could be easily concealed from sight. It could give someone the courage to do something that they would be too scared to attempt without it. And it might give them the power to succeed.
If you give it to someone, you have to hope that they won't turn that weapon against you and carve out your heart. Sharing it could make you vulnerable if you chose wrong.
And most importantly, Loki had always preferred to wield two daggers.
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The World is Ugly by CloseToSomethingReal
Fandoms: Marvel Cinematic Universe, Loki (TV 2021)
14 Jun 2025
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In one timeline, Loki falls from the shattered Rainbow Bridge and is lost in the void. He is found by Thanos and reforged, sent to Earth to conquer and claim the Tesseract for the Mad Titan. He provides the spark to help unite the Avengers.
In one timeline, Don McDonnell goes out for drinks and meets a nice lady. They date, marry, move to a larger house, and have children together. Then he is left alone with their sons and jet skis.
But in a different branch, Don never goes out because the God of Mischief crashed on his lawn. And he has always had a soft spot for broken things. -
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Human experimentation has always been controversial. The best solution, so it seems to four particularly mad scientists, is to do it to children, who cannot defend themselves.
When Henry Jekyll, aged only eight years old, finds himself in a makeshift laboratory housed in an abandoned matchstick factory after being abducted by a Doctor Hasting Lanyon Sr, he has never been so scared in his life.
He soon meets the other children, all held in this lab and the subjects of various cruel and unusual experiments. After he is also made the victim of experimentation, he and his darker side know they must hatch a plan and escape. -
Breaking the Habit by CloseToSomethingReal
Fandoms: Marvel Cinematic Universe, Thor (Movies), The Avengers (Marvel Movies)
10 Jul 2024
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Despite having many chances, Loki didn't flee. He did not leave his brother or his people to perish while he escaped. He knew that when Thanos found him, his life was forfeit. His fate was sealed the moment that he failed to retrieve the Tesseract years ago. No tricks, no illusion, no lies, and no last-minute escapes. He couldn't save himself this final time.
Thor failed in so many ways. He failed to protect his people. He failed to save Heimdall. He failed to stop Thanos from murdering his brother. And then he failed to kill Thanos and half the universe was lost as a result.
When they failed to stop Thanos and so many lives were lost in an instant, Tony was powerless. He could only watch as the teenager who should've never been halfway across the galaxy dissolve in his arms. There was nothing that he could do. But when he and Nebula, in their attempt to limp their way back to Earth, find the site of a destroyed vessel floating in the middle of space with the bodies of the Aesir drifting in the vacuum, he remembers enough from Bruce to realize what they'd found. And he sees one face he recognizes and comes to a grim decision.
Sometimes you can't save everyone. But you can sometimes save someone. -
Bound by (Human) Nature by CloseToSomethingReal
Fandoms: Good Omens (TV), Good Omens - Neil Gaiman & Terry Pratchett
01 Aug 2022
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Aziraphale was raised all her life with the understanding that one day her father would sell her feather cloak to a man who would become her husband. She would obey him and be the perfect wife, like her mother had taught her to be.
Crowley was told to stay away from the surface, but she was ever more curious than she should have been. Her first time on shore, she shed her pelt to explore, and met was seemed to be a pleasant man.
But looks could be deceiving, and she had been without her pelt for the last seven years. -
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Finding out you have a daughter once she's twelve years old is scary enough.
Figuring out how to explain that to the rest of the world, namely your judgey parents, is scarier still.FINALE HATERS DO NOT INTERACT, I WILL DELETE YOUR COMMENTS
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These Are The Days by CloseToSomethingReal
Fandoms: Good Omens (TV), Good Omens - Neil Gaiman & Terry Pratchett
24 Apr 2022
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Life was finally settling down for the Crowley-Fell family. Adam was well-adjusted to life with Ezra and Crowley, Warlock came by for regular visits with or without his aunt.
Everything was going very well, and both adults were looking forwards to relaxing for a while.
Funny how a trip to the doctor's office can change things.Series
- Part 2 of We're Only Human (After All)
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Siren's Song by CloseToSomethingReal
Fandoms: Good Omens (TV), Good Omens - Neil Gaiman & Terry Pratchett
21 Apr 2022
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Aziraphale has been a part of the British Royal Navy for nearly a decade now.
He's never actually been on a ship before, though. Not until he's reassigned on am experimental voyage to capture a wicked siren who's been luring British officers to their deaths.
A voyage led by a beautiful and dangerous pirate, hired by the British Crown to track the siren. Captain Anthonia Crowley, or Bloody Anne, as she's known in hushed voices. -
Open Casket by CloseToSomethingReal
Fandoms: Good Omens - Neil Gaiman & Terry Pratchett, Good Omens (TV), Prodigal Son (TV 2019)
01 Mar 2022
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Ten years ago, Anne Crowley snuck down into her husband's study and discovered a girl in a box.
Today, the discovery is still doing its best to shatter what remains of her life and psyche. -
Save Me by CloseToSomethingReal
Fandoms: Good Omens - Neil Gaiman & Terry Pratchett, Good Omens (TV)
16 Feb 2022
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Three years after Rosie was born, Crowley didn't think more tragedy could befall him.
That was before he heard the latest story on the news. The story of a murder, and several familiar names.Series
- Part 2 of Hammer to Fall
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The (After)life of the Party by CloseToSomethingReal
Fandoms: Good Omens (TV), Corpse Bride (2005), Good Omens - Neil Gaiman & Terry Pratchett
17 Dec 2021
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Reciting her vows shouldn't have been so difficult for Aziraphale. They were just a couple of sentences, a promise to her fiance, Gabriel Malachi.
But when she's sent out to practice in the garden, she does manage to say them.
Only not to Gabriel. To a lovely Corpse Bride, with flaming red hair, and strange eyes, who drags Aziraphale to the underworld with her, declaring them newlyweds. -
What You Smell Like by CloseToSomethingReal
Fandoms: Good Omens (TV), Good Omens - Neil Gaiman & Terry Pratchett
17 Nov 2021
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Crowley wanted Aziraphale. Lucifer wanted Michael. Neither could ever have the angels that they desired.
It was just a game. Let Lucifer pretend that he was the Archangel and Crowley would at least get some pleasure out of the experience.
No matter how much it hurt, how unpleasant things got, or how Lucifer seemed to grow worse with every passing century, it was just a game. Crowley got something out of it.
It was just a game. Until it wasn't.
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Under Pressure by CloseToSomethingReal
Fandoms: Good Omens - Neil Gaiman & Terry Pratchett, Good Omens (TV)
11 Oct 2021
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Ezra Fell didn't know what he was expecting when he heard a crash down in his bookshop, after hours, but it certainly wasn't a young runaway with a troubled past, looking to wait out the storm.
He most definitely didn't expect what came next.Series
- Part 1 of Hammer to Fall
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Counting Sheep by CloseToSomethingReal
Fandoms: Good Omens - Neil Gaiman & Terry Pratchett, Good Omens (TV)
12 Sep 2021
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Zira was very happy with her life. She had a nice cottage, a garden, a bird named Sunshine, and a flock of sheep. It was all she needed, really. What else would a werewolf such as herself want?
So when something attacks her flock and leaves the carcasses to rot, Zira has no choice but to track down the culprit.
She just didn't expect to find a newborn vampire who's coven had abandoned her.