19 Works by gorbo_longstocking
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The Palace Becomes a Circus by gorbo_longstocking
Fandoms: A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms (TV), A Song of Ice and Fire & Related Fandoms
02 Jun 2026
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Before all else, Marlon Flowers was a performer. From contortion, to music, to sword-swallowing, to clownery, he was taught it all. Using these skills he, and his family, made lives for themselves outside of the oppressive reach of Westerosi society, creating the smallest nebula of existence where they could simply be themselves. That was all Marley had ever known.
Until it was all taken away, dragged back to King’s Landing under the arm of Aerion Targaryen, who can’t get the thought of hurting Marley — making him his — out of his head.
Who knew a tourney at Ashford Meadow would make everything come crashing down?
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Shear the Lion, Fear the Lamb by gorbo_longstocking
Fandoms: Star Wars: Maul - Shadow Lord (Cartoon), Star Wars - All Media Types
29 May 2026
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Heavenly Mother blessed you with both her Light and her Shadow, that was what you were taught from childhood by the priests who raised you. No one on that small, forgotten moon knew the Goddess as you did. You were Her most beloved one. That was why, on your eighteenth birthday, you had to die.
Only you didn’t. You fled. For seven years, you lived with the fragile shards of your sanity. At first, there was another, but even he was led astray and you found yourself alone again. Forgotten by all, except for your Goddess. Even now, at your lowest, with your body frail and feverish, starvation nipping at your heels, She was with you. Lovingly held in her embrace.
That was until you met the Devil.
In short, Maul’s new apprentice may be more trouble than they’re worth.
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The Things Inside by gorbo_longstocking
Fandoms: House of the Dragon (TV), A Song of Ice and Fire & Related Fandoms
28 May 2026
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Slippery, oozing, and oh, so warm. Stinking of meat, — and bile, and blood — you loved that smell more than anything else. Tubes of intestines, yours to unravel, a limp heart and flapping sacks for lungs, they all came loose at your behest, poked and prodded at your leisure. These were the things inside of a human body
You had always loved the things inside, even if you kept this adoration close to your breast— or as close as your open demeanor would allow. So long as you stayed out of prison, your ever growing body count unnoticed, you would be… not happy, but content. Content to pry open the victims of your retribution, punished in the name of the laws you had created for yourself. It wasn’t enough to truly satiate, only to quell.
Until you woke up somewhere new.
Medieval Europe, or maybe a new land entirely, with its own rules that you could bend at your own discretion. It was easy to go hidden under the noses of kings and knights. So what if the cottage you had holed up in had the beginnings of a garden fertilized by the rot corpses created? No one would be able to prove it was you unless they went digging.
It wasn’t like they would come back up from that particular hole.
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Posting this mostly for archival purposes considering how easy it is for things to be lost on Tumblr. This is where I’m keeping my headcanons and drabbles that I’d rather not post as independent oneshots.
I write primarily for gender neutral and trans male reader-inserts, but you may find a female reader in here on the occasion.
Featuring mostly Markar, Valarr, and Daeron, with a smattering of the other characters. The content of the drabble/headcanon can be found in the chapter title, while the characters featured will be in the author’s note. Please enjoy if you read :D
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Everyday, you woke up and performed the steps necessary to complete your routine. It was monotonous, like clockwork, as you traveled down the tracks laid out for you since birth. With a mind uncontested, you found yourself graduating college before you were legally an adult, and at the behest of your controlling parents, you continued on to medical school, then further on into a surgical residency at a nearby hospital. You had always wanted to help people and this was the best way to do it.
So, why, with everything you had ever wanted at your fingertips, were you so unhappy?
Maybe that was why when you awoke in the past, surrounded by farmland instead of your blankets that you decided to ‘just roll with it’ rather than scream. That was your motto now as you were unceremoniously dropped from your assigned path onto untrodden ground with no hope of going back. So, even when you saved the life of a soldier and were carted off into the heart of the corrupt Roman Empire to be the twin emperor’s new physician, you barely batted an eye.
After all, you would do anything to save your patients.
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Only Skin Deep by gorbo_longstocking
Fandoms: The Fantastic Four: First Steps (2025), Marvel Cinematic Universe
14 Jan 2026
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You thought you knew what love was. It was cold, sterile, completely pragmatic in its application. A tender stroke of a hand when the pain became too much to bear, and praise when you had performed an experiment well enough to earn your parents the accolades of their colleagues. For over twenty years, you were raised by your adoptive family, traveling the galaxy to convention after convention, experiment after experiment where you thought you understood your lot in life. To love and to love, only to receive crumbs in return.
In a great display, and the equivalent of said crumbs embedding themself into your skin when laid on them too long, your sister sent you off on your own. To grant your dreams, she said, though she didn’t consider much else in her grand plan of your salvation. Homeless and without a dollar to your name, an alien in New York City, you decided to try and make the best of your situation.
It was funny. On this strange blue dot in a solar system far from everything you have ever known, you discovered there was more to life than chasing after scraps. You could be more than just a specimen for study.
You could be a hero. You could be happy. You could be loved.
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Attack. Shoot. Sit. Beg. Kill. Hunt.
Those were your orders. Until they weren’t, and you were hired to guard Nikolai Kravinoff’s bastard son. Then your only order was simple.
Protect.
Protect Dmitri Kravinoff, even if he refused to look at you. Even if he could barely stand to be in the same room as you. None of that mattered.
You were his dog now, bred to obey his every command.
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Laborans Duram aut Vix Laborans by gorbo_longstocking
Fandoms: Gladiator (Movies - Scott)
11 Mar 2025
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There wasn’t much that you couldn’t handle. Growing up in a podunk town with more cows than people gave you a threshold for tolerating nonsense far greater than that of the average person. You were thankful for that because, as of late, you found yourself in a bit of a situation. After being forced from the comfort of your dishwashing station when a server called out, you wound up catching the attention of your classmate, who, as it happened, wasn’t aware you were his classmate.
Commodus, known for being a bit of a pretentious nuisance around campus, also happened to be a very strange man. No matter how often he turned up at your work to order a caesar salad and a water, he would always request that you serve him.
At least he tipped well.
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You’d never seen a rotter that could talk.
They were mindless, hungry predators, nothing more, nothing less. The dead didn’t have names, or brothers, or eat spaghetti. Yet, here you were, trapped in the woods with eight of these strange infected by a huge metal wall that ran for miles.
You didn’t survive in one hell just to die in another. It didn’t matter how much you were hunted, you would survive to see another day. You would survive to see your sister again.
Let them come. Armed with nothing but your wits and a rock, you were ready.
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Wolf, Made For Slaughter by gorbo_longstocking
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types, Batman (Comics), DCU
09 Oct 2024
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Determined to leave your sordid and less-than-legal past behind, you moved to Gotham in order to build the life you’d spent thirty-three years dreaming about. It wasn’t perfect, you always imagined yourself to be far more successful in making friends, and day-to-day life to be easier to navigate than this — not to mention you wished your beloved siblings were here with you — but if everything was easy, life wouldn’t be so fun!
At least, that was what you were telling yourself.
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Displeasures of the Flesh by gorbo_longstocking
Fandoms: Transformers - All Media Types, The Transformers (IDW Generation One)
08 Feb 2024
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When you almost hit a man with you car, you always expect to get threatened. At least a little bit. What you don’t expect is for said man to believe himself to be a Cybertronian trapped in a human body, and now it’s your job to help him find it.
You don’t quite buy it, but you know enough about people to know there are some parts of his story that are true. Particularly, the parts revolving around extreme serial torture.
In short: there is a serial killer living in your home, but you’re too lonely to care.
Or; Kaon of the Decepticon Justice Division wakes up in a human body and now you have to make sure he doesn’t kill anybody. Not you, though. You’re not sure that’s the part that matters.
On Hiatus!
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The First Step by charcadett (gorbo_longstocking), gorbo_longstocking
Fandoms: Pocket Monsters | Pokemon - All Media Types, Pocket Monsters: Scarlet & Violet | Pokemon Scarlet & Violet Versions
28 May 2023
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You’ve had this stupid phobia your entire life. It was debilitating. No matter where you went, there were Pokemon. In the seas, in the skies, in the streets. They were everywhere. Your only escape was holing yourself in your apartment. You got your groceries delivered and worked from home. No friends, no family, nothing. Only you. It was no life. You should know, that was how you lived the majority of your twenties.
But, not anymore! New decade, new you! Now thirty, you applied for an office job at the Paldean Pokemon League. A completely new start in a completely new region. You’d leave the corpse of your old self to rot inside your old apartment. It was finally time to burst free of your cocoon and become a beautiful Butterfree.
You wished such a thing wasn’t easier said than done.
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Distracted by charcadett (gorbo_longstocking)
Fandoms: Pocket Monsters | Pokemon - All Media Types, Pocket Monsters: Scarlet & Violet | Pokemon Scarlet & Violet Versions
06 Mar 2023
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You and Jacq lose track of time while researching out in the Paldean wilderness. Unfortunately for you - and the all encompassing crush you’re certain is not requited - you find the only hotel room available has one bed.
This is Arceus’ punishment for fantasizing about your friend, you’re certain.
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pretty boy. by gorbo_longstocking
Fandoms: Star Wars: The Clone Wars (2008) - All Media Types, Star Wars - All Media Types
29 Sep 2022
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You call your tooka a pretty boy. Rex mishears.
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fireworks. by gorbo_longstocking
Fandoms: Star Wars - All Media Types, Star Wars: The Bad Batch (Cartoon)
29 Sep 2022
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The fireworks are beautiful. It would be a perfect date if they weren't so loud.
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Your life was put on hold for longer than you would have liked.
Much longer.
Not that it really bothered you. If you had your way you’d be more than happy barely skating by, locked away in your apartment, and sinking your days into video games.
The gas leak on your floor had other plans. Your apartment exploded. A huge fiery ball of destruction, though fortunately not death, laid waste to everything precious to you. Every console, every collector's edition, every level grinded, gone, in one fell swoop.
As if by fate, only a week later, you were offered a job homeschooling the now teenaged monster ambassador, Frisk Dreemurr. Room and board were included in your pay, you could finally put your degree in education to use, and most importantly, you were sure royalty had the fastest Wi-Fi money could buy.
The very extensive non-disclosure agreement their lawyer had you sign raised a few red flags, but you had more than a lifetime of experience ignoring them.
Whatever happened, happened. You were just excited to see what it’d be.
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Thirty-three years you spent filling the lonely void in your chest with fairytales and fantasies of a normal life.
Twenty-three years you spent raising your siblings into weapons just as Mother raised you. Many nights you held them as they cried their guilt into your shirt, promising you’d bear the weight of their sins for them.
Ten years you spent completely and utterly alone with nothing but your books and Mother’s cruelty.You didn’t know who you were. You knew who you loved and what you’d done. You knew what you were capable of and you knew what you wanted.
When Mother told you that you had a guest to entertain, you felt sick. There was no leaving this place, all you could do is make their stay as comfortable as possible.
Perhaps, if you did a good enough job, they’d like to be your friend.
EDIT: Gonna do some editing of this. It was super rushed and there are a few parts that definitely need to be reworked.
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Behind the scenes moments from the point of view of various characters over the course of home is where the heart is.
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- Part 2 of hiwthi.
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You met Papyrus a little over a year ago at the worst point in your life, when you were sick and desperate, with only the clothes on your back and a pocket knife clenched in your fist.
Now, here you were, sharing an apartment with him, celebrating your first year clean.
He truly was your hero.