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Beyond The Blue Horizon by ShyMollymawk
Fandoms: Starlight Express - Phillips/Stilgoe/Webber
26 Feb 2025
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Hydra was originally made in Japan.
It had been drilled into him from day one how dangerous his fuel was. Stories of leaks and failures plagued his mind for months; catastrophes such as the Fukushima meltdown and the Hindenburg explosion.
So when he was officially transferred to the UK, it was suffice to say he almost depressurised himself.
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Hydra gets transferred to Wembley and gains a crush.
(This is more fluff and Hydra's thoughts than anything else.)Series
- Part 1 of Choo Choo Mofos
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05 May 2026
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Just give me one bad night by Pebs (Atalto)
Fandoms: Starlight Express - Phillips/Stilgoe/Webber
27 Nov 2024
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He staggers out to the yard, desolate at this time of night, and finds the emptiest, furthest corner they can. There's a wheezing from his pipes, desperation beginning to eat away at their insides, and they double over before they get as far away as they would have liked. He hacks, coughs and splutters, but what escapes his lips is not the trapped fuel or lubricant they expect.
It's vines. Leaves, big and green and spiralled. Flowers, delicate little red, yellow and pink things that he clocks as begonias, their petals stark against the floor like a bloodstain. There's ice in his fuel lines too, that settle inside of him uncomfortably; he can't tell if this is fear, disgust, or sadness, but the pit in his core that threatens to swallow him whole is saying nothing about this is right
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When Hydra gets too close to another train, he coughs up flowers. This would fine if each relationship didn’t threaten his life.
(Tendersteam Hanahaki AU!)
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03 May 2026
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Feels Like Summer by Gravity_Solarflare
Fandoms: Starlight Express - Phillips/Stilgoe/Webber
01 Jan 2025
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Months after the Troubador yard races, Hydra finds himself frustrated with his situation:
“I thought after racing with you and Rusty, maybe things would be different for myself and Hydrogen… Like other trains would wanna give it a try or I’d have more work.” He finally piped up. He’d done a few one off things with Momma since the races, but she was an older train and the weight of his tank was just too much for her. He couldn’t bring himself to put that kind of strain on her. “Everyone still wants to work with Porter, Lumber, and Slick. But no one seems interested in working with me. Well. Electra was but they and the components make me uncomfortable. They’re so weird! And Rusty has the coaches, especially Pearl-” Hydra’s mouth clamped shut and his eyes widened slightly. Thinking it had been one thing, but actually saying it out loud was another. He tried to recover but he knew Momma had caught what he just said.
And that she did. Her silent gaze on Hydra left him squirming as she decided how she wanted to proceed with that change in topic. “Oh Hydra..”
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03 May 2026
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Graven in his palms by Pebs (Atalto)
Fandoms: Starlight Express - Phillips/Stilgoe/Webber
09 Mar 2025
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Unfortunately, the main drawback of being a volatile, experimental tanker is that everyone tends to be scared to touch you.
Four times where Hydra wasn’t allowed to be touched, and the one time where he was.
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03 May 2026
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Pressure Bomb (In a godamn knife fight) by Pebs (Atalto)
Fandoms: Starlight Express - Phillips/Stilgoe/Webber
14 Dec 2024
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Hydra has shown up for every job possible since the races, dedicated to helping Rusty get used to being an intermodal.
Except this one.
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02 May 2026
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If there’s a truism in his profession, it’s that fear is a better bet than love. A man fears you, you both know where you stand. Love, though, love’s a right fucker. Steals your footing out from under you, leaves you dizzy and useless as a green-arsed cabin boy on his first day at sea. But he doesn’t want to be thinking about this tonight. That’s why he’s drinking.
(Four months later, Ed's on a bender in Nassau when Stede finally tracks him down.)
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03 Apr 2022
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Lieutenant Malcolm Reed has never been much for family holidays, and his memories of Christmases past were far from warm and pleasant. Yet when the crew of the Enterprise find themselves back on Earth in time for Christmas, Malcolm is soon drawn into the chaos that is the Tucker Family Christmas.
He'd been able to survive keeping his feelings for his best friend hidden for nearly six years; but spending the holiday with Trip -- and Trip's well-meaning, but definitely meddling family -- may prove to be too much to handle...
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28 Aug 2020
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A Wounding Most Peculiar by WednesdaysDaughter
Fandoms: Wiedźmin | The Witcher - All Media Types, The Witcher (TV)
30 Jan 2020
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“You know they say the death of a soulmate is excruciating.”
Geralt mounts Roach and turns to call Jaskier’s name a second time, irritation bleeding into his gruff voice.
“I wonder if he’d feel anything.”
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The "shared injury soulmate" AU none of you asked for, but secretly wanted.
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18 Feb 2020
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toss a coin to your witcher by lucifucker
Fandoms: Wiedźmin | The Witcher - All Media Types
29 Dec 2019
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The stones always hurt, but Geralt would hazard to say that the looks on the faces of the people throwing them hurt more.
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31 Dec 2019
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Anthophilia by FortinbrasFTW
Fandoms: Good Omens - Neil Gaiman & Terry Pratchett, Good Omens (TV)
22 Mar 2015
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Anthony J. Crowley's life seems like it's finally falling into place: his floral shop has begun to gain an undercurrent of appreciation in the design elite of London, and he might have even finally found a boyfriend who looks just right lounging on his Tenreiro sofa. Things seem almost perfect, until one day the empty shop across the street is leased to frumpy fellow Oxford alumni, who doesn't seem to remember Crowley nearly as well as he remembers him, which really shouldn't bother him as much as it does - it was ten years ago after all, and it wasn't even that good of a kiss.
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08 Jun 2019