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Scenes From Other Peoples’ Tragedies by DistantStorm

Fandoms: Star Wars: Thrawn Series - Timothy Zahn (2017), Star Wars: Rebels, Star Wars - All Media Types
09 Aug 2025
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If the Humans had not wanted the situation made public, they should have plastered images of a different Imperial all over the galaxy when claiming that they had finally achieved victory.

Or: The New Republic publicly celebrates the defeat of Grand Admiral Thrawn. The Chiss Ascendancy takes that personally.
Alternatively: The failings of a fledgling government’s bureaucracy, Chiss fighting (un)fairly, and the battle of Lomar and Pyrondi.

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14

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106

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Scent Memory by DistantStorm

Fandoms: Star Wars: Thrawn Series - Timothy Zahn (2017), Star Wars - All Media Types
05 Aug 2025
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“You smell different to everyone you encounter. You might smell like lightning blossoms and petrichor to me but to someone else you could smell like a meiloorun.”
“Is that what I smell like to you?”
“If I say yes, will you drop the subject?”
Or, a canon adjacent retelling of Thrawn (2017) where Humans have secondary genders. These are the tales of the alien and the backwater ~~yokel~~ omega.

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Way Down We Go by DistantStorm

Fandoms: Star Wars: Thrawn Series - Timothy Zahn (2017), Star Wars - All Media Types
27 Jul 2025
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Why Thrawn was brought back to the Ascendancy rutsick and near feral was a mystery. He was a beta. He had been for the entire time Ar'alani had known him, the entire time he'd served the Defense Fleet.

Or: The one where Thrawn subconsciously decides that Eli is his omega and leaves everyone else to pick up the pieces.

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11

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16

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From Ashes by DistantStorm

Fandoms: Star Wars: Thrawn Series - Timothy Zahn (2017), Star Wars: Rebels, Star Wars: Thrawn Ascendancy Trilogy - Timothy Zahn, Star Wars - All Media Types
20 Jun 2025
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In the past, Eli Vanto rebuilds.
In the present, Mitth'raw'nuruodo goes to war.
In the spaces between, they pick up where they left off.
(Some things change. Others do not.)

Series
- Part 2 of From Ashes
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Reunions | i hate it when i'm by myself (i don't wanna be) by DistantStorm

Fandoms: Star Wars: Thrawn Series - Timothy Zahn (2017)
16 Feb 2025
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“Hello, Thrawn,” Eli bids him, a smile shaping his lips, the heat he feels in his chest echoed in the curve of his mouth, the way his eyes resist the urge to gloss over with some amalgamation of emotion that demands to manifest in the precursor to tears.
He sees the subtle shift as Thrawn lowers his guard. He takes one step, another half dozen, and they clasp forearms, their fingers squeezing tightly. Eli leans in, his left arm comes up and around to brace Thrawn's back in the briefest, most professional version of an embrace he can offer: a compromise between Human sentimentality and Chiss stoicism.
Or, a story about finding something you hadn't realized you'd lost in the first place.

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Pizza-Verse by Closer

Fandom: Suits (TV)
17 Sep 2011
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In an alternate universe, Harvey's still the best closer in New York but Mike's not a runner for Trevor: he's a pizza deliveryman, Harvey's favorite pizza deliveryman. And Harvey's discovery that Mike's more than he lets on will change everyone's lives...
Told and retold through Mike, Donna, and Harvey's point of view, with new scenes and reactions each time.

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30 Sep 2025
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In the Eyes of David by garwicbreb

Fandoms: Hannibal (TV)
05 Dec 2024
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Every Wednesday and Friday, Hannibal attends an evening figure drawing class. It's pleasant, quiet and allows him a moment of clarity within his busy schedule. However, one evening, a new model steps onto the podium and Hannibal is immediately transfixed by the sweaty, disgruntled man posing before him.
Will is a gruff, tired and overworked agent taking refuge in his own hobbies, looking for an easy way to indulge in what he really is with no repercussions. It all goes without a hitch until he stumbles upon a new gig where one particular attendant won't take his eyes off of him, finding what Will always feared would be seen.
Just how will their worlds collide, and just how far are they willing to go to let it crash together in a tumultuous, torturous blaze?

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11 Sep 2025
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A Postcard and a Knife by Canis_cosmos

Fandoms: Hannibal (TV)
20 Dec 2020
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Canon divergence S03 E05.
Pushed from his train and relying on a hallucinated stag to lead him to Florence, Will is drawn up short when he reaches a junction and his guide disappears.
The path he chooses leads him to the right place, but entirely the wrong time.

...Or: Will needs pre-med Hannibal's help, and has to avoid becoming Il Monstro's latest art project without revealing the truth of their relationship.
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Will's POV
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10/10

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596

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09 Sep 2025
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Ladders by emungere

Fandom: Hannibal (TV)
30 Dec 2016
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20

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04 Sep 2025
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The Abyss Smiled Back by HigherMagic

Fandoms: Hannibal (TV), Hannibal Lecter Series - All Media Types
22 Dec 2019
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Will is missing, presumed dead, which makes it difficult for Jack and Alana to get Hannibal to help them catch another brutal serial killer, given that Hannibal's only condition for helping them is that he gets to see Will.

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12/12

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686

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1,192

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Bookmarked by DistantStorm

24 Aug 2025