Nomination Overview - Horror
Buckle in today, we got a BIG category. Let's take a look at some of MCYTblr's favourite things to do with the cubitos- horror.
Title: Lucky number 925 (or the butcherbird's song)
Rating: E-rated
Link: https://archiveofourown.org/works/33355348/chapters/82839304
Fandom: Dream SMP
Author: Apocynaceae
Relationships: Quackity/Jschlatt
Characters: Quackity, Jschlatt, Awesamdude
Length of the work: 58906 words
Genre: Angst, AU, Canon-Divergent, Crossover, Dark Fic, Drama, Horror, Hurt-no-comfort, Smut, Whump, Crossover via hunger games AU
Type: Fic
Summary: Quackity is a career without a story.
The day he steps on stage, volunteering to take the space of a citizen of district 2 in the Games, is the day he sees Schlatt. The drunken, uncaring, and uncouth mentor of district 10.
He needs a story to win.
Quackity knows Schlatt will be his story.
(Or the very unnecessary Hunger Games inspired AU.)
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Title: The Pros And Cons Of Digging Your Own Grave
Link: https://archiveofourown.org/works/53507566
Fandom: Dream SMP
Author: antimony_medusa
Relationships: Niki Nihachu & Ranboo & Technoblade & Philza
Characters: Niki Nihachu, Ranboo, Technoblade, Philza
Length of the work: 15,260 words
Genre: Action/Adventure, Angst, AU, Friendship, Horror, Superhero/Superpower AU
Type: Fic
Summary: Ranboo had tried to strike up a conversation with the person driving the City Defense car, really he had, but they’d responded with bland politeness, and he’d stumbled over his own words, and then he’d given up and stared out the window as they drove downtown. The buildings had steadily gotten taller and more ornate, and now they were crawling along between skyscrapers, him with his gym bag of personal items on the seat next to him and the symbol of his new job resting on his wrist, and the driver staring forward into the vehicle in front of them.
They didn’t really blame the driver for not wanting to talk to them. People were always a bit weird about heroes—too aware of their sacrifices or too relieved by their service—and given the choice they would take silence over the person being overly positive about their future or worse—sorry for them. Ranboo slipped their fingertips under the power bracelet again, picking at it like a scab.
OR: In a world where being a superhero turns you into a deadly monster, Ranboo is the newest hero recruit. They don't know what they're doing.
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Title: Twisted Reflection
Link: https://archiveofourown.org/works/41488152
Fandom: Empires SMP
Author: Chalk_Planchette
Relationships: None that it focuses on
Characters: Lizzie Ldshadowlady
Length of the work: 1512 words
Genre: AU, Dark Fic, Horror, Magnus Archives AU
Type: Fic
Summary: [Lizzie]
Statement of Lizzie Shadowlady regarding…
(Pause)
Regarding a monstrous reflection. Statement recorded live by head Archivist on September 7th 2021. Statement begins.
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Title: Monolithic
Link: https://archiveofourown.org/works/41547801/chapters/104206269
Fandom: Hermitcraft SMP
Author: fluffy_papaya
Relationships: hypnotizd & xbcrafted
Characters: hypnotizd, xbcrafted
Length of the work: 22,030 words
Genre: Horror
Type: Fic
Summary: A half step is all is takes — one second Xb is in the shade of the market stalls, the next he’s slipping through dimensions, Hypno close behind him.
Eyes are everywhere. Reality is hidden behind the void. And something quiet stalks their steps, something that cannot die.
But hey — they’re Horse Head Farms! And surely, they can survive this.
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Title: Goretober Prompt 2 - Trypophobia/Parasite -
Link: https://archiveofourown.org/works/27753124
Fandom: Hermitcraft SMP
Author: orphan_account
Relationships: none tagged
Characters: Grian, Ethoslab, ImpulseSV, Joe Hills, xBCrafted, Rendog
Length of the work: 3,333 words
Genre: Angst, Horror
Type: Fic
Summary: The Mycelium Resistance is alive and thriving with their new underground base. Everyone's been in high spirits over the friendly turf war; everyone except for Grian. Ever since messing with the block, he's been growing sicker and sicker, not to mention his growing fascination with mushrooms. When spores begin to sprout in his hair, he waves it off as nothing. Spending too much time around mushrooms can't be harmful, right?
WARNING! THIS STORY CONTAINS GRAPHIC DEPICTIONS OF BLOOD AND GORE. VIEWER DISCRETION IS ADVISED, ESPECIALLY IF YOU HAVE TRYPOPHOBIA.
**Note: This takes place days after Grian finished the hidden Mycelium Resistance base's interior design.**
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Title: PDS 70b
Link: https://archiveofourown.org/works/38010847/chapters/94936891
Fandom: Dream SMP
Author: Hoorayy
Relationships: Tommyinnit & Wilbur Soot
Characters: Tommyinnit and Wilbur Soot.
Length of the work: 7152 (incomplete fic)
Genre: Horror, Modern AU, Post-Apocalyptic AU, Cosmic Horror, Also it's hurt/comfort and hurt/no comfort
Type: Fic
Summary: The day the world ends, Wilbur Soot packs a suitcase and leaves.
(or, it's the end of the world, and one man drives through the american southwest in search of life.)
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Title: no bills in the mail
Link: https://archiveofourown.org/works/48701626/chapters/122850703
Fandom: Lifesteal SMP
Author: oneirogen
Relationships: Ashswag & Reddoons
Characters: Ashswag, Reddoons, Bubblebrooke
Length of the work: ~34k words
Genre: Angst, AU, Character Study, Horror, Hurt/Comfort, Modern AU
Type: Fic
Summary: Go home, like he hasn’t been spending more time in Red's apartment than his own. Half his clothes are in Red's closet. There's a second toothbrush in the bathroom. Where else is he supposed to go?
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Title: completely normal things happening in nevada
Link: https://archiveofourown.org/series/3478825
Fandom: Lifesteal SMP
Author: Anonymous
Relationships: ItzSubz/Vitalasy
Characters: ItzSubz, Vitalasy, PrinceZam
Length of the work: 54,348 words (incomplete series)
Genre: Angst, AU, Horror, Modern AU
Type: Fic Series
Summary: Cryptid/Horror/Mystery Alternate Universe centering around Prince Zam's disappearance told from multiple POVs
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Title: Covet
Link: https://archiveofourown.org/works/36814846/chapters/91843975
Fandom: Hermitcraft SMP
Author: Oceanbreeze7
Relationships: None tagged
Characters: impulseSV. PearlescentMoon, GoodTimesWithScar, mumbo jumbo, EthosLab, Xisumavoid, Rendog, Grian, xBCrafted, FalseSymmetry, Solidarity, InTheLittleWood
Length of the work: 102,734 words (incomplete fic)
Genre: Drama, Horror
Type: Fic
Summary: If you notice anything, it leads you to notice more and more
The humans talked, throwing bits and things into the passage they called Boatem Hole.
The humans spoke to It, gentle and curious. They kept It company, called It a friend. It didn’t understand, but something beyond walls and walls of frosted glass and impermeable fog whispered pained and haunted behind It’s eyes with a voice that hurt to dwell on, don’t you remember this?
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Title: sometime before the sun comes up (the earth is gonna crack)
Link: https://archiveofourown.org/works/48703030
Fandom: QSMP
Author: Odaigahara
Relationships: MissaSinfonia&Philza; Wilbur Soot&Philza; Chayanne&Tallulah&Philza
Characters: Philza, Tallulah, Chayanne, Wilbur Soot, Missa
Length of the work: 10,893 words
Genre: Action/Adventure, AU, Found Family, Post-Apocalyptic AU, I'd say there are Horror elements, but as the author did not tag it as such, I'm hesitant to commit to calling it straight-out horror
Type: Fic
Summary: Tallulah pulled a flute from her bag and put it to her lips, blew a fragile little note that hung in the air like spider silk. Phil stiffened, raising the rifle in preparation– if he could scare the first mermaid, Missa could run up and grab them both– and a dark shape came up from the ocean, seawater rushing off its leathery wings.
Bright yellow eyes, white bone shielding its face like an external skull and a head as large as an elephant’s. Missa sucked in a breath, fumbled for his weapon. Phil centered the dragon in the crosshairs, finger on the trigger, and Tallulah reached up to wrap her arms around the monster’s muzzle, leaning halfway over the water.
Phil swore. He braced himself for violence, the deceptively quick change from living child into gutted mess, but it never came. Tallulah pulled back and said, Spanish blurring to familiar syllables, “Bobby, this is Chayanne. I told you he’s real.”
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Title: Phasmobros AU
Link: https://archiveofourown.org/series/3811324
Fandom: Hermitcraft SMP
Author: Gladumf
Relationships: Grian & impulseSV & GoodTimesWithScar & Skizzleman, Grian & GeminiTay, Grian & impulseSV, impulseSV & TangoTek, Grian & TangoTek, GeminiTay & TangoTek, No Romantic Relationship(s)
Characters: Grian, Impulse, Scar, Gem, Skizz, Tango
Length of the work: 31,480 words (incomplete series)
Genre: Angst, AU, Horror, Phasmophobia AU
Type: Fic series
Summary: A radio transcript of the GIG(G)S team on various ghost hunts for their employer, and a fully written version of one of the worse hunts.
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Title: How to Survive Suburbia
Link: https://archiveofourown.org/series/2675548
Fandom: Dream SMP
Author: hallmarked_error
Relationships: Ranboo & Tubbo
Characters: Tubbo, Ranboo
Length of the work: 6,902
Genre: AU, Domestic/Slice-of-life, Horror, Urban Fantasy/Werewolf/Vampire AU
Type: Fic series
Summary: Series: An urban fantasy au partially inspired by HGK477, composed of a series of interconnected one-shots set somewhere in suburbia. Fics take place in the same universe but can be read as stand-alone works.
How To Befriend The Monster Underneath Your Bed: Befriending the monster under your bed has always been a risky affair. Tubbo knows this, and knows you either do it right or you die. This is how he attempts to increase his chances of friendship
Christmas Eve: Tubbo is thirteen-and-two days old and he is alone on Christmas Eve. He does what any other kid would in his situation - visit a graveyard.
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Title: From The Archives
Link: https://archiveofourown.org/series/2888871
Fandom: Hermitcraft SMP
Author: Sixteenthdays
Relationships: gen
Characters: Grian, Hermitcraft Ensemble
Length of the work: 129k
Genre: AU, Horror, Modern AU
Type: Fic Series
Summary: A collection of statements from the archives of the Void Institute. (Magnus Archives Au) collection of short horror stories surrounding Hermits and related minecrafters
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Title: There's a Reason These Feathers are Barbed
Link: https://archiveofourown.org/works/30824555/chapters/76095047
Fandom: Dream SMP
Author: EmJay_Panziku
Relationships: Phil Watson & Technoblade, TommyInnit & Technoblade & Phil Watson, Fundy & Wilbur Soot, Wilbur Soot & Jshlatt. Tubbo & Wilbur Soot, Tubbo & TommyInnit, Dream & GeorgeNotFound & Sapnap, Wilbur Soot & Technoblade & TommyInnit & Phil Watson, Technoblade & TommyInnit
Characters: Technoblade, Philza, Tubbo, Wilbur
Length of the work: 24,397 words (unfinished fic)
Genre: AU, Canon-Divergent, Friendship, Horror, Post-Apocalyptic AU
Type: Fic
Summary: At what point when you twist a human's body do they stop being human? At what point does their mind come along for the ride? At what point do they themselves cease to recognize themselves as anything but the monster the mirror reflects, and thus cease to exist as anything but that monster?
Would it be possible for that monster to remember, to become human again, if they only had a friend?
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Title: the things that never happened
Link: https://archiveofourown.org/works/36918175/chapters/92105722
Fandom: Dream SMP
Author: artistformerlyknownas
Relationships: Karl Jacobs/Sapnap/Quackity
Characters: Karl Jacobs, Sapnap, Quackity
Length of the work: 26,703 words
Genre: AU, Horror, Modern AU, Time Travel
Type: Fic
Summary: "When I was younger, I could remember anything, whether it had happened or not... but soon I shall be so I cannot remember any but the things that never happened."
- Mark Twain
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or, a crewboys teen drama horror movie featuring karlnapity and vaguely spooky vibes
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Title: Frankenstein Cletho AU Art
Link: here
Fandom: 3rd Life SMP
Author: cerealdog
Relationships: Cleo/Etho, Cleo & Etho, Cleo/Bdubs, Cleo & Bdubs, Joel Smallishbeans & Etho
Characters: Cleo, Etho, Bdubs, Joel Smallishbeans,
Length of the work: not applicable
Genre: Action/Adventure, AU, Canon-Divergent, Crossover, Drama, Horror, Romance
Type: Art
Summary: Full-color art of Frankenstein's Monster!Cleo and Frankenstein!Etho in his lab, as well as three primarily black and white lineart pieces of other scenes from the book reinterpreted with Joel, Bdubs, Etho, and Cleo.
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Title: City of Stars
Fandom: Dream SMP
Author: Paprikup
Relationships: Quackity/Schlatt, Quackity/Karl/Sapnap
Characters: Quackity, Sapnap, Karl, Schlatt
Genre: Angst, Canon-Compliant, Character Study, Horror, Hurt-no-comfort, Romance
Type: Animation
Summary: A short animation about the times when Quackity's heart was shattered, the violence of loneliness, and the person (the monster) he's become in the ruins of lost love.
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Title: the doves are dead
Rating: E-rated
Link: https://archiveofourown.org/series/3482953
Fandom: Dream SMP
Author: emotionsenaationwheel and ollie_oxen_free
Relationships: Quackity/Schlatt, Wilbur/Schlatt, Wilbur/Quackity also some Sapnap/Quackity and Karl/Quackity
Characters: Schlatt Wilbur Quackity
Length of the work: 32,509 words (incomplete series)
Genre: Angst, AU, Dark Fic, Horror, Hurt-no-comfort, Modern AU, Smut, Whump, Psychological horror, torture, New French Extremity vibes
Type: Fic Series
Summary: A series in which Schlatt has the power to control people's minds, and Quackity and Wilbur are his unfortunate victims.
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Title: racehorse: get married!
Link: https://archiveofourown.org/series/2575438
Fandom: Dream SMP
Author: small_lizard
Relationships: Quackity/JSchlatt, Karlnapity, Wilbur/Quackity, Quackity & George
Characters: Quackity, Sapnap, Karl, Schlatt, George, Wilbur, Dream
Length of the work: 38,564 words (incomplete series)
Genre: Angst, Canon-Divergent, Character Study, Domestic/Slice-of-life, Drama, Horror, Hurt/Comfort, Hurt-no-comfort
Type: Fic Series
Summary: A collection of Quackity-adjacent relationship studies that all take place in the canon dsmp universe. Geniunely beautiful works exploring and dissecting several of Quackity's major interpersonal relationships from DSMP canon, including with Schlatt, Wilbur, Tubbo, Karl, Sapnap. Olivet Discourse is the most devastating imo but when reading even a single piece of this series the wider context is always lurking in the back of your mind; no matter how many quiet moments Quackity wins the reader has the knowledge of what's to come and it makes this series haunting.
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Title: ouroboros
Link: https://archiveofourown.org/works/42094335/chapters/105682362
Fandom: Dream SMP
Author: swordfright
Relationships: Dream & Awesamdude, Quackity & Dream & Awesamdude, Quackity & Awesamdude
Characters: Awesamdude, Dream (Primarily), Quackity, Ponk, Technoblade (Secondarily)
Length of the work: 98,193 words
Genre: Canon-Divergent, Horror
Type: Fic
Summary: ABJECT (/ˈab-jekt/)
- Adjective (noun form: the abject)
Definitions:
1. The often disturbed reaction to a threatened breakdown in meaning caused by the loss of the distinction between the self and the other.
2. A place of immemorial violence that defies symbolic order.
3. The product of repression that precedes the establishment of the individual's relation to its objects of desire (id) and of representation (ego.)
4. A place where meaning collapses.
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The prison they built together comes alive in a dangerously literal way. Pandora’s Vault breathes and hungers. Canon-compliant through nearly all of the imprisonment arc, branches off into canon divergence between Techno’s visit/escape and the jailbreak stream.
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Title: Vanishes soon after bedtime for good
Link: https://archiveofourown.org/works/26702875
Fandom: Hermitcraft SMP
Author: 00FFFF
Relationships: Grian&mumbojumbo
Characters: Grian, Mumbojumbo
Length of the work: 4,326 words
Genre: Angst, Canon-Divergent, Dark Fic, Horror
Type: Fic
Summary: Grian has been bitten by a phantom. Normally, this wouldn’t be a problem in the slightest; just pop a health potion and you’re on your merry way. But the bite of this phantom caused a rather nasty infection, its venom coursing through Grian’s veins. It changed him, ever so slowly...
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Title: shrimp colors
Link: https://archiveofourown.org/works/41515473
Fandom: Dream SMP
Author: Hoorayy
Relationships: Quackity/Karl Jacobs/Sapnap
Characters: Quackity, Karl Jacobs, Sapnap
Length of the work: 1538 words
Genre: Horror, Modern AU, Cosmic horror
Type: Fic
Summary: “It’s kind of a long story.”
Sapnap drawls, “I’d say I have time, but apparently the apocalypse is looming over us.”
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(the host of a cosmic horror, the harbinger of the apocalypse, and a guy who's failing chemistry walk into a diner. they talk about shrimp colors.)
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Title: Last of Us + Tntduo
Link: here
Fandom: Dream SMP
Author: ashthefrogprin
Relationships: Quackity/Wilbur
Characters: Quackity, Wilbur
Length of the work: not applicable
Genre: Action/Adventure, Angst, AU, Horror, Hurt/Comfort, Post-Apocalyptic AU, Romance, Slow Burn
Type: Art
Summary: A series of images depicting quackbur in a The Last of Us AU, followed by a brief summary of a few scenes the artist was imagining. Wilbur has a shotgun; Quackity has an axe. They're both traveling across the country together trying to find a safe harbor with other survivors-- and, as it turns out, being in close quarters with someone during life-threatening situations means the two of you tend to bond. Odd thing, that.
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Title: not applicable
Link: here
Fandom: Hermitcraft SMP
Author: qhideduo
Relationships: Grian & Scar
Characters: Grian, Scar
Length of the work: not applicable
Genre: Angst, AU, Crossover, Horror
Type: Art
Summary: In which Scar is an avatar of the End and Grian is an Avatar of the Slaughter. (Grian has trouble finding people to kill to feed his patron. Scar suggests that Grian kill him since he'll come back anyways. Grian has concerns and hesitates, but does it with Scar's assurances.)
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Title: Lifeline AU
Link: https://archiveofourown.org/series/3156309
Fandom: Hermitcraft SMP
Author: SlashMagpie
Relationships: Impulse & Tango, Impulse & Pearl, Bdubs & Etho, False & Stress, Impulse & Skizz, Pearl & Tango
Characters: Impulse, Tango, Pearl, Etho, Bdubs, False, Cleo, Skizz, Ren
Length of the work: 299,349 words
Genre: Action/Adventure, AU, Fantasy AU, Horror, Modern AU, Time Travel, Space AU
Type: Fic Series
Summary: A science fantasy AU about a species of body-snatching aliens attempting to take over the Earth and the ragtag bunch of misfits trying to stop them. Based on the Lifeline series of mobile games.
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Title: Choke Down My Poison (I’m Breathing You In)
Link: https://archiveofourown.org/works/48146797/chapters/121412023
Fandom: Hermitcraft SMP
Author: MawoftheMagnetar
Relationships: None tagged
Characters: ZombieCleo, Zedaph, TangoTek, Docm77
Length of the work: 9,461 words
Genre: Angst, AU, Dark Fic, Horror, Apocalypse
Type: Fic
Summary: That's not water dripping from the stalactites.
That's not moss under your feet.
That's not condensation on your faceplate.
That's not something you should be thinking about.
Your friends are waiting at the bottom, silly!
OR: Zed and Cleo need to find Tango. Before it's too late.
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Title: Eclosion
Link: https://archiveofourown.org/works/51105736
Fandom: Hermitcraft SMP
Author: Sixteenthdays
Relationships: None tagged
Characters: Ethoslab, Goodtimeswithscar, Cubfan135
Length of the work: 1,132 words
Genre: Horror
Type: Fic
Summary: Etho holds his breath, keeps absolutely still. A creeper wanders past him, brushing the high grass aside. He catches a glimpse, through the underbrush, of a glint of blue.
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Title: Red Red Red Red Red Red!
Link: https://archiveofourown.org/works/53143222
Fandom: peniSMP, but specifically peniSMP x2
Author: RottingHead
Relationships: - Penisisunavailable/Shittyfartbaby69
- Penisisunavailable & Various peniSMP characters
- Admiral Anus & Various characters
Characters: Penisisunavailable and Admiral Anus.
Length of the work: 1,078 words
Genre: AU, Canon-Divergent, Dark Fic, Horror, Hurt-no-comfort
Type: Fic
Summary: The peniSMP x 2 spawn island is alive and is an eldritch horror. Bad times ensue.
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Title: Interlude From Another Reality: Taxidermy
Link: https://archiveofourown.org/works/40264314/chapters/100852947
Fandom: Hermitcraft SMP
Author: sixteenthdays
Relationships: No ships
Characters: Joe Hills, Grian, Goodtimeswithscar
Length of the work: 3,921 words
Genre: AU, Canon-Divergent, Crossover, Horror
Type: Fic
Summary: [GRIAN]
Are you the manager? Because when I asked the person at the front to direct me to a manager they told me to come here. I have a complaint.
[JOE]
Well, I can understand that.
(A couple non-canon bonus scenes to my From the Archives series, in a timeline where everything is a little bit upside down.)
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Title: Scarecrow AU (When The Sunlight Dies)
Link: https://archiveofourown.org/series/2556517
Fandom: Dream SMP
Author: personalized_radio, bramble_patch (Marianne_Dashwood)
Relationships: Dream/GeorgeNotFound, Quackity/Karl Jacobs/Sapnap, Quackity/Jschlatt
Characters: Karl Jacobs, Dream, GeorgeNotFound, Sapnap, Quackity, Jschlatt, Wilbur Soot, DreamXD
Length of the work: 511,877 words
Genre: Action/Adventure, Angst, AU, Dark Fic, Drama, Family, Fantasy AU, Friendship, Found Family, Horror, Hurt/Comfort, Kidfic, Romance, Royalty AU
Type: Fic Series
Summary: It's been three months since the coup. Three months since Sapnap, a knight, and George, his prince, have been chased out of their home. Three months of being on the run, trying to find a safe way out of Kinoko without being caught by the president's mercenaries or an opportunistic bounty hunter.
It's hard, but it would be a lot easier if he didn't have to worry about George's sudden taste for wandering. Or the two guides that have worked their way into his group, promising them a safer way out of the kingdom. And it would be a whole lot easier if Sapnap wasn't flying solo, doing a job made for two.
And then there's the Godling to worry about. Yeah. That's a whole thing.
(Summary is for "When The Sunlight Dies", the first story in the series)
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Title: greener grasses
Link: https://archiveofourown.org/works/31163336/chapters/79676620
Fandom: Dream SMP
Author: Apocynaceae
Relationships: Quackity/Schlatt, Quackity&Karl, Quackity/Eret
Characters: Quackity, Schlatt, Karl Jacobs, BadBoyHalo, Awesamdude, Ponk, Tommyinnit
Length of the work: 569,475 words (unfinished fic)
Genre: AU, Crossover, Drama, Horror, Modern AU, Post-Apocalyptic AU, Slow Burn, Time Travel, College AU
Type: Fic
Summary: Twenty-two years after the Survival Multiplayer event, Quackity has dreams of attending a law program in a walled city out West. Desperate to pay for expenses during his next semester at ManbergU, he accepts a TA position with his former professor. It's Quackity's last chance to get out of Manberg. It's his worst mistake.
Features ghosts, time travel, possession, alternate universes, nonconsensual drug use, academic misconduct like you would not believe, an apocalypse, and midterm drama.
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Title: you don’t know how you got here (you just know you want out)
Link: https://archiveofourown.org/works/48603814
Fandom: Dream SMP
Author: Marrow_and_Bone
Relationships: Quackity/Schlatt, Quackity/Wilbur Soot, Quackity/Sapnap/Karl Jacobs
Characters: Quackity, Schlatt, Wilbur Soot, Ranboo, Tubbo, Dream, Sapnap
Length of the work: 15,910 words
Genre: Angst, AU, Character Study, Drama, Horror, Romance
Type: Fic
Summary: Like every other severed employee of DSMP Inc, Alex exists as two different people, who share the same body but know nothing about each other. Every morning when he goes to work, Alex becomes Quackity, and until now he’s been content to leave his other life a mystery.
But then late one night in a diner parking lot, Alex is confronted by a strange older man with mutton chop sideburns and alcohol on his breath, whom Alex can’t remember having met before but who clearly recognizes him, who calls him “Quackity” and tells him they’ve been lied to. And less than five minutes later, that man is lying dead on the ground.
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Title: this is about a stuffed bird
Link: https://archiveofourown.org/works/36163102/chapters/90146260
Fandom: Hermitcraft SMP
Author: Bee_4
Relationships: Mumbo Jumbo & Evil Xisuma
Characters: Mumbo Jumbo, Evil Xisuma
Length of the work: 78,043 words
Genre: Action/Adventure, AU, Character Study, Friendship, Horror, Post-Apocalyptic AU,
Type: Fic
Summary: In which Mumbo crosses several towns, learns some creative methods of self-defense, fights some monsters, sees things no human is meant to have seen, befriends a stranger, steals multiple cars, has inconvenient moral scruples, grows increasingly terrified of his own culpability in the apocalypse, grows a spine, blows up at least one building, accidentally prevents a murder, and attempts to find his best friend in the futile but ever-burning hope the man’s still alive.
He has to say, he’s so exhausted and terrified that he thinks he might just be mad?
(OR: the one where, after most of humanity turns into a series of terrifying monsters, Mumbo decides he’s going to risk his life on an apocalypse road trip to try to find out if Grian is alive. Things, as you might imagine, devolve from there.)
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mermaid mumscarian. that’s all. I actually forgot to post the first chapter when I finished it, so congratulations tumblr, you get TWO helpings of dumbassery today.
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When Mumbo returned, hungry and irritated about still being hungry, Scar was looking for clams. That seemed to be his favorite activity, sifting through the sand, digging up clams, piling them up, then at the end of day, scattering them back in the sand. Today, Scar was lining up his clams on the shore, letting them sit in the sun for whatever reason. Mumbo wondered if he ever planned on eating them, or if the clams were just toys to humans. Maybe Scar didn’t understand how to get inside them? Mumbo snorted, bubbles floating to the surface. Humans probably thought the clams would just open up for them if they waited long enough.
But not even his sour mood could withstand Scar’s bright smile as the human spotted Mumbo returning; its entire body lit up, every single encounter met with the same excitement as the first time it saw him. Sure, Mumbo was more easily flattered than most mermaids he knew, but anyone would break under the weight of that joy. Was Scar that excited to see everyone, or was it just him? He hoped Scar knew he felt similarly. He wished he could tell him.
Scar’s attention quickly shifted back to the sand though, bending over to sift through with a hand then plucking a clam out of the water. “Oooh this is a big one!”
Across the water, sitting on a rocky outcrop, Grian rolled his eyes. “Pretty sure you’ve shown me that same clam every day since you first got here.”
“It’s big though!”
“It is pretty big.”
“Do you think she’ll win?”
“The- did you finally remember to bring nail polish? And I don’t know, I’ll have to take a look at all of them before I decide.” Grian went back to fishing (and Mumbo was keeping a closer eye than he’d like to admit on the line), but Scar seemed satisfied, taking his bounty to the shore to line it up with the ten or so other clams.
“Well you’d better get ready, because our athletes are all lined up! They’re revving to go, Grian! You should look before they speed away! They’re chomping at the bit I tell you, they’re gonna run right away if you don’t come and look right now.”
Grian made a small noise of assent, not moving. “I'm in no rush.” He re-cast his line.
Scar huffed, trotting to his bag (which Mumbo couldn’t help but notice was placed very far from the shore, what was up with that anyway? Did they not trust him? They could trust him. Come on, no harm in putting them a little closer to the water..) and producing a small vial. Mumbo dragged himself a little closer to inspect it as Scar sat back with his clams. It smelled weird.
“What,” Mumbo said in human, another very useful word he’d learned, and Scar smiled, unscrewing the top.
“We paint our..” he paused, thinking, before gesturing to his dull claws, “Nails.” With the brush attached to the cap, he drew some of the brightly colored liquid inside across one of his ‘nails’, coloring it. Huh. So humans painted their skin just like mermaids did sometimes, very interesting. Unfortunately, Mumbo didn’t have the materials to show him. Scar examined his hand thoughtfully when he finished, throwing Mumbo a soft smile. “This won’t last. I’ll save it for the clams.”
With great care, Scar began to examine his clams one by one, picking them up and spinning them in his hands, saying something about names to Grian, then painting little symbols on the shells once they were dry enough. But why? Mumbo got the sense Scar was preparing them for something- to eat, maybe? Mumbo have never actually seen either human prepare any food; they seemed to bring pre-hunted meals with them every day. Was this.. part of the process..? Why in the world would they name their food?
Well. It was possible Scar wasn’t trying to eat and Mumbo was just thinking about food due to his own hunger. But then what was the point!
Apparently, the painting activity piqued Grian’s interest despite his previous dismissal, a common trend for that human it seemed. Despite holding a somewhat stubborn facade of disinterest, he was quick to contribute a name, and eventually, stopped fishing altogether to check out what Scar was working on.
“This one will be Jellie, the cutest, prettiest, fastest clam,” Scar said, practically shoving one of the clams in Grian’s face. Mumbo couldn’t quite make out the symbol painted on it, (none of the human symbols meant anything to him) but Grian seemed to understand, reaching insistently for the paint in Scar’s other hand. Scar held it out of reach, leaning away, but not without a smile on his face. “What? You don’t like Jellie?”
“Let me make one.”
“I thought you didn’t care about clam racing,” Scar grinned as he shoved back, Grian stumbling a bit in the sand before scrambling back to Scar, throwing himself across the other’s arms in a way that made Mumbo’s fins stand on end. What were they doing? Why were they fighting? Was it about food?
“You can’t put Jellie in the race without Maui and Pearl. At least one of them! I want to draw them.”
“There’s only so many slots for the race, Grian. I’m afraid your cats didn’t make the cut, very sorry, very very sorry.”
“You haven’t even painted all of them yet!” Grian said, in a tone that could have been a growl, though Mumbo had never heard a human make that noise before. Grian pushed at Scar’s face, and Scar laughed(?) hurriedly trying to cap the paint before he dropped it. Grian climbed onto Scar’s back, but as soon as the paint was secure, Scar fell backwards, howling as he crushed Grian in the sand behind him. Grian squeaked, the breath knocked from him, but it wasn’t long before he was squabbling under Scar’s weight, clawing and pushing and being very loud in tones that made Mumbo’s skin crawl. He had to stop them somehow- they were going to hurt each other!
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