umbraastaff (jothending)
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Trapped In Active Depart by jothending, umbraastaff (jothending)
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells, The Adventure Zone (Podcast)
07 Jul 2025
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The ship lies half-constructed in the bay, recently vacated of construction workers for the evening. Late evening. This project has fostered a bewildering obsession in people. None of them get angry about working overtime. They even volunteer for it, without questioning their superiors about pay. It's unnerving.
(This fic is readable even if you're only familiar with one of the two canons! Or potentially neither, though that's untested territory.)
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[OLD] Trapped In Active Depart by jothending, umbraastaff (jothending)
Fandoms: The Adventure Zone (Podcast), The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
18 Jul 2023
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Hey, bookmarkers, this fic's being rewritten! Read the new version HERE!
This version will remain available for posterity.
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At the center of Dissatisfaction, there is a man. But Dissatisfaction contains many men, and countless other things besides. At the edge of Dissatisfaction, there is also a man.
Or: A piece of the Hunger breaks off. It wears glasses and blue jeans.
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TAZ Oneshot Compilation (Why Not?) by umbraastaff (jothending)
Fandoms: The Adventure Zone (Podcast)
20 Dec 2022
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A collection of my TAZ oneshots over the last few years that never made it to Ao3. Some are canon-compliant snippets, others are AUs that never quite picked up speed. A few will be crossovers, too-- love a good crossover.
Chapter one is a table of contents.
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If I Wanted To Be Funny I’d Name This Fic “The Time Belt” by umbraastaff (jothending)
Fandoms: The Adventure Zone (Podcast)
12 Feb 2021
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What's up with all this "fantasy this," "fantasy that" nonsense? Welcome to high tech,
constant surveillance,rad lasers,no privacy,and even the fabled art of time travel--It's the FUTURE!But... Is this really how everything was supposed to turn out...? Something feels very wrong.
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Trapped In Active Depart: Collector's Edition by jothending, umbraastaff (jothending)
Fandom: The Adventure Zone (Podcast), The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
07 Jul 2025
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They Say Fire Took Phandalin by umbraastaff (jothending)
Fandom: The Adventure Zone (Podcast)
30 Jun 2019
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When Phandalin goes up in flames practically overnight, world-famous detective Angus McDonald is on the case (whether his services are specifically requested or not). But what to do with its lone survivor? One elven little boy and his umbrella may just hold all the answers... ...and prove to be Angus's greatest unsolved mystery yet. One thing's for sure: it's bad luck to open an umbrella indoors.
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- Part 1 of Bad Luckverse
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Bookmarked by umbraastaff (jothending)
24 Feb 2023
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Such an intriguing plotline, stellar characterizations, and as always, Lyra's writing of how kids think cannot be bested!
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This (Mission) Was My Life by transdavenport (555_95472)
Fandoms: The Adventure Zone (Podcast)
04 Oct 2017
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Lucretia, in her research for the mission, finds shockingly large gaps in Captain Davenport's files. So she takes her questions right to the source.
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- Part 2 of Davenport Week Fics
Bookmarked by umbraastaff (jothending)
24 Feb 2023
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A quick read, an excellent little moment between characters, and a great presentation of an idea. Five writes a killer Davenport always, and comes in hard with the ending punch.
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"Avi, this is Davenport." Lucretia said, “do you think you can handle taking care of him for a few hours?"
Bookmarked by umbraastaff (jothending)
19 Apr 2018
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A really, really lovely fic that gets the brain ticking on a relationship you never really see in canon.
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Lup would much rather talk to her online best friend than have to work at the bookstore today, but maybe the author doing the signing isn't terrible.
Bookmarked by umbraastaff (jothending)
22 Dec 2022
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A light fic and an absolute joy to read. If you haven't read any of this author's Blupjeans content, you're missing the hell out!
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Someone I Have Loved, But Never Known by anistarrose
Fandoms: The Adventure Zone (Podcast)
12 Sep 2022
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Lup and Barry get married, and then on the very next cycle, they do it again. And again. They expand their collection of increasingly strange rings with a competitive streak, and they wouldn’t want it any other way…
Lup runs a cooking show, with no partners in the picture besides her brother, but on her finger, she never stops wearing a delicate wooden wedding ring — from someone she thinks she loved, but has never remembered knowing. Her heart soars, when she finds a stranger in the same situation…
But unfortunately, his ring doesn’t match her own in the slightest.
Equally unfortunate, Lup finds herself immediately falling for him anyway.
(a blupjeans, voidfished, two-person love quadrilateral story!)
Bookmarked by umbraastaff (jothending)
08 Aug 2022
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If you're in this fandom, you gotta love memory fuckery, right? Genuinely, though, this is a fantastic read. Just the right balance of suspense and silliness, and a fun exploration of the proposed canon divergence.