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I've been sitting on these for a while, oop. Putting the extended info like author's notes, my comments, and quotes from the fics behind cuts, as this is gonna be kinda long anyway.

Fire & Ice by jen-kollic
Characters: Morgan LeFlay, Jugbender, Dante Dragotta
Rating: Teen
Words: 18,083 (abandoned WIP)
Author's summary: So, what exactly is Morgan LeFlay's backstory, and how did she become a Mighty Pirate Hunter? We get a lot of vague details in 'Lair of the Leviathan', but how to put them all together is anyone's guess...( Read more... )

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A Tale of Two Dread Pirate Zombie Captains by Emerald-Embers
Fandom: Monkey Island/Pirates of the Caribbean
Pairing/Characters: Guybrush, Jack; references to Guybrush/Elaine and Jack/Anamaria
Rating: K+
Words: 2720
Author's summary: Monkey Island/Pirates of the Caribbean crossover; the importance of pirate training.( Read more... )

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The Road to Monkey island by Threepwillow
Fandom: Monkey Island/The Road to El Dorado
Pairing/Characters: Guybrush/Elaine, LeChuck, Miguel/Tulio
Rating: Teen
Words: 15,351
Author's summary: What do an irritated governor, two fast-talking Spaniards, and a voodoo MacGuffin have in common? Guybrush Threepwood is stuck on a ship with all three of them, on another adventure to the dubious Monkey Island.( Read more... )

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Largo LaGrande Meets LeCrew by MinMinGood
Characters: Largo LaGrande, LeChuck, Iron Rose, Flair Gorey, Apple Bob, Gullet, Putra, Flambe
Rating: Teen
Words: 4224
Author's summary: Somehow, Largo LaGrande has ended up on LeShip, and LeChuck is willing to give him another shot at being on the crew. But he needs to find a job to do, and he needs to not irritate everyone around him.( Read more... )

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In the Cards by thedevilchicken
Characters: Guybrush, Voodoo Lady
Rating: Teen
Words: 2149
Author's summary: A Yuletide gift for tahanrien! A little slice of backstory for Guybrush, and the Voodoo Lady. She's always there, just like she's always been.( Read more... )

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The Search by the_angst_alchemist
Pairing/Characters: Elaine/Guybrush, Original Characters
Rating: General
Words: 1631
Author's summary: Elaine has been at sea for a few weeks now, and her crew is starting to worry about her and how she keeps looking around the ship for something that isn't there. ...Or, rather, someone.( Read more... )

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Symbiosis by MinMinGood
Characters: Flambé, Iron Rose, LeChuck, Largo LaGrande mentioned
Rating: General
Words: 701
Author's summary: Flambé appears to have actually done his job, for once. Surely this can't be right?( Read more... )

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Pinchpenny by MinMinGood
Characters: LeChuck, Largo LaGrande, Original Character
Rating: Teen
Words: 2224
Author's summary: LeChuck needs money, so he heads to Pinchpenny Island to meet with someone who might be able to help. He also has a back-up plan if they can't.( Read more... )

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I Am Afraid of Eternity Too by RandomArceus
Characters: Largo LaGrande
Rating: Mature
Words: 2384
Author's summary: You have died. And you find that, with there being nobody around to bury your body, you have to do it yourself.( Read more... )

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May-Hem #1: 28, Volcanic Eruption, Curse of Monkey Island by Laridian
Characters: Guybrush, Griswold Goodsoup, Madame Xima
Rating: Not rated; maybe Teen
Words: 742
Author's summary: Things go a lot worse here than they did in the game. For those who haven't played, Guybrush has just dropped some cheese into the caldera of Mount Acidophilus, home to a volcano god with very strict dietary rules.( Read more... )

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Multi-Faceted by the_angst_alchemist
Pairing/Characters: Elaine/Guybrush
Rating: Teen
Words: 8891
Author's summary: The legend of the Devil's Mirror has been told a thousand times, but when Elaine and Guybrush go to retrieve such a treasure, it's obvious that something much weirder has to happen-- it wouldn't be one of their adventures otherwise! When Guybrush accidentally looks into it, splitting himself into multiple fragments, it's up to Elaine to get her husband back together.( Read more... )

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Vagabond by CaptMickey
Characters: Guybrush, Original Characters
Rating: General
Words: 47,149
Author's summary: Before he became a husband and father, before he became a Mighty Pirate, before he washed ashore to Melee... he was just a lost child looking for a place to call home.( Read more... )

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Much Ado About Monkey Island by introsquirrel
Pairing/Characters: Guybrush/Elaine, Morgan LeFlay
Rating: G
Words: 1355
Author's warnings: Kind of a love triangle situation, but not really; this is unedited( Read more... )

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Portrait by RandomArceus
Characters: Largo LaGrande
Rating: General
Words: 200
Author's summary: LeChuck's gone. And you're still thinking about him.( Read more... )

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There Is No Escape by MinMinGood
Characters: LeChuck, Largo LaGrande, Iron Rose
Rating: Teen
Words: 3250
Author's summary: Largo never wanted to try and find Big Whoop. And he was so over hearing about Elaine Marley. So, he ran. But someone wasn't far behind him.( Read more... )

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I caught wind of smubbles-etc's Wanksgiving fest via a mutual on Tumblr last Wednesday night. Per the FAQ,

In November 2022 there was an idea circulating to yeet a bunch of short-form porn onto AO3 in a short time period, to offer up as a distraction for people facing fraught family interactions around the holiday season. We had so much fun creating random snippets of porn that we thought we’d make this a regular activity.

So they do more than Thanksgiving (you can find a bunch of other events if you look at their Tumblr), but this is the first time I've participated.

I wrote a set of 10 Monkey Island drabbles. I collected them in a series for organization purposes; there's no narrative connection between them. None were beta'd and they were all bashed out rather quickly in the spirit of the fest being pretty laid-back. I tried not to think about things too hard and instead just run with ideas as they occurred, so there's ships in there I don't actually ship and even femslash, which I have never written before.

In the spirit of the fest, they're all rated Mature or Explicit. Ships comprise Guybrush/Elaine, Guybrush/OFC, Iron Rose/Apple Bob, Iron Rose/Flair Gorey, Largo LaGrande/LeChuck, and something that isn't exactly Guybrush/LeChuck but they're both in there. They're mostly vanilla (one exception is maybe just a little on the unusal side, not major kink; and the other is more like darkfic than anything "kinky") and the Guybrush/Elaine ones tend to be rather sweet.

Fun fact: Between three authors, there were a total of 24 drabbles for Monkey Island, which was such a large percentage increase in the total number of Monkey Island fics that it took the #9 spot on fastest-growing fandoms that week.

Poker Night by MinMinGood
Fandom: Monkey Island
Characters: LeChuck, Iron Rose, Putra, Gullet, Apple Bob, Yancy, Mad Flora, Cutthroat Kelly, Flambé; a little bit of Flambé/Mad Flora
Rating: Teen
Words: 5090

Author's summary: Every so often, the crew of LeShip has a poker night. It never ends well.
Author's warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply (but there's some grossout imagery around Gullet which some might consider body horror)
Additional tags: Pre-Return to Monkey Island, Sometimes Flambé does things other than eating and sleeping, Scroll to the bottom for art

Quote:
“Do you want a haggis dumpling, sir?” Putra pointed at the last few on the table.
LeChuck took one and rolled it in his hand, eyeing it carefully. “Ye’ve made ‘em better than this before. I do hope ye ain’t losin’ yer touch.”
“No, sir,” Putra said, annoyed, although she didn’t let it show in her tone. He ate it and didn’t say anything else, so Putra concluded he couldn’t have actually disliked it. When he didn’t like something, everyone heard about it and suffered for it.

5 fic recs in a real grab-bag of fandoms here: ( Discworld, The Princess Bride, The Last Unicorn, Takin' Over the Asylum, Harry Potter )

Title: The Ballad of Hermie, the Giant Sea Pig of Mêlée Island
Fandom: Monkey Island
Characters: Important-Looking Pirates (well one of them), Guybrush Threepwood, other cameos
Rating: General
Words: 642
Summary: A heartfelt (?) ditty about the rise and the demise of this fantastic creature of the deep.
Additional Tags: Poetry, Ballads
Notes: So there's this on the wall in the Scumm Bar in Escape from Monkey Island:

It's not there in The Secret of Monkey Island, so clearly its origin is somewhere in between that and Escape. And one morning I literally woke up with a verse of a ballad about this creature in my head. Pirates are not a very well-mannered and attentive audience, by the way. (The specific characters given some interjecting lines in this aren't really important, so I didn't tag for them; it was mostly a gag from when I posted this to a Monkey Island Discord server using emotes, and I decided to keep the attributions.)

Y'know, for the whole "After all this time?" "Always" thing I remember seeing a lot of jokes about the Always brand of menstrual pads, but I don't think I've ever seen a Coca-Cola joke before today: https://enselius.tumblr.com/post/673470107000963072

Some things I've been meaning to get around to reccing since, oh, early January, as you can probably tell from the fact that they're from Yuletide and Hoggywarty... ( Read more... )

25 Days of Drawing - Day Five - Dancing Trolls by mywitch
Fandom: Harry Potter
Pairing/Characters: Trolls, naturally
Rating: G

My Someone else's comment: "It's a little known fact that the Twelve Days of Christmas song originally had two additional verses, but the Muggles were so horrified by the fourteen Trolls a-twirling and thirteen wizards wanking that those two never made it to publication, and thus the song ends at twelve respectably Muggle activities." ... which was basically exactly my thought on seeing this delightful animated piece.

( Hitchhiker's Guide + a Doctor Who crossover )

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( Doctor Who )

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( Harry Potter )

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( Takin' Over the Asylum )

Death in the Tealeaves by aralias
Fandom: Doctor Who
Pairing/Characters: Eighth Doctor, Lucie Miller
Rating: General
Words: 1735

Author's summary: The Doctor likes tea, but this morning tea seems not to like him.
Author's warnings: "Chose not to use", but none.
Additional tags: Short trips, Tea

My remark: I don't know much about Eight and have no idea who Lucie Miller is (I assume someone from Big Finish adventures), but clearly that knowledge isn't necessary to enjoy this fic.

Quote:
“What is going on?” Lucie demanded from the floor. “Why am I ducking flipping kitchen utensils before I’ve even had breakfast?”
“So they don’t hit you,” the Doctor explained. “As to why they’re being thrown at you, I’m afraid I don’t really know yet. But I think it’s something to do with that large, sinister looking tealeaf cloud behind you.”