masterpost of my (written) contributions to this year's @mcytbattleship! the series is battleship 2026, individual fics linked below the cut! please be warned that the post is quite long
and so the world burns (2007 words) by dustfromspace Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: SMPEarth Rating: General Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Technoblade & Phil Watson | Philza Characters: Technoblade (Video Blogging RPF), Phil Watson | Philza Additional Tags: Ambiguous/Open Ending, AU - Apocalypse, bed sharing, Late Night Conversations, Memory Alteration, Music Discs (Minecraft), Oaths & Vows, On the Run, Overnight Train Journey, Scars, Sleep Deprivation, trapped with enemy, Voicemail Series: Part 1 of battleship 2026 Summary: It starts with a voicemail. Well, Techno would argue that it started a couple days before that, when the world started ending, but if he means waiting for a train, it started that afternoon, when he'd been finishing packing the few things he actually needs into a backpack. On account of the apocalypse being his fault, sort of. or: there are probably worse reasons to be kind of running away, right?
watercolour hearts (2889 words) by dustfromspace Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Dream SMP Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Flynn Orangeza & Technoblade, Frey Greyza/Technoblade, Finley Blueza & Technoblade, Pheo Pinkza & Technoblade Characters: Technoblade (Video Blogging RPF), Colourzas - specifically, Flynn Orangeza, Frey Greyza, Finley Blueza (Dream SMP), Pheo Pinkza (Dream SMP) Additional Tags: 3 + 1 Things, Asexual Character, Domestic Fluff, First Aid, Gift Giving, Mobility Aids, Multiplicity/Plurality, Music Discs (Minecraft), Non-Sexual Nudity, for the purposes of aforementioned first aid, Non-traditional Relationship, Prosthetics Series: Part 2 of battleship 2026 Summary: Three times Techno woke up to a Colourza, and one time he fell asleep with one.
don't turn left (1512 words) by dustfromspace Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Searching For A World That Doesn't Exist - Wifies (Web Series) Rating: Mature Warnings: Major Character Death Characters: AveryTheMayo (Searching For A World That Doesn't Exist) Additional Tags: Abandoned Structures, Architectural Horror, AU - Convenience Store, Cannibalism, Exhaustion, Grocery Shopping, Memory Alteration, Superstitions, the other tags are present but more background Series: Part 3 of battleship 2026 Summary: Avery looks down at his phone one more time, then back at the neon sign above the door into the convenience store. There's something oddly familiar about the image, even though he's never been in this part of town, at least recently enough to actually remember it. "Are you sure this is the right place?" he asks, feeling a little silly about it, because his phone obviously won't answer. He's been using the same one for the past few years to make sure that it won't. (it wasn't the right place.)
did it really have to be mushrooms? (527 words) by dustfromspace Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: The Great Potato War - Fandom Rating: General Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: im a squid kid & Technoblade (Video Blogging RPF) Characters: im a squid kid (Video Blogging RPF), Technoblade (Video Blogging RPF) Additional Tags: farming, Minecraft Mechanics, attempts at applying real-world logic to skyblock farming (in a fun way) Series: Part 4 of battleship 2026 Summary: Squid is knee deep in research when his worst enemy shows up. Alright, look. He's fine with farming mechanics getting shuffled around. Incentivizing crop rotation is an acceptable thing for mods to be doing, he's a firm believer in letting soil recover from being farmed on, but mushrooms? Those aren't even a crop, not really. (in which squid has some… opinions about an update.)
and she had beautiful eyes (1008 words) by dustfromspace Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Dream SMP Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: implied Alexis|Quackity/Karl Jacobs/Sapnap Characters: Karl Jacobs Additional Tags: AU - Daemon, Time Travelling Karl Jacobs, Karl Jacobs-centric Series: Part 5 of battleship 2026 Summary: "We've forgotten something," Karl's daemon tells him, on what he thinks is an otherwise unremarkable Tuesday. Maybe a Thursday. Something with a T in it, he thinks. Or, having a piece of your soul outside makes things easier, sometimes.
a brief and incomplete history of how not to run a forum thread (6119 words) by dustfromspace Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: SMPEarth Rating: General Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Technoblade & Phil Watson | Philza, Connor | ConnorEatsPants & Niki | Nihachu & Ranboo Characters: Technoblade (Video Blogging RPF) Additional Tags: Worldbuilding, Epistolary, in the form of a journal and forum posts respectively, Antarctic Emperor Technoblade (SMPEarth), Poetry, less hijinks than the title implies Series: Part 6 of battleship 2026 Summary: I'm not sure the date is right. Chat seems to be convinced that it is, but the days are different here. I'm not sure they even have months, anymore. They do have years, apparently, but their new year was a little while ago. The cleric told me it was, at least. I've only been in this village for a week, just long enough to repair my armor and help clear out a spider infestation in one of the local caves. Nothing too big. or: in which there are two different time systems, far too much questionable poetry, a lot of rambling about the nether, and also nut cakes.
the water will not wash away (1021 words) by dustfromspace Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Dream SMP Rating: Mature Warnings: Graphic Depictions Of Violence Relationships: Kristin Rosales Watson | MissTrixtin/Phil Watson | Philza Characters: Phil Watson | Philza, Kristin Rosales Watson | MissTrixtin Additional Tags: a brief respite, Hurt/Comfort, no bird boy don't think about the dead people, Goddess of Death Kristin Rosales Watson | MissTrixtin, Angel of Death Phil Watson | Philza Series: Part 7 of battleship 2026 Summary: The battles blur together, after as many as Phil has fought. (and the blood only goes away for a little while)
they took each other's hands (1341 words) by dustfromspace Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Dream SMP Rating: General Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Technoblade & Phil Watson | Philza Characters: Technoblade (Video Blogging RPF), Phil Watson | Philza Additional Tags: tagged & but honestly. i don't even think they know, Slice of Life, Ballet/Dance, Dialogue Heavy Series: Part 9 of battleship 2026 Summary: They go dancing in a clearing.
atom to atom (oh what's the matter with me love?) (1945 words) by dustfromspace Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Dream SMP Rating: General Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Technoblade & Phil Watson | Philza Characters: Technoblade (Video Blogging RPF), Phil Watson | Philza Additional Tags: Aromantic Technoblade (Video Blogging RPF), Mutual Pining, but make it dubious and platonic, Fae & Fairies, Bad Cooking Series: Part 11 of battleship 2026 Summary: Techno has lived in the desert for as long as he can remember. Not by choice, mind. If it were up to him, he would have chosen somewhere colder to be tied to, somewhere by the sea, where he still has sand to turn into glass and the sun overhead for most of the year, but where his life isn't held in the uncaring hands of the oasis he was born to. Where there is something bright in his life other than waiting for a friend to drop by, and the grounding pattern of his work. (and today, something changes. just enough.)
hope, or even a lack thereof (1508 words) by dustfromspace Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Dream SMP Rating: Mature Warnings: Graphic Depictions Of Violence Relationships: Technoblade & Kristin Rosales Watson | MissTrixtin & Phil Watson | Philza Characters: Technoblade (Video Blogging RPF) Additional Tags: Mecha, Hurt/Comfort, Hopeful Ending, Technoblade Needs a Hug (Video Blogging RPF) Series: Part 12 of battleship 2026 Summary: There is always something freeing about the moments after a battle, when Techno is still in his armor, all of the uncountable tons of metal and wire of it, but he isn't just the Blade anymore. It never lasts, though. No matter how much he wants it to. (it just might, this time)
embers (1327 words) by dustfromspace Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Dream SMP Rating: General Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Niki | Nihachu/Technoblade Characters: Niki | Nihachu, Technoblade (Video Blogging RPF) Additional Tags: Second Chance Romance, Getting Back Together, Banter, Tea Parties, Mecha, not a very flashy part of this but it's important to the plot Series: Part 13 of battleship 2026 Summary: "Sleep well?" Techno asks, because he's not sure what else he's supposed to ask his ex-turned-possibly-again-girlfriend, currently clutching a mug of coffee like her life depends on it and still smelling of smoke. Little known side effect of setting a hangar on fire via firework. or: this is exactly what it says on the tin. however the tin is also shiny.
these bones, not my own (832 words) by dustfromspace Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Dream SMP Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Technoblade & Phil Watson | Philza Characters: Technoblade (Video Blogging RPF), Phil Watson | Philza Additional Tags: Bodyswap, post-doomsday (literally the day after), Jealous Clay | Dream (Video Blogging RPF), Immortal Technoblade and Phil Watson | Philza Series: Part 14 of battleship 2026 Summary: There are probably weirder ways to wake up.
quick and easy ways to lose a boat (440 words) by dustfromspace Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Dream SMP Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: Graphic Depictions Of Violence Relationships: Niki | Nihachu & Technoblade Characters: Niki | Nihachu, Technoblade (Video Blogging RPF) Additional Tags: Merling Niki | Nihachu, Pirates, Pirate Technoblade (Video Blogging RPF) Series: Part 15 of battleship 2026 Summary: In which Techno almost gets stabbed over trying to become immortal.
the fire in these hands (7042 words) by dustfromspace Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Dream SMP Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Niki | Nihachu/Technoblade Characters: Niki | Nihachu, Technoblade (Video Blogging RPF) Additional Tags: living weapon AU, the inherent horror of magically-induced pair bonding neither of you is fully aware of, Psychological Horror, POV Niki | Nihachu, Hopeful Ending, even in spite of that Series: Part 16 of battleship 2026 Summary: In which Niki contemplates several forms of resistance, and Techno is just enough of a person to only follow the good orders. (It doesn't save either of them, not yet.)
strange woods and stranger hearts (4382 words) by dustfromspace Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Dream SMP Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Technoblade/Kristin Rosales Watson | MissTrixtin/Phil Watson | Philza Characters: Phil Watson | Philza, Kristin Rosales Watson | MissTrixtin, Technoblade (Video Blogging RPF) Additional Tags: It/Its Pronouns for Technoblade (Video Blogging RPF), Alternate Universe - Tam Lin Fusion, well. Sort of, Ambiguous/Open Ending, as in they're still in the other world but they've all found each other Series: Part 17 of battleship 2026 Summary: Do not walk alone into the woods of Carterhaugh, for death stalks among the trees. It is a warning Phil has heard many times, in this new life of his, usually accompanied by his father's knights giving each other looks over his head and skimming over details. He's weaselled them out, slowly, over the years, and put together a very rough idea of what, exactly, is meant by that. (which is to say, phil is kind of annoyed that he couldn't visit his partners in the woods earlier)
to be loved and thus, be known (400 words) by dustfromspace Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Dream SMP Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Technoblade & Phil Watson | Philza Characters: Technoblade (Video Blogging RPF), Phil Watson | Philza Additional Tags: Poetry, POV Second Person, Platonically Married Technoblade and Phil Watson | Philza Series: Part 19 of battleship 2026, Part 3 of dust's poetry Summary: Just a little poem about coming back to the tundra after doomsday.
on first and fierce affirming sight (4295 words) by dustfromspace Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Dream SMP Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Technoblade & Phil Watson | Philza Characters: Technoblade (Video Blogging RPF), Phil Watson | Philza, dream is here to get kicked by the narrative Additional Tags: It/Its Pronouns for Technoblade (Video Blogging RPF), Merpeople, Merperson Phil Watson | Philza, Childhood Friends, Non-Linear Narrative, 5+1 Things Series: Part 21 of battleship 2026 Summary: There is nothing Techno loves more than the ocean. Some things come close. A good book is absolutely up at the top of its list, near potatoes and hot showers after a long day of work, and having good days is in a very, very close second, but at the end of the day it would give up all of those in a heartbeat for the ocean. A bad day near the ocean is already a lot better than a good one away from it. (a few quick scenes of how a mermaid au might turn out, featuring a techno who is tired of these shenanigans, and a phil who maybe doesn't quite understand human morals)
tell me again, when you come home (3345 words) by dustfromspace Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Dream SMP Rating: General Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Technoblade & Phil Watson | Philza Characters: Technoblade (Video Blogging RPF), Phil Watson | Philza Additional Tags: POV Second Person, technoblade uses mobility aids, ok look there's no way the execution didn't do anything to him, Domestic Fluff Series: Part 22 of battleship 2026 Summary: You wake up, as you often do, in your own bed. As has also become equally common, you get a few moments of peace, staring up at your ceiling in silence, before you become aware of various aches and pains. Today, luckily, it's just your head, and you shut your eyes as you sit up, focusing on the weight of the blanket, the softness of everything except the mattress, instead of the way that your head spins despite your efforts. It forces you to sit, eyes pressed closed and arms braced behind you, for what feels like too long—but never is, it's only ever minutes, not the hours it used to be—until the dizziness fades, and you can blink at your wall again. (a quiet day in the tundra, with phil coming home at the end)
broken foundations (429 words) by dustfromspace Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Dream SMP Rating: General Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Technoblade & Phil Watson | Philza Characters: Technoblade (Video Blogging RPF) Additional Tags: Betrayal, POV Second Person, Canon Divergence - Butcher Army Arc (Dream SMP) Series: Part 23 of battleship 2026 Summary: Techno tears down Phil's half of the house, after a version of the execution that Phil was complicit in.
neither home nor alone (546 words) by dustfromspace Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Lifesteal SMP Rating: General Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Characters: Roshambo Games (Video Blogging RPF) Additional Tags: Hurt No Comfort, Isolation, Sentient Minecraft Servers, POV Second Person, the server is also here but i doubt there is a character tag for that Series: Part 25 of battleship 2026 Summary: Our hero wakes up in the End, and being alone is very relative.