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Chapter 30 of The Long Game

The Devil You Don't - Part 2

Better the devil you know than the devil you don't.

Chapter on AO3 | ◈ | Chapter on Fanfiction.net

Chapters: 30/32

Fandom: Portal (Video Game)

Characters: GLaDOS, Chell, and Caroline

Relationship: Chell/GLaDOS

Chapter Length: 4,700 words ( 138,198 words total!)

[ID: A Portal fanfic banner titled "The Long Game" and "Chapter 30: The Devil You Don't - Part 2". In front of a dark background on the left, an android woman stares down at the viewer with a slight smile on her face. The eye on the left gleams bright yellow, while the right side is a smoking crater. The android's other eye hangs down by a thread of wire. The image is mirrored on the right side of the banner /end ID]

Overall Fic Description:

After nearly dying on the surface, Chell returns to Aperture. She reluctantly places her trust in GLaDOS, but GLaDOS is playing the long game.

(Link to beginning on Fanfiction.net!) (Link to beginning on AO3!)

Chapter banner art from @gladosisstillalesbian! Thanks to them for making this art a year or two ago behind-the-scenes and holding onto it until now. Excited to finally be able to share it!!

And if you're looking for even more TLG art that I've been blessed with from tons of talented artists, can be viewed on my blog under #tlg art!! I am very very excited to share this chapter with you all. This scene has been a driving force for me since 2020 and I wanted to be sure I could do it justice compared to the version that's been playing in my head for years. Thank you to @fuchsiamae and @gladosisstillalesbian for support on this chapter for literal years and helping me develop it to where it is today ♥

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Chapter 29 of The Long Game

The Devil You Don't - Part 1

Better the devil you know than the devil you don't.

Chapter on AO3 | ◈ | Chapter on Fanfiction.net

Chapters: 29/32

Fandom: Portal (Video Game)

Characters: GLaDOS, Chell, and Caroline

Relationship: Chell/GLaDOS

Chapter Length: 4,996 words (133,472 words total!)

[ID: A Portal fanfic banner titled "The Long Game" and "Chapter 29: The Devil You Don't - Part 1". In front of a dark background, two women are shown with interlocked hands, half of both of their faces obscured by shadow. On the left, Caroline is wearing a dark jacket and her visible eye is red. On the right, android GLaDOS has a white jacket, and her visible eye is glowing yellow, providing the lighting for the art. GLaDOS has a worried expression, while Caroline is smiling. /end description]

Overall Fic Description:

After nearly dying on the surface, Chell returns to Aperture. She reluctantly places her trust in GLaDOS, but GLaDOS is playing the long game.

(Link to beginning on Fanfiction.net!) (Link to beginning on AO3!)

Chapter banner art from @theawesomerocket! The original can be viewed in full here. Thanks so much for the art and for allowing me to use it for a chapter image!!

And if you're looking for even more TLG art from tons of talented artists, can be viewed on my blog under #tlg art!!

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Chapter 28 of The Long Game

Your Next Steps

10/28/95 - Please meet at 11am to discuss your next steps.

Chapter on AO3 | ◈ | Chapter on Fanfiction.net

Chapters: 28/31

Fandom: Portal (Video Game)

Characters: GLaDOS, Chell, and Caroline

Relationship: Chell/GLaDOS

Chapter Length: 6,877 words (128,400 words total!)

[ID: A Portal fanfic banner titled "The Long Game" and "Chapter 28: Your Next Steps". In front of a dark background, a cropped-in image shows Chell in the center of the image, wearing a green sweater. She is looking over papers under a desk lamp, the only source of light in the room. To the right of her, a woman in dark pants, a light shirt, and a dark gray coat with red striping is leaning over her shoulder. The entire image is slanted, the top edge of the desk in the upper left corner of the image, and the bottom edge towards the lower right corner of the image /end ID]

Overall Fic Description:

After nearly dying on the surface, Chell returns to Aperture. She reluctantly places her trust in GLaDOS, but GLaDOS is playing the long game.

(Link to beginning on Fanfiction.net!) (Link to beginning on AO3!)

Chapter banner art from part of a modified fanart piece from @pineflowerart! They were kind enough to make a few edits in exchange for early reading access to the fic. The original art can be viewed in full here, while the modified version is available under the readmore.

And if you're looking for even more TLG art from tons of talented artists, can be viewed on my blog under #tlg art!!

[ID: Against a dark background, Chell and Caroline stand in front of a desk. Chell is looking at an open file of papers under a lamp with a concerned expression, while Caroline, in GLaDOS's android body and wearing a dark coat with red accents, leans over Chell's shoulder with glowing yellow eyes. /end ID]

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Chapter 27 of The Long Game

The Woman Downstairs

Chapter on AO3 | ◈ | Chapter on Fanfiction.net

Chapters: 27/31

Fandom: Portal (Video Game)

Characters: GLaDOS, Chell, and Caroline

Relationship: Chell/GLaDOS

Chapter Length: 2,157 words (121,512 words total!)

[ID: A Portal fanfic banner titled "The Long Game" and "The Woman Downstairs" and "Chapter 27". The text for "The Woman Downstairs" is arranged in three descending lines resembling steps. The background is a gradient of black on one end fading into white on another, covered in static. A yellow and glowing squiggly line starts on the left side of the image, but is cut off by a white hand closing around it in a fist. /end ID]

Overall Fic Description:

After nearly dying on the surface, Chell returns to Aperture. She reluctantly places her trust in GLaDOS, but GLaDOS is playing the long game.

(Link to beginning on Fanfiction.net!) (Link to beginning on AO3!)

Chapter banner art from a part of a commission from @pineflowerart! Stay tuned to see a full comic page of part of the ending of this chapter in a day or two!

And even more art from tons of talented artists can be viewed on my blog under #tlg art!!

If there was ever a time to tag for spoilers, now would be that time. Please tag any discussion of this chapter as #tlg spoilers and/or #the long game spoilers

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Chapter 25 of The Long Game

Restore Point - Part Two

A restore point is a snapshot of a computer’s most important files, settings, and system configuration at a specific point in time. If a malfunction occurs, a restore point can be used to revert a computer to an earlier functional state.

Chapter on AO3 | ◈ | Chapter on Fanfiction.net

Chapters: 25/31

Fandom: Portal (Video Game)

Characters: GLaDOS, Chell, and Caroline

Relationship: Chell/GLaDOS

Chapter Length: 2,274 words (115,593 words total!)

[Image Description: A Portal fanfic banner titled "The Long Game" and "Chapter 25: Restore Point (Part Two)" featuring an illustration of Chell and an android GLaDOS from the Portal series in a bathroom. Chell is sitting with closed-off body language, looking down and covered in orange propulsion gel. An android GLaDOS crouches to her right, also covered in propulsion gel but wiping gel off of Chell's face with a washcloth. The art is primarily grayscale, with the only color being the orange of the gel. /end ID]

Overall Fic Description:

After nearly dying on the surface, Chell returns to Aperture. She reluctantly places her trust in GLaDOS, but GLaDOS is playing the long game.

(Link to beginning on Fanfiction.net!) (Link to beginning on AO3!)

Chapter banner art by the wonderful @the-dangerous-mute-lunatic! (aka @pineflowerart) The full version of this art piece can be found here—please check it out, is it so lovely.

And even more fanart from tons of talented artists can be viewed on my blog under #tlg art!!

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Chapter 26 of The Long Game

Static Limit

Outside of the event horizon of black hole, there lies a region called the ergosphere. The edge of this region is called the static limit, the point at which the world lines shift from being time-like to space-like.

Chapter on AO3 | ◈ | Chapter on Fanfiction.net

Chapters: 26/31

Fandom: Portal (Video Game)

Characters: GLaDOS, Chell, and Caroline

Relationship: Chell/GLaDOS

Chapter Length: 3,773 words (119,355 words total!)

[ID: A Portal fanfic banner titled "The Long Game" and "Chapter 26: Static Limit" featuring an illustration of Chell and an android GLaDOS from the Portal series embracing. Chell is wearing a light green sweatshirt and is facing away from the viewer, with an arm around GLaDOS's shoulder and another on the back of her head. GLaDOS is facing the viewer and has her arms wrapped around Chell. Her head is resting on Chell's shoulder and her eyes are closed, with a happy expression. /end ID]

Overall Fic Description:

After nearly dying on the surface, Chell returns to Aperture. She reluctantly places her trust in GLaDOS, but GLaDOS is playing the long game.

(Link to beginning on Fanfiction.net!) (Link to beginning on AO3!)

Chapter banner art by @glenbot! Thank you so much for this lovely soft art. I am also using it on the cover of my soft TLG playlist on Spotify, which I listened to a lot while working on this chapter.

And even more fanart from tons of talented artists can be viewed on my blog under #tlg art!!

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[ID: A banner image for a fic labeled "Catamination Risk" against a light background. In the bottom right corner, an orange cat is sleeping against a brown ledge. Its tail hangs down in between the text along the bottom of the image that says "2024 Murderbot Diaries New Year Gift Exchange". /end ID]

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

Rating: General Audiences, No Archive Warnings Apply Characters: Murderbot, Asshole Research Transport (ART), Amena, Iris, Matteo, SecUnit 3 Additional Tags: 2024 Murderbot Diaries New Year Gift Exchange, Cats, Post-Book 5: Network Effect, Before Book 7: System Collapse, Canon Compliant, ART discovers an unexpected soft spot for cats, POV First Person, Fluff Summary: After a colonist unexpectedly gifts Three a cat, ART and the adolescent humans become bitterly divided on its future aboard the ship—but not in the way that Murderbot expects.

For @circumference-pie! Happy New Year! Really enjoyed being a part of @mbd-gift-exchange!

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Chapter 43 of Redemption, a Portal prequel

The Borealis

So on we go.

Chapter on FF.net | Chapter on A03

Chapters: 43/43 (COMPLETE!)

Characters: Chell, Doug Rattmann, GLaDOS, Judith Mossman

Chapter Length: 5,930 words (188,274 words total!)

Overall Fic Description:

It is 1996. Cave Johnson is long dead. The GLaDOS project is long shelved. As CEO, Caroline has been slowly but surely dragging Aperture Laboratories out of bankruptcy. When twelve-year-old Chell and her mother move into town, Chell finds herself planted in Aperture as a part of a larger Black Mesa plot. When she gets an opportunity to smuggle out blueprints for the coveted portal gun, Chell and her unlikely new friend Doug Rattmann learn just how far Caroline is willing to go to protect Aperture’s last secret.

(Link to Beginning on FF.net! | Link to Beginning on A03!)