Eroticizing the Worst: Writing to Transform Trauma
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Hermione receives an offer from Lucius Malfoy to switch sides, and decides to take him up on it as an opportunity to get information. She convinces Snape to help her "prepare" for what's coming, and receives quite an education at his hands.
This fic was written as an explicit attempt to understand and explain some of the dynamics of intimate partner abuse.
[Originally posted January 2003 at fanfiction.net]
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Original summary: This is a very strange, very dark fic. Hermione initiates a strange affair with Snape, which mostly consists of her coming to him after Revels and helping him unwind with some very kinky sex, but without really talking about it.
Addendum: "Unwind" is code for "deal with his trauma." This fic is subtle but focused in exploring how someone might use pretty unhinged SM to deal with pretty extraordinary trauma.
[Originally posted May 2006 on fanfiction.net]
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A story about severe abuse, affection, sex, trauma, sadomasochism, and healing, where it's not always clear if these things are happening in the right order, or to the right person.
"I should get myself a live-in one. It must be so funny." - James Moriarty, The Reichenbach Fall
AU: Several years before the events of The Reichenbach Fall, James Moriarty decided that he wanted a pet. His idea of how to acquire and what to do with one, however, would give most people a lifetime of nightmares.
Mycroft Holmes thinks that this pet might be a useful source of information about the criminal, so he liberates her. Finding a novel puzzle to solve, he decides to put her back together himself. Mycroft, however, has gone a long time without letting anyone close to him, and he finds himself in a wee bit over his head.
The Daddy/underaged girl dynamic is not fucking around in this fic, exploitation runs rampant, and there is explicit sadomasochism. As an astute reader pointed out, this is basically a kinky version of Pygmalion.
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This is a serious mindfuck fic about Bucky Barnes kidnapping an original character (OC) and locking her in a room because he doesn't know how to be intimate after what was done to him, so he pays the trauma forward. This is told from the point of view of the OC, and it's fairly dark in places, with a lot of piss, blood, and sitting zazen.
Chapter 10 is an essay about writing this fic, and using fanfiction to process real-world trauma.
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Gifts of the Magi by unclubbable
Fandoms: Captain America (Movies), Marvel Cinematic Universe
27 Feb 2025
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A weekly movie date with a strange friend (who wears a collar?) presents an unexpected path by which James Barnes figures out his way back to touch, and a new relationship with Steve Rogers.
Self-indulgent comfort porn, complex power dynamics and awkward allegory, on the theme of gratitude in D/s relationships — because that's Christmas.
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- Part 5 of Eroticizing the Worst: Writing to Transform Trauma
- Part 1 of Annie/The Gift of Submission
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Kukla (The Doll) by unclubbable
Fandoms: Captain America (Movies), Marvel Cinematic Universe
14 Jul 2025
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Kukla didn’t remember ever being alone in the base before. It was aware that there were many things that it did not remember. Remembering was not an important part of its functions, so the people who had made kukla sometimes did something to it that removed its memories. So maybe it had been on its own before and it didn’t know that.
It waited in its tube for a long time, where it was often placed out of the way even when it wasn’t in cold storage. When it seemed like no one was coming back and it got lonely, it placed itself in soldat’s tube instead for a while. But if there were no people here anymore, then soldat was probably not going to come back here. Soldat went where his handlers went, and his handlers had all left kukla alone here.
This one is mostly about D/s and trauma, with complex power dynamics.
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