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All We Have Is Time by BisexualSpacePrincess
Fandoms: Dragon Age (Video Games), Dragon Age: Inquisition
14 Sep 2016
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A Dragon Age AU that imagines the Inquisitor as the mage Cullen was infatuated with at the Ferelden circle.
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Haikyuu!! and Free! Iwatobi swim club various character/female reader one-shots and threads I make to improve my writing and indulge my fantasies.
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A Nursey/Dex future fic. It's been a year since the breakup, but now Dex is coming to Boston for the weekend...
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A place for my collection of short to medium fics based on prompts
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The moonflower means ‘dreaming of love’. Or: after years abroad, Draco Malfoy returns to Hogwarts as a researcher and meets Professor Longbottom.
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Oliver couldn't explain why the boy at the skatepark always caught his eye.
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Mystery Work
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This is part of an ongoing challenge and will be revealed soon!
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hey we hooked up last night and it turns out you are my kid's teacher.
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Like the seasons on Earth that shifted every year, her visits became frequent and definite; and like a man who'd found oasis on a desert, he felt himself hope and heal.
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- Part 4 of Plance Anthology
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Westeros' Most Eligible Bachelor by atetheredmind
Fandoms: A Song of Ice and Fire - George R. R. Martin, Game of Thrones (TV)
14 Apr 2022
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Rumor has it the royal family has been in talks with a production company owned by media mogul Robert Baratheon about a reality show starring none other than Prince Jon...and twenty lucky ladies all vying for his heart—and a royal title, of course. Will this be enough to rehabilitate his image from disgraced bad boy to Westeros’ very own Prince Charming?
After one too many public scandals, Prince Jon Targaryen agrees to be the new star of "Westeros' Most Eligible Bachelor." He just wants to clean up his act and change the public's perception of him as the black sheep of the family, but he might just get more than he bargained for. Enter contestant: Daenerys Targaryen. His aunt.
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Dancing, With Our Hands Tied by Michelleleahhh
Fandoms: Marvel Cinematic Universe, Thor (Movies), The Avengers (Marvel Movies)
07 Dec 2019
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Thor’s infidelity was honest, pure, and laden with regret. Yours is not; it’s clever, chaotic, and vengeful.
Maybe that’s why you find yourself in his brother’s bed. Not that Loki minds your motives.
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There’s something to be said about endings.
He's in the middle of one, a story in its epilogue, his chest split open for words on a page. Loki looks at the half-gutted, half-finished, empty shell of a kitchen around him.
Dreams end by those who started them.
or;
Sometimes, in order to come back together, you have to fall apart first. But Thor and Loki will always come back together.
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Banner credit goes to crows4bros on HPFT
Natasha Butler has had a heck of a year in the USA, she’s now engaged to a seemingly perfect man named Aaron and expecting his child. She returns to the UK for the first anniversary of the Battle of Hogwarts and runs into her old flame Oliver Wood.
Not so buried feelings resurface on both sides in the form of dreams and flashbacks.
Her world turns upside down when tragedy strikes and her fiancé turns out not to be the perfect man she thought. Heartbroken, she returns to the UK to move in back with her parents and older brother.
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The Inquisitor has given up everything; her future, her love, and her hand. It feels like there could be nothing left to give. The Inquisition continues the search for Solas, even as they have a new fire to put out in the form of a demon cult. Eliana has to retrain her body to fight and her heart to think of Solas as the enemy.
This is a work of fanfiction for entertainment only. Dragon age is not owned by myself, but rather belongs to all legal copyright holders.
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- Part 2 of Somewhere in Between
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Ophelia Prince has struggled for years but has finally become the famous musician she always wanted to be.
Oliver Wood is living his dream as the starting keeper of Puddlemere United.Everything went according to the plans they made during sixth year (also known as the year that Oliver Wood discovered there was more to life than Quidditch and then promptly changed his mind).
Well, not everything.
They might not agree on much these days, but they can at least agree on one thing, it's time to get over the past.
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The Bard of Hartford by JCMorrigan
Fandoms: Labyrinth (1986), The Dark Crystal (1982), The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance (TV), Heathers (1988), Beetlejuice (1988), The Neverending Story (Movies), The Pagemaster (1994), Ghostbusters (Movies 1984-1989), Ghostbusters (2016), Mirrormask (2005), Back to the Future (Movies)
30 Oct 2019
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It would have made sense if the creature who had visited Toby Williams' dreams throughout his whole life were Jareth the Goblin King, checking in on his little protégé. However, the voice that connected to him across the vast reaches of space most certainly did not belong to the Goblin King.
A chronicle of Toby Williams growing from childhood to adulthood and the people from his world and beyond who enriched his life.
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Draw Me Like You Do by escritoireazul for Piscaria
Fandoms: Baby-Sitters Club - Ann M. Martin
17 Dec 2019
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Claudia Kishi does not expect to run into Ashley Wyeth at a yuppie artist retreat deep in the heart of the Ozarks, but Ashley's always known how to surprise her.
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Damen sometimes wondered what he would do if he ever faced Laurent.
With only three years down from a seemingly endless sentence and nothing but time on his hands, it happened more often than he would have liked. What he would say, or how he might act around him. Sparing Laurent any thought to begin with was bad enough; it was only made worse by the knowledge that he would never have that answer. If there was one thing Damen could be certain of, it was that he would never see Laurent again.
Everything was about to change.
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Ben Solo might be stuck in a rut, but at least he believes he's solved his dad's financial struggles. After renting out his childhood home, the young Solo has a chance meeting with a ghost from his past. A ghost created by his own inability to resist outside persuasion.
____The Modern Persuasion AU no one asked for.
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playing with fire (we'll all get burned) by ang3lba3
Fandoms: Fullmetal Alchemist - All Media Types
10 Jan 2020
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A non-chronological, nonsensical love story between two soldiers during and after the war. After the war: Roy and Havoc star in the hit indie film Captain Amestris. After the war: Major [redacted] Elric becomes Mr. Edward Elric, an eccentric research professor surrounded by constant scandal. After the war: they have to find their way back to each other, and to what they almost had.
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After the death of his submissive, Colonel John Sheppard spent four years alone. Grief and anger pushed him and made him even more ambitious in his career. Taking Dr. Rodney McKay into his life and his bed was supposed to be a political maneuver--but then he met the man and everything he thought he wanted changed in an instant.
Dr. Rodney McKay has spent a year alone after divorcing his Domme and cutting her collar off in public. He doesn't know if he's ready for a new Dom but he does know he wants Atlantis and Colonel John Sheppard's collar is his path to the city of the Ancients. Then the Marine puts his hands on him and Rodney realizes he's already half way to risking his heart again.
Neither man was prepared for the explosive combination of their sexual dynamic and the intense emotional connection that would burn between them like an inferno.
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Bookmarked by MissMagus
31 Mar 2020
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- Dom/sub world & politics
- War and army politics
- Lots of side pairings and I love them all
- The sex in this is something else
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He cannot remember but thankfully Hikaru never forgot, not even after a decade, several dan-levels and just as many paper fans.
Bookmarked by MissMagus
01 Apr 2020
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- Older, more mature Hikaru and shy, uncertain Sai
- Coming back from the dead only to discover you've been missed dearly
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Jiang Cheng would rather eat his entire left foot than let his mother continue attempting to matchmake him.
Sure, he was a little lonely. Sure, his tiny apartment felt too big with one person in it, even though his dumbass brother adopted him the world’s most obnoxious parakeet two years ago in an attempt to fill the space. Sure, Jiang Cheng’s life wasn’t what he had pictured it would be years ago, least of all because he didn’t think he would have a bird who liked to scream whenever it felt like it.
But he thought it might be better this way.
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Jiang Cheng and Nie Huaisang broke up five years ago, and Jiang Cheng is totally fine about it (except that he isn't). After a few chance encounters, the two are ready to meet in the middle again. With a healthy dose of misunderstandings and all this pining in the way, they must reconcile what went wrong with who they are now—and decide whether to hang on, or let go.
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Bookmarked by MissMagus
27 May 2020
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- HOLY CRAP I cried
- Modern AU
- You want to read a story about a horrible breakup and the best slow burn reunion? Here it is
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The first letter Song Zichen writes to Lan Xichen starts like this:
I had enough of solitude.
It takes two weeks of quiet coexistence, morning hellos and evening good nights and notes on bits of paper consisting of ‘yes’-es and ‘no’-s and ‘thank you’-s, until Xichen works up the courage to ask:
“What brought you to the Cloud Recesses, Song-daozhang?”
Song Zichen looks up from the book he’s not reading, pulls out a sheet of paper, dips his brush into ink and starts writing.
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in which the years pass, grief dulls but doesn't disappear, and new paths open forward.
Bookmarked by MissMagus
25 Jul 2020
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- catch me crying for the next 13/16 years
- the catharsis I never knew I needed
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SV Wishes by Feynite
Fandom: 人渣反派自救系统 - 墨香铜臭 | The Scum Villain's Self-Saving System - Mòxiāng Tóngshiù, 人渣反派自救系统 - 墨香铜臭 | The Scum Villain's Self-Saving System - Mòxiāng Tóngxiù, 魔道祖师 - 墨香铜臭 | Módào Zǔshī - Mòxiāng Tóngxiù
03 Feb 2021
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02 Aug 2020
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- Feudal bisexual world
- Harem intrigue
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to love another (and to learn yourself) by nyoomerr
Fandoms: 人渣反派自救系统 - 墨香铜臭 | The Scum Villain's Self-Saving System - Mòxiāng Tóngxiù
01 Feb 2021
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Seeking the sort of affection he had glimpsed in that other world, Luo Binghe decides to find his own Shen Yuan and kidnap him back to his world. There, he’ll be kept and treated like any of his other wives, and in return Luo Binghe will get to experience the soft love he so desperately craves.
Or, that had been the plan, until Shen Yuan spat in his face and refused to cooperate unless Luo Binghe said please and thank you.
Luo Binghe retaliates with messy attempts at dates, demonic courting gifts, and slow progress towards learning how to be a decent person.
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27 Feb 2021
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- Post SVSSS, Bingge kidnaps modern SY
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Jean Havoc: A Work in Progress by HavocMangaWip (UrbanFaerie)
Fandoms: Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood & Manga, Fullmetal Alchemist
05 May 2019
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What happened, happened. What matters now is how am I going to get through this? You can retire from the military, but being on Team Mustang is for life - you can't run from it, even if you could run... and now I get to start life over as a civilian.
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Sam and Jess are getting married and Dean couldn’t be any happier for them. Honestly, they’re kind of disgustingly perfect for each other and Dean’s pretty damn excited about staying with them the week before the wedding. He’s Sam’s best man, of course, and he doesn’t even mind that Jess has her own best man to share in all the organisational duties. The more the merrier, right?
Except Dean must have done something to epically piss off the universe because Jess’s best man just happens to be Castiel friggin’ Novak. He’s got even hotter since High School, but apparently no friendlier and if Cas wants to spend the week pretending like they’ve never met before? Fine. Two can play at that game.
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After 15 years, a wedding in Vegas 12 years ago, and half a dozen impulsive decisions (including a matching tattoo they still see daily), Dean and Castiel are getting a divorce.
It's been six months since they've separated, and Dean is still in denial, back in his childhood bedroom at Bobby and Ellen's. On the other side of town, Cas is playing the dangerous games of how-many-shifts-in-the-ED-can-I-pick-up-before-collapsing and will-my-liver-survive-to-see-another-day.
Then Dean gets called in the middle of the night by Sioux Falls General Hospital, telling him his husband’s life is hanging by a thread after getting hit by a car on his way back home.
A coma, serious injuries and several surgeries later, Cas is back home with mandatory presence required to help him with reeducation and monitoring his progress. And against all odds, Dean is the one staying around to help.
Dean and Cas’ respective worlds get thrown for another ride, shifting perspectives again.
What if things between them were salvageable? What if everything wasn’t the way they thought it was in the first place? Is it worth trying to glue the pieces back together?
An exercise in healing and second chances.
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darlin’ you give love (a bad name) by Thorinoakentwig
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
27 Jun 2022
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The first time he hears Dustin and Mike mention the name Eddie Munson he almost walks into a VHS display at work.
Steve wants to ask them how Eddie’s doing but then his face from that last party flashes into his head and he always clams up. If he was Eddie he’d want nothing to do with him and rightly so.
Instead Steve teasingly complains about how much time they spend with Eddie and that’s as far as it goes.
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Since he was eighteen, Steven Harrington knew he would not marry: there were many factors, but chief among them were that he had, he knew, given up his chance for true happiness when he had allowed his mother to persuade him from accepting Edward Munson’s proposal.
Or: a Regency AU.
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07 Apr 2023
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❤️❤️❤️ Best Persuasion adaptation I've ever read. Fantastic. Had a total fic hangover after reading. Really well realized characterizations, thoughtfully constructed and engaging. Feels like a love letter to both fandoms. Just so good.
Since he was eighteen, Steven Harrington knew he would not marry: there were many factors, but chief among them were that he had, he knew, given up his chance for true happiness when he had allowed his mother to persuade him from accepting Edward Munson’s proposal.
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my heart to your beat by larkspur_9
Fandoms: 陈情令 | The Untamed (TV), 魔道祖师 - 墨香铜臭 | Módào Zǔshī - Mòxiāng Tóngxiù
14 Nov 2022
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Lan Wangji and A-Yuan are doing fine on their own. (Not that they’re entirely on their own. They still live with Shufu, and they wouldn’t be able to get rid of Xichen if they tried.) But they’re happy, is the point. They have a good life. They don’t need anything more.
Lan Wangji has no regrets, no need to dwell on anything he’s missing.
It used to be easier to believe that, until the day he turned on the radio and heard the voice of the person he’s spent years trying not to miss.
[After Wei Wuxian disappeared in high school, Lan Wangji searched for him for years without any luck. When he suddenly reappears as a famous musician, Lan Wangji finally has the chance to tell him that he has a son.]
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- Part 1 of my heart to your beat
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They break up on a Wednesday
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20 Jun 2023
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You give your heart so rarely that when you do, you give far too much of it. — Genji to Hanzo, Ch.2
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You and Marc were childhood best friends. When he left Chicago at eighteen, you never thought you'd see him again. The last place you expect to see him is London decades later.
"Meeting Steven is an accident. But you shrink, your world vacuums down into nothing, squeezing into a tiny pinpoint.
You are thrown back into the past, and you’re suddenly sixteen again watching Marc walk away from you for the last time." -
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“Can you work with him?”
Max has to take two drags of his cigarette before he can answer, and even then all he says is, “He knew I was the head chef, didn’t he.”
Charles has to have known. Even if the news hadn’t reached him that Max had taken over as the head chef of Taureau Rouge, he would not have travelled all the way from Paris to London for an interview at a restaurant without knowing who he’d be working under.
Still, Charles was the one who broke up with him. Max has to know, for sure.
“He knows,” Christian confirms softly. “He outright laughed at me when I called and asked him to come work at one of my restaurants. It was only after I said it was Taureau Rouge, working with you, that he agreed to come.”
Fuck. Fuck.
Max could’ve gone his whole life without knowing that. He probably fucking should have, because how is he supposed to be normal about it?
// Max and Charles have history, but it doesn't stop Charles from coming to work as Max's new sous chef. It does mean that everything changes for them both in the space of a single week.
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lights will guide you home by a11eya
Fandoms: 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia (Anime & Manga)
18 Jan 2025
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Soul-lights aren’t as common in this day and age as they were in the past, before quirks, but they’re common enough that people do still find their soulmates.
At thirteen, you meet Bakugou Katsuki, and he lights up for you in orange and gold. You tell him he's your soulmate. He sneers and tells you that you aren't his. He makes your adolescence miserable until you part ways.
You meet again as adults, late at night, in a grocery store, over a pile of bok choy. He apologizes for how he treated you when you were children.
(In which you have a choice—to reject Bakugou's apology, reject him, or to let him show you the man he's become, to learn with him what it means to love and forgive.)
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After finalizing the divorce papers with Lori (and seriously, is this a trope unto its own), Rick moves into an apartment building in Atlanta to start his new life. He has to seriously wonder about his sanity though when he has to deal with his rather effeminately furnished living space, strange neighbors like the sweet couple who live down the hall with their college coed sister who can't seem to keep from jumping Rick whenever she sees him, the two lesbian lawyers on the top floor that want to make him the meat in their sandwich, the guy named Morgan who thinks he's Batman and the fascinating guy across the hall with the quick smile and riveting eyes named Daryl who has a brother that likes to answer the door naked.
Then again, maybe sanity is over-rated and this place is just what Rick needs.
Eventual Rickyl smut, somewhere down the road.
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After a dare to call an ex goes the opposite way you thought it would, you and Matt reconcile.
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After 15 years, a wedding in Vegas 12 years ago, and half a dozen impulsive decisions (including a matching tattoo they still see daily), Dean and Castiel are getting a divorce.
It's been six months since they've separated, and Dean is still in denial, back in his childhood bedroom at Bobby and Ellen's. On the other side of town, Cas is playing the dangerous games of how-many-shifts-in-the-ED-can-I-pick-up-before-collapsing and will-my-liver-survive-to-see-another-day.
Then Dean gets called in the middle of the night by Sioux Falls General Hospital, telling him his husband’s life is hanging by a thread after getting hit by a car on his way back home.
A coma, serious injuries and several surgeries later, Cas is back home with mandatory presence required to help him with reeducation and monitoring his progress. And against all odds, Dean is the one staying around to help.
Dean and Cas’ respective worlds get thrown for another ride, shifting perspectives again.
What if things between them were salvageable? What if everything wasn’t the way they thought it was in the first place? Is it worth trying to glue the pieces back together?
An exercise in healing and second chances.