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Alina Oretsev owns a bookshop in a neighborhood in Os Alta that is escaping gentrification by the skin of its teeth and the sweat of its most notorious occupants, the Dregs. There are plenty of reasons why the secret police might be interested in Mrs. Oretsev’s shop, and none of them (thank the Saints) have anything to do with the fact that she occasionally glows in the dark.
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01 Jul 2025
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nocturne by amplifierverse
Fandoms: The Grisha Trilogy - Leigh Bardugo, Shadow and Bone (TV)
10 Jun 2021
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“You might make me your wife, but I cannot love you,” Alina tells him, tone as burning as the Fjerdan frost, the words torn straight from the smoking ashes the loss of her childhood love left behind in her heart. And yet, despite all of her biting contempt, the statement still makes something twinge in her chest. Distant remains from a naïve, young mapmaker entranced with the attractive older man pulling her in like a spider into his web of lies. “I won’t. Ever.”
“Oh, Alina,” he says, a soft chuckle vibrating from his chest, his wretched, beautiful face looking at her with such belittlement that it makes her blood boil even hotter. “Little pet. Who said anything about love?”
Alina lost the war, and has to deal with the consequences
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- English
- Words:
- 31,264
- Chapters:
- 3/3
- Comments:
- 165
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- 1,375
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- 330
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24 Jun 2025
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Before the World Wakes by foreverfelicityqueen (stydiasredstring), holysmoaksoliver
Fandoms: Arrow (TV 2012)
19 Jun 2019
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Tommy Merlyn doesn’t believe Oliver Queen is dead, despite his best friend having gone missing over two years ago. He needs proof, one way or another; so when he encounters Felicity Smoak, the witty computer genius, the pair crisscross the globe on a mission to discover the truth about what happened when the Queen’s Gambit went down.
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- Part 1 of Wake Verse
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 159,254
- Chapters:
- 38/38
- Comments:
- 847
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- 1,358
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- 260
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- 54,449
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17 Jun 2025
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All of Oliver and Felicity’s friends keep getting married, while the two of them can’t seem to maintain anything serious. At a wedding, they decide to make a bet. One month of “dating” each other. Monogamy, romance, the whole experience. Just to see if they can do it, of course.
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- English
- Words:
- 67,557
- Chapters:
- 12/12
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- 632
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- 898
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10 Jun 2025
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Like A Good Neighbor by kindaquirky
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types, Red Robin (Comics), Red Hood and the Outlaws (Comics), Batgirl (Comics)
31 Dec 2019
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Tim Drake leads a...mostly normal life, helping people get the best insurance they can afford. Soon though, he finds himself embroiled in a plot that involves Robin trying to take him down, and Batgirl possibly helping. Add to the mix Red Hood using him for information, and a strange young man walking into his office under false pretenses, Tim finds that his mostly normal life is about to completely change.
Tim knew there were worse jobs in Gotham than insurance agent, but he’s hard pressed to think of another at the moment. As he shoots off an email to a client about looking into their claim asap, he hears the glass door to the small insurance office open and watches Stephanie Brown,the goddamn Batgirl, walk into the agency and catch his eye. He puts 'masked vigilante' at the top of the list.
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- Part 1 of Like A Good Neighbor
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 93,106
- Chapters:
- 18/18
- Collections:
- 16
- Comments:
- 1,774
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- 8,589
- Bookmarks:
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09 Jun 2025
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Let's Play a Love Game by batsaboutbats, meaninglessblah
Fandoms: DCU (Comics), DCU, Batman - All Media Types, Batman (Comics)
11 Apr 2025
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When signs of a blackmarket organ trafficker floats up in Gotham Harbor, Jason and Tim find out that the victims had one thing in common: they both worked at a gay strip club. Determined to root out the traffickers, both decide to go undercover to solve the case. The only problem? Neither knows the other is working the case.
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- Part 1 of Let's Play A Love Game
- Part 3 of Collaborations
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 147,334
- Chapters:
- 12/12
- Comments:
- 831
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- 1,850
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- 419
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- 55,822
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09 Jun 2025
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no place like home by Take_Me_To_My_Fragile_Dreams
Fandoms: DCU, Batman - All Media Types, Batman (Comics), DCU (Comics)
27 Jun 2023
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Two years after an accident that left Tim without a mask and no real life purpose, he's worked hard to make a new place for himself, to build a home, but the arrival of a hooded vigilante runs the risk of ruining it all.
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“Is this blackmail?”
“Blackmail? No.” There’s a scoff. “Not real sure what this is yet, t’ be honest. I was plannin’ on shootin’ ya and bein’ done with it but it looks like someone else got to ya first.”
Tim’s smile is brittle at best. “If you don’t know what this is,” he says with all the cold calm instilled in him by Janet Drake. “then perhaps you should come back later. I have animals to feed, Mr…?”
“Red Hood.”
He makes a polite sound, as if that’s as normal a name as any.
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- Part 1 of Tim Drake's farm for wayward souls
- Part 4 of DC works
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 16,854
- Chapters:
- 1/1
- Collections:
- 3
- Comments:
- 70
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- 1,982
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- 370
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08 Jun 2025
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searching faces by Take_Me_To_My_Fragile_Dreams
Fandoms: DCU, Red Hood and the Outlaws (Comics), DCU (Comics), Batman - All Media Types, Batman (Comics)
01 Apr 2025
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“I need your help,” Tim says. “I need - “ again, the liquid sloshes in his cup. He releases it to rub his hands over the fabric of his pants. “I need your help.”
“Do you?” She is usually not the one approached for these sorts of things. Jason gets the calls, and Roy charms his way into information. She is merely a companion, one that most people stay away from. “What sort of help do you require, Tim Wayne?”
There’s a flinch, so minute anyone else would have missed it. He lets out a harsh breath and grabs for his drink once more. He yanks his mask down in one swift motion and brings the straw to his lips. He drinks like someone who hasn’t had water in days, with a single minded determination Kori has seen plenty of men use to go at bottles in dark lit bars.
His face is flushed. The red comes through in blotchy patches made worse by the stark white that splatters the lower left of his jaw. On his cheeks are two reddened slashes. They start at the corners of his lips and cut up towards his ears in diagonal lines.
“Sanctuary,” he says, when his cup is empty and his mask is up once more. “I seek sanctuary.”
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In the aftermath of Joker's torture, Tim runs to the only place left he can think of.
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- Part 1 of finding your way home
- Part 1 of DC works
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 86,305
- Chapters:
- 19/19
- Collections:
- 11
- Comments:
- 977
- Kudos:
- 4,167
- Bookmarks:
- 1,117
- Hits:
- 79,214
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08 Jun 2025
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things unspoken (now said) by Tauria for CaptainDeadShips
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types, Batman (Comics), DCU (Comics), DCU
24 Dec 2024
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When Dick asks for help with a case, Jason and Tim find themselves undercover as a couple to lure a killer out of hiding.
This is fine. Except for one problem…
They broke up two months ago, after no one knew they were dating in the first place.
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 19,270
- Chapters:
- 1/1
- Collections:
- 1
- Comments:
- 30
- Kudos:
- 511
- Bookmarks:
- 77
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- 4,096
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26 May 2025
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Meet Me At Red Herring by bewaretheboojum for paprikadotmp4
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types, Batman (Comics), Red Robin (Comics), Robin (Comics), Red Hood and the Outlaws (Comics)
23 Dec 2024
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Years after Jason retired from the The Mission, a frequent customer at his bookshop disappears. Fortunately, Tim's in town to repair his houseboat, so he's there to help Jason track him down
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 11,468
- Chapters:
- 1/1
- Collections:
- 1
- Comments:
- 11
- Kudos:
- 118
- Bookmarks:
- 18
- Hits:
- 718
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25 May 2025
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over this threshold by orphean
Fandoms: Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice, Batman - All Media Types, Superman - All Media Types, DC Extended Universe
23 Jun 2020
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'I don't understand how tax evasion relates to you going on a date with, do I need to remind you, Bruce Wayne.'
Clark bit his tongue.
'We're going to get married. It's a tax break, not tax evasion.'
'Are you kidding me.' Lois stared. 'That's the stupidest thing I've ever heard.'
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Bruce asks Clark to marry him for tax reasons. Clark, against his better judgment, agrees.
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 59,283
- Chapters:
- 7/7
- Comments:
- 232
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- 1,914
- Bookmarks:
- 447
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- 29,503
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13 May 2025
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Their Hearts Said by Anogete
Fandoms: Marvel Cinematic Universe, Captain America (Movies), The Avengers (Marvel Movies)
28 Sep 2018
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Steve is coping with the deaths of half the universe by not dealing with it at all. Darcy is desperately searching for Thor in hopes he can shed some light on what happened and why all of her family, including her best friend Jane, disappeared a few months ago. When their paths cross, they try to find something other than numbness in each other. Maybe wild sex in the stairwell and a public bathroom isn't the healthiest way of dealing with trauma, but it's all they're capable of while trying to bring back everyone they lost.
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 81,030
- Chapters:
- 16/16
- Comments:
- 1,197
- Kudos:
- 2,125
- Bookmarks:
- 553
- Hits:
- 47,732
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27 Apr 2025
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Mystery Work
Part of Nothing to see here
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This is part of an ongoing challenge and will be revealed soon!
Bookmarked by PBlake
26 Apr 2025
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Most Ardently by leigh_miller
Fandoms: Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice & Related Fandoms, Pride and Prejudice (2005)
01 Dec 2022
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Pride and Prejudice canon divergence. Darcy has asked Elizabeth to marry him, she has refused. And yet, instead of going their separate ways they share a passionate embrace. When they're caught, they're forced into an arrangement neither one expected.
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 65,313
- Chapters:
- 21/21
- Collections:
- 2
- Comments:
- 569
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- 5,494
- Bookmarks:
- 1,182
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- 147,555
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01 Apr 2025
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Harry thinks he should have expected some blood and screaming at any Hogwarts-sanctioned event, even almost a decade after leaving school, but the greater surprise is in witnessing Draco Malfoy come to the rescue.
Draco thinks it’s just his rotten luck that Harry Potter's asked for his help.
The rest is a love story.
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 211,470
- Chapters:
- 28/28
- Collections:
- 5
- Comments:
- 322
- Kudos:
- 1,409
- Bookmarks:
- 467
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- 47,318
Bookmarked by PBlake
30 Mar 2025
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When Harry arrives for his first year teaching at Hogwarts and is struck with a bizarre malignance, how on earth is he supposed to react when Draco Malfoy suddenly cares?
Or;
A darkness crawls out of Harry, and there's only so long he can keep it to himself.
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 142,789
- Chapters:
- 11/11
- Collections:
- 1
- Comments:
- 353
- Kudos:
- 1,040
- Bookmarks:
- 423
- Hits:
- 27,789
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24 Mar 2025
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“Well, I heard in town that you were looking for some help digging a well. And I thought I might provide my services.”
Penelope stared at him. “Now why on God’s green earth would you want to do that?” she asked, more bluntly than was perhaps proper for a young lady. “We can’t pay you.” Their father had left them with almost nothing, save this land and the house they were standing on. It was a pretty nice house - better than some of the others in the area - but life was hard.
He shook his head and turned his hat over in his hands. “No, I didn’t expect you could. I hoped you might instead pay me in kind.”
Penelope’s cheeks flushed red and she looked down, her hands smoothing the faded yellow cotton of her day dress. She didn’t suppose he meant what it sounded like he meant, being a gentleman and all, but the idea of Colin Bridgerton taking that sort of payment from her made her cheeks hot.
OR: local cowboy offers to help farmgirl dig a well (aka cowboy colin meets prairie girl pen)
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- Part 1 of Cowboy Colin
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 40,179
- Chapters:
- 1/1
- Comments:
- 437
- Kudos:
- 1,951
- Bookmarks:
- 651
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- 29,286
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13 Mar 2025
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Strip by writergirl8 for Elle018, wereadtoliveathousandlives
Fandoms: Bridgerton (TV), Bridgerton Series - Julia Quinn
21 Oct 2024
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Colin Bridgerton is expecting to have a relaxing holiday at Aubrey Hall with his family. There's just one variable he's not anticipating: he keeps stumbling upon Penelope Featherington in various states of undress.
Penelope doesn't know why fate is conspiring against her to have Colin see her naked, but she has bigger things to worry about. Namely, how she is going to hide her feelings from Colin when they're becoming closer friends every day.
After years of knowing each other, maybe they can finally strip down and see each other bare.
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 102,805
- Chapters:
- 13/13
- Comments:
- 1,687
- Kudos:
- 3,196
- Bookmarks:
- 906
- Hits:
- 113,285
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08 Mar 2025
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Familiar Scars by LemonadeGarden
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types, Batman (Comics), Harley Quinn (Comics)
16 Dec 2016
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Harley laughs, leaning back on the pool chair. "What is this, the third child you guys have picked up from the street, Selina? Anyone ever told ya that your boyfriend has a serious hero complex?"
An AU without superheroes, where Bruce and Selina finally get their heads out of their asses and learn how to form solid relationships (which they do by adopting a bunch of boys with dark hair and blue eyes together).
Also lots of harley/Ivy.
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 67,821
- Chapters:
- 21/21
- Collections:
- 2
- Comments:
- 682
- Kudos:
- 3,946
- Bookmarks:
- 1,152
- Hits:
- 58,680
Bookmarked by PBlake
01 Mar 2025
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While trying to take down a drug cartel that deals with memory altering drugs, things go awry, and Batman wakes up with no recollection of the last five years.
As a result, his family must now race against time to find the antidote, while also having to deal with a Bruce who still thinks Jason is Robin. A Bruce who doesn't recognise most of them. A Bruce far less jaded and cynical than the one they're used to. A Bruce who still cares.- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 49,000
- Chapters:
- 16/16
- Collections:
- 39
- Comments:
- 2,089
- Kudos:
- 21,980
- Bookmarks:
- 6,504
- Hits:
- 281,663
Bookmarked by PBlake
01 Mar 2025