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Draco Malfoy was a coward and he couldn't do it: he couldn't bring himself to kill Dumbledore even to save his parents. So he confessed everything to the Headmaster and awaited his sentence.
Hermione Granger could never love a coward: she valued courage too much for this. But even though Ron was the most courageous person she ever met, she couldn't bring herself to love him as well. And she knows she'll break his heart.
Honestly, Harry and Ginny were just along for the jokes and the revolution (and Ron is having an existencial crisis).
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Telemachus gets drunk at a party. Really, really drunk. Odysseus tries to control himself, tries to be a good father and a good person, but when he goes to check on his unconscious son after everyone leaves, he can’t help himself. Penelope’s gone to visit Ctimine, he’s backed up and could really use the relief, and it’s not like Telemachus will know; his son just looks so much like his mother, just one night wouldn’t hurt…
(Apologies to the three people who subscribed before I showed my true colors. It will not get better.)
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The Head Gamermakership of Charlemagne Royage by crunchy_granola
Fandoms: Hunger Games Series - All Media Types, The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes - Suzanne Collins, Sunrise On The Reaping - Suzanne Collins
07 Sep 2025
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Charlemagne Royage was head gamemaker for a few terrible years. Fulvia spent most of this time hyperventilating, taking deep breaths, and screaming into a pillow. Plutarch spent it building a rebellion. The following vignettes are the memories that the alcohol didn’t bury.
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- Part 4 of Stories from the Control Room
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[You don't need to know Baldur's Gate 3 to enjoy this. It might read even better if you don't. But: It contains spoilers the way tea contains liquid.]
A female 28yo human with normal life, job to go to, no outstanding skills, but a bunch of insecurities, is the only unlucky to be infected with an alien larva set to overwrite her mind and body within days. Driving her desperate quest to find a cure amidst battling memory loss and brain damage, alone, except for one friend, she overthinks everything, trying to do the right thing. Trust doesn't come easy, and deciding who to rely on becomes a battle in itself.
Instead of game's companions, I took inspiration in individuals and organizations from my real life. If you recognize yourself here: take it as a compliment. I wrote this story because while playing I went through a storm of emotions and needed to put it into words. (Yes, it gets a bit emotional at times). I wanted to capture what it feels like when you have only one chance to decide, without saving, reloading, and googling for the perfect outcome.
Game's side characters also appear, some are examined in depth, because their actions gave me no peace for months. -
The Awkward Moment I Became an Overlord by TTGirlFan
Fandoms: Hazbin Hotel (Cartoon), Helluva Boss (Web Series)
07 Sep 2025
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After a mishap on the flight deck, Sojourner Knight finds herself in the eternal damnation of Hell, on extermination day of all days. After getting her tail saved, this sailor does her best to live life as normally as possible. However, it seems fate has other plans for Sojourner. Between accidentally becoming the Devil’s therapist, becoming a top overlord, and a prime target of Heaven, it makes sense she’s meant to be down there right? But the main question no one in Heaven or Hell can figure out is: What the hell is she doing down here in the first place?
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Michael has been 'with' his father William for a long time. He likes it, but lately it's been a strain on him with the increase in sex when he's already so tired. His Papa knows, though.
Or, William fucking Michael whenever he's visibly stressed out by anything after he entered high school roughly a year and a half prior (whether Michael is receptive that day or not), to condition Michael into craving the pleasure that gets forced on him as "relief" in response to whenever he's stressed...slowly rewiring Michael's chemistry and what his body seeks under strain & exhaustion.
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- Part 3 of Afton Family Relations
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The Lunatic's Death-Dream by McAddict_ (Claire_Ash)
Fandoms: 第五人格 | Identity V (Video Game)
05 Sep 2025
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"She was the ghost in his pills, and he died to keep her alive."
Depression, anxiety, regret, pain... all of it weighed down on Alva’s life, driving him to the rooftop, ready to end it all.
He never told anyone about his plan, after all, there was no one he could have told.
When he was about to take that final step, an unexpected figure appeared: a girl in a white dress with black hair-- Ann. Not wanting his death to scar her, he tried to persuade her to leave. But instead, it was that very girl who pushed him over the edge.
When he opened his eyes again, he found himself in a hospital room, his limbs restrained.
In that confined space, he and Ann,gradually opened up to each other: sharing past pains, dreaming of futures, learning to forgive, learning to heal.
Piece by piece, everything seemed to move toward the light. Alva’s mind grew steadier, his emotions steadier, his capacity for love slowly returning.
But the better things became, the clearer his awareness grew, and with clarity, the small world built out of fantasy began to unravel.
In the end, it was nothing more than a dream.
And he had to accept his death, just as he had wanted from the very beginning. -
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雨夜不要走入黑暗的小巷，要留在安全的地方，以免被徘徊的殺人魔獵殺⋯⋯。
夜雨會沖走所有行跡，並帶走所有秘密。不是百無禁忌，不要閱讀。
如果點閱，默認有足夠心理承受能力。
實在嘔心直接點叉，不必留言亦不須道德說教。
本文純屬虛構，絕不讚同任何現實犯罪，亦不對任何現實影響負責。
如果發生在現實，請立即拼命逃跑並報警求助。謝謝。
（就一篇肉文還寫這麼長的聲明我也是有大病） -
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A girl enters the Van der Linde gang for reasons only known by her and their illustrious leader, Dutch. She begins to find solace in hurting the lead gunman, Arthur Morgan, in all the same ways that she's been hurt.
But it's never really that simple, is it?
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Things just lined up. Tyler's guild was shut down for safety violations, and they were without work. Katie called one too many times with an offer: a job, monsters to slay, and a place to park their trailer. The only trouble was Tyler would have to move to that farm that housed nothing but sour memories. When Tyler makes an unlikely ally, they must learn that softness is not weakness, and that love is not earned, but made.
Updates every Thursday.
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- Part 4 of NLA and Side Stories
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it's not living if it's not with you by GoodTimesWithScar for macalily
Fandoms: Life Series | 3rd Life SMP Series
02 Sep 2025
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So he’s got a plan. And the plan’s not all that detailed, because he’s only had a few spare minutes to think about it, but he lives by the seat of his pants in the normal games anyway and he’ll die by them too if he can help it, so it goes a little something like this:
- Joel makes sure that Jimmy doesn’t leave his sight.
- If Jimmy is about to die, Joel will step in and die for him.
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- Canary curse broken, everybody wins, wahey.
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All flesh will rot with time
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- Part 16 of 𝄢
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beautiful, and so deprived by sapphicbucky
Fandoms: The Amazing Digital Circus (Web Series)
01 Sep 2025
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He professed great things about Ragatha to Jax, sometimes while she was in the room, sometimes not. Words like indispensable, bright, a joy to have around. Grand words, spun out smooth, like silk threads wrapping her up. She assumed Jax was meant to believe them, to distance himself from her, to see her as Ribbit saw her: fragile, silly, soft. The next to go.
But Jax didn’t. Not at first.
( or, A look into how Ribbit stained the performers, even before Abstraction. )
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This is the story of a girl who lives in a house. This persists until she is no longer a girl who lives in a house.
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𝘼𝙦𝙪𝙖𝙢𝙖𝙧𝙞𝙣𝙚! by Bawbixo
Fandoms: 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia (Anime & Manga)
29 Aug 2025
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Seven years ago your mother, pro hero 'Aquamarine' was forced to retire after suffering a life-threatening injury. Five years ago, the symbol of peace saved your life. Now, you'll do everything you can to fill the shoes your mother was forced to leave behind so that you can climb the ranks and work alongside your idol.
And what better way to achieve your goals than to apply to the hero school they both graduated from? You’ve got big shoes to fill, and an even bigger dream.Surely, it'll be smooth sailing from here on out... right?
(originally posted here but also cross-posted to Wattpad (#1 IN LOVEANGLE) and Quotev (8k reads). 。・゜✭・UPDATES EVERY FRIDAY・✫゜・。.
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Ren Amamiya is rising and drowning at the same time. He wants a future that he's not sure he deserves, and he is trying his hardest to support everyone in their efforts to find their own even if he doesn't know if he'll have one.
Sumire Yoshizawa is trying to find and build her anchor. She wants to find a version of herself that she loves, one that she accepts and can live with, and hopefully one that takes her to the future that she wants. She refuses to accept otherwise.
Both of them are learning how to live, how to grow, how to be.
Destiny has plans for them; demons, both real and imagined, threaten to tear them, and everything they are trying to build, to pieces.
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- Part 2 of The Red Rogues
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After Johnny is shot, he’s medically discharged. The rest of the 141 retire alongside with him. Something is missing, though, and Simon finds the perfect girl to fill the empty space.
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It began with almost imperceptible changes. During his nightly patrol, Bruce first noticed the unnatural way darkness wrapped around him like a second skin, and how his vision pierced the blackness with an acuity that went far beyond his years of training. He dismissed these changes as paranoia, perhaps a side effect of sleep deprivation.
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The Jokerz Who Loved Me by tforange
Fandoms: Batman Beyond, DC Animated Universe (Timmverse), Batman - All Media Types, DCU, Justice League - All Media Types, Justice League & Justice League Unlimited (Cartoons)
22 Aug 2025
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After a bitter fight with his girlfriend Dana, a dejected Terry McGinnis just wants to be left alone with a chili dog and his thoughts. His solitude is shattered by the recently-escaped Dee Dee twins, or more specifically, by one half of the duo. Delia Dennis sees Terry and experiences a love so profound it rewires her brain, instantly casting herself as his devoted girlfriend.
As Terry tries desperately to escape her advances, Delia's mind concocts the only logical explanation for his constant disappearances and secretive nature: he's a secret agent. Her delusion is so powerful that she's physically incapable of seeing the truth, even when she follows him into the Batcave itself, leading to a comedy of errors that will test the limits of Terry's patience and Bruce's sanity.
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Vermilion by allthingsunrelated
Fandoms: 光が死んだ夏 | Hikaru ga Shinda Natsu | The Summer Hikaru Died (Manga), 光が死んだ夏 | Hikaru ga Shinda Natsu | The Summer Hikaru Died (Anime)
21 Aug 2025
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But Hikaru can't stop thinking about him.