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Hermione Granger enters the Riddle Estate as Lord Riddle's governess in search for salvation.
She finds something else instead.
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A few weeks before his crowning ceremony, Griffith Maschera finds himself unwilling to accept the title of prince as his own. With time running out, he tries his best to enjoy the life he always wanted before his world collapses around him...
I positioned this as a prequel to Book 1 Chapter 1, is set a few weeks before that one starts
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You poisoned me into the shadow of who I once was by DAPHNESMASK
Fandoms: Carmen Sandiego (Cartoon 2019)
06 Sep 2025
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"I would take a bullet for you just to prove my love, only to find out you are the one holding the gun"
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A character study on Shadowsan and how he became the way he is.
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A tiny voice in his brain told him: the future is not foretold yet. But he didn’t believe that, anymore. The gods would have their way, and he was too small and far too human to defy them again—if he still had any hope of getting home, he needed to play by their rules.
But he was a boy on the open ocean on a handmade raft, and there was a monster approaching (there always was, in these kinds of stories).
Odysseus is refusing to let Calypso make him immortal, but then he gets sick!
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Two Dicks Rubbing Together by TagYourYanderes
Fandoms: Blue Lock (Manga), Blue Lock (Anime)
05 Sep 2025
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Two dicks. They rub. That’s the whole fic.
Except it’s not.
It’s recursion. It’s obsession. It’s a spiral that grinds against itself until your brain short-circuits.This is AO3’s first motion-sickness fic. You’ll either barf or ascend.
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Loss is a feeling many experience, the cold, empty feeling while you extend your hand towards something no longer there.
Elias finds himself in a long-abandoned national park that spans for half the country. It seems endless. He is trapped with nobody else but the people who will change his life, in an ancient cabin that was deserted as soon as it was built.
Something lurks behind the grove of trees outside his shelter. You can see its eye through the fog.
"I know you miss him. I do, too."
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Despite his busy schedule he comes as fast as he can when he hears you're sick. That's what a friend should do... right?
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Bode’s always been different.
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- Part 9 of Jedi Survivor Ficlets (with no context)
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他的玄準哥啊，實在太傻了。在莫大的痛苦面前選擇沉默，如獨自背負喪子之痛的保健室老師，或在父親生意失敗時獨力養活一家的母親，全都傻得過分。崔玄準的心像雲朵般柔軟，又像石塊般堅硬；像天空般廣闊，又像麻雀般細小，一隻手便能緊緊接住。他想起《聖經》裡說，上帝是創造萬物的主，而他想的是愛如果有形狀，那應該是一顆麻雀的心，跳動得飛快，即使拼了命，斷了翅膀，也要高飛翱翔。
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- Part 2 of heart of a sparrow
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One More Cup of Coffee by IadastraperasperaI
Fandoms: Twin Peaks (TV 1990), Hannibal (TV)
04 Sep 2025
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In one universe, Will Graham finds himself sitting across from Special Agent Dale Cooper in the Double R Diner, learning about the murder of Laura Palmer.
And it's over a cup of coffee, of course.
(It came to me recently that Will Graham needs to experience the Black Lodge.)
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Sieun wiggles a bit and slips further under the covers. "Stars look small because they're light years away. Tens of trillions of kilometers far. That distance means it takes time for their light to reach us, so we don't see stars as they are in the present. We can only see them as they were in their past."
Suho shuts his eyes and lets the idea turn over in his head.
His jaw clenches, ever so slightly. Little star had fought so hard. Maybe it's stupid, but he wants to believe someone else saw it. That just for a second, someone else saw how hard it tried to not disappear. Even if all it was was a ghost of a being.
Then Sieun shifts again, turning away from him. In the dim light, Suho can see the blotchy yellow injuries traveling down his spine.
"Star death doesn't just occur like that," he says, without looking back. "It takes millions of years, as a gradual process. It was probably just a meteor burning up."
Suho stares back at the ceiling and watches shadows blur with bruises and rot.
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The human race, more commonly known as the Anthri people, have achieved dominion over the galaxy. Now the most important thing is to fill it with more humans. The galaxy may be immense, but it is made almost entirely of inhospitable worlds, and there is nowhere near enough organic material to feed an empire so large. The growing Anthri population-- those who can't afford food or clean air-- are forced to contort themselves into things more machine than human and live off of silicon. All the while, the threat of their supposedly extinct enemies lurks at the edges of the galaxy, held at bay only by the glamorous, idolized Xanarel. In a society where humans are sacred and failing to produce more is a sin against the race and the universe, any variation in gender or sexuality is grounds for excommunication. On opposite ends of the Xanarel entertainment feed, two bands of outcasts struggle to navigate the galaxy as they process their own identities and places in the great, spiraling universe.
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The Knife slips from your hands.
You look up to see where the blood is coming from.
You see your reflection.
You've only stabbed yourself.
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- Part 10 of Each Cookie Gets Angst
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The road out of Hadestown was built for failure.
Orpheus walked with his jaw set, his song still trembling on his lips. He could feel Eurydice behind him, not her hand, not her breath, but the absence she had been, now filled in again. The empty place in his life had weight, and it was her. Or what felt like her presence. How could he ever be sure?
He did not look back.
But oh, he wanted to. Needed to.
(Or, the ending we all wanted, if it had turned out this time.)
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Their Kiss is a(nother) predictable end, romance made chains in form of strings, and another bar to Amour's cage by Gina_was_Here
Fandoms: Original Work, Penn Zero: Part-Time Hero
03 Sep 2025
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They knew their kiss was their doom... And theirs, as always.
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There Are 3 Types of Cats That You See On the Street by alkiek
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)
03 Sep 2025
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Ever since Yoshiki can remember it, Kubitachi’s been filled with stray cats. As it stands, there are 3 types of cats that you can find on the street. There’s neutral cats, there's friendly cats, an’ there's distant cats.
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About to embark on a world tour, global pop sensation Skye Riley begins to experience bizarre and terrifying events which she can’t explain. Overwhelmed by the escalating horrors, she must confront her troubled past before her life spirals out of control.
A novelisation of the 2024 American horror film Smile 2, written and directed by Parker Finn. Contains expanded scenes and original content to enrich the narrative.
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Betrayal is covered in white lilies, lotuses and golden robes by Vanistar
Fandoms: ジョジョの奇妙な冒険 | JoJo no Kimyou na Bouken | JoJo's Bizarre Adventure
02 Sep 2025
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Fugo wakes up to a new King and a new lifestyle. A reality where Diavolo is no longer King and Giorno Giovanna has taken his place. With everyone hiding such news from him and having to learn to live with such a change. Fugo wonders if he was even meant to stay with his family in such circumstances.
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An au where Fugo is a royal advisor going through shit and Giorno is a new king who took over in one night. A little ooc but just for plot purposes -
it’s a pull and a push (and a leap) by GrasshopperDoingDogpaddle
Fandoms: Xiaolin Showdown (Cartoon)
02 Sep 2025
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It doesn’t matter that the moon doesn’t shine, that the moon has no light of its own. Omi loves the moon, and the moonlight was never the reason why.
Chase and Omi admire the moon together on a clear night.
(Xiaolin Showdown Fall Event: Prompt: Star – Cloak – Tides)