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When the Wolves Cry Out by Sciatic_Nerd, Slireon, WilliamAGrey
Fandoms: A Song of Ice and Fire - George R. R. Martin, A Song of Ice and Fire & Related Fandoms, Game of Thrones (TV)
13 Mar 2026
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War changed men. Through fire and blood, through the fog of war and the death of his friends, Eddard Stark had seen the last vestiges of his battered faith burnt to ash. Faith in Gods, faith in men.
He couldn’t keep his eyes closed after that, regardless of how much he desired to.
No more.
Eddard Stark was done believing in the vain pretences of honour and virtue.
He would not repeat the same mistakes that had led his father and his brother to an early grave. He would keep what little family remained to him safe by all means necessary, the Others take his honour.
The Gods would understand, Ned hoped.
That is, if they even cared.
Or:
In the aftermath of the Rebellion, Eddard Stark plays the game of thrones, and he intends to win. Far-reaching and unexpected butterflies ensue. This is their story.
A monster-dong, long-runner of a story.
Not a fix-it fic.
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- English
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- 219,081
- Chapters:
- 33/?
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- 1,034
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18 Apr 2026
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Courtship in the Capital by makenalei
Fandoms: A Song of Ice and Fire - George R. R. Martin
04 Feb 2020
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The ruling family may change, but the capital city will always remain the same. Cloaked in a shroud of mystery and danger, the city has not changed much since Sansa's last journey here. Peace may reign throughout the kingdom but there are still those that threatened such peace. Sansa must learn to sniff out new dangers, as well as old ones, while still managing to make Jon fall in love with her.
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- Part 2 of Begin Again
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 197,736
- Chapters:
- 50/50
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- 1,445
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- 4,805
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- 701
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- 148,511
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08 Apr 2026
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yours truly by herze
Fandoms: A Song of Ice and Fire - George R. R. Martin, A Song of Ice and Fire & Related Fandoms, A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms (TV)
04 Mar 2026
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“To the Giant of Flea Bottom,
Do not think this is over. I have paid three men in the Reach to follow you. If you sleep, they will be watching. If you eat, they will be counting the bites. If you find yourself some common omega wench that you’ve fallen in love with, I want their fingers brought to me in a box of salt. You are a stain on the laws of gods and men, and I will watch you rot from across the world.
— A.T.”
Dunk is only trying to be of honorable service, but his travels are constantly interrupted by “hate” letters from a certain exiled prince across the Narrow Sea.
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- Part 3 of dunkaerion AU fics
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- English
- Words:
- 55,672
- Chapters:
- 7/10
- Comments:
- 1,044
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- 6,342
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24 Mar 2026
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No Joy in Command by Gladiusx
Fandoms: A Song of Ice and Fire - George R. R. Martin, A Song of Ice and Fire & Related Fandoms, Game of Thrones (TV), House of the Dragon (TV)
19 Aug 2025
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After Jon Snow witnesses the end of the world only to wake up at a different time, a time with flying, fire-breathing lizards roaming the skies, he decides he's too tired for this shit and decides to fish. Literally.
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- English
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- 185,670
- Chapters:
- 25/25
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- 26
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- 2,320
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21 Feb 2026
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“The Fellowship is to set out in December,” Lord Elrond explained, “I require your services as a Messenger to travel with them, until you’ve passed the mountains, or until Gandalf sees fit to release you.”
Panic coiled in Rhosynel’s chest, as two things became apparent. Firstly, that she could easily end up roped into travelling further on the whims of a wizard. And secondly, that if word reached her employer that she point-blank refused Lord Elrond, she’d be kicked from the Messenger services.
In other words, Rhosynel was trapped.*
Working as a messenger Rhosynel is accustomed to travelling the length and breadth of Middle Earth, so carrying a missive to the village of Bree should have been easy. But this simple task sets off a chain of events, entangling her in the lives of strangers and the fate of Middle Earth, which leaves her fighting to keep both them, and herself, alive.
Completed!
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- English
- Words:
- 662,313
- Chapters:
- 100/100
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- 1
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- 2,481
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02 Feb 2026
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Sorrow's Starlight by NoveletteConsonance
Fandoms: The Hobbit - All Media Types, The Lord of the Rings - All Media Types, The Lord of the Rings - J. R. R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings (Movies), The Hobbit - J. R. R. Tolkien, The Hobbit (Jackson Movies), TOLKIEN J. R. R. - Works & Related Fandoms
25 Dec 2022
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After devoting the past ten years to caring for her mother, Charlotte can’t remember what it means to live for herself. When her mother passes away, her grief attracts the attention of two plotting Valar Queens, who hope to prevent the massacre they’ve foreseen in Middle Earth’s future. Thrust into an unfamiliar world with elves, orcs, and rings of power, Charlotte refuses to believe the elves who are convinced she is the key to repelling the darkness that’s stealing realms. Especially since she would be forced to work with the haughty Elvenking Thranduil. But as she gets to know him and his sweet son, she is forced to choose: cling to her past or fight for her new life?
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- English
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- 242,795
- Chapters:
- 58/58
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- 10
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- 1,624
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31 Jan 2026
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Orc Blood and Whiskey Soup by corrielikesstory (corrieander)
Fandoms: The Lord of the Rings - J. R. R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings - All Media Types, TOLKIEN J. R. R. - Works & Related Fandoms, The Lord of the Rings (Movies)
31 Dec 2025
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Kara is at the end of her nursing shift when a violent man is brought in with an arrow wound. When he spits blood on her, Kara is transported elsewhere. Soon she's doing emergency wound care on book characters and trying not to lose it. She can't watch people suffer even if it isn't real, but Aragorn is very suspicious of a woman who tells no clear story and smells like an orc.
“Stranger things have happened than you or I have years to tell of it," Gandalf said. "Why does she unsettle you? Surely you do not feel threatened. I am tolerably certain you could defeat her if it came to violence.”
Aragorn scoffed at his gentle humor. “I’m glad to amuse you. There are more dangers than warriors and swords. Need I tell a wizard that?"
“I can assure you she is not evil and has not a whisper of magic.”
“Yet a beautiful woman appears directly in our path, leagues from civilization, and immediately gains the hobbits’ trust. No wizardry, you say?”
Kara was not *unhappy* at being called a beautiful woman (although his standards for human women, as opposed to elves, were probably low), but she was unhappy to be stuck eavesdropping. She’d seen this scene too many times in movies. They would definitely see her.- Language:
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- Words:
- 210,267
- Chapters:
- 53/53
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- 5
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- 1,329
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25 Jan 2026
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The Care & Feeding of Hobbits by Baylor
Fandoms: The Lord of the Rings (Movies), The Lord of the Rings - All Media Types, The Lord of the Rings - J. R. R. Tolkien
16 Aug 2013
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Ruminations on the Little People, by Boromir, Man of Gondor.
Boromir learns about the hobbits as he develops friendships with them.
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- English
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- 20,485
- Chapters:
- 12/12
- Collections:
- 3
- Comments:
- 156
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- 1,706
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- 554
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- 21,145
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06 Jan 2026
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In A Sky Of A Million Stars (Who Cares If One More Light Goes Out?) by Stringlish
Fandoms: 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia
01 Feb 2026
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He could never forgive himself.
It was his fault.
He’d planted the idea like a seed he’d never known would grow.
(Or: What if Izuku jumped?)
(OR: The one where Izuku jumps and lives and Katsuki visits him every day and Class 1-A not-so-secretly finds it adorable that their designated angry pomeranian brings flowers to his comatose childhood friend.)🌻🌼🌺🌼🌻
- Language:
- English
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- 208,817
- Chapters:
- 44/?
- Collections:
- 56
- Comments:
- 9,117
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- 25,175
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07 Nov 2025
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landscape after cruelty by ohwickedsoul
Fandoms: 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia
17 Sep 2020
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“Bakugo, you need to update your costume.” Kirishima said, “There’s this one dude in the support class- he’s got a literal waiting list, that’s how good he is- but he did my new upgrade."
“Yeah,” Bakugo sighs and leans back on his hands, staring at the bracer. “I know. I’ll go,” his mouth twists a little. “I’ll go tomorrow. This is just- this is my design you know?” he’s not explaining himself very well, and refuses to look at Kirishima.
“It can be hard to give up your first hero design, and you did a great job,” Kirishima said. “You definitely had the best one out of all of us when we first got our costumes."
Bakugo hunched his shoulders. “I didn’t design it,” he grumbled.
- Language:
- English
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- 19,105
- Chapters:
- 9/9
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- 111
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- 1,318
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02 Nov 2025
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Faint crackling electricity, like the fabric of a windbreaker rubbing against itself, covering the sound of shifting rubble and settling dust. It’s a sound Katsuki’s heard a thousand times before, usually preceded with a shout from Deku saying One For All-
“Full Cowling,” Katsuki whispers, staring and grasping for words. “What the fuck.”
Deku is standing near Katsuki’s feet, back bowed forward like Atlas and body lit up with a green so bright it’s incandescent. Blackwhip escapes from his arms in countless tendrils, lightning arcs off his body every second, and there’s a faint tremble running through his legs.
He’s terrifying. He’s beautiful.
He’s holding the fucking building on his shoulders.
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Bakugou and Midoriya get trapped under a building together.
As Midoriya struggles to keep them both alive, refusing to give even an inch, Bakugou realizes some crucial things and refuses to leave without Midoriya by his side.
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- Part 1 of Steadfast
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 76,094
- Chapters:
- 3/3
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- 60
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- 1,225
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29 Oct 2025
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The fiasco that is Harry's life could be summed up in two words — Avada Kedavra. Those words have haunted him for as long as he can remember, endangering him with their very existence. He'd resigned himself to a life without a soulmate, to pain and sorrow... but then the Blacks happened. Or, one Black in particular.
Whose idea was it to let a Black woman invent time travel, anyway?
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 141,024
- Chapters:
- 27/?
- Collections:
- 57
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- 2,254
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- 13,896
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06 Oct 2025
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After two years of murder attempts and terrible summers, ominous letters from the Ministry and adults who act like they care but never actually do anything, Harry decides to grab the basilisk by the horns. In the few weeks he has before school begins, Harry learns more about himself, his family, and his role in the magical world. When third year starts, he just hopes he's ready.
[A canon retelling starting in PoA through DH, with a Harry that's just a bit more perceptive, a Sirius with changed priorities, and a caring Theo]
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- Part 1 of There Is Hope For Us
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 255,349
- Chapters:
- 37/37
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- 1,667
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04 Sep 2025
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Harry won the war.
It's a couple of months afterward, and unexpectedly, he's quite literally picked up off the face of the world and shoved into another. One where Harry Potter died a long time ago. Where the Order and Potter family are still fighting against a Dark Lord who is ruling the world one muggle murder at a time. They say he's their only hope.
Harry really doesn't want in.
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 148,080
- Chapters:
- 23/?
- Collections:
- 10
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- 783
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- 4,720
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- 1,909
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- 147,438
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03 Jul 2025
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When the snows fall and the white winds blow, the lone wolf dies, but the pack survives.
They wake screaming. Nothings the same after.
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 57,998
- Chapters:
- 17/?
- Comments:
- 1,277
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- 4,791
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- 174,374
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02 Jul 2025
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Harry was supposed to pick- move on and be with his parents, or go back to finish the battle with Voldemort. But even Dumbledore doesn't know everything, and Harry finds that there are actually a lot more options than those two.
Harry wants more than what he got. He wants a home. He wants a family. He wants a chance to be happy. He isn't sure he deserves all that, but he's going to try anyway. If only to spite Dumbledore and Voldemort's plans both.
OR: Harry Potter wakes up ten years old but with all of his memories from age seventeen. He immediately begins to make Mistakes.
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- Part 1 of time and other illusions
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 124,359
- Chapters:
- 34/?
- Collections:
- 40
- Comments:
- 2,836
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- 14,064
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01 Jul 2025
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There was another student here.
Tom recognized him vaguely—while transfer students were not necessarily uncommon due to the war, they were rare enough to at least make an impression. This particular transfer student was in his year, sorted into Ravenclaw after an impressively long hat stall. He looked like he might be descended from the Potter line, but he did not share the surname so his lineage was of no particular interest to Tom. Nothing about him was of particular interest to Tom, in fact, and yet here he stood, holding the book that Tom had come here to find.
It would be a good time to turn away. The Restricted Section was restricted for a reason—only books documenting extremely dangerous or extremely advanced magic were stored here.
Tom’s feet, however, suddenly felt as if they were made of lead. It wasn’t magic keeping him tied down, but something far more mysterious like curiosity or even fate. In any case, the delay was all it took for the Ravenclaw to lift his chin and meet Tom’s eyes.
This Ravenclaw, Tom realized, had eyes as blindingly green as the Killing Curse.
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 67,690
- Chapters:
- 8/8
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- 1,225
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10 Jun 2025
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Just before his eleventh birthday, Harry is found in a dark London alleyway. He is subsequently taken to stay in the home of one Severus Snape until he begins Hogwarts. Harry isn't quite sure what possessed him to agree to this arrangement, and Severus has no intention of allowing Potter's unfortunate progeny to get under his skin, but this is a Severitus fic, we all know how it ends.
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 217,906
- Chapters:
- 60/60
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- 37
- Comments:
- 4,751
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- 23,750
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09 Jun 2025
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After the Third Task, Harry is dumped in an alternative world where his life is turned upside down. There is no Voldemort, there was never a war to begin with. Harry Potter has never existed, but the Potter family is willing to accept a new member.
Here, Harry doesn't have to worry about his fame, just fitting in with the new family he finds himself a part of. Here, he must come to terms with his past and find a way to move forward without his friends.
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 102,859
- Chapters:
- 19/?
- Collections:
- 4
- Comments:
- 441
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- 3,028
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- 97,802
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08 Jun 2025
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3 months after the end of Zenith, Ichigo accidentally unleashes hell. Grimmjow's trust is tested and Ichigo is pulled into a struggle that means losing the world, or losing himself.
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- Part 3 of Zenith
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 312,403
- Chapters:
- 27/27
- Comments:
- 722
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- 1,015
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30 Apr 2025