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you make it so easy (to fall so hard) by brunettereader
Fandoms: Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid
07 Jan 2026
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Ilya knows that, between him and Shane, he's the more affectionate of the two. He's not sure if it's because he's from Europe, where everyone greets each other with a hug and a kiss on the cheek, or if it's because he grew up so starved for love and affection that he can't do anything except show Shane how much he loves him at any chance that he has.
So, yes, he knows that he's the one most likely to kiss Shane on the cheek when he skates by him at practice or come up behind Shane when he's cooking dinner just to wrap his arms around him or fall on top of Shane while he's reading on the couch, desperate to have his skin touching Shane's.
But, Shane… Shane loves Ilya differently. It's quieter. More intentional.
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Or, five times that Shane loved Ilya in his quiet way, and one time that he loved Ilya loudly.
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27 Jan 2026
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Wyatt was not, like, nosy. For sure, he was interested. He was curious. He engaged with people, obviously, because most people were interesting and engaging and had cool thoughts and said neat stuff if you asked.
So, no. Wyatt wasn’t nosy, but he wasn’t stupid, either.
Or: A Bromance Blooms In Ottawa
Or: The Ballad of Wyatt and Ilya- Language:
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08 Jan 2026
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still the best (still an asshole) by pucksandpower
Fandoms: Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid
20 Dec 2025
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Four times Ilya Rozanov reminded everyone exactly who the fuck they were dealing with (spoiler: still an asshole, still elite, still not going anywhere), and one time he didn’t have to be anything except soft.
Or being out didn’t make him nicer. Being married didn’t make him softer. Being older didn’t make him weaker. And being a father? Well. That’t when things get complicated.
(He’s really good at that last part. Don’t tell anyone.)
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- 18,287
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- 5/5
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30 Dec 2025
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something you can fix by some1_around
Fandoms: Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid
27 Dec 2025
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Maybe if the video ended there, Shane thought, it would be okay. Okayish. Still incriminating. Still a fucking disaster. Still embarrassing, to have his breakup with this beautiful actress filmed and disseminated on Reddit of all fucking places, but not a nail in his coffin, burying him alive. But the video didn’t end there.
“Can I ask if you’ve ever been with another guy?” she had to ask.
And he, tears visible in his eyes, had to nod.
Just once. Just a single nod.
Why did he have to nod?
“Have you ever told anyone that before?” He shook his head. “Was it different? With a guy?”
“Of course.”
Of course.
“Was it better?”
“Yes.”
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Shane’s conversation with Rose is secretly recorded. Months later, after the All-Star game and Ilya’s confession in Russian, the video gets leaked online. Shane is outed to the world while Ilya is in Russia, and must now finish the 2016-2017 season with the entire world in on his secret.
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- Part 1 of something you can fix
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30 Dec 2025
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Yours, Dandelion by dapperyklutz
Fandoms: Wiedźmin | The Witcher - All Media Types, The Witcher (TV)
03 Apr 2022
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“Why is it forked?” ten-year-old Geralt asks Jaskier with a curious tilt of his head.
Jaskier shrugs. “I thought it looked nice. Why draw one road when you can draw two, right? And besides, that way you can choose which path to take!”
Geralt frowns. “But what if you don’t want to go in the same direction as me?"
“Don’t be silly, I’d follow you anywhere! You’re my best friend!”
“Well, I’d follow you, too.”
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Jaskier has a secret. Well, he has two.
The first is that he's in love with Geralt Rivia, captain of the rugby team and his childhood best friend. Only, they're no longer best friends. His second secret is that he writes poems dedicated to Geralt and anonymously posts it at the school's Freedom Wall under the pseudonym of Dandelion. And the thing is, Dandelion has become so popular - more popular than Jaskier - that it's getting more difficult to keep his silence when it's clear that Geralt is starting to develop feelings for the mysterious lovesick poet.
How naïve was Jaskier to think that it would be so easy.
(Now with fan art.)
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07 Oct 2025
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time to wonder, do I dare? by NoRationalThoughtRequired
Fandoms: The Witcher (TV), Wiedźmin | The Witcher - All Media Types
03 Jun 2020
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It makes a certain kind of poetic sense, having a musician--who specializes in taking you somewhere else with his songs while you’re stuck here, in the present--playing outside of a bookshop--which specializes in selling pages bound together by the hundreds that transport you to other places, other times. This young man, this Jaskier, he’s bright, he’s cheerful, he’ll draw the eye, you won’t be able to be within a hundred feet of him and not be curious, and if there are curious people standing right by a shop of curious books and other curiosities, well, the idea makes a certain kind of business sense, too.
Geralt gives a nod, short, sharp. “Just don’t block the door. And don’t make me regret this.”
Jaskier claps his hands together and squeals in delight. “No, no, I won’t, I promise. You won’t! You won’t regret this.”
Or: Bookshop owner Geralt inexplicably, in what must be a fit of temporary madness induced by the early hour and not enough caffeine, allows musician Jaskier to play outside his shop. Somewhere along the way, he starts to fall in love.
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- Part 1 of disturb the universe
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- English
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- 28,670
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- 1/1
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07 Oct 2025
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Kingdoms Come and Kingdoms Go, Rivers Run and Rivers Flow by DancingLassie
Fandoms: Wiedźmin | The Witcher - All Media Types, Wiedźmin | The Witcher Series - Andrzej Sapkowski, The Witcher (TV)
02 May 2020
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Jaskier's start in life was unfortunate, but sadly not unheard of. He was put in a sack, less than an hour old, and chucked in the river. For many in his position that would of been the end of it, but the Yaruga heard his cut off wail and swept him into her loving embrace.
Less than an hour old and Jaskier had already died and been reborn as the newest child of Mama Yaruga.
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- Part 1 of Rivers Run
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- English
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- 14/14
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19 Jun 2025
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After a long, bloody war, Draco Malfoy just wants to do something good with his life for a change, and resolves to become a healer. But magical society refuses to make it easy for him, and an increasingly dramatic series of events—all of them instigated by Harry Potter—get him kicked out of med school, force him to live in exile, and threaten to destroy the new life he’s trying so desperately to build.
But Harry isn’t instigating anything—at least not on purpose. He’s just trying to work up the nerve to ask him out. His efforts don’t appear to be going great.
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12 Apr 2025
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buy back the secrets by sundiscus for cairosene, remux, regional_catastrophe
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types, Young Justice - All Media Types
28 Feb 2025
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He takes a long, slow breath. Ignores the glares from the other students. “Superboy,” he murmurs. “It’s me. If you’re listening, I could use some help.”
Or: 5 times Superboy saves Tim Drake, and one time Tim Drake saves Superboy.
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29 Mar 2025
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Pieces of You (Story with Podfic) by Janieohio, PhenomenalAsterisk
Fandoms: Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling
29 Aug 2021
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Harry and Draco have moved in together, but Harry is hiding the truth of his childhood. Draco struggles to understand until a phone call from Harry's estranged cousin changes everything.
Written for Pod Together 2021, a podfic/writing collaboration fest. CH1 Podfic, CH2 Story
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06 Feb 2025
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Tim knows antagonizing Lex Luthor wasn’t exactly his safest move but the point is really driven home by the bullet to the shoulder.
Or: The AU where Jason never died and Tim is a civilian who contributes to crime fighting by taking surveillance photos and leaving them on the desktop of the Batcomputer.
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05 Feb 2025
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When Draco Malfoy is sent numerous threats warning of what exactly will happen to him if he returns to Hogwarts, he is assigned a young, handsome Auror as his bodyguard.
Harry hates him. He hates how close he stands to Malfoy, how highly he thinks of himself, how he insists on holding Malfoy’s shoulder every time they walk into a room.
Really, Harry thinks. He’s the one who defeated the evilest of the evil. He could do a far better job of protecting him than a self-absorbed, shiny-haired prick like that.
And you know what? He just might.
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04 Feb 2025
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Liminal Space by Calamityjim
Fandoms: Young Justice (Cartoon), Red Robin (Comics), Batman - All Media Types
09 Jul 2019
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Bruce's habit of collecting strays is not limited by dimension.
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When Young Justice Batman comes across an angsty, seemingly abandoned by his Batman Tim Drake, he decides to step up to the plate and parent the crap out of him.
podfic available: https://archiveofourown.org/works/43438116
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- Part 1 of Liminal Spaces
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- English
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- 77,156
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- 17/17
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22 Jan 2025
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it's always who is spider-man, never how is spider-man by i_regret_thatpersonalityquiz
Fandoms: Marvel Cinematic Universe, Spider-Man (Tom Holland Movies), Daredevil (TV)
11 Jan 2022
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"Stay?"
Peter finally looked down to see Harley Fucking Keener, Iron Lad, the boy who had caused his shoulder to be throbbing in pain all night, looking away with a slight tint to his cheeks. Peter opened and closed his mouth, no sound coming out.
And he sat back down.
OR: Peter had been living on the streets, dealing with your average homeless vigilante stuff. Things got a bit more complicated when the Avengers started to chase him down.
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- 176,518
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- 40/40
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31 Dec 2024
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“Where did you learn to do that?” Gwaine asked, following Merlin up the bank.
“This is how normal people fish,” Merlin replied dryly. “Not trying to stab them with swords.”“This is a knife,” Gwaine retorted, sounding every bit as sulky as he felt.
“Still, you didn’t catch a fish.”
------------------------------------------------------Gwaine saves a young Merlin from a beating and ends up with a new little brother to take care of on his travels.
Or, what would Merlin be like if he had Gwaine influencing him over his formative years?
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- 26/26
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28 Dec 2024
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Tim was having a normal night photographing Batman and mourning the dead when Jason Todd suddenly breaks out of his own grave. He's unresponsive and catatonic, and Tim knows there's no way he can leave the boy on his own. So, he brings him back to Drake Manor to try and help him recover. It goes... well?
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28 Dec 2024
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‘Drake?’
Tim felt like he was choking. His throat was tight. He couldn’t swallow.
‘Damian?’ He managed.
Damian was… here. At Kent Farm. Dressed in the too-big Batman pajamas that Dick had bought him last Christmas as a joke. And- And-
Tim was wearing Kon’s t-shirt and his hair was messy and his lips were swollen and- He wasn’t ready for this- He wasn’t- He couldn’t-
How had he been so stupid?
Or: Tim comes out to Damian and prepares for the entire family to know by morning. It just so happens that Damian can keep a secret. Multiple, actually.
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24 Dec 2024
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Dumbassery² (or a story about falling in love technically twice) by DearLittleRobin
Fandoms: DCU (Comics)
27 Dec 2024
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Superboy thinks Robin is an inspiration for the hero community, a deadly combination of dashing looks and a sharp mind.
Robin thinks Superboy is way too cocky for a guy who wears sunglasses at night.
Tim Drake thinks Conner Kent is the most handsome guy he's ever met.
Conner Kent thinks Tim Drake is just another stupidly rich kid that thinks he's better than everyone.Aka TimKon lovesquare!AU inspired by @clambuoyance's drawings in this post
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- Part 1 of Timkon Lovesquare AU
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- 74,433
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- 12/12
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22 Dec 2024
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Tim has been missing for weeks, gone without a trace.
Everyone who loves him has spent those weeks clinging to any hope they'll ever find him again.
When he finally reappears, just as quickly as he disappeared, he isn't alone.
For TimKon Week 2022; Day 6: Clone Baby, Villian AU
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- Part 5 of TimKon Week 2022
- Part 1 of Where Babies Come From
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- 21,872
- Chapters:
- 5/5
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17 Nov 2024
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Banshee In A Well by bugbee, liverobinreaction (bugbee)
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types, Red Robin (Comics), Batman (Comics), DCU, DCU (Comics)
02 Apr 2023
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Tim is five years old when he drowns in his parents' pool. He dies quietly, waiting for parents who love him, but will never be there, to realise that something is wrong. They never show up, and he sinks into oblivion.
When he wakes up and claws his way out of the water, the sun has set, and the lights of his house are on. He is cold and wet and his lungs burn.
But most of all, Tim is alone.
(If you die and no-one is there to see it, were you ever alive in the first place?)
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- Part 1 of bury the dead where they're found
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 43,025
- Chapters:
- 5/5
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- 141
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- 1,822
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- 25,803
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- 338,915
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10 Nov 2024