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There's a gaping chasm splitting the town in half, swallowing it from the inside out. There are wights guarding the armory. And there's a girl who should be standing next to him lying, cursed and comatose, on the back table in the cellar of what used to be a tavern, before Henry the Usurper came to Hawkins. But somewhere far away—over the walls, through the dark and treacherous Shadowlands—stands the fabled House of Healing, and Steve's going to get Max there and bring her back home if it's the last thing he does.
He didn't count on meeting a stranger in the woods. Maybe that was his first mistake.
A high fantasy AU.
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10 Jan 2026
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"This time, do it right. This time Eddie won’t bleed out in his arms, in anyone’s arms. This time, Steve will do it right."
— or, steve relives the day they try to kill vecna over and over, and eddie just can't seem to stop dying. steve finds this totally unacceptable.
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- 82,547
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- 13/13
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31 Dec 2025
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November 1983. Between unpaid bills, the supposedly straight jock he’s seeing, and letters from his convict dad, seventeen year old Eddie Munson’s got enough to worry about. But when Will Byers goes missing, it sparks a chain of events that will show there are more depths to Hawkins — and to certain people in it, like infamous Steve ‘The Hair’ Harrington — than he realizes.
/ or, the excessively long slow-burn in which Eddie is involved in the Upside Down from the very beginning.
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- English
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- 347,983
- Chapters:
- 67/67
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- 4
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- 7,728
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29 Dec 2025
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Between slipping grades and an explosive break-up, Quentin's first year at Brakebills was coming to a miserable close—and that was before the Beast attacked. Now everyone's cancelling their summer plans to join in the fight against an existential threat, Fillory is both real and much deadlier than in the books, and it turns out Quentin sucks as much at battle magic as he does at everything else. As the war drags on, dying in battle starts to seem like the best possible outcome, the answer to all his problems: one shining moment of glory, and then he's finally free. It's a foolproof plan—until he wakes up and has to do it all over again.
(Or: An action movie about wanting to die, with time loops.)
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- English
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- 112,344
- Chapters:
- 10/10
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- 2
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- 180
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- 490
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03 May 2025
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“My heart for Miss Cracroft’s,” James explained, forcing his voice to sound certain and calm even if he was quickly feeling anything but. Crozier kept staring at him, a thunderstorm growing in his face. The furious silence reigned between them for another minute before James added, “You... eat the hearts of the… young and beautiful…”
The Wizard Crozier’s stare was hard and unbreakable. James could feel the snappings of electricity in the air around them, the hair standing up on the back of his neck. He could feel it now, the sheer power in this man.
“You don’t know anything.”Series
- Part 1 of ghibli au series
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19 Jan 2025
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true gold fears no fire by defractum
Fandoms: 魔道祖师 - 墨香铜臭 | Módào Zǔshī - Mòxiāng Tóngxiù, 陈情令 | The Untamed (TV)
10 Aug 2024
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Lan Wangji encounters a mysterious stranger on his rooftop.
Alternatively, the Emperor of China has heard rumours of an intruder sneaking into the Forbidden City, a shadow that has eluded the best of his guards.
(Alternatively, Wei Ying just really wanted a drink.)
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- English
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- 82,092
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- 15/15
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- 10
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- 2,482
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12 Aug 2024
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He’s almost looking forward to either falling from the top of the Netherbrain into the River Chionthar, or watching it fall from a safe distance. It’ll be over, then! It’ll be done. He can go hide in the dark, forget this ever happened twice. Astarion can forget Tav. He can move on. Learn to love the dark again, or something.
Astarion wakes up in a pod on the Nautiloid.
(COMPLETE! <3)
- Language:
- English
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- 80,876
- Chapters:
- 26/26
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- 2,119
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- 3,058
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11 Aug 2024
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even gods can't change the past by orangepaperclips
Fandoms: 악마판사 | The Devil Judge (TV)
06 Aug 2024
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modern au: gaon's happily married with a child when tragedy strikes.
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- English
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- 20,413
- Chapters:
- 5/5
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- 1
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- 68
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- 235
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11 Aug 2024
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Sometime after the food is gone and the iced teas have been refilled, Kim realizes he’s just listening to Porsche tell stories and Porchay talk about music. He's not thinking about how to turn the conversation to his advantage.
They don’t seem to mind that he’s quiet, or that his additions to the conversation are stilted, censoring everything he can’t say about himself and his life. They don’t push him when he evades personal questions. They fill his awkward silences with jokes and banter with each other. They listen whenever he finds something to say.
He can’t tell whether he’s pretending to be Wik or pretending to be Kim, or something else entirely.
It’s…nice.
(or, Kim meets Porsche first.)
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- English
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- Chapters:
- 28/28
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- 1
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- 2,017
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11 Jul 2024
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don’t threaten me with a good time by livinginaworldofnoise
Fandoms: 陈情令 | The Untamed (TV), 魔道祖师 - 墨香铜臭 | Módào Zǔshī - Mòxiāng Tóngxiù
02 Apr 2022
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“I’m using orange liqueur to make my cake more interesting. Give it a bit of a kick, you know?”
Lan Wangji’s expression has only changed minutely—not a lot of range there, it seems—but Wei Wuxian can tell he is perturbed by this information. “Alcohol? In cake?”
“Honestly, I’m not sure any cake should even be made without alcohol,” Wei Wuxian says, offering another beatific smile that Lan Wangji does not return.
OR: the great british bake-off au???
- Language:
- English
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- 60,088
- Chapters:
- 11/11
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- 3
- Comments:
- 961
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- 2,433
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11 Jun 2024
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When Narcissa Malfoy calls in her life debt so that Severus can fulfill the terms of his grandfather’s will and secure the Prince family estate, Harry agrees to marry Severus Snape and live with him for a year and a day. But Prince Manor hides a secret in its overgrown gardens, and Narcissa isn’t helping Severus out because of her kind heart. Harry thinks he’s going into the marriage with eyes wide open, but he has to maneuver around the Malfoys’ machinations and come to terms with his growing feelings for Severus even as the magic in the gardens gives his life a new, unexpected purpose.
- Language:
- English
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- 70,621
- Chapters:
- 1/1
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- 25
- Comments:
- 696
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06 Jun 2024
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Snape sees the man, for the first time, on his twenty-fifth birthday.
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- 48,123
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- 1/1
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- 3
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- 582
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- 6,835
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05 Jun 2024
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The Wreck of Doubt by thepartyresponsible for Teeelsie
Fandoms: Marvel Cinematic Universe, Marvel, DCU, Batman - All Media Types
14 Dec 2019
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In the beginning, he haunts rooftops, wanders the skyline at night, puts himself where Red Hood is likely to find him.
“Hey,” Jason says, the first time Clint sees him after the night they met. He pulls his mask off, and his hair falls across his forehead, black and curling, sweat-drenched at the roots. The grin he gives him could break hearts at fifty paces, and here’s Clint, like an idiot, standing at point-blank range.
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- Part 4 of Shatter Together
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 19,909
- Chapters:
- 6/6
- Collections:
- 1
- Comments:
- 583
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- 4,444
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- 447
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- 29,687
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28 May 2024
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Got a Heart in Me, I Swear by thepartyresponsible for Kangofu_CB, stellalou
Fandoms: Marvel Cinematic Universe, Marvel
19 Jan 2021
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The pictures leak on a lazy off-season Sunday, in that muddled bit of midafternoon Clint never knows what to do with when he isn’t training. He curls up with Lucky on the couch and naps through the end of his whole damn life. And that, honestly, is pretty much perfect.
- Language:
- English
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- 36,515
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- 1/1
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- 1
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- 820
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- 4,081
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- 1,543
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- 36,861
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26 May 2024
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If there had been gossip after the reunion, Brian's life might have looked something like this.
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- English
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- 8,076
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- 1/1
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- 1
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- 307
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04 May 2024
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“What, a few months away and suddenly you’re a stranger?” he says. “What do you mean, what am I doing here?”
“You know that’s not what I meant.” Wei Ying rubs, hard, at the spot between his eyebrows. All of a sudden, he’s looking very tired again. “If your mother finds out you’re here—”
“Let me worry about my own mother,” Jiang Cheng snaps back. “If you’re so anxious to get me out the door, I’m happy to oblige. Just tell me what the Lans have on you so that I can fix it.”
Wei Ying has shifted slightly out of Lan Zhan’s line of sight again. But Lan Zhan can imagine the face he’s making from the sound of his voice.
“Uh,” Wei Ying says. “What?”
(Or: a few months into exorcist Lan Zhan's partnership with medium Wei Ying, Jiang Cheng quite literally comes crashing into their lives. A sequel to 'when I look over my shoulder.')
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- Part 2 of conjuring AU
- Language:
- English
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- 4,501
- Chapters:
- 1/1
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- 1
- Comments:
- 75
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- 1,460
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02 May 2024
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Yibo has built a life for himself in the undercity on Earth: not a large one, not a glamorous one, but a real one. It’s his. But an escaped replicant is always living on borrowed time, and when Xiao Zhan walks into his bar one rainy evening, Yibo knows that his time has run out.
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22 Nov 2023
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Charming gay disaster Ezra is forced to move home to his small town to raise his siblings after losing his mother in a mysterious accident, only to discover that magic is real, the local millionaire is trying to kill him, and his old high-school crush might not be straight after all.
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 98,199
- Chapters:
- 28/28
- Comments:
- 300
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- 428
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- 151
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- 12,537
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19 Nov 2023
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Howling by MimiSpearmint
Fandoms: 陈情令 | The Untamed (TV), 魔道祖师 - 墨香铜臭 | Módào Zǔshī - Mòxiāng Tóngxiù
24 May 2022
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“Sizhui, go to the kitchen,” the Yiling Patriarch orders. His charge – Sizhui, Lan Wangji presumes – hesitates but obeys, looking back over his shoulder as he disappears. Apprentice out of the blast zone, the Patriarch storms up to Lan Wangji, eyes flashing red. “Three words: I. Am. Retired.”
Lan Wangji is sent by the Institute to do two things: become the Yiling Patriarch's familiar, and report back his every movement. It does not go how any of them planned.
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 40,446
- Chapters:
- 10/10
- Comments:
- 948
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- 3,491
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- 1,150
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- 52,348
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29 Oct 2023
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Starving for the Light by thepartyresponsible
Fandoms: Marvel Cinematic Universe, Marvel
15 Nov 2021
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“You’ve got, like.” The witch taps his own chest, center mass, with the slice of pizza. “An infection, kinda. In your soul, I guess. Whatever you want to call it. Nobody wants to call it magic.”
“I don’t have any magic,” Bucky says, immediately. He’s not a witch.
“Sure,” the witch says. “Well, that thing you have that connects you to Steve, the part of you that can form bonds to other people. That part of you. It’s fucked.”
“Fucked,” Bucky repeats. He wonders if that’s a medical or magical diagnosis.
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 45,201
- Chapters:
- 12/12
- Collections:
- 1
- Comments:
- 915
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- 2,520
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- 794
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- 34,029
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03 Oct 2023