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"she would cast him to the Wolf, the Wolf should have him" by x_los
Fandoms: Lord Peter Wimsey - Dorothy L. Sayers
27 Jul 2025
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The English class system is complicated, even before one considers its hierarchical werewolf components.
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13 Dec 2025
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ISO: Carer to look after my father for 8 weeks this summer.
Dad is 71, early stage Parkinson’s disease, broke his hip 6 weeks ago. No signs of cognitive decline; mostly needs help with household tasks (cooking, light cleaning, laundry, grocery shopping), getting dressed, showering, changing cat litter/general cat care, getting to and from appointments.
Please know what you are getting into; Dad is physically more or less in good health but awful at accepting his limitations, unnecessarily mean, generally uncooperative, and largely nocturnal. Imagine yourself caring for a feral raccoon that is convinced it’s going to write another book, then subtract everything that is cute about raccoons.
$20/hour, roughly 4 hours a day. Must be able to pass a background check and lift 50 lbs. Patience of a saint not required but preferred.- Language:
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- 63,876
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- 19/19
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24 Oct 2025
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The Ransom of the House of Fëanor by EirianErisdar
Fandoms: The Silmarillion and other histories of Middle-Earth - J. R. R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings - J. R. R. Tolkien, TOLKIEN J. R. R. - Works & Related Fandoms, The Lord of the Rings - All Media Types
18 Jul 2021
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Maglor goes to war for a final time, the eternal darkness looms, and Elrond bargains with the Valar for the ransom of the House of Fëanor.
In which fathers give up everything for their sons, and their sons offer everything in return; title, name, and fëa. Or, the one where Maglor believes he is destined for eternal darkness, and Elrond politely says otherwise.
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- Part 1 of The Ever-Fixéd Star
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 98,036
- Chapters:
- 17/17
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- 9
- Comments:
- 750
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- 2,504
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24 Sep 2025
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And The Dead Shall Be Raised, Incorruptible by theseconddoctor
Fandoms: Sherlock Holmes - Arthur Conan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes & Related Fandoms
29 Apr 2025
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Holmes took a few more puffs of his cigarette in contemplative silence, before, in one fluid motion, abruptly stubbing it out and coming to kneel in front of me. He took my hands in his, clasped them gently, but kept his head bowed and refused to meet my eye.
“What I am to tell you next, Watson- what happened- I can barely believe it myself. And indeed, I would quite happily dismiss it as the ravings of a madman, the last hallucinations of the almost-dead, were it not for the nightly evidence of that little scene you just witnessed. But I beg you- doubt me if you will, but hear me first, please.”
The Falls of the Reichenbach are unsurvivable. Sherlock Holmes survives them- at a cost.
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07 Aug 2025
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“Shit,” Sam says, staring at the thin golden ring on his finger. He blinks quickly, like he’s pushing through it all: the hangover, the too-bright sunlight, the pure insanity of this moment. Bucky watches the dark curl of his eyelashes, staring for just a second too long.
Sam blinks again, then starts to laugh. “Shit. Well, I guess we’ll have to file for annulment.”
And maybe it’s the leftover buzz of the alcohol, or maybe it’s the way that Sam has started to feel like safety to him, but something makes Bucky blurt it out; he clears his throat and says, “Yeah, or we could just stay married.”
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11 Jun 2025
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a home for every season by dirgewithoutmusic
Fandoms: Chronicles of Narnia - All Media Types, Chronicles of Narnia - C. S. Lewis, The Lord of the Rings - All Media Types, The Lord of the Rings - J. R. R. Tolkien
10 Dec 2015
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Let’s talk about a Susan who never moved on, who buried her family in English soil and spent the rest of her life trying to find her way home. She did not believe lions were kind, but she always remembered a bow in her schoolgirl hands.
She looked in every old wardrobe she came across. It was casual, everyday– the first day in a new lecture hall, she checked the back of the coat closet. Friends had her over for Christmas dinner and she excused herself to go the bathroom, checked every cabinet and closet, and then headed back in for pudding. She went home with a cute boy she met in a smoky little pub and she checked his wardrobe before she headed home the next morning, heels in hand.
She also went to college, got a political science degree she had to fight for. She got a byline in the local paper, a few ladies’ magazines, then a larger regional publication.
She had mimosa brunches with friends. She read detective novels, never touched fantasy, and finally one day she stepped through an old stone archway barely thinking about it and–-
She was standing in a treeless plain, all yellow grass and blue blue skies.
(Susan Pevensie goes to Middle Earth)
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- English
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- 4,042
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- 1/1
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- 10
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- 259
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07 Jun 2025
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Quicksilver by clothonono
Fandoms: The Silmarillion and other histories of Middle-Earth - J. R. R. Tolkien
15 Jun 2023
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"Míriel has recovered herself," Indis said. "She has rested long and well in the Halls of Mandos, and misses now the craft of her hands, the light of the Trees—have I guessed right?"
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07 Jun 2025
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what this darkness cannot swallow, it must spit out by Dialux
Fandoms: The Silmarillion and other histories of Middle-Earth - J. R. R. Tolkien
18 Mar 2021
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Caranthir sighs, disgusted, and sits on the bed, as far as he can get from Celegorm without appearing like he’s halfway to crawling out of his skin. “I didn’t come back to life so I could hear how much my dying traumatized you.”
“You fucking bastard,” says Celegorm, and lunges.
[When Caranthir is reborn into Valinor, he must deal with everything he left behind in Beleriand- the annoying brothers, the overbearing parents, the family he lost and will never regain.
But there are things that Caranthir does not know. There are lies that have not yet been unwound. There are mercies he has never expected. It takes orange trees, infuriating brothers, silver ribbons and unseasonal thunderstorms, but slowly Caranthir learns precisely how wrong he is.]
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- English
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- 1/1
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- 162
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- 1,292
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06 Jun 2025
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Weekend at Omelas (quick, grab the kid and run!) by its_not_a_pen
Fandoms: Star Wars - All Media Types
17 Mar 2023
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Jedi knight Qui-Gon Jinn discovers a young Maul on Mustafar. However, fate does not take kindly to being robbed, when one boy is saved the other is lost.
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- Part 1 of Jedi Maul AU
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19 May 2025
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The Hermits have a code phrase. If spoken, this phrase acts as an emergency safe word, telling everyone to stop whatever they’re doing, because something is seriously wrong. Whether it’s from physical or emotional distress, all Hermits know that when someone uses the code, they need help from their chaotic, dysfunctional family.
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18 Feb 2025
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Mumbo didn’t full and truly panic until the moment that Grian passed out.
Concerned when he arrived to see his friend so clearly in pain? Sure. Upset to find out Grian had been hiding this from him for the entire season? Yeah. Nauseated when he saw the dark bruising and blood spread across Grian’s back? Yes. Bloody terrified when he thought Grian’s previous captors may have something to do with this? Absolutely.
But panic didn’t set in until Grian was slumped unconscious in his arms.
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or, grian’s past with the watchers comes back to bite him in the form of his wings (and his mental state), mumbo wants to be a good friend, doc is traumatized, scar needs a break, xisuma and stress are just trying to keep them all alive, and pearl is… well, is she?
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or, alternatively, grian wing angst go brrrr...
*NOT discontinued, author just has a full-time job and a degree to pursue*- Language:
- English
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- 75,990
- Chapters:
- 29/?
- Collections:
- 7
- Comments:
- 1,677
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17 Feb 2025
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The Silver Charonosaurus by Syrena_of_the_lake for rthstewart
Fandoms: Chronicles of Narnia - C. S. Lewis
08 Sep 2024
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When enchantments break, everything changes: the prince, the witch and the world of the deep. (The Silver Chair AU story with dinosaurs that I never knew I needed — in which some things stay the same, and some things never happen the same way twice.)
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- English
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- 10,308
- Chapters:
- 2/2
- Collections:
- 1
- Comments:
- 13
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- 32
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- 330
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29 Jan 2025
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The thing is: it would be good to see Xiao Zhan again — if Yibo could just trust himself to be normal.
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- English
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- 10,078
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- 1/1
- Comments:
- 208
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27 Jan 2025
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Julian could only be glad, later, that the conversation happened over dinner and kanar in his quarters, and not in the Replimat.
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- Part 10 of Bad Things Happen Bingo 2024
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23 Jan 2025
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The Last Flight of Elanor Gamgee by Anna_Wing
Fandoms: The Silmarillion and other histories of Middle-Earth - J. R. R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings - J. R. R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings - All Media Types
19 Jan 2025
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In which Arwen and Elanor go on their last adventure.
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- Part 6 of Idylls of the Queen
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22 Jan 2025
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Contractum ad Solis et Carnis - A Contract of the Sun and Flesh by denimaww
Fandoms: Baldur's Gate (Video Games)
01 Nov 2025
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"A Hero of Baldur's Gate" seems like a title of mockery to Astarion, who feels about as heroic as someone who lives a life in the shadows ever could. His dearest companion has left him for adventure all over Faerún, and the other companions are living fulfilling lives while he rots away in his dark office. Working his way up as a lawyer seemed at first like an attempt to reclaim his past life, but now that too is seeming more like a charade and distraction from what he actually wants. But when Raphael makes a frightening re-appearance with an unexpected plea for Astarion's help - an opportunity to claim what he needs presents itself. But how far is he willing to go to take it?
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- Part 1 of Contractum ad Solis et Carnis
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17 Jan 2025
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Sea Longing by bunn
Fandoms: The Hobbit - J. R. R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings - J. R. R. Tolkien
02 Sep 2020
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"It was often said (in other families) that long ago one of the Took ancestors must have taken a fairy wife. That was, of course, absurd*, but..."
- The Hobbit, Ch 1, An Unexpected Party
* But what if?Inspired by the wonderful art created by androgynouscardinal for Tolkien Reverse Fandom Bang 2020. Beta thanks to raiyana.
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- English
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- 12,484
- Chapters:
- 2/2
- Collections:
- 1
- Comments:
- 56
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- 134
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- 28
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- 893
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12 Jan 2025
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It Starts Out Like an A-Word (As Anyone Can See) by Amy
Fandoms: The Avengers (2012), Sesame Street (TV)
28 May 2012
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This fic is brought to you by the letter Y, the number 12, and the Avengers' decision to help fix what Loki and the Chitauri did to destroy parts of Manhattan. (Mostly that last part.)
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10 Jan 2025
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Somebody had to write this (so why not me?) by who_la_hoop for dizmo
Fandoms: AO3 Tags, Meta - Fandom
13 Dec 2012
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This is a stupid fanfiction and I shouldn't have written it. I have no shame. Don't like, don't read.
Abandon hope all ye who enter here . . .
(A little piece of silliness, wherein the above summary, dubious poem below, author notes and accompanying tags are entirely composed of existing AO3 freeform tags.)
- Language:
- English
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- 189
- Chapters:
- 1/1
- Collections:
- 2
- Comments:
- 103
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- 694
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- 102
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- 5,804
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09 Jan 2025
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the fire of life by starlightwalking
Fandoms: The Silmarillion and other histories of Middle-Earth - J. R. R. Tolkien
05 Sep 2020
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Mairon was the only good part of Maedhros' time in Angband, but Fingon could never believe that. Now Fingon is the captive and Maedhros the rescuer, and he will have to accept the truth of his lover's history with Mairon if he ever wants to see him again.
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 30,520
- Chapters:
- 1/1
- Collections:
- 1
- Comments:
- 35
- Kudos:
- 156
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- 40
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- 2,952
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08 Jan 2025