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Someone who died in the 1940s in New York, and someone who died in Las Vegas in the 1970s would have good reason never to have run into each other. And people who know each other in life might not ever run into each other in hell. But what if their paths had crossed? Would they even recognise each other if they met again?
A tale of organized crime, sin, and love in 1930s/1940s Manhattan.
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Behold the Walls of Jericho by AMarguerite
Fandoms: Northanger Abbey - Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey (2007), It Happened One Night (1934)
11 Jan 2025
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Catherine Morland, girl reporter (well, Bath Weekly’s junior weddings reporter and photographer), has always longed for something, anything exciting to happen to her. When she meets the Tilneys, it does.
1930s screwball comedy AU... though Catherine thinks she's in a Hitchcockian murder mystery. Otherwise known as "It Happened One Night At Northanger Abbey."
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omg
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The Painter by softlybarnes
Fandoms: Captain America - All Media Types, Captain America (Movies)
27 Nov 2019
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She’s smoking outside the bodega the day she spots him for the first time. A glimpse of his face through a tiny crack in the crowd shuffling past the store front. She wouldn’t have noticed him at all, had her friend not paused in her long ranting monologue about the pointlessness of modern prose to point him out.
Or.
Bucky falls hopelessly in love with an artist the second she notices him. 1930s/artist au.
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It’s the 1930s in the Crescent City, and Alastor Valois accidentally summons a demon.
But not just any demon—Charlie Morningstar: a radiant, bubbly ray of sunshine with a dangerous secret and a target on her back.
Now soul-bound, the two must navigate a city crawling with ghosts, curses, and monsters. Their only hope of freedom lies in defeating The Jaws of the Black Hunt—a fanatical occult group devoted to an ancient eldritch god… one who’s madly in love with Charlie.
To save her, Alastor must confront the ghosts of his past, the mysteries unraveling around them, and the truth he can no longer deny: He wasn’t supposed to fall in love. But now he’ll burn the world before he lets her goSeries
- Part 1 of Devoted as Hell
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It's the late 1930s and Bruce Wayne is an expert in Egyptian archaeology. When he's called down to Egypt to help out an old friend, he meets Hal Jordan and everything goes downhill from there.
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Yummy and old but yummy
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Cho loves Cedric in every lifetime.
Written for the Wizarding World Writers' "Birds of a Feather" Quill Quest.
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chodric historical au, shanghai golden era, GOLDEN TAKE
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I Believe That We Were Supposed To Find This by Brookhacker
Fandoms: Heartstopper (Webcomic), Heartstopper (TV)
25 Oct 2023
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“Nicky I, I promise I wasn’t snooping. I was doing the wash and I turned out your trouser pockets like I always do and”
Sarah placed a letter in the middle of the table.
Nick's heart dropped into his stomach. It was one of his letters from Charlie. He could see Charlie’s signature at the bottom of the page.All my love, Forever yours
CharlieHow could Nick explain this away?
“Charlie is a very special friend, isn’t he?” Sarah said delicately, still watching her son with that look he couldn’t understand.
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Nick and Charlie meet for the first time at an all-boys boarding school in the year 1936. Despite the expectations of society the two boys fall deeply for one another even as the looming cloud of another great war begins to descend over England.- Language:
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NOT READ YET - 6/23/25 ~ HOW HAVE I NOT HEARD OF THIS AUTHOR?
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Lonely private eye Jayce Talis was just another lost soul in the City of Angels. Then a glamorous antiques dealer arrived in Los Angeles hunting a treasure somebody was willing to kill for. Jayce’s best lead is a picture of a tattooed girl with braids, and his new partner is the man who took it: a photographer with one foot in the underworld and a face to die for.
A 1930s hardboiled/noir AU.
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Heir Apparent by Themadwomanwhoisunfortunatelylackingabox for Bundollier
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types
12 Jul 2025
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Mr. Wayne took in Dick to be the successor to his empire. He doesn't get a choice.
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So so so much emotion in this painting.
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Nocturne city, 1999 by elliesnotes
Fandoms: Arcane: League of Legends (Cartoon 2021), Sinners (2025), Interview with the Vampire (TV 2022)
19 Jul 2025
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“You got a name, preacherboy?”
“That what you’re gonna call me all night?” he asks, and somehow that sounds like an invitation.
“Depends.” Jinx raises a flirty eyebrow. “You gonna tell me your name?”
He smiles, eyes on her soaked dress, “If you tell me why you look like you’ve been out dancing with a thunderstorm.”
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From New Orleans, 1930, to a Nocturne city in 1999... When you’re a century-old vampire, breaking up with your boyfriend before New Year’s Eve isn’t exactly a coincidence.
There are 6 hours left until sunrise.
Ekko has exactly 6 hours to convince Jinx not to end it all at dawn.
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Vampire AU
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Alastor doesn’t pull his hand away, in spite of how he’d very much like to.
Typically—this is a game reserved for a disgusting pig of a white man that he’s been stalking for a few weeks now, at the bare minimum. Perhaps a few months, even. He’s not certain this one qualifies yet to be on the main list, but he does tick all of the preliminary boxes. He’d make for terrible prey, though, Alastor sadly notes. A high profile white man from New York that has come down to specifically chase after him? No, no, that won’t do. He can’t kill this man. It would fall back onto him immediately.
Buuuut, he is still having a bit of fun, laying out a few honey traps here and there, for whatever reason. Just in case.
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1930s Human AU. Newscastor (and CBS Executive) Vincent goes to New Orleans to scout some new talent. He gets a lot more than either of them bargain for in a particular small-time radio host.
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- Part 1 of Rot Next To You
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Jungkook is convinced that in every person’s life, there is at least one fateful event that once split their life in two parts: before and after. It can be something unimaginably happy, just as it can be something insanely devastating, but that’s not the point. The most important is that in our lives, there is one moment that nullifies everything that has ever happened before it, becoming a new starting point.
In his life, such an event was relatively simple for it was just an encounter with the most regular boy named Kim Taehyung.
Throughout his writing career, Jungkook has never written a story as personal as this one is going to be because for him, remembering and sharing not only his, but their story is even harder than remembering war.
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Brooklyn, 1933. Dean Winchester, the number one contender, trains to become the next Heavyweight Champion of the World, and this time he won't let anything get in his way. Title holder Castiel Novak has second thoughts about retiring, especially when someone from his past arrives in New York and asks for his help. Meanwhile, a new contender rises to fame and threatens to complicate both of Dean and Cas' ambitions - and their relationship.
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- Part 3 of Heavyweight
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"Oh, 1930 Something." by IronDadStan
Fandoms: Marvel Cinematic Universe, The Avengers (Marvel) - All Media Types, Iron Man (Movies), Captain America - All Media Types, Marvel
09 Aug 2021
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As life had just begun to settle back down in Avengers Tower. Just as things had been getting back to normal - Toni's leg healing, wedding planning and avenging the earth on their off days. Loki shows up and throws a major wrench in their plans.
He throws Toni back to the 1930's.
But, when it looks like the trickster god was up to no good, Toni and Steve might get to see just what a blessing his 'gift' was.
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- Part 10 of Remind You
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I Have Been to The Movies; I’ve Seen How It Ends. by Loopy_RemusLupin
Fandoms: Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling
15 Apr 2025
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'They come to kick dirt in your face
To call you weak and then displace you
After carrying your baby on your back across the desert
I saw your eyes behind your hair
And you're looking tired, but you don't look scaredLet 'em laugh while they can
Let 'em spin, let 'em scatter in the wind
I have been to the movies; I've seen how it ends
And the joke's on them' - The Joke by Brandi CarlileOR
One Minute Harry was 17 years old and in his final battle with Voldemort, the next he was making a deal with Death himself, now he's 50 years in the past while in his 8-year-old body. What’s worse is he’s falling in love with Voldemort's past self, Tom Riddle.
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Ch. 4
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How 'Bout a Dance by writingfunstories
Fandoms: Gotham (TV), Bonnie & Clyde - Wildhorn/Black/Menchell
28 Jun 2025
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Gotham, New Jersey, 1933.
Edward Nygma lived a boring life.
He was the assistant to the librarian, a man who’s been working at Gotham Library for the past five years, doing the same routine every day.
Wake up, eat breakfast, drive into work, eat lunch with Lee, finish his shift, drive home, eat dinner, sleep and repeat.
And repeat.
And repeat.
But one day everything changed.
It would be a chance encounter that would change everything, his boring life disappearing and becoming a life of adventure and excitement.
This is the story of how he met Oswald Cobblepot.
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The Many Cases of Erwin Smith by ohplanchette
Fandom: Shingeki no Kyojin | Attack on Titan
24 Jun 2025
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The adventures of the World’s Greatest Detective and his grumpy companion.
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best AU ever
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Mob boss Shadow has two problems:
1) Police Chief Robotnik stole his chaos emerald
2) He's pathetically in love with the city's resident heroHowever luckily for Shadow, based on the intel he’s gathered, vigilante Sonic shares Shadow’s grudge against the Police Chief for kidnapping his little brother.
Good thing they're both excellent at solving problems. Together. While pressed against each other. For completely professional reasons, of course.
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On Target by chezamanda
Fandoms: The Avengers (2012), Marvel Cinematic Universe, Marvel (Movies)
13 Feb 2013
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The first arrow landed beside her ear with a loud thud.
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