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    RHETORIC:
    𝘯. the art of effective or persuasive speaking or writing ; language designed to have a persuasive effect on its audience, but often regarded as lacking in sincerity or meaningful content.

    Chae Seo-Yun was, in the grand scheme of things, a nobody. Running from debt collectors, hanging out with criminals, and, ultimately, partying her life away. Until one day, she's approached with an offer. Play games, make money. Accepting was easy - She'd played games her entire life to get to tomorrow. Surviving was going to be the hard part.

    A Kang Dae-Ho/OC story. This can be read as an x reader.

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    —> all characters/relationships stated in tags are obviously not at the start. they are to come

    intrusive thoughts took over... and here we are

    John leaned in close, the knife cool against the bruised skin of 1x1’s cheek. The blade’s edge traced a line with almost surgical precision, just enough pressure to leave a sting, a thin red line marring his skin, though not deep enough to bleed.

    Their eyes met—John’s gaze steady, unreadable, like he’d seen far worse and would do far worse without blinking. “I’ll spare you,” he said softly, voice barely above a whisper. “But only ‘cause of how pitiful that was. I could get a damn fortune for turning you in, no doubt about it. You’re wanted, everyone knows it.”

    He tilted the knife slightly, forcing 1x1 to hold his gaze. “But I’m feelin’ merciful tonight.”

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    45/?
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    Aziraphale and Crowley’s first date was a disaster. He thought Crowley was rude and insufferable; Crowley thought Aziraphale was a sanctimonious bore. They agreed on one thing—never again.

    Years later, Crowley is facing an ultimatum: marry or lose a massive inheritance. Out of options (and a bit too drunk), he texts the one person least likely to agree—Aziraphale.

    Aziraphale, drowning in debt and on the verge of losing his beloved bookshop, isn’t in a position to refuse. A marriage of convenience might just be his best—if most ridiculous—solution.

    It’s just business. Just a bit of paperwork, a few social events, and a whole lot of pretending. But between prying lawyers, suspicious friends, and unexpected moments of closeness, keeping their arrangement strictly professional turns out to be harder than they thought.

    After all, there’s a thin line between pretending to love someone and falling for them entirely.

    Updates Mondays, Wednesday, Friday and Saturday.

    Language:
    English
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    190,226
    Chapters:
    84/100
    Collections:
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    It starts as mere pleasure. An indulgence.

    There’s nothing personal about it. That’s not the arrangement they have. That’s not anything he will ever allow. Gyeongseok is unapologetic. Confident, with a bite to him that makes her shudder, an angry heat that makes her ache. He’s exactly what she needs right now. It’s an agreement. A transaction. It’s uncomplicated. Up until it isn’t. He’s a closed book. An enigma, carefully contained. Until he isn’t.

    Until she starts catching glimpses of the man outside the performance. Until she finds that he has walked through a hell of his own. That in his wake, he drags a shadow, unshakeable, and if he falters, if he wavers, it threatens to swallow him whole. And in his hands, clasped tight, so tight, shielded against the storm, he carries a weakened flame. Bright-eyed. His whole world. Only five years old.

    And it’s none of Hyunju’s business. He makes that beyond clear. She is a pay-check. A means to an end. Who he is outside of their arrangement is none of her concern.

    Her heart does not agree.

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    Chapters:
    3/?
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    When Hermione Granger's father entangles himself in a web of debts owed to the ruthless and powerful Malfoy due to Gambling, his Daughter finds herself thrust into a terrifying bargain, three months for Mr Granger to find an impossible sum or Hermione will be the possession of a man she despises...

    A non-magical AU

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    English
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    62,770
    Chapters:
    19/?
    Comments:
    163
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    255
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    Mafioso finally gets his hands on Chance. After years of searching for him, and finding out he still doesn’t have the money, he comes up with another way that Chance can pay.

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    The MBCC is in need of money for repairs. What better way to make some than to use the ever-popular Chief?

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    26/?
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    Aventurine takes every surprising find along the way of his business in stride. Few things can truly shake him to the core anymore.

    But when during a brief business trip he comes across a lost soul talking Sigonian with an Avgin dialect, his carefully built world tilts out of balance. He was supposed to be the last Avgin alive.

    Or was he?

    (one-shot turned into multi-chapter fic)

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    Chapters:
    11/?
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    A drunken one-night stand with his ex gave him the most precious child that he never could have imagined. The problem is that his little angel needs surgery, or she will die. He's got nothing left.
    He won’t stand around wringing his hands. He only knows one person who is rich and powerful enough to help. He’s desperate enough to offer anything. He’s willing to pay any price.
    Desperate times call for desperate measures. And Greg is a man with no options left. He knows is liable to do anything. And for his child…he will.

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    Chapters:
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    — Нет, что вы, — со столичной, как ему нравилось думать, небрежной уверенностью сказал Ричард. — Сумма совсем небольшая. Отдам по частям.

     

    Месяц у Ричарда Окделла выдался интересный и насыщенный: проигрыш в карты, моральные страдания, секс-работа и стремительное движение навстречу судьбе. Впрочем, он был жив и не отчаивался, ведь хорошим людям иногда все-таки везло.

    Language:
    Русский
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    2/?
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    Margaret had always been willing to help her family, but when it necessitated her to lose her freedom she feels trapped.

    She ends up rented to the Hawthorne family in Kristi, being far away from her family and homeland she decides she won't let it break her down.

    Series
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    Chapters:
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    5
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    When Yuu and Mika are chasing eachother around, Yuu ends up breaking an artifact on campus! Infront of tattle-tale Shinoa! Instead of kicking them out, Shinoa gets an idea...

    The collage has been short on money anyways, and after a survey to find out most people on there are single, Yuu and Mika get forced into the on-site HOST CLUB!? What the heck Shinoa!

    Stay tuned-in to see what shenanigains, crashouts, and... relationships? (Dude. What is this script...) Form!

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    English
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    Chapters:
    2/12
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    One day Sakura loses his wallet. And it is found by the boss of Bofurin, who figures out that he wasn’t in such a good place financially and takes pity on him. So they start anonymously sending cash, clothes, and furniture to Sakura through the mail. Eventually, Bofurin sends a letter stating that they had bought Sakura a house and it lists an address. Cross that threshold and he might escape the apartment that reeks of broken dreams, but someone stalks the corridors of his past.

    “Someone was feeding his boy hope, and hope made people stray.”

    Will Sakura dare open the new door, or let the old one slam shut on his future?

     

    (All characters are of age)

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    10/?
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    Tyler squeezes his eyes shut as the cold barrel of the gun presses against his forehead. The air stills around him, the sounds subside, and he’s left in silence as the world comes to a stop.

    A few months later, he’s sitting on the bar when the door opens.

    OR:

    Tyler accidentally freezes time. Josh and Jenna try to figure out why it hasn’t resumed.

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    3/?
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    Daiya brings his boyfriend to a street market and accidently makes Yasuhiro's debt ten times worse.
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    This is for day 4 of danganronpa rarepair week 2025 by @dr-rarepair-week-blog on tumblr

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    1/1
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    Yuji Itadori doesn't just watch Ryomen Sukuna's streams—he funds them. His tips buy attention, his comments beg for cruelty, and when Sukuna finally demands more than just his money, Yuji hands over his address without hesitation. The camera lights are blinding, the chat is ravenous, and as Sukuna peels away every last shred of his dignity live for an audience, Yuji realizes too late: he wasn't invited as a guest. He's the main course.

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    1/1
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    10
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    72
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    15
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    This is my first work
    English is not my native language, so the articles are translated. If there are any errors, please let me know.

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    Ces lettres rouges étaient devenues un stress constant dans la vie de Gustave. Elles annonçaient un avertissement, une menace discrète et imminente s’il ne les repayait pas.

    Quand Lune vena à lui avec une solution pour ses problèmes de dettes, il était au ange. Il n’y avait aucune solution assez rapide pour qu’il puisse les régler.

    Alors, il accepta le plan que lui, Lune et Sciel formèrent sans savoir que cetre décision aurait d’énormes conséquences sur leur vie.

    En bien autant qu’en mal.

    – Univers Alternatif : Casino –

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    Français
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    Chapters:
    2/2
    Kudos:
    3
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    ‘They said later that all the sorry souls of the Mississippi had waited their turn long enough. Oh, it was a cruise steeped in death from the start— all endings are deaths, if you think about it. These are haunted waters, always have been, and she was a ghost if ever I saw one. You heard of the old black train? Let me tell you, the Greeks, you know, they had it right. Before there were trains, there were boats. Ain’t nothin' older than a boat. That tour—the very last… we didn’t know it then, but, hell, they did. The dead always do, in the end.’ — Witness statement.

    September, 1921: the SEVENTH DAY departs St. Louis for New Orleans. It goes not silently or darkly: they say its passengers dance all night and day, dragging the river out slow enough to turn minutes to hours, days to weeks, nights to days and back again. They say it’s ten times the size of a Mardi Gras float and twice as grand, patronised by the richest Baron in the south. Its shadow is vast and broad—the vision of an ending.

    But it is a beautiful vision, while it lasts.

    Besides—is it not said that all endings are also beginnings, in their way?

    Language:
    English
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    82,317
    Chapters:
    13/?
    Comments:
    124
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    35
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    9
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    950

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