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A continuation of the story of Final Fantasy IX.
Two years after the fall of Kuja, Queen Garnet reigns with grace over a kingdom still healing from her mother's wars. But as secrets stir and a familiar mischief-maker makes his mark, long-forgotten powers begin to rise.
Will curiosity kill the rat?
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Eddie is five when his abuelo tells him about the spirits for the first time. The spirits that roam the plane between the living and the dead. Día de los Muertos has always been something his abuelo loved to celebrate. The tradition of it all, the beliefs behind it, the spirituality. It got a hold of the entire family back then. There was no grief, just cheerful remembrance.
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5 times spirituality and spirits play a role in Eddie's life and 1 time he lets himself be guided by it (well, at least a little, just needs a little push towards Buck, the rest ist all Eddie).
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- Part 3 of Eddie Diaz Week 2025
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In the Space Between by Lin_the_Elf
Fandoms: The Lord of the Rings: The War of Rohirrim (2024)
10 Jul 2025
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It is odd, how the world of the living feels so close and so far in the moment after one dies. In the moment between life and whatever comes next, Háma has a conversation with death.
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Five weeks ago, Mulder was brutally dumped by Diana. He’s hurt, humiliated, and determined to stay as far away possible from anything remotely resembling the X-Files.
But, he's handed a case. It's a diplomatic request from Sweden asking the FBI to review a cold case profile. It turns out to be the 1986 assassination of the Swedish Prime Minister and Mulder, being the BSU's golden boy, is supposed to just look at the profile, comment on it, and move on.
He doesn’t move on. And while he's busy not moving on, his past hunts him down.
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In which a cage is consumed by flames.
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It’s Like I’m Seeing Color for the First Time, Like you Open my Eyes by tomatosoupforthesoul
Fandoms: 9-1-1 (TV)
10 Jul 2025
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"He thought about that, the way colors painted his world every day. The blue sky he loved to stare at, the bright red peppers at the grocery store, his mother’s favorite yellow dress that made her smile."
Or, in a world where losing your soulmate means losing all color, Eddie is haunted by the fact that everything stayed vibrant after Shannon's untimely death. But when Buck is struck by lightning and dies for those 3 minutes and 17 seconds, Eddie is suddenly sent reeling as he grapples with the fact that his whole world turned grey...
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In the end, the Empty steals only his soul, while the rest of Castiel is thrown through some unimportant crack in the universe. Now stuck in an alternate 2003, he stares at Dean who isn't his Dean, and finds it within himself to accept that he's human, and because he's human, that he has the chance to be brave.
or: Cas takes something he thought he could never have, even if it's for one night only
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The Fifth murder that leaves no magical trace.
When Auror Draco Malfoy is assigned to investigate a series of unnaturally clean deaths, he knows something doesn’t fit. No signs of magic. No spellwork. Just the unmistakable feeling that whatever's behind it was never meant to be found. Then the Department of Mysteries assigns him a partner—Hermione Granger, of all people—and the case fractures wide open.
What begins as a forensic puzzle becomes something else entirely: a reckoning with bloodlines, the legacy of silence, and the alchemy of grief.
A slow-burn investigative mystery about what we inherit, what we erase, and what remains when the magic runs out.
Draco POV heavy. Dual POV from Chapter 2 onward. For readers who like atmosphere, margin-note tension, and a mystery that doesn’t blink first.
🐍 Draco Malfoy is cold, clinical, and haunted by legacy—an heir unraveling the quiet violence his bloodline buried, one unspoken truth at a time.
📚 Hermione Granger is sharp, restrained, and unrelenting—a mind built for precision and a heart she swore to guard, until this case breaks both.
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Hermione Granger is thirty-seven, married, and vanishing by inches.
In a Ministry built on glass ceilings and half-kept promises, she spends her days archiving the past and erasing herself. Her nights are quieter still—tea gone cold, birthdays forgotten, a marriage that functions only in muscle memory. But when she’s reassigned to a forgotten preservation initiative—and partnered with Draco Malfoy, of all people—the stillness begins to shift.
Their connection starts in margin notes. Quiet corrections. A shared language of theory, silence, and gaze. He doesn’t ask questions. He listens. He sees her.
What follows is not a romance in the way we’re told to want it. It’s slower. Stranger. A fire built beneath floorboards. A life rewritten through letters, glances, and the sacredness of choosing yourself.
This is a story about desire without spectacle, intimacy without performance, and what it means to be seen and wanted for who you are when no one is watching.
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When the fifty remaining contestants get mysteriously rescued from the games, Thanos realises that surviving the horrors of everyday life might actually be the greatest hardship.
He will eventually come to accept it.
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where do we go from here? by athousandbyeol
Fandoms: เด็กชายไม่ไปสวรรค์ | Ticket to Heaven (TV)
10 Jul 2025
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"i’m scared."
"i'm here. you don't have to be scared."
tanrak is tired of lying; to the mirror, to the collar around his neck, to the boy who makes him feel like maybe love was never wrong to begin with. but where do they ever go from here when they were always nowhere to begin with?
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- Part 2 of for barthtanrak
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cry me your prayers by Nien
Fandoms: 呪術廻戦 | Jujutsu Kaisen (Manga), 呪術廻戦 | Jujutsu Kaisen (Anime)
10 Jul 2025
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Suguru was born a slave. His whole life has been nothing more than to survive the next day and live unnoticed and undiscovered.
When he’s sold again, he finds himself closer to the god he devoted his life to on bleeding knees.
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Following the revelations from Jinn, Adam Taurus's worldview shatters. Questioning everything, he follows Team RWBY to Argus, seeking answers about his place in his own story. Meanwhile, Oscar struggles with Ozpin's influence and Team RWBY fractures as Yang's distrust escalates into hostility, threatening their mission against Salem.
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Swords Could Talk by silverbriseis for MaelstromOfEmotions
Fandoms: KPop Demon Hunters (2025)
10 Jul 2025
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‘HEY! They aren't stupid, I thought them over many times and I just think that it would be great if you were to–’
“For the LAST time, I'm not smashing my sword just to see the glitter fall out!” Rumi yelled to her sword, no longer whispering as she was alone and Mira and Zoey weren't around to stare at her worryingly. “And I'm not even sure if there's any glitter stuck to my sword!”
Jinu's abstracted and amnesiac soul bonded itself to Rumi's sword. Rumi is definitely unaware but absolutely in denial about this.
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and it seems my hell is your high water by lunafleurette
Fandoms: Alien Stage (Web Series)
10 Jul 2025
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She pushes. Mizi falls back, her drowned saint with the most pitiful smile. And together they rot in the lukewarm, cooling water.
Sua and Mizi share a private moment in the bathtub.
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- Part 4 of the price of devotion
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Sonic the Hedgehog.
He goes by many names, takes on many roles. To those closest to him, he’s the best friend you could ask for. To those who challenge him, he’s a force to be reckoned with. To most of the world, he’s a hero, a legend to rival the days of old.
If you were to ask Sonic himself, he would say he’s no one special.
He’s wrong.
He knows he’s wrong. He knows he’s special in ways he doesn’t yet understand. It’s hard to ignore when the chaos emeralds thrum constantly in the back of his head, reminding him of the role he’s meant to fill. The role he rejects every time he borrows their power.
When the time comes, he will accept, because that’s just who he is. For now, he tries to live life like he always has, because there comes a day when he will no longer be able to ignore what lies ahead of him.
Tell him, how does he make the most of the moment when the moment lasts eternity?(AKA: The chaos emeralds claim Sonic as their guardian, essentially turning him into a god. Now, he has to deal with the implications of that— and immortality.)
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- Part 1 of Legend AU
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the astral express' guide to obscure sorrows. by akissaura
Fandoms: 崩坏：星穹铁道 | Honkai: Star Rail (Video Game)
10 Jul 2025
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sorrow
noun
1. a: deep distress, sadness, or regret especially for the loss of someone or something loved
b: resultant unhappy or unpleasant state
2. a cause of grief or sadness
3. a display of grief or sadnessIn this vast universe, doesn’t everyone have something to mourn?
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After New Moon, Bella leaves everything behind — the Cullens, Forks, even herself. Years later, she lives in a quiet university town full of strange women, cold coffee, and books she can’t finish.
Somewhere, in a post-apocalyptic world, a vampire named Bella finds a sparkling Adonis in the forest.
Nothing Is Enough, But Still is a queer, haunted, nonlinear meditation on grief, identity, and the stories we keep living — long after we’ve stopped believing in them. -
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Marisa watches for that little twitch. Every little motion her fellow magician's hand makes in the moments between motions, the little things Alice couldn't control about her biology, she counts.
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But this dawn, like every dawn after the full moon, feels like a baptism by fire. Lavender feels newly minted, like a fresh knuckle: shaped, bent and purposeful by design.
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- Part 6 of THC 2025
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- 528
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