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Blood Curse by hoannguyetgiang
Fandoms: Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter - Fandom
24 Jun 2025
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Michael S., a quiet, observant pure-blood from Slytherin, begins his first year at Hogwarts recording secret thoughts in a diary. Unlike most of his kind, he questions blood purity and feels drawn to forgotten magic, strange creatures, and the ancient mysteries buried within the castle walls.
He keeps to himself, uninterested in House rivalries — until he quietly notices Severus Snape, another boy who seems to stand apart from the crowd. Brooding, brilliant, and silent, Severus sparks a strange recognition in Michael. Two outsiders. Two sharp minds. A quiet thread begins to form.
Meanwhile, Michael bears the burden of a family Blood Curse and a secret magical pact left unresolved. Through ink and parchment, he dares to think freely, challenging the path set before him — all while the shadows of war creep closer.
Through unexpected moments — a shared glance, a small act of help — Michael S. and Severus Snape inch toward something resembling friendship… or perhaps something more.
Told in the form of diary entries, this story follows a slow, introspective journey through Hogwarts in the 1970s — a quiet magic, and the bond between two boys too clever, too lonely, and maybe too much alike.
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Laurel’s thighs were still clamped around his hips, but she’d leaned back now—just far enough to see him. To measure the flush crawling across his neck, the tremble that wasn’t cold.
Her hand came up again.
Smack!
His face jerked to the side.
He inhaled through his teeth, lips red. No protest. No flinch. Just acceptance—sharp and clean.
She tilted her head. “That one didn’t count. You liked it.”
Smack!
The other cheek this time. His head rocked with it.
Xinghong blinked slowly—cheeks burning, jaw locked. He looked up at her like he was drowning in ecstacy of silent rebellion. Eyes glassy—Pained. Overstimulated. All over.
Her palm came again.
Slap!
Slap!
Slap!Rhythmic. Graceful. Cruel, almost.
“Say something,” Laurel whispered, eyes wild.
His breath trembled out. “You have issues.”
She scoffed. “So do you.”
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Everyone knows their names — Potter. Weasley. Lupin. Granger. The children of heroes, born into legacy, raised in the echoes of a war they never fought. But behind the famous surnames and perfect smiles are teenagers just trying to survive the weight of expectation.
On a train bound for another year at Hogwarts, fourteen students sit in separate compartments, each quietly unraveling. Some are adored. Some are forgotten. Some are scared of what's coming, and others are scared of who they are. Friendships are shifting, secrets are growing, and not everyone is as put-together as they seem.
They were raised by legends. But they’re still figuring out how to be themselves.
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A Quiet After by joafterall
Fandoms: Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter - Fandom
24 Jun 2025
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The war is over, but peace doesn’t come easy.
Harry returns to Hogwarts for his final year not as the Chosen One, but as someone trying to figure out who he is without a war to fight. The world seems ready to move on - but Harry isn’t sure how.
He wants normal. Quiet. A chance to just be Harry.
Then Draco Malfoy walks into the Great Hall, late and alone, and everything shifts.
Stripped of his wand and shadowed by a silent Ministry escort, Malfoy is nothing like the boy Harry once knew - but Harry notices him anyway. Watches him. Wonders.
He's not supposed to care. But the more he tries to look away, the more he can’t. Because something’s wrong, and Malfoy is carrying it like a secret he’s been forced to keep.
The war is over - but not every story is finished. And not every enemy stays an enemy.
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American dream by Hopeless_romantic35
Fandoms: ジョジョの奇妙な冒険 | JoJo no Kimyou na Bouken | JoJo's Bizarre Adventure
24 Jun 2025
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Life in new york city could be intimidating, especially when you're an immigrant who's attending college there. The bustle and tussle of the city might diverge from your expectations of it.
So when life offers you a deal to do gigs at a bar, you would know any better to accept.
It's only once a week, it shouldn't be that impactful, right?
(Gyro does gigs at a bar and meets Johnny Joestar.)
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Breaking Through To You by WorldsBestScarameow
Fandoms: 崩坏：星穹铁道 | Honkai: Star Rail (Video Game)
24 Jun 2025
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Aventurine has some iffy coping habits that have only gotten worse after the events on Penacony. Now, months later, he finds himself assigned to attend a conference hosted on a planet that the IPC is looking to 'assist.' While there a certain Doctor remains one of the biggest enigmas Aventurine has ever encountered.
Or, Dr. Ratio's time spent with the idiot gambler Aventurine slowly peels back layers of unresolved anguish.
MIND the tags. This contains descriptions of self harm.
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- Part 2 of His Facade Is Breaking
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when one looks back to their childhood, one remembers the vivid springs of laughter, climbing trees and reaching out for the stars, and making flower crowns in fields of flowers. but when [name] looked back at her youth, her memories were void of those colorful memories. her life as a traveler had become too dull to notice anything around her and appreciate the beauty, and her eyes spoke it. dull. empty. void. as if she had never tasted the essence of 'life'. she was a dreamless girl...who's fate intertwined with a boy full of dreams.
luffy saw, luffy wants! he saw [name], and he stole her away from her boring life, and made her his pillar. it was only a matter of time until he stole her heart one day too, right?
"by the way, nami...how do you steal someone's heart anyway?"
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Whoever You May Be - A Tracermaker Fanfic by gwendowolen
Fandoms: Overwatch (Video Game)
24 Jun 2025
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Widowmaker has been captured by Overwatch and has become quite close to Tracer... Updated every few days/daily(I'm very obsessed with this project at the moment.)
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Avengers: White Widow by lazyastronomer
Fandoms: Marvel Cinematic Universe, Captain America (Chris Evans Movies), The Avengers (Marvel Movies)
24 Jun 2025
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2015. One year since HYDRA fell. One year the Winter Soldier has spent on the run since D.C., tearing Europe apart trying to learn who and what he is. One year of Steve Rogers, Natasha Romanoff and Sam Wilson trying desperately to find him. One year since Steve learned a secret in his search that could tear the Avengers apart, and one that is tearing him apart to keep.
One year of her hunting her final target. One year since she'd been issued her last-known orders — Eliminate the Winter Soldier. Even if there were no handlers for her to report to, or a HYDRA to serve, she still obeyed. What else could she do, but obey?
(MCU AU/Retelling, divergence set one year after CA:TWS. Bucky x Fem. OC because of course it is, I'm only human after all, but the entire MCU storyline as a whole is altered significantly as well with my own changes to the overall storyline of Phases 2 through 4. Has very soft fix-it fic energy in places. Fic is completely finished & edited; posting ~1-2 chapters a day!)
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- Part 1 of MCU: The WhiteWinterVerse
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Till never believed in fairy tales, myths, legends, ghosts, gods, or sacred forests whispered around the fire.
He's a hunter, not a dreamer. Grounded and jaded.
That is, until a deer leads him to a horned man bathed in light, eyes like dying stars, and a voice that called his name like a curse.
In a forest of secrets, will love be their ruin or their only way out? Can love survive what reality denies?
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𝘍𝘰𝘳𝘦𝘴𝘵 𝘏𝘶𝘯𝘵𝘦𝘳 𝘛𝘪𝘭𝘭 𝘧𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘴 𝘪𝘯 𝘭𝘰𝘷𝘦 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩 𝘐𝘷𝘢𝘯, 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘍𝘰𝘳𝘦𝘴𝘵 𝘕𝘺𝘮𝘱𝘩.
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Where Lightning Sleeps by LadyCersei
Fandoms: 鬼滅の刃 | Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba (Anime)
24 Jun 2025
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It was said that if a man truly adored a courtesan, he would perform a miuke ...buy out her contract and take her away from the brothel, to make her his wife or something close to it.
But when its a demon...
He doesn’t free you.
He doesn’t take you away.He just makes sure you never leave.
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An enemies-to-lovers slow-burn romance set in the Warring States era.
In a land torn by endless war, you are a gifted healer from the revered Senju clan finding yourself thrust into the heart of your people's greatest enemy—the Uchiha. Bound by duty and burdened by the weight of your lineage, you must navigate a world of suspicion, politics, and quiet moments of unexpected connection.
As once rivaling clans inch toward a fragile peace, your presence becomes a symbol of hope… and controversy. Surrounded by strangers who slowly become something more, you begin to question what it truly means to belong. And in the shadows of a village still taking shape, the cold gaze of one man begins to burn with something deeper.
But peace is never easily won. And hearts, once stirred, rarely return to silence.- Language:
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I'm not how they hoped by izzythamizzy
Fandoms: A Court of Thorns and Roses Series - Sarah J. Maas
24 Jun 2025
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What would happen to Nesta if she conformed in ways the the Inner Circle didn't all appreciate or like? What if she found her way out from it and ended up finding people who appreciated her for what she is?
Story is set at the start in Velaris and will grow from just Nesta being isolated to finding friends and realizing you don't have to be deeply changed to be allowed and worthy of love. Sometimes you need out of the stiffling enviroment you are in to see everything much clearer.
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SING YOUR BODY ELECTRIC by sylviahughes for EleanorJane0690
Fandoms: Billy the Kid (TV 2022), tom blyth - Fandom
24 Jun 2025
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FROM THE AUTHOR OF “THE LILY OF THE WEST”
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“Safe,” he breathed, every long-thrust promise branding her deeper than any bullet scar.
“My girl—my stubborn, brave, beautiful girl—forever my girl.”Eva Fairchild was born to silk parasols and blood-soaked cotton.
When she helps enslaved friends escape her father’s Mississippi plantation, she brands herself a traitor—and a price is set on her head. Captured by drifters and nearly sold to a brothel, she’s ransomed by an exhausted gunslick with thunder in his eyes: William H. Bonney, the outlaw history will call Billy the Kid.Billy only means to put the skittish stranger somewhere “proper” before the law or his enemies catch his scent again. But six months of dust roads, bounty hunters, bad whiskey, and one too many nights sharing a torn canvas tent will turn good sense to smoke. He is too rough for her softness, she is too soft for his roughness—yet her quiet courage keeps saving his hide.
They learn to trust each other’s bodies long before they dare trust each other’s hearts. But secrets drag behind them like tin cans on wedding ribbon. And when Eva discovers Billy’s plan to leave her, thunder finally strikes.
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please don't make me love you by ladylaufeyson01
Fandoms: Marvel Cinematic Universe, Marvel
24 Jun 2025
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When your mother bargains your hand in marriage to Asgard's younger prince in a last-ditch attempt to save her kingdom, you are convinced that your future is ashes. The pain of leaving your childhood home and everything you've ever known, to marry a man you know next to nothing of, is almost too much to bear. Asgard is beautiful, but it is not home. And your new husband, Loki, though handsome and mysterious, seems to want nothing to do with you.
Lonely and heartsick, you try to return to your homeland. But each attempt is thwarted, and when Loki and his brother set off on a quest to retrieve a precious relic for Odin, you decide to take fate into your own hands and go on a mission of your own to find the object. But throwing yourself into the quest is only a temporary distraction from the ache of loneliness. Memories of your past won't stop haunting you, and your mother's harsh words never seem to leave your mind. You find that the deeper the pain of your past, the more alone you feel in the present. It seems that no one truly understands you.
Well, almost no one...
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What happens when two people who barely know each other share a moment they can't forget? Aiah Arceta, a Political Science student and Chairman of the University Student Council at UP Diliman, crosses paths with Jhoanna Robles, a Journalism student. After an unexpected encounter involving body shots at Sheena's birthday celebration, their two very different worlds collide, leaving both wondering about what just happened—and what comes next.
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Kris lowered the receiver and watched the red light on the base blink out. They turned back to the room.
Susie was no longer at the table.
From the corner of their eye, they caught movement near the stairs. She was halfway up already, hoodie sleeves bunched around her elbows, tail swaying slightly beneath the hem. She moved like she wasn’t sure whether she wanted to be seen or not—one foot creaking on the third step, then stopping, like she was waiting for someone to call her back.
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After her mother passes away, Susie is placed in foster care—and Toriel, with one child away at college and another growing quiet in the space he left behind, takes her in. Kris doesn’t know her well. Not beyond the kid who used to sit behind them and chew her pencil into splinters. But now they’ll share a room, a house, and all the quiet leftover spaces that come with grief and growing up.
And then, just as things begin to settle into a shape that might almost resemble home, someone else goes missing. This time, from Noelle’s house. Susie isn’t one to mind her business.
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Plucked from her mundane life and thrust into a glass prison alongside the captured King of Dreams, Nora becomes an unlikely confidante and defiant voice in his silent torment.
As a century blurs into freedom, she discovers her own impossible existence is inextricably linked to Morpheus himself, compelling them to face future challenges and rebuild his shattered realm, together.
Eventually Morpheus x oc. Slow burn.
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It's been 10 years since their days at KISS. Minho was the one who pulled away. Kitty was the one left to pick up the pieces, to swallow her hurt and convince herself that losing him was just life moving on. She built a future without him — until fate pushed them back into each other's orbit, and all the old wounds cracked open. Heart to Heartburn is a story about longing, second chances, and the impossible choice between protecting your heart or risking it all.
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Black Butler: The Marionette's Masquerade by MistressNyx_LadyMidnight
Fandoms: Kuroshitsuji | Black Butler
24 Jun 2025
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You were once a ghost at court—unseen, silent, too ordinary to threaten the glittering viper’s nest of power. But when a twisted fate binds you to two butlers—one cold and perfect, the other cloaked in myth—your presence becomes a threat to empires.
Drawn into a game of politics, prophecy, and passion, you must navigate a cursed palace where every mask hides a knife, and every contract is written in blood.
As the Emperor plans to replace you with a fabricated heir, your only path to survival may lie in breaking the rules of the game…
…or becoming something far more dangerous than a wallflower.