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Something's wrong with Edwin. Crystal is trying to rebuild her life. Everyone is missing Niko. And Charles is trying to keep everything from falling apart. Into all this comes another bombshell: the cases that started it all, Edwin and Charles's deaths, might have started something else, too. Something darker. Something that threatens to break the Dead Boy Detective Agency altogether.
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Your Heart is Free by Tea_Cakie
Fandoms: Pocket Monsters: Scarlet & Violet | Pokemon Scarlet & Violet Versions, Pocket Monsters | Pokemon - All Media Types
21 Oct 2025
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Kieran and Juliana live worlds apart, brought together by a chance encounter and become unintentionally captivated by each other.
The young noblewoman and young gentleman both wish things could be different. That it would be easier if they weren’t what they were.
How will the strings that have ensnared them pull them together when it seems the world is against them.
What forces are acting to ensure destiny takes course.
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among the roses red by yewgrove for whetherwoman
Fandoms: Lilywhite Boys Series - K. J. Charles
16 Sep 2025
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Oh I forbid you, nobles all
With gold and jewels to spare
To come or go by Castle Speight
For the Lilywhites are there...(Tam Lin AU.)
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they that would their true-love win by flesh_and_feather
Fandoms: One Piece (Anime & Manga)
11 Sep 2025
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Holding his gaze, Zoro ran his thumb across Luffy's scar, the one under his eye that was pale and sharp and raised. The left eye, like his own. Luffy allowed the touch, and they held each other tightly in the clearing until Zoro stopped trembling and his mind cleared a little, the ripple of shame dying into a still pond.
“I need your help.” The words came so easily to him now.
“Anything. ” The word fell easily from the Prince’s lips, and Zoro suppressed an urge to cover his mouth. Brown eyes looked at him, wide and sincere, and a little fear leapt in his heart. He did not know the Prince, after all. It was possible that he had the will, but not the strength—strength enough to stand against the power of the strongest of the Fae.
A demon hunter is ensnared by the Faerie King, healed by the Ghost Princess, and rescued by the Sun Prince.
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- Part 1 of Tam Lin AU
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The Fae Queen's Pet by RoselynnThornwood for vanishresponse
Fandoms: Tam Lin - Anonymous (Song)
30 Jul 2025
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The Queen punishes Tam Lin for his tryst with a mortal woman.
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Double Headed Rose by Coyacoonadillo
Fandoms: 薬屋のひとりごと - 日向夏 | Kusuriya no Hitorigoto | The Apothecary Diaries - Hyuuga Natsu, English and Scottish Popular Ballads - Francis James Child
28 Jul 2025
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Maomao lives in the La Clan's manor, where all her needs are met and she is free to experiment and study. But just beyond the wall lies the one place she cannot go, a mysterious forest where few leave unchanged.
Of course she looks for herbs in the freaky woods. What could go wrong.
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Ballad of Limbo by everything_but_JE (jextell2514) for ethos2017
Fandoms: Skyblock Kingdoms SMP
21 Jun 2025
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Marmalade and Avid escape from Limbo. Their tale is told over centuries until, eventually, it becomes a song.
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When bookish, timid Margaret wanders into the woods on All Hallows' Eve and plucks a double-headed rose, the master of the enchanted garden demands she make restitution for her crime by serving for a year and a day. Living by the laws of faerie and not losing oneself is tricky enough, and Margaret is not known for her bravery. But a doom lies over the ancient fortress, and in order to discover its cause, Margaret must ask the right question. The master, Tam Lin, is inconstant and vain, and, like all elfish-kind, has no heart to speak of. But Margaret has patience, a different kind of fortitude, and a skill acquired from years of being overlooked. There is strength in quiet dignity and power in facing one's fears. And Margaret is about to find out just how much sacrifice it takes to be this gentle.
(For fans of Reylo, Howl's Moving Castle, and A Court of Thorns and Roses. This is my take on the well-loved tale.)
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The Devil's Widow by steelneena for PatsyWalker1
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016), Tam Lin - Anonymous (Song)
24 Feb 2025
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Chrissy's world was imploding. Although there was food in the house, it wasn’t food meant for Chrissy. And though she had a whole closet full of clothes, they weren’t her clothes, her choices. The house was a prison, her picture-perfect life a lie. Her boyfriend domineering and misogynistic.
That was where Eddie Munson came in.
What started out as a drug deal rapidly transformed into True Love - the stuff of legends - and if Chrissy thought she had troubles before she met Eddie, she had another thing coming:
Namely, an unplanned pregnancy, and the revelation of a dark family secret that would have the power to change Chrissy's life forever.
A Ballad of Tamlin and Janet/Alternate Season 4 AU. COMPLETE
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- Part 6 of The Most Metal of Metalheads: A Collection
- Part 1 of The Devil's Widow
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somewhere, nowhere, now here by Trialia for basketofnovas (slashmarks)
Fandoms: Fire and Hemlock - Diana Wynne Jones
18 Dec 2024
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So many decisions around and about Tom Lynn feel difficult for Polly, but five years on from their final confrontation with Laurel, she really must talk these things over with someone, even if he isn't around to be that person. She starts to feel her way towards a beginning.
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Я начал с самого дна/А теперь я богат by PolinaGaer
Fandoms: 魔道祖师 - 墨香铜臭 | Módào Zǔshī - Mòxiāng Tóngxiù, 陈情令 | The Untamed (TV)
09 Dec 2024
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"Сначала ты получаешь деньги. Потом - власть, уважение - на последнем месте».
Вэнь Цин заманивает Вэй Усяня в ловушку в Пещере Усмирения Демона, но Вэй Усянь не хочет поощрять благородную жертву остатков Вэней. Его попытки освободиться случайно возвращают его в начало кампании «Выстрел в Солнце». Вэй Усянь, лишённый золотого ядра, но вооруженный демонически совершенствованием, знанием будущего и смекалкой, использует эту возможность, чтобы одержать вверх в войне и предотвратить её последствия - пока ни у того, ни у другого не было шанса случиться - женившись и быстро похоронив худших людей мира совершенствования.
Лань Ванцзи смущён, обижен и неловко возбуждён невероятно продуманной серией свадебных неглиже Вэй Усяня на Орденскую тематику. -
Trade the Game You Know for Shelter by irisbleufic
Fandoms: Interview with the Vampire (TV 2022), Vampire Chronicles Series - Anne Rice
11 Nov 2024
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“Finish it,” Armand says abruptly, reaching out to touch the bottom of the glass. He tilts it up to Daniel’s lips, the words an imperious command.
Daniel barely opens his mouth in time. He chokes on what’s left of the watery crème de menthe and crème de cacao, but Armand doesn’t lower the glass until he’s finished every last drop. His head swims, partly because he’s tipsy and partly because of the brain freeze.
Armand withdraws the empty glass, sets it aside, and grabs a napkin off the bar. He dabs Daniel’s lips with it, brushing the bare pad of his thumb across Daniel’s chin. His skin is warm and smooth, slightly clammy with condensation borrowed from the glass.
Oh my God, Daniel thinks. Don’t lick him don’t lick him don’t lick—
Clearing his throat, Armand sets the napkin aside. “You’re a journalist?”
“Yeah,” Daniel replies hastily, looking away. “You were listening in?”
“I caught part of your chat with Louis. You were going to interview him?”
“Was being the operative word. I’m not sure that would’ve worked out.”
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- Part 1 of Fables to Explain Time’s Passing
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Jimin drew nearer to the gap in the rocks. The smell of cold earth reached him before he heard the rush of water moving somewhere deep below. Vines crawled across the dark threshold and hung from the stone lintel — and there, petals already beginning to unfurl, a single creamy rose.
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In 1916, Edwin Payne is captured by the Queen of the Faerie when a malicious prank goes awry. Seventy-three years later, Charles Rowland stumbles upon a mysterious boy in the woods. As they develop an unexpected friendship, Charles discovers that Edwin is set to be sacrificed to Hell by the Fae on the summer solstice. To save him, Charles must face an age-old, legendary challenge. It's a good thing he's not keen on letting Edwin go.
Or: Tam Lin AU. Edwin is Tam Lin, Charles is Janet.
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After Bella's uncle dies, she inherits his old summer house. It backs onto the Carcosa forest, where the King and his knights live.
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The Ballad of Sophie by 1thy_truth_is_won0
Fandoms: Bridgerton (TV), Bridgerton Series - Julia Quinn, Tam Lin - Anonymous (Song)
18 Jun 2024
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The ballad of the fairy maiden named Sophie, and how her and love Benedict wins her freedom.
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hold me fast, and fear me not by Pokimoko
Fandoms: Moon Knight (TV 2022), Marvel Cinematic Universe
12 May 2024
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As they make to leave the realm of Avalon, Layla and the boys find themselves caught up in the machinations of the fae.
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The Veil Between the Worlds by GraceLapointe
Fandoms: Doctor Who (2005), Doctor Who, Tam Lin (Traditional Ballad), Doctor Who & Related Fandoms
23 Jan 2024
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This is a crossover between Doctor Who and “Tam Lin,” the ancient ballad from the Scottish Borders. It also uses plot elements from The Perilous Gard by Elizabeth Marie Pope (1974) and the movie The Wicker Man (1973). If you’re familiar with these or any similar stories about the tithe, this may be easy to predict, but I enjoyed writing it.
This is set in Season 2 of the reboot, at Halloween, somewhere between “Rise of the Cybermen” and “Doomsday.”When I got this idea recently, I thought it wasn’t worth writing because this exact fic must exist many times over on AO3. I found only 4 results on AO3 for “Tam Lin” and “Doctor Who." And none involve the Tenth Doctor or Rose. I’m surprised because it maps onto the characters and themes so well.
Edit 01/23/24: Thank you to AO3 user Fennelwink for pointing out a dropped thread/plot hole. I edited it slightly now near the end of Chapter 1 to address that. This was originally published here on 09/30/22 and 10/14/22.
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Rather than dying in the Upside Down, Eddie is rescued by someone who wields power and is grateful for the ousting of Vecna. Though he pledges seven years of service to the ruler for kindness in return, that promise is put in jeopardy when a young woman stumbles upon him beside Forest Hills Trailer Park.
**Currently editing/rewriting**
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Whisk me Away by Trickstress
Fandoms: Marvel Cinematic Universe, Doctor Strange (Movies), Iron Man (Movies), The Avengers (Marvel Movies), What If...? (Cartoon 2021)
31 Oct 2023
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“So, Tony Stark. Would you vouch for Stephen Strange?”
Tony Stark, in the aftermath of the Battle of New York, goes to an old property he apparently owns in Scotland. He ends up falling through the multiverse by accident instead. Perhaps he falls for someone else as well…
Day 31 of the Strange Tales of Halloween 2023.
Prompt: Tam Lin
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- Part 31 of Strange Tales of Halloween 2023