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Episode One: The Case of the Hobgoblin Haunting by Stringsofstars
Fandoms: Dead Boy Detectives (TV)
27 May 2025
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Back in London, the Dead Boy Detective Agency tidy up their affairs and help Jenny out with the pest problem in her new shop.
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- Part 1 of Season Two: We're Gonna Be Legendary
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The night Edwin disappears, his mother wakes up screaming.
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I Want To Touch You (If You'll Let Me) by Stringsofstars for erebus06
Fandoms: Dead Boy Detectives (TV)
05 Dec 2024
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'The thing is, in hindsight it should have been obvious that Charles is madly in love with Edwin, and has been probably since that first night. The slightest brush of their hands makes Charles feel more than he’s ever felt with Crystal or any other girl, as much as he’d thought he’d loved them. For years he’d written it off as simply a normal reaction to the one thing he could feel in a world of non-sensation, more intense than anything he’d known in life because of the contrast with the bland sameness of every other touch. He’d thought his assessment of Edwin as probably the most gorgeous person to ever exist the objective evaluation of another guy, just as he’d always justified his noticing of other boys in the changing rooms at school as simply standard male competitiveness.
Then Edwin had told him he was in love with him, his eyes wide and wet, his hair disarrayed, stripped down and vulnerable in a way Charles had never seen him before. And, well. Denial and repression can only take you so far.'
In which Charles realises some things and confesses to Edwin. Written for erebus06 for the DBDA Secret Pumpkin 2024.
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There was no escape from it. The school newspaper talked of nothing else; the real newspapers talked of nothing else. In every class the Masters had something to say about it, some comparison to make or analogy to draw. The boys talked about it in hushed whispers and boisterous tones; most of the upper years had already joined up; every boy had a father or brother or uncle or cousin who was fighting in the trenches; almost every day a new mourning band appeared.
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If Eternity is Finite, I Would Spend it All With You by Stringsofstars
Fandoms: Dead Boy Detectives (TV)
03 Oct 2024
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'The world exists as a series of moments. This moment, and then this moment, and then this moment. Now, and then now, and then now.'
Charles had told Edwin they had forever to figure out what the rest means. But what is eternity, when you really think about it?
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Edwin Payne's complicated relationship with his family by Stringsofstars
Fandom: Dead Boy Detectives (TV)
29 Dec 2024
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Edwin Payne hasn't had more than the occasional isolated thought of his family for a long time. They are all long dead, after all.
Unfortunately, as Edwin should have known, the dead never stay quiet for long.
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Crystal Palace's Attempts To Balance Her Old And New Lives by Stringsofstars
Fandom: Dead Boy Detectives (TV)
18 Jul 2024
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Yule Always Be the One by sarcasmandships
Fandoms: Percy Jackson and the Olympians - Rick Riordan, The Heroes of Olympus - Rick Riordan
06 Jul 2025
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Nico di Angelo hasn’t set foot in his hometown in four years—not since he packed his bags, buried his feelings, and moved across an ocean to study in Italy. It was supposed to be a fresh start. A chance to connect with his roots, with the mother he never got to know. A quieter life, far away from everything he wasn’t ready to face—including his feelings for his childhood best friend Will Solace.
But now he’s home for the holidays.
And Will’s still golden. Still exasperatingly kind. Still the only person who’s ever truly seen him. And Nico? He’s still terrible at saying how he feels.
It’s Christmas. There’s mistletoe. There are meddling friends and siblings. And maybe—just maybe—there’s still time to say what they should’ve said years ago.
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07 Jul 2025
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Sweet Somethings by sarcasmandships
Fandoms: Percy Jackson and the Olympians - Rick Riordan, The Heroes of Olympus - Rick Riordan
30 Jun 2025
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Will Solace has had a crush on the tattoo artist across the street for months.
It’s fine. Really. Harmless. He bakes, he pines, he tries not to stare when Nico di Angelo shows up in black hoodies and eyeliner asking for espresso like he doesn’t know exactly what he’s doing.
Then one of Nico’s clients passes out mid-session—and suddenly Nico needs sugar, fast. Will steps in with steady hands, first aid training, and a bakery full of emergency carbs.
It could’ve ended there—but something sweet is beginning to take shape, slow and golden, like sugar dissolving into heat, like something worth waiting for.
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02 Jul 2025
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Hauntings and Wantings by sarcasmandships
Fandoms: Percy Jackson and the Olympians - Rick Riordan, The Heroes of Olympus - Rick Riordan
21 May 2025
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Will Solace moves into a suspiciously cheap murder house because residency pays in caffeine and trauma, not rent. He just wants to sleep for twelve hours and ignore the fact that Kayla and Austin almost intubated a guy upside down. Instead, he gets ghost roommates who keep moving his stuff, flickering the lights, and eventually start playing dramatic romcom soundtracks over his true crime podcasts.
Desperate, exhausted, and one bad haunting away from losing it entirely, Will turns to Craigslist. That’s how he meets The Ghost King — aka Nico di Angelo, paranormal investigator, skull ring enthusiast, and inexplicably hot goth. Nico fixes the problem. Will accidentally develops a crush. The ghosts, naturally, escalate their matchmaking efforts.
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28 May 2025
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If You Didn’t Want Me to Ruin Myself Over You, Maybe Don’t Write Me Into Every Lyric and Leave Out the Ending by sarcasmandships
Fandoms: Percy Jackson and the Olympians - Rick Riordan, The Heroes of Olympus - Rick Riordan
04 May 2025
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It’s the golden age of eyeliner-streaked MySpace fame and post-hardcore breakdowns (2005, obviously), Chthonic Hearts is a rising pop-punk band held together by duct tape, creative tension, and the vague threat of spontaneous combustion. Nico di Angelo writes heartbreak like it’s a war crime. Will Solace sings it like he's not the casualty. They fight, fuck, and tour in a haze of power chords, smudged eyeliner, and metaphors sharp enough to bleed.
The band calls it chemistry. Management calls it marketable. Will calls it exhausting.
With one leg of the tour left, a voice on the verge of collapse, and a setlist full of unsaid things, everything starts to unravel—on stage, in greenrooms, and behind locked bus doors. Somewhere between gas station vodka, bruised lyrics, and one particularly regrettable bar fight, something shifts.
They’re not talking about it. But maybe they don’t need to.
Not when the music’s already doing it for them.Bookmarked by Stringsofstars
06 May 2025
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All My Precious Secrets, Yeah (You Knew Them All) by queencontrarian (negativefouriq) for ripeindecember
Fandoms: Percy Jackson and the Olympians - Rick Riordan, Percy Jackson and the Olympians & Related Fandoms - All Media Types
02 May 2025
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For a moment, there is nothing.
Stillness.
Silence.
Lee glances over at the journal. Will holds his breath. Lee moves his hand, ever so slightly.
They bolt at the same time.
"Nothing!" Will shouts, diving for the book. He is, unfortunately, a pipsqueak, and easily lifted to the side and dropped, screeching and clawing, on Michael's top bunk. "Nothing, nothing, I'm doing nothing --"
"If you're doing nothing, then it's fine if I look," reasons Lee, knowing that if he kept a diary and any of his rat ass siblings tried looking through it he'd kill himself. "Just blank pages, right?"
Will lunges, but Lee is stronger than he is, and his arms are longer. He plants a hand on his squishy face and holds him there, struggling, arms scrabbling for the journal, Cass's wheezing echoing through the largely empty cabin.
"Cass! Tell him -- tell him to give it back --"
Lee flips open the book.
Will screams.
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OR: Will does NOT have a crush on Nico. He does NOT. The hundreds of Will Solace + Nico di Angelo hearts in his diary are -- coincidence.Series
- Part 6 of cabin seven
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04 May 2025