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A young girl of the church who has never left town before is bound to trust a man she shouldn't...
Lost and alone in the unforgiving deserts of the Midwest, Clara anticipates death after fleeing from her wedding. By God's mercy, she is found and brought to the isolated cabin of a kind stranger. But, she'll soon learn that the only real God in these canyons are the men who've learnt to conquer it. And, that running from one bad man may have led her straight into the arms of one that's far worse. -
I walked into that room knowing I'd fall in love with her by Sunny_stuff
Fandoms: X-Men - All Media Types, X-Men (Comicverse)
29 Apr 2026
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Eventually she found her way to that bar, found herself standing just across the street as things slowly clicked into place. She recalled the details one by one, the sweltering heat of the day, the dryness of the air, the mental picture of a faded sign above a rickety porch. She took a deep breath as she began to walk forward, hearing the creek of the wooden boards beneath her feet as she stepped onto that porch, one final second of hesitation passed as she placed her hands on the doors, and then pushed them open. As she took her first step into that bar she felt nearly faint with nerves, but she could do this, it was time,
Finally time, She thought, It’s finally time.
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Han Jisung, a burnt-out artist, picks up a job as a mechanic at the royal palace. Plenty of...interesting people reside there, including a short-tempered gothic girl, and a logical genius who works as an important "assistant." (She does everything.) But one person sticks out to him in particular-Lee Minho. Everyone's curious about the king to some point, but as the only close people get involved in rumors, secrets, even an old diary from the dead queen, they begin to maybe...regret their choices. Love blossoms, hate endures, and at some point those checks and balances can't keep the score.
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Castiel is a lighthouse keeper in the middle of the ocean, a solitary life he has chosen. What he didn't expect was to find a man washed up on the beach at the foot of the lighthouse, wounded and unconscious. That man, a sailor named Dean, not accustomed to life on land but rather to freedom of a life on the sea, will have to stay and live with that strange lighthouse keeper used to loneliness until the supply boat comes.
They'll have to live together, with all their differences and similarities. A daily challenge that will become less and less difficult as the days go by, but other difficulties and questions will surface. -
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From the abyss of shadow there lives a creature of many names but a singular purpose. When a desperate solicitor with a secret of his own comes face-to-face with it, he never expected to find himself amid a macabre ordeal reminiscent of the ghost stories of his youth. He also never expected to have the nightmare become so adamant in pursuing those he left back home.
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Expansion of Imperialism Practices and Dissection of the Effectiveness of Peaceful Tactics; As Told Through Those Who Experienced Imperialism by LizzyLovesPink
Fandoms: Babel - R. F. Kuang
23 Apr 2026
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In the 1880's, the height of imperialism for many global powers, four completely different young adults are given the prestigious opportunity to study languages and translations at the esteemed language halls of Oxford to serve their country and strengthen the ties of the Silver so many empires have grown to rely on. The four supposedly lucky ones are:
Anthony, son to escaped slaves who believes peace is always an option.
Vimal, spoiled son who is coddled despite the harshness of colonialism happening outside his door.
Cathy, daughter to farmers who's never truly known peace in her life.
Ilse, daughter to a courtesan and Dutch physician who is very good at observing others.The four meet in their first year at Babel and completely click, realizing their similarities. As they grow older and become more and more aware of all the darknesses hidden from them, they decide to strike up a quiet rebellion to steal from the school and enact change through peace and nonviolence. Will it work? Or are they doomed to resort to violence under the threat of death?
Heavy Babel AU that's set in the late 1880's- early 1890's and follows the Hermes Society.
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1888; the Meiji Era is in full swing across the country of Japan, transforming it from a backwards island to a modernized empire. Among those caught up in the changing times are seven very different teenagers:
Yu; a newcomer in Inaba.
Yosuke; the party animal and son of merchants.
Chie; the athletic schoolgirl.
Yukiko; the delicate maiden.
Kanji; the son of former samurai.
Rise; the talented musician.
Naoto; the foreign princess.When mysterious murders shake up the small town, the teenagers suddenly find themselves the only ones capable of solving the mystery. But can they truly solve a case that's stumped the police, or have they bitten off more than they can chew?
A historical AU retelling of Persona 4 Golden.
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A STUDY IN ICHOR by dillanstartedtoroll
Fandoms: Sherlock Holmes - Arthur Conan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes & Related Fandoms
21 Apr 2026
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"You’re a dull instrument, aren't you?"
To the doctors at Bethlem, Scott Holmes is the "Devil's Son," a patient whose scarily accurate predictions and "Moral Insanity" have driven his previous keepers to the brink. To Dr. John Watson, he's just a malnourished patient who needs to take his bromides.
Fresh from the horrors of the frontier, Watson is too tired to be impressed by Holmes's theatrics and too bitter to care about his genius. But as a string of mysterious deaths plagues the hospital galleries, Watson realizes that his "tedious" patient might be the only person capable of saving his career---if he doesn't lose his mind in the process.
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- Part 1 of THE CASEBOOKS OF JOHN H. WATSON
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8 episodes of how Neo Earth was formed along with the technology, countries, and childhood within it.
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- Part 3 of Cyberpunk Chronicles
- Language:
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Ironbridge is a town that doesn't take outlaws.
But when one comes and bleeds out on its doorstep, the sheriff makes a decision that he could grow to regret.Jesse Calloway is wanted, wounded and dangerous. Elijah Hart is sworn to uphold the towns law. But as their paths interlink Jesse has to choose between the things that he's been running from his entire life or love. As Jesse's past closes in, Elijah must choose between staying alive or staying together.
Will love live on or burn in a fiery death? Find out beneath the Ironbridge.
OR: Sherif x Wanted Outlaw, will they survive the people that are after the outlaw?
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No matter where life took him, Daniel always had dead men breathing down his neck. He felt it every day, like he was the one man still walking among a pile of bodies. A ghost that hadn’t figured out he should lie down already.
New Mexico Territory, 1879.
Progress is coming, whether the land wants it to or not.Daniel Jacobi has bad luck and even worse judgement. Pulled back into the only thing he's good at, for a company that has no business being trusted, by a man he has no business trusting, he's balancing the guilt he's trying to outrun with the infatuation he's trying to chase. One of these days, he'll deal with how easily he's accepted the wrong man's offer.
Or the right one. He's still mulling it over.
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What the Cold Keeps by vampyreIlyasdiary
Fandoms: Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid, Heated Rivalry (TV)
16 Apr 2026
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London, 1887. Shane Hollander has arrived in England as the first Korean ambassador to take formal residence in the capital, carrying impeccable French, a diplomat's iron composure, and a private ledger of debts he intends to collect from a city that has already decided what it thinks of him.
He meets the Earl of Vashenkov at Lady Ashworth's autumn ball. The Earl has old eyes. He has been patient since before the empire Shane represents had a name. He has been waiting, specifically, for something like this.
Shane notices everything. He notices the cold. He notices that he keeps going back.
A gothic romance concerning hunger of more than one variety, the specific cruelty of being known completely by the wrong person, and what it means to choose, with full information and open eyes, to stay. -
In nomine omnium sanctorum by Navje
Fandoms: Russian Musical Theatre RPF, Дракула: Цена вечности - Прушинский/Захарова | Dracula: The Price of Eternity - Prushinskiy/Zakharova
16 Apr 2026
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Дисгастингу Скрибблеру нужна сенсация. Доктору Ван Хельсингу нужен секрет бессмертия. И то и другое может немного подождать, для начала нужно разобраться на практике, что такое лечение нервических расстройств переменным током.
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In the victorian age England, there is Atlas Anhedönia, a gentleman from a well living family, not noblety or the rich, but enough to be socially acceptable even though others gossip that he must wish to marry to social climb to a higher class. He is a single man in his last year of college, and he carries a secret with him, he has homosexual wishes, though he would never act on it. In college he meets Daniel Pfeiffer, who becomes Atlas's roomate in the college housing for the last year of them both. Their dynamic is very friendly from the start, but it eventually turns into a secret romance.
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In Mexico 1885, two men with great potential meet. One a young Mexican boy with a horrible stutter working for his father on his horse farm and the other a drifter, a charming white man.
Their relationship blossoms and they mature into full-blown degenerates, but they have eachothers back. They drift from place to place, saloon to saloon, and occasionally gang to gang. Their friendship stays strong through it all, maybe a bit too strong.- Language:
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- 1,806
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Il Gran Circo di Calcedonio by IFsaccount1
Fandoms: The Amazing Digital Circus (Web Series)
04 Apr 2026
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Jack is a young and carefree boy, long known to be strange in quiet, unexplainable ways. Orphaned early in life, he is taken in by his foster father, Mister Calcagno, a humble woodcarver whose hands are skilled but whose heart, to Jack, seems ever distant. Though he is given food, shelter, and kindness, Jack yearns deeply for Mister Calcagno’s notice and approval, wishing to be seen as more than a troublesome child with wandering feet.
His truest comfort comes in the company of Paoli, the baker’s daughter and his dearest friend, who knows his laughter as well as his silences. Yet when whispers of a traveling circus reach the town, Jack is tempted by the promise of belonging. Eager to prove his worth and to be admired at last, he makes a reckless choice and runs away with the circus, unaware that wonder often hides its cruelties behind bright banners and applause.
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“Mama!” Leo shrieked, grabbing the bars.
Across the street, the gates of the mill finally swung wide. Elena Rossi stepped out, blinking against the setting sun, her eyes searching the spot by the crate where her son always sat. She saw the black wagon pulling away, but the streets were too loud, the horses were braying, and the city was too vast.
As the wagon jolted forward, Leo watched his mother through the bars. She looked small; a tiny, dark speck against the massive brick wall of the factory. He reached out a hand, but the wagon turned a corner, and the world he knew was severed as cleanly as a thread under a tailor’s shears.
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A historically accurate work of fiction about the Orphan Train Movement.
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- Part 2 of Historical Fiction
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The Monster of London || Cherrisnake AU! by grayisnotthisaccount
Fandoms: Hazbin Hotel (Cartoon)
02 Apr 2026
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London, 1888.
Pendleton is in love with a criminal. It’s a fact. And she loves him too.
But after a fight between them breaks, Pendleton receives a mysterious drink, which turns him into the ‘Monster of London’ in the papers..
Two criminals arise, one ‘Cherry Bomb’, and a snake.
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To be devoured by you (might change title) by Anonymous
Fandoms: Geography (Anthropomorphic)
27 Mar 2026
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How German Empire ended up in a threesome relationship with Austrian Empire and Kingdom of Hungary.
Prequel of "German and Austro-Hungarian three-way"
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A multi-level mystery, long-lost family members, and much much more!
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- Part 3 of Meant to Be