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Charlotte “Letty” Hopper knows Hawkins isn’t safe—she learned that long before the monsters. Dumped on her uncle’s doorstep by a mother who didn’t want her, Letty clings to the fragments of normal life: late-night shifts at the arcade, banter with friends, and the dangerous pull of boys who make her feel seen in different ways. But Hawkins doesn’t let go. Between whispers of the Upside Down, memories she can’t shake, and the bruises of a past she never asked for, Letty has to find her footing before the town swallows her whole. A story of survival, found family, and the messy intimacy of growing up in a world where darkness is always just beneath the surface.
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Harry’s plan was simple - go back in time, stop Snape from hearing the prophecy, convince him that there’s another way, and change the future for the better.
Does it work out that way? No. He never expected to fall in love...
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Jenna Henderson and Steve Harrington have been best friends since they met back in elementary school. What happens when their tight knit bond is tested to the ultimate extreme from popularity wars and some supernatural shit going on in their once safe town? Will they be able to escape, or will they be dragged down into a rabbit hole that they never knew existed?
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Season 5: Writing(Originally Published on Wattpad under same username and has over 200k reads)
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Flaming Fist Night at Mineshaft by Anonymous for Batteredrugosa
Fandoms: Baldur's Gate (Video Games)
08 Dec 2025
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A Werebear, A Wizard, and a Vampire walk into a bar...
Ever wondered what happens when a vampire divorce lawyer drags his bookish wizard boyfriend to a gritty, underground, cruising scene in 1981 Waterdeep? Astarion guides his wide-eyed lover, Gale, into the throbbing heart of Mineshaft's Flaming Fist Night, a queer BDSM underground festival where leather, lust, and liberation collide. As Gale sheds his professorial inhibitions amid glory holes, hanky codes, and oiled bodies, a brawny elf catches their eye, sparking a steamy encounter that blurs lines between observation and participation. -
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A sequel to Brother Dearest and Father and Son
Just for once, John would like to be accepted into Mimi’s house with her full knowledge of what he is, and not her idealised version of it. He wonders if he’ll ever know what it feels like not to live a lie.
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- Part 4 of Brother Dearest
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A Really Useful Engine (TTTE AU SI) by JohnathanSmith1
Fandoms: Thomas the Tank Engine & Friends, The Railway Series - W. Awdry, Thomas and the Magic Railroad (2000)
08 Dec 2025
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Thomas The Tank Engine is perhaps one of the calmest yet strangest worlds I could've been reborn into. But hey, pulling trains is at least surprisingly fulfilling once you learn to look past not having control over your own body and having any real rights any more.
So, how exactly do I make sure I'm really useful enough to not die again too soon?
(Only posted here and on Wattpad under the username JohnathanSmith2 and on Spacebattles under the username JohnathanSmith3 at the moment, if it's anywhere else and this description on here is the same, it's not me!)
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- Part 1 of Twin Islands AU
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Elizabeth Clarke never thought she would have children, until the day in 1962 when she adopted an orphaned little girl and the day in 1979 when she saved a young man.
Catherine Clarke always imagined having a large family; she had two children two years apart.
Regulus Black thought he was going to die in the Inferi's cave, and he did. He was taken to a Muggle hospital, and that day Leonard Clarke appeared.
Harry Potter never thought he would have a family that loved him, until he was abandoned and found by Leonard.
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Elizabeth Clarke nunca pensou que teria filhos, até o dia em 1962 que adotou uma garotinha órfã e o dia em 1979 que salvou um jovem.
Catherine Clarke sempre imaginou ter uma família grande, ela teve dois filhos com uma diferença de 2 anos entre eles.
Regulus Black pensou que iria morrer na caverna dos inferi, e morreu. Ele foi levado para um hospital trouxa, e naquele dia Leonard Clarke surgiu.
Harry Potter nunca pensou que teria uma família que o ama, até que foi abandonado, sendo encontrado por Leonard.
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Pushed around and kicked around, always a lonely boy.. by reading_klutzy_45
Fandoms: The Black Phone (Movies - Derrickson)
08 Dec 2025
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He moved a second too late. The axe came down on his hip. He was on the ground in seconds. The basement was cold but suddenly it was freezing. A blood curdling scream echoes through the basement. He didn’t realise it came from him until he was kicked and flipped on to his back. He didn’t realise it was him till the axe bedded itself in his chest. The screaming stops and the blood replaces it. He hears the gurgling of the blood mixing with his attempts to breathe. It’s all black
The next minute he shoots up in his bed. He’s in so much pain.. everything hurts, and can someone answer that dam phone!?Aka I read some time travel fix-it AU’s and decided to take a crack at it. Inspired by..
When it’s cold I’d like to die. By maraudersmqry
Make the most of your life (while it’s rife). By starsthatlinethesky -
Go Astray With Me by goodgirlfaith (boomersoonerash) for HunnyDreams42
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
08 Dec 2025
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Mike and Will are crazy but at least they are going crazy together. That's what they tell themselves anyway.
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come on, number 1 party anthem by vell1chor_mp3
Fandoms: The Long Walk (Movie 2025), The Long Walk - Richard Bachman
07 Dec 2025
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Collie’s not an idiot, and so he can tell you that there are five overall major things you need to know about their little subdivision of seniors.
1. For Ray Garraty and Pete McVries, life itself revolves solely around each other. They’re chemically conjoined, and no one can pry them apart.
2. Billy Stebbins is a brick wall. Do not talk to him unless you want to be shot down.
3. Hank Olson worships the ground Clementine Willis walks on for reasons Collie is still trying to uncover.
4. Do not begin a conversation with Richard Harkness unless you want to get lectured for forty-five minutes about every species of mushroom that grows in the woods behind the school.
5. If you're angry (you meaning Collie), you go to Gary Barkovitch. If you need to not be (you meaning all of them), you go to Art Baker.(prom, 1985)
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Camp Paradis for Troubled Youth by nupersova
Fandoms: Shingeki no Kyojin | Attack on Titan
07 Dec 2025
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The year is 1985 — you get shipped off to Camp Paradis for Troubled Youth to recover from a drug addiction where you meet a strange bunch of kids and even stranger counselors. Not only does chaos ensue, but you begin to uncover the dark secrets the camp seems to be hiding.
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Sangre en la Nieve by Baticanoxxx
Fandoms: Bad Bunny, Reggaeton - Fandom, Music RPF, Real Person Fiction, Caught Stealing (2025)
07 Dec 2025
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Late November 1989, New York City. A street-hardened gangster hitman and the prostitute he falls in love with.
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after being cast into oblivion for their crimes, hamilton and burr manage to wake up in a completely alien world - 1980's manhattan - still immortal, and still hungry for blood. but they adapt fast, and quickly come to realize that they're perfectly suited for their cruel new existence.
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- Part 2 of Vampire AU
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Running away from your past was harder than you thought it would be. More expensive, too. Out of money and out of time, you find yourself caught between a rock and a hard place. However, when a mysterious stranger offers to take you to the end of the line, you can't find it in yourself to refuse.
If only you knew that he was in bigger trouble than you were.
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Will Byers has spent too long hiding how he feels about Mike Wheeler. But after a few accidental touches, stolen glances, and one very electric kiss, nothing between them will ever be “just friends” again.
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Ah yes, Silverpine Performance Arts High School, a lively, quirky school for music, dance, artists, and theater, full of students who love performing and have passion. It’s 1987, and the halls are alive with cassette players, colorful jackets, and endless rehearsals. With a school this active, it is no doubt that it is fun, and full of surprises. Students performing in hallways, stage fights during lunch, and the campus always somehow just felt… alive.
Rai Poiré is a talented, intense musician with a prosthetic left arm, focused and serious but quietly respected by everyone.
Caramel Sterling, despite being somewhat new, is the confident, energetic football captain, charismatic and well-liked.
Rai and Caramel have been points of attention—talent in music vs talent in sports. Their paths cross often, creating moments of curiosity and subtle connection.
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- Part 2 of Zi’s Series of Cararaisin AU Mini-Fics!!
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1980s. A complete cynic and a passionate naturalist, Victor Kim is deep in Indonesia to study Javanese rituals for his postdoc research. Somewhere along the way, his path crosses with a village shaman, Pak Janantara, who seems to be studying him right back.
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It's hot outside, everyone's an asshole, and Reagan still won't say the word "AIDS".
What if Cole Phelps was a pool boy in 1985?
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- Part 1 of Pool boy AU - It Is The Eighties
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A sequel to "It's Not Where You Come From, It's Where You Belong". In a framing story of Stef reading her memoir, this follows the Adams/Foster family through the turbulent 80s, involving themselves in disability rights touchstones from Deaf President Now to the HIV/AIDS crisis, all leading to the signing of the Americans With Disabilities Act in 1990.
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- Part 2 of Fosters Disability AU