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Chiaroscuro by TempleofNuit
Fandoms: Le Fantôme de l'Opéra | Phantom of the Opera & Related Fandoms
21 Apr 2026
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Three months after the events at the Opera, Christine and Raoul have fled Paris, not to escape a ghost but to avoid slanderous Parisian papers and because Christine cannot shake her dark memories and grief. The doctors believe it is hysteria and melancholia, which Raoul thinks will dissipate on the sunny island of Maderia. However, as Christine struggles with a lifelong inner turmoil, this new adventure proves itself to be unsafe.
Editing the summary because it doesn't exactly explain what this is about. I wanted a story that considers if Christine's melancholia and fainting may be medical and takes seriously her belief in the supernatural. When she and Raoul are caught in a criminal ransom scheme, falling at the intersection of the collapse of the whaling industry and the "Great Game" of imperialism, their rescue strands them in the wilderness with those they both do and do not know. The story is nonlinear and contains a lot of backstories, especially for Erik and Daroga.
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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
21 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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"This place is not where you belong, Linda."
The magicless witch. The target of bullies. The name called by the darkness…
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- English
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- 31,282
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- 8/?
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这个故事告诉我们远离赌毒
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- Part 2 of 好妻子
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The Fall of the House of Coxon by badhead_monday
Fandoms: Blur (Band), The Fall of the House of Usher - Edgar Allan Poe
20 Apr 2026
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Heavily inspired and based off The Fall of The House of Usher by Edgar Allen Poe but much worse and much gayer.
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Break the bones and spoil the flesh by Vera0408
Fandoms: Twilight Series - Stephenie Meyer, Twilight Series - All Media Types, Twilight (Movies)
20 Apr 2026
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New Moon canon divergence, Edward never came back
Fifteen years after leaving Forks, the Cullens return to check on Bella — only to find the town changed in unsettling ways. The Swans are gone, and the locals refuse to speak of them.
Darkness has swallowed Forks, and the surrounding woods whisper with the presence of beasts and ghosts of the past... -
Where Water Learns Flame by WinterborneArchivist
Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender (Cartoon 2005)
20 Apr 2026
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A waterbender child taken into the Fire Nation court grows into one of its sharpest, most watchful shadows. Years later, Korora stands beside Fire Lord Zuko as advisor, survivor, and quiet contradiction: too useful to dismiss, too close to ignore. Between court politics, old violence, and the kind of longing that survives best in silence, neither of them is reckless enough to name what lives between them.
I mostly wrote this because I had to weave Korora into the ATLA universe and the idea would not leave me alone. I’m still finding the shape of the story, so canon may be followed, bent, or quietly set on fire.
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This fanfiction exists within a hybrid universe: it draws from the aesthetic, pacing, and reinterpretations of the AMC series, while grounding itself primarily in the emotional density, mythology, and relationships established in The Vampire Chronicles.
At the center of this story is Louisa de Pointe du Lac — not as an object of love, but as a point of tension. Her relationships are not stable, nor safe, nor redemptive. They are bonds shaped by desire, control, memory, and conflict.Series
- Part 4 of Louisa de Pointe du Lac.
- Part 22 of Universo de Anne Rice by roseangie
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132 paces. That was the extent of Draco’s world. One more step and he would sink into the salt marsh that surrounded the scant acre that was his home. Sanderling was almost an island, the only access a narrow causeway that appeared for an hour each day at low tide. Access by Floo or Apparition was severely limited — Draco had made sure of that. When he withdrew from the world, he ensured no one, not even his mother, could reach him.
There were few people he could trust, and even fewer who would not take advantage of him in his current circumstances. Only two souls alive knew where to find him, and one of those was a goblin who had taken an Unbreakable Vow never to reveal Draco’s whereabouts. Sanderling, with its mists and sea frets, was the ideal safe house: secluded, unplottable, all but invisible — lost to the world, just like Draco.
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Crime and Punishment by NatalyaAglaevnaNaryshkina
Fandoms: Sherlock Holmes & Related Fandoms, Sherlock (BBC TV 2010)
20 Apr 2026
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Sherlock Holmes returns two years after 'the Fall', and everyone celebrates his 'resurrection'—only one person notices something amiss.
(Vampire AU, Alternate Universe, Non-Human, Dark Undertones, Corruption, Mind Control, Major Character Death, Severe OOC) -
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They both knew it was goodbye that night in Suchdol. Henry had saved them all, though the one person he could not save was himself.
Hans Capon tried to move on. He had buried his secret lover with his own two hands, though the grave in Skalitz defied all notions of logic. Flowers never withered. Candles placed on that soil never burned down.
Stranger still, a curse had befallen Rattay. A never ending rain and unexplainable happenings leaving townsfolk missing, dead or changed. When Heinrich befriended a raven with an uncanny intelligence and a penchant for showing up at the worst of times - what more could he see but an omen of death?
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Stardust and Suture by VelvetAnguish
Fandoms: Frankenstein (2025), Frankenstein - Mary Shelley
20 Apr 2026
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This is not the story you know.
There are no chains in this laboratory. No cruelty dressed up as science.
Victor wakes to find a shadow standing over his bed — eight feet of trembling new life, blinking at the candlelight like a man who has never seen a flame.
A story about what Frankenstein could have been, if only he had been brave enough to love what he had created.
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- 1/?
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The dead do not vanish. They echo.
Hermione Granger has returned to Hogwarts to finish her seventh year, carrying the weight of war and the silence of empty chairs. She expects her greatest challenges to be N.E.W.T.s, nightmares, and the slow work of rebuilding. She does not expect to find a forbidden 18th-century treatise hidden in the Arithmancy section.
The Echo Chamber by Adelia Blackwood—banned, discredited, and utterly fascinating—proposes a radical theory: that magical signatures persist after death, sustained not by time but by attention. The more the living remember the dead, the longer their echoes linger.
Desperate for answers about the war's lingering shadows, Hermione begins experimenting with Blackwood's techniques. After weeks of failure, she succeeds.
The echo she perceives is not a loved one. It is not a friend. It is Severus Snape—cold, sarcastic, and thoroughly unimpressed with being disturbed.
"You are attempting to contact the dead. A singularly foolish endeavor, even for you."
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Two years after the party leaves for a new start, (post-season 5) Will invites them over to New York for a much needed reunion. Though it’s messy and complicated. Things are learned, found, and changed.
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Mike’s so lonely he agrees to meet up in New York with the others expecting a normal visit but is met with a Will he’s not particularly used to.Or-or:
Mike’s so down bad for Will he lets him do a witchy ritual on him after a long battle of feelings.
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Adelaide crumpled the edge of the paper.
She was twenty-six once; she remembered that year.
She had spent it shielding Aurèle from the Firstmen and scrubbing Lucifer's grief off the floorboards.
To see that age represented by this bubbly, mindless affection was an insult to every scar Adelaide wore.
"Husk," Adelaide said, her voice turning chillingly calm.
"Yeah?"
"Drive. I need to prepare a room." She smoothed the letter out on her lap, her eyes turning cold and clinical. "If she wants a mother, I shall give her one. I will teach her everything she has missed. I will teach her how to walk, how to speak, and how to bleed."
She looked at the letter one last time before folding it into a sharp, tight square.
"At least it will be easy," she murmured, a dark amusement dancing in her red-tinged eyes. "One does not need a scalpel to dissect a butterfly. A heavy hand will do just fine."
Or: radiopple gothic crime family with lots of angst and toxic family dynamics. Please enjoy
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- Part 2 of Serpent's Ledger
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1860: For the past four years Dazai has walked the earth as a vampire submerged in a lethargy so profound that she can scarcely function, let alone recall her life before she changed. That comes to an abrupt end when she encounters Chuuya and persuades her to make her a long term guest at her estate.
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The gothic, Carmilla inspired SKK Yuri where Dazai mistakes attraction for hunger, Chuuya finds out she is a lesbian, and they become devastatingly obsessed with each other.
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When four arachnid alien creatures arrive on Earth on a twisted mission to change their lifes, the last thing they expect is to empathize with their prey. They cross paths by chance... or destiny. And what begins as animal desire and intertwined bodies becomes complicated by humanity and painful gazes.
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Nocturnes by dnicobride
Fandoms: 呪術廻戦 | Jujutsu Kaisen (Manga), 呪術廻戦 | Jujutsu Kaisen (Anime)
20 Apr 2026
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Satoru is so consumed by his inner turmoil, torn between his hatred and longing to reach the king’s heart, that he forgets his time to give the king an heir is slipping away. In the darkness of their love, Satoru is about to meet death not by sword or betrayal, but by rules—rules that are ancient, merciless, and sanctified by the Gods.
“The same cruel gods who want me dead," Satoru whispered, trembling as he turned his face away.
“The same gods who blessed our marriage,” Sukuna said more softly, lifting a hand to cup Satoru’s cheek gently. -
The Todd in the bat's burrow for Rogue by Zamirudeku
Fandoms: X-Men - All Media Types, X-Men Evolution (Cartoon), X-Men (Comicverse), X-Men
20 Apr 2026
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Rogue lived a lonely life as a sensual goth, but unable to touch anyone, she felt that any man would be worthwhile. What she didn't expect was that he would be fair, ugly, and repulsive Todd Tolansky, better known as Told.
Could there be a naughty prince behind that smelly frog? There's only one way to find out.
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- English
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- 3,448
- Chapters:
- 2/?
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we are each our own devil by pangsoflove
Fandoms: A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms (TV), A Song of Ice and Fire & Related Fandoms
20 Apr 2026
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England, 1988.
Valarr Targaryen returns to Summerhall Estate with a girlfriend and a plan: keep his head down, keep his hands clean, leave the past buried. Aerion, however, has never made anything easy.
Between them, something much uglier than brotherhood lingers.