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Sexual assault. He rolls it around in his head. It’s ridiculous.
It’s a messed up, life ruining accusation; he’d never do something like that to any girl. The idea is positively mental, makes him ill. His parents raised him well, taught him the importance of consent- No means no, respect her boundaries, ask first, all of it. James Potter would never take advantage of someone sexually. But that’s not what he’s been charged with, not exactly.
The lake… it doesn’t count. It was a stupid prank, it’s what the Marauders are known for, their source of infamy, it didn’t mean anything beyond that. It’s not like he’d known Snivellus hadn’t been wearing any trousers when he cast Levicorpus, it just happened that way, and he’d only gone further because he’d called Evans that awful word.
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James Potter overhears a conversation that prompts him to consider his actions and issue an apology to one Severus Snape or risk being taken to court.
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Taylor went to camp one more summer. Ever since she has been different, distant, disappearing from school but always in class, obsessively writing in her journal, muttering to herself and... buying a lot of pottery? Being a Tinker comes with some rather strange compulsions.
Alt Trigger/Alt Power Tinker Taylor.
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"Riiight, Mr Bridgejumper." Ruggie muttered just loud enough for him to hear, when Kalim opened his mouth to protest again, he continued, "When didja run off?"
"Sunday- well, I guess it was Monday morning."
They just stared at each other for a second.
"It's Monday afternoon!" Ruggie broke the silence again, reaching forward to grab at the lapels of Kalim's jacket, "Give that damn sandwich back and go home, ya dumbass!"
"No! I just said I can't!" Kalim yelled in return, not fighting back as the brunette shook him around like a ragdoll.
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Kalim realises he'd rather die than keep living his current life, so he runs away. With a combined 0 life experiences outside of his carefully monitored home and 0 clue where to go, it's sheer luck when he meets someone who can guide him (however unwilling they initially seem) in the ways of the world.
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i am what i am ('cause you trained me) by unknown20troper
Fandoms: Hunger Games Series - All Media Types, Hunger Games Trilogy - Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games (Movies)
19 Apr 2026
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After the 50th Games, District Four realizes it needs to up its game. The odds then end up being in its favour a year later when Finnick Odair just so happens to be dropped off there as an infant - because he has the potential to play all sorts of games on a level beyond that of most people. But even the perfect weapon has his own agenda.
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En La Libertad cinco hermanos intentan sobrevivir a la miseria, peleando día a día contra el hambre y la tos. Alan, de dieciséis años, intenta mantener a sus hermanos de la forma más honrada posible. Franco, de doce, no entiende porqué su hermano no le deja robar. Judith intenta mantener a todos unidos mientras cuida de Jaz, la bebé, y vigila que Ian no muera entre toses.
En el silencio de la noche, un oscuro secreto les oprime el corazón.
¿Serán capaces de sobrevivir a la desesperación?- Language:
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“Is that so, dear Fyodor?” Nikolai closed up to his face. “Mind that you are keeping me close because I can disappear anytime from the Earth’s surface, whereas you seem to be more bound to this earthly shell than anything.”
Fyodor didn't falter.
Even if his plan failed, he could try again as many times as he could. His time was infinite. If the performer dies, then he will find another one.
There was nothing he could loose.
Or the 19th century Fyolai AU, that no one asked for
Act I. Chapters 1 - 5
Act II. Chapters 6 - ?(The main ship is Fyolai, and every other ship is mainly tagged as a trigger warning: they only get pain and despair)
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When gods fall — the earth weeps, and Hell rejoices.
Vox sinks lower than he could ever have imagined. That fateful day of the failed invasion of Heaven and his defeat at Alastor's hands drops him straight to rock bottom. The past won't let go, the future promises nothing good, and the present stretches on in endless agony.
And there — in the lowest depths where Vox finds himself — he appears. Another lost soul. -
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Set 100 Days after Ziva arrives in Paris.
Ignore the spin off series.
Ziva arrived with one suitcase, and a boatload of baggage.
Tony just doesn't get why they're not a happy family already.
A look at their struggles as they work to get themselves where they want, and need to be. Two seperate objects orbiting around the centre of their universe: Their daughter, Tali. Pushing and pulling and destined to crash into each other, one way or another.
Miscommunications and assumptions but a hell of a lot of love.
Fully written, will post a couple of times a week. Rating will change in later chapters.
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CALLBOY (Dunkaerion AU) by icepilled
Fandoms: A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms (TV), A Song of Ice and Fire - George R. R. Martin
19 Apr 2026
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Dunk, desperate to make a better life for himself, ventures into the capital armed with nothing but a pitiful amount of money and naive hope—a hope the city quickly bleeds out of him. Meanwhile, Aerion is a midnight dancer and callboy, selling himself to the neon shadows just to keep his siblings afloat. When their paths finally cross, their lives become inextricably intertwined. For better? Or for worse?
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- Part 1 of CALLBOY (Dunkaerion AU)
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A kingdom fresh out of war sees the return of its soldiers and its crown Prince, Reiner. While great news for the Kingdom, it only spells trouble for one Bertholdt Hoover, who finds himself embroiled in Royal life after having run from it so many years ago. Reiner is less than pleased to find him back in his life.
Bertholdt didn't think life could get much worse, but when he finds himself in the palace dungeons, he could never have imagined the events that would unfold before him.
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Tom Riddle owns one good quill. It was given to him by a boy who had so many he didn't bother to count.
Tom keeps a ledger. Every gift Harry Potter gives him (the quill, the book, the ink, the gloves, the robes) gets a line, and Tom pays it back the only way he can: fixing Harry's homework, earning his marks for him, and eventually, kissing him on a cold balcony because twelve Galleons' worth of dress robes demand a currency beyond essays.
Harry thinks they're falling in love. Tom thinks he's staying solvent.
This is the story of every object between them, and the moment Tom finally stops counting.
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Woori's breath caught, stuttering in its last remaining time. His head tilted slowly to his left, staring off into the distance where Subin had gone.
This would be the last time. Admittedly, he wasn't sure whether that knowledge brought him relief or disappointment.
He glanced at the "tattoo" on his wrist, the number flickering and switching back and forth between '01' and '00' as if sensing the life that's draining out of him.
Woori has been living on borrowed time for so long.
And at last, this is where it finally ends.
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On his seventh and final loop, Nam Woori's plan failed and backfired on him. He died...only to wake up again in a life that wasn't his. Trapped in a childhood he never lived, in a body that's his but a life that isn't, Woori has to survive poverty, neglect, and the horrifying realization that the person living his old life is none other than Shin Subin.
The same person who had killed him over and over again.
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Heroes Like You by LilTypoMan
Fandoms: 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia (Anime & Manga)
19 Apr 2026
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Rody Soul, the king of making ends meet, takes a job from a gang of weirdos to infiltrate a hero high school and aid in the murder of Japan’s No. 1 Hero, All-Might: the Symbol of Peace. Somehow, he gets a boyfriend out of it...
This is the story of how Izuku Midoriya became the greatest hero ever known, and how Rody Soul betrayed everyone he ever knew.
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- Part 2 of Rodydeku- Heroes Like You-verse
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OUTLAWS by StrayTeezBoi
Fandoms: Stray Kids (Band), 방탄소년단 | Bangtan Boys | BTS, ATEEZ (Band)
19 Apr 2026
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“War does not determine who is right—only who is left” - Bertrand Russell.
How do you summarise such a tale of love and loss? Of revenge and betrayal? Of enduring unimaginable pain and finding the strength to overcome it? I cannot, I do not think... All I can ask is that you open this story, read the first page and find out if you're ready to go on the adventure of a lifetime.
Read on, Outlaw. Read on...
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All my life I've been searching for something without knowing exactly what it was. I spent every night gazing at the sky in despair, searching for answers that never came. Everything seemed monotonous, empty, and meaningless, as if the part of me that knew how to be happy had been lost and I had to find it.
Without knowing it, I was looking for you, Number Sixteen.
And when you were finally in front of me, when you managed to make me feel whole... I had to let you go.
Why couldn't you stay?
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Toda mi vida estuve buscando algo sin saber exactamente qué era. Dediqué cada una de mis noches a mirar el cielo con desolación en busca de respuestas que jamás llegaron. Todo me parecía monótono, vacío y carente de sentido, como si la parte de mí que sabía ser feliz se hubiese perdido y yo tuviese que encontrarla.
Sin saberlo, te buscaba a ti, Número Dieciséis.
Y cuando finalmente estuviste frente a mí, cuando lograste hacerme sentir completa... tuve que dejarte ir.
¿Por qué no pudiste quedarte?
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A Rope in the Fog by peterscunnygirl
Fandoms: Spider-Man: Spider-Verse (Sony Animated Movies), Spider-Man - All Media Types, Marvel
19 Apr 2026
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6:15 am. Cold tea, soggy toast, and a city that doesn't give second chances. For Miles G. Morales, the 'expectations' on the chalkboard at Visions Academy are a foreign language.
The only ink that matters is the heavy indent on his Uncle Aaron's notes, a pull toward a destiny that’s rain, alleyways, and blood money. Between his mother's double shifts and a hollow chest that won't stop aching, Miles has to decide: follow the rules of a world that forgot him, or embrace the 'fundamentals' of the Prowler.
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Carnal Éxtasis by RoseShower
Fandoms: Fables: The Wolf Among Us (Video Game), Bambi (Disney Animated Movies)
19 Apr 2026
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An angry wolf comes across a grieving doe. They fall in love. The rest is history.
Centuries ago, Bigby meant to eat the bleeding deer taking unexpected refuge inside his cave. Instead, he has the stupid idea of letting her live long enough to change his entire perception of life using her ridiculous herbivore wiles. Now, as Sheriff of Fabletown, he still tries to be good, mostly for her memory. It’s messy work, but fate has a twisted way of offering second chances... even to old wolves.
Or, in which a carnivore and a herbivore meet, become lovers, get lost on the road of life, and reunite again.
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- Part 9 of Bewitched and Befallen, Home To You
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A Quiet End by ChaosAndAnarchy
Fandoms: Marvel Cinematic Universe, Spider-Man - All Media Types
19 Apr 2026
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The first time Peter Parker learns what death means, he is seven years old.
By the time he becomes Spider-Man, Peter is well versed in the idea of death. That did not help with the psychos transforming into lizards, or aliens coming down from the sky or his girlfriends dad being a super villain.
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Peter Parker is Spider-Man long before any of the Avengers are ever together
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The bride of the serpent king by Dorn_Queen_of_thorns for LG Wonder
Fandoms: Hazbin Hotel (Cartoon)
18 Apr 2026
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This is clearly inspired by " the serpent king" by LG Wonder.
It shows the backstory of Alastor and his life in his study years, searching his own path into his future. The beginning is four years before "the serpent king"https://archiveofourown.org/works/71664651