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Decades have passed and yet something as small as a picture manages to snap her back to when they were young and the world seemed ripe for the taking.
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- Part 5 of Stuck in the Haze
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my neighbor is a communist by oikawas_left_ear
Fandoms: Political RPF, American Politics - Fandom, United States of America - Fandom, Historical RPF, 20th Century CE RPF
19 Nov 2025
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"Ladies and gentlemen, neighbors, patriots," he began, "I stand before you today to reveal a shocking truth that has been living in plain sight at 47 Henderson Street." He pointed dramatically at Herb. "Herbert Block is a communist."
There was a pause. Someone's child dropped a juice box.
"I'm really not," Herb said mildly, taking a bite of potato salad.
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Joseph McCarthy realizes his neighbor might be a communist. Investigation required. Also the communist makes excellent soup recommendations. This changes nothing about the investigation.
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Above The Line by neonheartbeat
Fandoms: Thunderbolts (Movie 2025), Marvel Cinematic Universe
16 Nov 2025
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In 1953, the Red Scare is in full effect, sweeping Hollywood like wildfire as the American government persecutes and prosecutes suspected cultural threats to the assumed norm. A congressional summons to Washington can ruin a life, let alone a career. Yelena Belova, a talented up-and-coming actress, needs to hide her Russian roots if she wants to make it big and avoid suspicion. Robert Reynolds, beloved leading man of multiple successful films, needs to hide his true self from the media if he wants to continue his career without his name showing up on a summons letter.
And Valentina DeFontaine, manager and agent to half of Universal's top-billed stars?
Well. She's got a plan that just might work.
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Bury The Castle by haloofguilt
Fandoms: Cat on a Hot Tin Roof - Williams, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1958)
09 Nov 2025
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The final whistle had sounded and the team had been herded back into the changing rooms. By this point, he was skilled at keeping his staring subtle, so no one else noticed. Brick arrived at the bar late, and some of them jeered at him, assuming he’d stayed behind to take the wife on his arm to bed. From the way she disappeared not long after that, Skipper could tell it was something else. Quite a few drinks later and it was harder to keep his eyes off the taller man and the hands gripping tighter than necessary to the cue stick.
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Hawkins, 1953. The radio hums with static, the sermons thunder about corruption, and everyone is looking for someone to blame. Will keeps his head down, pretending he doesn’t notice the way fear creeps into every voice — until Mike starts looking at him like he might be the danger everyone has been warned about.
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- Part 3 of Bylerween 2025
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The Wife by LuckyyWritessRPF (LuckyyWritess)
Fandoms: Hip Hop RPF, Video Blogging RPF, The Yard (Podcast)
31 Aug 2025
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Things have been good for a long time, almost too good. It was only a matter of time before they had to go their separate ways to protect one another.
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- Part 4 of Stuck in the Haze
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Simon J. Paladino never wanted to be a super.
All he wanted to do was help.
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- Part 2 of The Fallen Heros of Operation Kronos
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"There are no innocent bystanders."
-William S. Burroughs
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Frank didn’t take Robert’s advice when he warned him against joining the American Communist Party. Seeing as Robert had also taken an interest in Communist ideals and Frank couldn’t see why his brother would be opposed to it, he just took it as an insult that Robert thought Jackie wasn’t good enough for him to marry because she was a waitress; so much for Robert saying he was for the common man.
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In 1950s New York, Atticus Bergeron lands a job as assistant to Vincent Artrelli— a sharp, demanding businessman with a reputation as cold as the office marble. But as whispers rise and loyalties are tested in the shadow of the Lavender Scare, Atticus finds himself drawn into something far more dangerous than just ambition: a connection he was never meant to survive.
Vincent has built his life on control— of his company, his image, his desires. But when Atticus steps into his office, something begins to slip. When appearances are everything and one wrong move can destroy it all, Vincent finds himself drawn to the one thing he’s never allowed himself to want.
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In other words— what it costs to love someone you can’t name.
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The Spy by PitchRaven
Fandoms: Arcane: League of Legends (Cartoon 2021), League of Legends
07 Jul 2025
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Viktor’s eyes narrowed. "Do you have any idea what you’re getting yourself into?" His lips burned from their kiss.
Jayce smiled, unfazed. "I don’t, but that’s never stopped me before."
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In 1952s America, Viktor, a brilliant Soviet doctor secretly working for the KGB, faces the harsh realities of the Red Scare and his hidden sexuality.The desire to do good and help others is no longer enough to make up for the ostracization and loneliness he constantly feels, and even locking everything inside is no longer enough to cope. When Dr. Jayce Talis,the darling of Harvard’s medical department offers a collaboration, Viktor only hopes it won’t backfire.He doesn’t expect it to lead him to learn how to navigate a world with color and warmth...
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un-american activities by ballantyne (sixties)
Fandoms: The Outsiders - S. E. Hinton, The Outsiders (1983)
09 Jun 2025
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Jerry Wood looks at him with a face that's familiar — not because he really knows the schoolteacher so much as the fact that he has the face that most people have out here in the Panhandle: weathered from the storm, aged too far ahead of time, and his skin cleaves to his face from all of that mixing with the starvation they all feel now. No matter where one went down here, you always were hungry for water, for food, for anything except the dust that kicked into your sinuses or your face.
Still, his face retains something that most people have not: kindness. That's still present in his face, in the warmth of his eyes as he says, "You shouldn't be smokin'. You're too young to smoke."
Ponyboy thinks of the past while he gets ready to leave for church. Heroism comes in many forms.
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Project Octonauts by Maymin24
Fandoms: The Octonauts (Cartoon), Marvel Cinematic Universe, Marvel, James Bond (Craig Movies)
07 Jun 2025
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(Inspired by the similar logos), octonauts is secretly a covert propaganda project to recruit and indoctrinate children into working for HYDRA and SPECTRE
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The octonauts, created as mutant soldiers by HYDRA, were used to indoctrinate children and go on aquatic missions to carry out the now fused HYDRA and SPECTRE’s goals
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After her husband doesn't make it to the Vault in time, Livia has to make a new life for herself in Vault 27, the survivalist's paradise. The "pilot" Vault to allow people to store their own belongings and have a garden plot of their own, but we all know that isn't REALLY what's up. Tag along and see what shakes out in the beginning days of this Vault Experiment.
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“It’s a bit of a stereotype,” Don says, doubtfully, “you know. About inverts, getting off on dressing up as women. You know, perverting marriage, or whatever.”
So, it’s a fetish. Of course, it’s one he would have, Don thinks bitterly, that would be his luck.
He turns it over in his head, looking at it from every angle. He probably shouldn’t, but it’s like a loose tooth in his mouth, something he can’t stop drifting back to. There’s something magnetic about the idea of it. There’s a stirring, a waking excitement, an irritatingly physical response that denies him control.
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- Part 2 of Pin Drop.
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In 1955, Doctor Kathryn Janeway runs the all-female computing department at the Rocket Technology Laboratory in Los Angeles, California. RTL develops everything from new jet technology to experimental atomic energy and all of these projects rely on brilliant women to run endless intricate calculations for the (all-male) engineering staff. Janeway, an innovative physicist in her own right, is relegated to simple calculations while her fiancé Mark Johnson reaps the glory from her hard work as the head of RTL.
When the machine shop manager, Chakotay Red Feather, brings Dr. Janeway evidence of unsafe practices, the barriers between the departments begin to break down leading to greater innovation and solidarity amongst the workers—much to the chagrin of management! Together, Chakotay and Janeway struggle against the attitudes of their society while attempting to expose industrial negligence that puts the entire Los Angeles metro area at risk—and grow closer in the process.
CW: period typical bigotry of all kinds (see tags)
Note on ship tags: they are all in here, but this is a Chakotay/Janeway fic because that's what I do. Everything else is collateral damage to the story's circumstances.
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The war is over, but peace is a performance.
Alfred now stands at the top of the world stage—powerful, brilliant, untouchable.
But dominance comes at a cost, and Arthur sees the cracks before anyone else. As tensions mount between Alfred and Ivan, a new kind of war begins: cold, quiet, and deeply personal.
This story follows Arthur and Alfred through the uneasy decades after victory—through suspicion, ambition, late-night phone calls, and the cultural tides that pull them apart and bring them back together again.Series
- Part 8 of Where the Sun Still Rises
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Roger Sheridan is a tough-talking, hard-drinking LA private eye. He's a real son of a bitch. As a confirmed bachelor in law enforcement, he learned to get mean quick--whether he wanted to or not.
The year is 1955, 10 since he got home from war and 7 since he got kicked off the force. It's winter, and the rain just won't let up. He'd get bored if it weren't for the newest case to land in his lap: a slain patriarch, a fallen starlet, and their prodigal son, all woven together in an ever-growing web of Hollywood scandal, intrigue, and blackmail. It would be a welcome distraction if that prodigal son weren't so nice to look at.
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Lavender as a Shade of Red and Blue by SilverSkribbles
Fandoms: Geography (Anthropomorphic)
06 Mar 2025
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During the cold war, fear grips America's nation. The Red Scare, fear of the beliefs that lay beyond the ocean, in enemy lands, and may cross and burrow themselves into American society, and tear apart the country from within... and The Lavender Scare, a fear, perhaps, of this red softly, dangerously mixing in to American politics, so gently and slowly that it may not even be noticed...
(Countryhumans AU)
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“You want me to help you figure out how to recreate this circuit,” Vi motioned to the silver contraption in Viktor's hands, “and in return, you’ll send money to Ekko and the Firelights?” Viktor nodded vehemently. “And the only catch is that I… have to go to a Piltovian Prep school?”
Viktor smiled. “The Piltovian Prep School, where students go before the Academy.”
“This is a terrible idea.”
“And yet… it might be the way we can help each other.”
Vi found that she couldn’t disagree with him. She looked down at her hands. The bandages were well beyond ripped and bloodied from the day’s fighting.
Wouldn’t it be nice, to retreat from all of this?
From having to constantly watch behind her back, the only thing she was good for hurting enough people to get money to help others? Haunted, perpetually, by the places she and her family used to be, the ghosts that clung to the bars and shops and very asphalt of The Lanes?
It seemed too easy. And Prep school would be hell.
But… “How much money are you offering?”
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it's the 1950s, and Vi finds herself rooming with Caitlyn Kiramann at prep school after striking a deal with a student from the Academy.