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The little bracelet tells him that his name is Bartemius Crouch. Each night, with his chest aching like he's breathing in broken glass, he rolls the name around his tongue, spits it back into the air. Into the shaft of watery light from the corridor, which he’ll pretend is moonlight and not fluorescent strip lighting. The syllables don’t match his robes, don't fit right in his mouth. He hooks a finger into the bracelet and twists.
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Barty survives the Dementor's Kiss, loses his memories, and is consigned to St Mungo's. He's not one to let a little thing like memory loss get in his way.
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covered the wide waters by 181paperclips for whimsialt
Fandoms: Ancient Greek Religion & Lore
07 Feb 2026
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The year Andromeda meets Perseus is the year the rains from Cyclone Cetus flood the Clarence River, the year the levee breaks and the whole town goes under, sandbags and flood warnings and evacuations be damned. She’d known, even then, that it’d barely make the news, but she’d still dreamed that some intrepid little drone would swoop low over the suburbs and capture her silhouetted in her bedroom window with the water rising over her ankles, knees, thighs.
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Andromeda and Perseus, but the *real* sea monster was the climate change we made along the way. -
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“How d’you think you’ll die?” Regulus asks, which is a normal question for a Tuesday. Barty thinks all Tuesdays are a bit morbid, especially the ones in which the sunset is bleeding red all over the sky and there's still dirt under his nails from burying his dead toad in the garden.
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it's the summer after second year, Barty's toad has just died, neither of them really know how to hold a funeral. -
i had rather walk than gather to thy side by 181paperclips
Fandoms: Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling
16 May 2025
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She'll die in the armchair in the sitting room, she thinks. Like an old cat, and the thought makes her grin, all wry and sour. She’ll return, pale and ghostly, in her wedding dress with wine spilled down the front, burgundy stains on creamy lace, and wail with wonderful fury.
No one decides when this vigil ends except her.
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The house is empty, and Mrs Crouch considers her choices. -
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Dorcas' initials are carved under the countertop at the Hog’s Head - right under the lip, a rough pair of letters scratched out with a stag handle pocket knife. Grooves in the wood, rubbed smooth by her fingers. She’d always sat under the rafters, where the pigeons spattered the floors with filth and feathers, for nigh on seventy years.
If the funeral had been up to him, well, Aberforth would’ve done it differently.
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Dorcas is dead. Aberforth mourns.
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- Part 2 of carrier pigeons were outcompeted by owls
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carrier pigeons were outcompeted by owls by 181paperclips
Fandom Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling
29 Jan 2025
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The family curse drowns, it goes down with the old house. The Finch children escape what awaits them.
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It is 1947 and 10 year old Molly Finch has just been sent to bed without supper.
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- Part 1 of Mercy Verse
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04 Feb 2026
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Chaos Chose Us (So We Chose Each Other) by mYrddln
Fandoms: The Iliad - Homer, Ancient Greek Religion & Lore
29 Sep 2025
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"We swore never to interfere,” Hera said coldly, watching the threads of fate unravel before her eyes.
Athena’s hand hovered over the loom. “And yet we know what’s coming. Thousands will die… for one decision. One apple.”
They had seen it—flames devouring Troy, heroes falling like stars, and the world thrusted into an age of sorrow.
But what if it didn’t have to happen?
Aphrodite stepped forward, her voice barely a whisper. “Then let us make another choice."
Or the three goddesses try to prevent the Trojan War
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10 Jan 2026
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enough; or, the only rose is rose-colored glass by MelittaRilow
Fandoms: 15th Century CE RPF, The Sunne in Splendour - Sharon Kay Penman, Henry V - Shakespeare, Henry VI - Shakespeare, Richard III - Shakespeare, The White Queen (TV)
27 Sep 2021
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~everyone grows old in this story~
Apparently what was on my heart tonight was a soft alternate history where everyone is slightly kinder to each other and the Wars of the Roses just...don't happen. Please enjoy as a relaxing read if you, like me, want happiness for historical figures.
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12 Oct 2025
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rewrite my heart (let the future in) by secretpersona
Fandoms: Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling
02 Oct 2022
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Regulus Black knows what his future holds. He will be a good son, a good Pureblood, and a good Slytherin. He will not stray from the path set out for him since birth.
The trouble begins with a bar of Fry’s Turkish Delight—or maybe it begins with a Charms competition, a stick-and-poke in the Prefects’ bathroom, and a Hufflepuff with strange magic.
Or: Pandora Lovegood was born Pandora Trelawney. When her inconvenient magical gift puts her squarely in Regulus Black's path, an unlikely friendship blossoms. The consequences echo past their final year at Hogwarts, follow them to opposite sides of the battlefield, and change the course of the First Wizarding War for the better.
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09 Sep 2025
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Lyall Lupin is sent after a Boggart, but stumbles upon a woman instead. When she insists to thank him for coming to her rescue, he is just a bit too shy to turn her down. Or perhaps he simply does not want to.
Or: Lupin's parents' first meeting, and it is a cute one.
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- Part 1 of Lupincore
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15 Jul 2025