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The High Cost of Freedom by This_world_of_beautiful_monsters
Fandoms: Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, The Lottery - Shirley Jackson
22 Apr 2021
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So, this is the first I've ever been able to turn in fanfiction (albeit fringe fanfiction) for a class and my teacher says this is one of the only assignments she's ever read that made her smile. It's not a very smile-y work, I suppose, but I thought I'd put it out here anyway.
All of the quotes come from the Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass except for the last one (the one about the universal definition of a slave), Lose Your Mother by Saidiya Hartman.
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23 Apr 2026
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What else happens on the day of the lottery.
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23 Apr 2026
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Why one small American town won’t stop stoning its residents to death by Charlotte_Stant for sophiahelix
Fandoms: The Lottery - Shirley Jackson, The New Yorker RPF
24 Dec 2025
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The picturesque village of Buell, Maine is one of the last in the United States to continue the tradition of the “harvest” or “prosperity” lottery. Its residents insist the lottery makes them stronger, even as condemnation from outsiders grows.
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23 Apr 2026
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That Deathless Death by DizziDreams for Alasse_Irena
Fandoms: 魔道祖师 - 墨香铜臭 | Módào Zǔshī - Mòxiāng Tóngxiù, 陈情令 | The Untamed (TV)
28 Jan 2023
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It was Wei Ying's fifty-first descent into the Underneath. He wasn't expecting it to be different than any of the fifty times before. But that the was the problem with expectations when it came to this place; it would always find a way to defy them.
When Wei Ying jumped and wrapped his arms around the Moon, he hadn't known what would happen.
But had you asked him to guess, he would not have guessed this.
He shook the dizziness from his eyes, focusing on the shadowed face of a man. A man who was staring down at him, eyes wide with surprise, though he couldn't be more shocked than Wei Ying who, even over a decade later, would never forget that face.
"Lan Zhan?"- Language:
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12 Apr 2026
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The Subtle Art of Being a Chaos Gremlin by DizziDreams
Fandoms: 陈情令 | The Untamed (TV), 魔道祖师 - 墨香铜臭 | Módào Zǔshī - Mòxiāng Tóngxiù
29 Jan 2021
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Wei Ying is exhausted, working all day and taking classes at night to get his degree in .. literally anything. He doesn’t care. He’s just trying to make a future for himself after being disowned by his adoptive family.
Wei Ying’s life is Not Going Well.
So it is slightly less than ideal when, alongside his takeout order, he finds a baby delivered to his doorstep.
An honest-to-god baby.
Like, tiny hands, tiny feet, tiny everything.
There’s a note pinned to the baby. A note with *his name* on it.
“Wei Wuxian,
Meet your cousin, Yuan.
Please take care of him.”
How. What. Who. Why him? Who would trust him with a baby?
But it doesn’t matter. Because the baby is looking at him, with its big baby eyes, and Wei Ying might not know whose kid it is, but he isn’t going to leave a baby on his doorstep.
2 years later, Wei Ying has dropped out of school. He’s managed to find work as an administrative assistant at a major company, thanks to his jiejie’s peacock pulling some strings. Unfortunately, he has a new boss, who just so happens to be his old high school classmate, the most stuck-up man on the planet who Wei Ying is definitely *not* crushing on.- Language:
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11 Apr 2026