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“And once again, you think you know what’s best for me.”
John rises from the chair, the anger and frustration and hurt overwhelming him, bursting out of every pore, and he doesn’t even know for sure that it’s Sherlock he’s angry at, really, but the only reason he tied himself to Mary in the first place is because the person he really loved left him behind, and the woman he married once sat in the shadows above a darkened swimming pool and aimed a sniper rifle at his heart and later shot his best friend in cold blood and cuckolded him and just gave birth to a child that wasn’t his and right now he just can’t do this, he just fucking can’t do this anymore.
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John has to somehow rebuild his life in the wake of Mary's betrayal and Sherlock's deceptions.
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- 77,350
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- 10/10
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03 Apr 2026
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House and Wilson share a hotel room at a medical conference. Read on for goofy acronyms, endless banter, horny middle-aged men, and more!
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- 40,071
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- 5/5
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30 Jan 2026
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count to thirty. breathe twice. repeat. by WingedQuill
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
19 Jan 2026
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Billy Hargrove doesn't keep his promise to Max. He doesn't keep it in a pretty spectacular fashion, actually. Instead of staying away from her friends, he murders one of them.
Unfortunately for Billy, Hellfire meets right after basketball practice. And fortunately for Steve, Eddie knows CPR.
(Or: There is a clearly defined set of steps to keep someone's heart beating. There's no guide for the aftermath. Steve, Eddie, and everyone they love write one together.)
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- Part 1 of count to thirty
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- English
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- 57,851
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- 21/?
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31 Dec 2025
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Steve Harrington never planned for Eddie Munson.
Steve was supposed to marry his high school sweetheart, have 2.5 children, and take over the family business. He was supposed to live a blissful life on a nondescript cul-de-sac, complete with a white picket fence and a closet full of tasteful polo shirts. He was supposed to make a graceful transition between being the golden boy and being the American Dream.
Mediocrity was what destiny had designed for Steve. Reality had other plans.
(Or, Steve and Eddie, against all odds, fall in love)
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- English
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- 71,794
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- 11/11
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31 Dec 2025
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“Is he whining about Eddie being mean to him again?” Robin is leaning in the doorway, eating a leftover slice that’s probably cold by now. “You talk about him more than you talk about girls, Steve, it’s getting concerning. Anyone would think you had a crush.”
or, steve is pretty convinced eddie now hates him. turns out eddie has the opposite problem.
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- Part 1 of love vigilantes
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- English
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- 60,702
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- 13/13
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30 Dec 2025
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November 1983. Between unpaid bills, the supposedly straight jock he’s seeing, and letters from his convict dad, seventeen year old Eddie Munson’s got enough to worry about. But when Will Byers goes missing, it sparks a chain of events that will show there are more depths to Hawkins — and to certain people in it, like infamous Steve ‘The Hair’ Harrington — than he realizes.
/ or, the excessively long slow-burn in which Eddie is involved in the Upside Down from the very beginning.
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- 67/67
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30 Dec 2025
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As the newest instructor at St. Bart's, John has been explicitly warned to never do Sherlock Holmes any favours. Too bad the sex is so good.
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- Part 1 of Limping Forward
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- English
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- 56,005
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- 8/8
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- 854
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04 Oct 2025
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John had always assumed Sherlock was uninterested, untouchable, married to his work. He was wrong on all counts. But when Sherlock embarks on a relationship, John worries that he is in over his head...and this time he might be right.
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- 25/25
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04 Oct 2025
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“This was like nothing John had ever thought to associate with Sherlock: stubble, skin-tight jeans and three small silver rings gleaming at the crest of one ear. It was unbelievable, like stepping into an alternative universe, and John couldn't stop staring.”
When Sherlock infiltrates a club in order to track down a serial killer, his altered appearance is enough to make John question his assumption that Sherlock is beyond his reach. However, is he the only one who appreciates his flatmate's charms, or is Sherlock at risk of becoming the next victim? (Warning: reviews may contain fic spoilers)
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- 151,907
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- 19/19
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13 Sep 2025
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"If Sherlock's brain is a hard drive, then these attacks are an electro-magnetic pulse." Sherlock Holmes does not do anything by half, not even a migraine. It falls to John to witness one of the greatest minds he has ever known tear itself apart, and he must do his best to help Sherlock pick up the pieces.
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- 13/13
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13 Sep 2025
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A Cure For Boredom by emmagrant01
Fandoms: Sherlock (TV), Sherlock Holmes & Related Fandoms
28 Mar 2012
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They'd never talked about sex in the year they'd known each other. Well, that wasn't quite correct: Sherlock had never said a word about sex; John had bemoaned his personal dearth of it on many occasions.
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- 81,665
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- 8/8
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- 18
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- 1,850
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Bookmarked by Cymbaline72
13 Sep 2025
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love don't roam, but occasionally it wanders off by sherlgrey for Mel_MCz
Fandoms: Doctor Who (2005), Doctor Who
14 Feb 2022
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The Doctor sighed, wistfully remembering that very first trip out with Rose. She’d been flabbergasted at the mere concept of universal roaming, and the Doctor couldn’t help but smile as he recalled the delighted wonder in her tone. She could comprehend the sentient, telepathic time-and-space ship, but somehow the concept of advanced technical jiggery pokery baffled her--as if there were anywhere in the world he couldn’t get a silly little signal to.
Perhaps he should’ve considered something similar for Amy, prodded her to call Rory or something. Of course, he couldn’t have known they’d end up engaged, in his defense. And picking him up was just inherently better, wasn’t it? No need to upgrade the cell phones just yet--well, it could never hurt, just because one of them wasn’t stuck on Earth didn’t mean they wouldn’t need to call every once in a while--
As if there were anywhere in the world he couldn’t get a silly little signal to--
Just because one of them wasn’t stuck on Earth--
Rassilon, he was an idiot.
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(OR: The Doctor tries to have forever with Rose, in the form of unlimited minutes and multiversal roaming. Basically, it's a phone call fic.)
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- 51,119
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- 12/12
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- 290
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Bookmarked by Cymbaline72
04 Aug 2025
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'Samson's Mistress Cut His Hair, Thus Removing His Strength' by Sparklesinthewater
Fandoms: House M.D.
27 Jul 2024
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Set in season 3. Stacy doesn't come back. Tritter doesn't interfere. But the drugs and the infarction keep getting House into trouble anyway. Wilson is trying his best (but his best may not be what's best for House).
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House gets himself a girlfriend. Life goes downhill from there.
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- Part 1 of F*ck You, Delilah.
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- English
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- 129,008
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- 26/26
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Bookmarked by Cymbaline72
09 Jun 2025
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To understand what comes next, you must understand what came before.
Lalo confronts Nacho after the betrayal and must decide whether to let him live or die. The answer lies in the development of his and Nacho's relationship over the course of a few months.
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- Part 1 of Holding Each Other (Hostage)
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- English
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- 10/10
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- 284
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06 Jun 2025
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Lalo. Nacho. Domesticity in hell.
Warnings for dubious consent, violence, multiple partners (including a threesome between Nacho and the twins), and general fucked-uppedness. But if you love these characters, that's probably what you're looking for.
The fics in this series are connected, but each tells a complete story. Final fic in the series is novel-length.
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- 99,400
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- 10
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05 Jun 2025
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sweet revenge/stubborn love by cherhorowitz8
Fandoms: Interview with the Vampire (TV 2022)
26 Dec 2023
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After being unceremoniously dumped by his on-again, off-again boyfriend, Armand, Lestat is left humiliated and desperate for revenge. He decides to seek help from a very unlikely source.
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- 52,632
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- 15/15
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Bookmarked by Cymbaline72
10 May 2025
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Romance novelist Louis DuLac is heartbroken and needs an escape. Which is why he abruptly decides to swap houses with a young, up-and-coming actress named Claudia Lioncourt for the holiday season. What he does not expect is to run into Claudia’s father, who might be exactly what Louis has been looking for his whole life.
An AU of The Holiday.
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10 May 2025
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“Why do you ask?”
And fuck, if that doesn’t rattle the box Louis’ tried to lock this up in, and if they weren’t trying to be better, do better, Louis would ask him why do you think? Would ask him what goes on in your head that you think I wouldn’t want to know all of this? Would ask him what it is about the two of them, who can talk for nights on nights on nights, who can know each other’s topography and undersoil, who can live within the most wild and rugged terrains of one another, yet only turn over their most weathered stones for tourists.
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Louis and Lestat argue about moving in, the interview, and finally, deeply, darkly, about Magnus.
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- Part 4 of and then the spell was cast
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- English
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- 38,261
- Chapters:
- 1/1
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- 247
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Bookmarked by Cymbaline72
08 May 2025
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Outside, Tokyo’s early evening traffic thrums with urgency beneath heavy rain, and he knows if he trained his ear, he’d hear the city alive regardless with chatter and music. If he trained his nose, he’d smell the thickening, humid weather, the bay, the heady smells of gyoza and Takoyaki and tempura, cooking in spitting oil, but he doesn’t. No, what he does is keep looking at Lestat and thinking – not for the first time – that this has been a mistake. Thinks he has stayed too long here in Japan, even if it’s been just shy of two weeks.
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It's been 18 months since they reunited, Lestat's on the cusp of fame, Louis' trying to be companion enough for himself, they're both a mess, but they both still want each other all the same.
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- Part 3 of and then the spell was cast
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08 May 2025
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the steady murmur (always in my head) by flashindie
Fandoms: Interview with the Vampire (TV 2022)
29 Oct 2024
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Deafening, the sound of her.
A pounding at his ear drums, an aching ream of resonance singing round and round the shell of his ears. Whipping winds howling at his eyes until he can barely see, bloodied tears pooling at his lids, catching in his lashes, courting dust, dirt, debris, the smell of the Mississippi hauled outta her riverbed and up in the air, drowning him as he tries to steady his feet. He can’t vamp. Not with his hand still holding fast to the knot of Lestat’s robe, not when the hurricane would force him, them, any direction it wanted, toss them around like a cat with a muddy-shelled roach, and vaguely he realizes that he has no idea where he’s going.
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Louis and Lestat leave the shack the night of the hurricane, seek refuge in a store, navigate too many memories, argue, ache, and maybe figure out the start of a way forward.
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- Part 1 of and then the spell was cast
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 28,448
- Chapters:
- 1/1
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- 1
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- 107
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Bookmarked by Cymbaline72
07 May 2025