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That's Just Wasteland, Baby! by lovefromsunlight for suckerforstars
Fandoms: Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling
25 Sep 2024
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They say every villain is the hero of their own story.
Regulus Black believes this to be false. He is an anomaly to this rule, he is an outlier, because not only is he a villain to everyone around him, he’s also a villain to himself. When Regulus finds a bright, burning reminder of his past in his estranged brother, Sirius Black, he decides to chase this star from within the shadows. There's only one way to do this, however. He shamelessly uses his replacement, James Potter.
But what starts as a means to an end, turns into an entanglement of romance between the most unlikely of matches; the boy who seeks refuge in shadow, and the boy who glitters in the sunlight. It's no surprise that Regulus can’t help but root himself further into tragedy, corroding everything his touch meets.
Why?
Because his life is a wasteland. And, "That's just wasteland, baby."
Or: Barista Regulus meets Florist James.
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20 Feb 2025
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“Sirius?”
It takes a second for him to realize he’s wrong. It’s not Sirius’ voice, familiar as it is.
“No, though I’m not surprised you’d think so. I’m the overlooked sibling.”
The overlooked sibling, as it is, has backed away—James is sure his head was resting on his thighs a second ago. Regulus stands a few feet away now, his posture overly casual. One leg is stretched out gracefully before him while the other curls up to his chest. He’s calculated nonchalance, with an arm draped effortlessly over his raised knee. Playing a great game of pretend. He looks bored, almost. Almost, because there is no mistaking how sharp those gray eyes look, catching and dissecting every movement in the room. Resting on James with something like confusion.
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17 Feb 2025
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It’s Actually Our Duty by Lartistrys
Fandoms: Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling, Marauders - Fandom, Me Before You (2016)
11 Aug 2024
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“𝚃𝚠𝚘 𝚙𝚎𝚘𝚙𝚕𝚎 𝚠𝚑𝚘 𝚜𝚑𝚘𝚞𝚕𝚍𝚗'𝚝 𝚑𝚊𝚟𝚎 𝚖𝚎𝚝, 𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚠𝚑𝚘 𝚍𝚒𝚍𝚗'𝚝 𝚕𝚒𝚔𝚎 𝚎𝚊𝚌𝚑 𝚘𝚝𝚑𝚎𝚛 𝚖𝚞𝚌𝚑 𝚠𝚑𝚎𝚗 𝚝𝚑𝚎𝚢 𝚍𝚒𝚍, 𝚋𝚞𝚝 𝚠𝚑𝚘 𝚏𝚘𝚞𝚗𝚍 𝚝𝚑𝚎𝚢 𝚠𝚎𝚛𝚎 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚘𝚗𝚕𝚢 𝚝𝚠𝚘 𝚙𝚎𝚘𝚙𝚕𝚎 𝚒𝚗 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚠𝚘𝚛𝚕𝚍 𝚠𝚑𝚘 𝚌𝚘𝚞𝚕𝚍 𝚙𝚘𝚜𝚜𝚒𝚋𝚕𝚢 𝚑𝚊𝚟𝚎 𝚞𝚗𝚍𝚎𝚛𝚜𝚝𝚘𝚘𝚍 𝚎𝚊𝚌𝚑 𝚘𝚝𝚑𝚎𝚛”
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After losing his job, James is unexpectedly hired as a companion for S. Black’s younger brother and is set against the clock to show him that his life is worth living, even when times are at their toughest.Series
- Part 1 of You Only Get One Life.
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14 Jan 2025
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At the beginning of the Hogwarts 1977-1978 school year, James Potter finds a cat and Regulus Black finds a Horcrux.
These events are not unrelated.
What follows is a deal to their mutual benefit: James helps Regulus hone the finer details of advanced transfiguration, and in return, Regulus teaches James what he knows of occlumency and legilimency. James is pleasantly surprised by how much he enjoys their lessons, certainly more than he thought he would considering what (admittedly little) he knows of Sirius’s younger brother. Regulus, for his part, thought he was smart enough to know that anyone with as many secrets as him has no business teaching fucking mind reading to another person. Especially when that person is James Potter.
There is affection—the kind that only comes from meeting someone you never expected to understand you. And there is war—a looming thunderhead that neither of them wants to see consume the other.
The rest is a matter of secrets, family, and letting go.
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06 Dec 2024
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What is he to choose? Between the life he had fought tooth and nail to have, and what he deserves to get because of who he is and what he has done?
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- Part 2 of His Brightest Tragedy