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December 16, 1955 - "The services, the legal profession, and the local authorities were represented in a procession more than a mile long when the funeral of Lieut.-Colonel R. Blair Mayne, DSO (and three bars) took place this afternoon to Movilla Cemetery, Newtownards..."
Reg goes to a funeral and realizes a few very important things about life and how he's been living it.
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29 Dec 2025
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When Bill Fraser returns home to his family farm in Scotland, he wants no part in the longstanding feud his father has with the Stirling family across the river. But when he encounters the family’s tempestuous Estate Manager, Paddy Mayne, fists are thrown.
War is inevitable. But as sparks fly, a fire starts to burn. Bill doesn’t have time to get involved in a dysfunctional relationship, but when tragedy hits his family, he finds Paddy Mayne is the only one who can tame the madness.
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14 Dec 2025
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"Fucking hell."
"What, you know him?"
"I met him in Cairo. His name is Eoin. Eoin McGonigal."
What if the events of 'And Death Shall Have No Dominion' went a little different? What if Eoin survived the jump and was later found by the fictitious No. 15 Commandos? What if he went with them on their Italian campaign and what else might change because of it?
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- Part 1 of The Welshman
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1951: D.I. Paddy Mayne’s war days are long over, but the scars still haunt him. When he’s called to London to investigate a series of controversial murders, he finds his new partner D.S. Bill Fraser is a man even more broken by his past. Catching a killer when everyone is keeping secrets won’t be easy. Working together will test them both beyond their limits.
Uncovering London’s forbidden underground, they will learn things about themselves and things about each other, but can they solve the case before another innocent is lost?
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17 Oct 2025
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Maybe it’s only right that he finds himself in Belfast, a city tense with the start of something that promises bloodshed. His da, God rest his sweet soul, was a life-long Orange Order man, so this should be the perfect opportunity: the war Paddy was born ready for and something to fucking do.
The trouble of it is, Paddy hates the RUC, and he’s already been barred from most of the pubs in East Belfast.
OR: Paddy Mayne doesn’t care for sectarian politics, at least, not until he meets a certain Catholic boy who loves to court trouble.
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15 Oct 2025
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This man is a bully. This is his first impression of Captain Paddy Mayne.
Though, that is not necessarily true.
His first, first impression is, well, that this man is slight. He’s slight, and unkempt – the latter of which he attributes to the harsh living conditions of the desert and the former of which amuses him to an extent.
Now, being the learned man that he is, he knows that looks can be deceiving, that he should be above judging a man before they’ve even spoken. And yet, nothing about Mayne strikes him as particularly threatening. And then - then the man opens his mouth and Augustin knows he's in way over his head.(or: What if Augustin stuck around and what if there's more to Paddy Mayne than his overt aggression)
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17 Aug 2025
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“And what rough beast, its hour come round at last, slouches towards Bethlehem to fucking bitch me out.”
“Hullo, Paddy. You’re looking well.”
Or perhaps he simply looks like the version of him Bill used to know – clean shaven and sun-blasted – and maybe, after all this time, there is a kind of comfort in that.
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Or: after one of David's hiking trips ends in disaster, Paddy and Bill would be glad if they never crossed paths again, only to run into each other years later.
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14 Jul 2025
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heaven is not fit to house a love like you and i by groupmomlipton
Fandoms: SAS: Rogue Heroes (TV)
03 Aug 2025
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Eoin jumps and he thinks of Dante.
(or: paddy and eoin first met on a rugby pitch. things develop from there)
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- Part 1 of the heaven series
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08 Jul 2025
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It is with the deepest regret I must inform you that your son First Lieutenant Robert Blair Mayne, 87306, a member of my unit has been missing in action in [censored] since the mission of 16 November 1941.
Or an AU where Paddy is the one who goes missing after Operation Squatter.
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29 Jun 2025
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“Who. The fuck. Are you?”
“Uh.” Bill scrambled to his feet then stood there, failing entirely in his efforts not to stare. “I’m Bill Stirling. David Stirling’s older brother. David sent me to fetch you.”
“Fetch me?” Paddy Mayne’s gaze raked over him, trailed slowly from his face down his body then back up to his face again. His eyes—deep blue, sharp and intelligent—met Bill’s. “Aye,” he drawled. “I reckon you could.”
Then that beautiful mouth curled into a smile
Oh, Bill thought. Oh no. Oh, fuck.Paddy and Bill drive the length of the UK, from Cornwall to Scotland, on their way to David's wedding. Numerous circumstances befall them along the way, including, much to their annoyance, falling in love.
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27 Jun 2025
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The Age of Enlightenment by AnonPenguin for beccastanz
Fandoms: Star Wars - All Media Types, Star Wars Sequel Trilogy
24 Feb 2025
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Senator Ben Solo is accustomed to a life of service. So it comes as no surprise that he would be forced into an arranged marriage to the granddaughter of the late Sheev Palpatine, both Jedi and Senator forced to atone for the mistakes of their grandparents with a union.
He doesn't expect a young girl.
Disinterested in physically consummating their union, Ben comes up with a strategy to make his wife's life bearable: giving her freedom to explore intimacy outside of their marriage once she comes of age.
Determined to ensure her safety when she becomes old enough to entertain lovers, Ben insists on instructing her on how to distinguish the difference between a lover and a friend.
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"Rey, tell me you know the difference."
"The difference in what?"
He smoothes his hand over hers, stroking the top. "The difference between a good touch and a bad touch."
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Ben gets very horny, possessive, and jealous over his adult wife and wants to keep her safe...by showing her how she deserves to be touched.
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- Part 4 of Penguin's Canon/Divergent Fics
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31 May 2025
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A Child of Many Tears by junkyardjeditrash for aestivaltide
Fandoms: Star Wars - All Media Types, Star Wars Sequel Trilogy
15 Jun 2025
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Benjamin Solo's marriage to the young Palpatine heiress was an arrangement bringing two criminal factions together to rule the city of Coruscant through fear and blood. Nothing more. Alliances shift frequently. Loyalties are built slowly. And love? Can it grow in such environs?
A gilded age-esque underworld AU. A series of short stories and scenes.
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28 May 2025
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Person 1: "I don't know what it is about you... I just know that I can trust you."
Person 2, their actual, literal worst enemy: "Excuse me, what?"
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Recently appointed Senior Investigator Hermione Granger has an unfortunate run-in with a cursed bookmark. Somehow, it leaves curse breaker Draco Malfoy to take care of his suddenly amnesiac enemy, who for some Merlin forsaken reason thinks of him fondly.
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11 May 2025
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“Hermione, I don’t think Malfoy has been teasing or insulting you. I think…” Ginny rolled her tongue in her mouth, struggling to speak the next words: “I think he was trying to court you.”
“What? No!"
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Hermione is determined to smile through Malfoy’s blatant taunting without biting his head off.
Draco is delighted that Hermione responds well to his courtship instead of biting his head off.
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- Part 1 of A Study in Devotion
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11 May 2025
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Hermione Granger is back for an Eighth Year at Hogwarts. She wants to make this go-round all about her wants and needs. Never again will she let life slip out of her control.
Draco Malfoy has one goal for his Eighth year: become friends with the girl who made all the difference at his trial. Thanks to Hermione’s powerful letter about indoctrination and fear, Draco has this second chance at life, and he doesn’t intend to waste it.
But something nefarious has infiltrated the Hogwarts halls. Can Hermione and Draco tackle it together?
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16 Mar 2025
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First, he stretches. Then, he exercises. He eats breakfast, and watches the street he lives on come to life -- the old man and his corgi, the baristas at the coffee shop, the woman who jogs, the daughter and father, and the Indian grocer all making their appearance. Then, he showers, shaves, dresses, and heads to his job as an Auror, where he has been on desk duty ever since he was pulled from the field because of The Incident.
Draco lives his life by his Ministry mandated Mind Healer routines, and he is trying to get back to being Potter's left-hand man, but the cannonball to his careful regimen comes in the form of a very cranky Hermione Granger.
Banter, fluff, eventual smut, an ensemble cast of friends and family and weddings and babies. Told in mostly Draco's POV, but the occasional random one, because who says Draco is the most reliable of narrators?
It’s a character-driven slow burn.
[Author's Note: I give blanket permission for this fic to be bound, translated, narrated, and for artwork, so long as you are not making a profit off of it. For more info, feel free to message me on IG, monstersof.men.]
[9/8/25: I am beginning minor chapter edits.]
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- Part 1 of The Hum Hallelujah Universe
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14 Mar 2025
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"All her growth was the conveying of a corpse of hope."
(From 'The Rainbow', D.H. Lawrence)This is a story about coming into one's own, a meditation on the twilight of girlhood and the violence of crash-landing into womanhood. Follow Hermione as she navigates through the quagmire: Saving the world, getting top grades, falling in love, lust, and a whole lot of trouble, and comes out of it hopefully (at least) partially sane.
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- Part 1 of Here We Go Round The Prickly Pear
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Mystery Work
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This is part of an ongoing challenge and will be revealed soon!
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14 Feb 2025
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"He loved her. He loved her. Hermione Granger: this sharp, beautiful, whip-smart and powerful girl who happened to love him too. He, with the Dark Mark and painful bigotry. He with too many sins to bear - she loved him too.
An impossible romance told in snapshots, in days, in moments; a story of love in the midst of the worst war the wizarding world has ever seen, and what might happen if two people make simple, but very different, choices.
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16 Sep 2024