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Room Forty-Seven, North Tower by OccasionallyThriving
Fandoms: A Song of Ice and Fire - George R. R. Martin, A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms (TV)
15 Jun 2026
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Dunk arrives at Summerhall expecting to feel out of place.
He does not expect Room 47, midnight conversations, or Aerion Targaryen - vicious, clever, impossible to understand, and somehow always there.
Or, a boarding school AU where Dunk and Aerion are roommates, enemies, and very definitely becoming something worse. -
I’m Your Man by OccasionallyThriving
Fandoms: A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms (TV), A Song of Ice and Fire - George R. R. Martin
12 Apr 2026
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Aerion’s gaze lingered. He had watched Duncan the Tall for years. It was a habit he had never cared to examine too closely, and saw no cause to begin now. The man was difficult to ignore, if only for his size, and there was something in the way he held himself—solid, unyielding—that drew the eye whether one wished it or no. Tonight, that solidity had softened at the edges.
An AU in which Duncan is raised at court, and Aerion mistakes the shape of his own wanting for something else—until it refuses to be mistaken any longer.
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Buckle Down and Break Free by OccasionallyThriving
Fandoms: Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling
28 Mar 2026
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In the dusty heart of rural rodeo country, Sirius Black - ever rebellious and restless - finds himself drawn to Remus Lupin, a rugged local with quiet strength.
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Sirius Black and The Art of Belonging by OccasionallyThriving
Fandoms: Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling
11 Nov 2025
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Sirius Black has never been good at fitting in.
Born into a family defined by cruelty and expectation, he carries scars that no magic can heal. Estranged from his name yet unable to escape its shadow, Sirius throws himself into the Order of the Phoenix — a place where loyalty, friendship, and purpose might finally take root. But even here, things aren’t simple. His family ties mark him as suspect, his recklessness makes him difficult to trust, and the war itself demands more than anyone can give.As Voldemort’s forces rise and the safe walls of the Order’s sanctuary grow thinner by the day, Sirius finds himself caught between brutal missions, the weight of loss, and the fragile bonds that both sustain and unravel him. And at the heart of it all is Remus Lupin — a man marked by his own curse, whose guarded strength challenges Sirius to see himself differently, even as secrets and silences threaten to pull them apart.
A canon divergent retelling of the First Wizarding War, told through the conflicted heart of Sirius Black, in which Remus Lupin never went to Hogwarts.
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On the (Attempted) Taming of Aerion Targaryen by clandestinepasserine
Fandoms: A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms (TV), A Song of Ice and Fire & Related Fandoms
18 Apr 2026
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Aerion found himself thinking, with a flicker of malicious interest, that simple men often revealed the most interesting edges when cut open properly. Dunk, for all his size and plainness, had one of those faces that did not hide pain well. Aerion had seen enough of him already to know the knight carried things in him and around him with the stubbornness of a pack mule. He did not ask much, it seemed. He endured, and he answered, and he went where he was told. A man like that might prove surprisingly stubborn when taken apart.
Or useful.
“You’ll grow tired of this,” Aerion said, after a dull few moments of quiet. This time the answer came at once.
“I don’t tire easy.”
Or: After the trial of seven, Aerion is sent to a monastery for punishment rather than exiled to Lys. Dunk goes with him, because of course he does.Bookmarked by OccasionallyThriving
03 Apr 2026
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The Dog and the Wolf: Lycanthropy, Animagery, and Queer Love in Magical Britain, c. 1960 – Present. The Story of Sirius Black and Remus Lupin, interviewed by Willa Wetherbee by thewholeofthemoon
Fandoms: Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling
30 Dec 2025
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- Part 6 of Harry Potter and the Dog and the Wolf
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Bookmarked by OccasionallyThriving
13 Dec 2025
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wading in waist-high water by colgatebluemintygel for grumposaur
Fandoms: Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling
09 Jun 2022
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Remus is a PhD student and hobbyist baker who finds himself adrift following his father’s death. On a whim, he enters the Great British Bake Off and is swept up in a flurry of curdled custard, shrunken souffle, and under-proved dough. Remus expects to be challenged and to embarrass himself on public television. What he doesn’t account for are the friendships he develops with the other contestants and the deep connection he forms with his teenage crush, Sirius Black: charming ex-boy band member and Bake Off presenter.
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Sirius groans, dropping his head back into his hands. “It’s the dough,” he mumbles into the skin of his palms. “It’s the kneading. It’s his hands. They’re obscene.”
Lily laughs. “They are a bit, aren’t they?”
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- Part 1 of wading in waist-high water
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Men were not in the habit of falling from the sky.
Bookmarked by OccasionallyThriving
09 Feb 2025
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The Department of Special Collections by alby_mangroves, Speranza
Fandoms: Captain America (Movies), Marvel Cinematic Universe
01 Dec 2018
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It was a messy thing of leather and papers and rope. It looked like Phillips had carelessly thrown a bunch of documents onto an old piece of black leather and then rolled the whole thing up and tied it . . . The papers inside were all different sizes, everything out of order and haphazardly stacked, like someone had been in a hurry and just grabbed it all.
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Bookmarked by OccasionallyThriving
04 Jan 2019