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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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- English
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- 138,777
- Chapters:
- 48/48
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- 164
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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.
or,
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.
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09 Feb 2025
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How To Jeopardise Your Friendship With Remus Lupin by amberlink
Fandoms: Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling
27 Mar 2025
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It’s his sixth year at Hogwarts, and Remus Lupin has no intentions of making any major changes to his daily routine. He’s a creature of habit; of schedules and lists and predictability, and of comfort…when he has the option.
James Potter, however, has all the intentions of making major changes to Remus’s daily routine. It’s out of love, Remus knows this, but that doesn’t mean he has to like it.
And, as the year progresses, James isn’t the only one testing the boundaries of his friendship with Remus Lupin.
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- English
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- 230,716
- Chapters:
- 40/40
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- 1,291
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- 3,096
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09 Feb 2025
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1968. The Vietnam War's most savage, electrifying year brings together two unlikely friends: an art school dropout disowned from his ancestral fortune, and a shy Midwestern boy grappling with a choice he can't unmake.
Remus/Sirius slow burn.
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The trip that Lily Evans expects to go on is the annual pre-dissertation jaunt to Athens with the rest of her Classical Civilizations PhD program. The trip she does not expect to go on is to 479 BCE, right on the cusp of one of the most important battles in the Greco-Persian war. Now, she has to navigate antiquity as she tries to find her way back to the 21st Century, God—or gods—help her.
James wants to win this war. No, James needs to win this war. He is a man of honor and duty, and even if it means dying a gruesome, bloody death, he will go down in history as one of Athens's great warriors. He will suffer no distractions; not even beautiful ones who speak strangely and refuse to listen to his orders.
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OR: The Outlander-Meets-Ancient-Greece Jily AU that no one asked for.- Language:
- English
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- 120,331
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- 13/13
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09 Feb 2025
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“They’re… chaos,” Remus said firmly. “And chaos is—”
“Rock and roll.”
He looked at Sirius sharply, and for once, matched his grin. “Yeah.”
“Maybe that’s my excuse then,” Sirius said. “I cause a bit of chaos now, and maybe one day, it’ll turn into rock and roll.”After losing his mother at age eleven, Remus has spent the better part of the last four years bouncing from school to school or else running around London and pretending as though he wasn't the kind of well-bred boy his father brought him up to be. Now, with his chances all run out, Remus is sent to Hawkings Independent School as a last-ditch effort to clean up his act. There he meets the very people who will set up the rest of his life, and is forced to confront the pieces of himself he'd long thought had been lost.
(genuinely not apologising for the slow-burn in this fic anymore. You've been warned <3)
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- Part 1 of The Cadence Opus
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 979,792
- Chapters:
- 108/108
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- 30
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08 Feb 2025
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In 1965, Voldemort became Minister for Magic. In 1968, the leadership of the Order of the Phoenix was destroyed, the remnants of the terrorist organisation driven underground. By 1970, all was well in Great Britain.
The year is 1984. Sirius Black has just turned 25. He's rich, he's powerful, and most importantly--he's bored.
But all of that is about to change.
8/24/23
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- English
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- 29/29
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09 Feb 2025
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30 Dec 2024
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“I meant it” Remus added, his voice softer “What I said yesterday.”
Sirius felt his heart stop and his breath hitch. Remus was looking at him with those big brown eyes, and he felt as if his heart would never beat at a normal pace around the other boy. “In what way?
“In whatever way you want me, Sirius.”
And that was it, the tipping point.
“I can’t have you in the way I want you.” He all but whispered. What was worse than unrequited feelings were forbidden ones. “They won’t let me.”
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Love is complicated and Remus and Sirius are idiots :)
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01 Sep 2024
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ain't really quaint by quietnight, silentwalrus
Fandoms: Captain America - All Media Types
01 Apr 2019
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Natasha stops by on a Tuesday, early enough in the morning that it would have been late by Steve’s old standards. Now, though, it takes him nearly three minutes just to limp to the door, yawning, and when he opens it he has to lean heavily on the doorframe.
“Hi,” Natasha says, over the beginnings of birdsong. She’s not alone. “Can we come in?”
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- Part 1 of farm hell
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- English
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- 5/5
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27 Jun 2024
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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.
- Language:
- English
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- 4,867
- Chapters:
- 1/1
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- 1
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- 340
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04 Jan 2019