20 Works by Shadowlake
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Who Could Ever Learn to Love a Beast? by Shadowlake
Fandoms: Beauty and the Beast - All Media Types, Fairy Tales & Related Fandoms
04 May 2026
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Adam was a child born wrong, given no claim to the throne he spent his days in the summer castle surrounded by servants until the day he could be forgotten. His solitude is interrupted one day by a beggar woman on a course to ruin his life.
A retelling of the day the beast was transformed from his own perspective. A child being tortured for barely any reason and left to rot alongside several innocent bystanders for barely any reason.
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- English
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- 1,310
- Chapters:
- 1/1
- Hits:
- 10
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The Price of Being Chosen by Shadowlake
Fandoms: Fairy Tales & Related Fandoms, Original Work, Sleeping Beauty (1959), Perceforest
29 Jan 2026
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Zellendine woke from an enchanted sleep only to realize how much the gods had already taken from her. Troylus hid from the pain until the love of his life wouldn’t let him anymore. Now as the two finally reunite they are forced to confront what happened and find their way to a better future together.
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- English
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- 1,585
- Chapters:
- 1/1
- Kudos:
- 2
- Hits:
- 86
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Fuck ICE.
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A whale tells the story of its death, desecration, and entrapment as its body is taken from the sea.
Inspired by the Malm Whale.
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We've all longed for a pocket of stillness, a break from the world. What happens when you get exactly what you wish for?
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The crew attempts to save Kanan, and as usual nothing goes according to plan. As Kanan and Ezra protect each other and try to stay alive, Kanan realizes something important has already been lost.
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The creature follows everyone, and some people face it more often than others. Everyone runs and runs, but no one can run forever.
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- English
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- 964
- Chapters:
- 1/1
- Kudos:
- 3
- Hits:
- 41
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He Who Carries the Dark Lantern by Shadowlake
Fandoms: Over the Garden Wall (Cartoon & Comics)
06 Nov 2025
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The Woodsman wandered into the woods one night never to leave again. For years he carried a torch for a daughter he could no longer see and a wife he could only dream of. The moment he took on the burden, his fate was sealed.
All because he was lured in by a Beast.
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 1,411
- Chapters:
- 1/1
- Kudos:
- 2
- Hits:
- 35
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The Village Girl and the Wolf Boy by Shadowlake
Fandoms: The Jungle Book - Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book (Disney Animated Movies), Original Work
05 Nov 2025
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What separates man from animal? Everyone in the village knew the dangers of the jungle, but how separate can you really be with only a river in the middle. What about the wolf boy who had been living there all his life?
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One day Marietta’s world changed forever, and she doesn’t even get to know why. Here friends left her, she was scarred across her face, no one will even explain what she did wrong.
AKA Permanently disfiguring someone and then erasing their memories is kind of a fucked thing to do I think and the canon is really casual about it
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Virgil tried to solve the riddle, he tried to get good grades, he tried to make them all proud. Why was it never enough? He was a Ravenclaw, weren't they supposed to be wise? He was a seer, wasn't that supposed to be a gift?
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In a world where almost any disability can be cured, why bother with accommodations? Mara is a student at Hogwarts who learned about this attitude the hard way.
AKA I watched a YouTube video on ableism in Harry Potter, and then this came out
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Cristina tries to fly on her broomstick for the first time. It doesn’t go how she thought.
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 1,848
- Chapters:
- 1/1
- Kudos:
- 1
- Hits:
- 12
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A Rose by Any Other Name by Shadowlake
Fandoms: Sleeping Beauty (1959), Fairy Tales & Related Fandoms
15 Feb 2025
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The curse has been lifted. Briar Rose got her happy ending. So why does it feel like she lost everything?
AKA I watched a YouTube video about sleeping beauty and now I have feelings about it
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Mateo officially becomes the royal wizard. Nothing can ever be easy.
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- Part 5 of Magic is Volatile
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 262
- Chapters:
- 1/?
- Kudos:
- 6
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Gabe and Mateo have a confrontation in the library. It doesn’t end well for either of them.
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- Part 4 of Magic is Volatile
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Things are better without Shuriki, but that doesn’t mean it’s perfect.
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- Part 3 of Magic is Volatile
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The End of Finn Mertens by Shadowlake
Fandoms: Adventure Time (Cartoon 2010), Gravity Falls
01 Jun 2024
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Bill Cipher invades the mind of Finn Mertens. It goes exactly as well as you would think.
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Mateo finds the answer to his problem
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- Part 2 of Magic is Volatile
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Mateo was born with innate magic. With no way to release or direct it, it burns him from the inside out.
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- Part 1 of Magic is Volatile