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The world is falling into winter. Camelot is falling into war. Arthur will do anything he can to keep his kingdom safe, and he will use whatever weapons are at hand - but, to his horror, his decisions turn out to have severe consequences for Merlin. Naturally, Arthur decides that it is his duty to protect his loyal servant from the shocking truth...
“Let me see if I’ve got this straight,” Lancelot said, beginning to grin. “You want to teach Merlin to use magic – without letting him notice that he’s using magic?”
“He must not find out. If he finds out he has magic, he’ll – why are you laughing? This is no laughing matter, Lancelot!”
Set soon after Season 3.
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24 Sep 2025
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There’s a pause, and then Wednesday speaks again. “I admit that I do have one ulterior motive in asking you to visit for the holidays.”
Enid laughs, unsurprised; there’s the Wednesday she knows, even a phone line and a coast away. “Yeah? What is it?”
“I told my parents that I’m in a relationship,” Wednesday says, offhand, like it’s just another sentence and not a lightning strike to Enid’s heart. "With you, specifically."
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13 Sep 2025
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His entire life, people have told Arthur magic is evil.
It takes a little while, but Arthur thinks he can tell otherwise.
Or: Arthur is magic sensitive, and it changes things.
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- Part 1 of Apples and Oranges
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06 Aug 2025
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When they try to hang him, he floats.
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They put him on the pyre at dawn.
He doesn’t burn.
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02 Aug 2025
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LONG fic charting the marauders' time at Hogwarts (and beyond) from Remus' PoV - diversion from canon in that Remus's father died and he was raised in a children's home, and is a bit rough around the edges. Otherwise canon-compliant.
1971 - 1995This IS a wolfstar fic, but incredibly slow burn. Literally years. Long build up but worth it I promise!
PLEASE DO NOT COPY TO WATTPAD. SERIOUSLY, WHY??
Spotify playlist:
https://open.spotify.com/user/htl2006/playlist/3z2NbLq2IVGG0NICBqsN2D?si=Liyl_JKJSx2RUqks3p50kg(Compiled by amazing reader, JustAnotherPerson)
DISCLAIMER: I do not support JK Rowling's disgusting transphobic views.
NOTE: I AM NO LONGER READING OR REPLYING TO COMMENTS ON THIS FIC
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- Part 1 of All the Young Dudes
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10 Jun 2025
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A Month and a Mandrake by etymolodrarry for cassisluna
Fandoms: Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling
24 Jul 2021
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The first step to becoming an Animagus is to hold a Mandrake leaf in your mouth for a full month. The trouble is, it's very difficult to speak clearly with a leaf adhered to the roof of your mouth (especially when you're trying to hide it from your best friend.)
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12 Feb 2025
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"So what brings you out here anyway?"
Ed's out of the blue question at least answers Stede's anxieties about radio etiquette. He pulls the walkie from his pack and stares at it, deciding how much of his life he actually wants to share with this complete stranger.
"What brings you out here?"
or: Stede takes a job as a remote forest fire lookout in the summer following his divorce, with a plan to find out who he is, and what he wants his life to be. With the help of the enigmatic lookout on the other side of the forest, he ends up getting more out of the experience than he could ever have hoped.
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- Part 1 of seven point three miles
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06 Feb 2025
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Lend Me Your Ears by Nomad (nomadicwriter) for rythyme (pugglemuggle)
Fandoms: Ghosts (TV 2019)
18 Dec 2021
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Talking can be difficult, but getting someone to listen might be even harder.
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15 Jan 2025
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keep fixing what is only bound to break by sesquidpedalian
Fandom: Not Another D&D Podcast (Podcast)
05 Jul 2021
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The wheel of suffering has made its turns. Now the wheel of joy spins on.
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05 Jun 2024
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*EPISODE 83 SPOILERS*
"Time is just circles in circles in circles, isn't it?
Alanis blows some smoke rings into the air."on the night before the battle on the ninth layer of the Hells, everyone prepares in their own way. Alanis can't stop thinking about the past.
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04 Jun 2024
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What No One Tells You About Saving the World by KLStarre
Fandoms: Not Another D&D Podcast (Podcast)
24 Dec 2019
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An exploration of the similarities and differences between the Boobs and the Legendary Heroes.
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04 Jun 2024
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Without any more assignments coming from Downstairs, Crowley is struck with a bad case of the doldrums.
It takes a bit of trial and error, but eventually a solution is found.
(Or: the one where Crowley becomes an Uber driver.)
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19 May 2024
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so big / so small by gczebos
Fandoms: Dimension 20 (Web Series), Fantasy High, Fantasy High: Sophomore Year - Fandom
07 Apr 2021
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Sklonda was grateful she didn’t have to see the damage, but hearing her baby boy’s windpipe break, listening to the sounds of his friends screaming his name, and realizing after a few moments that he was no longer breathing - it was too much.
It was too much, and then the monster picked him up and -
The Ball, his friends called him, The Ball because he was small and easy to grab and throw and toss around and -
- smashed his tiny body into the staircase.
[ Riz livestreams the entire battle for the crown of the Nightmare King from his tie. Sklonda watches. ]
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- Part 1 of i'll lie and say i'm fine
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18 May 2024
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Postcards From Paris by ghostrat
Fandoms: Good Omens (TV), Good Omens - Neil Gaiman & Terry Pratchett
29 Oct 2023
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Crowley has just moved into his Mayfair apartment and finds a postcard addressed to the previous tenant. With no return address, he's left to collect and read the mysterious A.Z.F.'s adventures across Europe, where he hunts for bizarre bibles and rates ridiculously expensive wine in his free time. The question is: How will A.Z.F. react when Crowley finally gets his return address and writes back?
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It was different, he knew, to accidentally read someone else’s postcard versus intentionally perusing one in place of good newspaper over coffee. Crowley decided he was allowed that indecency, to balance out the good deed of safeguarding the mail in the first place.
He kicked his feet up onto his desk, scooped up the takeaway coffee that was brought around by their newest intern, and settled in to read some of the most densely crowded handwriting he’d ever laid eyes on.
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18 May 2024
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when existence or when hope is gone by 19burstraat (astardanced)
Fandoms: Six of Crows Series - Leigh Bardugo
07 Feb 2024
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“And have you made this entire call without once vexing or offending poor Miss Ghafa?”
Captain Rietveld looked coolly at him. Inej bent her head over her sewing to hide her smiling, since she was not sure she would not laugh outright. She had not thought that Wylan would deliberately provoke the Captain, but perhaps his deference to his father did not reach anyone else.
“I am sure that is not for me to decide,” said the Captain, “But I own I have been perfectly well behaved.”
“Does he lie, Miss Ghafa?”
“No— he has been quite tolerable company,” said Inej. “If not quite a perfect gentleman.”
“You wound me, Miss Ghafa.”
“I suspect I do not, Captain.”
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(A SOC Jane Austen/Regency AU)Bookmarked by SwordsAndBooks
10 May 2024
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what the water gave me by 19burstraat (astardanced)
Fandoms: Six of Crows Series - Leigh Bardugo
02 Dec 2023
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In time, he almost forgot what he had once been able to do. Water was his most ardent foe, not an ally. Water was the bodymen’s boats, Reaper’s Barge, and Jordie’s corpse. The water had given, and could give him, nothing that he wanted. It would make no bargain with him that could be worth it– so he would not try. He eked out his fortune and his revenge with every bloody punch and petty swindle and broken bone. He ignored the hiss and slap of the filthy water in the canals that wended through the city, the roar of the waves at the harbour that smashed boats to pieces, the sinuous curl of the mist on wet nights that got you jumped if you weren’t paying close enough attention. The Ketterdam water had a touch of the mocking about it– a determination to be as awful and monstrous and polluted as he was. But Kaz didn’t need a reminder of what he’d become. The water had his brother; it would not have him, too.
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Assuming Kaz was a Tidemaker; what, then?Bookmarked by SwordsAndBooks
08 May 2024
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“If you’re here for something honest and respectable, I’ll eat my guns piecemeal,” said Jesper. He scrubbed his face. “How long have you been telling those poor girls about your sick mother in Oldendaal?”
“It was Zierfoort, actually.”
“I don’t care where it was! What are you doing?”
“I thought I wasn’t supposed to involve you in my schemes anymore.” said Kaz petulantly, glancing in the mirror to rearrange his jacket.
“Kaz, you playing the victim is about as natural as a flock of lime-green flamingos, so don’t bother,” said Jesper. “Is it a heist? A blackmail job? Gathering information?”
“Who said it was just one thing?” said Kaz, straightening his cuffs with two brisk jerks. “This place is the playground for the children of the rich and prosperous, Jes. I could have a million reasons for being here. But since you’re here for reasons both honest and respectable, I can assure you I’ll stay out of your way–”
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(jesper goes back to university. kaz follows him... and trouble, as usual, follows both of them.)Bookmarked by SwordsAndBooks
08 May 2024
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spectre, how he laughs by 19burstraat (astardanced)
Fandoms: Six of Crows Series - Leigh Bardugo
24 Mar 2024
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“Oh, Wylan,” said Nina, peering through the half-open door of her room at the Sweet Shop. “Again?”
“It’s not as if I do it on purpose,” Wylan muttered through his swelling lip.
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Kaz Rietveld lay down and died on the Reaper's Barge.
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08 May 2024
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‘Kaz managed to endure it all the way past the iron railings of Zentzbridge, the grating covered in little bits of rope tied in elaborate knots, sailors’ prayers for safe return from sea. Superstitious rot.’ (SOC, Chapter 3)
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Inej leaves. Kaz waits for her. It should be as simple as that, but it's not, really. There's religion and superstition and criminal sensibilities to muddy the waters.
Plus, the Ketterdam weather really is terrible.Bookmarked by SwordsAndBooks
08 May 2024
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twin skeletons by 19burstraat (astardanced)
Fandoms: Six of Crows Series - Leigh Bardugo
14 Jul 2021
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“I don’t know how he knows, but I can trust him,” said Inej firmly. “His information will be sound.”
“It better be," said the Heartrender. "You’re still human like every other man, Brekker. I could crush your heart in a second.”
Kaz looked blankly at her for a moment.
“You sound so sure,” he said.
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Kaz gets wind of a planned ambush. With precisely zero good grace, he goes to help Inej and her crew.
In Lij.
He's about as happy about it as her crew are; which is to say, not happy at all.Bookmarked by SwordsAndBooks
08 May 2024