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Mid-Season-One Zuko is held for ransom by Chief Hakoda. Ozai's replies to the Water Tribe's demands are A+ Parenting. Hakoda is… deeply concerned, for this son that isn't his, and who might be safer among enemies than with his own father.
Podfic and translations in Dutch, German, Hungarian, Russian, Spanish, and Ukrainian now available! See chapter one author notes for links.
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18 Dec 2025
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Product of My Own Design by Theres_Only_Soup
Fandoms: Six of Crows Series - Leigh Bardugo, Shadow and Bone (TV)
28 May 2023
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“I’m sorry, I didn’t hear you come in,” Wylan moved from behind the piano, closer to the counter. “Is there something I can help you with?” He tried to put on his best customer service voice, but it was hard with the man smiling at him like that. Like he knew how he was affecting Wylan just by standing there, listening to his music.
“Did you write that?”
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“Are you…” Wylan started, pausing as the man turned around to listen to him, a smirk pulling at his mouth. “Are you in a band, or something?”“Wouldn’t you like to know?” He winked, and was gone, the bell above the door ringing as the door swung back shut.
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Wylan owns a music store, ends up auditioning to join the Crows, and miraculously makes it into the band.
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- Part 8 of Wesper fics
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11 Dec 2025
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Neil had never been vain. He didn't care if his hair was brown or blonde or black. It made no difference if his eyes were a shade that clashed with his complexion. He preferred his clothes baggy. Safe. He didn't like his scars, but he wasn't ashamed of them. It was more that he didn't like getting questions about them, or the assumptions they caused people to have. Or the fact that they were memorable. And memorable was the opposite of safe.
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- Part 14 of Whumptober 2025
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22 Nov 2025
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30 Oct 2025
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I couldn't eat since that night in the kitchen by jayhasmoodswings
Fandoms: Six of Crows Series - Leigh Bardugo, Shadow and Bone (TV)
19 Oct 2025
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The first time Wylan feels truly hungry, he is eight and holding back acidic tears.
His eyes burn with unshed grief, and he scraps at the locked door for hours before giving up. His father is not coming back.
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Or six times Wylan is hungry and the one time the crows do something about it.Series
- Part 2 of Wylan goes through pain
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22 Oct 2025
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It’s been going on for a while by the time they get caught.
After they split dorms, Hongjoong starts sleeping in Seonghwa's bed from time to time. Neither of them ever mentions it in the light of day.
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- Part 1 of circadian rhythms
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21 Oct 2025
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I was literally tearing up at the confession scene, this was beautiful
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Andrew doesn't believe in regret. There's no point in wishing for things that can't be changed after all. He wouldn't go back to stop himself from being thrown in juvie; he had done it to protect a brother he never knew he had. Joining the exy team there was better than being stuck in his cell, even if it was boring. Even the penpal program for troubled youth his therapist put him in ended up giving him a puzzle to play with.
That puzzle was 'Hatford'.
A boy with a razor tongue and secrets, Andrew can't help but find himself interested in the stranger trading truths with him through poorly written letters.
Andrew doesn't believe in regret, but answering that first message may have lead to something he wasn't prepared for.Set before 'Brother of Mine'.
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- Part 2 of Inked Truths
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Wymack grunted. “Hey, why don’t I call in takeout from Sweeties and we can eat it in the office? I have a sixteen year old boy in the back of the patrol car right now that I’m running to the station.”
Andrew scoffed quietly to himself and set the phone on speaker to light his cigarette. Muffled, he said, “He better be eye candy if I’m coming to that dump.”
Andrew inhaled deep and closed his eyes for a moment before blowing the smoke out through his teeth. On the other end of the phone, just as he was bringing the cigarette back for another drag, he heard Wymack say, “Hey, my son wants to know if you’re cute.”
Andrew coughed up his lung at that surprise, but he didn’t miss the way that a distant voice piped up with “I want to say yes, sir.”
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Andrew and Aaron lived under two loose rules after Andrew’s stint in juvie: No more lying, no more secrets. Andrew already had years old secrets to take to the grave, but upon meeting a boy with a fiery attitude and a penchant against staying out of trouble, he quickly realized that he wasn’t the only one.
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After spending eight years running from her serial killer father, Anna and her twin brother, Neil have been recruited to play for the Palmetto State University Foxes. It's a great opportunity, but can Anna keep this grasp of a future while protecting her and her brother from The Baltimore Butcher?
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The advanced guide to Choi Jongho's laughter - by Jeong Yunho by Drhair76
Fandoms: ATEEZ (Band)
03 Oct 2024
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The tired snort, in which Jongho is sitting with his back against the practice room mirror, legs like jelly, and Yunho, sprawled over the floor, has said something painfully cheerful, and Jongho finds it amusing that he still has the energy.
Or, Yunho notes down all of Jongho's different laughs.
[Written for Comfortober day 2: Giggly]
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- Part 2 of COMFORTOBER (24)
- Part 4 of Promise (roses and roses and roses)
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09 Oct 2025
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One night at Eden's Twilight, Neil and Aaron are left alone together and they get talking. Andrew doesn't know if he likes this.
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03 Oct 2025
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Andrew's life had not prepared him for the idea of family and his family had not been prepared for Andrew. He scared the courts, he scared his brother, he scared the whole damn world until he met Neil Josten.
But Neil was just a side effect of the drugs.
Or, how Andrew learned what it was to be understood when he said he hated someone.
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03 Oct 2025
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James Rhemann has been alive for many years.
He had seen the damage the AIDS pandemic had wreaked on his community and friends.
He wouldn't sit idly by when one of his athletes self-destructed.
Jeremy Knox had been in a drug-fueled orgy and he should totally get an HIV test done.
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28 Sep 2025
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Merlin is magic, and iron hurts magical creatures.
How did Arthur not catch that before!A study in the lengths Arthur will go to confess in every way but with words.
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25 Sep 2025
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In a land of myth, and a time of magic, the destiny of a great kingdom rests on the shoulders of a young boy.
His name...Merlin.
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A complete rewrite of BBC’s Merlin
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24 Sep 2025
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When Arthur is invited to a country wedding on Lord Hillame's estate, Merlin needs to brush up on protocol to get through the week without embarrassing the Crown. Outside Camelot, propriety is expected and Merlin is determined to get it right, for Arthur's sake. When Lord Hillame's son turns out be a servant-bullying arse, Arthur finds himself caught within the bounds of propriety and Merlin is the one suffering the consequences.
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23 Sep 2025
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He can't explain it. One day, Arthur's swinging a mace at the boy with the big ears and red neckerchief and the next, he's tackling a man twice his size for having the audacity to look at Merlin wrong.
Or, Arthur protects Merlin over and over, falling a little more in love each time.
“You’re the only person in the world that I think really sees me Merlin.” Arthur confesses. "Forgive me then, for wishing harm on the people who would hurt you for just being who you are.”
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23 Sep 2025
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University of You by JessicaMDawn
Fandoms: 30歳まで童貞だと魔法使いになれるらしい | Cherry Magic! Thirty Years of Virginity Can Make You a Wizard?! (TV)
06 Feb 2024
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It's finals week in college and Kurosawa Yuichi thinks back on how he's fallen in love with the socially anxious artist in his business class—and considers finally confessing.
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- Part 5 of February Ficlet Challenge 2024
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21 Sep 2025
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And like the cycle of the year, we begin again by katherynefromphilly
Fandoms: Merlin (TV)
27 Nov 2016
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Set after the Merlin Series 5 Finale "Diamond of the Day".
Canon Compliant. In Character. Arthur Pendragon Returns.
Cover art by Lao-Pendragon------
For many long years Merlin waited.
For the other part of his soul, for the other half of his life. He was born to serve Arthur. So that meant he was also born to wait. Even if it took a thousand years. Even if the wait seemed never to end.
Until one day, suddenly, it did.
When Arthur stumbles from the Lake of Avalon 1,500 years after his death, he finds a world unlike the one he knew. Faced with the loss of everyone he loved, and the threat of impending prophecy, Arthur must learn what it means to be not just a king, but the Once and Future King. Merlin does all he can to guide him, even as he struggles to hide his love for his king, and his fear of losing him again.
Story includes sass, banter, horseplay, & True Love.
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- Part 1 of We Begin Again
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12 Sep 2025
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Neil Josten knows bad days. The Foxes know Neil’s bad days too, how he moves faster, talks less, and avoids every hand that reaches out. Today should’ve been like any other, but a rookie’s taunts and a slip of the tongue leave a truth hanging in the air that Neil never intended anyone to hear.
Andrew hears it anyway.
And when the truth comes out, the kind of truth Neil has spent years burying, Andrew refuses to let it stay buried.
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08 Sep 2025
