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Everything Leonora Rimini has ever loved she has always had to lose. Secrecy indefinitely postpones the altar she has always known awaits her. All sacrifices, like suffering, have their purposes. This is very simple. Ariane Feldt is not.
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- Part 2 of Sundered, Sunless
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In a time of mourning, Leonora's ghosts come to comfort her.
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Yellow-blue Vase by PrincessAutumnArcher (bittersweetling)
Fandoms: Chess - Rice/Ulvaeus/Andersson
27 Dec 2021
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"On the first day of class, we came into the room. There were only three of us. On his desk there was a yellow vase with blue flowers. He asked us what it was, and we said, 'Yellow blue vase,' of course. He said to us, 'That is almost "I love you" in Russian, and that is probably the most important phrase that I will teach you"
(quoted in "Vladimir Nabokov at Wellesley," Wellesley Alumnae Magazine, Summer, 1971)In 1994, Anatoly Sergievsky sends Frederick Trumper a Christmas card. In 1995, during the World Chess Championship, they meet in Manhattan for a match. In 1999, the century ends, and the American and the Russian are no longer rivals.
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Safety in Danger by PrincessAutumnArcher (bittersweetling) for VeronicaInBloom
Fandoms: 呪術廻戦 | Jujutsu Kaisen (Manga)
26 Dec 2021
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You've always been a bird in a gilded cage, guarded by the finest arms your father's fortune could purchase. Even covered in glittering jewels and gold, the bars keeping you from the world are still bars, and your brief, stolen glimpses of a life free from your father's restrictions only serve to make your yearning stronger.
You're a princess in an ivory tower, hands bound like a doll on display. And in saunters your new bodyguard with eyes like razors and a smirk like a battering ram. To say you're intrigued is a gross understatement. -
Irreconcilable Differences by PrincessAutumnArcher (bittersweetling)
Fandoms: Hetalia: Axis Powers
25 Sep 2021
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Ég és föld a különbség köztük.
The difference between them is like that between sky and earth.- Hungarian proverb
Erzsébet Héderváry and Roderich Edelstein were not a couple meant to last through the eons, yet their fingerprints linger on each other like smears on a windowpane. And even the most torrential rain cannot wash away something that is not a stain.
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In a war-torn kingdom facing wavering alliances against the growing threat of pirates, the royal family hides behind a mask that barely conceals their dysfunctional lives, including a rapidly destabilising marriage wracked by trauma and all other things that make humans human. The queen finds comfort in a mysterious newcomer to the palace, but secrets are woven thick in the fabric of court, and nothing is what it seems. If the kingdom is to survive, this game must not just be played, it must be won.
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King of the Rink by PrincessAutumnArcher (bittersweetling)
Fandoms: Yuri!!! on Ice (Anime)
06 Aug 2021
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You didn't always have a crush on Phichit Chulanont. Then you watched him leap up in joy, tears welling in his sparkly brown eyes, in the kiss-and-cry after he'd scored high enough to take Thailand to the World Figure Skating Championships—and boom, you'd been a certified PhiChu fan ever since.
You never expected to meet him in person, let alone skate with him. But life has a funny way of surprising you...
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All's Fair in Love and War by PrincessAutumnArcher (bittersweetling)
Fandoms: Marvel Cinematic Universe, The Avengers (Marvel Movies)
20 Jul 2021
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After Thanos is defeated, everything is different. Yet everything must carry on. For Dr. Stephen Strange, that means a return to protecting the multiverse from any potential threats and putting up with incessant research questions from a promising acolyte of the Mystic Arts who can't quite seem to stop meddling with things she shouldn't. Loki's sudden return from the dead sets off every alarm in the Sanctum despite Thor's assurances that his brother has truly repented, so a deal is brokered to allow Loki to stay on Earth, as long as he is under the supervision of someone from the Sanctum at all times. It surprises no one except Loki when Stephen's overzealous apprentice volunteers for the task, but a deal is a deal, and if anyone can handle the recently resurrected God of Mischief, it's her.
Stephen didn't exactly bargain on his apprentice becoming quite so integrated into the Avengers, let alone being sent on an undercover mission as Loki's wife. He's beginning to regret that deal.Series
- Part 1 of Once Upon a Trope
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10 Words and I am Yours by PrincessAutumnArcher (bittersweetling) for TheHangedMan317
Fandoms: Marvel Cinematic Universe, The Falcon and the Winter Soldier (TV)
30 Jun 2021
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There are two wolves inside him. One is the White Wolf. The other isn't actually a wolf. It's a soldier. A Winter Soldier, if you will.
And they feed on each other.Inspired by a joke during the plane scene in episode 3. You know the one.
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Blindfold by PrincessAutumnArcher (bittersweetling)
Fandoms: Marvel Cinematic Universe, The Avengers (Marvel Movies), Captain America (Movies)
05 Feb 2021
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In their line of work, attachments are dangerous. Bucky knows this; it took him long enough to start tentatively thinking of his team as family, let alone acknowledging it. So why is he drawn to the mouthy heir who keeps getting kidnapped for some nefarious plot or another?
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Karma (it's not me you want) by PrincessAutumnArcher (bittersweetling)
Fandoms: Marvel Cinematic Universe, The Avengers (Marvel Movies)
29 Jan 2021
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Better to have loved and lost than never loved at all.
Every day after the Snap was hard. Every day after the Blip was even harder: some people didn't come back. Wanda knows loss like an old friend, and she knows how to keep herself running.
Even after apprenticing with Strange and watching her life (literally) crumble into pieces around her, Cassandra hasn't learned all that yet, and Wanda proves to be quite the teacher. After all, even cruelty defines itself with kindness. -
Goats and Ghosts and Gorges by PrincessAutumnArcher (bittersweetling)
Fandoms: The Arcana (Visual Novel)
07 Oct 2020
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Summer is over and the Apprentice couldn't be more excited to return to Arcana University—but when they inadvertently become the prime suspect of a murder, their return to campus quickly turns into a quest to clear their name before it's too late.
Dark academia meets camp humor and thrills in PAA's high-energy whodunnit foray into the Arcana fandom. The Main Six are re-imagined as undergraduates whose lives entangle in the aftermath of a mysterious murder at Vesuvia House, Arcana U's most coveted residence.
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No Rest for the Wicked by PrincessAutumnArcher (bittersweetling)
Fandoms: Marvel Cinematic Universe, The Avengers (Marvel Movies), Thor (Movies)
14 Jun 2020
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Before he was Loki Friggason, celebrated actor and beloved husband, he was just your roommate's infuriating, cocky younger brother. No one said that a career as a critic of an ailing industry would be easy (as if taking on an apartment-mate out of necessity rather than ease didn't already make it clear), but Loki's arrival turns the performing arts world on its head—not to mention yours.
(Yes, this is connected/same Reader as Kiss It Better. No, I haven't planned this out at all. Yes, I have two other unfinished multi-chapter fics right now. Life is scary and writing indulgent AU drivel is how I copeeeee)
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- Part 2 of MCU Stage AU
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On the Wind by PrincessAutumnArcher (bittersweetling)
Fandoms: Marvel Cinematic Universe, Thor (Movies)
12 May 2020
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Since childhood, you've dreamt of glory and winning a place in Asgard's halls of legend, pledging your skill with a bow to the service of your kingdom despite the barriers in place against you, a village girl expected only to become a good wife and mother. Fantasies of joining Prince Thor on adventures for sport and defending Asgard alike kept you awake through childhood and you refuse to abandon the pursuit of recognition as a warrior, so when Odin offers membership into the Warriors Three to the winner of an archery tournament, the decision to disguise yourself as a man, sneak away from home in the dead of night, and enter under a false name is an easy one.
You had anticipated the danger associated with the risk of living a lie beneath the Allfather's nose. You should have anticipated the danger that the silver-tongued younger prince posed as well. His daggers are sharp, but so are his mind and tongue, and he wields them all with just as much skill. Secrets weave thick in the palace, and you are not the only one seeking something in return for a falsehood. Prince Loki may just be your undoing—or your salvation.
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Bring a Kiss to a Knife Fight by PrincessAutumnArcher (bittersweetling)
Fandoms: Marvel Cinematic Universe, The Avengers (Marvel Movies)
09 Apr 2020
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It started off as a playful debate between friends, and became a dare you couldn't resist. Now Loki's got you set on proving that a kiss does nothing in a knife fight...or does it?
{Same reader/AU as All's Fair in Love and War! Potentially canon before the events of All's Fair in Love and War. ;) }
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- Part 2 of Lokasenna
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"We were not intended for forever."
"Then why are you apologizing like we were?"In which Loki helps Thor mourn one last time.
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It's not like Lou had waited five years, eight months, and twelve days for Debbie Ocean. No, not at all, because Lou Miller had been waiting for Debbie long before her sentencing, before Claude Becker, before this heist, and the one before it, and the one before that one too.
Lou Miller has been waiting for Debbie Ocean to choose her back since the very moment that she'd chosen Debbie: suddenly but quite deliberately, after their first job together had filled Lou with an elation so intoxicating she was almost afraid. She's waited, silently and not-so-silently, for Debbie through friendship, through heists, through fights. She knows how things always turn out: she'll always be at Debbie's side, every step of the way. She just wants to know that Debbie will be by her side too. -
Kiss It Better by PrincessAutumnArcher (bittersweetling)
Fandoms: Marvel Cinematic Universe, The Avengers (Marvel Movies), Thor (Movies)
16 Jun 2019
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When Loki receives news of his nomination for an Academy Award, you're ecstatic. How could you not be? You've been by his side as Loki fought to rise in the cutthroat industry of cinema and you know he's poured himself into making sure his passion for acting burns star-bright. Yet all your happiness for your husband can't quell the jealousy festering in your heart after you bear witness to one unfortunate example of his exquisite acting skills.
There's just one thing left for Loki to do: kiss it better.A.k.a. the Actor!AU that nobody asked for but I insisted on delivering. Loki masquerading as Odin literally threw plays so he could sit around eating grapes and enjoying the fine arts, how could I not? Open for super fluff and a lot of kissing.
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- Part 1 of MCU Stage AU
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Lokasenna by PrincessAutumnArcher (bittersweetling)
Fandoms: Marvel Cinematic Universe, The Avengers (Marvel Movies), Thor (Movies)
10 Jun 2019
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Sometimes, a god needs to be fought. Other times, he needs to be worshipped.
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- Part 1 of Lokasenna
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"It has to look real."
"Then we'll make it real."
You had known him before Cairo, long before Jonathan Pine became Thomas Quince and Andrew Birch and laid down his life in the name of repenting his country from the sins of another. You had loved him before he left for Iraq, and during, and after, when he returned and left, taking a piece of your heart with him.Perhaps you should have known that you had lied to yourself about having stopped loving him before it suddenly mattered again, and in such a momentous way. But you hadn't, and with everything on the line, there's no time to question what is truth and what is fiction. You can only hope that after the performance of your life, the truth can emerge for the curtain call.
Roper mentions early on that Jonathan was married for six months, and his ex-wife is never mentioned again in the show. And thus, this fic was born.
Also known as "The One Where the Author Saw an Opportunity for a Reader Insert Without Breaking the Canon or Timeline of the Show, and Went For It" #noregrets