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Henry rips a golden thread from Hans’s doublet. In faint firelight, with clumsy blacksmith hands, he sews it into his glove.
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Sweet Mary's statue has no eyes. Henry cannot pray. Of life — as it is, and as it is not. -
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Hans can't just give in. No matter how his body itches to be splayed out like the boarskin under their feet.
“Win it, then," he says. "I brought dice."
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Henry and Hans get away. A hut in the woods, three days, and never enough time. Surrender is yearning's bastard son.Series
- Part 3 of Non-Scripta
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They say love's in your gut, syrupy sweet, but it turns out more of a burp you’ve got to hold in for life. How startlingly romantic.
“Can Bartosch swim?” Hans asks.
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After Suchdol, rest comes. A lesson in swimming, and another in love.Series
- Part 2 of Non-Scripta
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Harry flips the folder open. Inside, there lays only a small, handwritten note on dog-eared parchment.
Dear Harry Potter,
You are my soulmate.
Yours sincerely (literally, it pains me to say),
Draco Malfoy
“Why, Potter,” Malfoy says, leaning back in the chair, the mug raised to his mouth, “this is the worst day of your life.”
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Hope is what you find between the expected and the unexpected. -
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“You were right. When you said no one could be proud of me.”
Henry closes his eyes. The bed frame soaked up the fire's warmth, a compress pressed along his side. The flame sputters, cracks.
“I was angry. And I couldn’t have possibly meant it, when I know it’s not true.”
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Between the battles, Henry and Hans find time to talk, touch, and live.Series
- Part 1 of Non-Scripta
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Non-Scripta by blatantblue
Fandom Kingdom Come: Deliverance (Video Game), Kingdom Come: Deliverance (Video Games)
20 Feb 2025
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Pornstar Martini by blatantblue
Fandom Hazbin Hotel (Cartoon), Hazbin Hotel (Web Series)
26 Jan 2025
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HuskerDust love and struggles.
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Grasping at Billywigs by blatantblue
Fandom Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling, Hogwarts Legacy (Video Game)
27 Feb 2023
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12 things Erwin Smith learns about love.
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Bookmarked by blatantblue
15 Jun 2025
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This fic feels like pressing on a bruise, repeatedly. As a writer myself, I've long been trying to figure out what it is about calacreda that has me so enamoured with their fics. I figured it out on this re-read.
Both Levi's and Erwin’s characterisations are so human and fiercely emotional in the world where there's no space to be either. This fic dives into Erwin's head and leaves you breathless from the trip. It knows exactly what to say and what to omit. Every interaction had me shaking, because the characters' responses are so uniquely them that nothing needs to be explicitly stated. The unsaid hurts. Not that the said doesn't, don't get me wrong.
Bring tissues.
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I’ll tell them put me back in it (and I would do it again) by paleredheadinascifi
Fandoms: 9-1-1 (TV)
04 Feb 2025
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Eddiaz is listening to the slowburn friends to lovers playlist
Eddiaz listened to the POV you’re falling in love with your best friend playlist
Eddiaz listened to the sad gay yearning hours playlist
Eddiaz listened to the he was my best friend and that was the worst part playlistOr, Eddie doesn't know how to make his listening history private. Buck doesn't know what to do with the words in front of his eyes. Chris cannot believe he has to deal with either of them.
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Bookmarked by blatantblue
12 May 2025
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My face hurts from grinning like an idiot. It's so simple and silly, and like drinking hot cocoa. The ultimate comfort.
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Never Like This by Faith Wood (faithwood)
Fandoms: Marvel Cinematic Universe, Captain America (Movies)
02 Aug 2021
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The Winter Soldier thrashed, drowning. It was taking forever. His mask seemed to be stuck. He pulled on it, struggling to draw breath, sinking and resurfacing, clawing at his face, the panic in his eyes terrible.
Steve's would-be killer. The very worst HYDRA had ever conjured. A symbol of death and everything he stood against. And Steve just couldn't bear it. He was ready to go, but this guy clearly wasn't.
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The premise: the Winter Soldier's mask doesn't come off quite as easily. Meaning, Steve never saw Bucky's face, and he didn't hold back during the fight on the Helicarrier. This is where the story picks up and is no longer canon-compliant. Though, I've stolen some ideas from the sequels and deliberately contradicted some future plot points/established canon.COMPLETED
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Bookmarked by blatantblue
28 Apr 2025
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Obviously it was going to be perfect. And obviously it was. For the post Winter Soldier, Bucky recovery fic, I haven't found anything else that hits the spot quite like this one. The build up and the tension was so sweet, the best kind of pain. And the pay off! Buck learning to set boundaries and looking so hard for himself with Natasha's help had me re-reading paragraphs dozens of times. The dialogue here is God-tier, and so is the deep dive into Steve's inner turmoil. And when Buck and Steve finally find themselves, and discover they're different and irreversibly changed, and yet exactly who they want themselves and wach other to be... Again, perfection.
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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.
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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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Bookmarked by blatantblue
26 Apr 2025
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This was great fun, perfect and lighthearted. It'd make the perfect romantic comedy, from the delicious tension to tear-wrenching family healing. Also, I'm hungry for some cardamom buns.
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When the Rose and the Fire Are One by perverse_idyll
Fandoms: Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling
28 Jan 2010
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Harry's haunted by guilt. Snape's warded by roses. Each must free the other in order to free himself.
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Bookmarked by blatantblue
26 Apr 2025
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If you ever need a reason to remind yourself why you love fanfic, why you read these love stories about the same characters getting together over and over again, read this.
There are stories that go beyond literature, beyond being beautifully written, beyond wonderful characterisation and gripping dialogue, and some of the smoothest smut there is.
This story is all of the above, but it doesn't even matter. It doesn't matter it's a 10/10 in all scores. This is a story about what love is, and most of all about what love isn't, and it will stay with me forever. The ultimate tale of sacrifice, and guilt, and sorrow so deep you can't ever touch it. And hope.