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  1. Rec 22

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    Nawfal stops at the doorway. “I did mean it, Arzu,” he says. “You must take the throne.”

    “Is this kingdom’s rulers cursed with madness or what,” you ask the air when he’s gone.

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    30 Nov 2025

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    Just some info I've gathered over the past couple of weeks, about how to:
    1. Block tags using Site Skins, block only fics that contain both tag A and tag B, and block fics with a tag that contains a certain phrase, unless they are a specific whitelisted tag
    2. Highlight the tags in pretty colors! Or bold, or hide them!
    3. Block mega-crossovers with a million different fandoms
    4. Select for/block fics that are completed/rated something/have a certain category/don't have summaries
    5. Block everything that doesn't have a certain tag, or one of a list of tags
    6. Block orphan_account and tag block by author
    7. Block only tags of specific types (fandoms, relationships, freeforms, etc.)
    8. Block fics focused on original characters, and/or fics without any tags of a specific type
    9. Block every pairing with two characters in it—case insensitive, any order, no matter how many other people are also in the tag
    10. Block by number of tags

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    31 Aug 2025

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    Jason had to make a choice.

    Enact his vengeance by killing the Joker himself.
    Or
    Forget Gotham and stay with Talia.

    However, there was an option C.
    One that could end with the Joker dead, with Bruce proven wrong and with Gotham changed for the better.

    Jason took Gotham to court.

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    21 Jul 2024

  4. Rec 57

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    “I recently travelled to the rarely explored parts of Balkan,” Orion said as he opened the heavy iron door of their storage space, “Corinthia, to be more exact. I was lucky enough to acquire these artefacts on my trip there. Lately I’ve been fascinated by the folklore of Elysian Fields, Hades, and whatnot. You see, it is believed that there is a river, known as the River Styx, located somewhere in the inscrutable rural areas of the Balkan. This river once had a gatekeeper, a sort of a—a ferryman, if you will, that traveled between the land of the living and that of the dead. This river between, the Styx, divided those two worlds from each other. I’ve wanted to visit that river ever since I was a little boy… To prove that it existed.”

    “Ah, yes,” the Dark Lord declared slowly. “The Infernal River and its astonishing capabilities. ‘Bathe in the river, become immortal.’ A Muggle lore, that one, is it not?”

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    29 Dec 2023

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    Contrary to popular belief, Damian Wayne was keenly aware of all of his flaws. His entire life had been about improving, about becoming the best version of himself possible, and how could he possibly do that without meticulously recording, indexing, and attempting to correct every single one of his weaknesses? 

    Not all flaws, however, were so easy to fix. Frankly, he wasn’t even sure if they could be fixed.

    or: the irrational rationalizations of a deeply traumatized fourteen-year-old child soldier, and the secret that just might crumble his ramshackle psyche for good

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    28 Nov 2023