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Thirty-Two Rejection Letters by jarofbeees
Fandoms: Life is Strange (Video Game), Love is Strange - Fandom
25 Jun 2017
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Max reaches the end of her two years at Blackwell and she's quickly running out of post-graduation options. Chloe and Rachel have left to Los Angeles. Kate has taken a job in Seattle. When her last offer comes back with a internship in LA, Max begrudgingly accepts, at the risk of dredging up old wounds from her damaged friendship with Chloe. However, on the first day of her new job, the most unexpected person happens to share office space with her.
(Set in Love is Strange-esque AU, No Death, No dark room, No time travel) Includes some themes of depression/mental health issues and struggles with friendships.
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22 Oct 2025
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Find All the Children Again by BlueMars5900
Fandoms: Life is Strange (Video Games 2015 2017 2024)
17 Oct 2025
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Ten years after the devastating events in Arcadia Bay, Max Caulfield is looking to put the past behind. Max, having once wielded powers of time and space, now lives a quiet life in Vermont with her girlfriend, Chloe Price, teaching photography at Caledon University. With new friends, Safi Llewellyn-Fayyad and Moses Murphy, Max believes she's finally healing. But when a mysterious disappearance pulls Max and Chloe back into a supernatural realm they thought they'd left behind, they find themselves caught in a web of escalating powers and hidden truths that threaten to shatter their new lives.
This story is now complete.
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22 Oct 2025
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Second Chances by Some_RandomWriter
Fandoms: Life is Strange (Video Games 2015 2017 2024)
27 Oct 2025
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It had only been a few weeks after everything at Caledon. The shooting, the storm, Safi’s bizarre powers…yet Max couldn’t help but wonder if things could truly go back to normal.
Normal is far from what Max is used to though, and it’ll be the farthest thing she’ll be able to achieve when a certain girl comes back into her life.Bookmarked by darwinsm
22 Oct 2025
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Ava is in love with Beatrice. Beatrice is in love with Ava. But while Beatrice is bound by vows, and knotted up in her own hangups that keep her from acting on her feelings, Ava is a selfish, stubborn girl who knows what she wants and can’t bear not to have it any longer.
She just needs to get Beatrice to reach out and take it.
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14 Sep 2025
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Starving artist Ava Silva dumps her boyfriend, packs her bags, and swaps the grit and glamour of London for the rugged isolation of rural Scotland. She's looking for peace.
She finds a hot postwoman instead.
Or, the mail carrier AU.
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14 Sep 2025
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But clearly it seemed that Bobby had in fact lost the last of his precious marbles, despite what anyone else might have had thought.
Because on the very top of the page, right under the title and terms were two names, printed in big, black and bold letters. A weird font which Rumi immediately recognizes as from the other documents that Bobby has made.
Rumi & Mira.
Rumi and Mira. Mira and Rumi. If there were times in which Rumi could choose for the ground to open up and swallow her whole, this would probably be one of them.
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Rumi and Mira are the top of their class and both of them apply for a case study in their psychology class for their own respective reasons. Only, as it turns out, both of them get paired together for the roommate experiment. Backing out is not an option anymore.. and it seems that somehow they'll have to get along without trying to actively smother each other.
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17 Aug 2025
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Rumi is sexually frustrated thanks to her secret patterns. She has never taken a partner, ever, so she can keep them a secret. Well the other girls don't have the same setbacks and have taken each other... on the couch... in their shared living room. Years of build up and controlling herself all break down when Rumi accidentally ends up kissing Mira.
It will destroy their whole group, their relationship, everything. Rumi has to keep it a secret and Mira is willing to help.
But...
Mira knows damn well Zoey will be fine with her kissing Rumi. Rumi doesn't know that their relationship is an open one. She is only playing along to see what Rumi will do about this big secret and in the process she discovers another one. A much bigger secret that she refuses to tell them about, even though it might mean getting what she wants most... them.
To get that big secret out of Rumi, the two hatch an evil plan to use Rumi's sexual frustration as a crowbar to pry what it is out of her. They will only do what she lets them do, but not all of what she wants them to do.
Or- before the events of the movie, Zoey and Mira try to make Rumi reveal her secret through sex.
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17 Aug 2025
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He felt her before he saw her, a thrum in the air as the barrier’s strings rippled out, a sense of wrong filling his body. It was strange, feeling the ingrained wariness of a Hunter clash with the innate safety from a demons presence within the same being.
And then he saw her.
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Derpy sees Rumi and decides to adopt her like a stray while Sussie pecks at him
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17 Aug 2025
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Raised by Celine, her mentor and
figure of power, Rumi was shaped
from childhood to become the
perfect idol and a relentless hunter.
However, behind the spotlights and
flawless choreography lies a routine
of control, silence, and scars that
can’t be covered with makeup.At twenty-three, Rumi doesn’t know the
taste of freedom, but she knows the
taste of iron in her mouth, the acid
burning in her throat, and the gentle
words that cut deeper than a blade.
No one knows the truth. Not Mira,
nor Zoey, who believe Rumi is a
star destined for greatness. No one
sees what she hides beneath her
long sleeves.Bookmarked by darwinsm
17 Aug 2025
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Ordinary places and days full of warmth - that was life for Mira and Zoey. At least until a new girl stepped into their life. She brought the hope of something new, something grounded, and something they didn't know how to name. Rumi felt like she was a world away from connecting with people. She'd given up the thought that someone would see through her and accept every part of her, but two unexpected strangers begin to give her something she thought she'd never know - hope of understanding, of acceptance, and maybe something else.
The strings of fate wove a curiosity, a connection, a spark, and a feeling that left its patterns on all the girls' lives. As their paths began to merge, they were thrown off course when a truth once hidden was torn from its thinned veil. Can they navigate the newfound knowledge before they unravel the strings that brought them together?
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Rumi is a new student at the university Mira and Zoey attend who hides a secret. A connection formed between them as they are drawn to each other. Their occult club grows as Rumi joins them, but fate had other plans for the one hiding. A summoning spell goes wrong - or right - and reveals the truth.
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17 Aug 2025
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strangers passing through by Axin_Nite
Fandoms: Hawkeye (TV 2021), Black Widow (Movie 2021), Marvel Cinematic Universe, Thunderbolts (Movie 2025)
20 Apr 2025
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The vampire taps on the glass.
“Are you not feeling brave today?” she asks, glancing at her with a sharp look.
“I’m always brave.”
Kate smirked, “... Prove it.”OR
Kate becomes a vampire, she periodically visits a tormented Yelena.
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- Part 1 of don't sink in me with your dog teeth
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02 Jul 2025
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What if Mary didn't get to Lilith quickly enough at the end of 1x05 and Lilith actually cut the Halo out of Ava's back? What if the Tarask takes Ava instead of Lilith to Reya's realm but leaves the Halo behind, making Lilith the Warrior Nun? What if Ava comes back the way Lilith did?
Or: Role reversal AU, diverging at the end of 1x05.
Heed the tags, please!
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- Part 32 of AU-gust 2023
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15 May 2025
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As the season nears its end, Beatrice finds herself in an intense and fierce fight with her rival Lillith, who is only six points ahead of her in the championship battle. With tensions running high in this turbulent season, every race becomes more crucial than the last. Will Beatrice continue her winning streak, clinch her sixth title? Or will a different story unfold for her?
On top of this emotional rollercoaster—there’s also the growing tension between her and Ava, the deputy team principal of the third team, and it seems to constantly rise. Their bickering is escalating for reasons Beatrice cannot quite understand.Now, with emotions nearly boiling over, overheating, a sense of hope slipping away, and mixed feelings rising, how will the season end? Who will take the crown? Questions upon questions, to the point that they’ve expanded to the next season too. Where does Beatrice see herself in the future? And how will the situation unfold between the two unofficial rivals, Beatrice and Ava, both on and off the track?
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or avatrice in f1 world
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15 May 2025
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Ava comes to a halt, the players following behind their captain do so as well. “Okay, what is the lacrosse team doing on our field?”
To answer her question, Yasmine runs up to their pack frantically waving a clipboard in the air. “The school cut our team!”
“Wait what?!” they all shout in unison.
“Not enough betas or omegas signed up.”
Ava scoffs, snatching the board from her grasp to read the announcement. “What, so they just cut us?”
“They can’t do that!” Chanel argues next her side.
And her tall, beautiful friend was right. The school had no right to cut their soccer team.
Ava squares her jaw before growling, “This is not over.”
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or an Avatrice A/B/O alternate take on the cult classic, She’s the Man (2006)
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15 May 2025
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Beatrice Young is used to being invisible—until she’s not. At Belgrave Academy, a prestigious school where appearances matter more than truth, she’s the quiet girl with the sharp mind and the permanent target on her back. Ice-cold coffee down her shirt is routine. So is Ava Silva’s smirk.
Ava is everything Beatrice isn’t: admired, confident, untouchable. But when a rumor surfaces about Beatrice and Ava’s boyfriend, JC, a fragile balance shatters. Suddenly, Ava is watching her too closely, speaking too sharply, standing too near. And Beatrice can’t tell if she’s being warned—or studied.
As the weeks unfold, Beatrice finds herself tangled in more than just hallway politics. Glee Club becomes her unexpected refuge, a place where voices matter more than status. But nothing stays untouched for long—not with Ava lurking in every shadow, not with secrets layered beneath every cruel smile.
In a world where kindness is currency and cruelty is performance, Beatrice must decide what’s worth holding onto—and what she’s finally ready to push back against.
Glee AU
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15 May 2025
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Beatrice left the Cat’s Cradle ten days after Ava disappeared. She wasn’t angry—just broken in a way that couldn’t stay. For a year, she tried to live the life Ava asked of her: studying, surviving, learning how to breathe without her.
Now, she returns quietly for the holidays. No announcement. No expectations. Just a need to see the people who once held her together.
But when she arrives, something’s wrong. The air is too still. The silences too full.
And when Ava walks onto the training field—alive, changed, and already home—Beatrice realizes the truth:
She wasn’t just grieving Ava’s death.
She was grieving her place in Ava’s world.Bookmarked by darwinsm
15 May 2025
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Ava Silva is an A-list actress, she loves her job and mostly loves her life, and when things aren’t so great she can always turn to her favorite books. For ten years now, she has spent countless nights chasing away stress and nightmares with Rebecca Summers’ books. She dreams of nothing more than to one day meet the woman whose words have made her feel more than anyone ever has, but Rebecca Summers is nothing more than a nom de plume for the most secret and mysterious author on the planet.
Still, when Ava is offered the role of one of Rebecca’s characters she is determined to meet the woman, instead all she gets is type-A movie consultant Beatrice Young, who is nothing more than Rebecca’s annoying and slightly socially awkward assistant.Bookmarked by darwinsm
15 May 2025
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Ava Silva is a bartender who has no idea how to pole dance, but she's determined to learn how to celebrate the things her body has always wanted to do.
Beatrice Young is a former ballerina who can't bear to truly be herself onstage, even when that stage is a strip club where she earns only meager tips despite her talent.
Life at the Cat's Cradle Cabaret will never be the same.
~There’s something intoxicating about this matter of dance—she always suspected as much, and it’s immensely rewarding to find out she’s right—and as the song continues Ava realizes she’s feinting towards something like bravery. She spent so many years imagining herself in motion, fantasizing shamelessly about the lines and curves she could make, the graceful and emotional and shocking and evocative things she could say with her body.
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20 Feb 2025
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"Kate Bishop." Kate fell silent as Melina cut her off, something that she had gradually gotten used to the longer she had spent around Melina's daughter. Kate Bishop was not a patient person, but as the panic set in, she forced herself to wait. When Melina didn't start speaking again, Kate felt the desperation wash over her.
"Please…"
"Yelena is dead."
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A very not-dead Yelena needs to get back to her girlfriend before Kate's grief drives her to do something no one can save her from.
Kate Bishop's Ronin arc
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05 Feb 2025
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set during seasons 6 & 7 - Buffy tackles her depression through a series of phone calls to a crisis hotline, but finds that the only person she can really talk to is another Slayer. Buffy/Faith friendship. Some Slayer-angst (per request), but mostly a discussion of depression. This fic doesn't presume that Buffy's depression just disappears at the end of S6, but rather lingers with her through S7 and beyond.
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- English
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- 2,068
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- 1/1
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11 Jan 2025