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Her thoughts, in order, are as follows:
1. This isn’t a great time to be doing performance art, considering how few people are around.
2. This is not performance art, and in fact appears to be somebody having an even more miserable night than her.
3. This is Dan Humphrey.
It’s the final thought that jolts her into action. She picks up the pace as well as she can in her pumps, and as she draws nearer to the all-but-nude form tied to a pillar, a sense of nausea settles in her gut.
Dan is only wearing underwear, even his socks missing, and his bare feet shift uncomfortably on the concrete. He has a very slim waist, she notices, and hates herself for the observation.
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28 Mar 2025
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Cat Among the Pixies by colonelmoran
Fandoms: Poirot - Agatha Christie, Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling
14 Mar 2025
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When strange attacks disrupt the life of an exclusive British boarding school, one plucky school girl decides to place the facts before the world's greatest detective, Hercule Poirot. But this is no ordinary school, but a school of witchcraft and wizardry, and Monsieur Poirot will need all his wits about him if he is to apprehend the Heir of Slytherin!
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14 Mar 2025
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Josh won’t give up until he puts his guy into the Oval Office, or until he dies trying.
Donna is afraid it might be the latter.
See, there are a few things that Santos campaign has going for it, but there are many, many things that the Santos campaign lacks. One of those things, Donna comes to find out, is health insurance.
While on the primary campaign trail, Donna finds out what exactly Josh is giving up to run the Santos campaign and proposes a bold solution: marriage.
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17 Jul 2024
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Pursue Your Facile Pleasures by QueenBoudica, TigressinCreamSilk
Fandoms: Doctor Who (2005), Doctor Who
08 Jun 2024
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Rogue finds a way out. The Doctor finds a way to Rogue. (And they both say hello to some familiar faces while they’re there.)
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09 Jun 2024
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“Steve?” Eddie interrupts again. Steve casts a glance in his direction, but Eddie is looking past him at the television with hazy eyes.
“Yeah, I’m here.” Steve jostles his foot gently and gestures for the doctor to continue talking about fluid levels. By fluid, he’s pretty sure she just means blood. The blood that Eddie was coughing up, he figures. It had to go somewhere, so they must’ve drained it the same way they drained all the leaking air from Max’s lung. Maybe. He hopes Eddie’s uncle gets this stuff better than he does.
“Don’t you live in Loch Nora?” Eddie asks just as the doctor is opening her mouth to speak again. Steve builds up to a sigh, unsure how exactly to tell Eddie to shut up when it’s not even his fault that he can’t, before he realizes Eddie’s gaze is still glued to the TV.
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- 9/9
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03 Jan 2024
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Being a chronicle of the twelve missing years between the deaths of the Potters and Remus Lupin's return to Hogwarts.
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09 Aug 2023
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you live/you learn/you love/you're dead by carolinaa
Fandoms: 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia
08 May 2020
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Two minutes pass before Aizawa taps Midoriya’s face and Midoriya doesn’t respond in the slightest. They don’t have time to wait any longer.
Aizawa looks up at Todoroki, and tries to say with the least amount of callousness possible, “He won’t make it until the medical team gets here.”
Todoroki’s breath hitches, but his voice is still hard when he insists, “Yes he will.”
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12 Apr 2023
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The Fall of Heroes by LadyQuinnzell
Fandoms: Original Work, superhero world, Mutants and Masterminds
13 Aug 2023
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A hero falls into a trap, and the villain is only too pleased about it.
WARNING- Somewhat slow burn to explicit content!Bookmarked by erstwhile
03 Apr 2023
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Caleb Canto moved to Askazer-Shivadlakia to live a quiet life, teaching music at a local school and writing pop songs on the side. The country is friendly to trans people, and the school is understanding of his desire to be kinder to the "different" kids than his own teachers were to him. What Caleb did not expect was that a song he wrote would be entered into the Shivadh National Final for Eurovision, or that he would be pulled inexorably into Eurovision and the orbit of the Shivadh royal family. On top of all that, he's managed to annoy UK rep Buck Havard, a bad boy with big ambitions, who nevertheless follows him home to Askazer-Shivadlakia, claiming he needs peace and quiet to write his next album.
Buck desperately wants to win Eurovision and Caleb desperately wants to avoid the same fate, but it's not entirely in their hands...
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- Part 6 of The Shivadhverse
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- 85,068
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- 13/13
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24 Jan 2023
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"Are you going for the course?" Lovegood asked. "You have the NEWTs.”
“What course?” Draco said, then, “No, don’t be ridiculous,” when he realized she meant the notice pinned up on the board he’d been staring at: Applicants To The Introductory Mediwizard Course For The Coming Term Shall Present Themselves In The Chief Mediwizard’s Office By August 24th.
“Oh, I thought you might,” she said. “Well, goodbye.” And off she wandered again in her addled way.
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- Part 12 of Harry Potter works
- Part 3 of Astolat Sampler
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17 Oct 2022
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Let's Stop The Time Warp (Again) by lettered
Fandoms: The Avengers (2012), Marvel Cinematic Universe, Marvel (Movies)
17 Feb 2013
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Steve Rogers has to live the same day over and over. Bruce, Tony, Pepper, Jane, and Thor try to help him. Then things go from bad to worse.
This story includes, but isn't limited to: Bruce and Tony bonding over science, Bruce and Jane bonding over aliens in outerspace, Steve being a Big Damn Hero, Pepper being rather freakishly efficient, Tony talking about sex a lot, action, gore, a world gone wild, Bruce Banner tending wounds, Darcy Lewis doing PR, Pepper's mother, T'Challa, racebent!Janet, racebent!Pym, Lt. Col James "Rhodey" Rhodes, Clint being incompetent with girls, Natasha being a Big Damn Hero, angry mobs, evil corporations, crazy physics shenanigans, and Bill Murray.
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- Part 5 of Responsible Science
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- English
- Words:
- 113,146
- Chapters:
- 12/12
- Comments:
- 650
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- 1,294
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07 Aug 2022
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“Ladies and gentlemen of the jury,” Peggy says, “These are the times that try men’s souls.”
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- Part 3 of Not Easily Conquered
- Language:
- English
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- 46,467
- Chapters:
- 2/2
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- 10
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- 1,480
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- 282,559
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02 Jul 2022
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On the day before Ba Sing Se falls, Katara decides two things: 1) not to stop for a cup of tea; 2) consequently, the fate of the world.
Behind the walls, Zuko loses sleep, runs errands, contemplates treason, and drinks a lot of hot leaf juice—not necessarily in that order.
- Language:
- English
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- Chapters:
- 10/10
- Collections:
- 19
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- 1,907
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16 Jun 2022
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Sokka’s ready for everything. He’s got his gear. He’s got his tickets. Nothing can shake him, the best-prepared spectator at the 2020 Olympic Games...
Until he meets Lee, a young dancer with a strange knack for broadswords, and they fall into a game all their own.
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- 20,531
- Chapters:
- 4/4
- Collections:
- 6
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- 377
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14 Jun 2022
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(do you take this jerk to be) your one and only by jatersade
Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender
28 Dec 2020
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Under the leadership of Fire Lord Iroh, the Fire Nation has made every attempt to restore peace and make amends for the harm they inflicted during the Seventy-Year War. Their newest proposal is a literal proposal: a marriage to unite the Fire Nation and the Water Tribes.
The Fire Nation offers Prince Zuko’s hand.
The Water Tribes offer Princess Yue’s.
Sokka is apparently the only person in the world who has a problem with any of this.
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- English
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- 55,843
- Chapters:
- 10/10
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- 2,997
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11 Jun 2022
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At Sokka’s behest, the Gaang skips rescuing Zuko during the Siege at the North Pole. Instead they leave him, unconscious, buried in the snow.
In completely unrelated news, Sokka’s haunted by a ghost now.
(If you'd like more details before deciding to read this story, look here for spoilers.)
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 67,555
- Chapters:
- 14/14
- Collections:
- 65
- Comments:
- 3,886
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10 Jun 2022
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Hopper sighs. An hour ago he was watching blood gush out of Steve Harrington’s leg in rivers, so this isn’t even the worst case scenario of the night.
“Look, kid, your dad is an asshole.”
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- 6,884
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- 1/1
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- 4
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- 124
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07 Jun 2022
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It’s not unheard of to make people from real life appear in the game. But it’s always obvious, both to Mike and the rest of them, and at that person’s expense. Never once has Mike included someone they actually like. Never once has Mike called someone they know, a guy they know, handsome.
The fact that it’s Steve makes this doubly shocking.
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- 4,016
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- 1/1
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06 Jun 2022
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Jonathan has a nice voice. It’s deep, but never booming. It’s just kind and gentle, sometimes teasing and cynical but very rarely cruel. Steve clings to it like a life preserver.
“Hey, man,” Steve says, and it sounds so far from casual that he has to laugh a little bit. “Sorry to bother you. It's not… I didn't mean to bother you. You don’t have to do anything.”
“Don’t do that,” Jonathan says. His gentle voice sounds tinny coming through the walkie’s speaker.
“Do what?”
“Pull away when you need help.”
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06 Jun 2022
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(“You’re not sleeping,” Mai says softly.
“How’d you know?” Zuko asks.To be honest, he’s kind of gotten to the point where he’s surprised that anyone can perceive him outside of his necessary functions- he exists solely to sit in council meetings and shoulder the blame for genocides and famines and the suffering of one-hundred years. Doesn’t he?)
The war is over, but the fallout is just beginning. And where lightning strikes, thunder is bound to follow.
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 22,035
- Chapters:
- 4/4
- Comments:
- 316
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06 Jun 2022