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Ten years ago, Remus Lupin met a homophobic idiot with a talent for being shirtless. Yes, he’s the most beautiful thing Remus has ever seen. No, Remus is absolutely not going to waste his life thinking about that pampered posh bastard.
Sirius Black, meanwhile, can’t understand why Cambridge’s weed dealer seems to hate him on sight. For the first time in history, he’s met someone immune to his smile - and Sirius has never reacted well to the word no.
A non-linear fic about class, prejudice and pride (no Austen involved), and the terrifying quiet after a joke when you realise no one was laughing. (Or: Wolfstar finally communicate. It’s a disaster in the best possible way)
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02 Jun 2026
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It’s something he hasn’t done before, Sirius thinks, trying to fix what was never quite broken. And perhaps it’s that Remus and he had come to the new house still not put to rights. Or perhaps it’s that Sirius had, in some small way, convinced himself that they would’ve been by now.
In which there is a break-up, a radio, a gay bar -
and learning to love again.
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20 Apr 2026
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Fuck, this is what he needs, isn't it?
This will fix it. This will make it all better. This will make him slightly more human.
"Make me forget. Make me forget all of it. Magic, Hogwarts, the war." Him. "Just make me forget, please."
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Remus makes Dumbledore oblivate him after Halloween 1981, moves to a farm in Wales and starts a new life. It's all going great until a mysterious man in Azkaban robes turns up on his porch door seven years later.
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31 Mar 2026
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Sirius Black is nineteen when he finds out Remus Lupin has been recruited into the Order, and he hates him. He hates him. Doesn't matter if he hasn't seen him in years, or what he believed then, or what kind of person he is. He hates him.
Remus Lupin is eleven when he meets Sirius Black on the Hogwarts Express, and he loves him. He loves him. Doesn't matter if his life has changed, or that it kept changing for a lot after that too, or what kind of person he became. He loves him.
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Remus and Sirius reunite in the Order three years after the fall-out that has ruined both of their lives. Time jumps back and forth between a young, innocent Remus narrating from the very start, and an older, bitter Sirius during the early years of the war, as both of them try to learn how to exist around each other without burning down.
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23 Jan 2026
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When he was seventeen, Remus Lupin watched a boy dance at the Prix de Lausanne, and fell rather tragically in love. Six years later, and working as rehabilitation coach at the Fidelius Ballett, Remus has long since contented himself with watching Sirius Black from side-stage.
Only, when Sirius is injured mere weeks before his principal debut, Remus finds himself abruptly yanked from his place in the wings, and thrust centre stage, right into the star-bright spotlight of Sirius’ life.
Remus doesn’t see it exactly, too enraptured as he is by Sirius’ face, but he hears it. A harsh pop! that echoes unbidden ghosts of pain in his mind, sends discordance clanging down every xylophone-rung of his spine, his entire skeleton reverberating with each chilling strike. Frozen, Remus watches as that face—that beautiful face—drops its grin, turns paper-white, and then Sirius is on the floor.
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- Part 1 of In the Wings
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14 Jan 2026
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It was then that Sirius Black realized he had spent the entirety of his life thus far submerged underwater, a slow and painful suffocation that had carried on for so long he hadn't even realized he was drowning. Not until Remus Lupin showed him what it was like to truly breathe.
Slytherin Sirius AU
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16 Oct 2025
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just like a stupid fucking tapeworm by orphan_account for alephnull
Fandoms: Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling
09 Jun 2021
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“I don’t know,” Remus whispers. “I missed you. And I wish I hadn’t. I wish I didn’t. I wish you’d died. I wish I could kill you myself.”
“Makes two of us,” Sirius says. His hand on his throat tightens until it’s painful. “We could.”
“But we won’t.”
Sirius presses harder, thumb carving into his airway. “But we could.”
Remus makes a choked noise. He grabs a fistful of Sirius’ hair and tugs, trying to pull him off. “Let— go—”
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27 Aug 2025
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When Remus can’t get over his lifelong crush on his best friend Sirius, they devise a set of rules which they both must obey—so they can still be friends while Remus gets over Sirius. What could go wrong?
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Remus’s first semester at university is eventful; too many exams to study for, divorced lecturers, missing roommates, and a contract with Sirius which neither of them can really seem to follow...
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08 Jul 2025
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Mystery Work
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This is part of an ongoing challenge and will be revealed soon!
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08 Jul 2025
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"I always hoped we would meet again under better circumstances..." The man's voice echoed off the factory walls, his accent thick and painfully familiar. His eyes bright and purple from the shimmer glow. "Jayce..."
Jayce felt his heart stop. A hurricane of emotions swept through his mind. Freezing his thoughts. Stopping his breathing like a spear in his chest. He couldn't even hear the commotion behind him. Caitlyn's voice. The sound of loaded weapons. His eyes widened at the sight of the man in front of him, the one he thought he'd never see again.
"...Viktor?"
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An alternate universe where Jayce and Viktor's paths diverged long ago.
Convinced they would never see each other again, they continued to work in hextech on their own, Jayce as Piltover's Man of Progress and Viktor under Silco's protection.
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03 Feb 2025
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The Spy by PitchRaven
Fandoms: Arcane: League of Legends (Cartoon 2021), League of Legends
31 Jan 2026
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Viktor’s eyes narrowed. "Do you have any idea what you’re getting yourself into?" His lips burned from their kiss.
Jayce smiled, unfazed. "I don’t, but that’s never stopped me before."
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In 1952s America, Viktor, a brilliant Soviet doctor secretly working for the KGB, faces the harsh realities of the Red Scare and his hidden sexuality.The desire to do good and help others is no longer enough to make up for the ostracization and loneliness he constantly feels, and even locking everything inside is no longer enough to cope. When Dr. Jayce Talis,the darling of Harvard’s medical department offers a collaboration, Viktor only hopes it won’t backfire.He doesn’t expect it to lead him to learn how to navigate a world with color and warmth...
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26 Jan 2025
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Je t'ai toujours aimée by thelibraryofbabel
Fandoms: Arcane: League of Legends (Cartoon 2021)
02 Feb 2025
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After almost two years of radio silence, Jayce Talis runs into Viktor at a highschool reunion, and he forgets for just a second the reason they separated in the first place.
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03 Jan 2025
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The Distinct Difference Between Gone And Buried by BreadMillennial
Fandoms: Arcane: League of Legends (Cartoon 2021)
22 Feb 2025
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Viktor didn't die in the bombing; perhaps it would have been better if he did.
He didn’t die when the council and his partner alike cast him back to Zaun; perhaps it would have been better if he did.
Soon, his body would kill him, and all those above would sigh a breath of relief.
To live when no one wishes it, one only needs a purpose, a drive, a mission. The bottom of the world is simply a place to find one.
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21 Dec 2024
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Jayce rubs his temples, glancing between the different diagrams of the anomaly. “Right, just to clarify: you’re saying that a version of me from the future appeared, destroyed our lab, tried to kill you and then demanded you blow up the Hexgates. And you actually want to do it. Am I missing anything?”
Viktor hesitates, before throwing caution to the wind. Unreserved honesty will prevent any miscommunication later. “You also kissed me.”
Jayce’s head whips around. “I— What?”
“You - he - kissed me. And…” Viktor trails off, gesturing vaguely - uncertain of how much he should reveal. He’s always seen sex rather candidly, never understanding Piltover’s insistence on maintaining taboo; but out of consideration for Jayce, it seems polite to keep the details to himself.
His hand motion must convey more than enough. Jayce flushes from the crown of his head to his Adam’s apple, and buries his face in his hands.
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19 Dec 2024
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The Gravity of Choice by sinsandsinners
Fandoms: Arcane: League of Legends (Cartoon 2021)
11 Apr 2025
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“We cannot indulge this idea. You cannot indulge it, Jayce. Using Hextech this way means war. Catastrophic casualties that are unpredictable.”
And Jayce, his stupid partner, had squeezed his hand, hazel eyes searching Viktor’s and he had smiled, small and melancholic.
“We don’t have any other choice.”–or–
Leaving his former life at the academy behind, Viktor follows down a darker path – seeking to return to his Undercity origins once more. Different choices make different men. For better or for worse…
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19 Dec 2024
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A Toast to the First Day of Forever by piratesPencil
Fandoms: Arcane: League of Legends (Cartoon 2021)
28 Nov 2024
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Viktor leans towards him as they make their way down the academy steps. “We should go get drinks.”
Jayce stumbles on a step. “Drinks?”
“Yes,” Viktor says. His lips curl up in a playful smile. “Don’t you think we ought to celebrate our success, partner?”
At the start of it all, Viktor and Jayce go out for drinks.
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09 Dec 2024
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07 Dec 2024
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Half a decade after Viktor leaves Piltover for good, a fragment of Hexcore permanently adhered to his soul, an old friend comes to him for help. This wouldn't be an issue, if the same old friend hadn't spent the last five years trying to hit him, very hard, with a really big hammer.
“You’re not real,” Viktor repeated, closing his eyes. Even with the knowledge that this was a dream, the gentle touch unraveled him. There was an impact crater where his heart should be.
The calloused pad of Jayce's thumb found the corner of Viktor’s mouth. “All right. I’ll bite – what’s your evidence for this hypothesis?”
Viktor smiled into the touch, felt it tug against Jayce's thumbprint. “Isn’t it obvious? You haven’t tried to kill me yet.”- Language:
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01 Dec 2024
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reach out (touch faith) by intertwingular
Fandoms: Arcane: League of Legends (Cartoon 2021), League of Legends
22 Nov 2024
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Fifteen years ago, Jayce and Viktor founded Hextech. Ten years ago, Viktor was ousted, cut off from the very thing he helped create. Now, someone is using defunct Hextech parts to create bombs and Jayce, unable to crack the weapons on his own, does the only thing he can do: he calls Viktor back.
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01 Dec 2024
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We Want This to Go Easy by Being Somebody's Fault by FourOddApples
Fandoms: Arcane: League of Legends (Cartoon 2021)
24 Nov 2024
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A tale of what comes after the “happily ever after.”
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Jayce and Viktor fell in love under the assumption that Viktor had mere months to live. When they are told that he will survive, both have to navigate the foundation of their relationship shifting, as well as what the experiences that they went through now mean to them…and what damage they may have done.
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- Part 2 of An Ode to Our Mortality
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27 Nov 2024