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“I don’t know Al.. what if he can tell?”
Alfred rolled his eyes. “Based on one portrait?”
“You’re tanner.”
“I’ll tell him I spent some time in the south.”
“Your eyes are blue, mine are violet.”
“So I’ll tell him the artist took some creative liberties- look Mattie. I’ve got this handled.”
Prince Matthew is arranged to marry the elderly Czar of Russia. Alfred takes his place.
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21 Jul 2025
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Alfred needs money. He works in an obscure Russian restaurant, lives in a shitty apartment with his ex, and rent is on the rise. He thinks he’s found the perfect gig—Until his side job draws the attention of some of Manhattan’s less savory characters. He grows close to one, a mob boss referred to as the “Old Bear.” Ivan Braginsky may offer protection, and even a way to make quick cash. Then again, he could also prove the least savory of them all.
"Drawing Dead is when a player has absolutely no chance to win a hand, no matter what card is dealt next."
Human Mafia AU; Rusame focus, with references to past USUK. -
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Ivan just wants to make friends at his new college. Alfred just wants to save Ivan’s soul.
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07 Jul 2025
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With a snowstorm hitting the conference hall during a worldwide meeting, the nations are trapped inside within close quarters with no choice but to let the events change the trajectory of their relationships forever.
(A rewrite from the Wattpad days)
REMINDER! THIS IS SET IN 2019!
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02 Jul 2025
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In the midst of the Cold War, America's soulmate leaves their marks on his neck.
Russia's soulmate leaves their soul marks wrapped around his wrists.
This is a problem of catastrophic proportions.
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27 Jun 2025
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“Your thoughts are so loud,” Hajime mumbled beside him, his voice lazy with exhaustion that Oikawa couldn’t relate to.
“Sorry, must be the fact that I’m sleeping shirtless next to a stranger in a strange house in the middle of nowhere,” Oikawa bit back instinctually.
Hajime just snorted at him, as if he was making a joke. “‘S’not that bad. Who knows? Maybe a bit of the country life could do you some good.”
“Yeah? According to who?”
“Well you did run away from home,” Hajime pointed out, and, well, yeah, Oikawa couldn’t really argue with that point. “B’sides, doesn’t seem like life has treated you too kindly so far. Change of scenery might not be the worst thing in the world.”
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Or: Oikawa Tooru, J-Pop idol extraordinaire and the most popular celebrity in the country, is at his absolute wits end with how his life has turned out. He’s miserable, depressed, traumatized, and unable to see a future where anything gets better. The solution, he decides, is running away and ending his life. He isn’t exactly grateful to end up in the countryside with the farmer’s boy, Iwaizumi Hajime, instead, but you know. He’ll get there in time.
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- Part 2 of With Us
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In 1959, some CIA agents stole the Soviet Luna 1 spacecraft on exhibit in Mexico City. Russia intended to punish America for this, but ended up going on an adventure with him.
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24 Jun 2025
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Kaeya Alberich doesn't believe in soulmates, but the Archon of Love not only believes in them, she can also see the connection between them. In an unexpected letter, she offers the hand of one of her harbingers to the Cavalry Captain in an unprecedented exchange, a trade of love for a trade of peace, of eternal cooperation and more importantly, no meddling.
It would just help if Kaeya liked the guy he was getting married to.
(chaeya arranged marriage AU)
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- Part 1 of Holy Matrimony AU
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01 Jun 2025
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“Ajax,” Kaeya took the redhead’s face in both hands, forcing him to look straight at him.
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“Ajax, darling,” endearing terms had never been their style. They were unnecessary. So why did Childe’s heart suddenly beat faster?
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- Part 1 of Crying (with Kaeya by their side)
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06 May 2025
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Rumor has it that Mondstadt's Cavalry Captain is dating a mysterious figure from Snezhnaya. Overwhelmed by the constant questioning from the citizens of Mond, Kaeya accidentally gives his boyfriend a horrible idea.
“I know you were joking, but babe, I don't think it's that bad of an idea!” Ajax argued. He sat up straight and wrapped an arm around the other, pulling him close. He put out his hand as if trying to paint a picture in front of them.
“Okay, just think about it. In my time as a Harbinger, I’ve never been to Mondstadt or met any of your colleagues. They have no idea what I look like, right?”
Kaeya hummed softly, still unsure where Ajax was taking this. “I… suppose… in theory.”
“So, knowing this, they could talk to me whilst being completely clueless about my occupation as a Harbinger! For all they know, they’re just talking to plain old Ajax from Morepesok,” he explained proudly.
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05 May 2025
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Langdon comes back from rehab with feverish eyes and a near-constant grimace. He's just as fidgety as ever, just as snarky, and just as competent, but he doesn't look Robby in the eyes. Robby returns the favor. The trust between them disintegrated as soon as he pushed Langdon out the door. As soon as Langdon decided not to tell Robby he was struggling. Neither of them know how to get it back.
Robby has to wonder though; if he'd tried harder to fix their relationship, maybe this wouldn't have happened.
Frank Langdon angst, based off the original character description that he overcame a 'devastating back injury' to become a doctor.
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11 Apr 2025
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“I’m here to see Frank Langdon, please.”
It comes out of her mouth like a question. She’s out of her element, unsure of the protocols in a place like this, and it’s strange to use Langdon’s first name. She’s only ever referred to Langdon as ‘Langdon’.
(And once, when she was slightly tipsy and pissed off and his name was beyond her grasp, ‘that skinny little rat man’.)
or: Santos visits Langdon in rehab
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- Part 1 of the langdon-santos frenemies agenda
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10 Apr 2025
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Zane Reacher kills himself on a seemingly unassuming day in October, but not before ruining Jean’s life one final time.
The timing is calculated, and if there was any doubt how deep Zane’s hatred of Jean runs, it cannot be denied any longer. Despite their season-long suspension, the Ravens have belligerently petitioned their way into a handful of “friendly” televised scrimmages with other teams. The NCAA has assured everyone that what they have observed during practices at Edgar Allen shows a remarkable culture change, and these scrimmages are an attempt to avoid what had happened with the Foxes in August next season.
Given their reputation for clean play and no tolerance of violence, the only obvious choice for a first trial of this experiment had been USC.
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25 Mar 2025
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Eddie thinks that he’s probably judged Steve too quickly. He thinks Steve’s probably full of surprises, if the past two years are anything to go by.
And then, of course, Steve just has to prove him right by stepping out of his BMW in a full sailor suit fantasy that not even the most depraved recesses of Eddie’s mind could have cooked up. Jesus. He’s got the little hat and everything. Cute tiny shorts, too, that are regrettably not as short as the ones included in the Hawkins High gym uniform, but still short enough for Eddie to be able to appreciate Steve’s legs. He has nice legs. Good knees. White socks pulled halfway up his calves, for some reason, stark against his golden tan skin. Wispy little hairs that probably go up his thighs. Eddie needs to stop looking at his legs.
“Eddie Munson,” Steve calls as he approaches, his voice all easy and light like they’re actually friends. “Hi.”
Eddie blinks at him.
Because Eddie's life can never be normal, the summer of '85 finds him working a firework stand just outside of Starcourt Mall, catching up on school work, and tutoring Steve Harrington in all things D&D.
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08 Jan 2025
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"And so Jamie Tartt knew, because a part of him would always be thirteen and in the hospital, and twelve and trying to be tough, and eleven and avoiding booze like the plague, and ten and all alone, that there was no way in fucking hell that he’d ever see eighteen."
Or, Jamie starts to spiral as his twenty-sixth birthday approaches.
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- Part 3 of First Love/Late Spring
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02 Aug 2024
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“Everything’s wrong. Don’t know wh-what’s happening.”
“I’m coming,” Roy says, beckoning Phoebe to run and grab her backpack and pointing at her, himself, and the car, to Ms. Bowen. “Where are you?”
Jamie’s silent for a moment, and Roy hopes he knows he’s gonna be the reason Roy dies of a heart attack in his thirties.
“Manchester,” Jamie mumbles.
Fuck.
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15 Jul 2024
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“Come show us then.”
There’s a pause, a brief hesitation before Jamie’s voice calls out again, “Alright, but you gotta promise not to hate it.”
Roy sighs, rolling his eyes, “Jamie, it’s just hair-“
“Promise.”
“Alright, fucking hell, I promise. I will not fall back into subconsciously hating you because of some weird psychological trigger caused by your bloody haircut.”
-Inspired by my love of Jamie's early season 1 short hair that doesn't get enough appreciation)
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13 Jul 2024
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He still gets stuck in it sometimes: the absolute silence after the shot, and time so, so still in that endless second when Eddie’s eyes met his. When the air turned cool against the skin of Buck’s face because there was something else, now, something warmer, sticky in his eyelashes, pooling at the corner of his mouth. Staining him in a way that will never, never come out, all in the time it took to remember how to breathe again.
It didn’t happen fast at all. There are days when Buck wakes up and thinks it might still be happening.
And Eddie is—Eddie won’t—Eddie—
or, six months after the near-fatal shooting of a member of the LAFD, footage of the incident surfaces on social media.
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11 Jun 2024
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Wembley, and the day after.
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30 May 2024
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It’s when they’re hanging around at Bobby and Athena’s for lunch on their days off that it really begins to grind Hen’s gears. There’s just something about them that Hen can’t put her finger on. It’s mostly the fact that nothing has even changed with them, they’re acting the way they always do—she’s just looking at them with a new lens, really—that is throwing her off.
Have they always sat that close to each other? With their shoulders so close, knees knocking against each other under the picnic table on the patio?
She guesses they have, because no one else is teasing them for being that close despite there being ample room on the bench.
Some secrets are hidden in plain sight.
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28 May 2024