16 Bookmarks by itsstillJames
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to be grateful by lycanthropuns
Fandoms: Red White & Royal Blue - Casey McQuiston, Red White & Royal Blue (2023)
11 Nov 2024
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Now that his mother was in her second term, Alex was in a position to do more now than ever before – as long as he kept trending, and he maintained his favor with the public, and made sure he was still the golden boy people wanted him to be.
He wasn’t allowed to be ungrateful. He wasn’t allowed to move away from girls with Claremont-Holleran pins on their shirts who put their hands in the back pocket of his jeans on election night, or actresses who grabbed his chin and pulled him in for a kiss on New Year’s, or journalists with a soft spot for his father’s policies coaxing him into a hot tub on the campaign trail when he was barely old enough to vote himself.
After all, Alex belonged to America. All of him.
Sometimes, he wasn’t sure if Henry had figured that out yet.
Or: After a night out, Henry realizes exactly how Alex feels about belonging to his country.
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17 Nov 2025
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Alex and Henry have been neighbors since they were eight and nine. From juice boxes and Batman costumes to sneaking in eachothers windows for sleepovers, their friendship weathers everything — loss, distance, growing pains, and the terrifying, beautiful truth of falling in love with your best friend.
This is a story of years gone by filled with movie nights that turn into love letters, of stargazing confessions and time capsules buried in backyards, of two boys who choose each other — again and again, through every version of themselves.
“I met my soulmate when I was eight years old,”
“And nothing, not an ocean, not time, not anything you’re afraid of, will ever make me let you go.”- Language:
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01 Nov 2025
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all that you rely on by alyaasca, blueberriesandcream
Fandoms: Red White & Royal Blue - Casey McQuiston
05 Oct 2024
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Acclaimed mystery novelist Alex Claremont-Diaz is fresh off his latest bestseller and lacking inspiration when Detective Henry Fox brings him in for questioning about a murder. Suddenly, Alex has all the inspiration he needs for a brand-new set of books and Henry has a brand-new and unlikely tagalong. (and maybe, eventually, something much more.)
or, the Castle AU.
COMPLETE AS OF 10/5/24
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- English
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- 337,293
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- 32/32
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Bookmarked by itsstillJames
24 Oct 2025
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Genuinely one of the best things I’ve ever read
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Home Is Wherever I’m With You by CrownedInLove
Fandoms: Red White & Royal Blue - Casey McQuiston
25 Aug 2025
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Six months ago, Alex broke Henry’s heart silently, permanently, or so he thought.
Now Henry’s back in New York for one week. Just one. A training rotation. A hospital wing. A life he almost had.
He isn’t supposed to wander.
He isn’t supposed to find the oncology floor.
He isn’t supposed to find Alex thin, pale, sleeping in a bed with a wristband and a diagnosis no one deserves.
But he does. And everything changes.
Now Henry is no longer the doctor.
He’s the man who never stopped loving him.
And Alex (the man who tried to let him go) is still wearing the scars of that choice.
This is not a story of endings.
It’s a story of staying. Of softness. Of sleeping beside the person who still calls you *baby* even when they’re too weak to open their eyes.
Of whispered I love yous and second chances.
Of fighting like hell to come home.
Because Henry Fox was always his. And Alex? He was always, always Henry’s.
“You’re still mine,” *Henry whispered.
“Even after everything?”
“Especially after everything.”
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- English
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- 25/25
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Bookmarked by itsstillJames
11 Oct 2025
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This destroyed me and then put me back together. Beautiful.
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Lost and caught in a sudden snow storm, all Arthur can think about is keeping Merlin safe and warm. With no way to start a fire, things aren't looking good. If only Merlin would trust Arthur enough to use his magic. If only Merlin could stay awake.
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01 Oct 2025
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Arthur’s heart dropped to his feet. “It’s too hard, Gaius. I can’t do it anymore.” Arthur had never heard Merlin in so much pain before. Not when they’ve been attacked or kidnapped or almost killed. But that, it sounded like Merlin was choking on his own cries, on his own tears, and it took everything Arthur had for him to not ram the door open in that moment. “I can’t keep lying to him. I can’t keep doing this to Arthur!”
Merlin and Gaius were always so busy running around the citadel trying to stop assassins and sorcerers and everything else in-between that they often forgot other people were around. Whether it was the fact that their door being closed didn’t suddenly mean no one would ever be able to hear them, or the fact that talking loudly in a hallway wasn’t a secret place, the two of them seemed to give out more of their treason acts than they knew.
With the Guards and Knights of Camelot stumbling across these two men in various stages of illegal activities, just how long can Merlin stay off the pyre and keep his head? And just how long will it be until it’s Arthur himself who overhears one of their conversations about all the ways they break the law?
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13 Sep 2025
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James meets Regulus in juvie.
Nine years later, James has a new life entirely separate from his past. His friends have no idea he has a criminal record or spent time in foster care. He means to keep it this way.
When Sirius finally decides it's time for James to meet his little brother, they're all in for a shock.
The past is a little harder to leave behind than James bargained for. It follows.
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- English
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- 10/10
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06 Sep 2025
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“Where did you learn to do that?” Gwaine asked, following Merlin up the bank.
“This is how normal people fish,” Merlin replied dryly. “Not trying to stab them with swords.”“This is a knife,” Gwaine retorted, sounding every bit as sulky as he felt.
“Still, you didn’t catch a fish.”
------------------------------------------------------Gwaine saves a young Merlin from a beating and ends up with a new little brother to take care of on his travels.
Or, what would Merlin be like if he had Gwaine influencing him over his formative years?
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- English
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- 142,115
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- 26/26
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Bookmarked by itsstillJames
03 Sep 2025
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Absolutely beautiful, everything about this is perfect please please read it
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Arthur gave Merlin his cloak thinking only of the warmth it would offer in a snowstorm. He never thought his manservant may be mistaken for him and snatched by bandits. Nor did he expect his dashing rescue of Merlin to turn his world so utterly on his head.
Because the bandits hadn't kidnapped a prince. They'd snatched a sorcerer, and now captivity is the least of anyone's problems.
A golden age awaits, but can they claim it together, or are they doomed to fail?
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In a world where Arthur and Merlin never went to Ealdor, Merlin is home visiting his mum. People soon are getting annoyed about all his talk about this Arthur chap, they don't believe for a second that Merlin of all people could be close to the king. Until the king pays a visit.
Written for prompt #87 at Merlin Muses Prompt Fest
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- English
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Bookmarked by itsstillJames
12 Aug 2025
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In 2002, four-year-old Alexander Claremont-Diaz is kidnapped and killed.
In 2021, twenty-three-year-old Alejandro Salazar starts his new job as curator at the V&A.
A story of loss, love, and the inevitability of destiny.
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Now complete and binge safe!- Language:
- English
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- 117,075
- Chapters:
- 25/25
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Bookmarked by itsstillJames
29 Jun 2025
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God Save the Blessed American President Mom by zipadeea
Fandoms: Red White & Royal Blue - Casey McQuiston
30 Mar 2021
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["June stopped by at lunch; she showed me a delightful channel called Hallmark, which repeats the same story every hour after they swap one round of white, straight, small-town conventionally beautiful actors for another. It was entertaining.”
“June and I used to play a drinking game with those. Take a shot every time someone goes ice skating, sledding, or leaves the big city for their tiny hometown.”
“Good lord, you must’ve been sloshed in the first ten minutes.”]
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On December 4, 2021, an attempt is made on President Ellen Claremont's life.
Alex gets shot instead.
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- Part 3 of zip's christmas playlist
- Language:
- English
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- 31,673
- Chapters:
- 8/8
- Collections:
- 9
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- 1,450
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Bookmarked by itsstillJames
06 Jun 2025
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Regulus had never thought of himself as an artist.
He couldn’t even draw a decent stickman, let alone paint or sculpt. He didn’t have cool names with which to sign his works, he didn’t have an eccentric style or an extravagant appearance.
And most importantly, he wasn’t a daydreamer. He was just an ordinary person with an ordinary, insignificant life. He didn’t have in himself the magic. He was just very good at learning things.
So, Regulus Black wasn’t an artist. He had never felt that way.
Regulus Black also didn't know that things were about to change.
Or: A story about a group of people discovering the beauty of life through love and art, slowly learning that the only way to be perfect is to be imperfectly yourself.
Featuring: Regulus discovering what self-esteem is, James ignoring his problems and Sirius just vibing there while shipping them. -
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It’s December 1990, and Mike is at his last University of Indianapolis frat party. He’s going through hell; after having lost contact with his friends, tried to fill his emotional void with sex, and dropped out of college a year and a half in because of his worsening drinking habits, Mike stands at the edge of a lookout with only one thing— one person— on his mind.
The title and story are inspired by the Taylor Swift song <3
Dedicated to my mother. For all the times you told me my story sounded amazing, that you wanted to read it, only to make it halfway through chapter 1 and refuse to read the rest because it was so… fucking… gay. You’re the reason why I am who I am and why I write what I write, so I should be thanking you. Truly.
Playlist: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/32sdnXCHQ5ahfidegL9Cmf?si=5493376540b34dae
There's an audiobook! Listen here:
https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLeWy_dqPXg4bb_0XIe_FhOM4ZIWLHo2TO&si=7y50F6pdFQlnlFysSeries
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06 Dec 2024
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When Will accidentally hands Mike a personal sketchbook instead of a school notebook, he may as well have just handed Mike a full confession. Will realizes just a tad too late. Mortified, ashamed, Will flees to Castle Byers. Mike follows.
It's a sweet coming-out story with a happy ending, yo. Because Will Byers deserves a good day, okay?
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De l'été 1971 à l'été 1978, l'histoire des Maraudeurs à travers les regards croisés de Remus et Sirius.
Sept années de scolarité, d'amitiés, de mauvais coups, de révoltes contre la montée des discriminations, d'adolescence effrénée et surtout
La naissance d'un amour inexorable sur le chemin de l'art moldu, qui mènera Sirius et Remus à la liberté.~ Les personnages principaux et leur univers ne m'appartiennent pas
~ JKR est transphobe, la transphobie est un crime
~ CW : sang, sexe, troubles du comportement alimentaire, violence, viol, pédocriminalité, pensées suicidaires
~ Titre inspiré de la légende de Romulus et Remus : "Lupercalia", les Lupercales en français, est le nom donné aux fêtes purificatrices données en l'honneur de Faunus, dans la grotte du Lupercal où la Louve avait recueilli Romulus et Remus.
~ Playlist : "Lupercalia - Wolfstar fanfiction" sur Spotify et Deezer
~ 18.02.2019 - 28.08.2021
- Language:
- Français
- Words:
- 401,277
- Chapters:
- 176/176
- Comments:
- 26
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- 106
- Bookmarks:
- 26
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Bookmarked by itsstillJames
26 Mar 2024
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For when I’ve learned a little more French lol