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Geralt and Ciri, post-season 2. Just as they can't hide from fate, they can no longer deny what they are to each other: everything.
“Nowhere's safe now,” he’d told her once, long before Voleth Meir. “You can't run from the world. You can't hide from it. But you can find power and purpose. A chance to survive the horror.”
She realized it now, the gift he’d given her with that little speech: it was the life he led, and the life he was opening for her, mutated or not—a purpose, however marginalized, however grim. Whatever destiny had in store for her, she and Geralt would face it together.
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There was a draft of cold air, and the gas lamps flickered along the polished, wood-paneled walls, sending warm red shadows dancing wildly around the beer hall. There was a stamping of boots, and then two figures turned into the main room, pink-cheeked and smiling.
Matthias jerked his gaze away and focused instead on swallowing the last few mouthfuls of lager that were left in the bottom of his glass. He didn’t need to look—one of them was the bane of his existence, the reason this mission was failing, and the subject of Matthias’s recent nightmares.
Nina Zenik, in the flesh.
~~~OR: The 1886 AU where he's a Pinkerton sent undercover to bust up the union, and Nina is a rabble rouser on a mission.
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“Here’s what happened,” said Five, popping down from the mezzanine to stand behind Vanya. “We’re from 2019. A different 2019. This is clearly proof of the multiverse theory, but unfortunately none of that will matter to any of you. In our 2019, Vanya destroyed the world. We jumped back to 1963. While in 1963 we met Pops over there, and clearly altered enough history to rewrite our own futures. Now we’re here. Any questions?”
“Yeah,” said one of the Sparrow Academy members. “What the hell do you want?”
The Umbrella Academy members all looked at each other. “To go home,” said Allison quietly.
OR: the one with all the Hargeeves living together in an old brownstone, sharing bathrooms, and saving the world. (And each other.) Five finally gets his aged up body, Vanya gets the boy, and they all have to get jobs.
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where you used to be by lifeofsnark for light_loves_the_dark
Fandoms: The Umbrella Academy (TV)
12 Sep 2020
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She thought he’d gone mad, and of course he had. Of course. But even starving, even coated in other people’s blood, even hallucinating and alone, he’d had a tether dragging him into the future.
And now here was his anchor, sitting right in front of him, and it turned out that his tether (his reason for living) hadn’t existed at all. That tether had been nothing more than another cut rope, flapping loose in the breeze.
What would Odysseus have done if he arrived home to find Penelope only politely interested in his return? Not anyone else’s, not yet, but no longer his, either?
OR: Liv prompted me to write a story about "one braincell Five who truly doesn't think Vanya wants him. Pining. Yearning. Assumes everything is a pity date, and gets resolved with smut."
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- Part 3 of Fiveya Kinkmemes & Prompts
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Vanya had a routine.
Really she had lots of routines; little habits that defined her world in concentric, expanding loops, like ripples walling in her life. She made sure to water her small houseplants every Wednesday. She re-upped her metrocard on the first of each new month. And twice a month, she sorted through the responses to her personal ads and picked the men she would sleep with.
Men who happened to look like her long lost brother.~~~
Vanya ends up paying for more than she bargained for.
Spoiler alert: She doesn't sleep with anyone else on screen, but it's referenced. And she *thinks* she's sleeping with someone else, so. You know. Proceed with that knowledge.
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- Part 2 of Fiveya Kinkmemes & Prompts
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The Bitter Aftertaste of Gold by Chaotic_love4life
Fandoms: 薬屋のひとりごと | Kusuriya no Hitorigoto | The Apothecary Diaries (Anime), 薬屋のひとりごと - 日向夏 | Kusuriya no Hitorigoto | The Apothecary Diaries - Hyuuga Natsu, 薬屋のひとりごと | Kusuriya no Hitorigoto | The Apothecary Diaries (Manga)
22 Jan 2026
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When a routine inspection turns into a fight for her life against a northern assassin, Maomao discovers that the only thing more dangerous than the poison in her veins is the terrified, desperate intensity of the Master of the Rear Palace.
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16 Dec 2025
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In Another World by Julia_Crow
Fandoms: 薬屋のひとりごと | Kusuriya no Hitorigoto | The Apothecary Diaries (Manga), 薬屋のひとりごと | Kusuriya no Hitorigoto | The Apothecary Diaries (Anime), 薬屋のひとりごと - 日向夏 | Kusuriya no Hitorigoto | The Apothecary Diaries - Hyuuga Natsu
04 Jan 2026
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Maomao is a med school drop out, working at the Verdigris strip club where she also runs a free illegal clinic to help those who can't afford medical care. One night she treats Gyokuyou - fiance to a rich business man and suddenly she finds herself drawn into the world of the upper class.
An alternate modern setting where Jinshi and Maomao meet under different - but slightly similar - circumstances and their feelings develop all the same.
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I don't normally write AUs but I could not for the life of me get this concept out of my head. Please enjoy another pointless fluff, slowburn for our favorite JinMao <3
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20 Feb 2025
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One Blossom Now In Bloom by ktbl
Fandoms: 薬屋のひとりごと - 日向夏 | Kusuriya no Hitorigoto - Hyuuga Natsu, 薬屋のひとりごと | Kusuriya no Hitorigoto | The Apothecary Diaries (Manga), 薬屋のひとりごと | Kusuriya no Hitorigoto | The Apothecary Diaries (Anime)
20 Jan 2024
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Maomao has spent weeks cultivating a special lily bulb, pouring all her time and effort into the plant. Her absence has been noted by a particular member of the rear palace administrative staff. When Jinshi confronts Maomao, a cloud of golden pollen swirling around her, he's ready for a distasteful look, a disparaging comment, or a simple dismissal.
What he gets is anything but.
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18 Feb 2025
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During his brief stint as a prisoner of the Order, Draco Malfoy notices that Hermione doesn't look to be doing too well. He had always assumed that, given her brilliant mind and gentle nature, those on her side would ensure she is taken care of. Evidently not. Must he really do everything himself?
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OR: Dark Draco decides he'd rather like to keep the pretty Healer for himself, since it seems no one else can take proper care of her.
A story about love and power.
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20 Dec 2024
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on the sea we'd be forgiven (wouldn't you like to know how far you've got left to go) by Likhnawalla
Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender
07 Jul 2021
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"In the distance a cavehopper sings into the darkness, oblivious to all that transpired tonight, and she envies its freedom. She taps her fingers against her chest but every other inch of her is still, like a pond on a windless day. ‘What do you mean?’
‘I can’t seem to get people to love me.’”
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“It hits her then, why she was confused and upset when he saved her from Azula’s wrath. She’s so used to everyone expecting something in return—a kiss, a declaration of love, her forgiveness, the assumption she’ll take care of them or go along with their plans—that she’s been waiting for him to disappoint her in ways she’s used to. Except he doesn’t.
And Katara also realizes she was never upset at him, not really. She was just upset he showed her all the ways everyone’s taken her compassion and maturity for granted. He saw her drowning in the weight of expectations before she even realized it herself, and for that she’s forever grateful.”
Katara learns to grow up through falling in love with Zuko. Set immediately after the final Agni Kai.
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