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every star in the sky (is taking aim) by makeshiftcandy
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
17 Dec 2024
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He may have died, but there would never be another Chrissy Cunningham looking down on him from the ceiling of his uncle’s trailer. And, as he closed his eyes for the last time, he was not haunted by her eyeless sockets and silently screaming jaw, as he had been every time he blinked since the day he watched her die.
Instead, all he saw was her bright smile and the way her eyes glimmered in the afternoon sun that day in the woods.
And then––
He woke up.or
Eddie Munson dies in the Upside Down. He wakes up in bed.
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14 Jan 2026
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The first time Eddie Munson watches Chrissy Cunningham die isn't the worst. It's the second, because he had thought she was going to live this time.
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The universe made a cosmic mistake the day Chrissy Cunningham was allowed to die. It set off a chain of events that led to catastrophe, at first local, then global, and eventually interdimensional. It led to the end of all there is, was, and would ever be.
But the universe is rather interested in self-preservation. It couldn’t save itself in the future, but it could save itself then.
If only someone would get it right.
[Now complete.]
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- Part 1 of ‘til the morning light
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- English
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- 76,577
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- 24/24
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- 1
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12 Jan 2026
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You Took The Words Right Out Of My Mouth by ImmortalEcstasy
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
27 Nov 2022
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When Chrissy finally woke up, she was mute. People are sympathetic at first, but when she doesn’t magically get better, she slowly finds herself as one of the ‘freaks’. Lucky for her, there’s one freak in particular she really doesn’t mind finding herself beside.
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- English
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- 26/26
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11 Jan 2026
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Chrissy and Eddie’s Infinite Mixtape by LovelyThings for Colombina
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
21 Oct 2022
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Eddie was right when he told the Hellfire kids that there's no shame in running, which is why he takes a running leap to grab for the floating cheerleader in his living room.
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Chrissy lives and fixes what the Duffers broke.Come for the canon-close Season 4 rewrite, stay for the explanatory chapter notes and the healing.
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- Part 1 of Chrissy and Eddie’s Infinite Mixtapes
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- English
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- 263,609
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- 26/26
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- 2
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07 Jan 2026
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It was really just his luck that a hulking monster lumbered out of the woods and directly onto his driveway. Just his luck that he threw enough parties when his parents were gone that the neighbors had long tuned out any noise that came from his yard. Just a nice cherry on top of the fucking cake that, even if anyone did hear him screaming when claws tangled in his jacket and pulled, Steve honestly wasn’t sure they’d have cared enough to bother anyway.
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Months before El ripped open the gate at Hawkins Lab, the Demogorgon started ripping tears of its own. Months before it found Will Byers, it found Steve Harrington.
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- Part 1 of Nowhere to look but inside
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- English
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- 141,785
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- 35/35
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- 8
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06 Jan 2026
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In which Tom Riddle finds himself lost, alone, and hurt in the middle of Knockturn Alley, and stumbles upon a peculiar place called Harry's Snake Shop.
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- Part 223 of HP Works
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- English
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- 20,080
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- 5/5
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09 Dec 2025
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Nicolò looks sheepish. "I killed you yesterday, and you awoke at the same time, the same place. But when I die, I wake at different times, different places. This bolt," he tosses it to Yusuf and it lands in the dirt by his knee, "it killed me yesterday, but I woke up many years from now. I lived several lifetimes in those places before returning here and pulling it from my neck."
Nicky's lives and deaths are different. He is unstuck from time - at every death he revives into a different point in his life. Each time he is struck down he wonders, will he awaken to deserts and swords? Will it be gunshots in cities? Joe and Nicky build a fractured life together, falling in love across two different sets of centuries, then patiently waiting for the other to fall in love too. He meets the rest of their little family out of order, but they still build a family around Nicky's involuntary time-traveling.
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- English
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- 107,251
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- 17/17
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15 Jan 2025
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They took Nicky in 1983. This is everything that happened next.
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- 5,690
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- 1/1
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15 Jan 2025
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Donna forgets, learns, remembers and she carries on.
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20 Dec 2023
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if love is just a game (then how come it's no fun) by shinealightonme
Fandoms: Raven Cycle - Maggie Stiefvater
30 Jul 2020
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Ronan probably shouldn't have sworn at the stranger he runs into leaving Gansey’s favorite hipster coffee shop. Blue probably shouldn't have tracked down Adam's soulmate without his permission. But they did, and now all four of their lives are tangled up together, whether they like it or not.
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- English
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- 74,874
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- 16/16
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10 Jun 2023
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The Third Option by orphan_account
Fandoms: Spider-Man - All Media Types, Spider-Man: Homecoming (2017), The Avengers (Marvel Movies), Marvel Cinematic Universe
27 Jan 2020
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Homecoming AU.
Ben and May divorced before Peter’s parents died, so when Ben is murdered Peter goes into foster care. It takes just a tiny taste of superpowers for Peter to decide he doesn’t want to put up with his horrible foster father anymore—the streets are infinitely more appealing. All he wants is to be Spider-Man anyway.
So he leaves.
Simple.
Simple, that is, until Iron Man needs Spider-Man’s help. Peter isn’t about to turn down an opportunity to fight alongside Tony Freaking Stark, but he also isn’t going to let his hero know that his recruit is a fifteen-year-old homeless dropout. So they strike a deal. Peter will help Tony. In return, the mask stays on.
And that’s when things get complicated.
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- 37/37
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20 Oct 2022
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Wolf mother, where you been? (You look so worn, so thin) by dwellingondreams
Fandoms: A Song of Ice and Fire - George R. R. Martin
17 Aug 2017
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Storm’s End was nothing like what Edda had expected. She had expected a battered old castle on a cliff. Which it was, but Storm’s End was massive, more grim than magnificent, in a way similar to Winterfell. They said it had been constructed by Durran Godsgrief, who’d taken Elenei to wed, and faced the wrath of the gods by doing so. The children of the forest were said to have helped fortify the walls with magic, so that no storm might ever topple it.
And then some said Bran the Builder, who’d founded Edda’s house, had helped to construct the impenetrable fortress. She felt some sense of belonging, looking at it, so maybe the legends were true.
(In which Eddara Stark travels to Storm's End to spend time with her betrothed's family, and some things change, while others remain the same).
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- 26,469
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15 Oct 2022
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Midas is king and he holds me so tight by dwellingondreams
Fandoms: A Song of Ice and Fire - George R. R. Martin
26 Apr 2018
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(And turns me to gold in the sunlight)
Robert Baratheon’s hair was longer than she remembered, and his beard wilder, but he was tall and broad, although not as handsome as Rhaegar or even Cerion. She almost preferred that. He did not look like a king. He looked like a lost soldier. But he greeted her properly, pressing a rough kiss to the back of her hand. “My lady,” he said.
“My- Your Grace,” Jaime corrected herself swiftly, and sunk into a low curtsy, but she did not look away from him. “I have been eagerly awaiting this day.”
“Have you?” he almost seemed about to laugh. There was something brittle to him, despite his obvious strength and deep voice.
“Just as much as yourself, I am sure,” she chirped, and turned to smile at her family, while her husband to be’s forced mask of courtesy was cleaved off his face.
(In which it is Jaime and Cerion, not Jaime and Cersei, and Robert Baratheon and Westeros find themselves with a different sort of queen entirely).
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- 17/17
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16 Sep 2022
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all I know since yesterday is everything has changed by bryndentully
Fandoms: A Song of Ice and Fire - George R. R. Martin
29 Jun 2016
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"Don't you wish we could go back to the day we left?"
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11 Sep 2022
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Oops, you think I'm in love. That I'm sent from above. (I'm not that innocent). by thegirlwiththeprettybrowneyes
Fandoms: All For The Game - Nora Sakavic
29 Sep 2019
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"I'm not a math problem." Neil looked Andrew up and down. He was cute when he wasn't smiling like a maniac.
"I'll still solve you." Andrew replied, voice deep and husky.
Neil cocked his head, a slow smile snaked it's way across his face. "Not gonna lie, that's kind of hot."
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AU where Neil's past went more than a little differently.- Language:
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- 36,704
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- 20/20
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- 8
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30 Aug 2022
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Inej, the tumultuous first year after getting her ship, and Kaz, in that order.
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- English
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- 24,801
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- 1/1
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30 Aug 2022
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“You’ll probably never meet them,” his mother said one day at a diner in Texas. It caught him off guard.
“What?”
“You’ll probably never meet them,” she repeated, nodding in the direction of the lilac bruise splashed across his forearm. “Your soulmate. You’ll most likely never live that long.”
“I know,” he said, and hoped that she believed him.
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In which bruises and scars from your soulmate appear on your skin, and both Neil and Andrew paint each other like a canvas.
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- Part 2 of Dear True Love
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- English
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- 13,797
- Chapters:
- 4/4
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- 164
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17 May 2022
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Trust Fall (And Welcoming Arms) by SpangleBangle
Fandoms: All For The Game - Nora Sakavic
24 Sep 2017
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Life goes on after the Foxes win the championship, and for Andrew and Neil it's uncharted territory with only each other for guides. Maybe it's time to put away some of those hard edges, and learn how to touch more softly, and speak more honestly. And if they falter, they have their family to help them get back on their feet.
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- Part 1 of In Gravity's Thrall
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- English
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- 84,557
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- 13/13
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- 1,585
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- 12,806
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16 May 2022
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a fairytale ending by ganymede_elegy
Fandoms: A Song of Ice and Fire - George R. R. Martin, Game of Thrones (TV), A Song of Ice and Fire & Related Fandoms
12 Nov 2021
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Jon, 29
Looking for a date to a wedding. I'm not kidding. Must pretend to be my girlfriend. Some PDA required (holding hands, etc), but feel free to punch me in the face if you're ever uncomfortable. Or just tell me and I'll stop.
**Warnings**
-the bride is my ex and the groom is my half brother
-I am desperate not to show up alone to my ex's wedding
-my dad is a dick and he WILL try to hit on you
-I'm terrible in large groups, extrovert with good social skills preferred
-this will be a full weekend and it's unclear if I can get a room with two beds this last minute
-I will buy you a new dress for the occasion. You actually won't have to pay for anything, though now that I type this it sounds like I'm looking for an escort and I think that's illegal?- Language:
- English
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- 44,341
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- 8/8
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- 3
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- 1,412
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25 Jan 2022
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It’s not lost on her that technically, her dating pool is now exactly one person, if she wants to be with somebody who won’t die on her. Still, “you’re my only option” is miles away from being a good enough reason to give it a shot.
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5 Times Nile & Booker Ended Up in a Romance Novel Scenario + 1 Time They Didn’t
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- English
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- 20,421
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- 1/1
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15 Dec 2020