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Just because someone is the love of your life doesn’t mean they’re good for you. And just because someone’s bad for you doesn’t mean you get to walk away.
Featuring Harry and Tom attending Hogwarts together and slowly ruining each other’s lives.
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After lifetimes of going around and around, you finally reach a truce.
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It is a defense of Fitzoy Angursell’s poetry. Of the importance of criticism, and free speech, and giving hope and beauty to the people. Of free and open debate, and new ideas, and a world that provides for everyone. It is a defense of the man who–
You almost cannot bear to read it. You cannot stop.
Inspired by SunInGlory's lovely A Treasonous Request.
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“Hello, Tom,” Harry says, craning his neck up to stare at the taller man. “I like the nose.”
For the first time in all the years Harry has known him (and isn’t that a strange thought? He knows Voldemort. But what else is walking in someone’s mind and memories?), Voldemort has to take a beat. It feels a lot like winning.
Basically if WALK THE MOON's What If Nothing album was a Tomarry time travel fix-it (but not actually "fixing" things) fic.
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Things Don't Get Better (They Just Change) by merrivale
Fandoms: Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling
18 Apr 2024
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Two brothers have a long-awaited conversation.
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- Part 7 of Tom Riddle and the Very Useless Prophecy
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Tom Riddle and the Very Useless Prophecy by merrivale
Fandom Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling
18 Apr 2024
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Featuring kidnapping as a parenting strategy and the ensuing impacts on child development.
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The unkind reality of time travel, immortality, and fate. Or: the one where Harry ends up in Dark Ages Scotland and makes the best (read: worst) of it.
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Later, Harry will start telling people he fell in love with Severus after the war.
It will not quite be a lie.
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15 Feb 2026
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“Rumor has it you’re having an affair with Cleon behind my back.”
Gossip.
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- Part 4 of fixed points
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04 Oct 2025
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Like falling through a cloud by alfgifu, crownedrooster for SunInGlory
Fandoms: Nine Worlds Series - Victoria Goddard, The Lays of the Hearth-Fire Series - Victoria Goddard
25 Sep 2025
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"Cliopher will be staying in my rooms for the duration of his recovery," Conju went on. "The healers have assured me that he will be sleeping for a while and won't be able to pay close attention to his surroundings." A short pause, before Conju spoke again, with uncharacteristic hesitation. "It is likely that he would not realise that you were there, should you, at any point, wish to see for yourself that your orders for him to remain abed were followed."
Note: This Touch AU takes its canon divergence point from a scene in the Embers series fic Unquenchable, which is set shortly after Petty Treasons and deals with Kip's episode of bonebreak fever mentioned in Hands of the Emperor. It's written as a standalone - it's not necessary to read any of the Embers fics to follow this one - though Unquenchable does give Kip's pov of some of the early scenes if that's of any interest.
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- Part 1 of Falling through a cloud
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29 Sep 2025
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trouble in old damara by ariex09
Fandoms: Nine Worlds Series - Victoria Goddard, Lays of the Hearth-Fire - Victoria Goddard
22 Jun 2025
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“Kip,” I said, and my voice came out tight. “Did a piece of glass hit you? Here, let me—” and I reached around to check the wound. If the glass had nicked him that was one thing, but if it had—had punctured—
But it wasn’t a piece of glass at all. It took me a moment, my fingers meeting Kip’s, trembling and wet with blood, over the objected embedded in his side, to realize what it was.
It was a dart.
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An assassination attempt and its aftermath.
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22 Jul 2025
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"No doubt thou didst melt the seal open on the steam vents to read the business of thy betters, planned how thou wouldst ingratiate thyself with the Archduke— oh yes, we know thy tricks…”
Not the steam vents, thinks Csevet. It would wet the paper. The hot pipes, yes— but not the vents. He would only use a steam vent if he wanted to bleed the ink onto the external sheet and claim inclement weather, and that almost never can be gotten away with inside the court.
Captain Orthema is saying Lord Chavar, leave Mer Aisava, but Csevet knows Chavar will not move for love or money now, not until he has said his piece.
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Two attempts on the throne; and Csevet Aisava, in the shadows.Bookmarked by merrivale
03 May 2025