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It's Bittersweet (This Thing Called Love) by mindlessramblings
Fandoms: Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling
10 Aug 2025
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I love you.
Three simple words. Eight letters. And yet, for Draco, they hurt more than any curse.
In the hush before dawn, Draco clings to the fleeting warmth of Harry’s touch, knowing that time is slipping through his fingers. Outside, war looms on the horizon, threatening to shatter everything they’ve built in secret.
But love isn’t easily silenced. And some hearts refuse to let go.
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- Part 1 of Bittersweet
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Some Potions Take Time (Some Hearts Do Too) by mindlessramblings
Fandoms: Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling
29 Jul 2025
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Remus wasn’t sure when he’d started anticipating those moments - the rare flickers of approval and kindness veiled in thorns. But somehow, they had begun to matter.
Remus swallowed, unsure whether the tightness in his chest was pride or discomfort. “I suppose I should thank you,” he said, voice low. “Though it feels undeserved.”
“If you are thanking me,” Snape murmured, “do it properly. Don’t mumble like you’ve been forced at wandpoint.”
In their final year at Hogwarts, Severus Snape and Remus Lupin are forced to work together. With a history steeped in mistrust and silence, the two boys are forced into close quarters.
But in a world where war looms and loyalties fracture, love is a dangerous potion. And for Severus and Remus, the question becomes: can something so delicate survive the fire?
(A companion piece to When Daylight Dies, but can be read as a standalone).
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- Part 2 of Transmutation
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In a world where there are four Potters instead of three, and where Voldemort makes a different choice upon hearing a prophecy, Harry Potter's life takes a sharp turn off the path decided for him by Dumbledore. What repercussions will this have on Magical Britain?
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- Part 1 of Transmutation
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It's a Bittersweet Thing (Being Loved) by mindlessramblings
Fandoms: Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling
14 Feb 2022
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The one-shot that It's Bittersweet (This Thing Called Love) is based on.
Who knew that those eight little letters, forming three innocent words, could make someone hurt so much?
It was approaching fast… The dawn before the new day and this precious time alone with his Harry was trickling by quicker than he could blink.
And then those dreaded words fell from Harry's beautiful lips. "I think it's time that we left."
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- Part 2 of Bittersweet
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To bridge this void of loneliness (or, for want of you) by mindlessramblings
Fandoms: Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling
10 Nov 2020
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Nearly six years after the Battle of Hogwarts, Harry can finally live his life the way he wants to. The question is, however: will he ever stop being a coward?
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Bittersweet: a feeling that combines both happiness and sadness, simultaneously. The ache of something beautiful that’s touched by loss,
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Transmutation: the action of changing or the state of being changed into another form.
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caught in the middle, helpless again by margosfairyeye (Skittery)
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
17 Mar 2023
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Fuck, Eddie has been here before.
The deja vu was bad enough but this is like, double, this is like deja deja vu or deja vu vu or something, this is unprecedented shit here.
And Eddie knows what comes next, knows like the roiling ache in his stomach that they’re going to go in, go though the portal and into the Upside fucking Down and didn’t they already do this?
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Eddie loops through the time from lover's lake to his death, over and over again.This is fic is complete at about 125k and is currently being beta-ed. I will try to post one chapter a week or so.
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05 Nov 2025
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Can You Scare Me Up a Little Bit of Love by DiscoSuperFly
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
30 Oct 2022
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Barb Holland just wants to get out of Hawkins, go figure Steve Harrington is the only person who can see her.
There's got to be a joke in there somewhere.
Steve has always seen ghosts, he has a desperate need to help Barb pass onto her next phase of the after life.
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02 Nov 2025
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Eddie never pictured what would happened after Vecna, or himself post demo-bats attack. Period.
But here he was still in Hawkins, still hiding his lifelong secret, and still harboring a crush on Steve Harrington.
His entire world view had been upended but some things never changed.
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02 Nov 2025
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When Eddie wakes up in the Upside Down he realizes a couple of things: 1. He’s alive. 2. He has fangs and razor sharp nails. 3. He’s hungry.
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Eddie Munson shows up on Steve Harrington’s doorstep 3 weeks after the events of Season 4 with vampire powers and tries his best not to eat his new friend, or worse, fall in love.
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30 Oct 2025
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Steve figured if he was going to die young it would be at the hands of an inter-dimensional monster. He never thought it would be his own body betraying him. But there it was Steve had cancer.
Eddie watched Steve crumple as he told him. Eddie couldn't believe it, Steve Harrington, the guy who had saved his life was sick. In his head Eddie realised something, Steve spent all his time taking care of everyone else around him and now, Steve needed someone to care for him and Eddie wasn't going to let him go through this alone.
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29 Oct 2025