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  1. Rec 1

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    Struggling playwright Nick Bottom and celebrity actor William Shakespeare are old acquaintances turned professional rivals, pulled back into each other’s orbit when both do a story on Richard II. Unbeknownst to them they’ve also been falling in love through the exchange of anonymous letters in a notebook.

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    28 Jun 2026

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  2. Rec 5

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    nick turned away and leaned on his desk. “i’ll easily admit to hating shakespeare any day,” he muttered, “but never will i EVER admit to getting heartbroken by him, much less still being hung up on it YEARS later.”

     

    aka no one hates someone THAT much without a tragic gay backstory

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    26 May 2026

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  3. Rec 1

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    A laugh forces its way up Nick’s throat. “So, this is why you’re here? You need someone to write a play with which you can impress your majesty?”
    “Not quite,” Will hums. He picks at the dust on the table. “Appease might be the more accurate assessment. There are lives at stake.”
    Nick rolls his eyes. He’s only vaguely familiar with court politics but he knows that the Queen won’t dare kill a writer as popular as William Shakespeare. No matter how bad the play. “Oh please, I don’t think even your ego qualifies as its own lifeform.”
    Will hesitates. “Indeed,” his gaze flickers up to Nick’s face, his brows drawn together in a thoughtful expression.

    Or: Instead of being send to America, Nick is sentenced to prison until he can finish the play he tried to steal from Will. Angry at the man and himself Nick refuses to write. That’s until Will steps back into his life, trying to convince him to keep going. If only Nick could figure out what his motives are.

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    23 May 2026

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  4. Rec 5

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    Will's career is beginning to blossom, but before it completely takes over his life, he goes to see one of Nick's plays for the last time.

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    10 May 2026

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  5. Rec 12

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    Horatio intended to live a disciplined life. As a student of Lutheran theology, he was certain that reason could master any temptation.

    But he did not account for Hamlet, a brilliant but irreverent prince who shook the foundations of his faith. From the sober lecture halls of Wittenberg to the corrupted royal court of Elsinore, Horatio remained at Hamlet’s side through sin, betrayal, and the unbearable weight of loving a man seemingly determined to destroy himself.

    A secret love burns between the lines of Shakespeare’s Hamlet, fueled by devotion and tragedy.

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    22 Mar 2026

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  6. Rec 8

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    A Rosencrantz and Guildenstern poem

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    19 Mar 2026

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  7. Rec 3

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    Once Will understood what it was like to be a poet.

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    19 Mar 2026

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  8. Rec 3

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    “There’s been a certain greyness at the edges, of late. Have you noticed?”

    Guildenstern probably has seasonal affective disorder but is unfortunate to exist in a time loop that never lets him see springtime. Let that be his character note.

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    14 Mar 2026

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  9. Rec 7

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    “Laertes: (clearly speaking from personal experience) He’s a really bad boyfriend! He says he loves you but he doesn’t! He’s just basically flirting and his romantic affection never lasts more than a minute! Just--be careful.”

    -LieutenantSaavik, if you die in hamlet you die in real life

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    07 Feb 2026

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  10. Rec 4

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    Alternative ending to Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are dead by Tom Stoppard. It begins after Rosencrantz and Guildenstern's argument on page 112 of the play (Act III). Alone on the boat, at the very end, they realize what, or rather who, makes the anguish of their existence worth it. They've always been in love.

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    27 Jan 2026

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  11. Rec 6

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    There they sit, and for this their minute of quietude, Guildenstern allows himself to be ignorant of the strange happenings about them, and of the Prince, and of the blasphemous incest which had plunged the whole country into this tragedy of errors. He thinks only of Rosencrantz, who now leans into him and the weight of his trust in Guildenstern’s hands.
    “Perhaps we ought to have sex,” Rosencrantz eventually offers.
    “…What?” Guildenstern turns to him. Perplexity is a muffling sort of emotion and settles first upon the ears before the mind.
    “Have sex. Y’know. Intercourse.” Rosencrantz says this shamelessly, as though he is speaking of the weather.
    “We are having intercourse.”
    Perhaps Rosencrantz does not know what he is saying.
    “I mean biblically.”
    Or perhaps he does.

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    27 Jan 2026

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  12. Rec 25

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    He can feel Hamlet’s bones, his ribcage, his—

    Holy shit.

    Horatio snaps upright, then presses his palm back to Hamlet’s chest. Two fingers to the side of his neck, then the base of each wrist. Horatio checks once twice thrice, his eyes widening. Because there, faint but certain through Hamlet’s skin, is a pulse.

    Hamlet is alive.

     

    (Hamlet lives, the tragedy continues, and Horatio picks up the pieces.)

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    15 Jan 2026

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  13. Rec 5

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    Happy MS Eve!

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    23 Dec 2025

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  14. Rec 51

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    a medieval-ish fantasy ethubs au
    featuring prince/horsegirl bdubs, his 160k word slow burn for etho, plenty of blood, and a happy (?) ending

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    11 Nov 2025

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  15. Rec *

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    “I’m sorry, Grian,” Scar repeated. “Is there anything I can do to make it up to you?”

    For a moment, Scar thought he saw Grian’s gaze dip again, but with distance between them, and the glare from a lamp on the other man’s glasses, he couldn’t be entirely sure. It made his heart squeeze all the same.

    Grian straightened, huffing, “No.”

    Scar hesitated. “Are you sure?”

    “Positive,” Grian said. He leaned into the couch cushions, his countenance changing with the wave of a hand. His face relaxed, his legs crossed in front of him, and a wide smile split his lips. “You’ll pay for what you’ve done in due time.”

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    After an April Fool's Day prank goes wrong, and his fake flirting attempts go south, Scar has to endure an entire day of Grian giving him a taste of his own medicine.

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    22 Oct 2025

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  16. Rec *

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    Grian presumed his soul was actively leaving his body – providing him with just another last minute delusion to take him into the next life - until he heard music.

    His tired delusions were a lot of things, but they were never music.

    Grian blinked, once, twice, then a third time. Still, the shape on the horizon didn’t fade. The light didn’t fade. The music didn’t fade. This wasn’t the blurry shadow of what may or may not be a rock, or the light of the moon against a wave imitating a town. This was a genuine miracle. This was his relief.

    It was a ship!

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    After being cursed by a witch, Grian finds himself stuck in the form of a parrot with no way to change back, and only a conveniently handsome pirate captain to rely on until he reaches land.

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    17 Oct 2025

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  17. Rec *

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    The insurmountable sound of the roof caving in, the support beams failing, and the marble decorations shattering around him seemed to stop all at once. There was nothing but silence. Cold, abrupt, threatening silence.

    As quickly as it had begun, the disaster simply ceased.

    “Woah,” an unknown voice chimed, echoing through the rubble. A man smiled down at him, his expression bordering somewhere between surprised and amused. “You’ve caused quite a bit of chaos here, haven’t you?”

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    After accidentally wreaking havoc inside a temple in the woods, Grian finds himself indebted to a god he doesn't know, as well as a strange man who calls himself the temple's priest.

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    17 Oct 2025

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  18. Rec 61

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    alliums: patience, prosperity, mockery, bitterness

    in the shadows of a forgotten town, avid tries to confront scott, desperate for truth — but beneath the skeletal mask lies a secret burning crimson. a confession made not with words, but with a kiss that tastes of blood and fire. in that moment, fear and desire collide, blurring the line between hunter and hunted, leaving only the fragile promise of something dangerously beautiful.

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    06 Oct 2025

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  19. Rec 5

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    Scar is just trying to live his life stealing for his mom and brother to support them, he doesnt expect to fall in love with a cute vigilante who gets in the way.

    AND HES A BOY

    Do not use my work for AI.

    CC's DNI

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    Chapters:
    3/?
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    36
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    15 Sep 2025

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  20. Rec *

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    The man hovering over him leaned back, releasing Grian completely. Cold night air rushed in to fill the void.

    “I guess it’s out in the open now,” the stranger hummed. “Shame. I wanted to avoid this.”

    With the additional glow occupying the space between them, Grian was finally able to catch features that were lost in the prior darkness. His curiosity outweighed all else, and he drank them in greedily. As soon as he saw who sat across from him, alarms blared in his mind.

    This man wasn’t a civilian, wasn’t even a hero.

    “Hello, Doctor,” the villain mused. “You were quite the help today.”

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    Grian is a vet. After a chance encounter in the dead of night, during which he accidentally saves a villain from the brink of death, he suddenly finds himself entangled in a world beyond anything he could've ever imagined.

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    284,119
    Chapters:
    16/16
    Comments:
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    19 Aug 2025

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