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Suddenly There'll Be a Blizzard (Let It Snow Remix) by kianspo
Fandoms: X-Men (Alternate Timeline Movies)
09 Jul 2020
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Charles was never at his best while jetlagged, but locking himself out in a snowstorm while barely dressed might be a new low. The last thing he expected was to be rescued by his high school nemesis, the man he hadn't seen in over ten years, who might have broken his heart for good once upon a time.
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03 Jun 2025
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Math Reasons by pearl_o, pocky_slash
Fandoms: X-Men: First Class (2011) - Fandom, X-Men: Days of Future Past (2014) - Fandom
11 Aug 2015
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"Mom says Erik always knows what he wants, it just sometimes takes him a little while to actually realize it," Ruth said.
Charles fell in love with Erik the first night they met, the first week of freshman year. Two years of friendship, adventures, arguments, hijinks, secrets, and summer visits later, Erik is starting to catch up.
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- Part 1 of Math Reasons
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- English
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11 Dec 2024
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the things we did and didn't do by pocky_slash
Fandoms: X-Men: First Class (2011) - Fandom
01 Oct 2013
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The doctors say the best thing for Charles as he learns to cope with his paralysis is positivity from those around him. Erik is so tired of being positive that it's making him sick.
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05 Dec 2024
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Everything you know is wrong by aesc, pocky_slash
Fandoms: X-Men: First Class (2011) - Fandom
27 Feb 2014
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When Charles Xavier was five years old, he worshiped his father. When he was eleven, he learned to loathe his abusive stepfather. When he was sixteen, he gave up any claim on the family fortune just to escape. At twenty-four, he's moved away from home into a crappy, standard-issue graduate student house, and gone through his degree program with his best friend, Moira, by his side.
He's adjusted. He knows who he is and where he comes from and what his future holds. At least, until a stranger in a bathrobe shows up in his living room, having used his shower, eaten his lunch and, oh yes, broken in uninvited. Suddenly, everything Charles knows to be true about himself may turn out to be wrong, and his future and past both may be more dangerous than he ever could have imagined.
(aka the bathrobe fic)
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03 Dec 2024
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it's like one of us woke up by kaydeefalls
Fandoms: X-Men: First Class (2011) - Fandom, X-Men - All Media Types, X-Men (Original Timeline Movies)
26 Jul 2012
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"You came here for me," Charles said, meeting Shaw's gaze levelly. "So let's not waste any more time."
Canon!AU in which Charles and Erik do find Shaw in Russia.
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30 Nov 2024
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The Better Men by TurtleTotem
Fandoms: X-Men: First Class (2011) - Fandom, Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling
22 Feb 2012
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"I do believe the two of you were in the same year as boys, were you not?" Headmaster Shaw said. "Charles is the most competent deputy any headmaster could ask for, Erik, and he's been doing this for years…" He trailed off, as if finally noticing something odd in the way his Potions and Divination masters were staring at each other.
"Of course," Charles said quickly, his voice only a little hoarse, and stuck out his hand. "Welcome back to Hogwarts, Erik."
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- Part 1 of The Better Men
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29 Nov 2024
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An absence which could not be more there by aesc
Fandoms: X-Men: First Class (2011) - Fandom
14 Apr 2012
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He prepared to shift another half-step over to the Current Events section (which would, of course, enrage him) when the teaser positioned by the model's left elbow caught his eye: DATING WHILE TELEPATHIC: WHY I DON'T DO IT.
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29 Nov 2024
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irreconcilable differences (make for surprisingly good bedfellows) by pocky_slash for listerinezero
Fandoms: X-Men: First Class (2011) - Fandom
08 Dec 2012
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Tonight on The Evening Report with Malcolm Stevens, noted geneticist and mutant equality proponent Dr. Charles Xavier faces off with the infamous mutant rights activist Magneto in a live televised debate over the Genetic Nondiscrimination Act.
(At least, if they can stop flirting long enough to stay on topic.)
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29 Nov 2024
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quantify the effects of your smile on my psyche by orphan_account
Fandoms: Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. (TV), Marvel, Marvel Cinematic Universe
19 Nov 2013
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She's fifteen her first year at MIT, and she's lost, too smart for her own good and too damn scared by the world, decked out in polos and skinny jeans and a pair of red converse she's had for years.
Then there's Fitz.
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08 May 2024
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lessons in mouse-catching by foghornjazz
Fandoms: Wiedźmin | The Witcher - All Media Types, The Witcher (TV)
21 Feb 2021
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They say cats have nine lives, but truthfully Jaskier has long lost count of his.
Jaskier has always been very good at playing pretend. It gets harder after Geralt’s harsh words on the mountain. It gets harder still when he has to save a rogue Wolf and his Child Surprise from Nilfgaard’s gathering forces.
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- Part 1 of nine lives
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17 Jan 2024
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in ways that can't be said by GraeWrites
Fandoms: The Witcher (TV), Wiedźmin | The Witcher - All Media Types
11 May 2020
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Geralt lives in a very dark and violent world. Good things are few and far between. He doesn't know what it means, really, to be in love.
So when he falls in love with Jaskier, it happens slowly. Gradually. Reluctantly.
Or, 10 moments where Geralt falls a little more in love with the bard no matter how much it scares him.
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- Part 2 of Coming Home
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01 Apr 2021
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Forever is an Ambiguous Concept by agentverbivore (verbivore8642)
Fandoms: Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. (TV), Forever (TV)
21 Jan 2015
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Jemma Simmons is the finest medical examiner New York City's ever had, and Leo Fitz, an engineer for the NYPD's new tech division, is fascinated by her - and is convinced that she's hiding something.
What Fitz doesn't know, though, is that Jemma does have a secret: She can't die.
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- Part 1 of Forever AU
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28 Oct 2020
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Side By Side by agentverbivore (verbivore8642)
Fandoms: Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. (TV), His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman, Marvel Cinematic Universe
31 Mar 2017
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When Jemma Simmons and her lion dæmon arrive at SHIELD Academy, they don't really find anyone that interesting - except, that is, for Leopold Fitz. Not only is he the smartest one there, his dæmon has yet to settle, making him just the kind of mystery that Jemma loves to solve. Of course, this would be a lot easier if he didn't hate her.
Before they were FitzSimmons, they were two (achingly shy) sixteen-year-olds, stumbling through school, love, and science side by side.
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- Part 1 of Dæmon AU
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26 Oct 2020
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Whatever he had predicted might happen, Jon wasn't expecting to survive upon demolishing the Panopticon. He certainly wasn't expecting to be rescued.
Instead, he wakes up in an alternative universe where he's never been the Archivist, and Martin Blackwood doesn't exist.
Martin Blackwood wakes up somewhere else entirely.
Written as part of the RQBB 2020 Challenge, with art by the fantastic Aspen! (@asortofloficharm)
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17 Oct 2020
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not from the absence of violence (but despite the abundance of it) by Draco_sollicitus
Fandoms: The Old Guard (Movie 2020)
01 Aug 2020
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Nicky and Nile have some time to themselves while Joe and Andy are out on a mission; Nicky, always the quiet one, finds himself willingly telling his new family member the story of how he came to realize that he loved Joe, the man whom he had been taught to hate:
Because it was conviction that brought him to the gates of Jerusalem, a thousand years ago. And it is that conviction which is shaken over and over again with the kindness, the strength, the absolute virtue of Yusuf Al-Kaysani. This unwavering love introduces a period of a thousand years where Niccolò (who becomes Nico who becomes Nicky) discovers time and again that most truth in this world deserves to be questioned.
-Except of course the truth of how much Nicky loves Joe.
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05 Sep 2020
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the tie that binds us is an unbreakable rope by Draco_sollicitus
Fandoms: The Old Guard (Movie 2020)
16 Aug 2020
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After nine hundred and twenty-one years, Yusuf and Nicolo have found many ways to tell the other that he loves him.
Yusuf loves words, loves poems and speeches and art he has seen and built and breathed for centuries; Nicolo loves acts of service, loves to help and to protect and to provide. Over the years, gifts are exchanged, touch is treasured, and every waking moment they can spend together, they are inseparable.
Nine hundred and twenty-one years, and thousands of ways to say I love you.
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04 Sep 2020
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He wants Yusuf to hold his hand again. Grab his ankle. Flick his ear. Thrust his sword into his chest and breath into his mouth.
Yet, they have the long ocean of eternity ahead of them. These whims are nothing but a swell under their ship: gone as soon as they come. Nicolo knows better than to jump overboard and drown alone trying to chase them.
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Alternate title: "You'd Feel Pretty Weird If You Developed a Crush on the Only Other Immortal You Know, Right?"
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31 Aug 2020
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“He has a crush on him,” Joe says around a mouthful of carrots and points his fork at him for emphasis. To someone who once has had Joe’s scimitar rammed through his chest, it’s not exactly a terrifying gesture, but it still feels a tad more aggressive than Nicky thinks the situation warrants.
(In which archaeologists make a discovery, Joe is upset, and Nicky trolls historians.)
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31 Aug 2020
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Never Go Up Against a Scythian When Sex is On the Line by KareliaSweet
Fandoms: The Old Guard (Movie 2020)
21 Aug 2025
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They are her family, in every way, without question, but it is a matter of days before she wants to kill them both, multiple times, for being complete and utter idiots.
In which Joe and Nicky did not get together immediately, and Cool Lesbian Aunt Andromache helps Yusuf figure out his Big Gay Feelings
Nicky POV companion piece: Death Cannot Stop True Love (All it Can Do is Delay it for a While)
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- Part 1 of It Would Take a Miracle
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31 Aug 2020
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Nile watches as Joe gets to his feet and heads towards Nicky, calling out something to him in Italian. Nile is torn between learning Italian, so that she can know what they’re saying, and feeling like it’s an intrusion on something that she’s not meant to hear. "He's very protective of Nicky, isn't he?"
"You're only noticing that now?" Andy asks wryly.
“It all seems a little bit one-sided, that’s all,” Nile muses. “I've never seen Nicky be as...violently protective over Joe.” Andy just hums, and Nile glances over at her. “You think I’m wrong? I know I haven’t been around long, but I’ve seen Joe get killed in a bunch of messy ways and Nicky has never done…that.”
Andy just hums again. “Look again,” she says when Nile throws her hands up in frustration. “Watch more closely. You’ll know when you see it.”
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31 Aug 2020