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Living After Midnight by objectlesson
Fandoms: The Hobbit (Jackson Movies), TOLKIEN J. R. R. - Works & Related Fandoms
20 Jun 2020
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“Tell me, what sort of music do you listen to?” Thorin asks him, raising an eyebrow. “Do you prefer glam or thrash?”
“I—what? Simon & Garfunkel is my favorite band. I like The Smiths if I’m in a bit of a strop, Bowie if I’m feeling adventurous, I suppose,” Bilbo answers, aware there might be a note of snark coloring his words because, well. He was set up, meant to sound like a fool no matter how he answered, and he does not appreciate rude conversational traps like that. He does not appreciate anything about this situation. He does not appreciate the small, crooked, tight-lipped smile that flashes across Thorin’s face at his response, and he does not appreciate the way it makes his stomach drop.
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After his eccentric advisor deliberately botches Bilbo's housing application, he is forced to sublet a room with thirteen metal heads living in a condemned frat. He barely expects to survive the journey, let alone fall in love.
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- Part 1 of The House of Durin Series
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09 Jul 2025
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“I used to ask Judge every day what I did to deserve this,” King thunders. “Do you know what he finally told me?!”
Sanji’s chest wracks with something dangerously close to a sob. “He said it’s because you were born!”
And despite all his grace, King stumbles –– like an angel cast out of heaven, taking his first wobbly steps on mortal ground. It’s clear he thought the question was rhetorical from the way he wavers, “How did you know that?” like he hadn’t even expected an answer, let alone the right one.
Sanji tries to respond, but he looks at King and sees a twisted science experiment, and sees––god, fuck, himself. Sees a man who spent his childhood strapped to a surgical table, and it was the closest thing he had to being held.
This is it. He has nothing left to hide. Sanji reaches a precious hand into the Pandora’s box inside his soul and rips it open, lets the ruins fly.
“Because he said the same thing to me!”
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In an alternate universe, King fights Sanji instead of Zoro during the Raid on Onigashima. There, they discover how true the phrase 'I wouldn't wish it on my worst enemy' can really be.
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23 Apr 2025
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“You’re lucky, Zoro,” she had spat, eyes turned up towards the sky, like she was trying to hold in tears. He'd never seen Kuina cry before. He’d never seen any expression on her face other than her teeth gritted in determination or her grinning in victory. “I want to be the greatest swordsman too. But girls grow up, and their bodies become weaker than men's. I’m never going to be the greatest.”
Kuina tells him this, and Zoro can barely comprehend the words she’s saying. He thinks of the countless hours he’s spent training by the river bed, the green locks of his hair left on the floor after Koushirou helped him shear it all off, of the people he thought of as family a lifetime ago calling him by a name he despised. Zoro puts a hand to his chest, where he’d hastily wrapped bandages earlier that day, remembering how his body had begun changing and he didn’t understand why-
“You’re lucky to have been born a man, Zoro,” Kuina finishes lamely.
Zoro sees red.
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18 Mar 2025
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Day of the Dead by knockplease
Fandoms: 英雄伝説 閃の軌跡 | Sen no Kiseki | The Legend of Heroes: Trails of Cold Steel Series (Video Games), 英雄伝説 創の軌跡 | Hajimari no Kiseki | The Legend of Heroes: Trails into Reverie (Video Game)
02 Jul 2024
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Day of the Dead is nothing special. According to Jurai lore, the dead come back to life for a night. It's a crock of shit, of course; Crow’s pretty sure it was invented by somebody eating the wrong mushroom back in the day. He lived there for thirteen years, so he can testify to that, but everyone loves a good, spooky urban legend.
The ghosts, however, disagree.
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24 Feb 2025
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To Catch a Falling Star by Drag0nst0rm
Fandoms: The Silmarillion and other histories of Middle-Earth - J. R. R. Tolkien, TOLKIEN J. R. R. - Works & Related Fandoms
17 Mar 2019
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A star falls from the sky, Belladonna Took finds a pretty mathom that will make a lovely souvenir, and Elrond gets some extremely unexpected guests.
These are not unrelated events.
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- 11/11
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16 Jan 2025
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Kyoya Ootori’s Guide to Self-Deception for Fun and Profit by who_la_hoop for doublejoint
Fandoms: Ouran High School Host Club - All Media Types
24 Jul 2020
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Kyoya’s fond of Haruhi. Very fond. But he doesn’t dwell on it. He’s far too busy networking at Harvard to think about his best friend’s not-quite girlfriend.
Unfortunately, back in Tokyo, Tamaki seems equally busy – on the important task of driving Kyoya mad. Does Tamaki really think Kyoya will wither away and die if he’s not kept updated on Haruhi’s every move?
Apparently yes. But Kyoya’s an Ootori. There’s no situation, no matter how annoying, that can’t be twisted to his own advantage.
Isn’t there?
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21 Dec 2024
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The Guardian by SpaceWall
Fandoms: The Hobbit - All Media Types, The Silmarillion and other histories of Middle-Earth - J. R. R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings - All Media Types
17 Nov 2021
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When the dwarves of Erebor unearthed the Arkenstone from the ground, they unearthed its nameless Guardian with it. When they fled from their home, the Guardian awoke. Unfortunately, he didn’t remember his name either. Or anything else.
In which: Thorin unwillingly befriends his local amnesiac over the course of several decades, Elrond hears a series of unusual rumours, and Rus of Erebor makes his way in the world, as best he can.
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- 3/3
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20 Aug 2024
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Baggins' Seeds And Saplings by jo_writes_fic, MulaSaWala
Fandoms: The Hobbit (Jackson Movies), The Hobbit - All Media Types
05 Sep 2021
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When Bilbo's hunger for adventure gets so pressing that he cannot stay in the Shire any longer, his father Bungo sends him on a mission: take an entire packpack full of seeds and saplings to the dwarfen kingdom of Erebor and trade them with the goal of enriching the Shire's flora.
Bilbo expects to accomplish this somewhat dull task with ease, return home by the end of the season. What he does not expect is to stumble into the middle of a long-lasting feud, be made a babysitter, and fall in love with the most unlikely of dwarfs.
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- 9/9
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14 Aug 2024
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Roy has lucked into the all-expenses-paid vacation of his dreams – all he has to do is convince a bunch of happy couples that he's head-over-heels in love with Ed Elric. What could possibly go wrong?
[Modern!AU.]
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- Part 1 of A Wicked Game
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- English
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- 59,921
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- 7/7
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- 308
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17 Jul 2024
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Ten Degrees Below Zero by kianspo
Fandoms: Star Trek: Alternate Original Series (Movies), Star Trek
05 Jul 2021
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After a serious incident aboard a starship, Commander Spock is demoted and transferred to a remote base where he must now serve with other "undesirables." He adjusts to his new rank and duties, and, while the future does look bleak, he is not ready to give up on himself or Starfleet yet. There is work to be done and hope to be found, especially as he begins to get to know his new colleagues, particularly one intriguing engineering officer James Kirk...
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- 3/3
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03 Jul 2024
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Kirk and Spock discuss old history.
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- Eald Englisċ
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30 Jun 2024
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The Starless Road by orphan_account
Fandoms: The Silmarillion and other histories of Middle-Earth - J. R. R. Tolkien
20 Sep 2015
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"Maedhros sought destruction body and spirit, and found both. When Mandos summoned him, he refused, and first of them all he has been taken by the void that they swore themselves to. He is not in the world, and will not come again. Deeper darknesses are there than that which Morgoth made below Thangorodrim!” Fingon paused and looked at Finrod. “Should I not then have killed him as he asked me?”
“No!” said Finrod, but Turgon said nothing.
Sam grew even more upset. “Now that’s not right,” he said, “that can’t be right! Just or not – and I don’t know that it is, begging your pardon, sir – still, no story should end that way!”
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26 Jun 2024
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Goddess by Turacin (Turacoverdin)
Fandoms: Fire Emblem: Fuukasetsugetsu | Fire Emblem: Three Houses
19 Apr 2021
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Dimitri turns around. Professor Byleth stares at him blankly. It’s kind of intense. Dimitri would feel uncomfortable, but yesterday Dimitri caught Byleth squatting and staring at a cat like that, so Dimitri knows he isn’t special. “Excuse me?”
“You asked what Sothis would say to you,” Byleth elaborates unhelpfully. Professor Byleth. The Professor. “That’s what she says. She says your haircut sucks. I don’t agree with her. Your haircut is very nice, Dimitri.”
Someone probably should have told Byleth that the Goddess was named Sothis.
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15 Apr 2024
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A Long List of Happy Endings by vicious_summer
Fandoms: The Hobbit - All Media Types, The Hobbit (Jackson Movies), The Hobbit - J. R. R. Tolkien
19 Feb 2022
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“–Come Durin’s Day, the Mountain will host great entertainments, games, and feasting in your name and in the names of the other thirteen of the Company. Your path through all of Arda shall be made smooth to ensure your welcome in our lands, Bilbo Baggins. I bring this summons as it was sent from the Throne of Thorin, King Under the Mountain.”
Bilbo’s heart, racing as it had been from this thrilling invitation, seemed to trip over itself at the name. “Thorin?” he whispered, and he stepped forward without thinking.
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Or: Bilbo learns that his story isn’t actually a tragedy, and that happy endings still take a bit of luck.
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- 8/8
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04 Jan 2024
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In which Phoenix Wright baffles his friends and acquaintances by earnestly informing them of how much they mean to him. Featuring onion rings, multiple whippings, gross breaches of courtroom etiquette, and somewhat impractical use of Edgeworth's office door.
This fic is set post-Trials and Tribulations, with spoilers for the original game trilogy.
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- English
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- 6,488
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- 1/1
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07 Nov 2023
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Apollo and Athena notice something is off with Edgeworth during a trial and decide to ask him about it. Unfortunately, they get a bit more than they bargained for. It's never fun to realize your boss and his biggest rival have a bit of a thing for each other.
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- Part 1 of Nobody Can Just Say What They Mean
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- English
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- 82,173
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- 6/6
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24 Oct 2023
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This is the one with angry waltzing. It's also the one where Edgeworth engineers a romantic cabin getaway to make Klapollo happen, which is the subject of the sequel work.
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Post-GS4, an estranged Phoenix and Miles respond to a friendly challenge from an unexpected source: do three things each to fix your lives.
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- 11/11
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15 Oct 2023
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Daddy is quiet for a long time, eyes fixed on her face.
“Ok,” he says evenly. “Thalassa got the axe. What’s my punishment?”
“It’s not about punishment, Daddy.” Trucy starts the car back up. “You do that just fine all by yourself.”
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Trucy is going to get her happy little family together or kill them all trying.
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- 36,162
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- 9/9
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- 718
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12 Oct 2023
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one step at a time by OuterWilde (foreveraugust)
Fandoms: 逆転裁判 | Gyakuten Saiban | Ace Attorney
08 Sep 2020
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Phoenix harbours no illusions that getting his badge back is going to be an easy task, even if the hardest part of clearing his name is technically over. He's fully aware that his reinstatement is going to be a bit more complicated than just passing the bar and is going to be more of a case of:
Step 1: Save money to retake bar exam
Step 2: Study frantically to pass said bar exam
Step 3: Pass bar exam
Step 4: Hope and pray that he'll somehow be able to still pull in clients after his reputation got burned to the ground
Step 5: Haircut
Step 6: New suit
Step 7: Finally, finally confess his passionate love for Edgeworth that has been eating him up inside for the past 25 years
Step 8: ???? Lawyer???Thankfully he has a pretty solid support network of people willing to help him out. And if Edgeworth has anything to say about it, they'll probably be able to cut out a few of those steps along the way.
Which is why Phoenix promises himself one thing. If he passes the bar again, he is absolutely going to kiss the Chief Prosecutor square on the lips. Whatever happens after that, they'll just have to wait and see.
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- 22,675
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- 4/4
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03 Oct 2023
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The Road goes ever on and on by paranoid_fridge for tosq
Fandoms: The Hobbit - All Media Types, The Hobbit (Jackson Movies)
14 Jan 2017
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Years after the battle, Thorin and Bilbo live in Erebor, though Thorin has left the crown to Fili. In that prosperous time, they are invited to the wedding of Dorwinion's crown prince; and once on the road, Bilbo and Thorin find that they wouldn't mind seeing a little more of the world.
What was supposed to be a diplomatic mission to Rhûn brings them to distant lands, lets them walk over a sea of stars, cross the Eastern Desert, and gaze at the shores at the end of the world. Far from home they make new friends, and find that the world is wider than they thought - there are hobbits living in the east, and dwarves from Erebor that found a home there after the dragon came.
And eventually that same road also leads them home.
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- 57,371
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- 8/8
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21 Sep 2023