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a dream, like a spring never-ending by Issay for Bill_The_Pony
Fandoms: Hadestown - Mitchell
19 Jun 2022
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There is a world where Hades loves Persephone and is able to let her go for six months each year because he knows it will only make the reunion sweeter. And another, in which Eurydice never meets the bright-eyed boy who is destined to be her downfall, or one in which Orpheus is her salvation instead.
There is a world where Orpheus’ love is enough and he doesn’t turn to look.This is not that world.
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and the road not taken always leads to you by Issay
Fandoms: Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling
14 Nov 2021
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Nobody pays it any mind when bushy-haired Hermione Granger goes to Hufflepuff and shows another first year student in the crowd a thumbs up. It gets everybody’s attention when Harry Potter joins her a few minutes later.
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- Part 21 of One-shot collection
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sycamore songs by Issay for klavscaroline
Fandoms: The Originals (TV), Legacies (TV 2018)
28 Dec 2019
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Fate is a fickle thing.
It can be the most powerful thing in the universe, more powerful than angels and demons, than dark magic and bright lights. You cannot outrun your destiny, teach the myths and legends spoken by the crackling fires, for it is the thing that makes the world spin. Whatever will be, will be. You can only embrace it.
Perhaps.
If there is anything Caroline has learned through the long decades of her life it's that sometimes destiny isn't what is seems to be.
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a part of something that’s bigger (than me) by Issay for LaLainaJ
Fandoms: The Vampire Diaries (TV), The Originals (TV)
09 Feb 2019
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In the beginning she's a plaything, the mean girl brought low, made and unmade by decisions of others and Caroline never receives apologies for most of it. Elena fights for her happy ending and through all of her losses and dark despair she is never alone. Bonnie wins her freedom, powerful in her own right. Caroline is left with uncertainty and obligations.
No, the story isn't kind to Caroline. So let's change the story.
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winter songs by Issay for RainyMonday
Fandoms: Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them (Movies), Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling
20 Dec 2018
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The Mirror cannot lie. It will show you the deepest, most desperate desires - but it lacks the power to grant them.
Or, five times Albus Dumbledore looked into the Mirror of Erised. -
joining hands (and crossing our hearts) by Issay for epochellipse
Fandoms: Hawaii Five-0 (2010)
20 Dec 2018
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It's Christmas - so of course they're in the ER again, because apparently that's tradition now. Or: how Danny got shot in the ass and found something very special.
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Let’s talk about Hermione Granger.
In one version of this story the Sorting Hat recognizes the burning loneliness in Hermione Granger and puts her in Gryffindor, a house with too much bravery and too little common sense. In that world Hermione fights her way through obstacles, makes friends for life, falls in love with Ron Weasley and saves the world.
Not in this, though.
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- Part 12 of One-shot collection
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"Never promise without knowing what you're promising," grandmother instructs, her voice sharp. "Promise me you'll never allow people to use you, Viktor. You'll never follow mad men who promise you power. You'll always do what is right."
[Or: in which Viktor Krum gets a backstory, falls in love with a lioness and doesn't let her go.]
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- Part 11 of One-shot collection
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Campaign trail is madness and chaos and order and endless discussions on the bus, over greasy burgers and even greasier fries in some diner on the way, on the floor of the hotel lobby at three in the morning.
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When the dust settles – Hogwarts is safe, Voldemort is dead, Death Eaters are in Azkaban and the loss of life is just unimaginable – Harry and Hermione return to Grimmauld because they have nowhere else to go.
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- Part 7 of One-shot collection
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Being absolutely invisible to other people has its upsides. Luna breaks the school rules – Forbidden Forest is such a beautiful place! – and doesn’t really care about the curfew, and no one ever punishes her for it because they simply don’t see her do it. Luna knows all the nooks and crannies, the dark corridors hidden behind portraits and little dusty rooms great for studying or daydreaming. Hogwarts loves her, makes the stone under her feet soft and warm as she walks barefoot after someone stole all of her shoes and socks again. House elves leave her sandwiches and cookies when she forgets about meals or gets distracted on her way to the Great Hall.
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- Part 5 of One-shot collection
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Inevitabilities by Issay for coveredinthecolors
Fandoms: The Originals (TV), The Vampire Diaries (TV)
27 Dec 2016
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It starts with a touch, a soulbond and a laughing god.
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the crooked shadow of the morning by Issay for akingnotaprincess
Fandoms: Daredevil (TV)
18 Dec 2016
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There are games they play, games that keep them sane. It's a dangerous world they live in and some moments are more precious than others.
(In other news, I suck at summaries.)
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“Let’s go home,” says Gandalf after the burials are complete and there is no reason to stay in Erebor. The elves are leaving, too. He knows it’s time to go. But…
Home? Bilbo wants to ask. My home is buried under tons upon tons of rock. My home is alone in the royal crypt, with only the dead for company and Arkenstone to light his way through the darkness. What home are you talking about?*
Also known as the fic proving that I have no idea how to write a cheery Christmas story.
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In the waves (you will float) by Issay for beautyqueenforbes
Fandoms: The Vampire Diaries (TV), The Originals (TV)
04 Aug 2016
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Caroline blinks her tears away, sets her shoulders, and presses her lips grimly. It’s time. It’s the make or break moment, her sink or swim. She’s choking on air in this small damned town, her head full of whispers.
“I don’t think I can do this now, mom,” she says. -
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"Something's coming," she whispers, shaken. Her fingers finally find what they've been looking for and suddenly she's safely held by powerful arms and pressed to a chest smelling of forest and wolfsbane.
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The thing they never tell you about families is this: you get to pick your own. Blood and tradition are nothing without love and respect. Love and respect don't need blood and tradition to be real.
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One of Lew's first memories is a deer his grandfather shot and then flayed in the backyard. It wasn't the blood on a green, green grass or the once majestic, now dead and unnaturally still body that made a strong impression on a five year old Lewis Nixon – it was the odor of death.