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A Private Reason for This by Femme (femmequixotic) for dicta_contrion
Fandoms: Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling
31 Dec 2014
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When the wife of a star politician in the Scottish Ministry turns up dead just outside Hogsmeade, Draco Malfoy and his murder investigation team are called in from the Edinburgh Auror force to find her killer. What DCI Malfoy doesn't expect, however, is to have an ex from two decades past end up in his murder room, endangering not only his case, but also his heart.
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12 Feb 2026
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Of course Ilya had known that Shane would come back but it was gratifying, still, the text from Jane, Can we meet up when you’re here tomorrow, I don’t care where. I really need to see you. The intimation, probably accidental, that Shane was so very desperate he was open to the idea of Ilya fucking him in the street. Ilya typed and deleted many potential replies, which was not characteristic of him.
(Or: Shane gets blackmailed. Ilya handles it.)
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07 Feb 2026
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Lovers, or, English is a damn funny language by Basingstoke
Fandoms: Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid
17 Feb 2026
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Ilya asked Shane’s father while Shane and his mother were talking outside: “Is boyfriends correct? Lovers is incorrect, but I am not sure what is correct.”
“Well,” Mr. Hollander said. “‘Lovers’ is usually used for, hm, a mistress or an affair. Something kind of sordid. Though--you would say Romeo and Juliet is a play about two lovers,” he said. He paused his knife on the chopping board. “Somehow that’s right and using it for real people isn’t right. English is a damn funny language, Ilya."
“Yes,” Ilya said from the bottom of his heart.
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05 Feb 2026
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hilarious - sweet - heartrending by turns and sometimes all at once
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In the moments that it took the new emperor to slide his sword out from the corpse of his brother, Tanju came to the only possible decision. He threw himself onto the ground and prostrated himself—knees, elbows, forehead all desperately kissing the cool marble—even as he cried into it, "Long live the emperor!"
Ardashir's boots came into view first, then the tip of his sword, held loosely at his side, dripping a trail of blood behind him. When he stopped walking, the drips began to gather into a pool. "You wish me to live long?"
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In the aftermath of a bloody coup, the emperor's consort finds himself desperate to stay alive. His body and his magic are all he has to offer, for the one who possesses these will also possess the throne.
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Tobias had always known he'd marry without the luxury of doing it for love; he just hadn't realized how hard it could be.
Nor that, upon his partner's death, he'd be expected to grit his teeth and do it all over again.
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Why one small American town won’t stop stoning its residents to death by Charlotte_Stant for sophiahelix
Fandoms: The Lottery - Shirley Jackson, The New Yorker RPF
24 Dec 2025
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The picturesque village of Buell, Maine is one of the last in the United States to continue the tradition of the “harvest” or “prosperity” lottery. Its residents insist the lottery makes them stronger, even as condemnation from outsiders grows.
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Smooth Water All Our Days by 20thcenturyvole for pendrecarc
Fandoms: Temeraire - Naomi Novik
12 Mar 2021
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Laurence desires nothing more than to retire to Tharkay's estate and help Temeraire get to Parliament, for what more could he want than a place in Britain with space enough for a dragon, and the company of a dear friend? But wars rarely end so neatly. Bellicose lords, Bourbon princes, errant heirs and shadowy forces threaten to undermine the very peace that Laurence and Temeraire fought to obtain, and ruin the happiness that Laurence was just beginning to glimpse.
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Archie and Saul have been growing closer lately, and people are starting to get the wrong ideas. Or are they wrong? Archie has some things to figure out.
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Pilot Episode by Fiona15351 for ropememory
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
08 Mar 2025
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Sometimes, as a hyper-advanced transport bot pilot, there are things that you can’t do: like physically posing as a human and providing in-person safety and security for your humans.
Sometimes there are things you didn’t realize you could do until you tried: befriending a rogue SecUnit. Watching—and enjoying—fictional media with said SecUnit.
Perihelion finds workarounds for the first category and gathers novel data on the second.
(Perihelion's perspective on the first four chapters of "Artificial Condition.")
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Wear This For My Sake by ribbons for PerfectlySteadfast
Fandoms: England Series - K. J. Charles
25 Feb 2023
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“If you intend to start sending me posies with ‘Wear this for my sake’ cards, I shall assault you.” – Daniel da Silva to Archie Curtis, in Think of England
Archie doesn’t like being thought of as incapable. But, for Daniel, he will work at anything, anywhere, and the hell with what people might think.
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30 Dec 2025
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Sweet bird, that shun’st the noise of folly by ribbons for PerfectlySteadfast
Fandoms: David Blaize - E. F. Benson, England Series - K. J. Charles, The Will Darling Adventures - K. J. Charles
17 Jul 2022
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“But, O Lord, how I love my friends: isn’t that enough for a chap till he falls in love in the regular way? If I’d got to kiss somebody I’d kiss one of them.” —David Blaize of King’s
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30 Dec 2025
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A Convenient Case by PerfectlySteadfast for KannaOphelia
Fandoms: Nero Wolfe - Rex Stout
19 Jan 2023
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When Saul is in danger, Archie finds himself nursing a protective streak.
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29 Dec 2025
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We Two Boys by Galadriel1010 for PerfectlySteadfast
Fandoms: David Blaize - E. F. Benson
26 Feb 2022
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Frank accepts an invitation from the baron of a remote Northumberland estate to dig what might be, but probably aren't, Roman remains. When he gets there, though, he finds that the archaeology is the least interesting thing about the estate. Artie, meanwhile, is still working out who he is, and where being a baron fits into all of that. Together they find a kindred spirit, a way forwards, and a chance at love.
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29 Dec 2025
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When Edmund Blackadder, bloodied from shrapnel and ears ringing from the shelling, stumbled over Captain Darling's body caught in a tangle of barbed wire, he did not, despite many assurances towards it over the years, laugh, clap, and dance.
Instead, Blackadder took in the dark-wet definitely-not-mud stain spread all over Darling's uniformed chest, the pistol lax in his grip, his unseeing eyes turned up towards the overcast sky, and said, "oh, bloody buggering hell.""Quite," agreed Darling, squinting down at his own corpse; and, despite the unfortunate circumstances, took great pleasure in hearing Blackadder scream like a little girl.
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You Wired Me Awake by thefourthvine for Best_Beloved
Fandoms: Star Trek: Alternate Original Series (Movies)
16 Mar 2025
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Jim's a lone wolf, and that's just one of the many things about him the world wants to change. The Academy is the place that's supposed to make that change happen. It's not going to go like they expected.
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Like Puzzle Pieces from the Clay by Pun for reine_des_corbeaux
Fandoms: Nicked - M. T. Anderson
17 Dec 2025
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Tyun cocked his head to one side. “Do you know any love stories with happy endings, Dreamer?” he asked. He was wearing only his sirwal; the sea spray was damp on his skin which shone in the sun, not unlike the silvery fins of the dolphins. “The boy and the dolphin should have run away long before the authorities came after them. He could have carried the boy out to sea and never returned.”
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26 Dec 2025
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Beautiful postscript to one of my favorite books.
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Leo begins a new chapter in his life by investigating the villagers of Wychcomb St. Mary. There’s rather more pie shenanigans than he expected.
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26 Dec 2025
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After crashing his car in a blizzard, Robby wakes up in the care of Dennis Whitaker, the closet thing to a doctor in Amish country.
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25 Dec 2025