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• chance or choice or a fiery falling star by distancing_reality for TheSunflowersQueen

  Fandoms: Much Ado About Nothing - Shakespeare  

  • Teen And Up Audiences
  • No Archive Warnings Apply
  • F/M
  • Complete Work

  07 Jan 2026

  Tags

  • No Archive Warnings Apply
  • Hero/Don John (Much Ado About Nothing)
  • Beatrice & Hero (Much Ado About Nothing)
  • Hero (Much Ado About Nothing)
  • Don John (Much Ado About Nothing)
  • Beatrice (Much Ado About Nothing)
  • Leonato (Much Ado About Nothing)
  • Claudio (Much Ado About Nothing)
  • Benedick (Much Ado About Nothing)
  • Margaret (Much Ado About Nothing)
  • Don Pedro (Much Ado About Nothing)
  • Antonio (Much Ado About Nothing)
  • Original Female Character(s)
  • Original Male Character(s)
  • Forced Marriage
  • Period-Typical Sexism
  • Enemies to Lovers
  • Cruelty to Tenderness
  • Angst with a Happy Ending
  • Children of Characters
  • Future Fic
  • Time Travel
  • Hurt/Comfort
  • Not Canon Compliant
  • Religious Imagery & Symbolism
  • Hero/John Gift Exchange 2k25

  Summary

  Hero is humiliated at her first wedding and she must make a life-altering choice at her second: marry Claudio or marry Don John—the man who set all the misery in her life in motion. What if a falling star gives her a second chance? The opportunity to go back in time and do things differently. And, how does one deal with personal grief? Hero must be strong in order to survive.

  Or

  A Much Ado About Nothing Time Travel Fanfic for the 2k25 Hero/John Gift Exchange!!

  Language:

  English

  Words:

  21,558

  Chapters:

  2/2

  Comments:

  6

  Kudos:

  12

  Bookmarks:

  2

  Hits:

  133

• [playlist] hearts like wildflowers by Persephatta by distancing_reality for Persephatta

  Fandoms: Much Ado About Nothing - Shakespeare  

  • Not Rated
  • No Archive Warnings Apply
  • F/M
  • Complete Work

  06 Jan 2026

  Tags

  • No Archive Warnings Apply
  • Hero/Don John (Much Ado About Nothing)
  • Playlist
  • Hero/John Gift Exchange 2k25
  • Fanwork of a Fanwork

  Language:

  English

  Words:

  7,520

  Chapters:

  1/1

  Comments:

  1

  Kudos:

  1

  Hits:

  23

• hearth fire or frost by distancing_reality for winterrhayle

  Fandoms: Lunar Chronicles - Marissa Meyer  

  • General Audiences
  • No Archive Warnings Apply
  • F/F
  • Complete Work

  01 Sep 2025

  Tags

  • No Archive Warnings Apply
  • Scarlet Benoit/Winter Hayle-Blackburn
  • Jacin Clay & Winter Hayle-Blackburn
  • Scarlet Benoit
  • Winter Hayle-Blackburn
  • Jacin Clay
  • The Rampion Crew - Character
  • TLC Ship Weeks 2025
  • Parallel Hearts
  • Free day
  • Winlet - Freeform
  • Not Canon Compliant
  • No cheating
  • Hurt/Comfort
  • Angst
  • rampion crew dynamics
  • Friendship
  • Friends to Lovers
  • Takes Place After Winter
  • Future Fic
  • Longing
  • Mutual Pining
  • Yearning
  • Rarepair
  • Possessive Scarlet Benoit
  • Jacin is always having a bad day
  • Christmas
  • Snow
  • Winter
  • Holidays

  Summary

  It's been almost a year since the war on Luna ended, but Scarlet still hasn't found a rhythm. She invites her friends to join her for the holidays to chase away her loneliness. Amid holiday chaos, old wounds, and fleeting touches, Scarlet finds herself drawn to Winter. Can two parallel hearts bridge the rift between before sorrow, and after?

  Series

  • Part 4 of Goldie's TLC Ship Weeks 2025

  Language:

  English

  Words:

  4,208

  Chapters:

  1/1

  Comments:

  2

  Kudos:

  6

  Bookmarks:

  1

  Hits:

  70

• all it takes is you and me by distancing_reality

  Fandoms: Lunar Chronicles - Marissa Meyer  

  • General Audiences
  • No Archive Warnings Apply
  • F/M
  • Complete Work

  29 Aug 2025

  Tags

  • No Archive Warnings Apply
  • Kai/Linh Cinder
  • Iko & Linh Cinder
  • Established Canon Couples
  • Linh Cinder
  • Kai (Lunar Chronicles)
  • Iko (Lunar Chronicles)
  • Original Male Character(s)
  • TLC Ship Weeks 2025
  • Phoenix - Freeform
  • Happily Ever After
  • prosperity
  • kaider
  • Hurt/Comfort
  • Angst
  • Fluff and Angst
  • The whole gang is here
  • rampion crew dynamics
  • Friendship
  • Not Canon Compliant
  • Takes Place After Winter
  • Future Fic
  • Second Gen Fic
  • Kids of the Cast
  • Married Life
  • Giving Birth
  • Pregnancy
  • Protective Linh Cinder
  • Parenthood
  • Minor Grief/Mourning

  Summary

  Cinder holds her newborn baby as fireworks burst and New Beijing celebrates. Beneath her joy stirs a single fear: can she shield her child from the crushing expectations that shaped her own life? And what will Kai put first: his obligations, or love?

  Series

  • Part 3 of Goldie's TLC Ship Weeks 2025

  Language:

  English

  Words:

  5,427

  Chapters:

  1/1

  Comments:

  6

  Kudos:

  25

  Bookmarks:

  5

  Hits:

  471

• tooth and claw and every frayed thread by distancing_reality

  Fandoms: Lunar Chronicles - Marissa Meyer  

  • Mature
  • Graphic Depictions Of Violence, Major Character Death
  • F/M
  • Complete Work

  24 Aug 2025

  Tags

  • Graphic Depictions Of Violence
  • Major Character Death
  • Scarlet Benoit/Wolf | Ze'ev Kesley
  • Michelle Benoit & Scarlet Benoit
  • Scarlet Benoit
  • Wolf | Ze'ev Kesley
  • Ran Kesley
  • Michelle Benoit (mentioned)
  • TLC Ship Weeks 2025
  • nurture
  • Family
  • Danger
  • Wolflet
  • Not Canon Compliant
  • Canon-Typical Violence
  • Canon Rewrite
  • Blood and Gore
  • Cinder and Thorne have a small cameo
  • Angst
  • Grief/Mourning
  • Hurt/Comfort
  • Book 2: Scarlet (Lunar Chronicles)
  • borrowing from the source material

  Summary

  Blood and pain and loss are all-consuming as Scarlet flees through the ruined opera house. She has no choice but to face the man-turned-wolf. Will he devour her, or will she be the one to bring him back from the brink? Fear and hope are equally as dangerous.

  A rewrite of the opera house scene in book 2

  Series

  • Part 2 of Goldie's TLC Ship Weeks 2025

  Language:

  English

  Words:

  4,325

  Chapters:

  1/1

  Comments:

  2

  Kudos:

  13

  Hits:

  131