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02 Jan 2024
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Lord of heaven and earth blessed us all with astelso 🙏
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Summer of 1978. There is a lycanthropy epidemic in Britain. The Dark Lord is gathering forces. The Order of the Phoenix is preparing for fighting. Sirius Black has no idea about any of that – he just finished Hogwarts with his two best friends, the future is bright and endless before him, and he is just looking for a bit of fun before adult life is going to start – but somehow, he ends up right in the middle of a secret war. All because of a handsome stranger that, for some reason, saves his life.
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When he's seven years old, Sirius Black has a brief encounter with a strange boy in the woods, who, in their short exchange, teaches him an important lesson about the nature of the Universe, only to then disappear without a trace.
Nine years later, Sirius, along with his two best friends, is a student away at boarding school, with a brand new transfer student as his roommmate--a foul-mouthed, astronomy nerd named Remus Lupin.
Between school, hormones, relationships, and the fact that he is keeping a (magical) secret away from everyone--Sirius' year starts to go a little off the rails.
Not to mention, there's something familiar about that Remus Lupin kid that he just can't seem to shake...
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27 Dec 2023
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stephen hawking wrote his universe in a nutshell mizdiz wrote this
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A Black Mass Over Highway Ninety by greenvlvetcouch (mpr3g)
Fandoms: Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling
13 Nov 2023
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Remus loves Sirius, and Sirius loves Remus.
That’s just the way it is—call it a law of the universe or just the way the world works—but after four years away, Remus gets a call from Sirius asking him if he remembers a promise they made freshman year.
And, of course, Remus remembers. How could he not?
Something like a love story from the summer of 1978, full of Southern Cuts and Old Style, shitty motel rooms, and questionable decisions. Poor excuse for poetry and late night dancing, a trip to Vegas, and one too many honeymoon suites.
Cherry pop rocks, too-tight pants, and a road trip across the U.S.
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- Part 2 of HIGHWAY NINETY
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- English
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- 243,539
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- 21/21
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25 Dec 2023
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fuck me sideways
in this house we stand for the MOONY waist tattoo and kneel for the velvet pants 🙏
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wading in waist-high water by colgatebluemintygel for grumposaur
Fandoms: Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling
09 Jun 2022
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Remus is a PhD student and hobbyist baker who finds himself adrift following his father’s death. On a whim, he enters the Great British Bake Off and is swept up in a flurry of curdled custard, shrunken souffle, and under-proved dough. Remus expects to be challenged and to embarrass himself on public television. What he doesn’t account for are the friendships he develops with the other contestants and the deep connection he forms with his teenage crush, Sirius Black: charming ex-boy band member and Bake Off presenter.
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Sirius groans, dropping his head back into his hands. “It’s the dough,” he mumbles into the skin of his palms. “It’s the kneading. It’s his hands. They’re obscene.”
Lily laughs. “They are a bit, aren’t they?”
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- Part 1 of wading in waist-high water
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- English
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- 82,048
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- 9/9
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16 Dec 2023
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this WORK IS OSCENE AND IM OBSESSED gOD do I LOVE British bake off
(beating the shit out of past-me who thought this won't be a lovely one)
this is a lovely gorgeous absolutely mouth watering (in all senses) work ((the neck kisses EXCUSE ME?))
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Bravery, sometimes, is the ending just as much as the beginning. Remus, Sirius, and a series of choices.
Or, a love story—backwards and forwards.
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It's probably the most foolish, reckless, dangerous thing Sirius Black has ever done in a lifetime of foolish and reckless and dangerous things... but he takes one look at Harry and knows it's the only choice he can make.
(or: 'sirius escapes azkaban early & accidentally kidnaps harry' au)- Language:
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12 Dec 2023
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probably God tier reference for after Azkaban sirius/remus interaction and Harry as a child for me.
the artwork 🤌 exquisite sensual breaking me apart with FEELS
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When Harry wakes up in an alternate timeline--a timeline where Voldemort was defeated long before the first war--he discovers everything is different. His parents, his godfather, his friends--and him. Harry must deal with the consequences of who he would have been if he had been raised by his parents, and figure out where he stands with his casual hook up, Draco Malfoy.
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- Part 1 of White Knight
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- English
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- 10/10
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10 Dec 2023
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this was something
love the time travelling mechanism!
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If Harry’s honest, the last thing he needs is a house full of Draco Malfoy, but partners are partners, and perhaps, the thing he wants the least will turn out to be absolutely everything. 2021 advent fic, completed.
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09 Dec 2023
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my favourite characterization and fuck would I loved to pay a visit to H for a Grimmauld tour
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Looking at Harry Potter, the Savior of the Wizarding World, curled in on himself on a classroom floor, Draco can't help but think of that scared sixteen-year-old version of himself. All he wanted was for someone to help, to save him from his own choices. And here he is, with Harry Potter pooled before him like blood on tile, needing the same.
Draco takes a hesitant step forward. He's on the edge of something, though he doesn't know what it is yet. But there's a choice before him, one he almost doesn't want to make.
Draco's been the potions master at Hogwarts for four years. At the beginning of his fifth year, everything looks like it'll be smooth sailing. That is, until the new Defense against the Dark Arts teacher arrives and throws all of Draco's well-considered plans out the window.
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The answer to the age-old question, "What if instead of a scratch on the arm, Buckbeak had stomped on Draco's head instead and caused tragic memory loss?"
It was a truth universally acknowledged that the path to reforming a Slytherin prince never did run smooth.
Year 5 Order of the Phoenix ongoing
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"I may be a jerk, Potter... but I'm not a monster."
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All his life Draco has had his parents' voices in his head leading him down a path of pureblood ideals and traditions, but there is another voice, one that comes out of a radio, that urges him to question his family's ideals piece by piece until he can speak with his own words and stand on his own feet.
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16 Nov 2023
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terribly cleverly written, pop cultural references, philosophy, expansion of the universe.
brilliant. masterpiece.as all of lunars' works
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“Won’t your silk trousers be ruined in the wet sand?” Potter asked after several silent moments, as if he’d been trying to decide on what to say after weeks of not talking again.
“They’re wool, actually,” Draco said simply, moving his leg closer to Potter to let him see for himself. The Gryffindor was obviously in distress and maybe even some pain, and if taking it out on Draco right now helped him, Draco would let him. Maybe he really did have a crush on the poor bastard. “I’m sorry.”
“What?” Potter’s voice sounded less venomous now.
“That you got picked,” Draco explained, “I can’t believe they’re making you participate. And I honestly hope you don’t die.”
Potter watched him in confusion, “You don’t think I put my name in?”
Draco laughed and kept looking ahead, “You would rather eat slugs.”
Or: Draco Malfoy grew up during the summer of '94 and Harry Potter is a sucker for forgiving people.
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30 Oct 2023
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АААААAAAAAA
Best of the fucking best no extra words needed
slytherion ATE
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A single wink at Malfoy Manor changes the course of the war.
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ALTERNATE UNIVERSE - HOGWARTS
Crowley couldn't understand how, for so many years, he had considered Lucifer his best friend when Aziraphale was right there at his side.
Or: How Lucifer becomes Satan and is ready to take Crowley with him, voluntarily or not.
Welcome to my very self-indulgent Hogwarts AU, in which Aziraphale and Crowley get to be good friends and drink cocoa in the Great Hall, until everything goes to shit.(NOT a crossover)
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- 12/12
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25 Oct 2023
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the emotional damage💔 of this one on my poor poor heart
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Villainous by IneffablePenguin
Fandoms: Good Omens - Neil Gaiman & Terry Pratchett, Good Omens (TV)
01 Nov 2021
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{Once Upon A Time…
There was a red-haired sorcerer who lived alone in a high tower, and a blond prince who lived in a palace full of people. And they were both of them desperately lonely.
The Kingdoms of Empyrion and the Sorcerers of Apollyon have hated each other for hundreds of years, ever since the Great War. They do not interact, other than to occasionally try to kill one another. And they certainly do not make friends.
Crow is an exhausted sorcerer who just wants everyone to leave him the hell alone: for the Sorcerer’s Council to stop harassing him to live up to his potential, and for wannabe Empyrion Heroes to stop attacking his tower to try and kill him. Until one day when he meets Prince Azra of the High Fells, who doesn’t behave anything like he’s supposed to…
Part fairy tale, part fantasy, all love story. There’s magic, and grand romantic gestures, and Heroes and a handsome Prince, and a Villain. There are even some wild heroics, though not necessarily from who you would expect. At its core it’s simply about two (relatively) sane people living in a mad world who find each other.
The smut isn’t until later chapters.}
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- Part 1 of Tales From the Rookery
- Language:
- English
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- 216,600
- Chapters:
- 31/31
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- 16
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21 Oct 2023
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brilliant fairy tail extremely smartly written and composed
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Petrichor & Parchment by MrsNoggin
Fandoms: Good Omens - Neil Gaiman & Terry Pratchett, Good Omens (TV)
20 Dec 2019
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“Mr. Crowley, I presume?” Aziraphale asked in lieu of an introduction, which was not forthcoming. The guy hadn’t even removed his sunglasses. Oh God, he had a tattoo on his face. Aziraphale wasn’t one to judge, but… what kind of gardener had a snake tattoo on his face?
Now also available as a podfic from Literarion
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- Part 1 of Petrichor & Parchment
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On Espionage and Prophecy (or How to Accidentally, but Wholly, Fall in Love With a Soho Bookseller) by RockSaltAndRoll
Fandoms: Good Omens (TV)
17 Nov 2019
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1941 is the London Blitz and the year that MI5 really comes into its own with the now infamous ‘double cross’ system. The service keep tabs on suspects, root out enemy agents and try to turn them into doubles.
Anthony J Crowley is fucking great at this job. He can be sneaky, underhanded and damn ruthless but also charming and kind. It’s what makes him good at turning.
Aziraphale is just a regular Soho bookseller who loves his shop and books and good food and wine when he’s approached by a woman claiming to be MI5, wanting to recruit him for espionage. The poor man is too trusting and gets the shock of his life when he’s approached by a charming but dangerous-looking man also claiming to be MI5.
Crowley recruits Aziraphale to double cross a double crosser and Aziraphale takes to espionage like a duck to water.
Danger, hijinks, and sex ensue.
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- Part 1 of Espionage and Omens