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It's Bittersweet (This Thing Called Love) by mindlessramblings
Fandoms: Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling
10 Aug 2025
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I love you.
Three simple words. Eight letters. And yet, for Draco, they hurt more than any curse.
In the hush before dawn, Draco clings to the fleeting warmth of Harry’s touch, knowing that time is slipping through his fingers. Outside, war looms on the horizon, threatening to shatter everything they’ve built in secret.
But love isn’t easily silenced. And some hearts refuse to let go.
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- Part 1 of Bittersweet
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Some Potions Take Time (Some Hearts Do Too) by mindlessramblings
Fandoms: Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling
29 Jul 2025
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Remus wasn’t sure when he’d started anticipating those moments - the rare flickers of approval and kindness veiled in thorns. But somehow, they had begun to matter.
Remus swallowed, unsure whether the tightness in his chest was pride or discomfort. “I suppose I should thank you,” he said, voice low. “Though it feels undeserved.”
“If you are thanking me,” Snape murmured, “do it properly. Don’t mumble like you’ve been forced at wandpoint.”
In their final year at Hogwarts, Severus Snape and Remus Lupin are forced to work together. With a history steeped in mistrust and silence, the two boys are forced into close quarters.
But in a world where war looms and loyalties fracture, love is a dangerous potion. And for Severus and Remus, the question becomes: can something so delicate survive the fire?
(A companion piece to When Daylight Dies, but can be read as a standalone).
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- Part 2 of Transmutation
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In a world where there are four Potters instead of three, and where Voldemort makes a different choice upon hearing a prophecy, Harry Potter's life takes a sharp turn off the path decided for him by Dumbledore. What repercussions will this have on Magical Britain?
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- Part 1 of Transmutation
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It's a Bittersweet Thing (Being Loved) by mindlessramblings
Fandoms: Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling
14 Feb 2022
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The one-shot that It's Bittersweet (This Thing Called Love) is based on.
Who knew that those eight little letters, forming three innocent words, could make someone hurt so much?
It was approaching fast… The dawn before the new day and this precious time alone with his Harry was trickling by quicker than he could blink.
And then those dreaded words fell from Harry's beautiful lips. "I think it's time that we left."
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- Part 2 of Bittersweet
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To bridge this void of loneliness (or, for want of you) by mindlessramblings
Fandoms: Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling
10 Nov 2020
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Nearly six years after the Battle of Hogwarts, Harry can finally live his life the way he wants to. The question is, however: will he ever stop being a coward?
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Bittersweet: a feeling that combines both happiness and sadness, simultaneously. The ache of something beautiful that’s touched by loss,
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Transmutation: the action of changing or the state of being changed into another form.
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Down in a Dead Man's Town by holyfudgemonkeys (erraticallyinspired)
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
29 Jan 2023
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When Steve nearly runs over Will Byers on that fateful night in 1983, he doesn’t expect offering him a ride home would result in both of them being hunted into another dimension. Surviving there is hard. Adapting to normal life again is even harder. His old self settles like an ill-fitting suit, and there’s no room for nightmares and fear and his new bond with Will in it. As he struggles to find a new normal he can live with, Steve finds himself befriending a bunch of kids and maybe (definitely) falling in love with a local weed dealer.
A Stranger Things Big Bang fic
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16 Feb 2026
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Our Love for You is Perennial (or How Summer and Winter transcend time for Spring) by HyacinthBlue169
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
18 Nov 2024
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They hadn’t meant to find each other.
It was completely accidental, a boringly mundane moment. All they’d done was look at each other.
At the same time.
Across the cafeteria.
And it clicked.
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Steve Harrington is wasting away at Scoops Ahoy, striking out on every girl that comes by, when an unlikely duo walks through the door. Billy Hargrove and Eddie Munson are trouble separately, but together they pose an even greater mystery. One that Steve doesn't even want to begin to solve. So why can't Steve just tell them to fuck off, and why is he leading them to the break-room to "talk", and why are they looking at him like he's gone and hung the moon and painted the stars?-or-
Billy and Eddie are weak and Steve is the most delectable thing on the menu. And also there's time travel.
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16 Feb 2026
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“You are immediately, horribly down bad for our neighbor.” Robin stated, staring him in the eyes. “It’s amazing. He was flirting with you so hard, your face is the same shade as our sign.” He assumed she meant the red “Right Side Up” on their main sign, and he rolled his eyes.
“He wasn’t flirting with me, Robin. He was being nice. We’re neighbors.” Steve attempted to walk back towards his office, but Robin boxed him in. “Denial isn’t a good look on you, Steve.”
Or; Steve owns a quaint little shop downtown. His new neighbor, the owner of a Tattoo parlor, is stupidly distracting. And infuriatingly attractive.
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- Part 1 of Shop Next Door
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15 Feb 2026
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In November 1984, Eddie Munson makes a late-night run to the only 24-hour diner in the area surrounding Hawkins. He expects a few truckers, maybe another night owl like him. What he doesn't expect is to run into Steve Harrington, looking beat to shit and in desperate need of a cigarette (or three). He doesn't expect to keep running into him in that same diner, always in the dead of night. Doesn't expect something like friendship to form between them.
July of 1985, Steve invites Eddie to follow him home. And who is he to say no? Hell, he'll take whatever he can get. ('Whatever' ends up being a package deal of sex, emotions, pancakes, and maybe something more).
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The one where Steve can't sleep, and Eddie just wants a milkshake. (Alternate meeting AU)
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- Part 1 of The Way the Ocean Loves the Moon
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15 Feb 2026
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Walking Scott Street, Feeling Like a Stranger by ctozier
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
20 Feb 2023
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“Eddie!” Steve yelled out, eyes focusing on him, ignoring the bats swarming around them.
He saw Eddie collapse to the ground. His heart felt like it stopped, he needed to help him. His thoughts started to get more frantic and drowsy as the world slowly started fading in front of him, his vision filling with black dots.
Or: Steve and Eddie travel back to season 3.
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- Part 1 of Sendin' smoke signals
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15 Feb 2026