notdecays
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On Harry repeating the actions of his abusers and cyclical violence by notdecays
Fandoms: Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling
20 Feb 2026
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An essay on cycles of abuse in HP, covering characters like Harry, Sirius, Snape, Bellatrix, Umbridge, Tom Riddle, and Merope Gaunt.
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- Part 8 of Unweaving Canon
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"In Exactly The Same Chair": Harry following in Sirius and Lily's footsteps in OoTP by notdecays
Fandoms: Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling
25 Dec 2025
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An essay analyzing details surrounding the dynamics between Sirius, Harry, Lily, and Snape, and how the present echoes the past, particularly focusing on Snape's Worst Memory.
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Because if you put together the puzzle pieces, the text reveals that during Harry's O.W.L.s - right when Voldemort sends Harry the vision that will lead to Sirius's death - Harry was sitting in the same exact chair that Sirius was during the Marauders' own O.W.L.s in Snape's Worst Memory.
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- Part 7 of Unweaving Canon
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- English
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- 4,804
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- 1/1
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Did JKR intend Jily to be read as abusive? by notdecays
Fandoms: Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling
25 Dec 2025
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An essay on JKR's intent regarding James and Lily's romantic relationship.
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- Part 6 of Unweaving Canon
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Unweaving Canon Lily Evans: Master of Death by notdecays
Fandoms: Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling
10 Dec 2024
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An essay exploring how the Harry Potter text frames Lily Evans as the true Master of Death, and Death itself.
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- Part 5 of Unweaving Canon
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For his eighteenth birthday, Harry gets a party, a cake, and his godfather back from the dead.
(Or: Sirius, Remus, and Harry try to create a family. It isn't easy.)
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caught mistakes in the sidewalk by orphan_account
Fandoms: Percy Jackson and the Olympians - Rick Riordan, Percy Jackson and the Olympians & Related Fandoms - All Media Types
29 Jan 2020
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She doesn’t mean for it to come out as sincere and vulnerable as it does, or maybe she doesn’t mean for it to come out at all. Because that's the real issue, isn't it? Everybody leaves Annabeth Chase. This fact is as ingrained into Annabeth as her own name.
(For the prompts against a wall kiss and "Okay, so maybe I didn't see that coming.")
Bookmarked by notdecays
11 Feb 2026
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you come through like a light by orphan_account
Fandoms: Percy Jackson and the Olympians & Related Fandoms - All Media Types, Percy Jackson and the Olympians - Rick Riordan
17 Mar 2020
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It’s his girlfriend, in his clothes, and he can’t properly see her in them right now, but he knows she looks great.
(For the prompts “Have you seen my hoodie?” “Noo.” “You’re wearing it, aren’t you?” and kiss on the forehead)
Bookmarked by notdecays
11 Feb 2026
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a bad habit (how did it come to this?) by fleezerweezer
Fandoms: Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid
08 Feb 2026
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Ilya Rozanov has had the same bad habit for most of his life. When Shane takes it away from him, he falls down a rabbit hole of finding a replacement. Until he ends up on the worst one.
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4 bad habits and 1 that almost kills him.
Bookmarked by notdecays
09 Feb 2026
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headfirst into shallow pools by facingthenorthwind (spacegandalf), StormVandal
Fandoms: Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid
24 Feb 2026
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Shane returns from the showers to find the locker room far more animated than when he left it. Everyone has their phones out, and when he sees Shane coming, JJ says, “Câlisse, Hollander, about fucking time! Ilya Rozanov got caught kissing a man.”
After the tuna melt debacle, but before Rose, Ilya makes the reckless decision to go to a gay bar to take his mind off of Shane. When photographs get published, Shane has a realization and devises a plan: he's going to ask Ilya Rozanov to marry him.
Ilya's going through enough without things he can't have being dangled in front of him. He needs to figure out a different way to avoid going home, because eventually Shane Hollander will realize what Ilya already knows: Ilya isn't worth what Shane wants to do for him.
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- Part 1 of shallow pools-verse
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 37,280
- Chapters:
- 10/10
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- 2
- Comments:
- 492
- Kudos:
- 2,355
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Bookmarked by notdecays
09 Feb 2026
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A Magic Beyond All We Do Here by keepmycandleburning
Fandoms: Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling
28 Jun 2025
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Voldemort raised the Elder Wand, holding it as delicately and precisely as a conductor’s baton. / “Ah, music,” [Dumbledore] said, wiping his eyes. “A magic beyond all we do here!”
Memories of Voldemort and Bellatrix picking black raspberries and falling in love at the seaside interspersed with a series of dementor encounters in Azkaban.
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- Part 2 of My Favorites
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 4,163
- Chapters:
- 1/1
- Collections:
- 1
- Comments:
- 15
- Kudos:
- 21
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- 3
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- 344
Bookmarked by notdecays
07 Feb 2026