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let not time deceive you (you cannot conquer time) by Draco_sollicitus
Fandoms: The Old Guard (Movie 2020)
28 Sep 2020
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Nicolo Genova, or Nicky to his American friends, is just trying to get through his PhD program. He's writing his dissertation on Post-classical homoerotic poetry, but he cannot find anyone who speaks an extinct dialect of Arabic so he can translate a famed love poem by a little known poet, al-Kaysani.
Strangely enough, his friend knows a professor on campus who can translate the poem. What starts as a simple request for assistance on his dissertation blossoms into something that Nicky -- shy, reserved Nicky who abandoned his plans for the priesthood months before ordination -- had never imagined for himself: true love.
What he doesn't know is that Dr. Joseph Jones (his handsome, erudite, kind, lovely Joe) is harboring a secret too large for anyone to believe -- and that secret might just cost them everything.
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21 Sep 2020
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Grantaire’s first flower appears when he is two years old. It’s late, for a First Bloom, considering some children are born with their First already etched above their hearts, but Grantaire’s parents are warm and loving and wait to see what sort of child they have born unto the world.
His First Bloom, when it comes, is vibrant patch of yellow carnations. He is too young to know what it means, and his parents don’t tell him, just—withdraw, and a much smaller patch of yellow carnations appears on his mother’s ankle.
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Soulmate AU where things in your life appear as flowers on your skin, and people with hard lives have a lot of flowers to show for it- Language:
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18 Jul 2020
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Sonnets d'Apollon et Hyacinthe by regularvoltaire
Fandoms: Les Misérables - All Media Types, Les Misérables (2012), Les Misérables - Victor Hugo
30 Apr 2018
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For they were many names through the ages; Achilles and Patroclus, Orestes and Pylades, Alexander and Hephaistion, one always leaving the other first towards the peril of mortality. But perhaps most of all they were this: Apollo and Hyacinth— the god and the mortal, the most tragic of them all.
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28 Nov 2018
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Those Permanent Stars by betweentheheavesofstorm
Fandoms: Les Misérables - All Media Types
07 Jun 2015
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Modern Day Zombie Apocalypse AU.
Grantaire is managing by himself when he accidentally joins a group of students striving for mutual survival. There is angst, art, requited and unrequited love. Also a lot of zombies.
The title comes not from Javert's song 'Stars' in the musical, but from the Wilfred Owen poem 'But I was Looking At The Permanent Stars'. A longer explanation of why is available if anyone cares to hear it.
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06 Oct 2017
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Mandala by Dr_Doomsduck
Fandoms: Torchwood, Doctor Who & Related Fandoms, Doctor Who (2005), Doctor Who
23 Jul 2014
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It began, or rather continued because nothing ever truly ends or begins, with a man who grew old but didn’t age. He was standing in a building that wasn’t ever built and looked out to a world that would never turn.
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27 Feb 2017