The High Ground
Collection of incredible fanfics that gives "book" and even "high literature" vibes. Contains (and/or): memorable and beautiful writing style, unique ideas, good storytelling, remarkable characterisation, good character-dynamic, deals with serious issues. These are the kind of fanfics someone could most easily recommend to non-fanfic readers (therefore excluding most A/B/O, kink-fics, typical tropes, creature fics - which are good but you would only give to a more experienced fanfic reader).
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Minerva McGonagall steps in on the awful night the Potters are murdered and arranges to have Harry Potter raised by Sirius Black and his somewhat cousins, the Malfoys. Draco and Harry grow up as almost brothers and everything - well, almost everything - is different.
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When Harry finds Tom Riddle's diary he does not write 'Hello.' He does not write anything at all. He draws. Tom Riddle falls in love with the artwork.
_________________Sketch by sketch, drawing by drawing, the ink Harry pours into the diary manifests as creations in Tom's monochrome world.
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Sharpen Your Teeth by STARSdidathing
Fandoms: The Avengers (Marvel Movies), Marvel Cinematic Universe, Thor (Movies), Iron Man (Movies)
09 May 2021
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A betrayed Tony Stark leaves the Avengers. He's angry and bitter but he's not about to stop being a hero. The problem is that not everyone is happy with his decision.
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The End of Infinity by FriendlyNeighborhoodFangirls
Fandoms: Marvel Cinematic Universe, Iron Man (Movies), Spider-Man: Homecoming (2017), Thor (Movies), Doctor Strange (2016)
09 May 2021
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In 2023, the battle for the universe has been won. At a cost no one can forget, the fight is over—for all but one.
Stephen Strange has an idea. An impossible idea spanning dimensions and timelines, life and death, and the lines of good and evil. But he's played impossible odds before—perhaps he never stopped.All that Loki wanted was to fight, one last time, for the fate of his universe. So when he finds himself fighting for another, crashing into the past, he has a few intended words for the wizard that forced him there.
But not before he finds a boy. Or, more accurately, before the boy finds him.Peter Parker has been waiting for the next mission. He just doesn't expect it to come from the future, armed with a ridiculous story demanding a ridiculous quest. And he doesn't expect not to be able to tell Mr. Stark.
Tony Stark is trying to rebuild from the Civil War, knowing that someday, something will come that he needs to be ready for. And he doesn't know it yet, but two universes are trying to rebuild around him, and that something is already here.
Seven Stones. Five dead. Two universes. And one impossible quest to tie it all back together.
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Draco is on the case of a murderer, but to investigate, he needs a fake relationship - and a kink club play partner. When Hermione volunteers to take the role, both do their best to maintain the lie without letting each other know the truth: neither of them are acting.
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Prompt: Magneto is the ruler of the posthuman world.
His only secret? Charles Xavier, the human he's kept locked in his bedroom ever since his right-hand woman, Mystique, came to him pleading for mercy for her stepbrother, who accepted her mutant form and protected her as a child. The human he started fucking after Mystique was killed in battle, despite the guilt he feels at contaminating even this last promise to the woman who was integral to his life's work and happiness.
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Erik is the grumpiest, most foul tempered worker at Stark industries. His grumpiness is the stuff of legends.
So it's obviously the talk of the office when Erik is being made to go to the company party and he's bringing his husband. There's rumors flying round about how much of a masochist or equally antisocial bastard Erik's husband must be to put up with him. Others think he must be a meek mouse perhaps bullied by Erik.
What they weren't expecting was the confident, charming, adorable and unbelievably nice Charles that turns up on Erik's arm. What they certainly weren't expecting was how much Erik obviously adores his husband and how happy he is to let others see this.
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Based on a prompt from the kink meme.
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- Part 1 of Rumor Mill verse
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James Flint had yet to meet a conversation he couldn't avoid.
John Silver had yet to meet a routine he couldn't disrupt.
(post-show domesticity, with oranges)
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- Part 1 of orange
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"Count your blessings, keep them sweet is my advice"
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A season 2 Road to El Dorado AU where Flint and Silver say "fuck it" to the Warship, wander through the wilderness, and get mistaken for Gods.
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When Alex Summers broke out of supermax to rescue his stupid kid brother, he had no idea it was going to be so fucking complicated.