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its the 1920s. bruce sees a strange man in the rain.
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When Ryou, a polite bank teller who does what's expected of him, tires of his comfortable lifestyle, he seeks out ways to make life more exciting. After getting a taste of the night life in a Domino speakeasy, Ryou starts to meet new and interesting people, but finds himself slipping into a side of Domino he had no idea existed; A side where only the meanest of criminals come out on top.
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Ties That Bind: Sparks in the Ashes by artoni for Oniwanbashu
Fandoms: Transformers - All Media Types
08 Aug 2022
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Building off of Artsy Hobbitses' Humaformers AU.
Just after the Great War, the Quintessons invaded Earth and enslaved the human race. They would hold sway for twenty-five years, give or take, during which they performed experiments on the world, its people, and harvested both for resources.
In a war-scarred London, a man named Victor Prentiss remembers what it means to have hope.
Content warnings are per chapter, but general CWs are violence, trauma, death, and nonconsensual human experimentation.
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How 'Bout a Dance? by springair
Fandoms: Harry Potter and the Cursed Child - Thorne & Rowling, Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling
07 Aug 2022
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They dance until they’re the only two left in the club, when the band’s finished playing and the bar is shut up. Astoria’s head is on Draco’s shoulder and they waltz around the Speak, the dim lights making everything feel just right.
He doesn’t think twice about asking her back to his, and she doesn’t hesitate when she says yes.
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Growing up poor in an old farming village, Hinata never held grand aspirations. Prospects of love don't sway her, however. She is always searching for something-someone-even long after it's gone. SasuHina. One-sided KakaHina.
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Loaded God Complex by roseclaw
Fandoms: 陈情令 | The Untamed (TV), 魔道祖师 - 墨香铜臭 | Módào Zǔshī - Mòxiāng Tóngxiù
07 Aug 2022
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Set in 1920s NYC Chinatown.
Private detective Jiang Cheng is investigating two suspicious deaths in Chinatown - people drained completely of blood and missing a heart - when he meets vampire Nie Huaisang, also investigating.
For the MDZS WIP Bang. This is completely written and will be updated on a schedule.
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- Part 2 of The City that Never Sleeps
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It was the Roaring Twenties and Stede Bonnet was a wealthy land owner from New Zealand. He was as rich as could be and lived a comfortable life. But comfortable does not mean happy.
Stuck in a loveless marriage with the need to get away, Stede decided to move to the land of the free to get into the bootlegging business and opened a Speakeasy. It was a rocky start, but he eventually got the hang of it and it was going great. That is until the notorious Mafia boss, Blackbeard, learned about him and gained an interest in who he was.
At first the interest came from the story of a fancy man selling illegal alcohol, but then it grew after news came out that the same fancy man had some blood on his hands.
Then it became something more when it turned out the man was actually horrible at his job.
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Dr. Kim Taehyung goes to Egypt in search of an artifact. It turns out the six hot soldiers guarding it aren't so keen to let it (or him) out of their grasp.
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Captain Kim Namjoon is determined to fulfill his mission of recovering ancient Egyptian artifacts for the French Foreign Legion, but not all of his men seem to be on the same page. Good thing Dr. Kim Taehyung is here to help. Or is he?
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An evening of murder, Mardi gras, and cheap booze forces Dimitri to reconsider his opinion of Alastor. They were just business acquaintances, after all. There was no need to drag sentimental emotions into the mess that was their partnership.
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In which a London Police detective, Regulus Black, reluctantly joins forces with an infamous hitman known as "Prongs", in order to uncover the mystery behind his brother’s untimely death.
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Chicago, 1925 by franticyoohooing, timetravelingsherlockian
Fandoms: Ghosts (US TV 2021)
05 Aug 2022
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What if all the ghosts were alive in Chicago, during the Roaring Twenties? An AU project with Timetravelingsherlockian.
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Berlin, Berlin by 2dayihaveAheadache
Fandoms: X-Men (Movieverse), X-Men (Alternate Timeline Movies)
04 Aug 2022
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"On what kind of sick, personal vendetta are you, Lehnsherr?"
In the shadowy, smokey alleys of Berlin in 1920s moral ambiguous creatures roam. Just like Erik, a post-war-traumatized detective with a broken heart.
Then suddenly Jack-the-ripper-esque murders happen and all of them are weirdly tied to a British businessman with a way too cheeky grin. -
Oh Dear, a Mafia Boss Is In Love With Me by ComatosedAngel
Fandoms: ワンパンマン | One-Punch Man
03 Aug 2022
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Badd is a waiter to help his mother with rent and other issues. He works at a shitty bar with his best friend, Genos, who is going through problems of his own. However, one day the biggest mafia boss enters the shitty bar. His name is Garou. Badd was told he had to serve him but he has a deep feeling this is going to go wrong.
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what did you bury (before those hands pulled me from the earth) by mikrokosmopolitan
Fandoms: 타인은 지옥이다 | Strangers From Hell (TV)
02 Aug 2022
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Upon further inspection, there was a gleam in the stranger’s eyes. “Darling,” he purred, unrecognizable whether the lilt came from alcohol or interest, “I think you and I are of the same kind.”
The same kind. The kind parents warned their children about, the kind that was deemed morally wrong. Already floating in the clouds – inebriated on liquor, nicotine and the man’s dazzling smile, Jongwoo could not bring himself to care about the implications.
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Or: November of 1929. Yoon Jongwoo, cunning private detective encounters an enticing stranger, the rendez-vous leading into indecency quicker than expected. The morning after, letters upon letters arrive at his door step, invitations to work a case for somebody. For Seo Moonjo, notoriously ruthless criminal, for a person who couldn't be more dfferent to himself. At least that's what Jongwoo needed to believe.
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Last Song of the Night by LittleBirdinaBush
Fandoms: Minecraft (Video Game), Video Blogging RPF, Dream SMP
02 Aug 2022
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Dream is a writer for a videogame company who dreamed of being a novelist. When he hits a rut in his story, he decides to take a walk to clear his head a bit.
Wilbur is a traveling musician living from one gig to the next waiting for his big break, taking every chance he can to get just a little bit closer to his dream.
Together they work through the struggles of the creative lifestyle, helping to inspire one another, comfortable with each other in a way neither can fully explain or understand. If only there weren’t 100 years between them.tldr// Dream goes on a walk and ends up on a date with a man from the 1920's
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With grand cities comes even grander men. These grand men bring power, lots of power.
When his mother started working for that grandness, everything seemed to go wrong. Now, ten years later, when Jimin Park, a reporter of unknown higher ups in Chicago, turn to him, Jungkook is hit with the realization, that he knows nothing of who he thought he loved the most.
The death of his mother was not the end, but only the beginning of unraveling lies.How far is Jungkook willing to go to know the truth?
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A riveting story about a man's career getting sent into the deep-end due to a hit gone wrong. Magnificent, exhilarating, thrilling. Culminating in the escapades of an assassin, a singer, and everything in between. Starring Frederick Chilton as the cocky singer, Will Graham as the tired-of-your-shit assassin, Abel Gideon as the manipulative joint owner, and many others as fucked up people!
Ya know what they say: Stay away from jazz and liquor, and the men who play for fun.
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On a dark, stormy night, a familiar omega shows up on the steps of Kirkland Manor.
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- Part 5 of USUKUS Twice Per Year
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Rhapsody in Scarlet by Xihuantuzi
Fandoms: 魔道祖师 - 墨香铜臭 | Módào Zǔshī - Mòxiāng Tóngxiù, 陈情令 | The Untamed (TV)
31 Jul 2022
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"Oh, I've had dalliances here and there, that's true.” Wei Wuxian smiled, almost bitterly. “And there was someone, a long time ago, but we were parted before I found the courage to ask them how they felt about me."
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1928. Shanghai. So much has changed in nine years, and Wei Wuxian is not the boy Lan Wangji remembers from the sun-drenched days of his past, but a chance meeting with him at a party soon leads Lan Wangji to question almost everything he thought he knew.
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Mathias is an average person, living an average life. And that's fine with him. Until he runs into a stranger one day, who makes him question everything about himself that he's been trying so hard to ignore.
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- Part 8 of Nordic Tales