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Violet was not having a single moment of her mother’s bullshit decree that she’d be expected to cross the parapet on Conscription Day. So, naturally, she made alternative arrangements for her future.
But between a mysterious visitor to Violet’s new workplace in Chantara, a conspiracy she’s sure Navarre is hiding, and the puzzle of father’s final research, cutting all ties with Basgiath might end up being harder than she expected.
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Several months after the war is over, Dorian gets a surprise visitor with even more surprising news
“She snarled like the predator she was, and Dorian grinned. This is what he wanted, what he missed. How was a man meant to want a human woman when a creature like Manon existed?”
Written for Kinktober 2025: Day 30 - Breeding
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While attempting to get something from Brennan's closet, Booth comes across a blast from the past
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Xaden Riorson had never had interest in any of the women who worked in the bar in Chantara. He’d never needed to search further than the Riders Quadrant when it came to sex. That is, until the stress of his first couple of weeks as Wingleader and the sight of the most perfect woman he’d ever seen tested every bit of self control he’d ever had.
" “So what do you want from me, sir?" She asked his coyly.
Sir. He'd never been so hard.
What did he want? He wanted her. In any way she’d let him. "Written for Kinktober 2025: Day 12 - sex work
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May Day by Gratuitous_Wine
Fandoms: His Dark Materials (TV), His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman
06 Oct 2025
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May Day in Oxford dawned bright and sunny and full of promise. Lord Asriel had come to celebrate, to partake in the centuries old traditions, but it turns out tradition isn’t the only thing from the past he’ll encounter this year.
Written for Kinktober 2025 - Day 6: intoxication and outdoor sex.
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Kinktober 2025 by Gratuitous_Wine
Fandom Bones (TV), His Dark Materials (TV), His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman, The Empyrean - Rebecca Yarros, Throne of Glass Series - Sarah J. Maas
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The heat is on full blast for Xaden and Violet when they meet at a fundraiser, unable to keep their eyes off each other. He’s a firefighter. She’s a journalist. And their pull? It’s undeniable. Throw in an ice bath that Xaden just can’t help but join her in, and the flames are fanned, the burn between them inevitable.
But family names and buried secrets might just put out the fire before it can even begin to take hold…
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07 Oct 2025
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02 Oct 2025
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Violet got some not so lovely feedback from her editors. Her sex scenes need more. The problem? Her vanilla boring ass exes who never really knew how to show her a good time. Enter Xaden Riorson, sort-of-celebrity private chef and neighbor down the hall who just loves to rile her up.
When an offer from him comes through to help her spice up her novel, she has a hard time resisting...And then she doesn't resist at all.
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02 Oct 2025
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When Violet and Xaden find themselves in a rather compromising situation at 35,000 feet, their impulsive mile high lie lands them in London for a wedding week full of fancy events, suspicious relatives, and a story they have to keep straight. But as the line between real and pretend begins to blur, the consequences of their one little lie grow harder to ignore.
AKA : The fic where Xaden and Violet meet on a plane and get caught joining the mile high club. They impulsively claim they just got engaged in an effort to get out of trouble, locking them into living their lie as they head to London for a wedding in a story that celebrates some of our favorite tropes: Fake Relationships, Only One Bed, Forced Proximity and jealous Xaden's Touch Her and Die vibes.
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in this life and the next by caeli0306 for anastronomicalsmile
Fandoms: The Empyrean - Rebecca Yarros
14 Oct 2025
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A millennia after the Deunification of Navarre, the war that splintered the Continent is little more than a dusty, half-forgotten memory. Magic is fading; dragons are few and far between; and Violet's problems are decidedly first-world. While the dragon riders of old worried about death lurking around every corner, her biggest worry is whether she'll get into the masters program of her choice. So when an infuriating, handsome man steals her spot at a coffee shop while she's in the bathroom, she doesn't expect that the meeting is far more than mere coincidence.
But Xaden's and Violet's feud over the best spot at the coffee shop evolves into something deeper, and as the years pass, Violet's dreams begin showing her terrifying scenes of war and loss that she struggles to forget about when she awakens, and the dreams feel more and more familiar with every passing night.
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A reincarnation AU in modern-day Tyrrendor where everyone lives (kinda! read the tags!)
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