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The Space Between Orders by Zerbinetta
Fandoms: Mass Effect Trilogy, Mass Effect - All Media Types
15 May 2026
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First contact was supposed to be historic.
Instead, it was a war.Two years into the conflict between humanity and the Turian Hierarchy, Commander Stella Shepard - callsign Valkyrie - has become one of the Alliance’s most effective weapons: a biotic vanguard who wins battles with precision, restraint, and an inconvenient habit of asking why.
On the other side of the front, Garrus Vakarian - Centurion - is tasked with stopping her. He studies her patterns, counters her moves, and begins to suspect that the war itself is being handled with catastrophic short-sightedness.
Somewhere between enemy fire, illicit communications, and one reckless, impossible meeting on Omega, respect becomes understanding - and understanding becomes something far more dangerous.
When command decides that ending the war requires annihilation, not restraint, both are forced to choose between loyalty and conscience, survival and truth.
This is a story about first contact done wrong, the cost of obedience, and what happens when two people decide the future is worth risking everything for - even each other.
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In the eternity he has spent shackled to his master’s will, he has never been on a hunt quite like this.
At a grand Midwinter ball in the Szarr residence with all of high society and the brightest minds of Baldur's Gate and beyond in attendance, Astarion is tasked with the idea of finding a peerless scholar of infernal magic to cater to his master's unknown whim.
And if that scholar happens to reek of sunlight and blue skies that threaten to break through the eternal night in his mind... perhaps he can claim some echo of that for himself before her inevitable demise.
Or: Several years before the game, Astarion is tasked with finding a scholar on infernal magic to provide the last puzzle piece missing from Cazador's ritual.
By chance, he manages to find the wizard he's looking for at the Szarr palace's Midwinter ball: magical tutor to Wyll Ravengard, former partner of Gale of Waterdeep in matters academic and beyond, and the first person to actively resist his own extensive charms in more than a century.
As they strike a unique partnership, events around them begin to spiral out of control, particularly as Astarion realises he can use her for his own benefit rather than that of his master.
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Thunder and Lightning by Zerbinetta
Fandoms: Dragon Age: The Veilguard (Video Game), Dragon Age: Inquisition, Dragon Age - All Media Types, Dragon Age (Video Games)
27 Jan 2026
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Rook dies stopping Solas’ ritual.
Fortunately, Inquisitor Lavellan has never been one to leave the most dangerous work to others—especially when it comes to putting false gods in their place and repairing what her former lover has broken for a second time.
This is an AU retelling of Veilguard, in which Ellana Lavellan takes Rook’s place. She steps back into the center of the storm to assemble the Veilguard, manage the remnants of the Inquisition, and hold together a world unraveling under the return of the Evanuris. Using her lingering connection to Solas, she works to unite fractured factions against ancient gods—caught between love that never truly faded and the knowledge that Solas can never again be trusted completely.
Meanwhile, Solas finds himself trapped, stripped of control, and forced into an uneasy intimacy with the woman he once left behind. Through fractured dreamscapes and half-remembered truths, he begins to show Ellana things he could never have given her a decade ago—until an unseen enemy starts to claw its way into his prison, seeking vengeance for ancient wrongs and threatening to twist even the Fade itself.
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Nothing in his life has ever been his own. His name glorifies his worst enemy in a vain effort to appease her wrath. His strength is due to his divine father, not his own blood and sweat. His life belongs to the gods, even now that he has a place among them, in theory.
Cleaning out Ephyra of monsters is just another job based on divine caprices to Heracles. Until he meets the champion of Olympus that he's told to expect: an inexperienced yet proud warrior, a witch, and, most of all, one of the gods herself. All things that he's learned to despise.
The heavens may support her, but they won’t protect her. Especially not from him.
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Liliana Adornato has only ever wanted to praise the Lord through her music as the church organist at San Emilio d'Arca. She is not quite certain she has talent enough to use it to charm the Devil... but she does know that she must try if she wishes to decide her own destiny.
After all, for Heaven and Hell to hold meaning, there always had to be a choice, and she had yet to make hers.
A Piofiore retelling with music, the debate between free will and destiny, and the romance that should never have been (Lili/Yang).
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A Light in the Shadow by SleepyDragon19
Fandoms: Shadow and Bone (TV), The Grisha Trilogy - Leigh Bardugo
02 Feb 2024
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There is an old Ravkan saying – the willing, destiny guides them; the unwilling, destiny drags them, but no one escapes what fate has planned. It was the fate of the Sun Summoner to be born, her fate to meet the Darkling, her fate to save Ravka. How this happens, however, is up to her and the choices people make.
Alina is five years old when she first meets the Shadow Man. It changes everything.
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17 Oct 2024
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remember me when i am reborn by mortaltemples
Fandoms: The Lord of the Rings - J. R. R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power (TV 2022)
17 Mar 2024
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The Golden Wood hosts many secrets. Saruman is determined to unravel them all.
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The witch, to her credit, let only the most discrete of her kind reside in her woods. Upon reflection, that should have been a clear sign of her secrets.
That ring on her finger, that heart she keeps hidden…
What other treasures was she staining with her unworthy hand? And, perhaps more importantly, to what end?Bookmarked by Zerbinetta
23 Sep 2024
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Several months after the mud incident, Crow and Teuta have found their relationship at a standstill. Demoralized after her advances are seemingly rebuffed, things only get more complicated when the time-traveler walks in on him viewing something scandalous on his computer.
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06 Dec 2021
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Six months have passed since Il's miraculous return from Caelm, and while the non-human struggles with new and perplexing feelings, Kotone grows strangely distant. A spicy continuation of our favorite otome-obsessed angel's route!
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- Part 1 of Café Enchanté R18 Patch
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06 Dec 2021
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Over a year has passed since Noah's death, and the consequences of Kotone's existance as a world are further reaching than the Enchanté gang could have ever anticipated. Between unknown forces seeking her destruction and Misyr's failing health, things couldn't be more dire. A piping-hot continuation of our favorite coffee-loving demon lord's route!
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- Part 3 of Café Enchanté R18 Patch
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06 Dec 2021