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Lead Me Through the Dark by SociallyAwkwardHermit
Fandoms: All For The Game - Nora Sakavic
18 Jul 2026
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His mum held Nathaniel down as she let the chemicals soak into his eyes.
It burned, different to how his shoulder did when father pressed the iron to it years ago. His shoulder had burnt with a searing heat that he could not escape; bright and all encompassing. Afterwards it felt like pulsing coals against his skin; a never-ending throb of burning pain that pulled and demanded his attention. Nathaniel had grown used to pain over the years. He was able to keep quiet when his father or one of his friends put their blades to his skin. Nathaniel had gotten used to preparing himself for pain whenever he saw his father or Lola in particular.
Maybe that was why the pain felt so much worse this time.
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Blind Neil au.
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06 Jul 2026
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Regina Black has given everything to become the best women's figure skater. Her whole life has been spent training for this very year, the year she could win gold at the Olympics. But it all comes crashing to a halt when she has a mental breakdown in front of James Potter at the National Figure Skating Championships and he finds out her only true secret: that deep down, she's a man.
This fic follows Regulus' journey from pre-transition to ten months later, as he learns to accept himself, heals from his past, and falls in love.
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02 Jul 2026
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the busy bee has no time for sorrow by dogmetaphors
Fandoms: All For The Game - Nora Sakavic
20 Jun 2026
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“Neil,” Andrew says through the darkness. His voice is ragged and exhausted. It’s the closest thing Neil has ever heard him utter to the word please.
It’s this that forces Neil to bow and rest his forehead against his knees. He exhales, unable to believe what he’s about to agree to.
“Alright,” he says eventually. His voice is hoarse from gasping. “I’ll do it.”
Andrew’s grip on the back of his neck tightens. “Do what?”
“Dobson. I’ll go and see her,” he says, looking up.Neil goes to therapy.
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20 Jun 2026
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“Fine,” Allison sighed, shifting around in her purse and grabbing out her sunglasses, “I guess our deal was just that I got to dress you for banquets, not that you had to come with while shopping. Say goodbye to your veto power though, you’ll just have to be okay with what I get you.”
Neil swallowed, obviously biting back a response. Andrew knew Neil wouldn’t say anything. They had made a deal, Neil wasn’t allowed to argue because of his own mistake. A part of Andrew wanted to just let it happen. It was Neil’s own fault. The other part of him felt the need to stand guard. He could rationalize it by thinking that he didn’t want Allison getting Neil something he hated, but honestly, Andrew didn’t really care. By nature of the event, she had to put Neil in something formal, so the odds of her getting something too revealing were next to none. If Allison made Neil muscle though a night of wearing a bold statement piece that wouldn’t be in fashion until next year, Andrew didn’t give a fuck.
The real issue was that Andrew didn’t like people messing with his things.
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AKA: Andrew and Allison begrudgingly shop together for Neil
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17 Jun 2026
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reactions and repercussions by thechoicewasallmine
Fandoms: All For The Game - Nora Sakavic
17 Nov 2021
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“You guys are so cute.”
Neil matches Andrew’s frown. Neither of them appreciate that particular adjective.
“I’m surprised the monster hasn’t bitten his hand off yet,” Allison whispers.
“Don’t call him that,” Neil snaps. Andrew’s current state has him feeling defensive.A migraine causes Andrew to let down some walls in front of the team. Neil takes a wrecking ball to the rest of them with his big mouth.
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09 Jun 2026
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The first time that Sokka sees his childhood nemesis after ten years of blissful separation, he makes out with him in front of his homophobic family. Zuko's proposal- that they fake a relationship for a summer of public events on Sokka's home island to mess with his father and grandfather- is absolutely ludicrous, and it definitely won't work. Not only is Sokka straight, but he and Zuko have hated each other for as long as he can remember.
Then Sokka realizes he can use it to his own advantage as well. It's just for the summer, right?
Zukka fake dating modern AU with a heavy sprinkle of trauma and healing!
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07 Jun 2026
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James Potter had a simple mission: kidnap one ridiculously impossible prince and survive the black kingdom. What could possibly go wrong? a lot.
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27 May 2026
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For as long as he can remember, Zuko knew he would have no say in who he would marry. Anyone familiar with basic royal customs would realize it as well. Marriage wasn’t a luxury or some grand display of love; marriage was for convenience and a power move if done correctly. It meant nothing to Zuko. He was raised with the knowledge that he would one day be sent off to live with a stranger for the sake of his nation, and it didn’t matter if he ended up happy or not. His happiness didn't matter.
All this to say, when his father tells him that he is to marry a stranger from the Southern Water Tribe and use their marriage as an opportunity to spy on the enemy, Zuko knows he has no choice. It's just...he didn't expect this stranger to be so kind to him.
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27 May 2026
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gave me no compasses, gave me no signs by argentoswan
Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender
26 Jun 2024
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It's his final year of university and Sokka doesn't have the time to be distracted by the stranger living next door- by his startlingly gorgeous eyes and awkward conversation and the way he always seems to be hiding something- yet for some reason, Sokka can't bring himself to look away.
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The balcony at Sokka's new apartment is way too close to his neighbors', and he notices far more than people give him credit for.
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27 May 2026
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Zuko is losing his hearing and finally finds the courage to reach out to his school for a note-taker. Out of work, Sokka turns to the school for any openings. As Sokka learns more about life with a disability, and Zuko discovers the simple charms of everyday moments, neither of them could have expected to find something more in this simple arrangement.
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19 May 2026
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Neil knows he’s being a brat. He knows he's rude, difficult, and "not progressing." But after losing his foot to his own father, who is, btw, a serial killer, he thinks he’s earned the right to be a nightmare. He didn't ask for a one-way ticket to California,to live with a family of strangers, and he certainly didn’t ask for Betsy Dobson or her handsome, mysterious son.
Struggling with a prosthetic he hates and a mind that won’t stop sprinting back to the Butcher, Neil is determined to stay a ghost. That is, until he finds a baby dolphin tangled in netting on a rocky cliffside, fighting for its life. Neil hasn’t run or swum that fast in a long, long time, but for the first time in months, he isn't thinking about his missing foot: he’s just thinking about the rescue.
The incident lands him at David Wymack’s Marine Biology Center, working alongside the animals everyone else has given up on. It also puts him directly in the path of Andrew Minyard, the man who handles the center's most dangerous predators. Andrew doesn't offer pity or "progress" reports; he just offers a deal. And in the salt air of the West Coast, Neil might finally find a reason to stop running.
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18 Apr 2026
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06 Apr 2026
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Upon Mary Hatford's death, Nathaniel Wesninski makes the call to his uncle Stuart rather than continuing on the run and ending up in Milport, Nevada.
Upon graduating university, Andrew Minyard turns down all offers of a professional Exy career and muddles through a 'normal' life, until the boredom and inanity of it all wears him down and he accepts an offer of a break to spend some time with his cousin Nicky in Stuttgart, Germany.
There he meets Abram Hatford, a handsome and broken young man who has more in common with Andrew than he suspects, and nothing's normal anymore.- Language:
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31 Jan 2026
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Neil Josten spent his whole life running. Andrew Minyard spent his whole life pushing people away.
Now Neil has chosen to stay and Andrew has let him in but neither know what to do with their choices and take each day as they come and learn to stay. Stay in one piece, stay alive, stay together.
This fic follows Andrew and Neil through a decade post The Kings Men as they progress through college and into the professional leagues all whilst figuring out what staying together means and building a life beyond their pasts.
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15 Jan 2026
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A Quiet Little Seedling by Lostintheuniverseslies
Fandoms: All For The Game - Nora Sakavic
29 Nov 2024
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Neil had a lot of secrets. He didn’t want much in life except to live quietly, run his botanical store, upload TikToks covering plant care, and for not a single person to find out that he’s the best-selling author N.A.J who published one book anonymously five years prior and disappeared. His life takes a turn when his literary agent tracks him down for a follow-up book with the theme of feeling settled and at peace. Two things Neil is not.
Thus begins his journey of planting roots in a town he’s lived in for years, starting with making friends with people who have tried to bring him into their circle. As Neil gets closer to them and his secrets become less guarded, there’s still that one big secret he intends on taking to his grave. But the closer he gets to his friends the closer he unknowingly gets to that secret being revealed.
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- Part 1 of Branches of Solace
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10 Jan 2026
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Neil swallows back blood. “Andrew.”
“Abram,” Andrew returns.
“I’m losing my mind. I think I’m losing my mind.”
“You aren’t,” Andrew says, so easy, so certain. “You’re tired. You’re scared. That’s it.”
Neil grits his teeth. “I’m,” he exhales shakily. “I’m – seeing things,” he admits.
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In which Andrew gets into a car accident one week into the off-season, and everything is fine right up until he starts dying every night in Neil’s dreams. Things get worse, and then they get better.
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Or, how trauma and triggers persist even after decades of safety, and how Andrew and Neil navigate them and take care of each other throughout it all.
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30 Jun 2025
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The Foxes and the Ravens finally get their rematch, from Neil and Andrew’s POV.
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26 May 2025
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“Okay.”
Matt cheered as Allison cackled, and Neil almost took it back immediately if they were going to be weird about it. But Dan was leaning forward and offering him the joint, and it was trained habit that had him stepping forward to take it and put it between his lips before it burned down, before ash fell.
He texted Andrew one handed, a simple, ‘Matt’s dorm,” and kept his grip tight on his phone as he inhaled deep. Known, but new. Something just for Neil Josten.
Or: The upperclassmen let loose, and Neil's convinced he's finally safe enough to try something else new. With mixed results.
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05 May 2025
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Far from the eyes, close to the heart (Loin des yeux, près du cœur) by Amaranthine_vita
Fandoms: Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling
13 Jan 2025
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Regulus Black has been running for as long as he can remember—ever since he and his brother fled their oppressive family home at a young age, determined to make it on their own.
But the years have worn him down, and the weight of survival has turned his life into a blur of exhausting jobs, empty nights, and endless isolation. Now, Regulus drifts through life as a ghost, quietly working as a university library assistant and sneaking into Economics lectures, hoping that knowledge will offer him a way out of the past that still haunts him.
But when a certain professor hires him, Regulus meets his son James, his complete opposite, who craves to show him the beauty of connection.
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A pretty angsty, but still fluffy story that simultaneously follows the past of Sirius and Reg running away and doing anything to survive, and the present, where Regulus is pretty much a cold son of a bitch and James is absolutely whipped and does the most heart-warming shit for him. Also ft. Fleamont being a paternal figure to Reg, which I adore :)
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21 Apr 2025
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Let Me Touch Your Fire by damagecontrol (microdamage)
Fandoms: Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling
09 Jun 2025
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In 1981, the war ended with Voldemort’s death. Thirteen years later, Regulus still lives in the shadow of his parents’ contribution to the cause. No matter how hard he works or how much he accomplishes, he can’t escape the weight of his family name.
With the biggest project of his career now in front of him, Regulus leaves London to pose as a Healer on the Romanian Dragon Sanctuary. The only hiccup is a variable he never could’ve accounted for: James Potter, whose presence disrupts Regulus’ plans and forces him to reconsider everything he thought he knew.
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20 Feb 2025