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    Elain is humiliated and confused about her near-kiss with Azriel on Winter Solstice. When she finds out that Azriel was warned away because of her mating bond with Lucien, she decides to go confront Lucien and take care of the problem of the mating bond once and for all.

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    06 May 2025

  2. Public Bookmark 91

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    Elain Archeron has always been seen as something delicate—too soft, too quiet, too breakable. But she knows better. There is rot beneath the beauty, shadows beneath the bloom. And now, there is a voice whispering in her mind, curling around her like smoke, coaxing her toward something she does not understand. She is losing herself, slipping between dreams and waking nightmares. And this time, she is not sure she wants to be found.

    Meanwhile, Lucien Vanserra has spent his life surviving—trapped between courts, between loyalties, between truths he never asked for. For years, he has waited, patient as only a fox can be. But patience is a cruel thing when it leaves you empty-handed. When it leaves you watching the one thing you have always longed for slip through your fingers like autumn leaves on the wind.

    This is a story of longing and loss, of haunted nights and golden mornings. A story of fate and choice, of bonds and broken things. A love story, tangled in the threads of a gothic dream.

    Because even the softest light can cast the darkest shadows.

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    22 Apr 2025

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    23 Jun 2024

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    When Zelda wakes, she remembers nothing.

    Not her friends, not her history, not the castle that once was her home.

    Not even the man kneeling before her, calling himself her husband.

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    21 May 2024

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    “I thought we could play a variation,” he said smoothly. “As, apparently, my ideas are brilliant.”

    She snorted as derisively as she could, earning a chuckle. She almost didn’t want to know but couldn’t help herself — not with anything when it came to him.

    “What variation?”

    “Touching is vital in this game, isn’t that what you said?” His tone was excessively innocent. “So I propose we get the same position instructions, but if you choose a dot which doesn’t lead to you touching me, then you take something off.”

    She frowned at the mat, processing that, then turned a skeptical look up at him over her shoulder. “Are you suggesting we play strip Twister?”

    He smiled indulgently. “Only if you don’t want to touch me.”

    ---

    Or, Draco returns home to find his roommate playing Twister and gets an idea.

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    06 May 2024

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    After the war, Severus finally claims the Prince estate to avoid returning to Hogwarts. When Hermione accepts a charms apprenticeship and needs the help of a master potioneer for her project, he reluctantly agrees to be her research partner, but insists that they communicate by letter.

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    05 Mar 2024

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    Ed's minding his business when the new neighbor's kid comes around holding a human puppet. It's creepy as hell, but as soon as the kid's father rounds the corner, Ed doesn't mind.

    ETA: Podfic available here from Kninjaknitter my darling dearest


    “Hello,” says the strangest voice Ed’s ever heard, jolting him out of his reverie, sending his heart speeding into chaos.

    He opens his eyes and he’s staring straight at a stuffed animal in the shape of a human person. It is bald with a tiny hat and too-big eyes and it wears a blue shirt and a name tag that says Jeffy in the sort of scrawl normally reserved for words written in blood.

    A puppet, he realizes several seconds beyond when it would have been appropriate to respond.

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    27 Apr 2023

  8. Public Bookmark 68

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    Ed, a lonely tattoo artist, meets a fascinating stranger at an art exhibition.

    After spending the night together without even exchanging names, the mysterious man disappears, leaving only the address of a coffee shop behind. Disappointed and hurt, Ed decides to visit the café the next morning, only to come face to face with the owner of the place and none other than his vanished lover, whose name turns out to be Stede.

    Except there’s one tiny problem; Stede has no recollection of ever meeting Ed at all.

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    23 Apr 2023

  9. Public Bookmark 94

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    Relationships are overrated. Probably.

    But Ed's home from grad school for a summer internship. And his co-intern Stede is... Well, he's cute. And he's eager.

    It's just a casual thing, just co-interns with benefits, right? What could go wrong?

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    23 Apr 2023

  10. Public Bookmark 48

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    “You’re coming over Friday.” Ed declared confidently. Ed would get like this sometimes; declaring wacky plans with an irresistible grin on his face. Stede had yet to resist Ed’s charms — he had to know what that cheeky grin did to Stede’s insides, right? He was so in love with him it was ridiculous; Lucius once called him “as messy as a baby U-Haul lesbian” with how obvious his crush was.
    If only Ed felt the same.
    “I suppose I can,” Stede broke off a piece of their cinnamon roll with his fork, “what will we be doing?”
    Ed shrugged casually, but Stede knew there was more behind the gesture. He snapped off a piece of the gooey pastry with his bare fingers, “You’re finally going to model for me.”

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    15 Apr 2023

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    Stories set in a world where Vecna is defeated, Steve gets his degree in counseling, Eddie becomes a grunge pioneer, and everyone gets a slightly softer ending.

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    13 Apr 2023

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    “Were you the one leaving love notes in my locker?”

    Stede’s mouth drops open just a tiny bit. He blinks rapidly in his scramble for a response. Yeah, Ed figures that there’s no way this guy is heterosexual.

    “Relax, I’m messing with you, man. I didn’t get any love notes in my locker. Alright, one or two, but unless you dot your i’s with hearts, you’re in the clear. You seem like more of a quill guy than a glittery gel pen guy.”

    (or: Stede was in the year below Ed at school – and might have, unknowingly, had a tiny bit of a crush on him. Decades later, Ed ends up at the wrong reunion.)

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    28 Mar 2023

  13. Public Bookmark 17

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    When Stede Bonnet was twelve years old, his mother sent him to a two month long summer theater camp. Unbeknownst to him, his entire life would be shaped by a fleeting moment shared with a quiet, dark haired boy named Ed during a shared class one afternoon shortly before camp would end and his life would go back to a devastating normalcy.

    Stede never saw Ed again after that summer over thirty years ago, but that memory is one he's thought of recurrently since then. If only he could have the chance to thank Ed for his kind words, wherever he is now.

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    27 Mar 2023

  14. Public Bookmark 12

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    “What d’you mean, ‘chemistry?’” Lucius asks, a little too sweetly.

    “I mean,” Buttons says, and produces another folder from beneath the other, this one in a garish yellow that Stede sort of loves, “that they’re the best to play our married couple for this mission.”

    It’s just a mission, is the first thing Stede has to tell himself, over the flash of heat that flares inside him, licking up his spine in an electric sort of ignition that has his eyes falling back to Ed again. This is a job, and you’re good at your job, and so is Ed. And this is that. And it’s fine.

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    24 Mar 2023

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    Stede Bonnet is hot for the guy installing security cameras in his office.

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    24 Mar 2023

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    Stede Bonnet has just moved into Orange Crescent. There’s a house on the corner, opposite Stede’s own, with a garden full of flowers and a gleaming motorbike on the driveway. He’s forgotten to buy sugar.

    Edward Teach has his morning disturbed by his new neighbour. Enamoured at first sight, he invites Stede round for a chat, and then another, and then another.

    This is the story of them.

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    24 Mar 2023

  17. Public Bookmark 96

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    Hey, sluts.
    Congratulations. You've found me.
    I hope you've enjoyed playing so far.
    I know I certainly have.
    We're almost done. Just a bit further to go.
    Welcome to my FAR LAG SPAR RUMP, no---
    my FLAG RAP RASP RUM, no---
    this is my
    RPF
    ARG
    SMAU
    LARP.

    Now let's figure out who Javid Denkins is together.

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    17 Mar 2023

  18. Public Bookmark 66

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    "Stede was doing his best. He really was. When his father had announced that he would be marrying his business partner's daughter, Stede had replied with a simple stuttered, 'I can't.' When angrily pressed for a reasonable explanation, he'd managed to choke out the words he'd hardly dared think to himself.

    "I'm gay."

    ...In the end, his father finally accepted the inevitable, and disowned Stede."

    Or, Stede has a breakdown in a laundromat. Luckily there's a kind stranger there to help.

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    10 Mar 2023

  19. Public Bookmark 55

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    “Tell you one thing. You lot,” he spreads his fingers, “are not our fucking neighbors. I’m not gonna pop ‘round for tea, I’m not gonna see you at fucking yoga, and if that hurts your cute little feelings, I suggest you go ask your daddy to kiss it better for your trust fund fucking ass.”

    “I beg your pardon?” Stede’s come up sharp beside him. “Are you the owner?”

    “So… who is my daddy fucking in this, um-?” Lucius puzzles.

    “We’re closed,” he snaps, somewhat less menacing for how he visibly has to shake that off. “Get the fuck out.”

    Lucius works at a new bookstore, Izzy works at the porn shop that's been in the neighborhood for decades. They're instant enemies, but when they separately discover their bosses developing an anonymous email romance and are driven to meddle for completely different yet equally batshit reasons, they find they have more in common than they would have thought. Or at least, JefftheCPA and Gentleman59 do.

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    15 Feb 2023

  20. Public Bookmark 39

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    The Te Aro werewolves and vampires have come to a begrudging truce, including regular hangouts, and Anton and Viago have been just as friendly as the rest of the guys for months — until one night when they accidentally, sort of, hook up. And then it just keeps happening. Sometimes on purpose. A little bit.

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    13/13
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    4,101

    08 Feb 2023

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