17 Bookmarks by Thereisnothingleft
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“Merlin, what is in your hair?” Gaius asks - rather judgmentally, Merlin thinks. It’s not as though Gaius can turn into a bird, making his opinion irrelevant. Everyone’s opinions shall now be irrelevant to him unless they can turn into birds, he decides. He puts a hand to his hair and feels a leaf.
(So this is a very canon-inaccurate sort of re-telling, with some big divergences, minus a dragon or prophecy or two)
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06 Mar 2026
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The day Arthur gets kidnapped is the luckiest day of his life - he just doesn't know it yet.
An AU in which Balinor finds a lost child and takes him home, and Arthur gets to do some growing up without Uther.
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03 Mar 2026
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you built me palaces out of paragraphs by Embracingtheplotbunnies
Fandoms: Wicked - All Media Types, Wicked (Movie 2024)
26 Apr 2026
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The memories of the Melting wouldn’t leave her, and neither did the grief. Glinda tried everything she could to fall asleep: switching rooms, rubbing lavender lotion on her hands, even drinking a foul tasting concoction that one of her handmaidens swore would put her to sleep as soon as her head hit the pillow (it didn’t). And even when she did manage to fall asleep sometime just before dawn, Elphaba’s screams jarred her awake.
So one night Glinda found herself sitting at the desk in her study with a blank sheet of paper in front of her. Dear Elphaba, she wrote, and then watched the words waver at the top of the page. She crossed them out and started over. Dearest Elphaba . It was ridiculous. Elphaba would never read her words again. But she found that they came anyway, faster than she could commit them to paper.
Or: Glinda begins writing letters to Elphaba in the aftermath of the Melting. When she pushes herself beyond the point of exhaustion four years later, Chistery decides to take matters into his own hands and deliver the letters to Elphaba in an attempt to save Glinda's life.
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02 Dec 2025
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At the age of 26, Mickey Milkovich gets his first apartment, his first wifi connection, and his first kiss. How he gets from wifi to kissing is a complicated story.
Mickey is socially anxious. Ian is a frustratingly lovable escort working through an app. Mickey downloads said app. The rest is history.
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- Part 1 of Everything With You
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- 19/19
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30 Nov 2025
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Flower fairy Dean has caught a thief in his trap. As it turns out, it wasn't a mouse stealing his food. It was Castiel: a hissy, bitey bat sprite with one wing and a forlorn, lonely heart. Dean offers a warm space in his nest, where Castiel can stay until Springtime comes around again. However, Castiel becomes more than just a guest. With a little effort, he helps make Dean's nest a home.
***NOW COMPLETE!***
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12 Nov 2025
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The Lover of Life's Not a Sinner by writersagainstwritersblock
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
03 Sep 2024
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“Come to ask for an autograph?” Eddie asked.
“Was it an original?”
“You don’t recognize Sabbath? Black Sabbath? Ozzy Osbourne?”
Altar boy tilted his head to one side like a confused puppy.
“That’s devastating, altar boy.”
“Steve.”
“Huh?”
“My name’s Steve, incase you feel like serenading some more, and, uh, I’m not an altar boy.”
“No?” Eddie’s eyes flicked over him. “You look like one.”
“I’m surprised you’d know, I doubt you’ve ever stepped foot inside a church.”
“And what? You’re gonna change that for me?”
Steve let out an amused exhale. “I suppose no one’s past saving, but you might be a close call.”
“Lucky for you, I didn’t ask for saving. Long live the devil, baby.”
Busker Eddie Munson meets his match in doomsday crier Steve Harrington occupying opposite sides of the street in 1986 Indianapolis.
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13 Sep 2025
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It was 2023 in boring Hawkins, Indiana, and Steve Harrington didn't know what he was doing with his life. Home from college with a barely passing GPA, recently dumped, and drunkenly careening down a dark country road to the tune of his own misery, Steve was aware that he might be depressed. Therapy would've been the sane solution. But before he could turn around and make that choice, a glowing red hole cracked open in the middle of the road, and he was sent flying through time and space.
It was also 1985 in boring Hawkins, Indiana, and Eddie Munson had a five step plan on how to fix his life. First, graduate high school. Second, provide a kickass D&D campaign for the nosy little freshman that joined Hellfire. And finally, write more music and go on tour with his band. Okay, three step plan. Absolutely nothing about his plan-in-progress included stumbling across the hottest man he'd ever seen stranded on the side of the road. Or the glowing red portal to hell parked next to him.
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13 Sep 2025
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Marry Me at the Foot of the Gallows Tree by StarsHideYourFires
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
12 Jul 2025
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Foot of the Gallows Marriage: A folk tradition, primarily attested in medieval France and Germany, in which one condemned to die could be saved and granted a full pardon if a citizen of moral character stepped forward before the execution and consented to wed the condemned.
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Christine Cunningham is found dead on the outskirts of the small village of Hawkins. The only suspect: Eddie Munson, blamed by circumstance and without solid proof of his innocence. His execution is all but assured until a voice rises up from the assembled crowd shouting, “I will marry him.”
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01 Jul 2025
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Seeing the words laid out like that so bluntly makes his heart ache. Eddie wishes he could have courted Steve properly, perhaps met him at a barn dance, chatting over cider and sneaking outside for a stolen kiss. To hold his hand and scent at his hair, only to walk him home and ask permission to call on him as is decent.
But here he is proposing marriage in a telegram after receiving exactly one beautifully penned letter. He knows so little about this young omega, and yet his pulse races at the thought of meeting him. It could very well be fear; anxiety over making so hasty a decision, to offer his hand so quickly without exchanging more letters or requesting a photograph, something to build a foundation upon before committing ‘til death do they part.
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Steve Harrington is a former society omega, cast out for an unforgivable indiscretion.
Eddie Munson has just inherited his father’s small farm and become caretaker to his much younger brother.
An advertisement and a letter bring them together, a clear attraction forms when they meet. But will that be enough to build a life upon?
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- Part 1 of Beauty in the Humblest Things
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06 Jun 2025
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After rehabbing his injuries and putting in a lot of work, Buck is ready to go back to the 118. He wants to go back to work, and be back with his family. But his return takes more work than he thought it would, and people aren't as happy to see him as he was expecting, which makes the return a lot harder to deal with than he thought it would be. As things pile on and his support system shrinks, Buck finds himself wondering if it's all worth it and what he should do.
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26 May 2025
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Left to manage his family's failing estate alone, the gentleman Steve Harrington's only wish is to see his younger sister Maxine married happily and in comfort. Whatever happens to him after the Duke's final ball of the season is less important. He lacks the luxury of concern for his own happiness— until the Duke's wayward son, fleeing his own responsibilities, comes crashing into Steve's carefully-controlled life.
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22 Mar 2025
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AU: Buck is still drifting through different jobs, trying to find his place in the world. His unlucky habit of being in the wrong place at the wrong time, and being prone to injury, makes him a regular acquaintance of the 118.
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20 Mar 2025
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As beginnings go... theirs could have gone so much better.
"Finally giving in, Buck dropped the weights and spun to face Diaz with a snarl. “What?”
“What, man?” Diaz replied taken aback, his eyes snapping up from Buck’s chest to his face quickly.
“Like what you see or something, Diaz?”
“Sorry, no.” Buck raised an eyebrow, strangely disappointed in his answer."
The story of two men trying, failing, and maybe eventually succeeding in navigating their developing relationship while life throws absolutely everything at them. From girlfriends to wives; bombs to natural disasters; a lot of angst and unbearable pining; can they get through all the hardships to come together?------
*Previously titled 'A Change in the Wind'
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- Part 1 of Looking At My History, I'm Bad At Love
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18 Jun 2024
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18 Jun 2024
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Eddie caught sight of the man leaning against the side of his desk and immediately wanted to retreat to the relative safety of the hallway, back in time when he lived happily not knowing that Mr. Buckley was apparently some kind of male model masquerading as a third-grade teacher.
“Uh. Hi,” was all he managed, as his brain desperately tried to reconcile this person—this very tall, very broad, very hot person, Jesus fucking Christ—with the Mr. Buckley that Chris rambled about constantly, the one who loved Lord of the Rings and was an endless repository of fun animal facts. (Did you know a group of owls was called a parliament? Eddie didn't, not until last week.)
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18 Jun 2024
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03 Feb 2024
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Dean is a Kansas farmer who only wants to work his land and care for his infant daughter. With his wife gone and his brother moving on to a life beyond the homestead, Dean finds himself in need of another pair of hands. Castiel, a lonely drifter freshly arrived in town, may prove the solution to Dean’s troubles. Over the course of four seasons, the two men face the everyday challenges of prairie life, and learn to overcome the betrayals of their past to discover a new definition of family.
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13 May 2023