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Between Legolas and Faramir - The Flowers of Ithilien by glirdishlotr (Jesiditt96)
Fandoms: The Lord of the Rings - All Media Types, The Lord of the Rings - J. R. R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings (Jackson Movies)
04 Sep 2026
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Legolas had years to love Emma.
He knew her first as a child in Rivendell, carrying the last traces of a life fire had taken from her. Years later, after three years away, he returned to find a woman whose mortal urgency unsettled his long, careful life.
And when that love was no longer something he could mistake for tenderness, he feared the shape of it:
“I do not want to touch something so brief with hands that will last too long.”
By the time he understands what silence has cost him, Emma is already on the road to Mordor, carrying far more of the Ring’s shadow than anyone expected.Then Faramir finds her in Ithilien.
He does not owe anything to the silence that shaped her. He only sees the woman in front of him: wounded, stubborn, alive. And he asks for something smaller than eternity, but no less dangerous:
“I’m not asking you to promise me anything enormous. Only that you come back to me.”A canon rewrite about the love that waits too long, the love that arrives too clearly, and the woman who has to survive long enough to choose.
Slow Burn
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- English
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- 220,990
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- 46/64
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02 Jul 2026
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16 Jun 2026
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LONG fic charting the marauders' time at Hogwarts (and beyond) from Remus' PoV - diversion from canon in that Remus's father died and he was raised in a children's home, and is a bit rough around the edges. Otherwise canon-compliant.
1971 - 1995This IS a wolfstar fic, but incredibly slow burn. Literally years. Long build up but worth it I promise!
PLEASE DO NOT COPY TO WATTPAD. SERIOUSLY, WHY??
Spotify playlist:
https://open.spotify.com/user/htl2006/playlist/3z2NbLq2IVGG0NICBqsN2D?si=Liyl_JKJSx2RUqks3p50kg(Compiled by amazing reader, JustAnotherPerson)
DISCLAIMER: I do not support JK Rowling's disgusting transphobic views.
NOTE: I AM NO LONGER READING OR REPLYING TO COMMENTS ON THIS FIC
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- Part 1 of All the Young Dudes
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- English
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- 526,969
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- 188/188
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06 Jun 2026
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Sixth year begins with Sirius Black living at the Potters', James Potter wearing a Quidditch captain's badge, Remus Lupin struggling to keep his secrets hidden, and Lily Evans wanting nothing to do with any of them.
None of these arrangements work out quite as planned.
Beneath the surface, old resentments, new friendships, and one disastrous choice are already setting events in motion.
As loyalties shift, romances emerge, and a mystery unfolds, the four of them are drawn into a chain of events that will force them to confront the people they’re becoming.Bookmarked by TryingNormal42
06 Jun 2026
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In an alternate universe where Sirius Black never went to Azkaban, Harry divides his life between the Dursleys' house and Mr. Black's bookshop -- until Sirius realises what the Dursleys are doing to him, and takes him away from their care.
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- Part 1 of Stealing Harryverse
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- English
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- 99,937
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- 11/11
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- 1,638
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12 Jan 2026
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Harry Potter has found out he’s a wizard and is on his way Hogwarts. He is found by a boy on the train. Who knew one simple sentence and one simple gesture could change history? A Slytherin!Harry AU
ABANDONED DURING BOOK SIX (I know the post said it was the whole series. The post was wrong. Sorry)
Also: TRANS RIGHTS
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- Part 1 of Cunning and Ambition
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- English
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- 50,017
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- 16/16
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- 350
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12 Jan 2026
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Draco Malfoy, It's Your Lucky Day by Faith Wood (faithwood)
Fandoms: Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling
10 Mar 2012
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Even though he's unarmed, injured, lost in the Forbidden Forest, and facing a possible murder charge, Draco Malfoy gets lucky.
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12 Jan 2026
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Draco Malfoy turns himself in after a very successful career as a Death Eater, then enlists Harry and Hermione to help him in a scheme to bring down the Dark Lord. DHr. A story of forgiveness.
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12 Jan 2026
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“Y’all are sweet,” she says, and nods to indicate him and Cas. “Is he your—are you all together?”
Dean’s still contemplating how to answer this without saying something offensive—he never has figured out a polite way to say “no homo”—when Cas answers for him. Cas doesn’t even look up from his plate, his mouth full of baklava and some stray flakes of phyllo dough sticking to his lips when he says, “Yes.”
Dean feels more than sees Sam go very still across the table, forkful of salad and grilled chicken poised in midair.
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In which Cas is human and doesn't understand basic concepts like: clothing, Mythbusters, moisturizer, and Greek food. Dean is...Dean and doesn't understand basic concepts like: boyfriends, language, how to tell your friend that he's a walking miracle, and when not to quip.
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- Part 1 of Stories Are Made of Mistakes
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12 Jan 2026
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What, you thought astrology didn’t play a role in Isobelle’s witchcraft? Think again! Because of this, she knows everyone’s sign and how it affects them. She even learned Erica’s sign.
(A few short one-shots about my headcanons on the zodiac signs of each mansion resident, plus Erica.)
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12 Jan 2026
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Dean Winchester and Castiel Novak are headed to Hogwarts.
Castiel, as a member of the old Novak wizarding family, is fully expected to be sorted into Ravenclaw, like all of his ancestors before him. Dean, as a Muggle-born, has no idea what the Houses even are. With a surprise sorting and classes starting soon afterwards, they're both pitched headfirst into the unknown - and they find themselves in competition with each other almost at once, both of them needing to prove themselves to the people they left at home, and the people with them at Hogwarts.
Over the course of their seven years at Hogwarts, Dean and Cas learn what it means to prove yourself, what it takes to discover who you are, what it feels like to fall in love, and what it is they'll fight for - what matters most of all.
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- English
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- 306,865
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- 12/?
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12 Jan 2026
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The Great Walking Dead Game AU Trilogy by JGrayDingler
Fandom The Walking Dead, The Walking Dead & Related Fandoms, The Walking Dead (Telltale Video Game), The Walking Dead (Video Games), The Walking Dead - All Media Types, Twd - Fandom, twdg
15 Aug 2026
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For anyone who loved Telltale's Walking Dead Game but was let down by its sequels comes two massive tales designed to continue exploring the themes of the original Walking Dead Game and the development of its breakout character, Clementine.
With The Walking Dead Game serving as part one, Clementine's story continues in Young and Young at Heart, a page one rewrite of the canon sequel to TWDG that removes intrusive elements that detracted from Clementine's character development and offers new settings and characters along with new interpretations of familiar ones to help explore the plight of a brave child trying to find solace in a cruel world that accords children no luxuries. Three Orphan Pilgrimage is an original tale created to conclude Clementine's story as she travels across post-apocalyptic America in search of somewhere to call home, while struggling not to lose herself along the way.
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12 Jan 2026
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The Last Road Home by acupoftea
Fandoms: The Walking Dead (Video Games), The Walking Dead & Related Fandoms, The Walking Dead (Telltale Video Game)
24 May 2016
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On Clementine and Survival, on everything before, after, and in-between.
(An almost introspective piece on Clem & the struggle of living).
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12 Jan 2026
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Out of the Ashes by AussieNicholas
Fandoms: The Walking Dead (TV), The Walking Dead (Video Games)
20 Jun 2016
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The world collapsed, and the time for humanity to rise again has arrived. As the walker population declines and the living retake the world, the burden of rebuilding civilization falls on those who can barely remember such a thing.
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12 Jan 2026
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Teenage Wasteland by 1lostone
Fandoms: The Walking Dead (TV), The Walking Dead - All Media Types, The Walking Dead (Comics), The Walking Dead (Video Games)
09 Jul 2015
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Clementine has seen a lot. She's a pragmatic girl, and with everything she's been through, knows that sometimes bad things happen to good people. Being a kid as Daryl says, "After everything went t'shit." has a whole slew of its own problems to cope with, let alone just being a normal thirteen year old kid. However, when Clem and Carl discover that there's something not quite right in Alexandria, they're put in a situation that not even Rick and Daryl can save them from...
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- Part 3 of Into the Sky
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12 Jan 2026
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Menagerie of Dreams by orphan_account
Fandoms: Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them (Movies)
08 Jan 2017
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In 1913 Newt Scamander endangered the life of a student and was sentenced to be expelled from Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. However, thanks to the testimony of his transfiguration professor, Albus Dumbledore, the expulsion was never enforced.
However, this left a blemish on Scamanders record ensuring his future as an outcast within the British Magical Community. Unable to find stable work as a magizoologist after graduating, he followed his brother Theseus' advice and in 1917 set off on an adventure to travel the world and discover the wonders of the magizoological world.
Until he met an aspiring auror in New York City two years later.
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12 Jan 2026
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Trace of Mischiefs is what happened. It’s the first ride to Hogwarts and the sorting ceremony. It’s the homework and the classes. It’s quidditch and the infirmary. It’s locked bedroom doors and nights in the common room. It’s mischief and adventures. It’s hate at first sight and being in denial. It’s dramatic declarations of love and tears of pain. It’s James, and Sirius, and Remus, and Peter, and Lily, and Marlene, and Dorcas, and Mary. It’s the past, the present and the future. Trace of Mischiefs is a journey, will you board the train?
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12 Jan 2026
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LJ DCBB 2012. Post-Swan Song AU. It’s just your run-of-the-mill monster hunt until Castiel suddenly powers down and loses all his mojo faster than a hooker siphoning petrol from the back of a customer’s truck. Completely lacking any sort of answer as to what the hell is going on, Team Free Will hole up within the safe confines of Bobby’s house, where at the very least there are books, tools, and a steady supply of peppermint tea. It’s pretty damn inconvenient, to be honest - Dean’s already got enough on his plate trying to work out his place in the aftermath of a very anticlimactic Apocalypse, without also having to babysit an angel who is on a daily basis growing ever weaker, sicker, and, by all indications, gayer than a maypole — thanks to Sam’s musical influence. However, as freak snowstorms pin them in place, and as days turn into weeks with no new answers, there are certain truths which must be confronted: that Dean’s frustration runs deeper than cabin fever, that there is a darkness inside Castiel rattling to rear its ugly head, and that the evil seeping into every crevice and corner of Bobby’s house is only getting started.
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- 88,911
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- 18/18
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- 3
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- 221
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12 Jan 2026
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LJ DCBB 2013. It’s been nineteen years since the beginning of the Last War, and the Alliance Army is losing land faster than it can supply good men to defend it. Their hope is the synthesis of Android Angeles, a series of humanoid machines designed without the capacity to feel, and thus enabling them to be the perfect super soldiers. In order to check their battle suitability, the first prototypes are sent down with a landing party of the men they will later replace, and Sergeant Dean Winchester is paired with Unit 5284-C-S-T-L for the assignment. Cas, as Dean nicknames him, is easy enough to work with - once you get past the emotional vacancy and blatant disregard for human life, that is - but as the squad's tour goes on, Dean gets to wondering whether the Android Angeles are really as unfeeling as he's been told, or if the fear of a reality in which malfunctioning prototypes will be shut down is too great for them to exist any other way.
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- English
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- 90,377
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- 7/7
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- 4
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- 254
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- 45,425
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12 Jan 2026
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Blood and Bones: the Winchesters Files by thegreenempty
Fandom Bones (TV), Supernatural (TV 2005)
23 May 2025
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31 Jan 2025