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What Came Before Colin Realized by sofiyathealmostwriter
Fandoms: Bridgerton Series - Julia Quinn, Bridgerton (TV)
14 May 2021
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"At any rate, I am not going to marry soon," Colin grumbled, sending his older brothers a glare. Then, with a slight rise in his voice for finality, he said just about the stupidest thing of his life. "And I am certainly not going to marry Penelope Featherington!"
“Oh.”
And so begins a lengthy love story... 7 years later. But what if we delve deeper into those 7 years? What if we get to watch Penelope and Colin change and mold as individuals and as a friendship throughout that time? What if Polin was the slow burn I so very crave, my Dear Reader?
Read and find out.
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- Part 1 of Polin: The Journey and the Destination
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The Third Option by orphan_account
Fandoms: Spider-Man - All Media Types, Spider-Man: Homecoming (2017), The Avengers (Marvel Movies), Marvel Cinematic Universe
27 Jan 2020
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Homecoming AU.
Ben and May divorced before Peter’s parents died, so when Ben is murdered Peter goes into foster care. It takes just a tiny taste of superpowers for Peter to decide he doesn’t want to put up with his horrible foster father anymore—the streets are infinitely more appealing. All he wants is to be Spider-Man anyway.
So he leaves.
Simple.
Simple, that is, until Iron Man needs Spider-Man’s help. Peter isn’t about to turn down an opportunity to fight alongside Tony Freaking Stark, but he also isn’t going to let his hero know that his recruit is a fifteen-year-old homeless dropout. So they strike a deal. Peter will help Tony. In return, the mask stays on.
And that’s when things get complicated.
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Sometimes you feel like a black hole. You consume and consume and consume. Television and video games and alcohol and books. Maybe not as many books as you should.
Maybe more alcohol than you should.
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the family evans by dirgewithoutmusic for darkersoltice
Fandoms: Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling
01 Jan 2015
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What if, when Petunia Dursley found a little boy on her front doorstep, she took him in? Not into the cupboard under the stairs, not into a twisted childhood of tarnished worth and neglect—what if she took him in?
Petunia was jealous, selfish and vicious. We will not pretend she wasn’t. She looked at that boy on her doorstep and thought about her Dudders, barely a month older than this boy. She looked at his eyes and her stomach turned over and over. (Severus Snape saved Harry’s life for his eyes. Let’s have Petunia save it despite them).
Let’s tell a story where Petunia Dursley found a baby boy on her doorstep and hated his eyes—she hated them. She took him in and fed him and changed him and got him his shots, and she hated his eyes up until the day she looked at the boy and saw her nephew, not her sister’s shadow. When Harry was two and Vernon Dursley bought Dudley a toy car and Harry a fast food meal with a toy with parts he could choke on Petunia packed her things and got a divorce.
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- Part 4 of boy with a scar
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Richie and Eddie bust ghosts, pine hopelessly, and get tangled up in the winding red thread of fate:
The sun is perfect when they finally start filming, just low enough to cast everything in a golden sort of light that almost makes the building look beautiful. Eddie steadies the tripod and gives the thumbs up and then they’re away and Richie has his game face on.
“This is your faithful host speaking, your courageous convoy to all that is chilling and creepy, Richie Trashmouth Tozier.” Richie says, tone deadly serious. “Tonight, we venture beyond the veil, mystery lovers, to a place so disturbing and terrifying my co-host Eddie has refused to venture inside.”
“This is mis-representation.” Eddie protests from behind the camera. “I’m not scared of ghosts, but I draw the line at bacterial infection.”
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After witnessing Merlin using magic, Arthur throws him in the dungeon, ordering his execution on a day after Yule. But in the following nights he is visited by three Ghosts who show him Merlin’s true nature and what are the consequences of his execution.
In another words it’s magic reveal story in style of “A Christmas Carol” by Charles Dickens.
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- English
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- 17,000
- Chapters:
- 4/4
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- 1
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Bookmarked by rdvelvetkisscs
01 Feb 2023
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Let me tell you, you do not need to have watched Merlin to fall in love with this fic. Because I have no wanted a single episode of the British fantasy-adventure TV show, but I had such a good time with this. Now I will say, I am a big Dickens/Christmas Carol fan, so that may have been where my bias lies, but still, I really enjoyed how the author adapted it to fit the lore of Merlin. Everything was perfect, from the ghosts of Yule past, present and yet to come to the spans of time in between nights with Arthur. I will say, the ending is my favorite for Arthur's speech alone. I'm surprised this isn't a classic in the Merlin fandom by now as this should be required reading every holiday season.
---Canonically Incorrect Season 2, Episode 74---
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Hey, Somebody's on the Roof by peggywrites
Fandoms: Beetlejuice - All Media Types, Beetlejuice - Perfect/Brown & King
15 Sep 2020
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Lydia Deetz goes to the roof of her house to get some fresh air. Beetlejuice, who she has not seen in months, gets the wrong idea.
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- English
- Words:
- 47,631
- Chapters:
- 16/16
- Comments:
- 316
- Kudos:
- 1,571
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- 275
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- 22,188
Bookmarked by rdvelvetkisscs
01 Oct 2021
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Tim Burton, Eddie Perfect and Scott Brown, literally anyone pick this up and make it the second movie. The characterization is perfect, the storyline is exact the movie I'd want it to be, and I didn't know I needed it, but humanized Beetlejuice! With feelings! Wow! The conflict and emotions around Beetlejuice's death between him and Lydia is so well written and I believe fully that those are the feelings that they would be feeling, and that final scene with his mom and the curse being broken by ripping the card in half is perfection. I can't believe that you didn't have a full idea of what the ending was going to be when you started, but you ended it in the most satisfying way. Now everyone gets a happy ending, even Beetlejuice.
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A series of five Valentine's Day fics for the week leading up to the big day! There will be a bit of everything, so check the tags for all the specifics!
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Bookmarked by rdvelvetkisscs
25 Jun 2021
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Super cute and fluffy little stories, perfect for Valentines Day! My favorites are The Heart of the Matter and Check, Please! but Quo Fata Vocant is also so fucking good, and Puppy Love broke me in a place I didn't know I could be broken. I am ready for Valentine's Day now.
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Victor Nikiforov, aka Grand Prix, knows that he's Yakov's most skilled hitman. That's just a fact and he isn't in the habit of arguing with facts.
He also knows that he's the only one Yakov trusts, period. In this case though, he's the only one Yakov can rely on to take care of the elusive sniper Eros, who kills Yakov's henchmen left and right.
What Victor doesn't know, however, is that Eros' little vendetta is not a matter of coincidence, but pure premeditation, and thus... he falls into a trap that a rookie like Little Fairy could see from a mile away.
He falls in lust.
And then in love.
The fool.- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 67,471
- Chapters:
- 13/13
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- 2
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- 282
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- 1,091
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- 304
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- 20,268
Bookmarked by rdvelvetkisscs
03 Sep 2021
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LITERALLY EVERYTHING GOOD ABOUT A CRIME AU/ENEMIES-TO-LOVERS FIC! Having to kill each other but falling in love instead, Victor sprinting to Yuuri after he knew he was hurt, THE HOTEL ROOM KEY. It was all perfect. Victor's characterization was absolute perfection and Yuuri/Eros is something I didn't know I needed, but they interact with Victor incredibly in their own separate ways. They were so much fun to read apart, but not as fun as when they were together. Every interaction, not even just the smut, but Victor kissing Yuuri's scars and the beach scene and Victor crying because Yuuri disappeared is everything! The cherry on top was the proposal and marriage. I want nothing but a long life of happiness and assasinations for them both.
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In which Christopher Robin has a Birthday, and returns to the Hundred Acre Wood by PurpleFluffyCat for mrsredboots
Fandoms: Winnie-the-Pooh - A. A. Milne
24 Aug 2018
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"Pooh, promise you won't forget about me, ever. Not even when I'm a hundred."
Pooh thought for a little. "How old shall I be then?"
"Ninety-nine."
Pooh nodded. "I promise," he said.
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 1,580
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- 1/1
- Collections:
- 1
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- 22
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- 98
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- 22
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- 975
Bookmarked by rdvelvetkisscs
01 Feb 2023
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I read this fanfiction in the same month I turned 24, and it sent me into an emotional crisis of living my life in the best way to make sure I am surrounded by my loved ones and those most special to me in my final days. This fic was written before the Disney movie "Christopher Robin" but I would much rather watch a movie like this. Christopher Robin at the end of his life rather than the middle, his friends celebrating him and just being with him, reminding him of his childhood and his time in the Hundred Acre Woods. Winnie the Pooh is the perfect amalgamation of innocence and joy and I would ask for no better ending for Christopher Robin.
---Canonically Incorrect Season 2, Episode 64---