gizmos_cipher
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"It was a catalyst, of sorts, one that changed everything. They went from glares to sidelong glances, a brush of hands, quiet conversations. Neither of them, certainly, would have seen it coming, but it happened nonetheless."
Draco knows that he's back at Hogwarts for a reason. He's been given a second chance, and he's ready to take it.
Harry isn't too sure why he's back at Hogwarts, other than the fact that he's spent his whole life living for others, but maybe he can learn to live for himself.
A year of growth, of of finding oneself, and of finding joy, even after the darkest of times.
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as the tides carry us (on and on, relentless) by gizmos_cipher
Fandoms: Original Work, Ancient Greek Religion & Lore
20 Nov 2023
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The sun shines hot on the Aegean, the day that Acacius kisses him for the first time.
Something flickers in the shimmering air, but Kleitos knows nothing but the heat between them almost too hot to stand, grains of sand under calloused feet, rough hands against his face, on his shoulders, down his back.
For just a moment, the world narrows.
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"The brush of their shoulders sent pleasant shivers down Robin’s spine, no matter how much she told herself that this means nothing.
It was getting harder to convince herself that it was true."
Robin isn't entirely sure what's happening to her life any more. What are you supposed to do when your world was flipped upside-down, then turned right back on its head, leaving nothing the same?
In which nightmares are had, families are redefined, and love grows.
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be still my foolish heart (don't ruin this on me) by gizmos_cipher
Fandoms: Good Omens (TV), Good Omens - Neil Gaiman & Terry Pratchett
30 Sep 2023
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Just as Crowley starts to become comfortable in his solitude, Aziraphale returns, once again dragging Crowley in like gravity.
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A Quiet Kind of Love by gizmos_cipher
Fandoms: The House in the Cerulean Sea - T. J. Klune
19 Sep 2023
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The family adopts a new kitten. Chaos ensues.
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In your arms I shall not fear the night by Swimmer963
Fandoms: Valdemar Series - Mercedes Lackey
20 Apr 2018
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This is a rationalfic take on "The Last Herald-Mage", inspired by HPMOR and other works. Accessible regardless of whether you've read the original series. Though far from perfect, the characters are trying to do their best with the information, intelligence, and skills they have. Unfortunately, their enemies are also doing that, and sometimes even reasonable decisions can turn out badly.
[Meta note: this starts out a bit slow, and book 1 is kind of a different genre from the rest. In particular, the rationalist content is fairly subtle at the start, and the effective altruism themes come out a lot more towards the end of book 2 and early book 3. If you’re moderately enjoying book 1 but a little bored, try sticking it out until the end of book 2.]
Ashamed of him, Vanyel's father sends his disappointing son to live with his strict aunt, the Herald-Mage Savil. Although he knows things will change, Vanyel dramatically underestimates just how different his life is about to become. Sparks fly as he discovers both love and magic.
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- Part 1 of A Song for Two Voices
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the shirt off his back by BarlowGirl
Fandoms: The Last of Us (Video Games), The Last of Us (TV)
16 May 2025
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“Your clothes,” she says. “I don’t mind them.”
“Well, they’re all yours,” he says. “Whenever you want.”
In the moment, he’d carve out his actual heart and give it to her if it made her feel better. His clothes are nothing compared to that.
Or: 5 times someone stole Joel's shirt + 1 time they didn't
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Sarah never died, and Riley was never bitten.
When everything fell apart, Joel Miller did the impossible—he saved his daughter. Two decades later, he’s tasked with protecting a girl who might hold the key to humanity’s future. But Ellie refuses to go anywhere without Riley, the one person she trusts—and loves—above all else.
Can a broken smuggler, his daughter, a battle-hardened survivor, and two inseparable teens survive the journey across a fractured country?
Can love endure in a world where everything else has already been lost?
And if a cure is finally within reach… what will it cost to hold onto the people who matter most?Series
- Part 1 of The Last of Us: We Lived
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To Cleave These Roots We've Made by Erisenyo for lesmiserablol
Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender
12 Jan 2023
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[“Well, I already have the plans in place to be back mid-June,” Zuko says, firm. “My classes won’t be started yet, so I can be there to—”
“Don’t worry about it,” Aang repeats, laughing. “There’s plenty of time!”
Which is true in its own way, two and a half whole months until the little sucker arrives, so Sokka isn’t quite sure why hearing Aang say hits him in the gut quite so hard.
Must be that indigestion.]
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Sokka and Zuko have been roommates and best friends through college and graduation, through first jobs and new jobs and promotions, through friends getting married and sisters being pregnant and everything in between.
But that all ends in four days.
Four days to pack up an apartment. Four days before Zuko goes to law school and Sokka stays behind. Four days to untangle two lives that Sokka and Zuko have spent ten years weaving together.
Can you call it a divorce, if you were never actually together in the first place?
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- Part 1 of To Cleave 'Verse
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Harry and Draco are perfectly fine, separately minding their business in 2004, when the Unspeakables conscript them into service... in the First War against Voldemort.
Come for mutual pining and forced proximity in a 1980 hotel room, stay for young Sirius and philosophising about immortality and wormholes. And an eighties cowboy soap opera.