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When the Wind is Southerly by TheGoodTwin (ProtoNeoRomantic)
Fandoms: Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Angel: the Series
27 Feb 2015
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As Giles and Buffy try to decide (and agree on) how to deal with Buffy's pregnancy, legal, medical and family troubles throw everything into confusion for the entire Scooby Gang. Meanwhile, a vengeful ghost terrorizes Sunnydale High, but who is this ghost, and what does it really want?
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- Part 2 of IT'S ALL TERRIBLY SIMPLE
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What if Someone Vicious Had Entered? by S A G (setgree)
Fandoms: Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality
01 Oct 2016
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2022 update: Overall I don't think this book 'works' and a lot of it is very clunky, so I don't think you should read it. I am writing a new fanfic that revisits some of the same themes.
This short book re-imagines Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by asking the title question.
In spring 2009, while re-reading the series, I started thinking that Harry, Ron and Hermione should take their enemies more seriously, and more often employ lethal violence. Early on in Deathly Hallows, for instance, they overpower two Death Eaters in a London cafe and then immediately bolt. Much better, I thought, to kill the Death Eaters and transfigure their remains into bones, as Barty Courch Jr. did to his father in Goblet of Fire. I could accept that the trio wouldn’t do something like that, but it defied belief that no one else, anywhere, would treat Voldemort as an existential threat and play hardball. This book is about characters who do, and the kinds of choices they would make.
My deepest debts to J.K. Rowling, Cormac McCarthy, Jim Butcher, Orson Scott Card, J.R.R. Tolkien, Eliezer Yudkoswky, and Nick Bostrom; my first round of readers; and the people like D & M who transfigured into Sarah.
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The Universe Is An Optimisation Problem by orphan_account
Fandoms: Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality - Eliezer Yudkowsky
02 Nov 2016
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Featuring a Cold War where both sides were helped by wizards, Hermione Granger as a sweet girl who just blows up buildings every now and then, Bill Weasley as a dimensional ritualist, Harry Potter as a mind-clone of Tom Riddle, Gilderoy Lockhart as a corporate executive, a massively expanded magical universe, and three transnational megamonopolies figuring out how magic can be their competitive edge. (AU, HPMOR-inspired)
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What I wish Harry had told the Order of the Phoenix in book 5 by S A G (setgree)
Fandoms: Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling
14 Feb 2017
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Scene: Molly and Sirius are tussling over how much to tell Harry about the operations of the Order of the Phoenix at 12 Grimmauld Place, after the OotP has rescued Harry from the Dursleys.
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Some more appropriate responses in Half-Blood Prince by S A G (setgree)
Fandoms: Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling
07 Mar 2017
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Scene 1: Harry and company are in Snape's very first Dark Arts class.
Scene 2: Harry discusses collaborating with Minister Scrimgeour.
Scene 3: Many appropriate points.
Scene 4: Harry encounters Malfoy pouring his heart out to Moaning Myrtle.
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Where you lead I cannot be afraid by Swimmer963
Fandoms: Valdemar Series - Mercedes Lackey
17 Dec 2018
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[This is part 4 of a series. Start at the beginning!]
Queen Elspeth is dead, and Valdemar has a new King, and a new war. Herald-Mage Vanyel finds himself sent to the Karsite border, fighting for the survival of his kingdom – a war that will push him to his absolute limits.
Sometimes, at night in his dreams, he speaks to a mage who wears black. An enemy, who might nonetheless understand his current reality and the choices he must make better than anyone else.
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- Part 4 of A Song for Two Voices
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Nothing can I hold of you but thought by Swimmer963
Fandoms: Valdemar Series - Mercedes Lackey
28 Feb 2020
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After the revelations of the past winter, the Heraldic Circle is wobbling its way to a new normal. The immediate chaos may be past, but an immortal mage lurks beyond their border, and however confusing and terrifying that reality is, they need a plan. To understand Leareth’s motives, they need something more objective than words from the man’s own lips; ideally, an outside perspective on his history.
Herald-Mage Vanyel is trying to find his own way forward. With Yfandes fully on his side for the first time in years, maybe he can reason his way through to a world that makes sense again.
Meanwhile, Dara, the young soon-to-be King’s Own, Gifted with Foresight, dreams of a distant plain where, just maybe, they could find the answers they need.
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- Part 8 of A Song for Two Voices
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Dances with Werewolves by RoleplayFanfics
Fandoms: Twilight Series - Stephenie Meyer, Twilight Series - All Media Types, Twilight (Movies)
15 Sep 2020
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"Jacob filled his cup with water, and sat back down in front of him. “Well… Uh, yeah, where to start…”
Later, after everything which had happened since, Sam would think back to that moment now and then. He wouldn’t really think of it as the ‘time when everything changed,’ and he wouldn’t think of it as the ‘start of all his troubles.’ He would instead think of it as the first time where his actual leadership skills were put to the test, and when, according to himself, he had failed. "
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Sequel to Of Hamsters and Men.Jacob and Edward brought about new understanding between the vampires and werewolves of Forks, but a step in the right direction isn't a solution, and for Sam Uley, among many others, the change is difficult to adapt to. Vampires were supposed to be uncontrollable monsters, not sympathetic people, and still, for every passing conversation with Jasper Hale, he finds himself more unsure where he stands.
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- Part 2 of Rewriting Twilight
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Todoroki Shouto and the Methods of Rationality by SlytherinKilljoy
Fandoms: 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia
02 Jan 2021
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He never had a choice about being a hero.
His father’s house, his father’s rules.
All that stands between him and his dreams is that man of burning hot dominance that makes Shouto’s breath hitch.
(He wants to be a scientist. Discover the absolute zero value of Kelvin. Be the first man on earth to touch the sun.)
But instead, he has to settle for being a hero.
Fine. Guess he’ll just have to do it without using his quirk.
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Bring the peace that suffering redeems by Swimmer963
Fandoms: Valdemar Series - Mercedes Lackey
19 Apr 2021
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Herald-Mage Vanyel has yet to make a decision on what to do about Leareth, his destined enemy and yet almost a friend, and now he - and Valdemar - are running out of time.
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- Part 11 of A Song for Two Voices
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The Gothamite by DaveHeilker
Fandoms: Batman (Comics), Superman (Comics), Superman/Batman (Comics), DCU (Comics), Batman and Robin (Comics), Rationality - Fandom - Fandom, Rational Fiction - Fandom, Catwoman (Comics), Batman - All Media Types, Batman: The Animated Series, Batman (Movies 1989-1997), Batman (Movies - Nolan), Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice, Superman - All Media Types, Superman: The Animated Series, The Adventures of Superman, Superman (1940)
01 Aug 2023
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The year is 1934. Bachelor playboy BRUCE WAYNE has a secret: by night, he’s one of the greatest detectives in human history, and a member of a secret society of people trained in the ‘oriental fighting arts’ known as the “Yīnyǐng” or “Ghosts of Gotham.” But when sightings and stories of a being with godlike powers start becoming too credible, he starts planning to address this existential crisis on behalf of humanity.
THE GOTHAMITE is – mostly – a BATMAN centric recursive sidequel to (and inspired by) The Metropolitan Man, by Alexander Wales, though it is intended to be able to stand on its own.
Content Warnings will be posted alongside new chapters, which will be published weekly on Thursdays.
It is incomplete, and ongoing.
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When a Self-Insert arrives to meet Death, he asks one thing: "What do you have to say for yourself?" After all, why would she bring people to a place like Hell?
An exploration of a possible explanation for why Death, a chipper and emotionally sympathetic character would willingly take people to afterlives that exist in DC that are.. rather awful.
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How Moriarty Or Sherlock Might Fake Death In a Modern Update by ClarkNewton
Fandoms: Sherlock Holmes & Related Fandoms, Sherlock (TV)
30 Dec 2021
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Can you fake a death by bullet wound? Here's some thoughts on how that might be possible.
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"The problem with getting what you want is getting what you once wanted." - Neil Gaiman
What if Caine had let his fear override his good judgment? What if he had asked Jupiter to take it slow with their relationship? What downstream effect might that have had on… things?
This story tells the tale of what Caine once wanted and what he continues to want as he and Jupiter sort themselves out over the course of a single eight-day Orous week.
Trigger warnings: Suicide attempt of a main character. Canon-compliant levels violence and incest imagery. Cannibalism.
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Remember, Padawan: love is for the weak. by Hilimi
Fandoms: Star Wars - All Media Types, Star Wars Prequel Trilogy, Star Wars: The Clone Wars (2008) - All Media Types
03 Dec 2023
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Saesee had tried to talk to the clones, but he had finally admitted defeat. He just could not be natural with them, and they had noticed it even without the Force. He had never been very good at social interaction, but at least with Jedi or persons who required his services people were obliged to put up with him and talk to him long enough to exchange information, but apart from that he was a bit of a lone wolf and getting out of that lifetime state of mind was no easy task. Sad but obvious, he did not REALLY want to get married, so meeting people who came to get married was... tricky. He was not young, he was not charming, he was not even HUMAN. He did not belong.
If his Master had lived to see him take part in this event, he would have beaten him to a pulp before disowning him ruthlessly.
It was the kind of moment that made him regret being a member of the Jedi High Council.
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Z-13 crawls towards its latest meal.
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Harry Potter and the Path of Restraint by Finariona
Fandoms: Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling
22 Jun 2025
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Harry, Ron, Hermione, Padma, Neville and Luna form in the Fall of sixth year a secret circle dedicated to magical virtue, restraint, and clarity—taking vows that begin to alter not only themselves, but the very magic around them. And they start seeing a lot of Madam Pince.
Meanwhile, Draco Malfoy—trapped in his own secret obligations--can’t stop noticing that Potter is acting weird. Not explode-a-classroom weird. Worse. Serene. With help from black-market Extendable Ears and a growing suspicion that Harry might actually be doing something important, Draco accidentally overhears more than he bargained for… including a solution to his own problems, if he can only swallow his pride and maybe, just maybe, talk to a Gryffindor without hexing them.
As ancient vows are sworn under the moonlight, and the Circle of Six becomes Hogwarts’ most clandestine self-improvement club, the real battle begins--between what’s easy and what’s right.
There’s exorcism by candlelight, phoenix cries at dusk, and enough awkward honesty to make a Hufflepuff blush.
Power is shifting. So is friendship. And no one—not even Malfoy—is walking away unchanged. Canon compliant up to end of fifth year.
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Bookmarked by jennagrins
28 Jul 2015
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Luminosity by Alicorn (LuminousAlicorn)
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Harry Potter and Voldemort meet at the graveyard in Little Whinging.
Bookmarked by IantoLives
05 May 2025
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Funny. A better basis for an alliance that you usually find.