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Dear Readers, how do you tell a love story where the people already made each other better - and then were torn apart? What do you do when the most formative version of yourself was forged in the absence of the person who made you feel whole? / or, the arena, the pit, has always been remembered.
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What Makes a Goddess by Frodohippie
Fandoms: Merlin (TV), Hadestown - Mitchell, Hadestown - Mitchell (Broadway) RPF, Ancient Greek Religion & Lore
05 Oct 2025
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Eurydice finds her Orpheus, but the Fates have different plans for her this time around. Things don't quite click, and a premature death sends her spiraling in an unexpected direction.
An original story based loosely on Hadestown. Think of Hadestown atmosphere with BBC Merlin-esque characters. In this story, Greek mythology is whatever I say it is.
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what if it had ended differently?
what if it had begun differently?There is a way out of the garden. One that does not end in the death of Dream. But it requires that the universe must be rewritten.
Or perhaps, it requires that everything happens as it was written.
(an experimental work on the nature of creation, destruction, dreams and hope)
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Charles Leclerc had it all: glory, speed, and the world at his feet. But when Max Verstappen—his rival, his secret, his love—falls into the shadows between life and death, Charles dares the impossible.
Inspired by the myth of Orpheus and Eurydice, this is a story of gods and ghosts, of music and memory, and of a love so strong that it can even descend into the Underworld itself. -
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"… I want to study the origin of our home, the Crème Republic. As consul, I believe it's only fair that I understand everyone I represent. Hence, it'll become a safer place for every person. A place where anyone, no matter Mud Choco City or the Upper City, can succeed."
Clotted Cream, rightfully just as always, wants to serve his home in the best way he can; by figuring out how his home came to be in the first place.
However, this rabbit whole is far deeper than both Clotted Cream nor both knights can imagine.
Now left with the broken pieces of their consul's discoveries, and everything seemingly starting to unravel--will Clotted Cream ever find his knights?
Or will this consul remain still for good?
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- Part 3 of Similar Wounds, Different Worlds
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“It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single man in possession of a good fortune is dangerous only once he learns how to weaponize it.”
When the naive, awkward daughter of a barber-surgeon strikes an unlikely friendship with the notoriously disagreeable Lord Beckett during her time aboard the HMS Endeavour, her tale darkens as she’s suddenly drawn deeper into his world of ambition and betrayal.
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Starts off pre TCBP, and ends AWE.
Follows the events from The Price of Freedom with an eventual, adult-oriented twist.
Partial Cutler Beckett backstory, partial coming-of-age trope for an 18th century woman.
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Call of the Underworld by LenoreGh0st
Fandoms: Percy Jackson and the Olympians - Rick Riordan, The Heroes of Olympus - Rick Riordan, The Sun and The Star - Rick Riordan & Mark Oshiro
04 Oct 2025
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Nico Di Angelo is dead. He has been for a few months now, but how is Will meant to move on from that? The days seem to blend together now; work, eat, bedrot, think of Nico, cry, repeat. Everyone is becoming more and more concerned as his depression takes a heavy toll on his psyche. Nothing seems to be helping. That is until Will begins getting vivid dreams. Small segments, pieces to a puzzle, all of it tying back to Nico. Demigod dreams are nothing to play with, so he takes a chance following the call of the underworld. Will he be able to bring Nico back?
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What happens to Eurydice after she returns back to the underworld after Orpheus fails to bring her back? Of course, she tries her best out to adjust to a permenant situation but ends up catching the interest of Hades along the way. This story is partially inspired by Orfeo's Game in IDV along with the Greek legend of Orpheus and Eurydice, of course.
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Ремусу было всего семь лет, когда отец подарил ему лиру.
Он смотрел на Аполлона, сиявшего ярче самого солнца, и плакал от радости.- Language:
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Will you Forget About Your Love for me? by Alcettogo
Fandoms: In Stars And Time (Video Game)
04 Oct 2025
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The saviors of Vaugarde have to go defeat the King with one missing party member. Luckily, someone is there to help them. There’s a catch though: their guide can't look back to make sure they’re following.
(Yes, this is an Orpheus and Eurydice retelling)
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the path to paradise, and likewise the road to ruin by underneath_stars
Fandoms: Six of Crows Series - Leigh Bardugo, Hadestown - Mitchell
04 Oct 2025
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Wylan is a waiter and performer at the railroad station outside of Ketterdam. Jesper is a gambler who's been chased out of everywhere he's ever been by debts and the wind. Kaz is the King of Ketterdam's criminal underworld, collecting souls and making more money than a man could use in a lifetime. Inej is the Wraith every winter and Captain Ghafa during the summer. Nina and Matthias are the owners of the train station, who have been through this song and dance before.
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Six of Crows Hadestown AU because of Jack Wolfe's run as Orpheus on Broadway
Updates Saturdays
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The Sword Of Damocles Is Swinging by somuchforstardew
Fandoms: Percy Jackson and the Olympians & Related Fandoms - All Media Types
03 Oct 2025
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"The Gods love you but not enough to save you."
Sarah Willoughby, a daughter of Hades, who had survived the Salem Witch Trials and so much more had spent three centuries with Lady Artemis. For a Demigod of her status, she’s lived a relatively happy, peaceful life save for three terrible occasions. Each beginning due to some God or Goddess creating a terrible mess. Each time, Sarah found herself torn from her home and forced to clean up the mess but she would always return to her happy life at Lady Artemis’ side.
Now, with ancient beings stirring and the threat of war looming over her world, Sarah’s peaceful existence is shattered yet again. Although, she is a far cry from being at the centre of it, the sword of Damocles still swings precariously over her head. For she is a hero that had been happy for far too long. Perhaps after three centuries of living a relatively joyful life for a Demigod, it’s time for Sarah Willoughby to sacrifice something.
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- Part 1 of To The World We Dream About!
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Hermione proposes a mission for herself: don the mask of a notorious Death Eater, infiltrate Voldemort's ranks, and finally end the war that should have never begun. But as she descends into the labyrinth, her mind begins to fracture. She finds herself haunted by fragments of lives she might’ve lived, battles she cannot remember, and the enigma of a man whose presence threatens to unravel her completely.
And the worst of it, she realizes, is the unbearable truth: he is good.
Draco Malfoy was never meant to be good.
He has always felt like a pendulum clock swung askew, unable to settle on which side he belongs to. He is the very embodiment of a coin with two faces, Light and Dark, destined to spin for eternity. He has never let fate play her hand. He will always bend the will of the gods to service his own survival.
Goodness in him isn’t light, isn’t warmth. It is the precision of cut-glass honesty so brutal that when it shatters, it leaves splinters buried like cactus spines beneath her skin. He does not offer refuge, because unlike her, he never flinches at the truth’s ugliness.
She hates him for it.
But she envies him for it, too.
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To The World We Dream About And The One We Live In Now by WillieTheNerd
Fandoms: Heartstopper (TV), Heartstopper (Webcomic), Hadestown - Mitchell
03 Oct 2025
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In a world where the seasons have stopped turning, Nick has a song to bring them back—and Charlie, a runaway who no longer believes in spring, finds himself caught in its melody.
Orpheus and Eurydice retold. But this time, it’s two boys daring to sing against the silence.
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In Which Orpheus Doesn’t Die (at the end) by hitlikehammers
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
03 Oct 2025
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The world shifts with the downward compression on that chest as he counts the rhythm—
Alongside the disappearance of everything. The screaming, the lightning—gone. Only black.
But worse: there’s no body under his hands. His heart chokes him, merciless—then he sees it.
Not the body he’d been saving, but a body. In a hospital gown. Hair shaved. Young.
“Who are you?” He asks, but it’s…pretty obvious.
“I am Seven. Lucky, isn’t it?”
See: obvious.
Fucking maddening, but obvious.
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Wherein Steve makes a bet with a game-obsessed semi-sociopathic test subject who promises to heal Eddie (and reveals he and Steve might be destined to mean everything to each other, which: what the fuck?)—on two conditions.
No one can know Eddie’s alive. And Steve can’t be seen mourning a loss that isn’t real.
Cue all the Party™ drama, gut-wrenching confessions into the ether (?), existential breakdowns, mirror-based
sexingcommunication, deals maybe/maybe-not upheld, and all the undying-star-crossed-hope you’d expect from striking a bargain in the Upside Down for the survival of the quite-possible love of your life. -
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It was a deathly blizzard that night. The worse one in thirty years.
Yet, the prince was banished without a care. Left to freeze in the snow.
Dark Cacao, left with the broken pieces and falling apart from his own guilt, sets off in an attempt to revive his son.
The only question is how desperate will he be to bring his firstborn back.
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Season 2 Major Spoilers! Please read this fan-fic with caution. This is a fanfic, so Magus is a dog here! It is not a relationship fic. It is about friendship.
Orphie is a quiet and curious girl, has always struggled with fear and loneliness, especially after losing her guardian, Isolde. Living in a mysterious mansion with friends and her loyal dog Magus, she faces the world with hesitation but also courage. One day, while it was raining, she meets Shu, a boy in need, and through their shared moments, Orphie begins to realize that she is never truly alone. With friendship, trust, and the unwavering presence of Magus, she slowly discovers her own strength and the courage to face the future.
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The Song of the Nightingale by space_amoeba
Fandoms: The Song of Achilles - Madeline Miller, Ancient Greek Religion & Lore, Hades (Supergiant Games Video Games)
02 Oct 2025
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They say there’s an old performer, one of those rhapsodists, they used to call them— There’s an old man down by the old fig tree. He’s only armed with a lyre, his partner’s song, and the memories that make him; so forgive him if his prose omits, if ellipses withhold, if the Philomel’s tale is expectedly lamenting. You’ll see he weaves through quite the tale. Go, grant him a liberating audience, and hear the Song of the Nightingale.
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- Part 1 of The Song of Patroclus
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blue moon revisited (song for garraty) by enko_girl
Fandoms: The Long Walk (Movie 2025), The Long Walk - Richard Bachman
02 Oct 2025
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Sometimes the rain sounded like footsteps. Like waterlogged boots, or socks, splashing against the uneven road. Pete McVries refused to spare a glance behind him. What would he see? He'd already won.
Pete McVries wanders alone after making his wish. He needs company, and it finds him.
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ten minutes to drowning by curioushabitforarivergod
Fandoms: Slow Horses (TV), Slough House - Mick Herron
01 Oct 2025
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Gloucestershire is now distant memory, France and his father are closer at hand, and River knows — not for the first time — how unfair death is.
Or; River trips and falls head-first into the Thames, and travels through the underworld to rescue James "Spider" Webb