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Sun-Kissed and Unbidden by AFlowerInTheSun
Fandoms: Bridgerton (TV), Bridgerton Series - Julia Quinn
21 May 2025
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Summer of 1817. Penelope is no longer a fixture of London’s marriage mart, by choice, not exile. Society barely remembers her, and that suits her well. She lives in the countryside now, in a small, ivy-covered cottage not far from the Granvilles’ estate, with her faithful maid and friend Rae at her side.
She has long since put Lady Whistledown to rest. Instead, she writes novels that sell well.
She has been part of the Granvilles’ world for two years now, and their parties, their freedom, their belief that art is not scandalous but sacred, feel more like home than Mayfair ever did.
Among painters and poets, natural philosophers and scandalous playwrights, Penelope is no longer the forsaken wallflower. She is simply Pen: a woman with ink-stained fingers and sun-kissed shoulders, who lives freely and speaks her mind. She has lovers when she wishes and none when she does not. Her life is full.
So when Benedict arrives at the Granvilles’ summer gathering, charming, disillusioned, still a little too tethered to expectation, it is not to rescue her, or fix her. It is to find himself increasingly fascinated by someone who has already found herself.
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21 May 2025
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I thanked God to touch the flame by ScarlettDaisies
Fandoms: Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling
10 May 2025
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'Child actor Regulus Black found unresponsive in lake'
Regulus' life has always been troubled, sprinkles of positive in the form of his brother Sirius Black and summer fling with James Potter along the way but mainly a shit show. Following his attempted suicide on the grounds of the Black family estate Regulus moves in with his brother Sirius and his band mates to navigate life outside of the seedy underbelly of high society he'd grown up in.
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21 Jan 2025
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i'll kiss you for as much time as we have by orphan_account
Fandoms: Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling
16 Aug 2017
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“I gather you have come to slay the beast?”
“Uh.” Sirius stared at the man lying on the grass. There was not a line of tension in his body, and he hadn’t dignified Sirius—Prince Sirius—with a single glance. “Er, yes. Right. The beast. Werewolf. Do you, uh, know where…it dwells?”
The man snorted and turned the page of his book.
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prompt: According to tradition a new King/Queen/Leader must kill a werewolf to prove his worth and here I am to kill you but I just can’t seem to do it
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30 Oct 2024
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The brewing of amortentia in Regulus' potions class, creates a chain reaction few people expected.
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