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    (I am the one who says 'fuck you') - Benjamin Garcia, 'Ode to the Corpse Flower'.

    Petunia drips magic the way she drips anger. Sparingly. Subtly. Nothing overt or obnoxious. Nothing that attracts the stares of other children or the suspicion of adults. Just things that help her. Her dolls line back up after the football Lily was kicking about ruins their perfect symmetry. Her bed makes itself while she brushes her teeth meticulously. Tea that is slightly too hot or too cold settles to the perfect temperature. Magic maintains the realm of order she has built around herself.

    (A witch!Petunia and muggle!Lily AU, covering the Marauders' years at Hogwarts and the First Wizarding War).

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    07 Jan 2026

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    Next to him, Brad took a sip of his coffee. He seemed to consider something.
    “I’ll do it.”
    A silence fell as everyone in the room stared at Brad.
    “...what?” David said after a few moments, sure he must have misheard it.
    “I’ll do it. I’ll be your fake boyfriend.”

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    04 May 2025

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    When people are desperate they turn to faith. Panem has done a good job creating a truly secular society, stamping out the religions of the past, but nothing can stop new gods from rising.

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    Or: When Gaea curses Percy to live in a world without the gods, he winds up in District 4 and is chosen as tribute for the 70th Hunger Games. From there, everything just kind of spirals.

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    05 Nov 2024

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    “I wish you had gone to juvie.”

    There was one of those automated clap-tracks on the television as another contestant got the question correct. Gallagher’s eyes were dark as the blue lights of the television screen threw weird shadows onto his face. Mickey wished, almost idly, that there was more lighting in the Milkovich household, if just so that Gallagher didn’t look so ominous. He picked up the remote and muted the TV.

    A canon-divergent story from 1x09, in which Tony Markovich suspected foul play and coerced an unwilling Mickey Milkovich into revealing the truth about Kash Karib.

    Russian translation available here.

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    20 Aug 2024

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    After a shot of tranquilizer to the neck and a near miss with a bat to the family jewels, Billy promises to stay out of Steve Harrington’s way and to never bring up that night again. The thing is, there’s only so many places to be in Hawkins and he’s always loved a good mystery.

    In other words: Billy and Steve find themselves seeing more and more of each other. Along the way they stumble their way into a couple of closets full of skeletons, not always metaphorically, and discover they might not hate each other after all.

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    19 Apr 2024