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  1. Summary

    A collection of Fairy-tale inspired fics that are definitely not intended for children

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    For Tumblr prompts @Huxloween

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    A Tailor!Hux AU series in 2 parts

    I. Bespoke: Wools and Silks
    I I. Bespoken: Satin and Lace

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    "Don't eat with your hands"
    "Don't play with your food."
    "Eat in small bites."

    Hux and Kylo were never ones to follow the rules.

    Pure Kylux Food Porn. A series of one shots with a beginning, a middle and an end.

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  1. Public Bookmark 52

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    “Hello?” Stiles whispered, weakly looking into the darkness again. A giant head looked down at him: black fur, blue eyes, and something large and silver in its muzzle. “Fenrir…”

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    26 Dec 2025

    Bookmarker's Notes

    Such a gorgeous and evocative story, well-seasoned with mythological nods and a hint of my favored Beauty and the Beast trope. There was so much packed into this world in under 7k and I want to roll around and marinate in its loveliness for a long time.

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    “What is your name?” Derek interrupted his thoughts and Stiles glanced up to meet the blue eyes watching him.

    “Stiles. They call me Stiles.”

    Derek tilted his head at his name, just like everyone else did, but instead of the questions about why or how he was named that way, the wolf just repeated it.

    “Stiles.”

    The heat on the back of his neck returned and Stiles tossed another fish to Derek to stop thinking about the way his tongue curled around the last ‘s’. He shouldn’t be thinking about things like that, not with a giant wolf.

  2. Public Bookmark 55

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    There wasn’t anything overtly sexual about the picture, not like the Playboy that Scott once stole from his dad. That Playboy had been exciting because they both knew they shouldn’t have been looking at it. The picture of Peter feels exciting in a wholly different way because it makes something stir inside of Stiles.

    And maybe this attraction doesn’t feel all that new, maybe it’s a thought that’s been lurking somewhere inside of him: this thing that has been slowly coalescing inside of him might be starting to solidify and form.

    And that form now has the shape of Peter Hale.

    OR the one where Derek's Uncle Peter is a Neckz N Throats model, and seeing his cover shot awakens a years long obsession in Stiles.

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    22 Dec 2025

    Bookmarker's Notes

    I have an unhealthy love for the Neckz N Throats -verse, and this was just perfection. Just a lovely exploration of Stiles falling for Peter through the year, bookended by charm and humor and some seriously (SERIOUSLY) hot smut.

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    And that’s when comes face to face with Peter’s Neckz N Throats cover blown up, framed, and hanging in pride of place above Peter’s headboard on the wall above his bed.

    “So lame, isn’t it?” Derek asks, rolling his eyes in the way that all Hales seem to genetically be able to do when he sees Stiles freeze and stare at the print.

    “Uh…” Stiles says.

    Derek keeps walking and goes into Peter’s closet to rummage around in there, occasionally mumbling to himself.

    The cover shot is black and white, but lit in a way that shines down the side of Peter’s head, which is thrown back to expose the side of his jaw and the clean line down his throat. He’s wearing all leather, his pants slung low and zipped but not buttoned, and it looks like he was in the process of unzipping his jacket when the picture was captured, exposing nothing but a broad, strong chest underneath.

    When Derek emerges triumphant holding a pack of fireworks above his head, Stiles still hasn’t moved.

    “Dude, what’s wrong––” he cuts himself off and wrinkles his nose. “Ugh! Stiles, really? My uncle?”

  3. Rec 16

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    For Prompt #51 (H/D Career Fair 2017):
    When Draco gets fired, he reluctantly agrees to break up a girl’s relationship for her disapproving mother. Through word of mouth, the one-time gig turns him into a professional Matchbreaker, however he winds up falling for one of his clients and must somehow balance his secret job and love life.

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    “So who is it? The Curse-breaker and the Veela? The head of the Department of Magical Transportation?” Draco’s eyes lit up. “The Dragon-tamer?” Now that particular Weasley could be fun.

    “No. It’s Harry,” Hermione said, the name exploding out of her in a rush.

    Draco blinked, stunned into silence.

    “Harry,” he said, after he recovered his faculties. “You want me to break up Harry and the Weaselette?!"

    Podfic of The Rules of Matchbreaking by PalenDrome (nerdherderette).

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    13 Oct 2025

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    I would give this a zillion kudos if I could. I love this so much --the humor and snark, the quiet moments and vulnerability, the heartache and joy that come out so beautifully through Cailynwrites' reading. There's a depth that goes beyond the words on the page, and I know I'll listen to it again and again. So beautiful, thank you ♥️♥️♥️♥️

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    When Derek thought about time travel – and he did, a lot – this was not what he'd had in mind. He'd thought he would see his younger self, tell him to leave Paige alone and NEVER trust Kate Argent. He'd thought he’d get to come back once that was done and everything would be perfect. He never imagined having to relive his entire life.

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    26 Jun 2021

    Bookmarker's Notes

    Time travel-de aging fic from Derek's POV. A witch's curse that makes people right prior wrongs causes Derek to time travel 24 years back to his birth and relive his life all over again. The writing of Derek's age-appropriate voice with touches of humor and feels and personal growth is magnificent. So monumental and incredibly well done. It does get a bit rushed at the end and the bit with Gerard too fantastical, but ambitious and deserves the kudos)

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    The witch was supposed to be easy to deal with. She wasn’t hurting anyone really, but the sheriff was starting to be concerned about all the "odd" events going on; a cheating husband being incapable – literally – of putting pants on; an evil boss handing himself over for fraud and then denying it; school bullies becoming their victim’s slaves, willingly. All those things could have been considered justified, but people were asking questions so John had asked Derek and his pack to look into it.

    A few days later, they finally found the witch. They tried to talk to her but Derek, being … well, Derek, managed to piss her off rather quickly. He never saw it coming, and before he knew it, everything was black.

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    Stiles thinks if Peter had never happened. If Peter hadn’t forced Stiles down onto the earth and pinned him there. But Peter had happened. And all he and Derek had left was a single kiss.

    (Stiles was fifteen when he was raped and killed in the fall.)

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    16 Sep 2019

    Bookmarker's Notes

    Sterek The Lovely Bones AU. It’s done so movingly, so very terribly and beautifully, and I can’t think of how it could be written better. Stiles’ voice is perfection—all hope and outrage and youthful indignation and brilliance, along with the sadness of a life lost. Nothing contrived, just pitch-perfect storytelling.

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    If Peter hadn’t held Stiles down as he cried and struggled against the oppressive weight of the man’s hands and body, as Peter slowly slid his hands down past the band of Stiles’ boxers and bared him to the world. If Peter had stopped tearing Stiles apart from the inside with his fingers and later his brutal cock, lancing pain and sick sick pleasure up and down Stiles, racking sobs and shivers, painful gasps and moans from him like he was wrangling a bird for its final song.

    If Peter had just never happened.

    Stiles think he would have had all the things Peter did to him with Derek.

    With Derek it would have been the most sweetest romantic sentimental thing he did for their first time. They would have gone to the woods under the stars, probably on a patch of mildewy but soft grass that they always like to roll in after they tired from practising lacrosse. Derek’s touch would have been true reverence, not like Peter’s perverse worship.

    It would have been the most goddamn perfect thing in the world.

    But Peter had happened.

    There is going to be nothing more with Derek. Peter has wrecked him, and then made sure no one else could have him.

    All they had (all Stiles had) now is a single stolen kiss.