Among Ancient Pines by @graymatters & art by @cambiodipolvere and @onlytheheartknows
Words: 73,981
Every day, Draco Malfoy tries. With every fiber of his being he tries. But he doesn’t much think about what he’s trying for.
In his final term of Healer training, Draco is unfortunate enough to find himself on a plane, the only means of traveling to a small, magical town in rural Alaska. Years of hard work have culminated in an opportunity to work with an experimental wandmaker to study the intersection of Healing and wand theory. When Draco arrives, he doesn't find the wandmaker, but does find his apprentice, who happens to have ridiculously messy hair, a lightning bolt scar, and a definitely-not-charming smile. But Draco isn’t going to let Harry Potter get in the way of him becoming a successful medical researcher, even if Potter is stubborn, hot-tempered, reckless, surprisingly gentle, has bizarre taste in music, and likes to leave his shirts unbuttoned. How hard could the next few months be?
A fic about challenging assumptions, discovering self-worth, the silver lining in failing to meet expectations, and finding friendship, love, and purpose in a small Alaskan town that’s steeped in magic.
Soooo pretty and allllll the vibes I'm looking for. Harry was written in such a good way, and I feel like I should move to Alaska. VERY well written OC's. Magic lore was insane in this fic. AND THE ART oh god the art
The Prince of Wales begins work Monday at Taliesen Architectural Partnership, a Cardiff-based firm where Prince Arthur has signed on for two years to finish his professional qualifications in architecture.
The Lonely King by Cori Lannam
The Prince of Wales at his school. Merlin was sure it was all just a very bad joke.
This is my favorite Modern Royalty AU I’ve read so far. I love the subplots of Arthur trying to hold down a regular job as prince and trying to figure out dating. The pacing is great especially with Merlin and Arthur’s relationship. A great slow burn, mutual pining situation. I laughed, I cried, I wished it could’ve been longer.
tags
Top Lee Minho | Lee Know, Bottom Han Jisung | Han, Pining, Sexual Tension, Teasing, Dirty Talk, Attempt at Humor, Implied Lee Felix/Seo Changbin, an entire Game Night subplot im so sorry, Drinking, Possessive Behavior, Smut, Begging, Dry Humping, Orgasm Delay/Denial, Rimming, Face-Fucking, Anal Fingering, Anal Sex, Barebacking, Overstimulation, Manhandling, Spit As Lube, Spit Kink, rip jisungs neck, Body Worship, Oral Sex, Choking, Love Confessions, Praise Kink, Canon Compliant, Dacryphilia
summary
This was a joke. It was a joke, and Jisung was gonna wait out whatever clever punchline Minho had packed up his sleeve.
Minho remains, cocking his head to the side in challenge. He murmurs around the piece of candied popcorn held between his teeth, leaning closer, inviting.
“C’mon, Jisung,” Minho teases. “I thought you said you were hungry.”
Jisung realizes too late that the punchline doesn’t exist.
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It’s Jisung’s first time off schedule in months, and he’s naturally anticipating the most boring day ever.
When Minho gets back to the dorms early, it turns into anything but.
Chapters: 21/?
Fandom: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Steve Harrington/Eddie Munson, Steve Harrington & Dustin Henderson, Robin Buckley & Steve Harrington, Steve Harrington & Eddie Munson, Steve Harrington & Nancy Wheeler, Robin Buckley & Nancy Wheeler
Characters: Steve Harrington, Eddie Munson, Dustin Henderson, Robin Buckley, Nancy Wheeler, Original Male Character(s), Original Female Character(s), Henry Creel | One | Vecna, Eleven | Jane Hopper, Jim "Chief" Hopper
Additional Tags: season 4 fix it, Spoilers, blood mentions, Swearing, Eddie Munson Lives, Steve Harrington Has Powers, Eddie Munson Has Powers, Rewrite, Not Beta Read, Hurt Eddie Munson, steddie is endgame, divorced parents to friends to boyfriends, Episode: s04e09 The Piggyback (Stranger Things), Not Stancy, Grief/Mourning, Everybody thinks Eddie’s dead but he's not, Steve Harrington is a mom, Bisexual Steve Harrington, Panic Attacks, Some bastardisation of echolocation, Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Not Canon Compliant, POV Alternating, Derogatory Language, Steve Harrington Whump, Hurt Steve Harrington, Blood, Vampires, Vampire Steve Harrington, Vampire Eddie Munson, Canon-Typical Violence, Minor Character Death
Summary:
*spoilers for season 4, volume 2*
A lot can happen in two days. Steve’s just trying to get Robin, Nancy and Dustin back home safe and unharmed, but a quake separates them and now Steve’s stuck in the Upside-Down, trying to stay alive and find a way out.
He's not as alone as he thinks.
*
A rewrite of the season finale, because like a lot of you, I do not accept it.
So I figure I should actually post this on my Tumblr since I've been working in it for over a month now and I've somehow gotten over 50k words under my belt and I've mentioned it a couple of times on here but never posted it. Anyway here's my WIP exploring how getting bitten by the Demobats changed both Steve and Eddie. Featuring new powers, psychic links, government scientists, lifestyle and dietary changes and bratty kids. Oh, and Vecna is a little bitch.
It's better than I make it sound, so my readers tell me.
It's gonna be such a funny mess when Donald Trump dies of a stroke on April 1st, 2024.
Naturally everybody will think it's fake because of the date only to lose their minds (both positively and negatively based on their opinion of trump) when realizing it's real
There will be massive celebrations in the streets and on social media and lots of predictable "don't speak ill of the dead" discourse about those celebrations
Weird evangelicals will pull some weird number trick talking about how Jesus was conceived on April 1st and that makes Trump a sort of messiah and people will make fun of that
The Republicans (after they're done with the faux-sadness and faux-outrage) will stomp over each other to be his successor but none of them will succeed. They'll tear each other apart and have no single nominee for the November elections.
There will be discourse about if Biden and the living former presidents should go to his funeral (they won't, he was a traitor insurrectionist)
The Ukraine-Russia War immediately goes in favor of Ukraine as morale in the Kremlin is reduced. China similarly backs off from its threats on Taiwan.
Ten thousand new memes are made, some sticking around for years to come.
Not a month later a bunch of unofficial biographies of Trump hit the bookshelves, many with new details about just how awful he was.
me trying to convince myself that the whole spectrum of human emotions is a good and necessary thing to feel even if its not comfortable while im actively experiencing emotions that make me feel like my bones are being dissolved in acid
Reblog to let your followers know that they’re safe from jumpscares/screamers/etc from you on April 1st but they are NOT safe from getting boop’d like an idiot amen
If the world was a fair place, Harry Potter would never have come across a curious romance novel that seemed to depict the entirety of his past with his old school rival Draco Malfoy. The world, however, was not a fair place. That’s why he found himself sitting in a cosy little bookshop listening to that same Draco Malfoy read extracts from “Apples and Oranges” – his newest endeavour into the world of muggle literature, and a way to fix his relationship with Saint Potter, if only in his head.
In a turn of events stranger than fiction, the flames of an old obsession begin to light up Harry's days all over again. It starts with the meet and greet, the gin and tonic, and the signed copy of his "fixed" life, but the ending seems more unclear than ever. Twisted in a fictional romantic comedy, Harry's own life is suddenly at a crossroad - he passed his enticing incident, so what else can he do except flip the next page of his future and wonder: what happens next?
or: Harry and Draco play gay chicken as they recreate ten dates Draco wrote in his romance novel. Harry tries to prove that ten dates is not enough to fall in love, while Draco tries to hide that he's already in love after the first.
Listen, I signed up for a good time and some light-hearted romcom and I got a truckload full of emotion slammed right into me reading this. Such an emotional rollercoaster which made me laugh and made me cry. I love the "Draco fell first but Harry fell harder" trope and the execution of it in this fic was immaculate. And also please for the love of god go and check the authors tumblr for some extra behind the scenes material, ESPECIALLY this scene from chapter 7. Going to cry in the shower now.