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He comes at night, on the eve of a storm that will last for seven years. She cannot know it then; only when the veil of perpetual blizzard seals the south from the rest of the world and she is a sea away in the belly of the empire will Katara understand her fate.
“I need your help.”
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OR: Eleven years after the death of the Avatar, the Fire Nation’s prince asks for a favor.
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“You are a long way from Imladris and Lórien, my Lady. What brings you so far west?”
You, she thinks, then blushes deeply.
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OR: Arwen chooses a mortal life – and everything that comes with it.
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Hérincë by mzladybird
Fandoms: The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power (TV 2022), The Lord of the Rings - All Media Types
16 Sep 2024
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I know the power of desire. I was there at the birth of all feelings.
His voice is deeper in her mind, as if the filter of his borrowed body cannot follow him to this place. What she hears is what he is – impenetrable darkness, something grave and inescapable. She presses her hands to her skull in a vain attempt to pull herself out of the dream.
Galadriel—
She snarls and kicks at the door.
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OR: Galadriel is not sleeping well.
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Even Cowgirls Get the Blues by mzladybird for AlterMortem
Fandoms: The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power (TV 2022), The Lord of the Rings - All Media Types
01 Oct 2023
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Mama makes her bring over a funyun-crusted casserole two days after he moves into the house next door.
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OR: the older neighbor AU
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Mamita Santa by mzladybird
Fandoms: Spider-Man: Spider-Verse (Sony Animated Movies), Spider-Man - All Media Types
11 Jul 2023
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It started at a discoteca.
OR: Gwen moves to Mexico City after graduation.
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Widowmaker by mzladybird
Fandoms: The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power (TV 2022), The Lord of the Rings - All Media Types
12 May 2023
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“They get you when you’re young. Start you off as a whistlepunk. That’s what they call the boys who run messages back to the landing. But you spend enough time on site and they start to show you things. Maybe one day you learn to put a choker on the log, hook it up to the other lines for hauling out of the forest. Next thing you know you’re part of a rigging crew—”
“Are you part of a rigging crew?”
“I’m a faller.”
Halbrand licked beer foam from his whiskers, pink tongue soft against the hard lines of his mouth. That was his name. Halbrand.
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OR: For three decades, Galadriel’s family has run a small general store in the wilds of northwestern Maine. For three winters, one elusive logger has paid her a yearly visit.
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In the Valley of Gods and Monsters by mzladybird
Fandoms: Star Wars Sequel Trilogy, Star Wars - All Media Types
15 Apr 2023
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In the beginning, the gods ruled on high from their city atop the snowy peaks of Mount Ison.
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Take My Breath by mzladybird
Fandoms: Star Wars Sequel Trilogy, Star Wars - All Media Types
03 Apr 2023
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They never gave me memories. I don’t really know why. But I’m glad, because I don’t have to wonder what’s real. I know my design, and I know my time is borrowed. But everything I’ve seen is through my own eyes.
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OR: The Blade Runner AU
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“A short story has neither time nor patience for excess. It is more than lean; it is starved. The best will leave you hungrier for reading them.”
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OR: The student/professor AU
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“I’m not following.”
“I said—”
“No, yeah. I got that part. I just,” Halbrand waved the spatula, scowling at the water stains on the ceiling, “I mean – it sounds like you want your boyfriend to fuck a baby into you.”
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OR: noncon stepsibling-to-baby daddy AU
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In Bloom (Nature is a Whore) by mzladybird
Fandoms: Shadow and Bone (TV), The Grisha Trilogy - Leigh Bardugo
14 Feb 2023
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They called it The Rash. That was the first symptom.
The Bay Area was lost within a month as those who could left and those who couldn’t succumbed to the madness of disease and their basest desires. By the time hunger drove Alina back onto the street with a scarf over her mouth and cleaning gloves on, half of San Francisco was gone and the rest was fucking mindlessly.
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OR: The a/b/o apocalypse
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With Benefits by mzladybird for SundayWolfSong
Fandoms: Shadow and Bone (TV), The Grisha Trilogy - Leigh Bardugo
29 Jan 2023
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“Saints, it must drive you crazy that you still want to fuck me.”
“Language, Ms. Starkov.”
A dazzling grin split her face.
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Aleksander didn’t plan on sleeping with the new intern. To his credit, she wasn’t an intern when he did it.
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Gimme by mzladybird
Fandoms: The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power (TV 2022), The Lord of the Rings - All Media Types
23 Jan 2023
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“If I think you’re wandering – if I’m worried about another man finding you like this – it is going to be very bad for everyone. Do you understand?”
She tried to nod, but his hold was too strong.
“Promise me, Galadriel.”
Her name on his tongue could have been a prayer or a curse. “I promise, Alpha.”
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OR: The office rivals a/b/o
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Tusk! by mzladybird
Fandoms: House of the Dragon (TV), A Song of Ice and Fire & Related Fandoms
11 Jan 2023
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Everybody left Dragonstone. But Rhaenyra stayed.
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OR: Rhaenyra is the last Targaryen riding at Dragonstone.
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It Won’t Always Be Like This by mzladybird
Fandoms: The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power (TV 2022), The Lord of the Rings - All Media Types
05 Jan 2023
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He saw her through a split in the crowd. Her hair was longer, braided at the temples to keep frost-flecked curls out of her eyes. She smiled into a hug with some older woman, maybe Celebrimbor’s sister, and Halbrand nearly laughed from sheer relief. She was here, she was back and it was better, it would be so much—
That’s when he saw the young man standing behind her.
OR: Childhood Friends to Lovers
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“Good morning, Aleksander.”
“Starkov.”
“You’re looking especially morose this morning.”
“You’ve got icing on your chin.”
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OR: Chef Aleksander and Baker Alina find themselves snowed in on Christmas Eve.
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lala noirë by mzladybird
Fandoms: The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power (TV 2022), The Lord of the Rings - All Media Types
17 Dec 2022
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“Papa, why do they call it the Black Lands?”
“Because it is bleak and lightless, petal. You must promise me you will stay clear of that place. Do you understand? Do not cross the bridge, Galadriel. I know how…tempting the darkness can be, but – anyways. Promise me you won’t go looking for trouble where you’re sure to find it.”
“I promise, papa.”
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OR: The Arcane-style Mafia AU
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elen seldë by mzladybird
Fandoms: The Lord of the Rings - All Media Types, The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power (TV 2022)
06 Dec 2022
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Celebrían’s godfather lifted a martini glass to smooth lips, eyes casting casually about the club. They found hers in the crowd, and he froze.
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OR: Celebrían turns eighteen.
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In the Shadow of Your Heart by mzladybird
Fandoms: The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power (TV 2022), The Lord of the Rings - All Media Types
17 Nov 2022
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She found him in a forgotten castle tucked within the foothills of the Misty Mountains. Such relics had a way of marking the passage of time that evaded beings like them. Mossy stone and crumbling pillars gave form to the weariness that gripped her bones. The cracks that painted marble floors matched the lines in her palms and the fissures in her chest that spread when he left her.
“Oh, no,” He drawled, “You’ve caught me.”
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- Part 2 of túl at- ana i ka
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A broody managing editor. A bubbly editorial assistant. One office, two coffee pots, and a shortage of staples.
We've read this story before.