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chew me up, but don’t spit me out by damagecontrol (microdamage)
Fandoms: Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling
08 Aug 2024
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Regulus has it all figured out. He keeps men on a rotating roster so none can get too close, works nights as a dancer to make the most of his chronic insomnia, and pushes everything he doesn’t want to remember about the past ten years into the recesses of his mind. It’s easier to pretend none of it ever happened.
But when James Potter crashes into Regulus’ life with his fancy sports car, wealth beyond measure, and devil’s smile, it marks a switch in the natural order of things. James is a client; Regulus isn’t allowed to fall in love with him. Except James is the first man in a long time who can see past Regulus’ carefully constructed façade, and who could ever resist the temptation of being known?
Or, this is a story about identity, addiction, self-expression, and love in all of the varying shapes they can take.
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- English
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- 275,220
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- 26/26
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- 18
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- 5,102
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Bookmarked by Rotanev
10 Aug 2026
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In December 1977, Regulus Black did something brave. He ran.
With nothing but a wand he couldn’t use, a bag of money, and a desperate hope for survival, Regulus escaped into the muggle world mere days before his Death Eater initiation.
Against all odds, he’s taken in by three muggle artists who live loudly and love fiercely. Through them, Regulus discovers acting. And he’s good at it. Too good.
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Six years later, Sirius and James walk into a London cinema and see Regulus’s face, six feet tall, staring back at them from the screen.
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- Part 1 of The Regulus Star + extras
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- English
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- 158,755
- Chapters:
- 27/27
- Collections:
- 6
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- 1,625
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18 Apr 2026
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In the summer of 1976, Fleamont and Euphemia took James through Western Europe in an RV. In the summer of 1996, James wants to follow the same route with fifteen-year-old Harry to stop them from drifting apart. When they come across a dark-haired man driving a car from the 1960s with his godson in the backseat, the journey becomes one of rediscovering the word “family,” even after losses that once broke it.
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- English
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- 34,086
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- 12/12
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- 1
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Bookmarked by Rotanev
16 Mar 2026
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Pas De Deux - In ballet, a pas de deux (French, literally "step of two") is a dance duet in which two dancers perform ballet steps together.
American Football star James Potter and ballet dancer Regulus Black are paired with each other when the players of the Lockhart Lions Football team are assigned to learn dance in order to build athleticism and strengthen teamwork.
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James Potter has a plan to get Regulus Black to like him because he's a people pleaser. Regulus Black is a little bitch and refuses to admit he still has feelings for the "golden boy". It seems that James has suddenly inserted himself into every aspect of Regulus' life, and Regulus can't avoid his feelings for much longer. Especially when they're forced to do partner-work in dance.
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- English
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- 103,893
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- 24/24
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- 87
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- 404
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- 180
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- 23,672
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18 Jan 2026
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James Potter had always been utterly insufferable, but after an incident concerning a Boggart, a hair-growth potion and a room full of onlookers, Regulus Black decided that he'd had enough, and only one thing would suffice. Revenge.
A Prank War ensues. Lines are drawn. And just maybe, Regulus might be able to carve something out for himself after all.
With the tensions of the first Wizarding War on his shoulders and everything he might've chosen for himself broken at his feet, Regulus makes a decision that changes the course of the War for good.
A Canon-Divergent Jegulus fic that takes place during Regulus' last two years at Hogwarts.
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- English
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- 244,976
- Chapters:
- 65/65
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- 1,274
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Bookmarked by Rotanev
13 Jan 2026
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James’ eyes stop; along with the natural rhythm of his breathing and the beat of his heart. If he wasn’t still standing upright he’d think he died just from one glance at the lead singer.
He sings into the microphone, his eyes shut tight and his hands gripped to the stand as he belts.
It isn’t – it can’t be.
His eyes open, and like a compass pointing north, that hauntingly familiar grey lands right on James.'In a room full of people I look for you.'
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“I wrote this next song about you. You know who you are.”
“I wrote every song about you.”
~Or. Three years ago, in a Paris nightclub, James sees Regulus dancing and falls for him on the spot. They agree to start a relationship, knowing it will have to end when James goes back to London, on the condition that afterwards they go completely no contact. By the time it ends they're both heartbroken but stick to their agreement and lose contact.
Years later they are still NOT over it and make it absolutely everyone else's problem.
Until James is invited by Sirius to watch his little brother's band and finds his ex stood at the microphone singing an album worth of songs about their month together in Paris.
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- Part 1 of Black Stars (12 to 12)
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 45,462
- Chapters:
- 12/12
- Comments:
- 302
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- 1,180
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12 Jan 2026
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Who we are in the shadows by orphan_account for drarryruinedme7
Fandoms: Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling
14 Dec 2019
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What happens when you’re forced to become the very thing you despise?
Ex-Auror Harry Potter, tossed out of the Ministry for something he had no control over, has been looking for a way back to his former life. When he comes across Draco Malfoy in the criminal underbelly of Wizarding London and in need of protection, Harry figures bringing him in to face the Ministry's justice is his ticket back to everything he's lost.
But nothing is exactly as it seems. Not even Harry himself. And as he gets drawn further and further into Malfoy's world of honour and deception he finds himself questioning everything he thought he knew—about his childhood nemesis, the Ministry job he misses so much, and most of all, about himself.
What happens when you’re forced to see that you were wrong?
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- English
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- 99,714
- Chapters:
- 12/12
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- 1
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- 1,382
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Bookmarked by Rotanev
26 Nov 2025
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Harry is about to discover that the steepest learning curve comes after Healer training, and that second chances can be found in unexpected places.
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- Part 1 of Foundations!verse
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 87,376
- Chapters:
- 10/10
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- 798
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- 14,006
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- 4,389
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- 397,174
Bookmarked by Rotanev
24 Nov 2025
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James thought he wanted Lily—that had always made sense. But now that their relationship is over, he isn’t sure what the next step is, or why it feels like there’s an endless pit dragging him down, down, down.
The only thing keeping him afloat these days is, strangely enough, his best friend’s little brother. Well, Sirius will understand. If the only other option is James drowning—he’ll understand. Right?
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- Part 1 of Syncopation Universe
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 103,593
- Chapters:
- 22/22
- Comments:
- 257
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- 568
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- 213
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- 15,478
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29 Oct 2025
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James Potter is returning to Hogwarts for his final year with one goal: to make it the most unforgettable one yet. No distractions, no regrets, no Lily Evans. Just Quidditch, pranks, and his boys. Until Regulus Black shows up looking taller, colder, and entirely too captivating for James' peace of mind.
As inter-house tensions rise and the Marauders navigate the looming weight of adulthood, James finds himself caught between loyalty and curiosity. Regulus is everything he shouldn’t want, but he can’t stop looking, and Regulus keeps looking back.
Meanwhile, Remus watches with too much understanding, Sirius refuses to see what's right in front of him, and Peter just wants everyone to survive N.E.W.T.s.
This is a story about the chaos of growing up, the messiness of friendship, and what happens when the one person you’re not supposed to fall for is the only one who sees you clearly.
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- Part 1 of Pretty Boys
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 196,011
- Chapters:
- 38/38
- Comments:
- 244
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- 861
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- 240
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- 33,878
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27 Oct 2025
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Regulus has always known he's destined to drown. He feels it deep in his chest, past his rib cage, nestled somewhere behind his organs. He feels it in his arm when his mother squeezes it a little harder than a mother should. He felt it, the water rising in his throat, when his brother slipped out the window and into the night. He often wonders if it'd be easier to just let himself sink.
He often wonders if he has a choice.
Regulus gets sent back to school with a mission from the Dark Lord himself— find the “beast in the chamber” and claim its fangs without killing it. But when a certain curly-haired bespectacled boy asks for a rather large favor, everything suddenly gets a lot more complicated.
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- English
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- 443,839
- Chapters:
- 70/70
- Comments:
- 3,380
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- 7,884
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- 379,218
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07 Oct 2025
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James Potter's guide to getting together (oblivious friends edition) by Starlesscave
Fandoms: Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling
15 Jun 2025
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One of the few things Regulus Black was proud of was minding his own business.
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Enter James Potter and his ridiculous plan to get Sirius and Remus together, dragging Regulus along with him and forcing him to discover things about himself he really didn’t want to know.
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 129,253
- Chapters:
- 45/45
- Comments:
- 887
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- 925
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- 260
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- 31,579
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27 Sep 2025
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Public Bookmark 168
Mystery Work
Part of private wips to be made public later
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This is part of an ongoing challenge and will be revealed soon!
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25 Sep 2025
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“You want to write letters to Lily but you’re too shit at it so you’re asking me to do it for you?”
James sighed, his shoulders dropping and his hands resting on his hips. “Yeah basically.”
“Love letters?”
“Yeah. So will you do it?”
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Regulus Black had no intentions of adding any more obligations to his busy schedule. He also had no plans of ghost-writing love letters, becoming friends with the object of said letters, nor falling for the man that asked him to write the letters in the first place.
But unfortunately, when James Potter enters one's life, it has a habit of turning everything upside down.
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Loosely based on "Cyrano de Bergerac" by Edmond Rostand
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 136,011
- Chapters:
- 22/22
- Collections:
- 4
- Comments:
- 559
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- 2,256
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16 Sep 2025
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There is something both thrilling and intimate about watching someone when they think no one is around, seeing how they behave in the vacuum of other people’s perception.
Regulus momentarily sheds his poise when he wrestles with the ancient lock, tote bags precariously balanced on his shoulders and neat curls just beginning to frizz and frazzle in the humidity. He mutters something James is too far away to hear, but it is most certainly a curse.
It’s oddly endearing.
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James Potter offers to check on his best friend’s long-missing brother and gets a little too invested.
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 29,200
- Chapters:
- 4/4
- Collections:
- 2
- Comments:
- 390
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- 2,139
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- 533
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- 30,264
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08 Sep 2025
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Kill Your Darlings: To remove or refrain from using something in spite of one's affection for it
Years after Regulus loses his brother they're reunited, and as he struggles to figure out where he fits in Sirius's life he also struggles not to get lost in the impossible feelings he has for Sirius's best friend.
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 303,706
- Chapters:
- 28/28
- Comments:
- 6,307
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- 33,348
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- 9,760
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24 Aug 2025
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James meets Regulus in juvie.
Nine years later, James has a new life entirely separate from his past. His friends have no idea he has a criminal record or spent time in foster care. He means to keep it this way.
When Sirius finally decides it's time for James to meet his little brother, they're all in for a shock.
The past is a little harder to leave behind than James bargained for. It follows.
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 75,759
- Chapters:
- 10/10
- Collections:
- 14
- Comments:
- 1,217
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- 13,037
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- 3,218
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- 249,956
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15 Aug 2025
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Four Wizards. One War. One way to go.
- Harry Potter - The Sacrificial Lamb, “What life can he possibly live here like this? If he’s not the Boy Who Lived, if he’s not the Saviour, if he doesn’t end a decades long war… who is he?”
- Draco Malfoy - The Scapegoat, “He wanted so desperately to deserve saving. He wanted so desperately to deserve death. He never deserved either.”
- Regulus Black - The Spear Carrier, “That seems to be his fate regardless. And he’d rather die with people he trusts than drown alone with no one knowing he was trying to do the right thing in the end.”
- James Potter - The Cannon Fodder, “He suddenly feels guilty. Towards her, towards Harry. He feels as if he’s done something terrible, dying and taking her along with him all the while leaving a baby Harry to fight and win the war.”
Or: Thanks to a freak accident, Harry and Draco find themselves stuck in 1977. As if being punted into the middle of a raging war they'd already won wasn't bad enough, they're inevitably sucked into the messy lives of Harry's dead dad and the people he holds most dear.
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 276,316
- Chapters:
- 19/19
- Collections:
- 3
- Comments:
- 629
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- 1,928
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- 812
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- 97,076
Bookmarked by Rotanev
06 Aug 2025
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Chaos: when the present determines the future, but the approximate present does not approximately determine the future. One gene varies, one neuron fires, one butterfly flaps its wings, and Draco Malfoy's life is completely different. Draco has always found a certain comfort in chaos. Perhaps he shouldn't.
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 102,712
- Chapters:
- 78/78
- Collections:
- 19
- Comments:
- 1,874
- Kudos:
- 11,957
- Bookmarks:
- 4,052
- Hits:
- 299,202
Bookmarked by Rotanev
09 Jun 2025
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After a long, bloody war, Draco Malfoy just wants to do something good with his life for a change, and resolves to become a healer. But magical society refuses to make it easy for him, and an increasingly dramatic series of events—all of them instigated by Harry Potter—get him kicked out of med school, force him to live in exile, and threaten to destroy the new life he’s trying so desperately to build.
But Harry isn’t instigating anything—at least not on purpose. He’s just trying to work up the nerve to ask him out. His efforts don’t appear to be going great.
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 46,830
- Chapters:
- 3/3
- Comments:
- 550
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- 10,717
- Bookmarks:
- 3,357
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- 135,248
Bookmarked by Rotanev
08 Jun 2025