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sans peur du lendemain by AMarguerite
Fandoms: Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen, Persuasion - Jane Austen
27 Aug 2026
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Alternate title: Five Times Everyone Thought Anne and Darcy Were Dating (And One Time Everyone Knew They Weren't)
After taking her coach's advice and breaking things off with her pairs partner, Frederick Wentworth, so that he can pursue a career in the NHL and she can compete in women's singles figure skating at the Senior level, Anne Elliot faces a unique maelstroms of stressors. There's school, there's her mother's failing health, there's a family she must to do her best to hold together, and of course, there's all the life-absorbing struggles of trying to compete at the next Olympics.
Olympic gold-medalist men's figure skater Fitzwilliam Darcy faces the exact same stressors.
The friendship born of their specific circumstances is a real help to both of them-- and a source of constant misunderstandings to everyone around them.
Or, otherwise: What happened if you put Mr. Darcy in the middle of "Persuasion?"
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- Part 6 of Skating AU
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27 Aug 2026
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the land I have been looking for all my life by elevenoclock
Fandoms: Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling, Chronicles of Narnia - All Media Types
09 Feb 2024
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The door to his cupboard opens, and his uncle flings Harry into it. His shoulder wrenches from the violence as Harry tumbles in.
The door slams shut behind him.
Harry stumbles across the small space towards the tiny mattress pad that makes up his bed, his injured arm curled against his chest. He inches forward, and forward, but the mattress pad is nowhere to be found, and—
His cupboard can’t be this big, surely? Where is the back wall?
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Harry Potter spends years (and no time at all) in a land that should not exist. He finds family and light, and when he returns he is changed... and he brings that change with him.
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22 Jul 2026
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you weren't there that day for the Naming of Things by callmearcturus
Fandoms: Project Hail Mary - Andy Weir, Project Hail Mary (2026)
12 Jun 2026
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"Rocky did not understand human names and titles when we met. Eridian names longer, give information on Eridian's home, associations, skills." For the first time in ages, he positioned two of his arms together, forming the design that Grace thought of like a family crest, a single design bisected.
"You should teach me to read those before we get to Erid, so I can be polite." As Grace considered the linework, already picking up on some vague ideas from the shapes in Rocky's carapace, something else occurred to him. "So… I picked 'Rocky' because your outer shell looks like stone."
"And for inspirational story of athlete who defeats human system of poverty to become great champion. Eye of the tiger."
"Retroactively, yeah." Grace bent at the hips, getting to Rocky's 'eye' level. "So what'd you name me?"
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What Grows in May by astravere
Fandoms: Project Hail Mary (2026), Project Hail Mary - Andy Weir
17 May 2026
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Ryland Grace is right. He is also, as of seventy-two hours ago, unemployed and no longer welcome near a UNESCO conference. These things are related, as is everything that follows.
This is the story of how the best science teacher at Grover Cleveland Middle School ended up there, and what he had to leave behind first.
A Project Hail Mary prequel.
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- Part 1 of Before the Hail Mary
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18 May 2026
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Ever since she’d been small, Hermione’s reward for good marks had been a rampage through a bookshop, so the day she tore open her O.W.L.s results and triumphantly brandished the eleven Outstandings, her beaming mother said, “We’ll go to Foyles tomorrow,” without any discussion required.
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- Part 13 of Harry Potter works
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29 Apr 2026