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It is 1808 and times are tough when you have nothing and Eggsy has no idea how to keep him and Daisy above water. He is at the end of his rope and he comes across an add for the position of companion to a retired Commodore. It is the answers to their prayers if he can get the job. And not like dealing with an ancient Navy man will be that difficult, he's done far worse in his day.
Only the man isn't so ancient and wants nothing to do with the companion that was hired for him. But Eggsy needs the job and is determined to change Merlin's mind.
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31 May 2025
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One would think traveling 52 years into the past would allow Harry some much desired anonymity, but unfortunately the malfunctioning Triwizard Cup spat Harry out on the quidditch pitch in the middle of a game. There's no lying about his provenance while a shiny plaque on the base of the Cup announces to everyone he is 'Harry Potter, Hogwarts Champion, 1994.'
Swept up by the ministry and sworn to secrecy by the Unspeakables, Harry is left to navigate the past on his own. Good thing his great-grandparents are willing to take him in - even if they're a little more into blood purity than Harry had expected - and Hogwarts is willing to welcome him back - even if he's a novelty to everyone as the time traveling Champion.
At least Harry will have the familiarity of Gryffindor Tower to ease his homesickness. Or he would, if the sorting hat hadn't put him in Slytherin, where he's forced to share a dorm with none other than Tom Riddle.
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In which Harry is determined to prevent Voldemort's rise, even if he has to stalk, bribe, threaten, and marry Tom Riddle to do it.
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17 Apr 2025
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lonely two-legged creatures by poodlesandsucculents (TaurNaChardhin)
Fandoms: Yuri!!! on Ice (Anime)
04 Aug 2017
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In a world where Yuuko stopped the triplets from uploading Yuuri’s “Stammi Vicino” video, Yuuri never returns to skating, and instead builds a new life for himself in Hasetsu. Three years later, an injury forces Victor into retirement just before he turns 30. Desperate to crawl out of the depression he now finds himself in, Victor decides to take his first ever vacation, and shows up on the doorstep of the hot spring resort a very handsome drunk boy once told him about at a party. Then he sort of never leaves.
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10 Dec 2024
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“Katsuki, you recently moved to Russia to train with your coach Victor Nikiforov,” Yuuri’s not sure why reporters need to tell him things that he already knows, but he’d rather not deal with Minako yelling at him over Skype so he just nods, and the reporter—Shana?—continues, “what do you like the most about training at Yubileyny?”
“Well the facilities are amazing…” Yuuri switches to autopilot and recites the list of training resources that Victor had galloped through after the Grand Prix Finals—when he mistakenly thought that Yuuri needed any incentive to move to Russia other than Victor himself.
He must answer the question well enough because she just nods along to some beat that Yuuri can’t hear. “What’s your least favorite thing about training in Russia?”
The answer bursts out of him before he has any time to consider a diplomatic alternative, “Victor’s driving.”
(Things escalate from there.)
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06 Dec 2024
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A Practical Guide to Winning the Olympics (Dos and Don’ts) by Anna (pineconepickers)
Fandoms: Yuri!!! on Ice (Anime)
28 May 2018
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When pair skater Yuuri Katsuki’s career comes to a scandalous end, he does not expect the retired pair skating legend Viktor Nikiforov to suggest that they compete together. But taking on a new skating partner is full of trial and error, and the skating world doesn’t know how to react when the Katsuki-Nikiforov duo, against all odds, starts doing well. The last thing either of them should do, as they strive for their last chance at greatness, is to fall in love. Yuuri knows he is damaged goods, and Viktor knows his body is starting to fail him. They have competitions to survive and medals to win. No, falling in love is out of the question; they’re just very good friends. And even if Viktor felt something, he’d never act on it, and even if Yuuri happened to be hopelessly in love, he’d be mortified if Viktor ever found out.
“Well,” Viktor said, “let’s summarise: I’m pushing thirty, have a bad ankle, and haven’t skated competitively in three years. You’re barely out of a doping scandal, coachless, and on the JSF’s blacklist. Hell, Yuuri – we might as well go for it, then. What on earth do we have to lose?”
When Viktor put it like that, it seemed to make an awful lot of sense.
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07 Nov 2024
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Yuuri Katsuki can skate really well, when no one is watching. It's only a matter of time before he does something amazing, and the world takes notice.
It starts with Phichit, gets to Sochi, and ends, as everything does, with Victor.
In which Yuuri does things, Phichit is the MVP (Yuuko a close second), and Victor is smitten.
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“He skates alright when he is skating for a thousand people. He skates better when he is alone.”
“He skates best when he is skating for an audience of one.”
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06 Nov 2024
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The year is 1942, and Europe is at war. Captain Victor Nikiforov, an intelligence operative for the NKVD, has been trapped in Berlin by the German invasion of the USSR. Posing as a Nazi industrialist, his days are spent charming information out of Axis diplomats to try and keep the Red Army fighting another day.
Yuuri Katsuki, a foreign-educated bureaucrat in the Japanese Embassy, has secrets of his own concealed beneath his unremarkable demeanour. When he uncovers Victor’s real identity, it will alter the course of both of their lives forever.
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- Part 1 of Birdsong
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06 Nov 2024
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For years, Tony had successfully kept his secret. Neither the world nor his team knew he was Iron Man and as far as he was concerned, everyone was better off that way. On his best days, Tony Stark was not someone people liked and trusted, so the last thing Tony wanted was to tarnish Iron Man’s good reputation by revealing the truth.
But then SHIELD falls, the Avengers face disarray, and a stray Hydra assassin forces Tony to go into hiding—and where better than the safe house he had just crafted for the Avengers and their own ex-assassin ready to come in from the cold?
Tony plans to hide away from everyone in his makeshift workshop until the coast is clear and he’s safe to go home. No one would care to spend any time with the reclusive, arrogant billionaire anyways, right? Iron Man is the one everyone wants around.
Bucky Barnes, on his own journey to reclaim his life and identity, seems to disagree with that sentiment.
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03 Apr 2021
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Desmond didn't use the Eye, the world burned, people rebuilt and world continued.
It's been almost 300 years since then, and what was built is coming to a head.
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16 Feb 2020
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A wrong number turns into a torrid affair between strangers through texts.
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26 Dec 2019
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To Build a Home by BeanieBaby
Fandoms: Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling, Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them (Movies)
19 Nov 2018
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Newt Scamander's mark is in the form of a panther, wild and ferocious, the black ink running elegantly down his wand arm and ending with the thick tail wrapped possessively around his wrist.
Percival Graves' corporeal Patronus just so happens to be a silver panther.
Too bad the magical community in America has discarded the notion of soulmates and soul marks altogether, and Newt's creatures really aren't helping the situation by repeatedly stealing Graves' things.
(Canon-divergence where Newt rescues the real Percival Graves, they face off Grindelwald together, and Newt decides to take Credence in and set up shop above Kowalski's bakery, much to Mr. Graves' frustration.)
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02 May 2019
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How Eggsy Met Harry, As Told Through A Series of Soul Marks by thayde
Fandoms: Kingsman: The Secret Service (2015)
21 Feb 2016
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Eggsy stares at the Mark on his chest sometimes, and wonders if his soulmate would ever settle for street trash like him.
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04 Oct 2017
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Written for a kmeme prompt. Cullen is raising a baby alone through the events of DA:I, Dorian is more help than he expects. Slow burn.
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15 Mar 2016
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Eggsy takes out the medal in slightly worse circumstances, asking for a miracle.
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27 Sep 2015