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Title: Heart Lines

Author: PeaceHeather

Fandom: Merlin

Rating: PG-13

Pairing: Merlin/Arthur

Warnings: background character death by childbirth, attempted lynch mob, anti-magic prejudice, character injury

Other notes: au, soulmates, romantic & platonic soulmates, world-building, asexual character, fix-it fic, original characters

Length: 47k

Summary:

Everyone is born with a heart line, a pigmented mark running from the heart down the left arm to the palm, which turns color when the person comes of age, telling them when it is time to seek their soulmate. Red indicates a romantic love, while blue is for platonic "heart-friends", as the minstrels called it.

Uther had always told Arthur to ignore his heart line, that it wouldn't matter who his soulmate was; princes did not marry for love, after all. If was lucky, he'd be able to keep her as a mistress, so long as he did not get any children with her. Uther hated magic and would have urged Arthur to ignore the heart line anyway, if he could.

Arthur wasn't sure his soulmate was really a woman despite Uther's assumptions. But Arthur's heart line hadn't even come into its full color yet, which meant he hadn't come of age in the eyes of the gods, despite being named crown prince by Uther. So it really didn't matter: whoever his soulmate was, he wasn't yet ready to meet them.

Then one day his heart line comes in, and it's neither red nor blue.

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Title: what a good thing we lose

Author: artsy_alice

Fandom: Voltron: Legendary Defender

Rating: PG

Pairing: Keith/clone!Shiro,

Warnings: angst, break-up/divorce, unrequited love, depression

Other notes: post-canon, canon divergence, hurt/comfort, clones

Length: 12k

Summary: The safest thing to do, perhaps, is to let the clone die. Destroy the pod, if possible. They can't be sure what they'll wake up.

But Keith is here. That changed everything.

Keith had cared about Shiro - well, who he thought was Shiro, even after. Keith had cared about the clone back then, even knowing what he was, even knowing what he tried to do to their team, their family. Keith had told that clone that he-

It’s doesn’t matter, right now.

Keith is here, and Shiro's not going to make Keith watch him die another time.

So he says, "Wake him up."

Or: Shiro watches Keith and his clone Kuro together, and sees a glimpse of what could've been if he had made different choices.

Title: The Price

Author: Ark

Fandom: Avengers: Infinity War

Rating: NC-17

Pairing: Thor/Loki

Warnings: graphic sex (gay and het), canonical shape-shifting/species-shifting/gender-swapping, pseudo-incest (adopted siblings), canonical character death, familial character death,

Other notes: AU, canon divergence, post-movie, post-apocalypse, relationship study, character study, horses, time travel, female characters bonding, fix-it fic, marriage,

Length: 105k

Summary: “I did not come here to argue,” Loki says, his hands slipping down around Thor’s neck. “I came here to tell you that there is no world where I do not love you, Thor. There is no timeline where I do not choose you. There is no universe that will be wide enough to keep us apart.”

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Title: Play It Again

Author: metisket

Fandom: Teen Wolf

Rating: PG-13

Pairing: Derek/Stiles (pre-slash)

Warnings: background character death, violence, PTSD, aftereffects of trauma, unhealthy coping mechanisms

Other notes: traveling to an alternate universe, fix-it fic, angst, hurt/comfort, hurt/recovery, character injury, family, ensemble

Length: 63k

Summary: In which Stiles goes along with one of Derek’s plans and ends up in an alternate universe as a result. He should’ve known better. He did know better, actually, and that means he has no one to blame but himself.

“Laura wants to lure the kid in with food and kindness and make a pet of him, like a feral cat. Derek wants to have him arrested for stalking. They’re at an impasse. (And the rest of the family is staying emphatically out of it in a way that suggests bets have been placed.)”

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Title: These Bridges We’ve Built

Author: Anonymous

Fandom: X-Men First Class

Rating: PG-13 to light R (more violence than sexuality)

Pairing: Erik/Charles, Mystique/Azazel, some one-sided Mystique/Destiny

Warnings: character death, mentions of imprisonment and torture/experimentation, character injury, angst

Other notes: big bang entry, illustrated, kid/family fic, fix it fic, alternate universe, some minor character  point of view

Length: 23k

Summary: Four years after the events of X-Men: First Class, Charles Xavier finds his X-Men on the losing side of their continuing battle with Erik’s Brotherhood. Azazel and Mystique have a child in secret and, unwilling to raise Kurt in the midst of Erik’s war, they give him up to Charles to raise at his school for the gifted. He agrees to do so, on the condition that they visit their son regularly. This leads to tenuous contact between the Brotherhood and the X-Men outside of the battlefield for the first time in years, and both Xavier and Magneto realize that the lines dividing them are not as clear-cut as they previously thought.

Title: The Threads That Bind

Author: yersifanel

Fandom: Avengers / MCU / Thor

Rating: R

Pairing: Howard/Loki

Warnings: some mind breaking and torture, references to warfare and mass death, some sexuality

Other notes: kink meme fill, alternate universe, genderswap, secret identity, family, marriage, (m)preg, fate, religion, mythology, historical

Length: 15k

Summary: Loki’s fall through the Void ripped his connection with existence, and Fate made of him one of her agents as result. After this, he lands on Earth in 1945 and is found by Howard Stark alongside the Tesserac. Howard, determinate to protect the fallen god, saves Loki in more ways than he expected and changes both their lives as history rewrites itself and yet prevails with the events that Fate has already established that will come to be.

Title: Peach, Plum, Pear

Author: sweetestdrain

Fandom: Merlin

Rating: R (maybe a light NC-17)

Pairing: Arthur/Merlin, Guinevere/Lancelot, and sort-of Arthur/Guinevere

Warnings: open/alternative relationship, infertility issues, mentions of past betrayal, angst,

Other notes: future!fic, fix-it fic, alternate universe, trial/tournament

Length: 13k

Summary: How in his tenth year of rule King Arthur chose a man to take the role of Court’s Magician, and how Arthur made his decision.

Title: Time Flows Like Water and We’re Drowning

Author: triedunture

Fandom: Supernatural

Rating: NC-17

Pairing: Dean/Castiel, Castiel/Future!Castiel, Dean/Castiel/Future!Castiel, Future!Dean/future!Castiel (I think that covers all the permutations)

Warnings: explicit sex (gay), self-cest, mentions of rough sex, drug abuse, and orgies, angst, implied character death (sort of?)

Other notes: episode-based fic, fallen!Castiel, hurt/comfort, trust issues, time travel, alternate universe

Length: 8k

Summary: Cas from 2014 is sent back in time and meets Castiel and Dean circa season 5. Together, they decide to try to change the course of history.

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