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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: The Winter of Banked Fires

Author: Yahtzee

Fandom: X-Men (movies canon)

Rating: NC-17

Pairing: Erik/Charles, Logan/Rogue, Hank/Mystique

Warnings: explciit sex (gay and het), domestic terrorism, religious terrorism, racist/species-ist rhetoric, non-consensual body modification, body dysmorphia, child endangerment,

Other notes: canon divergence, fix-it fic

Length: 67k

Summary: Charles Xavier has returned from the dead -- but is lost within his own mind. Rogue has cast aside her own power and doesn't know where she fits in the world any longer. The production of synthetic Cure means mutantkind itself is newly at risk. And Magneto, turned human against his will, is in despair until the day he feels a familiar consciousness tugging at his own --

Set after X-3 (with much desperate fix-it applied), during XMFC, and every time in between.

Title: Sansûkh

Author: determamfidd

Fandom: The Hobbit / Lord of the Rings

Rating: PG-13

Pairing: Thorin/Bilbo, Gimli/Legolas, various canon and background pairings

Warnings: major character death, major character injury, grieving, warfare, angst, fantastic racism

Other notes: WIP, kink meme fill, afterlife, ghosts, alternate POV, lore and mythology, family, royalty

Length: 530k+

Summary: The battle was over, and Thorin Oakenshield awoke, naked and shivering, in the Halls of his Ancestors. The novelty of being dead fades quickly, and watching over his companions soon fills him with grief and guilt. Oddly, a faint flicker of hope arises in the form of his youngest kinsman, a Dwarf of Durin’s line with bright red hair. (Follows the story of the War of the Ring).

Title: Never Too Late to be Who You Might Have Been

Author: acetamide

Fandom: X-Men First Class  / X-Men 2 / House of M

Rating: PG-13 to a light R, more for violence and off-screen horrors

Pairing: Charles/Erik

Warnings: child abuse (physical, and committed by a family member), mutant phobia, imprisonment, psychically turning someone into a vegetable, allusions to Holocaust atrocities

Other notes: time travel, alternate universe, fix-it fic, a bit on the fluffy side

Length: 20k

Summary: Erik wakes suddenly and takes a deep breath, and realises that there is nothing.

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Title: Tessellation

Author: nekosmuse

Fandom: X-Men First Class

Rating: NC-17

Pairing: Erik/Charles, past Charles/Moira, Mystique/Destiny

Warnings: explicit sex (gay), character death (spouse), character disability, alcoholism, detoxing, hurt/recovery, illness, PTSD, Holocaust references, allusion to rape, allusion to infidelity, violence, mutant phobia, angst, imprisonment, possessive behavior

Other notes: kink meme fill, alternate universe

Length: 116

Summary: He had been following Xavier’s career for years. He had read and reread and reread again everything the man had written. He had tried, on more occasions than he could count, to recruit Xavier into the Brotherhood, but each request for a meeting had been denied. Aside from his work, no one knew anything about Xavier. Not what he looked like, not the full extent of his power–though from what little they did know, he was by far the most powerful telepath in existence–and not what his intentions were.

The man was a recluse. As far as Magneto knew, Xavier had never once stepped foot outside his impenetrable Westchester manor. And now he was scheduled as the keynote speaker for the largest pro-mutant conference in the world.

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Title: Blood and Earthsong

Author: bonnejeanne and Cassiopeia

Fandom: Petshop of Horrors

Rating: NC-17

Pairing: Leon/Count D

Warnings: explicit sex (gay), violence, allusions to torture, dubcon (of the sex pollen/outside-forces-made-them-do-it variety), racism, kidnapping, angst

Other notes: alternate universe, culture clash, action/adventure, family,

Length: unknown

Summary: An accident with a new pet leaves Leon about to die, and the only way D can save him has its own share of problems.

Title: Where There is Darkness

Author: unveiled

Fandom: X-Men First Class

Rating: PG

Pairing: Erik Lehsherr/Charles Xavier

Warnings: allusions to various -isms,

Other notes: news/interview, minority studies, outside perspective, old age

Length: 2k

Summary: In the autumn of 2012, Daniela Zhou interviews Charles Xavier and Erik Lehnsherr. This is her story.

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