Problematic but Beautiful
Problematic stories with concepts like stockholm syndrome, torture, self harm, abuse and suicide. But also they're beautifully written and just *chef's kiss*.
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Recent works
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A Rather Useless Inheritance by Blood_Stained_Fingers
Fandoms: Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling
21 Nov 2023
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Being a Parselmouth came with the inherent predisposition to understand snake behaviours and imitate them. It was relieving Harry wasn’t going to kill anyone with venom, nor petrify them with his gaze. But also, somewhat frustrating as it was all completely useless. None of the skills that came with being a Parselmouth would help Harry survive Voldemort.
It might, in fact, have the opposite effect. For all Riddle's fury that Harry was the cause of his elder self’s defeat, he was fascinated by the fact Harry was also a Parselmouth. He had grabbed Harry’s face, turning him side to side looking bemusedly enraptured by Harry’s threat display. “At your age, I was imitating much more vicious snakes than this, Harry.”
That may have been all well and good, but Harry didn’t feel very vicious. He felt very threatened and in over his head.
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Typhoid and Swans by NoFootprintsInSand
Fandoms: Hannibal (TV), Hannibal Lecter Series - All Media Types, Hannibal Lecter Tetralogy - Thomas Harris
19 Jul 2023
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The first time Clarice sees the stag, she is walking in the woods surrounding Will Graham’s old Wolf Trap home.
With her mentor and friend Jack Crawford dead, and her once-promising career in shambles, Clarice Starling decides to find out what really happened to Dr. Hannibal Lecter and Will Graham.
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Jack Drake used Drake Industries to hide his white-collar crimes. Janet Drake used her socialite status to hide her participation in a group of assassins.
Really, they should have expected Tim Drake to reject the idea of being a normal child.
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The Drakes, while criminals, do try really hard to be good parents and raise a normal child. Tim, who tries to be a normal kid, also really wants to be just like his parents.
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Peter Hale abducts potential co-parents so he can get his daughter, Malia, out of foster care. It usually ends in bloodshed. Then he meets Stiles...
Stiles Stilinski is in the second year of his one year break from college. Not having any luck 'finding himself' at home, he decides to trek across the good ol' US of A. It doesn't end the way he expects...
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Yassen knew it wouldn't end well for little Alex. The assassin's dull existence within the secret prison in Gibraltar is disrupted suddenly by the little spy's arrival. Babysitting a traumatized teenager with violent fits, mood swings, and who firmly believes that they're both dead wasn't exactly how Yassen imagined he'd spend his retirement. This stupid family.
Series
- Part 1 of Of Madness and Mammals