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Tedesco is searching Bellini’s face up and down in stupefied frustration, making a discovery he’s missed a hundred times before, lower lip twitching, hopelessly trying to fish out useful words. At first Lawrence is tempted to say Aldo’s audacity infuriates him, but the rage comes too late.
The truth is, it doesn’t seem like it wants to come out at all.
Then Tedesco’s face colours, oddly pinkier than usual. “... Eminenza Bellini.”
Cardinal Bellini blows the smoke back. Cardinal Tedesco, much to his chagrin, is stirred.
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Professor Lawrence has enough to deal with, between handling conference business and setting up voting panels for the organisation's new president. He doesn't need any scandals, and he doesn't need a new, unknown senior member cropping up out of nowhere. Nevertheless, this is what he gets.
(A History professors AU.)
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- Part 1 of Metamorphoses
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23 May 2025
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you don't have to be alone (when you're the place i wanna go) by quiethauntings
Fandoms: Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling
24 Jul 2024
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"You’ve claimed the shit bed,” Sirius says from the doorway.
Remus looks up, suddenly aware that for the first time in years, it's just the two of them.
“You don’t like sleeping next to the door.” It comes out before he can think of something different. A fact he’d learned when they were twelve, the first summer they all stayed with the Potters’.
He should be embarrassed, remembering something like that, but Sirius tilts his head. Bright-eyed and soft. He smiles, and it’s worth it.
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Or, an unexpected invitation reunites Remus with his friends at a cottage in the Scottish Highlands.
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- Part 1 of there is still time
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27 Jan 2025
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It’s just dysphoria, he admits, against his better judgment.
Tim’s typing bubbles take a minute to appear.
Dysphoria’s a bitch, he says. Remember we’re more than corporeal. And it’s okay to struggle.
Martin’s struggling with dysphoria. Jon and Tim intervene.
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29 Dec 2024
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September 1982
The war is over. Voldemort was defeated on October 31, 1981. Regulus Black discovered Voldemort’s horcruxes and informed the Order of the Phoenix, which destroyed them. When Voldemort arrived on Halloween to kill baby Harry, the Order was standing by, ready to kill him first.
Almost a year later, the Marauders and their friends are rebuilding their lives.
Everything is going well for Sirius Black.
Everything but love.OR
Sirius Black is great at sex but shit at relationships. Remus Lupin is an amazing boyfriend, but not so great at sex. Could these best friends learn from each other? Platonically, of course.Series
- Part 1 of Language Lessons
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22 Nov 2024