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On a Thursday, a video of Canadian star hockey player Shane Hollander goes viral on the internet. The video was taken on the previous Sunday, and it’s not what anybody expects. It’s not a sex tape, or a drunken fight in a bar, or any of the other videos that have been captured of others in the league, but instead, it seems to be a sneakily filmed video of Hollander confronting his former teammates.
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08 Jun 2026
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Family Found by iffervescent
Fandoms: Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid
23 Dec 2025
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Shane’s got to balance being a freshman, a baby gay, and rushing for the weirdest frat on campus.
Plus, unrelatedly, there's this really hot Russian guy.
Russian translation available here
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09 Jan 2026
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The Menace of Buckingham by abc_efghij_lmnopqr_tuvwxyz
Fandoms: Red White & Royal Blue - Casey McQuiston, Red White & Royal Blue (2023)
15 Nov 2025
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Then she says, with all the subtlety of a brick: “There is the issue of children.”
And oh, here we go.
Alex sits down without being asked. “I am doing my very best to put a baby in your grandson. Truly. But the issue remains, he doesn’t have a uterus.”
“INSOLENCE.”
“He also doesn’t ovulate,” Alex adds cheerfully. “Real shame.”
Queen Mary turns an actual color. It’s sort of violet. The color of wrath and sugar plums.Series
- Part 1 of Alex, the Menace of Buckingham
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Merlin parts the orange in two when he’s finished peeling. The juice streams over his wrist and upper arm, and he licks it off absentmindedly before he hands over one half to Arthur. Arthur hesitates for a moment, something strange flickering over his expression before he takes his part.
“They’re best shared,” Merlin tells him, and puts a slice to his lips.
Or: When PhD student Merlin Wyllt flies to a tiny, faraway Italian town for a summer job with Professor Ygraine du Bois, he finds himself unexpectedly at odds with her son, Arthur.
But not only oranges blossom in summer, and Merlin finds that he and Arthur have a lot to learn from—and about—one another.
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This is all Gwen's fault. Merlin never wanted a stupid smartphone in the first place. Now, he has a smartphone and a supercilious, posh git bullying him on Whatsapp. He really should block the prat.
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The one where Merlin doesn't block the prat and finds out that, maybe, smartphones aren't so bad after all.
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The hardest thing about being in love with Henry, Alex thinks, is keeping it a secret.
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People have been shipping Alex, a recording breaking musician, and Henry, a five time Academy Award winner, for years, despite them never interacting in public, or even following each other on social media. They've been secretly married all this time.Series
- Part 2 of twitter fics :D
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i'm wrapped around your finger (and i can't stop) by vibrantsaturn
Fandoms: Red White & Royal Blue - Casey McQuiston
24 Nov 2024
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Henry smiles at the woman, tightening his hold over Alex's hips. He feels Henry’s fingers pressing against his skin as he pushes Alex’s t-shirt up slightly to trail his fingertips over his stomach.
"Oh, hello," Henry says, surprised, as if he's just noticed the woman. As if he hasn't been staring at her from their booth. "Sorry, where are my manners? I'm Henry. Alex's boyfriend."
Alex stops breathing because Henry? Henry isn't his boyfriend.
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the softest getting together fic i've ever written.- Language:
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24 Mar 2025
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the softest getting together fic (author's note - they're not wrong)
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Arthur plays the intricate game of rank and favours to maintain his status among the older Knights of Camelot, by posturing, boasting, and carefully choosing women to bed. A famous painter, Buonamico, is invited by King Uther himself to create portraits for the royal family. Avoiding the game of ranks entirely, Merlin is invited to spend time with this charming man in his private quarters. Unbeknownst to Merlin, Arthur is watching...
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30 Jan 2025
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Arthur didn't speak to him for a week after he found out.
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- Part 4 of Merlin works
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Arthur and Merlin have a special relationship. They always have, even when they were prince and servant. While many question it when first noticing, eventually it becomes an understanding in Camelot—and even among some other countries—that where there is Arthur, there is Merlin. And, where there is Merlin, there is Arthur.
OrArthur and Merlin's relationship as witnessed and explained by others.
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Five times someone realizes that Merlin is the Queen, one time Merlin realizes it himself, and one time he owns it.
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Arthur has a new chore for Merlin
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He’s maybe four or five, Mike would guess, and his hair is kind of long, side-swept but perfectly cut bangs that are almost falling into his eyes and his thick, dark hair just starting to curl below his ears. He is staring right back at Mike and his eyes are huge, but somehow don’t look out of place with his features, tiny button nose that is the cutest thing Mike has ever seen and a perpetually amused little smirk that is clearly a Specter trait. It’s far more endearing on a five year old. The kid speaks and Mike is mesmerised.
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- Part 1 of Friends? I'd Say Family
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03 Jun 2024
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From the first paragraph to the last word simply amazing.
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When Harvey's brand of suppressant is recalled, he's left with a choice: face a rut alone for the first time in fifteen years, or hire a companion. As it turns out, there's a silver lining to drug recalls, one by the name of Mike Ross.
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27 May 2024
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In which Mike bumbles through the motions of courtship without realizing it, but that's okay because Harvey's charmed anyways.
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During a winter hunting trip, Merlin finds he still has much to learn about Arthur.
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23 May 2024
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Loving villagers. Arthur carefree. Magical glade by the lake. Love.
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Mike socks him in the jaw and reflexively, Harvey’s fist flies out, splitting Mike’s lip. “Fuck! Sorry.”
“Get your hands up.”
“Mike -”
“Get your fucking hands up, Harvey!”
He stares. “What the hell is wrong with you?”
“Wrong with me? You’re the one who doesn’t give a shit until someone’s bleeding.”
“What are you talking about?”
Mike snaps. “Why would you give me a job, and a home, and a family, and then fucking decide you don’t care about me?”
“Don’t care about you?” If Mike were wise he’d heed the warning in the quiet snarl of Harvey’s voice, but there’s a giant gap between intelligence and wisdom, and he hasn’t made that leap yet. “I risked everything for you!”
“So you could avoid me?”
“I’m not avoiding you!”
“Is there a synonym you’d prefer? ‘Cause you sure don’t seem to want anything to do with me!”
They’re close enough that Mike can see the twitch of Harvey’s jaw, even in the low light. “You don’t know shit about what I want,” he whispers.
“Oh yeah? Why don’t you enlighten me.”
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“Merlin, in case you haven’t noticed, the world is frozen in time! I hardly think this is the time to talk about our feelings.”
“It’s your fault we’re like this anyway!” Merlin blurts out, pulling his hand back as if Arthur’s skin had burned him. “If you hadn’t just strolled in mumbling about wanting more and longing for something and, just, you KISSED me!”
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Harvey is a very passionate man. And that scares the shit out of him - especially when it comes to one Mike Ross.
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I Knew You Were Trouble When You Walked In by doeyedgirlyevil
Fandoms: Red White & Royal Blue - Casey McQuiston, Red White & Royal Blue (2023)
23 Dec 2023
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There he stood. Frozen. In the presence of a man who Henry was willing to swear before Queen and country, under pain of death, was the single most beautiful person on the face of the planet, and possibly several galaxies beyond. A man who possessed the kind of magnetic pull that could persuade Henry to believe in a Catholic God. A man Henry needed to get at least 800 kilometres away from before he caused an international scandal in a tea room at Kensington Palace.
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Henry has a new equerry. And he's too hot for Henry's fragile, gay heart to handle. (AKA the Alex as Henry's equerry AU that I'm sure someone asked for) -
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When Arthur drops out of university, his mother sends him to work at Aunt Alice's bakery in Northern Ireland in the busy weeks leading up to Christmas. Helping out in the bakery is hard work, but Arthur doesn't mind so much, not when the deal is sweetened by one of Alice's bakers. Merlin is beautiful and kind, and he has sacrificed his long-term relationship in order to follow dreams that lead him out of the village he's spent all his life in.
Arthur has always thought himself to not get attached easily to other people romantically, but when Merlin, against all odds, shows interest in him, things get even more complicated....
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Bookmarked by valgal
29 Dec 2023
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Like a pie. Fluffy and flakey on the outside, hot on the inside.