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The Franklin Players Ensemble have been scrambling to find a director for their usual spring Shakespeare production ever since the usual one went on sabbatical. Apparently she’s off in Ireland in some kind of year-long workshop in the middle of a forest. Josh personally thinks it’s a load of bullshit, but actors are just kind of- like that. They think suffering and intensity is what makes art. This is why Josh doesn’t touch that side of theater with a ten foot pole. He’s perfectly happy with his stress-based suffering and intensity, thank you very much.
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Josh Dun has been working as a stage manager for nearly a decade now. He has a routine that he happily repeats for each show after another. He has a good friend group, an apartment that is perfect for him, and a dog that he adores. Sure it's a bit monotonous, but that’s how he likes it. Safe, repetitive, and warm.
Then award winning director Tyler Joseph returns from New York to direct the company’s production of Hamlet. Suddenly, Josh’s peaceful little bubble that he worked so hard to build is threatened.
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"What is this about you and Zayn fucking at work, hm? Seems highly unprofessional don’t you think?”
“It was a reward,” Harry mumbled into Louis’s shirt.
“Sorry, what was that?”
Harry tilted his head a bit to the side. “It was a reward. For getting through the meetings.”
“A reward huh? And what about me? I never get any rewards for getting through my meetings,” Louis complained in mock annoyance.
Harry noticed the subtle shift in his voice. He used what Harry liked to call his bedroom voice. He was definitely on board with this change in mood.
Or: A polycule where everyone is happy because the author doesn't like when people are sad. Featuring cutesy dates, mildly kinky sex and a healthy dose of Shakespeare.
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The Blood More Stirs by EmboldenedBirdbrain
Fandoms: Stargate (1994), Stargate SG-1, Stargate - All Media Types
18 Dec 2025
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Jack took an oath to protect the prince. Daniel makes that oath very difficult to keep. War with a dead god is brewing, the court is fraught with danger, and something is bound to go wrong.
CWs at the beginning of each chapter :)
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The Hero As Decision Maker [Essay] by moritheil
Fandoms: The Odyssey - Homer, Ἀργοναυτικά - Ἀπολλώνιος Ῥόδιος | The Argonautica - Apollonius of Rhodes
18 Dec 2025
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Sometimes the thing that makes a protagonist isn’t that they would make a choice no one else would make.
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Crowley inherits a house in a new town from his aunt which does not live up to his expectations. He hates the house and he hates the town and everyone in it. Well, that is until the charming lord of the land falls for him.
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I Could Find You, Darling, In Any Life by SilentExplosive
Fandoms: 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia (Anime & Manga)
17 Dec 2025
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"Deku?" He blinked, ignoring the tear that escaped his eye when he did so. "The fuck are you doing?"
"Just play along, yeah?" Deku nodded, keeping perfect eye contact with him.
"Play... what?" Katsuki was confused.
"Sorry, I was so late. An accident near my house kept me. Hope you weren't waiting long." The nerd beamed and Katsuki blinked.
"I... it's fine." He grumbled.
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Campbell Bain's first Christmas at St. Jude's, in which he is tasked with forming an amateur hospital theatre group.
Daily updates (hopefully), pre-canon, set in 1993. Otherwise canon-compliant but uses elements from the play. Follows Campbell Bain's first December two months after hospitalisation.
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Lucifer Morningstar is in Hell. Vox, now redeemed, is trying to find his way back to the one he loves. He's got a plan, and friends across realms to help make it a reality, but an unknown complication arises just as success lurks right around the corner.
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- Part 2 of Fates be Damned
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My Immortal (The Shakespeare Play) by LudacrisFool
Fandoms: Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling, My Immortal
17 Dec 2025
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"My Immortal: A Gothic Romance after Miss Rowlinges Harry Potter" was a play distributed in serial format via printed pamphlets on the streets of London from 1606 to 1607 by an author using the name of "Tara Gilesbie," although this is believed to be a pseudonym; questions of its true authorship persist to this day. A derivative of the immensely popular Harry Potter books and plays of the day, it was likely never performed; its scripts proved popular, yet only due to the immense ineptitude of its author. The complete work is presented here, including the marginal notes of the author.
(Actually, it's just My Immortal written as if it were a play from Shakespeare's era. And boycott Harry Potter merch etc. to fight bigotry. First two chapters originally posted to Reddit.)
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When Kevin Price started university, there were three things he was absolutely certain about:
1. He'd get his degree in Economics and get a well-paying job in Sales, so he could buy a nice big house and settle down.
2. After university he'd find himself a wife to go live in said house and start a family with.
3. Kevin knows his place in the world.After getting roped into a Shakespeare play by his best friend and two overly enthusiastic theater kids, there are three things that Kevin is not certain about in the slightest:
1. Is becoming a Salesman just because his dad always told him he's good at telling people what they want to hear really the only way forward?
2. Why is he so sure he'd suddenly become interested in girls when he never was before?
3. Kevin knows jack-shit about fuck-all. He's a boy playing a girl playing a boy, who is starting to have feelings for another boy, and who might be a little more comfortable with the whole "gender is performance" thing than he ever thought possible. -
The Chronicles of Wilfred Jeremy: Maths club by Soup321rr
Fandoms: Original Work, The Silmarillion and other histories of Middle-Earth - J. R. R. Tolkien, Hunter X Hunter
17 Dec 2025
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(The pencils will not be used properly)
Y/N is just a small town girl living in a big world who slowly falls for her strange math teacher.
(Y/N is 20 and doing a English literature degree at Harvard and Wilfred Jeremy is the math club teacher)
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one heart, one life (i'll sacrifice both for you) by chaoticdimagh
Fandoms: Arcane: League of Legends (Cartoon 2021)
15 Dec 2025
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The sun radiated with heat so bright that it helped drown out the hollow ache in her chest. She squinted at the falling rays, wondering if the light could cleanse away the sins of the past. Fortify her for her new role in the world.
“Don’t do that.” Vi firmly grasped Caitlyn’s chin, tilting her head down, cutting off her eyes’ direct contact with the burning star, and towards a much more loving one; grey and cool.
As if sensing that Caitlyn wouldn’t respond beyond a numb blink, Vi went back to cracking the flesh of the pomegranate. Seeds spilt out into her palm, a few being inadvertently crushed into a juice, but she paid it no mind. She held up a palmful of seeds to Caitlyn’s lips, and the expression on Vi’s face was so soft and earnest, it almost pushed Caitlyn to accept the offered fruit.
Instead, ruby spots caught her eye, grimly dripping down Vi’s wrist, seeping into the sleeve of Vi’s milky kurta.
Or: Things can't be happy forever and tragedy strikes
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- Part 4 of Mughal CaitVi
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There is a hole in the wall.
This is a horror story. It builds slowly, but it does pay off. Expect graphic depictions of violent and disturbing content. And please do try to keep thinking. You can never have too much information.
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The Shape of Sin by hexful
Fandoms: Frankenstein (2025), Frankenstein & Related Fandoms, Frankenstein - Mary Shelley
15 Dec 2025
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Updated summary (because it took a different turn)
Set in 1800s Victorian Europe.
Disgraced Swiss scientist Victor Frankenstein, an accomplished yet deeply troubled surgeon, seizes a final chance to redeem his reputation by seeking fellowship at the Royal College of Surgeons in Edinburgh. Yet the very creation that could restore his honor is, to him, a sinful defect he cannot bear to confront.
To refine his creature, Adam, into a man fit for society, Victor enlists the help of Elizabeth Harlander, his brother William’s fiancée and the woman Victor secretly desires. Elizabeth, trapped in an engagement to a man who sees her more as ornament than partner, begins to lose faith in her future marriage. As she teaches Adam language, manners, and humanity, she finds herself drawn to him, emotionally, spiritually, and dangerously.
Her growing affection for Adam does not go unnoticed. Consumed by jealousy, fear, and wounded pride, Victor becomes determined to destroy the bond forming between them… even if it means sabotaging Adam’s transformation, Elizabeth’s happiness, and the fragile life he has built.
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Heaven and Earth collide. Two houses, both alike in dignity flashes through his mind for a half-second before being replaced with static; Neil makes a half-whine against his lips that’s nothing short of electric and, desperately, he thinks, palm to palm is holy palmer’s kiss — give me my sin again — you kiss by th’book —
And as they lean back in, he thinks, bright and laughing, come what sorrow can / it cannot countervail the exchange of joy.
And as their hands intertwine, as his fingers card through his hair — let love-devouring Death do what he dare —
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Fate Favors the Steadfast by WistfulWhimsy
Fandoms: Carry On | Simon Snow Series - Rainbow Rowell
15 Dec 2025
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Houses Pitch and Cadwallader are feuding. But love can grow in the unlikeliest places, despite the world's best efforts to stamp it out.
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- Part 19 of Miri's Carry On Countdown 2025
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pLaTiNuM sTaTuS by Alexis_Vale for seehorsessayhorses
Fandoms: Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling
15 Dec 2025
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Hermione Jean Granger was on the cusp of changing the world.
And Draco Lucius Malfoy was about to ruin hers.
When a drunken romp activates an ancient and revered magic, Draco determines to claim his witch by rights under esoteric law.
Hermione, however, is as determined she's not a a thing to be claimed.Egos will be bruised! Gifts will be refused! Sex may-- be--- used by our favorite idiots as they plot and scheme to get what they deserve.
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i ne’er saw true beauty till this night by SundaisyHD
Fandoms: Dead Poets Society (1989)
15 Dec 2025
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Once he makes it to the lobby of Henley Hall, spotting them is easy pickings—after all, they make quite a sight, a middle-aged man surrounded by a small army of energetic teenagers who don't seem to realize that shouting "yawp" in lieu of applause is not proper theater etiquette. Neil can't quite wrap his head around the fact that these are his people. This is his family. He wouldn't trade them for the world.
Or; what the last half an hour of this movie actually is bc i refuse to acknowledge the truth
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To be the parent he needed. by cherry_etude
Fandoms: DCU, Batman - All Media Types, Spider-Man - All Media Types, Red Hood and the Outlaws (Comics)
15 Dec 2025
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Was originally called 'A rose by any other name would smell as sweet. - Jason Todd adopts.'
Is very much like the title, with mild commentary on what is a name, individuality and humanity.Sort of a random story, tbh. Jason Todd rescues a kid he found in a lab, who has genetic enhancements and trauma. The story is how her life progresses afterwards, from the rescue to then living with the batfam ^^
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Arise, Fair Sun by booola
Fandoms: The Iliad - Homer, Ancient Greek Religion & Lore, EPIC - Jorge Rivera-Herrans (Albums)
14 Dec 2025
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Helen dedicates herself to matchmaking to distract herself from her own crush. Her friends— and the school play— won't let her.