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between dawn and breaking by shadowycorner

between dawn and breaking by @shadowycorner ?️ some romances are nice and sweet. others are steamy and sexy. others still are slow and gentle and hesitant. some, like this one, are sad and quiet and a little bit heartbreaking. but sometimes you need that or want to read that: a romance which ends rather than begins, where people are separating and regretful about it even if it's the right thing for them and the romance, well, the romance of what they had isn't enough to keep them toget
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lemon-slice fics

hogwarts staff meeting by apondinabluebox

hogwarts staff meeting by @apondinabluebox ✍️ humour is the worst. it reads so easily, it makes you smile, it makes you laugh... but it's so hard to do - even badly. it's incredibly difficult to do it well, to make it actually funny and funny to a broad audience of people. (as i say, it is the worst.) but. isobel is so good at it: she takes this simple, unique idea of retelling the minutes of a hogwarts staff meeting and translates it into a story which will make you smile throughout,
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freedom ain't nothing but missing you by prideofprewett

freedom ain't nothing but missing you by @prideofgalactica ? this is a romance but not it's not like other romances. it's angstier, it's a bit less pure romance-y, it starts, almost from the end and then restarts. but it really is a romance, underneath all of that: it's about two people falling in love (never mind that it's sort of again and differently and newly) and building something together. sure, it's a soft romance - a quiet romance, in courtney's own words  - but it's capt
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memory dust by shadowycorner

memory dust by @shadowyfox ? writing a good romance is an art: getting the characters right, the chemistry in the relationship, the complications and the problems thrown in front of them, the pace of it - especially in a slow burn type story - making sure the reader's hooked and invested in the pair and their happy ending (or not, as the case may be) and this. this is a romance which is artful. eli writes ron and hermione as fated but separated - by malice, cruelty, evil; whatever you
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all the waves resounded by BookDinosaur

all the waves resounded by @BookDinosaur ? everyone loves a good romance. everyone also loves a good mystery. everyone also loves a good spy caper. this story is all three in one go and it works so unbelievably perfectly. andromeda black is a spy, working in secret for the Order; ted tonks is her handler, assigned to feed back the information she gets to the Order. cue fireworks. it's not love at first sight, it's a slow, gentle tumble and then a graceless crash at the end  it's thrill
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wine stained by something wicked

wine stained by @something foxy advisories: domestic abuse, sex, slurs, substance abuse ? this is a story which sums up deni's writing style in a neat, beautiful, heart-wrenching package: short, concise, punchy writing with beautiful, fragile-but-strong, hurt characters in real, raw human situations. it's so good, like everything she writes, and it's a style which is so incredibly captivating. unsurprisingly, with the advisories it has, it's not a happy or light story but it's add
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pomegranate seeds by page thirteen.

pomegranate seeds by @page thirteen. ? if you want to read something which will just make you feel warm and fluffy and gently happy inside, then this is exactly the fic you've been looking for. it's sweet without becoming soppy, comforting and cozy in a way which is so, so good. it's a story which revolves around food and family and friendship and tradition, with a real current of kindness throughout it - like a lesson in paying it forward; just... being nice. everything about it is wo
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must be one of arthur's boys by ronsgirlfriday

must be one of arthur's boys by @RonsGirlsPatronus ? melanie is a fantastic writer of the dark and the gritty and the tumultuous, and in this she shows how good she is at the smaller, sweeter, lighter parts of life, too: from family standing up for each other, to family standing up to each other - not always easy and not always right - to the quiet times where they're just... together, and the hard times when perhaps they're really, really not. the characters are sympathetic in differe
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but did you provoke him? by ronsgirlfriday

but did you provoke him? by @RonsGirlsPatronus advisories: consent issues, domestic abuse.  ? this is a hard story. it's also a powerful story. snape has never been the most sympathetic of characters, to say the least, but in this melanie takes him and his family - and the glimpses we got of them in the original - and spins it out into this solemn, terrifying, spellbinding story. the themes running through it are disturbing and dark, but melanie deals with them with real, sensitiv
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you're ripped at every edge but you're a masterpiece by grumpy cat

you're ripped at every edge but you're a masterpiece by @viking grumpy fox aka grumpy cat ?️ kris' writing is always gorgeous: dark and deadly, with layers of angst and drama and a real flair for finding that line between going right to the edge making you as the reader hurt and struggle and feel almost too much with the characters, and falling over into just going too far. lily/sirius is almost a ship made for her writing alone: it's deep and messy and incredibly beautifully tragic -
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the color of violets by kuusi palaa

the color of violets+ by @kuusi palaa ? there's something incredibly delicious about sinking your teeth into a twisting, turning, grim-dark mystery and that's exactly what this story is. it's dark, it's dangerous - there's this sense throughout it that something's not quite right but you can't say exactly what - and when you're rooting for Evan to get to the bottom of the mystery and solve the case, you almost don't want him to because you know solving it is only going to lead to somet
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