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chew me up, but don’t spit me out by damagecontrol (microdamage)
Fandoms: Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling
08 Aug 2024
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Regulus has it all figured out. He keeps men on a rotating roster so none can get too close, works nights as a dancer to make the most of his chronic insomnia, and pushes everything he doesn’t want to remember about the past ten years into the recesses of his mind. It’s easier to pretend none of it ever happened.
But when James Potter crashes into Regulus’ life with his fancy sports car, wealth beyond measure, and devil’s smile, it marks a switch in the natural order of things. James is a client; Regulus isn’t allowed to fall in love with him. Except James is the first man in a long time who can see past Regulus’ carefully constructed façade, and who could ever resist the temptation of being known?
Or, this is a story about identity, addiction, self-expression, and love in all of the varying shapes they can take.
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25 Mar 2026
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Whatever happened to the young, young lovers? by georgia_sk
Fandoms: Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling
11 Aug 2023
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Regulus Black, presumed dead for over 2 years, shows up at an Order of the Phoenix meeting with 6 mangled horcruxes and Voldemort's corpse.
How does the wizarding world move on following the abrupt end of the war, and how does Regulus come to terms with the last four years of his life?
Not on his own evidently, as his brother makes an effort to return to his life, James Potter tries to weasel his way into his heart and the friends he left behind in the name of the war aren't willing to leave him alone any longer.
An endgame jegulus, wolfstar and rosekiller longfic with regular updates, angst and drama.
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13 Mar 2026
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A choice wasn’t given to the 100 juvenile prisoners sent down to the ground from a dying space station - the Elder.
James Potter has been in solitary for six months, his ticket to the ground? One of his best friends betraying him and getting his father killed in the process.
Regulus Black has spent his whole life a prisoner, even before he was thrown into the lock up two years earlier. He finds himself on the ground just because he was born.
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A Marauders Era/The 100 AU longfic.
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07 Mar 2026
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To James Potter, starting university feels like being born a second time. Again he is brutally thrown into a new and unfamiliar world which, this time, he must learn to navigate all on his own. He has to drag himself through the struggles of growing up, making friendship that will last, discovering who he is and learning how to live this strange life, all while keeping up his perfect image. That is, until the pressure of maintaining his reputation as the sunshine boy comes crashing down around him, and the cracks can no longer be stuffed with lies.
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A coming of age story following James and his friends through their first year at university and all the struggles, the highs and lows, and the lessons of life that that experience brings with it.
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06 Mar 2026
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“This has to be some kind of conflict of interest,” Regulus says, his lip curling at James.
James shrugs, the idiot, “I don’t know.” His voice is weary, tired. He even looks tired, even though he’s been sleeping all day. In fact, he looks more than just a bit tired. There are deep, dark circles under his eyes, his hair is sticking up– and not in the endearing way it usually is– but simply out of control.
He’s thinner than he used to be, and his brown skin is sallow. Regulus’ eyes catch on the two massive bandages wrapping around his arms.
Jesus fuck.
Regulus had no idea James was… no. He couldn’t do this right now. He was here (and had been for some time now) to figure his own shit out. Not to worry about James’ suicidal ideations. Not to mention, he hated James. So this whole thing? It wasn’t going to work.
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Or: James Potter and Regulus Black end up as roommates in the same mental hospital.
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- Part 1 of together we can heal
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04 Mar 2026