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It's Bittersweet (This Thing Called Love) by mindlessramblings
Fandoms: Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling
10 Aug 2025
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I love you.
Three simple words. Eight letters. And yet, for Draco, they hurt more than any curse.
In the hush before dawn, Draco clings to the fleeting warmth of Harry’s touch, knowing that time is slipping through his fingers. Outside, war looms on the horizon, threatening to shatter everything they’ve built in secret.
But love isn’t easily silenced. And some hearts refuse to let go.
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- Part 1 of Bittersweet
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Some Potions Take Time (Some Hearts Do Too) by mindlessramblings
Fandoms: Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling
29 Jul 2025
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Remus wasn’t sure when he’d started anticipating those moments - the rare flickers of approval and kindness veiled in thorns. But somehow, they had begun to matter.
Remus swallowed, unsure whether the tightness in his chest was pride or discomfort. “I suppose I should thank you,” he said, voice low. “Though it feels undeserved.”
“If you are thanking me,” Snape murmured, “do it properly. Don’t mumble like you’ve been forced at wandpoint.”
In their final year at Hogwarts, Severus Snape and Remus Lupin are forced to work together. With a history steeped in mistrust and silence, the two boys are forced into close quarters.
But in a world where war looms and loyalties fracture, love is a dangerous potion. And for Severus and Remus, the question becomes: can something so delicate survive the fire?
(A companion piece to When Daylight Dies, but can be read as a standalone).
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- Part 2 of Transmutation
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In a world where there are four Potters instead of three, and where Voldemort makes a different choice upon hearing a prophecy, Harry Potter's life takes a sharp turn off the path decided for him by Dumbledore. What repercussions will this have on Magical Britain?
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- Part 1 of Transmutation
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It's a Bittersweet Thing (Being Loved) by mindlessramblings
Fandoms: Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling
14 Feb 2022
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The one-shot that It's Bittersweet (This Thing Called Love) is based on.
Who knew that those eight little letters, forming three innocent words, could make someone hurt so much?
It was approaching fast… The dawn before the new day and this precious time alone with his Harry was trickling by quicker than he could blink.
And then those dreaded words fell from Harry's beautiful lips. "I think it's time that we left."
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- Part 2 of Bittersweet
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To bridge this void of loneliness (or, for want of you) by mindlessramblings
Fandoms: Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling
10 Nov 2020
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Nearly six years after the Battle of Hogwarts, Harry can finally live his life the way he wants to. The question is, however: will he ever stop being a coward?
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Bittersweet: a feeling that combines both happiness and sadness, simultaneously. The ache of something beautiful that’s touched by loss,
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Transmutation: the action of changing or the state of being changed into another form.
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Eddie's eyebrows shoot up as high as they can go. His heart is beating a rabbit rhythm against his chest. The floor below him crumbling into an abyss. He’s in free fall here, utterly helpless to the onslaught that is Steve’s confession.
Drunk confession.
The reminder does nothing to soften the blow when he feels calloused fingertips on the corner of his eye. “And your laugh lines, I don’t know anybody who has them. Not as deep as yours.” Steve’s fingers drag lower, to his cheeks, and brush against the scars on his jaw. “Has anybody ever told you that you laugh with your entire face?”
OR a reverse 5+1: The one time Steve drunkenly confesses all the things he likes about Eddie and the five times Eddie tries to fluster him with said attributes.
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11 May 2026
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To Keep a Man Awake at Night by LovelyLittleGrim for kaspurrcat
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
19 Mar 2026
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“Bada-boom!” Dustin smacks a card down on the table in front of Eddie.
Nose wrinkling, Eddie picks up the card. “What is this?”
“The answer to your problems. It’s a paranormal research club here on campus."
Mike groans. “Dustin, no.”
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Weird things keep happening in Wayne and Eddie’s new place. Fortunately Dustin knows someone that can help. Unfortunately that someone is Steve Harrington.
Eddie doesn’t know who the bigger skeptic is: Steve, the guy who doesn’t believe in ghosts. Or, Eddie, who doesn’t believe in Steve.
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23 Mar 2026
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Steve, begrudgingly full of Christmas spirit, wishes that he won’t have to spend Christmas alone again. That night, Eddie, Upside Down minor vampire lord in training, falls down his chimney.
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16 Mar 2026
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Once upon a time, the king and queen of a faraway kingdom struck a bargain with a witch in order to gain the child and heir they coveted. But the bargain came with a price: their child would never truly be loved by another, unless they could be seen and accepted as they are. Prince Stephen, though gifted in ways other than book-smarts, was not the child his parents wanted. Unable to see past their own expectations for him, the prince grew up unloved. The kingdom considers him only an idiotic pleasure-seeker, one who cannot hold a candle to his brilliant parents. In order to find a worthy inheritor to their throne, the monarchs announce a contest for the prince’s hand. Three tasks shall be asked of those who enter: one of intelligence, one of strength, and one of bravery.
Eddie, a bard living with his day-laborer uncle, is blind to his magical heritage. He has little time for the comings and goings of the secretive nobility, who cloak their bodies in robes and hide their faces behind masks. A chance encounter with the prince causes Eddie to discover he is not at all the vapid fool everyone takes him for. The contest will provide a chance for both of them to change their futures.
2025 Steddie BB Project 028
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15 Mar 2026
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Hawkins is a village in the woods. Everyone knows to be careful of wolves. To steer clear of fairy rings and elves’ trees, to carry cold iron or an offering of bread on forest paths.
But in Hawkins there are tales of darker creatures. The devil is in their woods. He controls great faceless demons, eight feet tall, and hungry for blood. Grasping beasts with horrifying maws that hunt in packs and steal livestock. Monsters to frighten children and explain the rituals that drive community life.
Every year, a sacrifice is made to the old gods. A sacrifice for prosperity, but also protection.
No one is to leave the village after sundown.
Always wear a protective amulet when in the forest.
All is well in Hawkins. The rituals keep them safe. Until young Will Byers goes missing. Barbara Holland, next. Kindly tinker Bob Newby is found dead, chest ripped open on the forest edge.
Fear grips Hawkins, but perhaps a new sacrifice, one closer to the old ways will appease the devil.
A Tam Lin-inspired Dark Fairytale Omegaverse AU
Work #089 in the Steddie Big Bang
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13 Mar 2026