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  1. Public Bookmark 21

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    Erik never had visitors invited into his home, much less the company of a sodden, unemployed Christine Daae. When she arrives at his doorstep on the worst night of her year, he begins, with patient architectural precision, to build a life around her - regardless of if it is the one she wants.

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    22 Jun 2026

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    The Vicomte and Vicomtesse will be good to him so long as he entertains them. When they grow bored, or when they see him for the devil he is, they will do to him as all the others have before them. He will be lucky if they show him the mercy of simply casting him out their door.

    The Living Corpse may be a beast, but he is far from mindless. He knows the human race well, and he knows he is not part of it. The worst thing a creature like him can do is fall for their tricks. It will be less painful, less humiliating if he denies them the pleasure of taking him for a fool.

    After being abused and violated for as long as he can remember, Erik can’t recognise kindness even when it’s staring him straight in the face.

    Or, the AU where Christine and Raoul save a man in a cage. He doesn’t want their help, but they’re either too kind or too stupid to care.

    Chinese Translation【中文翻译】 by Animalswelcome

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    15 Feb 2026

  3. Public Bookmark 16

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    Based on the 1990 miniseries. A kind of fix-it AU.

    Erik never expected to survive the confrontation on the roof. Now he must start life over in a new town, far away from Paris, where he finds fulfillment as a talented florist. Being thrust into the public is terrifying, but comes with its own rewards including the budding friendship of a local seamstress.

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    04 Jan 2026

  4. Public Bookmark 31

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    In 1955, amidst the tensions of the Cold War, Elizabeth Harlander is a research assistant in her uncle's science facility, searching for something unnameable, when her fiance's brother arrives with a creation that will alter the course of her life.

    AKA: Frankenstein (2025) meets the plot of The Shape of Water.

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    03 Jan 2026

  5. Public Bookmark 40

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    Elizabeth Harlander could not fathom finding God in marriage. She rejects her uncle’s wishes and stays at the abbey to devote herself completely to the study of science and philosophy, near Vienna as a novice nun. When she discovers the beauty of God's creation first hand, she finds him a name - Adam.

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    What if, instead of staying with the family at the cottage, the creature came to Elizabeth’s abbey?

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    26 Dec 2025

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    It's been a year since Victor Frankenstein took his last breath. With no choice but to live, Victor's creation accepts a favor from the Danish captain who had listened to both sides of a tragic tale. He has settled into a semblance of life as a blacksmith apprentice to Captain Anderson's brother, Elrik.

    Evelyn Montgomery, mistreated by her brother and forced into servant-like labor despite an injury that leaves her crippled, finds warmth and kindness at the home of the Andersons, old friends of her family. She then meets Adam, the Andersons’ enormous, scarred and painfully shy apprentice.

    (Continuation of the 2025 version directed by Guillermo del Toro.)

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    06 Dec 2025

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    It’s the eve of her wedding, and Elizabeth can’t stop looking at a dead leaf…

    What if Victor's aim had gone astray by a few inches? What if the Elizabeth who lay in the Creature's arms as he carried her out of the mansion was not dying but only injured?

    Far from polite Victorian society, alone with the Creature who refuses to let her die, Elizabeth must grapple with a forbidden desire that somehow feels like both sin and salvation.

    And something inside her, long kept in darkness, finally starts to bloom.

    (Or: Elizabeth meets the Creature again, and what we all want happens.)

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    06 Dec 2025

  8. Public Bookmark 89

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    At 36, the widowed Comtesse Florence de Mourville has had her share of death; hand over fist and then some. When a storm deposits a strange body on the shores of her Normandy estate in the Spring of 1911, she doesn’t expect it to wake—let alone to speak, to watch her paint, or to upend her quiet exile. What begins as curiosity becomes obsession, and what she thought long buried stirs again: tenderness, want, and a willingness to tear herself open for someone to see what strange manner of creature she is.

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    06 Dec 2025

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    Lady Elizabeth Harlander has lived almost all the life she can recall within the safe, secluded walls of Saint Margaret's, a convent school for girls of means in Calais, France. Despite her dear uncle's attempts to wed her off, she remains-- but tragedy strikes. The wind blows cold from the North. And soon... something finds her.

    Or: Elizabeth Harlander gets her happy ending.

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    23 Nov 2025

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    How good is it, this lie? For he is no spirit of the forest. He is no soldier, wounded and lifted high by noble deeds and bravery in battle. His hands are a soldier’s hands–his feet, those that carried braver men to their deaths. But he is no soldier.

    (In which the Creature makes it back to the cabin before the wolves attack, saves his blind companion, and tentatively steps into a family.)

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    20 Nov 2025

  11. Public Bookmark 21

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    A funeral director receives a request.

    Treat me like one of them.

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    21 Oct 2025

  12. Public Bookmark 11

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    Erik and the Daroga of Mazanderan have an uneasy relationship when they first arrive in Persia.
    As Erik gets more entangled in the affairs of the Persian court, can their relationship improve?

    There is also a roadtrip. Actually, it's mainly a roadtrip.

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    02 Feb 2025

  13. Public Bookmark 5

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    His lungs are rafters. His veins are endless corridors. Dusty velvet curtains are his skin. His eyes are thousands of doors. He aches with age. Nothing pulls him far from sleep anymore.
    Until her. She sings and he has a heart again. She speaks to him, and it beats.
    She offers him everything she has, and he takes.
    The audience applauds.
    The man dies.
    Erik takes a breath.

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    08 Dec 2024

  14. Public Bookmark 7

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    "I’ll be honest with you. I wasn’t a saint. I was a pig-headed ass. To everyone I met, but especially to the freaks. I’m sorry for how I was, but I can’t excuse it either. You ever step on an ant for fun, Frenchie? Because you were bored or because you were worked up and couldn’t take it out on anything except whatever couldn’t fight back?

    That was how I saw the freaks. Not all of them, not the ones who looked like they could do something to me. But the ones who looked weak, the ones with no fancy slimeball manager behind them—I was an ass to them. I’d probably still be an ass if I never met him. I’ll tell you how I met him, and everything after. But only because I need you to know that he’s not who you’re looking for. Not anymore."

    The story of Erik and Meg upon their arrival in Coney Island, as told through the eyes of Mr. Squelch.

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    14 Nov 2024

  15. Public Bookmark 38

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    It began with that most innocuous of evils: a whim.

    Ah, you doubt me, I see. Surely, I must have orchestrated the entire ploy. Plots I have laid, inductions dangerous, et cetera, et cetera.

    I shall have you know that you are sorely mistaken. My sole focus was simply her Voice.

    Initially.

    …I have never been accused of being a sensible man. After all, how was I to know a thing of love?

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    11 Sep 2024

  16. Public Bookmark 27

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    "I had a dream," he said, his dark eyes shining in the low light that the stormy skies let into the room. "That you held your blade to my neck. And I liked it."
    Inej felt a drop of fear in her stomach, and she had to school herself to stillness.
    "I don't want to hold my blade to your neck," she whispered, trying to keep the emotions out of her voice. He had every right to tell her all the darkest, deepest things his brain could conjure up. She wanted to know them. But she had the right to say no, just as he did. "I don't want to hurt you."
    He had smiled, his eyes watching her lips. "And that's why I would let you," he breathed.

    Or, a scene on the theme of "Kaz Brekker has senses, and someone should deprive him of them."

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    18 Jun 2024

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    Sherlock Holmes never expected to live a long life, but he never imagined that it would end like this.

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    28 May 2024

  18. Public Bookmark 23

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    An injured Erik tries to hide his wounds from Christine. He fails.

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    07 Apr 2024

  19. Public Bookmark 5

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    She would not be enough to soothe his obsession. But she was something to care for - an outlet for touch, for tenderness. In the empty endless days, the quiet rituals of tending to her brought a sense of routine. Some Erik/Mannequin fluff.

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    04 Feb 2024

  20. Public Bookmark 6

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    “Inej–” he started to say. His voice was hoarser than usual.

    “Don’t,” she said, her eyes boring a hole into the already disarrayed scene. “Don’t.”

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    In which Kaz attempts to prevent an important day from being ruined.

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    21 Jan 2024

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