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There’s an abandoned cottage in the woods, and a bruised to hell Billy Hargrove finds it in the middle of a snowy night in early March. This turns into a bigger deal than it probably ought to.
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When he wakes, he has no idea who he is. Not his name, what he looks like, or why he’s flat on his back, staring up at the stars littering the night sky.
The first thing he learns about himself is that he has shitty instincts, especially if his first one is to protect the blue-eyed man currently stabbing someone in the face.
Or, the story where two strangers can’t agree on much and know even less, but they’re both fairly certain that they’re in love.
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05 Jul 2026
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A Beginner's Guide to HTML and CSS on AO3 by the_untamed_poet25
Fandoms: No Fandom, Fandom - Fandom, AO3, Original Work
20 Jul 2026
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You've seen it. A fic formatted like a classified document. A chapter that looks like a real social media feed. An interactive game, somehow, inside an AO3 work. You clicked the kudos button. You thought: how.
This is the tutorial that answers that.
A beginner-friendly guide to HTML and CSS on AO3 — no prior coding experience required. By the end of this series, you'll know enough to write formatted fics, build your own workskins, style your entire AO3 interface, and maybe make something that makes other people stop and think how.
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- Part 23 of Izzy's HTML & CSS Experiments
- Part 2 of HTML/CSS AO3 Skins & Tutorials
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04 Jul 2026
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Cas comes back. It's not exactly the reunion that Dean is expecting.
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Dean stares at him, flummoxed. Cas quite literally poured his heart out to Dean, gave a truly sappy and distressingly romantic speech and everything, then proceeded to give his life so that Dean could live his. And he wants to act like he doesn't want to see Dean, be around him, touch him?
Actually, Dean's ninety-nine percent sure that Cas probably wants to fuck him, and while he has no clue how he feels about that, he's pretty goddamn sure that means Cas doesn't get to act like this and make it authentic.
It feels strangely real, though, as if Cas wants nothing more than to get as far away from him as possible. This is a blatant contradiction. Even someone as weird as Cas doesn't want to get away from the person they have the desire to fuck five ways to Sunday, that they're in love with. That's not how these things work, so Dean isn't buying it.
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- Part 1 of Cursed Metaphors
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29 Jun 2026
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The silence in the car becomes unbearable.
“Hey kid,” Billy tries. “Where you from?”
“The future,” she replies.
Okay, so she doesn’t wanna talk. “Right, got it.”
Except he desperately needs something to distract him. “Like distant future, or…?”
“A year and a half,” she says. “Maybe more.”
“Damn,” he whistles. “Future any good?”
“No," she says. "Everyone dies.”
“Sounds rough.”
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Having recovered from yet another near-fatal incident, Iruka is now faced with his greatest challenge yet... deciding what his punishment for reading classified documents should be.
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- Part 12 of Sharingan Stealer
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18 Jun 2026
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The first time the Prism marred Kakashi’s pale skin, he was four years old, and he thought it was a bruise. It was dark blue and purple, cupping his cheek, running down his bicep and ribs to settle on his abdomen. If it weren’t for the way the colors undulated and swirled, migrating across his body in long swathes, Kakashi would have dismissed it as another complication of training.
That was the day his father gave him the mask.
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04 Jun 2026
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If you asked anyone in Konoha about the relationship between Umino Iruka and Hatake Kakashi, they would probably shudder. As far as anyone knows, they were born hating each other.
The truth is that their antagonism goes far back to their childhood and the strength of emotions between the pair has always been intense. This is the slow evolution of a relationship between two very different individuals over the years as those emotions take on a different intensity.
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All the Things She Said by MotherTantrum, noideasfornicknames006
Fandoms: The Amazing Digital Circus (Web Series)
30 May 2026
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The immediate sexual tension, the rushing feelings, along with all the things she had said when she was drunk on that stupid sauce moments before.
'[BONK].' Zooble cursed to themself, their aching arousal beginning to be hard to ignore when it's pounding between their legs, even when there was nothing there.Their mind was drowning in the vivid memories of Ragatha's moans.
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Naruto launches out of Kakashi’s lap and right over the desk, uncaring about the papers that crinkle under his bare feet, and then he’s taking quick steps towards Iruka, who catches him as if it's second nature. What isn’t natural is the fact that the boy seems to have lost three feet and fifteen years in the last twenty-four hours since the chunin had last seen him. But there he is, short legs kicking out happily as he perches on Iruka’s hip, giving the room an eye-crinkling smile that makes his cheeks look all the rounder.
“Naruto? What—” He puts everything on the back burner of his mind and focuses on the now, namely turning to the others and asking in his teacher voice, “What happened? Why is he…like this?”
“I’m not like anything!” Naruto says, arguing on principle alone.
When a strange jutsu turns Naruto five years old, Iruka is called for his most important mission yet: motherhood.
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01 Jun 2026
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paper pushing (and other cruel and unusual punishments) by flipthebits
Fandoms: Naruto (Anime & Manga)
26 Jul 2026
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After a string of botched missions, Kakashi receives a mandatory break from active field duty. Stuck in the village with little else to do, he begrudgingly accepts an assignment to a short-staffed mission desk for the duration of his leave.
The only person more unhappy about this than Kakashi is Iruka Umino.
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Konohagakure has a shinobi problem. War and the kyuubi attack has left the Village sagging under the weight of too many mouths to feed with too little work available. Just off the chopping block of the chuunin exams, Iruka hasn’t been able to enjoy a moment’s peace without worrying when he’ll snag the next mission to cover rent, all while Hound dogs his footsteps.
But down a damp street where neon signs flash in mosaic puddles, across from a rundown 24-hour laundromat, in the back of a dingy bar, sits a machine that’s the closest thing to magic Iruka has ever seen.
But what Iruka can’t see reflected in its flickering screen will open a can of worms he couldn’t possibly predict.
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- Part 1 of Scroll Hunter Chronicles
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A moments silence hung heavy in the room before the four friends quietly came to the only course of action available to them. The only course of action that might save the village from a fate worse than another attack by Orochimaru and his legion of grumpy snakes… bored Jounin.
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11 May 2026
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“But I...?” Hargrove asks, after long enough for Steve to go nose-blind to the furyragekillmaimkill scent, the Alpha’s jaw set and hands clenched in his pockets and eyes so easy, so blue, so- pretty. God, Steve should stop looking. Should look away, any second now. “Spit it out, doe-eyes. Don’t got all day.”
God, he has to stop looking at him.
“You call me Captain,” Steve answers, finally breaking eye contact to look instead at Hargrove’s fingers flicking his lighter again and again. Steve hopes the words say what he can’t: you were kind to me. From the way his fingers still, and the soft, barely-there pleased surprise blooms in Hargrove's scent beneath the rage, Steve thinks they might.
Or: Billy moves to the deadest part of the United States, meets the prettiest boy he's ever fucking seen, starts writing poetry, and everything - literally everything, from common courtesy to the food chain in Hawkins to his already-rocky home life to something so basic as his secondary gender - goes to fucking shit. For the better. Steve has panic attacks, spends most of his time alone, and swallows everything he's ever felt on reflex. And then he meets Billy, and everything gets, well- better. Much better.
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Under normal circumstances, most people present in their childhood, except Will wasn't exactly having the best time of his life when he was twelve. When kids in his grade were presenting their secondary genders, Will was too busy running from monsters in an alternate dimension. Will isn't like other kids, he isn't normal— can never be normal.
At the ripe age of sixteen years old, William Byers presented as an omega.
[For Omega!Will Byers Week on Twitter!]
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So, the first thing that happens is Castiel comes back.
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"Right," Dean says eventually, gruffly. He looks down at his shoes. "I'm not gonna tell you how to live your life, man. It's—you know, yours. Do your thing, love who you love, whatever. I can't really stop you from loving me, if that's what you've decided to do, but I don't—I can't—"
"I know," Castiel murmurs, still just smiling a little, not looking heartbroken at all. "Don't worry about it, Dean, that's all I ask."
"So we're—" Dean risks a glance up, swallowing thickly. "We're good?"
Castiel hums. "We're good."
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04 Apr 2026
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Dean’s your typical half-orphaned, monster-killing 22-year-old until a trenchcoated stranger crashes into his back windshield one September night, claiming he’s an angel that knows him from the future and that he’s on the run.
Frigging fantastic.
(Or, in which Castiel gets stuck in Dean’s timeline preseries and Dean kind of hates it—until he doesn’t.)
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04 Apr 2026
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Knot My Problem by user_18922518
Fandoms: 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia (Anime & Manga)
10 Jun 2025
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And don’t even get him started on Izuku.
Because if there’s one alpha on this planet who seems hellbent on dragging Katsuki into the pheromonal fuckfest he wants nothing to do with, it’s that curly-haired, over-eager, green tea-scented menace.
Or; Katsuki is a beta just trying to live his life in a world full of alphas and omegas. One alpha makes that hard. (And even harder when a mission's safe house happens).
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- Part 1 of The Knot Conundrum
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04 Apr 2026
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I’m in love with you, do you think it shows? by apateangle (dm3rv)
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
09 Jun 2026
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An accident leaves Mike without four years of memories. He wakes up convinced that it's 1989, that Bush is the new President, and that his time at college in Boston has only just begun.
But it's 1994. There's a new President. He lives in New York.
And somehow, he shares an apartment with Will Byers.
Or: An Amnesia AU.
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- Part 1 of I'm in love with you
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Mike and Will get summer jobs as lifeguards at the Hawkins Community Pool during college break. Will just wants to forget about his first failed relationship. Mike wants to make it an unforgettable summer.
CPR training gets complicated when you're hot for your "straight" best friend and he keeps wanting to practice his mouth-to-mouth technique.
"Should we… practice again?" Mike said finally. "Now?"
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- Part 1 of Super Soaker Series