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Aldo gives Goffredo a slow once-over, eyebrow raised. “You didn’t think to iron that cassock?”
“This is ironed.”
“Is that what we’re calling it now? You’re about to meet the Pope and you look like a hungover priest,” Aldo retorts, folding his arms.
Goffredo Tedesco is not a prideful man. Or, at least, that's what he believes. But he sure is stubborn.
Call it fate, or divine intervention, Goffredo's life is about to change. For the better or for the worse he can't quite tell yet.Unexpected meeting with colleagues, difficult choices, new responsibilities, and the arrival of an estranged niece with her own ideas about family and grief, will force Tedesco to reckon with the life he's built.
As reluctant heart-to-hearts unfold, Tedesco walks a thin line between isolation and the fragile, unconventional family he’s managed—almost accidentally—to create.Or, Tedesco grieves, and comes out a better person.
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25 May 2025
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Vincent is there beside him. The sun catches in his hair, briefly turning jet black into a golden halo. Lawrence has seen this before. It takes him way too long to realize, and when he finally does, it’s already too late.
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It's been two months since Vincent Benítez became Pope Innocent XIV and finally, Thomas Lawrence feels like he can catch a breath. That is, until he starts getting the same nightmare over and over again.
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21 May 2025
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15 May 2025
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When Thomas Lawrence came by the papal apartments that evening, he came, unsurprisingly, with a bundle of papers under his arm.
Vincent tried on and discarded four separate teasing comments about it, but didn’t get to decide on one before Thomas silently handed them over, and he realized they were newspapers, opened and refolded over the weekly comics, his favorite. Three of them, one for each week he’d been away.
Ah, he thought, with the feeling of a sudden hard deceleration in his chest, the press it put on his heart. Ah. All right then.
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07 May 2025
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Tell me the story of how you ended up here. by Jalapeno_Helen
Fandoms: The Avengers (Marvel Movies)
19 Nov 2020
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Steve, half-dead with Jotunn ice sickness, is saved when Loki offers a cure in exchange for membership on the team. No one really believes Loki's role as an Avenger will work, but Steve—still struggling with the lingering effects of illness—is determined to make it happen.
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- Part 1 of Resolutions
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24 Aug 2024
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Heaven without his business partner by his side is no Heaven at all.
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24 Mar 2024
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The new and improved Hazbin Hotel is open for business, and with a steady flow of guests seeking redemption, Charlie couldn't be happier. But when Alastor continues to shirk his duties as the hotel's host, she has no choice but to confront him. She's shocked to find him shut away in his radio tower, slowly succumbing to his deadly angelic wound. Much to the radio demon's chagrin, she dedicates herself to his recovery.
Maybe his brush with death made him sentimental. Or maybe the infection from his wound messed with his brain. Whatever the reason, Alastor finds himself not only enjoying the princess's company but yearning for it long after he's recovered. More than just her positive energy begins to creep under his skin, and as he starts to see her in a new light, he begins to question things about himself and his reasons for being at the hotel.
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24 Mar 2024
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Post-"Dad Beats Dad" AU
During Alastor's fight with the loan sharks, one of the sharks lobs a flask of mysterious liquid at him. At first, it seems to do nothing. However, the following morning, a mysterious cursed cat appears in the Hazbin Hotel.
As the only one who can touch it without getting their arms bitten off, it's up to Charlie to figure out what happened and get her hotel back to Hell's version of normal.
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24 Mar 2024
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In an effort to gain an additional year of reprieve from the Exterminations, and to save sinners from needless slaughter—
An idea struck her at that, a stupid one really, but she really was desperate. Adam seemed like a simple man, hungry for more than just mere food if his blathering and boasting was anything to go on. Most men were, she'd come to learn in her multiple millennia alive. It made sense in a way, what with him being the father of humanity and all, that she'd be able to find similarities between her people and this foul-mouthed angel. She'd just need to offer him something he hadn't yet had. Before she could talk herself out of this hair-brained scheme, before she could convince herself it wouldn't work because it had to, Charlie forced the words to leave her mouth even as bile stung her throat.
“I'm pretty sure I made the offer that I will do anything.”
—Charlie makes a dangerous deal.
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24 Mar 2024
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Jack's had more than his fair share of nightmares and fears over the years, and he's afraid they're getting worse. Jamie offers a possible solution: it's not him, it's something . . . else.
Jack wishes he wasn't right. Enter the Boogeyman.Series
- Part 1 of Song and Dance
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13 Dec 2022
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The Price Of Rubies by kittydesade for vocal_bard (atrickstertype)
Fandoms: Once Upon a Time (2011)
26 Dec 2011
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Ruby makes a deal with Mr. Gold, which gives them both a little more than they expect.
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01 Sep 2022
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It's harder to get Gold out of her life than Ruby thinks.
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01 Sep 2022
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Jack Frost's amnesia is not complete. He can still remember a few key things, and that little bit of knowledge is a very dangerous thing.
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31 Aug 2022
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Eight years after being recruited into the NSA, Special Agent Santana Lopez, aka Molly Chambers, is given a new assignment: track down the stolen Government Intersect and protect it from harm.
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10 Jul 2017
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Under My Wings You Will Find Refuge by Fiver
Fandoms: Les Misérables - All Media Types, Les Misérables (2012), Supernatural
24 Nov 2025
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"Let me come with you. It's not smart to go around fighting monsters on your own."
"Almost all hunters work alone."
"Doesn't make it any smarter."
In which Enjolras is going to save the innocent masses from the things that go bump in the night, and Grantaire is definitely either a lot more or a lot less than he appears. Neither of them can quite decide which it is.
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- Part 1 of Under My Wings You Will Find Refuge
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03 Sep 2013
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It wasn't only quixotism that led him to walk through the doors of Enjolras, Combeferre et Courfeyrac instead of any other law firm in the country; he'd done some research of his own, and they're good. That they're not as profitable as they could be is a matter of principle, not ability. In anyone else, Grantaire would scoff at that excuse, but he knows them, and he's not surprised – or at least, he's only surprised they take on any paying clients, rather than operating purely as a non-profit.
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04 May 2013
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No one cares about Marius' lonely soul (or penis). by thepeopletoomustrise
Fandoms: Les Misérables (2012), Les Misérables - All Media Types, Les Misérables - Victor Hugo
23 Apr 2013
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Marius Painfully Awkward Pontmercy has just gotten a new phone and decides that, naturally, he should try to sext his girlfriend.
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25 Apr 2013
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Bit Bang Theory by manic_intent
Fandoms: Skyfall (2012) - Fandom, James Bond (Craig Movies), GoldenEye (1995)
03 Dec 2012
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In James' broad experience with life to date, something was usually about to become an utter disaster if 006 became excited about it.
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30 Nov 2012
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“I’m here because... I think my kid is having some kind of delusional breakdown because he can’t cope with the fact that ... Mayor Mills and I split up.”
Dr. Hopper pushes his glasses up his nose in a measured movement. “What makes you think that?”
“Well, among other things, he thinks his mother is about to cut Mary Margaret Blanchard’s heart out of her chest, before pulverizing it and sending her into a coma that only her true love can rescue her from.”
[AU; here, 'fairy tale land' is merely a product of Henry's imagination during a difficult time.]
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04 Nov 2012
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Notes Strewn Across the Bare Apartment Floor by momebie (katilara)
Fandoms: Once Upon a Time (TV)
22 Jun 2012
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There comes a point where thinking back on your life is like looking through someone else's photo albums.
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01 Nov 2012