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It's been cleared for the research teams. What could possibly go wrong?
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This isn't how it should have gone. None of it is how his life should have gone. From the moment he woke up in that room in New York, the only thing he's known is loss, loss, and more loss.
Steve is tired of losing things.
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- Part 3 of Between Destiny And Love
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Banished from the court of Sheffield by her sister's grandmother, Kate Sharma arrives at Lady Danbury's court in London with only the recommendation of her stepmother.
Born of the caste which rules Blood society - the Queens - yet with no aristo lineage to recommend her to the status-oriented, Kate seeks nothing more than return passage to the land she left a decade ago. India is a glittering mirage, a thousand mile journey she only faintly remembers, and the only place she can conceive that might be home to her.
In the courts of London society, in the arms of an aristo Warlord Prince, Kathani Sharma will learn that destiny plans otherwise.
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- Part 2 of Black Jewels Bridgerton
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The River Above Stars by tielan for Gray Cardinal (Gray_Cardinal)
Fandoms: The Keltiad - Patricia Kennealy-Morrison
17 Dec 2025
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This, then, is the reason she was sent here.
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The Unfriendly Ones by tielan for Sir_Bear
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types, Discworld - Terry Pratchett
19 Sep 2025
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Blessings be upon this...cave...
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30 Days of OTP challenge for Steve Rogers/Maria Hill from the Marvel Cinematic Universe.
This series covers events to the end of 'Endgame', but while it parallels canon, it doesn't comply with either Phase Four canon or the Disney+ series.
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Unfinished Symphonies by tielan
Fandom Marvel Cinematic Universe, Stargate Atlantis, Stargate SG-1, Thor (Movies)
02 Apr 2024
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This is a series of unfinished and abandoned works. I've started many stories in my years of fandom, and some have never been finished. Some for want of time, some for want of inspiration, some for want of effort.
These are them in their incompleteness. Feel free to ask for more, just don't expect it!
Finally, I apologise for any and all cliffhangers, but hope that you enjoy the snippets as they stand.
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In hindsight, Zuko realized very clearly that he’d had no idea what he’d gotten himself into.
OR: Zuko makes sure that he's there for Katara (a retelling of Give It Up for Zutara Smut Week 2021, Day 2: “Do you trust me?”).
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Bookmarked by tielan
17 Jun 2026
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Intensely intriguing a/b/o AU, with a metric fuckton of backstory about which we only get the barest hint.
It's a pity there isn't a sequel, because I would have loved to learn about many of the things that were referenced in this fic, but not explained.
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The Face of The Enemy by bunniecha12
Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender (Cartoon 2005), Avatar: The Last Airbender (Live Action TV 2024)
30 Jan 2026
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Nothing has been untouched; starvation, exploitation, and death at the hands of the Fire Nation. As the Southern Water Tribe’s benders are hunted to extinction, one is born beneath a full moon. Her first cries echo through the night: a waterbender.
The raid came fast—brutal, merciless. But Katara was spared. Hidden away in the Fire Nation palace, growing up in the shadow of her enemies. Forced to assimilate for survival, she clung to the only remnants of home, her mother’s necklace… and the light in a lonely boy’s golden eyes.
Zuko. The prince who made her laugh when nothing else could.
The Avatar returned, the war’s tides shifted, and Katara seized her chance to escape.
Joining Aang, she fights for the world’s freedom—while battling the ghosts of her past, including the boy who never wrote, the boy who stood on the wrong side when it mattered most.
He comes seeking redemption. And though she’s the only one who hasn’t forgiven him, those long-buried feelings—have never truly left her.
In the quiet moments between battles, they begin to surface again, soft and smoldering. And slowly, painfully, their hearts begin to remember what they once were… and thoughts of what they might become. -
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Zuko can’t keep a Southern Water Tribe ambassador to save his life. Ten years post-war and he’s gone through eight of them. They all keep leaving to get married and start families. The Fire Lord is getting desperate.
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Written for Zutara Month 2021
Day 2: AmbassadorRating has changed to M! Please be aware!
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- Part 2 of Zutara Month 2021
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Bookmarked by tielan
08 Jun 2026
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Great slow burn. Zuko is clueless, Katara wants to make things better for the Fire Nation people who are also her people. And multiculturalism. WOOHOO.
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Zuko goes into exile with a scar, a mission, and a wife.
The girl wears ill fitted ceremonial silks. She is too thin, with jutting bones and hollowed eyes. Dirt smudges her cheek. Her lower lip has a healing split in it. Gaudy as her finery is, she wears it like prisoner’s rags.
All of this Zuko registers in the time it takes him to reach the dais and bow. Every muscle aches with the remembrance of what happened the last time he knelt before Father. This time there is no begging, no roar of the crowd, no burning. Still—Zuko’s grateful to stand once more.
Slipping into soldier’s parade rest, he waits for what will come next, all too aware of the girl’s defiant body next to his.
“I am told that this is Katara of the Southern Water Tribe,” Father says, cruel amusement oiling his words. The phrasing makes the girl sound like a thing. “The last waterbender of their pathetic tribe.” Flames conceal all but his shadow, yet Zuko knows from long experience the exacting blade of his father’s smirk. The smirk he must surely wear now. Because he has built up his insult and now he lets it fall. “Your bride.”
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Bookmarked by tielan
01 Jun 2026
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“I’m the heir to a nation who destroyed her homeland. Katara will never choose me.”
What do you know about the Avatar state?
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Mid-Season-One Zuko is held for ransom by Chief Hakoda. Ozai's replies to the Water Tribe's demands are A+ Parenting. Hakoda is… deeply concerned, for this son that isn't his, and who might be safer among enemies than with his own father.
Podfic and translations in Dutch, German, Hungarian, Russian, Spanish, and Ukrainian now available! See chapter one author notes for links.
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Bookmarked by tielan
25 May 2026
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Very impressive study of abuse and restoration of relationship capability. Love the way all the characters gradually reframe their understandings through the course of the story.