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Another letter (after ‘Paper doesn’t blush) by when_Natasha_dances
Fandoms: Sanditon (TV 2019)
24 Oct 2024
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With thanks to @Janeite_without_regret
here’s another letter
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Charlotte is angry...
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Breaking down the barriers of Alexander Colbourne by when_Natasha_dances
Fandoms: Sanditon (TV 2019), Welcome to Sanditon
07 Oct 2024
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An attempt to look inside the mind of Alexander Colbourne in the hours before he walks into Lennox's tent for the second time.
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Just all out fluff for a rainy day
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An early moment to treasure for Xander and Leo
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After leaving the Dark Castle, Belle has been locked away by her own father — blamed for her association with the Dark One. When Rumple finds out, he runs to rescue her. But healing requires more than he's sure he can give. For centuries, his hands have known only violence. Can they learn tenderness? Can they hold someone so hurt without breaking her?
He gives Belle a home, safety, gifts — and walls she never agreed to. He calls it protection. Belle has survived one cage. Now she finds herself in another. She loves him, but love without freedom means nothing.
This is not a dark romance. It's a story about what happens after one. A story about two people both damaged in their own way. Neither of them perfect. Both trying.🥀UPDATES SATURDAYS
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12 Apr 2026
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When the Queen tells Rumplestiltskin that Belle died by her own hand after being subjected to the clerics’ purification of her soul, he is confident by that detail that it must be the truth; Belle had told him enough about them that he knew she would never live under their control again. But after discovering Belle is alive after all, two certainties war within him: first, that he needs her back, and second, that he has no intent to change, if that means abandoning work on his Dark Curse.
Belle, finding herself imprisoned again by Rumplestiltskin, learns how she was used by the Queen to betray him and resolves to never be someone’s tool again. When she decides to take a stand against Regina, Rumplestiltskin finds himself drafted into her quest.
Will they take this second change they've been given, or is true love doomed again without a change of heart?
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- Part 1 of Mercy of the Fallen
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13 Nov 2025
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For all intents and purposes, August is Mr. Gold's son. It's quite the adjustment for everybody.
Or: The typical Swan-Mills-Charming family drama, but August is the adopted brother/uncle. Sequel to White Lies.
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- Part 3 of August Gold
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21 Sep 2025
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Not My Homeland Anymore by LJF for swanfireprincessmydear
Fandoms: Once Upon a Time (TV)
22 Sep 2025
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After everything that happened, Neal couldn't deny that he was at least curious about this mysterious curse he'd had to give up the love of his life for. After all, (if August had been telling the truth) it wasn't as though anyone would recognize him……
A decade later, Emma Swan arrives in town and is absolutely baffled by who she finds there. Something here doesn't add up… but what explanation could possibly make sense of this?
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08 Sep 2025
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Regina refuses to stick to the deal she struck with Rumplestiltskin and instead of giving him a comfortable life, traps him in a cage in a basement, forgotten for years. Then comes a runaway from a hospital, meeting the madman in a cage and somehow, despite everything, the two run and learn to live together, survive together, and become each other's world.
NOTE: This takes place before Season 1 starts, before Emma's arrival.
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08 Sep 2025