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“You’re really quite a delight, Harry. I can’t believe I went weeks thinking you were useless and boring.”
Somehow, unwittingly, Harry finds himself engaged to Tom Riddle.
He’s not entirely sure how that happened.
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06 Apr 2026
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A Rather Useless Inheritance by Blood_Stained_Fingers
Fandoms: Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling
22 Nov 2023
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Being a Parselmouth came with the inherent predisposition to understand snake behaviours and imitate them. It was relieving Harry wasn’t going to kill anyone with venom, nor petrify them with his gaze. But also, somewhat frustrating as it was all completely useless. None of the skills that came with being a Parselmouth would help Harry survive Voldemort.
It might, in fact, have the opposite effect. For all Riddle's fury that Harry was the cause of his elder self’s defeat, he was fascinated by the fact Harry was also a Parselmouth. He had grabbed Harry’s face, turning him side to side looking bemusedly enraptured by Harry’s threat display. “At your age, I was imitating much more vicious snakes than this, Harry.”
That may have been all well and good, but Harry didn’t feel very vicious. He felt very threatened and in over his head.
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02 Apr 2026
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Poker by TurduckenSandwich
Fandoms: Shadow and Bone (TV), The Grisha Trilogy - Leigh Bardugo
05 Jun 2022
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"You traded me away at cards?"
Mal blinks at her. She can smell the liquor on his breath. "It sounds bad when you put it that way."
"Don't worry, Mrs. Oretsev," says the smirking man in the armchair. "I'll play nice if you do."Alina had only been married for eight months when her husband used her to settle a little debt of honor owed to a man named Morozov.
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16 Mar 2026
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When 10-year-old Hinata was told that female volleyball players would never soar as high as their male counterparts and reach world-renowned status, she took that as a personal challenge.
Or 6 times other people found out that Hinata was secretly a girl and the +1 time she finally announces it to the world.
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18 Dec 2025
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A Step to the Side and All Has Changed by statistically_improbable
Fandoms: Temeraire - Naomi Novik
13 Jul 2025
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When, during their desperate flight from Scotland to France with the cure to the dragon plague, Laurence and Temeraire encounter an English patrol hellbent on stopping their mission, Laurence finds himself near mortally wounded and his return to England thus necessarily delayed. The ripple effects of this extended stay in France will be far beyond what he, or his eager hosts, could have anticipated.
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23 Oct 2025