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Maggots burrowed into the crow’s wet innards—its delicately encased lungs, the firm rubber of its heart, the string-like tunnels of intestines. As a swarm of flies buzzed in Regulus’ bedroom, that was when he heard it. A din of voices overlapping.
…you know how to say thank you, don’t…
…there we go…open for…just like…
…think good little boys…house of God…all messy?…
…lovely like this…such a…They spoke as an auditory palimpsest. Voice after voice, almost indistinguishable, as if it was a single force speaking.
A sibylline premonition slicing through time. A crow, giving warning.
Regulus Black goes missing for forty days.
He comes back different. Wrong.
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04 Jul 2026
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ravenous rhapsody (my anodyne) by anagramxmaybe, jeguluses (temperates)
Fandoms: Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling
07 Nov 2025
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Fuck, Regulus thought, I need to ravish this man.
After a tragic accident that leaves him changed forever, incubus Regulus Black finally breaks ties with his parents and tries to make his own way in the world. While managing to reconnect with his estranged brother and only feeding when strictly necessary, Regulus’ path crosses with James Potter’s, a musical journalist that Sirius has hosted on his radio show a few times. Not that Regulus would ever admit to listening to that crap.
And James makes Regulus so hungry.
The scars from past wounds haven’t been stitched up yet, though, barely even scabbed over, and the guilt of that tragic accident is still slowly eating Regulus alive. How is he supposed to stay on his feet and find his way when the world is always threatening to rip his sanity from his cold hand through his own damned hunger?
What’s worse, Regulus is terrified that James might actually see him because the last person who truly understood Regulus ended up dead.
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12 Jun 2026
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Regulus has always known he's destined to drown. He feels it deep in his chest, past his rib cage, nestled somewhere behind his organs. He feels it in his arm when his mother squeezes it a little harder than a mother should. He felt it, the water rising in his throat, when his brother slipped out the window and into the night. He often wonders if it'd be easier to just let himself sink.
He often wonders if he has a choice.
Regulus gets sent back to school with a mission from the Dark Lord himself— find the “beast in the chamber” and claim its fangs without killing it. But when a certain curly-haired bespectacled boy asks for a rather large favor, everything suddenly gets a lot more complicated.
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26 Mar 2026
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25 Jan 2026
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19 Jan 2026
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Sirius runs away from home without so much as a backward glance and Regulus is left to deal with the consequences of a maddening mother and his parents' paranoia that he'll follow Sirius if given the opportunity. Regulus confronts Sirius about the consequences of his running away when he sees him the next year at Hogwarts.
This is not a fix it. Literally, nothing in this fic makes anything better than it is in canon, if anything it makes it worse.
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- Part 1 of One Heir and One Spare
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15 Jan 2026
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Stiles groans and drops his face into his hands. “I’m seventeen, I can kind of use mountain ash and I can explode houses when I’m mad enough. How am I gonna win any kind of magic fight?”
“We’ll work on it,” Deaton says, as infuriatingly calm as ever. “The important thing to remember, Stiles, is that when everything else is chaos, you’re the port in the storm.”
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Laura Hale never died, and Stiles is magic.
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Bookmarked by olivehead
03 Jan 2026
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Regulus knows James Potter. The kind of music he likes, what he does in his free time, every single detail he can absorb.
James does not know him.
Sirius has made sure of that, keeping his mentally unwell brother far away from the object of his obsession. Funnily enough, it's James who comes to Regulus. Well-meaning, curious with no idea what he's getting into.
The lines between love and obsession are blurry and hard to read.
“No, we’re friends now, remember? I know it hasn’t been long, but I think I’m learning you, aren’t I?”
Are you?
James had Regulus, but he didn’t know him. Regulus knew James but didn’t have him.
“Maybe you could,” was all Regulus could say in response. That was a truth. James could probably learn Regulus inside and out. Regulus would offer that if it didn’t mean breaking down the fixation—the rotting truth behind their growing relationship.
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31 Aug 2025
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The Third Option by orphan_account
Fandoms: Spider-Man - All Media Types, Spider-Man: Homecoming (2017), The Avengers (Marvel Movies), Marvel Cinematic Universe
27 Jan 2020
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Homecoming AU.
Ben and May divorced before Peter’s parents died, so when Ben is murdered Peter goes into foster care. It takes just a tiny taste of superpowers for Peter to decide he doesn’t want to put up with his horrible foster father anymore—the streets are infinitely more appealing. All he wants is to be Spider-Man anyway.
So he leaves.
Simple.
Simple, that is, until Iron Man needs Spider-Man’s help. Peter isn’t about to turn down an opportunity to fight alongside Tony Freaking Stark, but he also isn’t going to let his hero know that his recruit is a fifteen-year-old homeless dropout. So they strike a deal. Peter will help Tony. In return, the mask stays on.
And that’s when things get complicated.
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14 May 2025
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12 May 2025
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Sirius Black never escapes Grimmauld. Instead, at 16 years old, he dies in that house, by his parents’ hand.
This is a tale of love and loss, of choices and power, and of what it means to live in a way that even death cannot conquer.
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09 Feb 2025
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20 Jan 2025
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“What are you doing here?”
“Couldn’t sleep,” James said with a grin, flashing straight, white teeth. “Decided to take a midnight stroll. You?”
“Could you stroll in any other part of the campus?” Regulus responded.
“Oh,” James murmured, smile faltering. “Well, I didn’t mean to intrude. I didn’t know you would be here, and I heard you playing and it was really, very good.”
“Wonderful,” he said, voice dry. “Now if you would be so kind and leave.”
“Can I listen?” James blurted. His nose scrunched after the words left his lips, and he reached up to scrub his fingers at the skin just beneath his eyes, behind the lenses of his round-rimmed glasses.
“No.”
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Or, Regulus wants to be a classical pianist but can only bring himself to practice at night, and James has insomnia and finds music is the perfect cure. An exploration of Regulus's mind and struggle with the Black family, his journey to accepting himself, and his path to mending broken relationships, building new ones, and maybe, possibly, finding love. (circa 70s in a boarding school much like Hogwarts, only muggle)
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Bookmarked by olivehead
20 Jan 2025
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When Arthur rises from the Lake, it isn't immediately clear what new purpose he's meant to be fulfilling this time around. Thrown into a strange new world with strange new problems and next to no clue what to do about them, Arthur finds solace in the only two things that remain from his old life:
Merlin, and the mysterious stranger who wants Arthur dead.
Just like old times.
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02 Jan 2025
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Regulus Black's final days
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Regulus walked slowly off in the direction he came, all of ten steps before turning to catch one last glimpse of his brother.
“I’ll see you then?”
“Wait,” Sirius whispered, voice heavy. “What’s going to happen, Reggie?”
The younger boy just smiled back as he spoke his very last sentence to his brother, meeting Sirius’ bright blue eyes.
“I love you.”
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- Part 5 of The "Just Hearts" Continuity
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25 Nov 2024
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James slid to the floor across from him. It came with the easiness of familiarity that rooted itself deep into the body. Memories locked in muscle. They’d sat like this countless of times; a stance reserved for drunken nonsense after a long night out, for confessions, for musings and fears, for pockets of comfortable silence, for nothing but the radio.
This was the James from back then—perpetually sun-soaked, worry-less James—who handed out his little mercies and bathed you in light.
x x x
Regulus leaves his parents at 17, finding shelter with Sirius at the Potters' home somewhere along the rocky shores of Devon. What follows are the good years, then the unspeakable ones, and then, inexplicably—like a roach, a true Black—Regulus comes out the other end alive.
He just doesn't expect to stumble into the easy solace of James Potter and his five-year-old son.
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24 Nov 2024
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Mercy Upon Ourselves by hedgehodgy
Fandoms: Percy Jackson and the Olympians & Related Fandoms - All Media Types, Percy Jackson and the Olympians - Rick Riordan
26 Oct 2024
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Percy wasn’t meant to hear the moment when his father found out that he existed.
(An all-human, no powers PJO AU, in which Percy loses a mother and gains a father that doesn't want him, a brother that doesn't like him, and an entirely excessive extended family he never asked for. Somehow it's even more complicated than it sounds)
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- Part 1 of Human AU
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27 Oct 2024
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In the summer of 1976, Sirius Black runs away from home – twice. This is a story of two brothers, what it means to love and to hate, and how, try as we may, we can never quite escape our own tangled roots.
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26 Oct 2024
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chew me up, but don’t spit me out by damagecontrol (microdamage)
Fandoms: Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling
08 Aug 2024
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Regulus has it all figured out. He keeps men on a rotating roster so none can get too close, works nights as a dancer to make the most of his chronic insomnia, and pushes everything he doesn’t want to remember about the past ten years into the recesses of his mind. It’s easier to pretend none of it ever happened.
But when James Potter crashes into Regulus’ life with his fancy sports car, wealth beyond measure, and devil’s smile, it marks a switch in the natural order of things. James is a client; Regulus isn’t allowed to fall in love with him. Except James is the first man in a long time who can see past Regulus’ carefully constructed façade, and who could ever resist the temptation of being known?
Or, this is a story about identity, addiction, self-expression, and love in all of the varying shapes they can take.
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08 Aug 2024
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James meets Regulus in juvie.
Nine years later, James has a new life entirely separate from his past. His friends have no idea he has a criminal record or spent time in foster care. He means to keep it this way.
When Sirius finally decides it's time for James to meet his little brother, they're all in for a shock.
The past is a little harder to leave behind than James bargained for. It follows.
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29 Jul 2024