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It's Bittersweet (This Thing Called Love) by mindlessramblings
Fandoms: Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling
10 Aug 2025
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I love you.
Three simple words. Eight letters. And yet, for Draco, they hurt more than any curse.
In the hush before dawn, Draco clings to the fleeting warmth of Harry’s touch, knowing that time is slipping through his fingers. Outside, war looms on the horizon, threatening to shatter everything they’ve built in secret.
But love isn’t easily silenced. And some hearts refuse to let go.
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- Part 1 of Bittersweet
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Some Potions Take Time (Some Hearts Do Too) by mindlessramblings
Fandoms: Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling
29 Jul 2025
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Remus wasn’t sure when he’d started anticipating those moments - the rare flickers of approval and kindness veiled in thorns. But somehow, they had begun to matter.
Remus swallowed, unsure whether the tightness in his chest was pride or discomfort. “I suppose I should thank you,” he said, voice low. “Though it feels undeserved.”
“If you are thanking me,” Snape murmured, “do it properly. Don’t mumble like you’ve been forced at wandpoint.”
In their final year at Hogwarts, Severus Snape and Remus Lupin are forced to work together. With a history steeped in mistrust and silence, the two boys are forced into close quarters.
But in a world where war looms and loyalties fracture, love is a dangerous potion. And for Severus and Remus, the question becomes: can something so delicate survive the fire?
(A companion piece to When Daylight Dies, but can be read as a standalone).
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- Part 2 of Transmutation
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In a world where there are four Potters instead of three, and where Voldemort makes a different choice upon hearing a prophecy, Harry Potter's life takes a sharp turn off the path decided for him by Dumbledore. What repercussions will this have on Magical Britain?
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- Part 1 of Transmutation
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It's a Bittersweet Thing (Being Loved) by mindlessramblings
Fandoms: Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling
14 Feb 2022
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The one-shot that It's Bittersweet (This Thing Called Love) is based on.
Who knew that those eight little letters, forming three innocent words, could make someone hurt so much?
It was approaching fast… The dawn before the new day and this precious time alone with his Harry was trickling by quicker than he could blink.
And then those dreaded words fell from Harry's beautiful lips. "I think it's time that we left."
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- Part 2 of Bittersweet
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To bridge this void of loneliness (or, for want of you) by mindlessramblings
Fandoms: Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling
10 Nov 2020
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Nearly six years after the Battle of Hogwarts, Harry can finally live his life the way he wants to. The question is, however: will he ever stop being a coward?
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Bittersweet: a feeling that combines both happiness and sadness, simultaneously. The ache of something beautiful that’s touched by loss,
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Transmutation: the action of changing or the state of being changed into another form.
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Scream in the Name of a Foreigner's God by murdertrashbabyrat, rajumat
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
10 Jun 2025
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Steve has always been turned on by fear. For as long as he can remember. He’s not even sure when or why it started, just that the adrenaline rush of fear registers the same as arousal for him. The drop that forms knots in the pit of his stomach. Steve doesn’t have butterflies, just that swoop of fear, the second of free falling, of flying, before reality sets in.
He is falling. He is terrified. He is so, so turned on.
He has seen the altar before, but never this close. It’s a stone slab about as big as a bed, with one anchor point at the top, for the manacles at his wrists, and a second, lower down, to secure his collar to the altar. It doesn’t matter that he chose this, because everyone tried to run, apparently, no matter how much they thought they were going to stay. They all tried to run.
OR Steve sacrifices himself on the altar of a god and gets a lot more than he bargained for. like. a LOT more.
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Bookmarked by mindlessramblings
29 Dec 2025
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Eddie had been dead for exactly one week when Wayne Munson showed up at Hopper’s cabin to threaten them all with a gun.
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- Part 1 of Dracula+Orpheus
Bookmarked by mindlessramblings
28 Dec 2025
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It only took a minute before the barista slid over the drink. Steve picked it up and looked at it. “Steve” was written on it, a little crown floating above the letters.
“I… I never told you my name.”
“I didn’t need you to. Who could forget King Steve?” Ah, so that’s why he was vaguely familiar. He must’ve gone to school with him. Which means the image of Steve this guy probably had in his head was… yikes.
“Ugh, don’t call me that.” Steve did not need to be reminded of his high school days.
“His majesty doesn’t like his royal title?” The barista set his elbows on the counter and plopped his head into his hands.
“No, not really. Not anymore, at least.”
“Hmm.” The barista hummed in consideration and stood back up, “Well, enjoy, Harrington.”
“Um, thanks…” Steve finally took note of the nametag on the barista’s apron, “Eddie.”Set in season 3, Eddie and Steve both work at the Starcourt Mall and maybe fall in love along the way.
Bookmarked by mindlessramblings
27 Dec 2025
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If death could only be something we could rewind (If I could hold my peace of mind) by Gypsywoman13
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
02 Oct 2025
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At least, he did a few things right that didn’t serve himself, but boy would it have been nice if he could’ve have taken more risks or played things more safe in other areas. If he could just rewind time like everyone said happens when they die with their life flashing before their eyes—Eddie let out one last breath and a tear as Dustin seemed to dim and fade away…
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Eddie found himself standing outside himself, staring down at Dustin sobbing for Eddie to come back.
Click.
Everything paused.
It was eerie and still, and Eddie found himself looking around at the faint lines that seemed to run through everything and distort slightly. Without warning, there was another click and things began to rewind.
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Time travel, fix-it, Steddie fic.
Bookmarked by mindlessramblings
26 Dec 2025
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it’s too cliche, i won’t say i’m in love by hellfireharrington (lovedays)
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
05 Oct 2025
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Hopper’s plan is fucking insane. No, really—it’s nuts. Eddie’s got no idea why he even agreed to go along with it. Since he’s now the pariah of Hawkins, Indiana, Hopper’s ingenious plan is to ship Eddie across state lines. All the way to fucking Illinois. Oh, and that’s not the last of it! No, because they didn’t want to leave Eddie alone—it’s not that they don’t trust the guy they’re sending him to (apparently he can hold his own, or whatever), but they, apparently, don’t want the kid to feel lonely.
What a lovely sentiment.
Too bad it’s lead them to send Steve Harrington along with him to this stranger’s home-bound lockdown in fucking Illinois.
(OR, what I like to call: The Murrayfication of Steddie.)
Bookmarked by mindlessramblings
25 Dec 2025