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  1. Public Bookmark 92

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    Fandoms: The Last of Us (TV), The Last of Us (Video Games)  

    08 Jun 2025

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    Ellie slows down and looks back at Joel with chagrin, raising her eyebrows and pursing her lips, but she elbows Sam and gestures for him to wait for Joel and Henry to catch up. He’s reminded with a pang of another little girl on another hiking trip, a far less perilous trip than this on one of the trails outside of Austin, scampering up a boulder that screamed a broken collar bone or broken ankle to him, but she made it down unscathed, rolling her eyes at his worries. Like every memory of her, it’s tinged with the reminder of how, ultimately, all of the worrying he did wasn’t enough, still left her dead, blood staining her favorite t-shirt.

    Ellie and Sam are waiting when they catch up, back to giggling over some inside joke. Joel shakes his head, shouldering his backpack and forging ahead.

    —

    Sam and Henry live. Adventures and found family bonding ensue on the journey from Kansas City to Jackson and beyond.

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    21 Jun 2026

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    a half-step to the left by

    Fandoms: The Last of Us (TV), The Last of Us (Video Games)  

    26 May 2023

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    It’s not that Ellie means to stalk the couple she catches lurking in the shadows at 1 in the morning after sneaking out of her dorm because sitting in the room alone was making it hard to breathe, but fellow curfew-breakers can hardly expect privacy. All’s fair in love and rule-breaking or whatever their English teacher said in one of the rare classes when they were learning something not related to FEDRA policy.

    And there’s something in the way the man holds his hand out to help pull the woman up over a crumbled brick wall that she just can’t look away from.

    There’s a gentleness there despite his size and obvious strength that makes her breath catch for just a second. It’s too far for her to hear what they’re saying, but the woman says something with a little half-smile and presses her hand to the man’s shoulder, and the casual affection of the gesture fills her with a nameless want.

    So, trailing them at a distance it is.

    (AU in which Ellie follows Joel and Tess around and meets them with no Fireflies involved)

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    20 Jun 2026

  3. Public Bookmark 83

    Black & White by

    Fandoms: Downton Abbey  

    15 May 2026

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    Bates gave him a half-smile. “I was only thinking… imagine if it had been Thomas instead.”

    Robert blinked. “Thomas?”

    “As Mr Crawley’s valet,” Bates clarified. “Imagine it — Thomas, with his pride, his sharp tongue — and Mr Crawley, with all his notions of righteousness and order. If he finds Molesley oppressive, what would he make of Thomas Barrow?”

     

    AU where Thomas becomes Matthew’s valet in season 1, and everything changes.

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    19 May 2026

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    Time Unbent Spear Unbroken by

    Fandoms: A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms (TV), House of the Dragon (TV), A Song of Ice and Fire & Related Fandoms  

    17 Jun 2026

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    Baelor Targaryen died on the Fields of Ashford Meadow, but he woke in 93AC, as a boy of five in Dorne, a younger brother named Maekar in his arms. He's too young, too powerless, and too Dornish to even begin to grasp how he might alter the history stretched before him. Whether he is in the Heavens or the Hells, he knows he must make the best of the knowledge and skills at his disposal and end the Dance of the Dragons before it can start.

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    15 May 2026

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    A Song of Magic and Mud by

    Fandoms: Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling, A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms (TV), A Song of Ice and Fire - George R. R. Martin  

    16 Apr 2026

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    Harry Potter expected many things after the war.
    Becoming a witch was not one of them.

    Waking up in the Riverlands during the Tourney at Ashford Meadow was even less expected.

    Now trapped in the body of a young noblewoman calling herself Lady Harlow Blackwood, Harry finds himself surrounded by hedge knights, princes, and men who think a sword solves most problems.

    Unfortunately for Westeros, Harry is a wizard with a very poor sense of self-preservation.

    And tomorrow there’s a joust.

    Featuring: one suspicious Targaryen prince, one dangerously amused Baratheon called the Laughing Storm, and a wizard who really should not be allowed near medieval politics.

    Or: Harry Potter wakes up in Westeros as Lady Harlow Blackwood and immediately finds himself caught between a suspicious Targaryen prince and a dangerously amused Baratheon called the Laughing Storm.

    Unfortunately for everyone involved, Harry has never been very good at staying out of trouble.

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    15 May 2026