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Marik never thought he'd have a reason to return to Domino City. Not until, two years after Battle City, the Millennium Items are unearthed again, and a promising young duelist dies in a duel monsters match against Yugi.He returns to Domino, determined to discover the truth of a murder that never made any sense, suddenly finding himself in way over his head. But as he sifts through everything that happened, he only seems to dig up more ghosts and phantoms from the past, until he's forced wonder whether something's been out to haunt him all along.***aka Marik decides to solve a shadow game murder mystery that ends up being way more complicated and emotionally compromising than he expectedWarnings: character death, strong language, violence, some mature themes, sequences resembling panic attacks. Generally no worse than your typical YA thriller. I'll give warnings for specific triggers at the beginning of each chapter, if you want me to add a warning about anything let me know!Cross-Posted to Archive of Our Own by the author…

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Glinda didn't make a habit of trudging through the snow at 10pm. Nor did she make a habit of inviting homeless people inside the hipster af coffee shop she worked at and serving them hot chocolate in jars.Apparently, tonight was her night.••• •• •Wicked Modern Coffee Shop AUKind of Gelphie but not really - has the potential to become slow burn Gelphie if I continue it.For the Inaugural Fanfiction December Holiday Season Challenge #ifdhscPrompts: Rose Gold, Empire, Unexpected…

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"How do you know her?"Blake blinked. "Just a...thing. I thought I met her at a concert once. Three years ago..."***Blake Belladonna unexpectedly finds herself at a concert - loud, crowded and full of hyped up teenage girls, it's a place she would much rather avoid. She runs into Yang - boisterous, underdressed and a bit too amiable for Blake's liking, she is quick to dismiss the blonde party-goer.Little does she know, she's caught Yang's attention, and the bookish senior student is surprised to find accepting Yang's offer for a drink as easily as she does.(College AU, in which Blake is a still a Faunus. Closely linked to White Rose Tea. Bumblebee is the name for BlakexYang, while Bright Lights refers to the concert, and to Beacon.)RWBY 2016 WATTY AWARDS BEST OF THE PAST 1ST PLACE WINNER…

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Alexander Hamilton is in Senior Year. He and Lafayette have been inseparable since they were Freshmen, and by some miracle, have landed themselves in George Washington's English class for four years straight. For the first semester of their last year, they're assigned a book Washington knows they'll fall in love with, and Lafayette picking up a gay subplot leads inevitably to the pair of them descending headfirst into the world of fanfiction.Enter John Laurens, a fanfiction writer on fandomwriters.net, who goes by the name 'TurtleLaurens'...And, enter a lot of mistaken identity and gender confusion.…

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this is a relic and a half alfjakdkssome of my thoughts on my RWBY series one year on from when I started writing it!…

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Following the events of "White Rose Tea" and "Bright Lights and Bumblebee", Ruby, Weiss, Blake and Yang are finally united. But as the younger pair try to endure the prejudice that comes with their sexuality, and the general awkwardness of being in a relationship for the first time, and the elder trying to mend a slightly broken and battered relationship, and the deal with racial discrimination against the Faunus, things were never exactly going to go quite as smoothly as anyone wanted it to.Beta read by the amazing Maltssie, aka Jaune :3…

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Canada emerges from another world meeting that's gone badly. Pushed into the background, into the shadow of his brother, he's sick of America getting involved in other nation's problems, and sick of being ignored. He starts talking to France about it, asking why he's always mistaken for his brother. France mildly points out how similar he is to America in terms of his culture, but Canada, struggling to see the other North American nation's good side at the moment, becomes incredibly worried that France might be right.He comes across a girl on the side of the street on his way home. She's distressed, crying, and wearing nothing but a swimming costume, jeans and a tank top, with a towel wrapped around her, in the freezing Canadian winter. He asks if she needs a place to stay, and desperate, she accepts, and remains close while Canada simultaneously tries to find his identity, and conceal it from his guest.…

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"The White Stag had been open for a while now. The fashionable, almost boutique coffee shop, like all coffee shops, had its regular customers. The ones that grabbed something quickly on the way to work. The ones that came daily during their lunch break...There was even a writer who sat for hours in the back corner by the window, typing away on a laptop, meeting with publishers and editors as if it was her office.But none of these regulars were quite like Ruby Rose."***RWBY 2016 WATTY AWARDS BEST OF THE PAST 5TH PLACERuby and Weiss shipping. Weiss works in a coffee shop where she meets Ruby. Ruby continues to come in to the shop and feels happen.**disclaimer!! I don't own RWBY or its characters*****(For non-RWBY people, White Rose is the ship name for Ruby and Weiss. Also, there are some Hetalia references scattered throughout ^^)…