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"All her growth was the conveying of a corpse of hope." (From 'The Rainbow', D.H. Lawrence) This is a story about coming into one's own, a meditation on the twilight of girlhood and the violence of crash-landing into womanhood. Follow Hermione as she navigates through the quagmire: Saving the world, getting top grades, falling in love, lust, and a whole lot of trouble, and comes out of it hopefully (at least) partially sane.

Eren is forced to a blind date. He didn't look forward to the awkwardness that was sure to follow when he had to break it to his date that he had to leave. He had played the whole scene in his head many times to get it right. He would be able to do this just as he had rehearsed. Sit down, tell them you are sorry to cut it short and walk out. Simple plan. But as it turned out, nothing is as simple as it first seems..

A game of Smash or Pass with Cherri Bomb makes Angel Dust realise that Husk isn’t seen by others as being super attractive.

Everybody had their regrets in college. For the students, it was making fun of Katsuki Yuuri. For Yuuri, it was letting himself become too stupid. For Viktor, it was not doing anything. _-_ Once there was a boy named Katsuki Yuuri, who was shy, loved to make clothes, had adorable smiles and was fatter than the usual average human being. Unfortunately for him, apparently being chubby wasn't all that accepted in the norm back then. After numerous accounts of bullying, Katsuki Yuuri disappears for good. Now years later, there is now a man only known as Y.K. Fashion tyrant, multimillionaire, professional cold-stare giver... and is trying his ultimate best to run away from his dark past, until a certain silver haired CEO of a certain rival company who went to the same certain college he went to back then decides to flat out entangle their fates together. Do both of them have anything to say for it? Sadly, no. No they don't. (Fashion & Couture AU) Russian Translation

Jean takes a life-affirming trip to Italy at Connie's insistence, and amid all the sunflowers and bell towers, finds something to treasure.

Yoongi promises Jimin that he’ll claim him when he has his first heat.

It’s been a long time since someone’s actually had the balls to hit on Lucifer, and with all the redeeming that’s been going around like a particularly virulent cold, it suddenly doesn’t seem like such a bad idea to take up Angel Dust’s professional, no-strings-attached offer of a fun time! How else is a demon supposed to work out some post-battle tension after a nearly decade-long dry spell, huh? Unfortunately for Lucifer, he forgot that his brain makes any form of intimacy a PVP activity with friendly fire permanently enabled.

On an unsuspecting night, a certain someone Jing Yuan had thought had long forgotten him returned with an odd request. That fateful night marked the beginning of a cycle of remembrance and oblivion; love and ruin, joy and sorrow.And Jing Yuan accepts it. Cherishes it. He held it with a lover's embrace--even if he knows that it will be his undoing.

Sanji was panicking. He was stuck on an island he didn't know, surrounded by people he didn't understand, forced to wear something he didn't enjoy... ...and apparently realising he didn't know as much about himself as he assumed. Only problem was the fact that of all people who could have lead him to that discovery, it somehow ended up being an ex-warlord, Sir Crocodile. -------An alternative version of how things could have gone at Kamabakka, with Sanji struggling with internalized transphobia and Crocodile wondering why he had even let himself get involved in this mess.

"You sold your fucking soul for candy?!" Vox snapped. Of all the idiotic shit he'd heard during his many decades down here, that definitely topped the list. "Yeah, you want some?" You offered sweetly, shaking the container of jelly beans invitingly. He stared at you in utter bewilderment and wondered how the hell had his life gotten so out of control that he was stuck hiding from angels on extermination day in a shitty freezer with a bona fide bimbo?