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    Harry Potter survives a war at seventeen and spends the next three years becoming something between a vigilante, urban legend, and an international problem.

    Then Loki comes for the Tesseract.

    Unfortunately for SHIELD, Harry has been waiting for the chance to meet him. Fortunately for Clint Barton, the morally questionable wizard with daddy issues seems weirdly interested in him too.

    …or maybe SHIELD is fortunate that Harry decides fighting his father sounds fun, and Clint is unfortunate for falling right into feelings.

    Eh. They’ll figure it out.

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    09 Jun 2026

  2. Public Bookmark 55

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    "The first time Sam Winchester died, he died leaning on his brother, and hoping for heaven.
    The second time Sam Winchester died, he knew better.
    — — — —
    A prayer was a strange thing, especially the prayer of a dying man. All the wishes of a life, blurring together, undefined and unfulfilled. The most desperate pleadings of the soul.
    Sam’s final prayer was not truly to die; it was for a chance to set things right.
    — — — —
    Somewhere deep in the universe, a cosmic gear clicked as it turned. The sand of an hourglass flowed backward.
    — — — —
    Sam Winchester, age 22, woke with a gasp in the passenger seat of the Impala."

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    When Sam is killed on a hunt in season five, he denies Lucifer so strongly that the archangel can't fulfil his threat of reviving him. Instead, Sam is sent back to season one. What else is there to do with a second chance but try to fix everything that went wrong?
    Things go a bit off the rails from there.

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    19 May 2026

  3. Public Bookmark 30

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    A full Sabriel rewrite of the show, beginning in Sam’s first year of college. Involves a lot of angst with tender moments to come.

    “Kid…what the hell are you doing in my basement?”

    Sam opened one lazy eye, blinking sleep from his recently closed lashes. Inhaling deeply, he stretched and yawned loudly before turning to address the intruder. Based on the ring of keys in his right hand and the mop held defensively in his left, he was the Crawford Hall janitor. After all, that was the building he was hiding out in.

    “Well, would you believe me if I told you I was just a student who couldn’t afford housing?” Sam said, voice rough from what had been more of a nap than actual human sleep. He’d fallen asleep around 1 a.m., and the clock above the janitor now barely sometime past 3 a.m. “‘Cause that’s pretty much it.”

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    15 May 2026

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    15 Apr 2026

  5. Public Bookmark 82

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    "Sam stared at their father. Dean recognized that look. It was the look Sam wore when he finally identified what they were hunting. When he realized the nature of the beast. When he knew the name of the monster. But this time, Sam was staring at their father." A teenage Sam learns something he wasn't meant to, and now Dean must figure out how to save him from everyone-including himself.

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    25 Mar 2026