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Wrestling with Snakes by madgirlslovesong (Sympathy4theDevil)
Fandoms: House of the Dragon (TV)
12 Nov 2025
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In 109 AC, Viserys Targaryen breaks the tradition and precedent that made him the King of the Seven Kingdoms and names his daughter, Rhaenyra, the heir to the Iron Throne.
Before the ink on the royal decree is dry, opportunists and enemies of the princess gather and start to plot and scheme to strip Rhaenyra of her title. The men of the realm might prefer the Realm’s Delight over the Lord Flea Bottom, but they do not intend to allow a woman to ascend the Iron Throne.
Caught in the web of other people’s ambitions, the princess finds herself doubting everyone; sometimes, it seems even the man who bestowed the title upon her is working against her… And when her uncle returns to King’s Landing, Rhaenyra will have to decide if she’s willing to forsake her duty and risk her father’s love for her heart’s desires…
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So people like me? The average Joe whose granddad wasn’t exposed to experimental radiation or fell into a toxic river, or was born under the star or Orias or something? We’re the soap bubbles. The thin paper people who still get torn, punctured, burned, and broken when not handled with care.
It sucks. But that’s also true of life. So it's not a huge deal.
It just means you have to be smart.
I'm Robert Robertson the Third, and I'm Mecha Man.
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One part novelization, one part character deconstruction, two parts world-build and juuust a dash of AU reinterpretations. All from the mind of an author feral for the Dispatch universe.
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Razzmatazz by xylophones
Fandoms: 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia
16 Jul 2021
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Izuku has plans for everything.
He plans out what to say to the cashier when ordering coffee, he plans out his homework before even opening his textbook. He has a whole ten-year plan for how he’s going to get into UA’s hero course and get his hero license fully quirkless. He plans for every wild, unlikely scenario he can think of because his anxiety gets so bad if he doesn’t go through every possible outcome, every way his life could landslide into disaster–– but Izuku never planned for this.
For once, he doesn’t have a plan and he doesn’t have time to think of one. All he can see is Yagi-san’s lined, kind face looking resigned as he stares down the villain in his shop. Yagi-san, who is the closest thing to a father figure Izuku has ever had.
Izuku doesn’t think. He just moves.
(Or: Izuku saves the number one hero, gets a hero license way earlier than anyone wanted, realizes that maybe hero society isn’t as great as he thought it was, and everything just kind of falls apart from there.)
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- Part 1 of Despite Your Good Intentions
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A Butterfly Dreaming by Tiffindale
Fandoms: 人渣反派自救系统 - 墨香铜臭 | The Scum Villain's Self-Saving System - Mòxiāng Tóngxiù
25 Oct 2024
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[We welcome your entrance into the system. This system is based on developing the concept of "the original is always the best".]
[Best of luck host! We pray for your happiness!]
Happiness, Shen Qingqiu reflected viciously, trying to think through the pounding (and disembodied voice) in his head. When in his entire fucking life had he ever been happy?
OG Shen Qingqiu is transmigrated back in time to when Shen Yuan initially took over in SVSSS. He plots to change his original fate and prevent Luo Binghe's rise to Emperor through the power of spite, which gives him strength. Gaslight, gatekeep, girlboss, go!
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- Part 1 of A Butterfly Dreaming Universe
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After destroying the hotel for the umpteenth time, Alastor makes a promise with Lucifer: in exchange for swapping compliments, learning to coexist, and becoming
kind offriends, Lucifer will owe him a favour.(Falling in love was not supposed to be a part of that deal.)
-- in which they fight heaven, each other, and the urge to be together.
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- Part 1 of The OSAS Universe