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You Must Bear Your Neighbor's Burden Within Reason by blueleafsky
Fandoms: Star Wars: The Clone Wars (2008) - All Media Types, Star Wars Prequel Trilogy
27 Dec 2025
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All his life, Obi-Wan Kenobi had only wanted to be useful, but everyone kept pushing him away. The Order, the AgriCorps, even the slavers who kidnapped him didn't really want him.
He had nowhere to go after escaping except back to the Order, and even then he wasn't wanted, but he stayed anyway, an invisible and lonely ghost in the deserted parts of the Temple.
Then one day he met a lonely child who had been a slave, and a lonely teenager-adult who was technically still a slave, and he felt that, maybe, he had something to live for.
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- Part 1 of Don't Carry It All, Don't Carry It All
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"Welcome to a new user experience! You have triggered this interface with the keywords, ‘Stupid game! Stupid devs! I want my f*****g money back!’ You are now bound to the character Tartaglia, the Eleventh Harbinger of the Fatui, codename: Childe! We hope you have an enjoyable user experience and we welcome you once again to Genshin Impact 2.0!”
Those are some of the first words Ajax, starving college student extraordinaire, has the misfortune of hearing upon waking up in a brave new world from what he's fairly sure is a very fatal accident involving water and a shit ton of electricity.
Okay, so he's not dead. That's good. But what's this about him being stuck playing the character Tartaglia? Tartaglia, as in the no-good, one-dimensional, cartoonish villain who met his untimely, gruesome death in the first act of the original game?
Forget this. Like hell Ajax is going to share that fate.
And so begins one man's journey to save himself from his awful destiny.
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Monsters Are Made (Not Born) by hatredwithpassion
Fandoms: Naruto, Shingeki no Kyojin | Attack on Titan
21 Apr 2025
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“There is no freedom in being a shinobi!” The boy spat, his cerulean gaze enraged as he glared ahead. “I am no different than cattle, following orders, forced to serve, tethered to this village I despise. Tell me, how is this freedom?”
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"The Child Who is Not Embraced by the Village Will Burn it Down to Feel its Warmth".
Eren Yeager thought his journey ended in the final battle, that he could finally find peace in his death. But he traded one cage for another, finding himself reincarnated in an unfamiliar world. Reborn again, this time as an outcast, an orphan, an unloved child hated by everyone around him.
His new name is Uzumaki Naruto.
(In other words, Eren Yeagar is born as Uzumaki Naruto. Canon gets catapulted to the wind. Mass destruction occurs, consequences of neglect and abuse happen. #Teamfreedom, #Tatakae, #Wings of Freedom)
Part 1 - Chapter 1 - 20.
Part 2 - Chapter 21- 28.Do not post work on other media plaforms.
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Did you miss it? by Speechless_since_1998
Fandoms: 人渣反派自救系统 - 墨香铜臭 | The Scum Villain's Self-Saving System - Mòxiāng Tóngxiù
22 Aug 2024
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“Do you miss it?”
Shen Qingqiu raised his head from the book he was reading – a gift from Shang Qinghua complete with a letter nearby, for old times' sake. – And he looked questioningly at his husband.
Luo Binghe sat in front of him, expression uncertain. He repeated, “Your home world. Do you miss it?”
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Waiting for you, here is my soul by Anonymous
Fandoms: 魔道祖师 - 墨香铜臭 | Módào Zǔshī - Mòxiāng Tóngxiù, 陈情令 | The Untamed (TV), Percy Jackson and the Olympians - Rick Riordan, Percy Jackson and the Olympians & Related Fandoms - All Media Types
09 Apr 2024
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“So, let's recap: I'm in the past,” Jason began.
“Correct,” Hecate confirmed.
“You had one of your disciples, who died, summon me to save the world…and I have to do it because of a prophecy from thirteen years ago.”
“This is also correct.”
“There's no way to return to the future without risking someone dying.”
“I'm afraid that's the case.”
“So, it is very likely that I won't survive this quest.”
The goddess nodded, and Jason couldn't even say he was surprised. At least he finally understood why the gods had brought him back to life.
He had to be useful one last time.
Recently resurrected, Jason didn't expect to be dragged into the past, nor to have to solve the mysteries related to his past life, and stop the premature return of Kronos.
Above all, he didn't expect Lan Wangji.
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Upheaval by Gummichii
Fandoms: Call of Duty (Video Games), Avatar (Cameron Movies), Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora (Video Game)
05 Jan 2026
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Only when Ghost was blessedly shielded by shadows did he dare turn around, knife in hand, to greet the beast.
His breath caught unwillingly in his throat.
Large.
Ghost had always known that the Na’vi were big. It was perhaps the greatest point of intrigue for their species to those who knew little more than side-by-side comparisons. The Na’vi were massive in theory…but it was an entirely different topic to tackle when one was staring directly at where Ghost lay in hiding.
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Ghost came to Pandora to die amongst unseen stars. He didn't care for his Avatar body - the body Tommy was meant to pilot before he died - he just wanted rest.
Unfortunately, after his transport crashes on the surface of Pandora leaving him stranded, he's forced into wars he swore off when he left active combat. The Na'vi are brutal, but they are not unkind as they pick up the broken pieces of him and remind Ghost...His heart is warm so long as it is beating.
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He is her son, born somewhere far away from her. But now he has returned home to her. Her star born son comes from planets away. His homecoming means great things to the planet of Pandora, and all of its inhabitants.
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- Part 1 of The Short Path
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Living well is the best revenge, so they say. In Jake's quiet fury at the dismissive, heartless way everyone spoke of his brother's death and the complete lack of empathy he found at every turn and corner, he decides to find a way to live the best life he can possibly conceive, with the opportunity Tommy left behind for him: a fresh start on a new world... just not exactly the way the RDA vultures meant.
(In which Jake Sully pulls the ultimate con on every person who failed to treat his brother's memory with respect, and every person who failed to be kind to their fellow man.)
((Previously 'From the Ashes.'))
(On hiatus, not abandoned.)
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- Part 1 of The Things that Come from Fire
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Bookmarked by DusktheGrey
18 Jan 2026
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A /beautiful/ mix of garden/survival fic, the human social experience, and an exploration of Na’vi culture and world building
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Always Glad You Came by aloneintherain
Fandoms: Spider-Man - All Media Types, Marvel Cinematic Universe, Fantastic Four
23 Apr 2016
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Spider-Man is a relatively new, controversial vigilante, and Johnny has a crush the size of the Empire Building. The Four - operating under the assumption that Spidey is an adult - do not approve.
“I just happen to think Spider-Man's cool,” Johnny says, matter-of-factly. “A hero can think another hero is cool without making it weird. I admire his aloofness. And his badass-ness.”
“His aloofness,” Ben repeats, chuckling into his mug of beer. It’s roughly the size of Johnny’s head. “Yeah, sure, I bet that’s all your admire, right?”
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Arthur and Merlin have a special relationship. They always have, even when they were prince and servant. While many question it when first noticing, eventually it becomes an understanding in Camelot—and even among some other countries—that where there is Arthur, there is Merlin. And, where there is Merlin, there is Arthur.
OrArthur and Merlin's relationship as witnessed and explained by others.
Also, or
Five times someone realizes that Merlin is the Queen, one time Merlin realizes it himself, and one time he owns it.