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helping the world via murder, a guide by your local reformed terrorist by RK7200
Fandoms: Naruto, 呪術廻戦 | Jujutsu Kaisen (Manga), 呪術廻戦 | Jujutsu Kaisen (Anime)
05 Jan 2026
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Cursed spirits are usually born knowing what they were supposed to do, apparently.
"Apparently" is pretty dubious because Obito was not exactly born but more like spat out of death's stomach with absolutely no idea of what to do next.
On the upside (more like downside) there's a Kakashi-look alike with a god complex and Obito really wants to fist fight god.
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There's a new curse that Gojo Satoru has the perfect conspiracy theory for. (To be fair, no one takes interdimensional ninja into account.)
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Road to Nowhere by Aerugonian
Fandoms: 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia, Naruto
20 Dec 2025
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Hitoshi knows there's something wrong with himself before he's even old enough to have a sense of self. He looks at his reflection and knows that the infant looking back at him isn't what he should be seeing.
His dreams are a maelstrom of grief and fear, his mind overwhelmed with a lifetime of emotions his brain isn't developed enough to comprehend. There's an ingrained instinct blaring that everything is wrong wrong wrong.
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In which Hatake Kakashi is reincarnated as Shinsou Hitoshi, and he wants nothing to do with this world's so-called "heroes."
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- Part 1 of Road to Nowhere-verse
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What is Light to do when he wakes up after his life as a Shinigami is over, only to find himself with both his memories and his life back to the way it was before...with the Death Note in his school bag?
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I can't believe no one has written any "self-insert as Bakugou" fanfics yet what a bunch of cowards by the_incidental_author
Fandoms: 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia
17 Nov 2025
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Ugh, I have to do everything myself around here.
Can't find a single Self-Insert as Bakugou Katsuki fanfiction, so here I am, doing God's work.
(cowards)
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"Do you feel stupid and regret it yet?" A twist on the usual isekai reincarnation. It'd be less embarrassing if it was as anyone other than Sasuke. SI/OC-Insert.
Canon has fallen off a cliff entirely as of chapter 22.
As of chapter 36, we are now officially past anything that paralleled the original arcs.
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- Part 1 of Consume My Heart Away
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Yato died, unsatisfied and lost without a purpose.
Hatake Kakashi woke gasping, with human blood in his veins instead of ichor, with a kunai in his hands instead of a shinki, and screamed.
(Or, where a former God of War and Calamity becomes a human weapon.)
(Knowledge of the anime Noragami not really needed since I explain references in the notes.)
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- Part 5 of souls cross ages like clouds cross skies
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[Update stalled. Reconfiguring….] by Vodkassassin
Fandoms: 人渣反派自救系统 - 墨香铜臭 | The Scum Villain's Self-Saving System - Mòxiāng Tóngxiù
22 Oct 2025
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Waking up to the same message every day is exhausting. Ming Fan tiredly opens his eyes, stands up, and prepares for the day.
His martial family all watch him very closely, preparing for the inevitable event in which he once again falls back to sleep without warning.
It’s the same… always the same…
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Alternate Title: The Snake Goes Ara Ara
By cruel trick of the fates, intervention of stupid gods, or just the apathy of an uncaring universe I find myself woken up as Orochimaru just after he had possessed a woman for his new host. Now I need to find a way to turn this hoard of sycophants and psychos into something that will not only keep me from an early grave, but also how to change it to a force of change in this messed up world.
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How to Succeed in Dark Wizardry (Without Really Trying) by technically_direct
Fandoms: Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling
03 Aug 2025
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Ron maybe accidentally-on-purpose becomes a dark wizard, and everything changes.
(a canon rewrite, with a bit of a twist)
(also this is not a 'Ron is Evil, actually' fic so if that's what you're expecting, maybe give this a skip) -
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Harry is accused of burglary. The Dursleys leave him to rot. Dumbledore sends Snape to remedy the situation. Harry finds himself in the care of an irate Snape. Not slash, gen-fic w/ focus on Sevitus relationship. Angst galore. Warnings: coarse and suggestive language, mentions of abuse/neglect. Un-betaed and un-Britpicked.
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- Part 2 of Crime and Punishment
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“You know,” Billy says quietly, sneering. “You coulda saved Joyce Byers a plate—if this was all it took, to break you.”
Billy Hargrove is about to learn the hard way—if you come at the king, you best not miss.
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Is it running from your problems if your problems consider you to be a dead imprint of consciousness that killed their son? Yes, but Danny tries not to think about how his nightmares of his parents trying to kill him came true when they found out he was Phantom.
After being on the run from his parents and the government for a couple of months, moving from town to town, Danny ends up in Gotham City and decides to risk staying in Batman's territory. He'd take the wrath of Batman over live vivisection via beloved parents or being studied and torn apart by the government. Besides, he's not a meta. Being dead is a medical condition.
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The Only Butterflies Left Are the Ones in Your Chest by Anjelle
Fandoms: Naruto, 呪術廻戦 | Jujutsu Kaisen (Manga), 呪術廻戦 | Jujutsu Kaisen (Anime)
22 Mar 2025
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Satoru Gojo and Kento Nanami get a call about some soon-to-be-born curses in need of exorcising. No big deal, right? Just a few special-grades. They'll be done by dinner. Probably.
But there's something weird about a pair of special-grade curses popping up in two remote locations across Japan on the same night.
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Kakashi and Obito are curse spirits, Satoru and Yuji are sorcerers, no one knows what's going on and everyone is just trying to deal.
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Michael Wright believed himself to be a good person. He paid his taxes, was polite to his neighbors, friendly at the workplace, and made regular donations to charities he became involved within his line of work. He believed himself reasonably aware of good and bad characters, which is why he had a feeling Vernon Dursley was of the latter sort and was not very enthused about the dinner invitation.
Harry didn’t like it when people came to visit. Uncle Vernon was always more mean, Aunt Petunia kept shrieking about everything being perfect so they could impress whoever’s visiting, and he always got locked in his cupboard early.
An ordinary dinner might be all that's needed to intertwine two not-so-ordinary destinies into one.
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- Part 1 of Intertwined Destinies
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As Severus Snape lay dying in the Shrieking Shack, his mind created an oddly detailed and realistic hallucination of his life as a child.
Only, it didn't seem to be ending, did it?
Severus was either in a coma and dying, already dead and trapped in some purgatory, completely and utterly insane, or living in the body of his past self.
Until he could figure out which, he might as well play along and attempt to keep the timeline from shattering into a thousand pieces.
If only it were that easy...
What day had he first met Lily, last time around? Could he really afford to avoid doing some odd jobs around town to keep himself fed?
And, perhaps most suspiciously, why did James Potter keep looking at him like that?!
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what's a guy got to do for his demon king husband? by waterpllar
Fandoms: 人渣反派自救系统 - 墨香铜臭 | The Scum Villain's Self-Saving System - Mòxiāng Tóngxiù
04 Feb 2025
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The dilemma that Shang Qinghua, advisor/husband/spy/personal manservant of Mobei-Jun, faces, is that he has no idea what to gift his newly married spouse.
Typically, when demons get married, it’s a pretty lackluster event, with barely any ceremony, but that isn’t the case for royalty.
When they got married, there was a huge celebration, with every cousin, aunt, and servant of Mobei-Jun being invited. It was terrifying. And also very ego-boosting, knowing that Mobei-Jun was willing to basically rub in everybody’s faces that he was marrying a little weak human instead of the hundred other powerful demon wives he had lined up.
So obviously, Shang Qinghua has to do something equally impressive for Mobei-Jun. It’s just repaying the deed, out of love. Simple, right? Of course not.
or, sqh asks around for what sort of present to get his husband, gets some bad advice, and accidentally ends up following demon traditions and gifting mobei-jun the head of his enemy (literally).
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The Only Way To End This Cycle by PoleMos6000
Fandoms: 人渣反派自救系统 - 墨香铜臭 | The Scum Villain's Self-Saving System - Mòxiāng Tóngxiù
06 Oct 2024
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Fate has denied Shen Qingqiu of many things; death was only one of the many privilege that was robbed from him. Shen Qingqiu is not able to completely die. He regresses again, and again, meeting each and every possible gruesome end at the hands of almost everyone — even by himself. It was a very tiring cycle. But he used to do his best. To become a better person. Teacher. Brother. Immortal. Shen Qingqiu used to try to become human. But at this point, he doesn't even know how a one looks like. Because no matter what he do. No matter the path he takes, all of it always ends with him as a monster. A villain. An antagonist. A dirt of society. And now, it is getting tiring.
The world denies him of everything. Deprives him of the person he wanted to be. So, now, they must not blame him for the person that he will become. Because he's just taking the words out of their mouths. Monster. Villain. Antagonist.
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The worst part about being reincarnated had to be the ghosts.
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When Arthur is born, Ygraine dies and Uther vows vengeance against all magic.
When Arthur is four, Nimueh decides to take matters into her own hands and casts an enchantment on the prince as penance for his father. One which can only be removed by a magic user willing to undo the enchantment for the sake of helping Arthur, and no other reason.
When Arthur is seven, the truth of the spell's nature comes to light.
When Arthur is fifteen, the rumours of the worsening enchantment spread among the kingdoms until news it has been removed take their place and his father tells Arthur he must never let anyone know the truth of the matter.
When Arthur is twenty, he lives with the firm belief the enchantment will never be lifted.
When Arthur is twenty, a boy named Merlin arrives in Camelot and, by a streak of luck, becomes the enchanted prince's manservant...
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“Here,” Masaki grips the roses tucked under earth and shoves them in Inoichi’s pockets. “Wrackspurts are flying towards you. It’s annoying.”
Inoichi loves his son and all his oddities and will protect him until his last breath.
Lets hope it doesn't come to that.