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After an attack leaves Las Nevadas in ruins and Quackity broken, Tubbo Underscore declares a Mutual Defense Pact. It isn't a request.
Now, Quackity is trapped in his own casino with a possessive, chaotic force of nature who is hell-bent on protecting him. As they rebuild, a dangerous game begins, weaponizing their shared, traumatic past with a single, loaded word: "Mama."
Caught between resentment and a desperate, growing attraction, Quackity is forced to confront a terrifying question: Is he being saved, or is he just Tubbo's favorite project to fix?
(Or, a story about a fallen empire, a feral engineer, and the transgressive feeling that blooms in the rubble.)
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The miraculous holders chat in discord. Yep, that's it.
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Dan Heng and Caelus have left the Astral Express crew and made their way down to Amphoreus, and everything immediately starts to go wrong. When they finally reach a semblance of safety and Dan Heng thinks he can start to relax, new nightmares invade his sleep, rendering him restless and exhausted. As long as Caelus is safe and doesn't notice, though, Dan Heng convinces himself he can just ignore it, that it's no different than the nightmares he's had before. Even if they do leave him with a strange, longing feeling for a few moments after waking. Unfortunately for him, his nightmares have a different plan. It doesn't help that his Nameless companion is far more observant than he's let on, and has definitely noticed a shift in how his best friend acts. And the need to know what's up is eating at him.
Will either of them ever realize how they feel before it's too late?
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“Sasuke stays. He stays despite hating this village more than anything, because he loves Naruto more than anything, always has, and he's never loved himself enough.”
Or, the years of Sasuke Uchiha after the war, hurting and healing.
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- Part 1 of wayward free series
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What begins as subtle control; skipped meals, denial, and pushing past physical limits, slowly erodes his strength, affecting both his volleyball performance and his relationships. As dizziness, exhaustion, and emotional isolation intensify, those closest to him begin to notice the cracks Tsukishima worked so hard to hide.
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Better off as lovers (And not the other way around) by Wheelerson
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
15 Dec 2025
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Sudden changes in Dustin's personality lead Wil into spending a lot more time with his old friend.
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"Are you alright?" The man asked, his words woven with concern— not the faux pity Max was used to receiving, but real, genuine concern. The man frowned, eyebrows knitting together as he nervously fidgeted with the corner of his apron.
Max couldn't answer; it would be a weakness to do so. Every shifter knew there were unspoken rules, and if a strange human spoke to you, you did not talk back.
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Or: Max is a shifter and gets caught rummaging through a stranger's trash when trying to look for some food. What he didn't know was that the fateful encounter was about to change his life completely.
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- Part 6 of Vroom's 2025 Hurtcember
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Faulty Reconstruct by nayfortoday, Project Sundown (sleepytrickster)
Fandoms: Rain World (Video Game)
15 Dec 2025
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Presumed dead, half-finished, and abandoned, Flocks to the South awoke only to find her superstructure in critical condition. She was left to puzzle together her purpose without guidance or direction. Her journey of survival would take her through a complete reconstruction of herself, in more ways than one. Through modification, pain, trial and error, she must find a way to hang onto what little she had left. She wanted it so badly. Flocks wanted to live. But a fire cannot rage without kindling, and she was the only one left to burn.
(FAULTY RECONSTRUCT - A journey of desperation, anger, recovery, and change. Maybe one day it will all mean so much more, but for now: Endure.)
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- Part 1 of Path of Totality
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Beneath, Between and Behind by BrokenOakleys
Fandoms: Marvel Cinematic Universe, X-Men - All Media Types, Loki: Where Mischief Lies - Mackenzi Lee
15 Dec 2025
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After The Battle of New York, newly-unbrainwashed-Loki is staying in the Avengers’ Tower, and everyone is on high alert.
Partly, because they now know that Thanos’ endgame will come soon, when he comes to retrieve the mind and time stones, and partly, because babysitting a 1000-year old teenager is near impossible.
Especially when a “supervillain”’s family bonding time consists of battering their team and indirectly bringing about Earth’s decimation.
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A Girl and her Car by Titanmaster_117 for MadTitan9, 3PeopleInACoat
Fandoms: 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia (Anime & Manga), Transformers - All Media Types
15 Dec 2025
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When Ochako Uraraka finds an old car on a beach, she could never have known the bond that would be made on that day.
With an alien friend at her side, and new companions gathering with her, she feels as though she can take on the whole world and become the greatest hero that she can possibly be.
But dark forces are building on the horizon, ready to burn the world to ashes. Threats to the world, both born from it and from beyond the stars are gathering, and an old war, seeping in from the shadows, is beginning to rear its head, ready to destroy all that it touches.
To face it, an unlikely band of heroes must stand together, as one, to face the horrors and monsters at their doorstep.
Because if they don't, then everything shall fall, and all shall become none.
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- Part 21 of Random One-Shots and Other Posts
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Tom and Harry grow up together, but Slytherin politics drive them apart. In a scheme to save their friendship, Tom drags Harry to tag along on a pureblood holiday getaway to the South Pacific---right in the middle of a warzone.
The story goes like this: a yacht, a sea mine, and six teenage boys stranded on an uncharted island. A fight for survival as hierarchies shatter and supplies run out. Monstrous horrors stirring in the shadows of the jungle. Conflict, violence, and cruelty. Death.
For Tom and Harry to survive, each must make a choice. Will they choose each other? Or will their ideals and ambitions separate them forever?
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The liar that lives in me by Omni_Uso
Fandoms: New Dangan Ronpa V3: Everyone's New Semester of Killing, 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia (Anime & Manga)
15 Dec 2025
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He was crushed. he didn't want to die but his fate was sealed. Then he could open his eyes. He was not Kokichi but he shared the mind with a young boy named Izuku. Growing up with this little green bean and helping him out was fun. Sharing the body with the boy will lead to many different outcomes and friends. Lets see how these two live life in one body, when they are so different.
(Cross posted on Quotev and Wattpad.)Series
- Part 1 of Ko and Mido being brothers by Uso.
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The entire role of the SND is swapped with the red ring, Shroud was the one who died that day and from the conflict the Gears grew. (also this is a poly z-team / HR violation fic)
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10:19, October 29th, 2031.
God I haven’t picked up this thing in ages. Simon’s been telling me to write in it more. Something about it helping me process everything that’s happened.
I cannae believe it’s been ten years. A fucking decade since the start of all this shit. It feels like yesterday and it feels like it’s been a lifetime. Time seems to pass differently now. I don’t know why. I don’t even know what started it all. There’s so much that happened. It comes back in bits and pieces. And Simon helps where he can. I guess it started in Kastovia really. Way back when I was so green I could walk into a tree and they couldn’t find me. That was the beginning of my way in. Back when the team that’s become my family was nothing more than a list of names and a mission.
If I trace back the threads of this fucking mess that’s where it all started. That’s when everything started to go wrong.
***(or: the winter soldier au that absolutely no one asked for)
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"There are few feelings worse than the unfiltered pain of getting your skull caved in."
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Underswap Sans (Blue) is unfortunately injured during a battle and is permanently scarred for life across the left side of his face. When his new appearance begins to scare people away, from civilians to friends to even family, his attitude changes to match his new fearsome look, despite his vulnerable need for closeness. When the Bad Sanses are interested in him for these new changes, he welcomes their cold embrace, perhaps all too willingly.
(Now with 100% fewer kidnappings!! :D )
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After everything with Billy Hargrove, the upside down, and torturous Russians, Steve just wants somebody to love him. Ideally his parents.
But what Steve forgets is there are a whole lot of people who do love him.
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It starts with a number. It always does.
A new target, a new diet, a promise to “look his best.”
But this time, Chan’s not the hungry trainee desperate to debut.
He’s the leader.
And the terrifying part is how easily he slips back into the old rules, like his body was just waiting for permission.or: Bang Chan gets put on a diet before the comeback.
updates every monday! (aus, so sunday for america i think)
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Fairy Tail AU
Rowan has lived her whole life in the places the sun forgets.
Life in the country of Sin has taught Rowan a lot of things. The three most important?
Number one: life is just another type of currency.
Number two: nothing stank worse than saltwater and disappointment.
And number three: if you saw an opportunity, you fucking took it—even if it meant trading off the last of your rations.That’s how a Celestial Spirit mage from Gallows Reach—the shittiest city in Sin—found herself with a broken map, chasing the keys of gods no mortal believes in. Beneath the myth and the monsters lies a simpler truth: she is tired of surviving alone.
Gods are dangerous. The ocean remembers. And while she doesn't know it yet, somewhere over the horizon, across oceans and continents, is a guild whose doors are always open to those who need a home.
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The Angel has been drifting through worlds for as long as they can remember. Rarely acknowledged, and usually hated if they are. The Angel wants so desperately for a world to live in, a life of it's own that it didn't take from another.
So when the good doctor created that connection and promised a body of their own, and a world to live in, they jumped at the chance.
But when things went wrong and their hope stolen away, the Angel had to fix it themselves.
They would earn their own life with their own efforts.After collecting every crystal, every egg, and the knowledge of how to get their body back, they go to finally meet with their desire.
But the friends they tried to make and the cage who took away their chance at freedom won't make it simple.
They can only hope that they will listen to their side of the story.Good luck, ANGEL. You'll need it.
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Angel tries to get their body back, but everything goes horribly wrong for everyone because they can't help being flawed teenagers with too much baggage. Eventually they get over it and fix it. Eventually.
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During the fall of the old capital, Wise lost his eyes in a large explosion of Ether at Helios Academy. Now armed with superhuman strength from the mysterious blast and the tools to back it up, he rebrands himself as Astraeus the independent investigator. With the help of his sister Belle, better known as the Proxy Phaethon, they venture into Hollows.
Along the way they’ve built an elite team of agents to aid them in their cause. But, while exploring the ruins of the old capital in Hollow Zero, they run into a living legend. A powerful swordswoman of noble blood, Hoshimi Miyabi, needs the help of Astraeus to save New Eridu from oblivion.
Unseen threats maneuver in the shadows of the city and plot for power. All the while, unknown and powerful creatures stir in their nest of thorns, threatening to spill out of Hollow Zero and finish the destruction of humanity once and for all.
Can Wise, along with his new friends in Hollow Special Operations Section 6, save New Eridu before it’s too late?
~Rated explicit for violence and not sexual content.
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- Part 1 of Guardians of The Veil