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    May 17, 2013 - the day gay marriage was legalized in France.
    The day the famous chef Vincent Charbonneau would never live to experience.

    Lying on his bed, Vincent drifts back through the years, back to the man with the auburn hair, his stupid smile, the hopelessly clumsy hands whenever he stepped into the dining room, making the same excuses over and over again. Yet something in Vincent had ached for that foolish man. Maybe it was the way the man saw Vincent - truly saw him - not as the cold, iron-hearted boss the rest of the kitchen feared, but as a person. Or maybe it was simply that the man cared, openly, earnestly. He had a heart wide enough for anyone who needed it.

    Vincent never believed he could love anyone besides his bistro or himself. But there he was - the proof that Vincent had been wrong all along.

    And yet, when it came to the man’s love, Vincent knew he could never compete.
    Not against her.

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    16 Jan 2026

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    The world keeps pushing him, demanding, because what he did wasn't enough. Genius, billionaire, playboy, philanthropist, but that wasn't enough, wasn't ever enough.

    Tony Stark was tired. But he had a planet to protect, even if everyone laughed at him whenever the prospect of alien invasions was brought up. He could count on one hand how many people he could trust, which was disheartening but then, what else was new?

     

    Or,

     

    In which Tony does not, in fact, intend to take over the world.

    ...unfortunately, everyone else missed that particular memo.

     

    [gradual divergence from canon, starting at the end of Iron Man 3. In which it's Tony's self-awareness, rather than his support system, that becomes a cryptid sometime during Phase II.]

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    23 Jul 2025

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    “What do you want, my son?” Talia asked him. “What do you truly want?”

    And when Jason pushed aside his obsession with Bruce, the answer was so clear. He knew exactly what he wanted. He knew what he’d always wanted, ever since he was that little street rat who spent money he needed for food on making himself look clean. Because he’d needed to look clean and presentable to get into the public libraries. Because they wouldn’t have let a dirty homeless kid touch the books.

    “I want to go to college.”

    And Talia had made that happen for him.

    (AU where, at the end of his League of Assassins training, Jason decides to go to Metropolis for college instead of going back to Gotham for revenge. Things spiral from there. The title is so sarcastic by the way. There’s nothing regular about Jason Todd.)

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    31 May 2025

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    Following his victory at the Manalo Conference and becoming Alola's first ever Champion, Ash enters the Champion's chatroom not knowing what to expect. Maybe they'll be serious, high ranked members of society focusing on politics and papers. Maybe they'll be kind and forward thinking with doing what's best for their regions...

    Or maybe they'll be a bunch of memers who act just like his other friends do at 3AM in the morning.

    A Chatfic inspired by the many gems of Anipoke chatfics with spoilers from SM139

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    23 May 2025

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    Jason gets beheaded unexpectedly, and the family learns that he can remove his body parts like Eda from The Owl House.

    (Inspired by art by @sisaloofafump on Tumblr. Link in author's notes)

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    13 May 2025