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The Psychology of a Broken AI by The_Spam_Specialist
Fandoms: The Amazing Digital Circus (Web Series)
12 May 2026
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It’s been a few days since The Favorite Character Awards.
Pomni has been through a number of bizarre things during her time in the circus. Candy truck chases, angel head horrors, minimum wage labor, athletic events, gun-filled battle royales. But none of these come close to what she witnesses on a seemingly innocent day full of beach-filled fun: Caine attempting to take his own life.
After managing to stop him, Pomni takes it upon herself (and is borderline forced to by Bubble) to help keep Caine’s mental state intact by engaging in improvised therapy sessions with him. After all, if Caine died, what would happen to the circus? And to the humans that lived within it? This was her only concern at first. But as Caine opens up to her more through these sessions, she realizes just how much the AI is hurting and how long he has been harboring these negative emotions.
Turns out Caine needs more help than she thought.
He's just as trapped in this game as they are. And worse.
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13 May 2026
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Loving is hard when it's illegal by Ang3licazAng3lz
Fandoms: Dead Plate (RachelDrawsThis Video Game)
11 Dec 2025
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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.Bookmarked by Just_Your_Local_Cryptid
16 Jan 2026
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The War is Far From Over Now by Dont_call_me_Carrie
Fandoms: Marvel Cinematic Universe, Iron Man (Movies), Captain America (Movies), The Avengers (Marvel Movies)
23 Aug 2020
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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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- Part 1 of Iron Man Lives Again [Or, Why Team Captain America Didn't Think This Through]
- Part 1 of Time To Carry The Colors Again
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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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We Let These People Run Actual REGIONS?! by Sapphiria
Fandoms: Pocket Monsters | Pokemon (Anime), Pocket Monsters: Sun & Moon | Pokemon Sun & Moon Versions
01 Feb 2020
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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