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    Let it not be said that Shen Yuan didn’t know how to be an accomplished—arguably better—writer than Airplane Shooting Towards the Sky! A middle-aged author in his hubris, he’d unknowingly triggered his fate and had his consciousness whisked away into an unfathomable mystical world that he would later learn to be based on Proud Immortal Demon Way and his very own work-in-progress. When given the opportunity to customize his character’s stats and to design his one remaining Customizable Skill Slot, as a veteran reader of transmigration stories and their tropes, Shen Yuan demanded, “Grant me the protagonist’s halo of course!”

    The SYSTEM was silent all but for a minute.【Understood. Unique Skill "PROTAGONIST'S HALO" activated. Esteemed Host, you share the Unique Skill "PROTAGONIST'S HALO" with one other.

    “Who?”

    This world’s Luo Binghe. From the original novel series.

    “...Hold on, I need some time to process this.”

    (Little did Shen Yuan know that this world’s Luo Binghe is the same sadistic “Bing gē” from the released Extra short story. It was also too bad that Shen Yuan, in his mortal form, resembled Shen Qingqiu by a good thirty-to-forty percent.)

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    19 Jan 2025

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    Dr. Strange looks at the world after Thanos and, faced with its seemingly irreparable brokenness, breaks his own oath. Tony, Stephen, and Loki go back in time for one more chance - an intentional choice, because they are each other's insurance against repeating the same mistakes. Tony wakes up shortly before the Stark Expo with the reactor's palladium core still poisoning him. Stephen wakes up with undamaged hands and a flourishing medical career. Loki wakes up in Asgard one day before Thor's coronation.

     

    "Do I dare disturb the universe? / In a minute there is time / for decisions and revisions which a minute will reverse."

     

    [ Yet another take on that time travel fic with lots of worldbuilding, hand-wavey comic book science, political intrigue, inventing, nerding out, and a broken Tony trying to fix a broken world - but this time he's not alone. ]

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    08 Jan 2025

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    Severus Snape has his emotions in check. He knows that he experiences anger and self-loathing and a bitter yearning, and that he rarely deviates from that spectrum… Until the first-year Luna Lovegood arrives to his class wearing a wreath of baby’s breath. Over the next six years, an odd friendship grows between the two, and Snape is not sure how he feels about any of it.

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    19 Dec 2024

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    Shen Yuan transmigrates, into a world he is told is based on Proud Immortal Demon Way, the crappy Xianxia stallion novel he'd been reading before his death.
    The keywords there were 'based on,' which he missed completely, when he decided to hide in a cave for 300 years and cultivate. After all, he's got no interest in being killed by the protagonist. Better to just wait for him to die out or ascend, and come out after the fact.
    Except, when the System dumps him out into the world, he learns two horrifying truths: the first, the protagonist is very much alive, and is, in fact, a teenager still.
    The second?
    The world he's in isn't Xianxia at all. It's a Wuxia world.

    (Very loosely based on the premise of 'Finding out it's a Wuxia world after cultivating for 300 years,' a web novel I thought sounded cool but never actually read, and thus is not really that relevant for anything but core premise.)

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    20 Oct 2024

  5. Rec 77

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    Dark hair: check
    Blue eyes: check
    Dead parents: check
    Predisposition for heroics: …check

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    Ezra sacrifices himself for his friends, his family, for Lothal, but he isn’t taken to Peridea; no, he’s taken to Gotham.

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    08 Oct 2024