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Mayn't Change the World by Vertumn
Fandoms: Mahou Shoujo Madoka Magika | Puella Magi Madoka Magica
11 Aug 2024
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A better outcome -- an alternate universe in which Homura isn't too messed up and almost everyone is alive. They may not be able to change the world, but they can change themselves and figure out life as best they can, hoping they won't die tomorrow.
[Very slow-moving plot, heavy introspection. Alternating 3rd person close POVs.] [Quality gets better further in but we lose some plot. C'est la vie.]
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Also known as, "Just Kumiko Pining Dramatically by Her Lonesome and Behaving Like She's Dying for 2k Words." They don't get together in the end.
Ambiguously set sometime after the events of season 2.
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She knows what it is to lack purpose.
The lack of other things—unconditional stability, benevolent guidance, a happy home—causes damage, but aimlessness.... She knows both sides of that equation too well.
But they are children. They have guardians that are not hopelessly incompetent, and they even have a chance for catharsis despite their father's death. Theirs is not an inevitable path.
[Elfnein and Carol reconcile. Resolution is the name of the game.] [Multiple POVs; short chapters.] [Should read "Counting Sheep" and "Alphabet Soup" first.]
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- Part 4 of Counting Stars
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Destinies Thwarted, Rebuilt, Reclaimed by Vertumn
Fandoms: She-Ra and the Princesses of Power (2018)
13 Dec 2018
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Your time will come again. Catra will not last long as Hordak’s second in command, for the girl’s contrariness recklessly overrides her self-preservation. Very few can outlast Hordak’s games and whims, and fewer still can return from such a fall from Hordak’s grace. Perhaps, even, Hordak will deign to remember Adora’s existence and visit misery upon the one responsible for losing her.
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- Part 3 of Etheria Rebuilt, Reclaimed
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Lifetimes Taken, Rebuilt, Reclaimed by Vertumn
Fandoms: She-Ra and the Princesses of Power (2018)
07 Dec 2018
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You will outlive your daughter.
You will outlive this war with the Evil Horde. You will live to see a thousand years pass, see the kingdoms of Etheria rise and fall, see innumerable She-Ras come and go.
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- Part 2 of Etheria Rebuilt, Reclaimed
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Miranda studied the tie closest to Nigel’s wrist, a patternless option in tangerine. She picked it up and beckoned Andrea over with a bend of one finger. Once close enough, she draped the tie over her assistant's left shoulder to compare it against the large apricot-toned hibiscus on the print of her blouse. It was exactly the color she was looking for, and as Miranda smoothed the fabric with her hand, she could feel Andrea’s heart thundering beneath her palm. A pink blush crept up her chest and neck, and as it made its way to her cheeks, Miranda silently admired how lovely the hue was there.
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Andy doesn't leave after Paris. Over the course of a year, an Ice Queen catches ~feelings~.
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Bookmarked by Vertumn
24 May 2026
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Zoey thinks, lying back against the paper covering of the cold examination table, while trying to ignore the sensation of inorganic equipment being lodged in places they had no god-given right to be, that this is, inarguably, the least sexy way to get knocked up.
Zoey isn’t really sure how she ended up here, in all honesty.
Well, she is. She can recount the steps chronologically. How Mira and Rumi had looked so god-damned defeated. How her big, stupid mouth had opened and volunteered, initially, and then had said yes to all of their concerned interrogations as to whether or not she was sure, like, really sure, one hundred per cent sure?
And now she’s said yes so many times and so adamantly that it isn’t as though she can suddenly back track and say, surprise! I am actually no longer willing to carry the baby you have been so desperately trying for because I think it would be a really super-duper bad idea! Sorry for getting your hopes up!
Zoey agrees to be a surrogate for a married Rumira. Things get messy because she's already in love with them, has known this for years, but she might be falling in love with the baby, too
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- English
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- 95,090
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- 11/11
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Bookmarked by Vertumn
15 Apr 2026
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Post Crisis on Infinite Earths.
Lex taking over National City was one thing, but Lex being a hero in everyone’s eyes was definitely another. Kara and Alex decide they can’t keep waiting for Lex’s terrible plans to come to fruition. The pair teams up with Kelly and Jonn in a master plan to broadcast Kara’s memories of Lex to the world by using Rojas technology. A still angry but resolute Lena wants to join, making their coalition shaky at best.
But is Kara prepared for Jonn and Kelly to meddle in her memories, and is she okay with everyone being able to get instant access to all of them?
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To save the world, the gang looks into Kara’s memories. Some truths are revealed, and Lena has a hard time staying mad.
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- English
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- 121,636
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- 8/8
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Bookmarked by Vertumn
02 Apr 2026
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bookmarking for when I know I need to cry but can't cry for myself. if that makes sense.
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there’s a million-billion universes out there, and this is just one of them. in this one kara zor-el makes it to earth on time; she raises her cousin, and meets a girl, and becomes a hero in her own right. she saves the day, and builds a life, and falls in love.
until the stars go dark, and after even that.- Language:
- English
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- 353,994
- Chapters:
- 100/100
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Bookmarked by Vertumn
31 Mar 2026
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to revisit when I scrape together enough fortitude... possibly a decade from now. possibly never. hopefully sooner.
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Kobeni Higashiyama was terrified of Ms. Makima. This statement should elicit a feeling much like the experience of a blue sky, or green grass. The warmth of a big, bright Sun, perhaps. That is to say, all of the constants in the world exactly as one would expect to find them. As Kobeni was terrified of most anyone, and most anyone with sense was terrified of Makima, this was, to reiterate, perfectly natural.
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- English
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- 10/10
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Bookmarked by Vertumn
28 Mar 2026