WordyBirb
Recent works
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Time Makes, Age Takes by WordyBirb
Fandoms: 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia (Anime & Manga)
02 Jan 2026
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Shirakumo is gone. Life goes on. As a teacher, Nezu eventually accepted that Oboro’s loss was not his fault, not his cross to bear. As a father, the shadow of death has fanned his fear of failure. As a son, Tenko has begun accepting his new place in Nezu’s home, but has yet to know his new father much at all. As an orphan, the memory of the father who came before fades, but the itch in his fingers lingers. As a hero, All Might carries on with confidence well-earned. As a friend, as an honorary uncle, as a human, Toshinori stumbles still with honest affection but divided attention. A tragedy, that all three don’t know how to be part of a family, but time is the school in which we learn… and the fire in which we burn.
Series
- Part 2 of All We Might Have Been
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"Are you spending Christmas with anybody, Toshi?" by WordyBirb
Fandoms: 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia (Anime & Manga)
27 Dec 2025
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All Might... Toshinori blinked at Principal Nezu's face on the screen. The question was odd. Nezu was seldom so direct asking about Toshinori's personal life (mostly because he had none to speak of). Nezu calling him Toshi was odder. He'd grown so accustomed to Nezu calling him All Might ever since he took (well... begged for) the teaching job. The timing, an oddity triple whammy. They'd just finished discussing the identity of the traitor with Tsukauchi, who had just hung up and reduced the crowd of three to the solitude of two.
Unable to settle on which front of confusion to clear up first, Toshinori's train of thought defaulted to answering without really thinking. "Uh, no, Principal Nezu, sir. I'm not."
"That's a shame." Toshinori thought that'd be the end of it. Nezu tilted his head and threw All Might for a fourth loop. "Would you like to spend it with me?"
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What Blood Can't Taint, What Rain Can't Cleanse by WordyBirb
Fandoms: 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia (Anime & Manga)
06 Sep 2025
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It begins under a bridge, on a day of gentle rain and apex pain. No monsters beneath that bridge, no; just a child who thinks himself one. In another lifetime, in another timeline, he is found and fostered by a man who wishes to be a monster, a man that smothered his humanity long ago and guides his orphaned heir to do the same. In this lifetime, in this timeline, he is found by the strongest man in the world and fostered by the smartest thing alive, a hero who forgot how to be human and a mouse who had humanity inflicted upon him. To be a hero, to even be human; thorny paths both, tangled with bloodied brambles, but is family not who we find to walk them with us?
Series
- Part 1 of All We Might Have Been
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Just Make Me One Promise by WordyBirb
Fandoms: 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia (Anime & Manga)
02 Apr 2023
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After the triumph and tragedy of the raid on the Shie Hassaikai, Aizawa Shōta was looking forward to returning to routine. For as long as he could, anyway. For as long as the world would let him. He'd honestly expected the League of Villains to be the inevitable envoys of intense stress, but no. It was Yagi Toshinori, once the one and only All Might. No villain attack, no new crisis with Problem Child, just Toshinori asking for help to pull Principal Nezu out of his recent, rapid downward spiral. Aizawa gave Toshinori his word he'd help, but he never expected just how heavy a burden their tiny principal was carrying.
Recent series
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All We Might Have Been by WordyBirb
Fandom 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia (Anime & Manga)
02 Jan 2026
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- 125,312
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- Bookmarks:
- 2
Recent bookmarks
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Put Your Ray Gun To My Head by grocketinmypocket
Fandoms: Guardians of the Galaxy (2014)
30 Aug 2014
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Peter's sleep was deep, perfect, and dreamless. He would have probably slept for a day or more, but woke in the pitch darkness of midnight to a familiar, heavy sensation on his chest. Rocket. His whiskers were tickling Peter's face, and tears were dripping hotly onto Peter's face and neck, but Peter stayed completely still, still like there was a venomous wasp on his cheek, because above the soft sound of Rocket sobbing, he heard the whine of one of his own pistols charging.
Series
Bookmarked by WordyBirb
03 Feb 2025
Bookmarker's Notes
It hurts exquisitely. As someone who's been in this situation from both sides, it's all so agonizingly, amazingly genuine. Came for the Raccoon, stayed for the pain, and somehow even the sex scene got me invested despite my lack of lewd interest. Just, just read it, trust me.
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Nedzu's Ten Step Guide to Solving Your Problems (Permanently) by outrigger
Fandoms: 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia
03 Jul 2023
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Everyone is living a 'normal' life until Nedzu gets involved. Then things become… complicated.
In which Nedzu complains to customer service, Midoriya Izuku is an actual disaster, Todoroki Shouto gets emailed a conspiracy, Yaoyorozu Momo tries to go on a date, Bakugou Katsuki wishes Izuku would disappear and regrets it immediately, and Aizawa Shouta is not a hero.
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All Nedzu wants is the complete annihilation of Anko labs. Is that really too much to ask?
Series
- Part 2 of The Problem with Anko Labs
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 106,293
- Chapters:
- 25/25
- Collections:
- 1
- Comments:
- 411
- Kudos:
- 578
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- 103
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Bookmarked by WordyBirb
02 Oct 2023
Bookmarker's Notes
A very satisfying and fulfilling sequel, combined with the first to make the best MHA fic I've yet read. Read the first one. Cry. Read this one. Cry some more but also start feeling okay! Know I'm definitely gonna go back and read it every now and then.
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Webby has a lot of questions. She always has a lot of questions; there’s just so much she doesn’t know. So much world she’s never seen.
Bookmarked by WordyBirb
18 Aug 2023
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A short, sweet, distilled little story that packs a lot of emotional punch about the gay experience in very few words.
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The story of the hundred years that follow Shepard's death. Garrus struggles through his grief, marries, becomes a father, and learns what it is to keep living.
This is a companion piece to my story, "The Shepard Code."
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- Part 2 of The Shepard Code
Bookmarked by WordyBirb
04 Apr 2023
Bookmarker's Notes
The only OC/canon I've read so far that is legitimately great. It's a very human tale about Garrus unable to let Shepard go, the woman he marries not feeling good enough for him as a result, and their journey reconciling those two important but conflicting needs. Don't miss this one!
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A Game of Cat and Mouse by tiniest_hands_in_all_the_land
Fandoms: Pocket Monsters | Pokemon (Anime)
30 Dec 2017
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They're not friends, but maybe, in some instances, they could pass as such, or even just as acquaintances. Whatever the case, they're more than just friendly rivals.
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 67,551
- Chapters:
- 7/7
- Collections:
- 1
- Comments:
- 102
- Kudos:
- 614
- Bookmarks:
- 94
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- 13,901
Bookmarked by WordyBirb
04 Nov 2022
Bookmarker's Notes
A rough diamond that I deeply, deeply appreciate. Super gay and sweet and tragic and god, I wish there was more. Such an unappreciated ship.