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We Cannot Escape The Tide Of Our Cruel Mistress Keeping Time by dropout_ninja
Fandoms: Sonic the Hedgehog - All Media Types, Sonic the Hedgehog (Video Games), Sonic the Hedgehog (IDW Comics)
27 Oct 2025
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While trying to S rank the Mephiles fight, Shadow inadvertently gives the guy one too many chances to simply not play the same game by the same rules anymore.
Free to restore himself to the timeline, the dark half of Solaris finds…the world well and truly has forgotten he ever existed and doesn't care, his continued existence is ever-unstable without the help of a human scientist, Soleanna is a tourist trap, Shadow is never going to bother to learn his name, Silver is a little too easy to manipulate still, rent’s not free, the Iblis-sized whole inside- well, next to- his soul is forever hollow, and while it's easy to convince a blank slate of a world you're the hero, the list of cons to maintaining that hustle is actually really annoying.
Oh, and he's not even the biggest fish (godlike being) in this pond (Earth and space and time and the whole of existence, are you kidding him) anymore.
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Politics were new to them.
He was staring again.
Watching. Judging. Evaluating. Determining worth. Deciding if they were weak enough to find a crack in, to claw and cut and rip open.
They, too, stared, once. Staring was all they could do. They looked into a world they could not touch, and they knew. They knew the smallest of the Mantis Lords dreamed of the sun. They knew the eyes which judged them now would have voluntarily took in fire.
(He was one who wished, willingly, in passing fancies and growing obsession, to call the light into himself.
Who could want such?They had they had they had)
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Or: That time when cultural misunderstandings and unresolved trauma almost caused a diplomatic incident. Oops.Series
- Part 15 of Ibimm Bonus Stories
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Still The Haunted Ruins Of Night Call Your Name by dropout_ninja
Fandoms: Over the Garden Wall (Cartoon & Comics)
02 Sep 2025
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Some souls that wink out in the forest do not go gracefully into that good night.
The Beast claws, scrapes, and lawyers its way back to life and prematurely celebrates this as a victory. It is not. But it's not the end of the world, either, if it can be flexible and smart about the long con.The Woodsman and his daughter are trying to find their lives again after years separated. There's love, there's nostalgia, there's miscommunications, there's missing pieces; there's everything that could be expected of their situation. It would just be a lot more comfortable if they didn't feel like they were being watched and judged by a shadow peanut gallery the whole time. (It would be even better if they didn't have to know there was, in fact, a peanut gallery in the shadows that they both have every right to wish was dead.)
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Come And Leave Your Mark by dropout_ninja
Fandoms: Sonic the Hedgehog - All Media Types, Sonic the Hedgehog (Video Games), Sonic the Hedgehog (Live Action Universe), Sonic the Hedgehog (IDW Comics)
21 Jul 2025
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Sage gets a brother-sister bonding day interrupted by universal shenanigans. Now, she's dealing with an alien Cyber Space, a man with her Father's deadname, and no connection with the Eggnet or her creator for the first time in her activation.
Agent Stone's no good very bad day gets worse when fate decides he should be stuck in some world filled with more superpowered furry aliens, a bizarre history, and the vast potential empire the Doctor wanted being wasted before his eyes. To top it all off, there’s a mouthy red puntable robot who claims he can make better coffee that he can't get rid of without getting caught.
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TLDR: Sage and Agent Stone swap universes. Chaos ensues, relationships are put to the test, and Metal Sonic is a normal little guy not looming in the corner with any menacing or future plot relevance no sir I promise -
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The Pale King can’t stop thinking about void creeping past his every defense.
The Hollow Knight knows they can not bear to go through with their containment, but does not understand why they know.
Hornet sees a dead kingdom around her when she is surrounded by thriving life.
A vessel stands on the edge of Hallownest decades earlier than they ought to have arrived.
Deep below, the Void waits.
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In which Hallownest finds itself retreading steps already taken- up until the day that the Hollow Knight was meant to contain the Radiance on sees this repetition stop.
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These are all based off of the universe of It’s Burned In My Mind. That fic functions as a stand-alone and does not need these bonus stories to be read. These bonus stories, however, very much run under the assumption the base fic was read.
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Random short stories for KFP
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sometimes family is a mad scientist spider, his amoral ex, their build-a-child kit gone right, and the human sidekick by dropout_ninja
Fandom: The Transformers (IDW Generation One)
31 Oct 2023
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Post ROTW au where Tarantulas survives and Springer sticks around in this timeline to make sure no messes get made.
Verity is just chilling.
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Fourtober Challenge found here!
Collection prompt: Those Without Names
4 prompts:
Unknown (The Pale King)
Buried (Traitor’s Child)
Caged (Brumm)
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"Hope is like a poison, rotting the host from the inside out. Lifts you up high only to dash you against the rocks. My chum here knows all about that. Don't ya, chum?"
The Caretaker wanted nothing more than to rot in peaceful silence within the First Shrine. But thanks to a meddlesome Bellringer, a greedy merchant, a boisterous knight, and—worst of all—a naive pilgrim named Sherma who refuses to stop singing, his solitude is thoroughly ruined.
This is a journal of the end of days. A record of a shabby refugee camp called Songclave, of the fools who gathered there, and of a grumpy old Snail Shaman who learned, far too late, that he might actually care about them.
Bookmarked by dropout_ninja
09 Dec 2025
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Does she want Mother dead? Does she want Her attention? Does she just want everything to stop?
She can’t tell.The events after the fight in the Cradle, from Lace‘s perspective.
Bookmarked by dropout_ninja
04 Dec 2025
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Messengers by optimistic-violinist (Britt30)
Fandoms: Over the Garden Wall (Cartoon & Comics)
04 Dec 2025
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As Wirt gets ready to graduate high school, he finds himself wanting to invite the one person who can't possibly come. Greg insists they write a letter anyway, and Jason Funderberker makes sure it gets delivered.
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Bookmarked by dropout_ninja
04 Dec 2025
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Samus is the one who finds him.
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- Part 2 of Strange Birds in Space
Bookmarked by dropout_ninja
20 Nov 2025
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Chances of Survival by accursedelf
Fandoms: The Transformers (IDW Generation One), Transformers - All Media Types
28 Nov 2025
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Since Luna-1, no one knows what to do about Pharma. The rogue doctor awaits his pending fate in a makeshift cell on the Lost Light, with his wings bound and alt-mode restricted. After the apocalyptic events of Dark Cybertron, Pharma doesn’t expect he’ll survive to trial. Even Megatron’s fate has been put on hold until Prime and the Autobots salvage some kind of legal system. In the interim, the Lost Light remains grounded. Injured and infirm bots overrun the med bay team. Since Rodimus won’t depart Cybertron until their ship, crew, and allies are up and running, Ratchet suggests they put their captive surgeon to work. First Aid is less than pleased.
For his part, Pharma never thought he’d join a quest. He knows he won’t last long once his past–and the D.J.D.–catches up with him. It’s only a matter of time.
Bookmarked by dropout_ninja
28 Sep 2025