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With everyone gone after waking up from her coma, V turns to writing letters to vent the typhoon of unresolved emotions. The process is multifunctional, she reasons. Efficient. Scrawling pen on page builds pitiful strength back into her thin arms, returns flexibility and fine motor control to sluggish hands. The words pile up, never to be delivered. How could she deserve to send anything, when she chose to become another forgotten ghost of Night City?
Across NUSA, almost two years after the most gut-wrenching call of her life, Judy receives an unexpected package. She's escaped the maw of the City of Dreams—spat out but rebuilt, peaceful and content, with gracious borrowed strength and kindness. But with the remnants of a revenant at her doorstep, so returns the profound sunken anger, guilt, and misery. Yet deep in that abyss also lies her lost passion and scarred hope. What love is left for her faltered soul? What forgiveness and redemption is owed to her vanished guiding star?
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Forfeit to the Fray by paradoxed
Fandoms: Percy Jackson and the Olympians - Rick Riordan
16 May 2022
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Tartarus: the darkest pit in the underworld and the deepest recess of the unconscious. The abyss where the gods threw away their dirtiest secrets to be forgotten. But nothing could bury her guilt … nor her curiosity. When Percy finally died, everyone knew he tried for rebirth. Yet Artemis recognized a soul sentenced to eternal damnation.
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Nightmare Shores by paradoxed
Fandoms: Percy Jackson and the Olympians - Rick Riordan, The Sandman (Comics)
18 Apr 2022
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An eternal guardian maintains a fluctuating world of night and poison. He doesn't get many visitors. But the moon has risen. Percy isn't happy that she's back.
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Grand secrets are tools to be wielded, weapons and blackmail. Small secrets are shared intimacies—bonds that bridge worlds. Secrets destroy … but they also build. And a proper Slytherin does both.
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An irreverent demigod goes fishing.
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Oceans of Blood by thefirecrest
Fandoms: Percy Jackson and the Olympians & Related Fandoms - All Media Types, Hades (Video Game 2018), Hades (Supergiant Games Video Games)
19 Dec 2025
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Percy Jackson was sure that he had met Mrs. Dodds before.
(Prince Zagreus has been missing for a millennia. Percy Jackson realizes that water is not the only type of liquid under his domain. And everywhere he goes, he is greeted by familiar grieving faces.)
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21 Oct 2025
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eleutheromania by JewFlexive
Fandoms: Star Wars Prequel Trilogy, Star Wars - All Media Types
01 Nov 2020
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There's a rumor going around the Quarters that there's a general in the Republic Army who was seen wearing the Amarattu, a general who calls himself Sky-Walker and Rain-Bringer, a warrior unfettered and fearless. They say that he’s a Jedi Knight, that he wields a blue lightsaber and calls the slave-clones by the names they chose for themselves. It’s probably bantha shit, but Nima has to admit that even if it is a lie, it's by far the prettiest one she’s heard in years.
With Anakin off-planet on a mission and her anti-slavery bill being blocked at every turn, Padmé is feeling useless, exhausted, and very, very alone. Enter Nima, a twelve-year-old Amivakka slave of one of Orn Free Taa's aides. After being freed, Nima forces Anakin to remember that which he'd rather forget-- and in doing so, saves Padmé, Anakin, and the galaxy.
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- Part 1 of desert children
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03 Sep 2025
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Some Assembly Required by tysonrunningfox
Fandoms: How to Train Your Dragon (Animated Movies)
17 Sep 2025
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"I'm not saying Hiccup's not a good designer," Astrid soft-pedals and hates it, but it's necessary and true, "it's not the designs, it's how they're going through the system. And the tolerancing! I don't know if things need to be two thou because they need to be two thou or if he's just pulling a tiny number out of his ass because we need close to nominal, but either way the communication isn't there."
"He pulls plenty out of his ass, but I don't think GD&T is part of it," Gobber laughs, "what do you want to do about it?"
"I want to sign off on his drawings."
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- Part 1 of Some Assembly Required
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01 Sep 2025
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No one likes that dragons went extinct. No one likes that dodos are extinct either. Or passenger pigeons. Or Tasmanian Tigers. Or Wooly Mammoths or anything else further back.
But some people can’t drop it.
No one knows the exact date. It was pre-camera, the late seventeenth century is the best bet. Every year some crazy person claims to have seen a dragon in the woods, and inevitably it always ends up being a bear, or a rock, or a weird looking tree.
In the past 20 years, over 300 works of art having to do with dragons have been reported stolen. Some from private collections, some from museums. A lot of them paintings cut out of their frames with what appears to be a small knife. Skeletons, carved dragon-ivory knick knacks. Notably, a suit of medieval armor which appeared to be fireproofed with dragon scales.
All of it gone. None of it ever seen again.
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- Part 1 of The Senza Diente Affair
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18 Aug 2025
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All That's Left by Mirrond
Fandoms: 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia (Anime & Manga)
27 Mar 2024
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When All for One died, it was supposed to get better. Japan was supposed to get better.
It didn't.
Vigilantes are now as common as heroes and villains, there's a new Trigger epidemic across the country and, to top it all, the government sometimes seems to be making it worse. Heroes are doing what they can, but that doesn't seem enough.
Meanwhile, a group of people decides that enough is enough and, tired of this never ending war between heroes and villains, try to stay out of the conflict.
But the chess pieces are moving, and they may not have the freedom to choose.
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13 Jun 2025