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Hot Rod wonders if he's cursed by something he did in a previous life. Normal mechs don’t have to deal with the slag he gets put through—namely getting stranded on a Quintesson-occupied planet with no means of contacting home, encountering strange, mutilated Cybertronians seemingly built just to kill Quints, and being ordered to babysit said strange, mutilated Cybertronians.
All of this is to say that everything currently wrong with Hot Rod’s life can be attributed to the stray that followed him home: one maybe-empurata victim calling himself “Thunderclash”.
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Before the Kaiju came to Earth, Thunderclash used to dream of being an astronaut, and after the longest two decades of his life, his boyhood dream has somehow come to fruition.
Sure, it’s been a bit more fraught than he’d imagined as a kid—what with him piloting a mecha instead of a rocket, helping giant robotic aliens fight off Kaiju, and dealing with a language barrier that has resulted in said aliens mistaking him for being one of them—but Thunderclash wouldn't give it up for the world.
Besides, with Hot Rod guiding him through these unfamiliar stars, Thunderclash thinks that everything'll turn out fine.
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The Past Bites, But the Future’s Meaner by verdancing for Marzeepanini
Fandoms: The Transformers (IDW Generation One)
19 Jul 2026
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Rodimus was still struggling to believe this was real. He had to be dead or dreaming, surely, because there was no way he’d somehow found himself in berth with two of the most handsome speedsters he’d ever known bearing down on him.
To his left, hovering protectively half-over his frame, was Drift. His mouth had, up until a moment ago, been busy with Rodimus’s, their tongues laving over each other as they met in a messy kiss. He’d pulled back slightly to glare and growl at the other mech, even as his hand stayed busy below.
To his right, the source of Drift’s ire clearly trying to shoulder his slightly smaller counterpart out of the way, was Deadlock. Heavily armored and armed to the teeth, there was energon still dripping from his lips that were pulled into a fanged grin. He’d been gnawing at Rodimus’s energon lines just moments ago, and only paused to sass Drift.
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OR: Rodimus finds himself caught between a rock (Drift, who would rather the other guy not be here) and a hard place (Deadlock, who would rather the other guy fuck off).
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In the distant past, Drift had been accented in blacks and golds and reds and had gone by the name of Deadlock. And for all that the lighting of the bar made him look black and blue, for all that he was clad in the heaviest armor Rodimus had ever seen on a racer’s frame, for all that he looked nothing like Drift, Rodimus would know his best friend anywhere. Any time, heh.
He should’ve left it alone. He should’ve turned away, should’ve drunk his fill and fucked off until one of the Lost Light’s crew inevitably showed up to drag him home.
But then Deadlock had met his gaze, eyes bright and bold and red like a sunset, breaking through the blue to highlight the steely gray of his cheeks. And maybe Rodimus would’ve had the strength to leave it be, to let it go, if not for the way Deadlock’s optics had roved over Rodimus’s frame, the way Deadlock’s derma pulled into a smirk, exposing one sharp fang.
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Through Brainstorm-related shenanigans, Rodimus gets time traveled into the distant past… With nothing else to do, he flirts with Deadlock, gets his world rocked, and then goes home and has to avoid looking Drift in the eyes.
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A sudden upheaval, an unexpected change, chaos and destruction and tragedy.
From one perspective, at least.
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When Sentinel Prime’s younger son, Rodimus Prime, is stolen from the palace by a great and powerful dragon, Sentinel makes the decision to elevate over a thousand citizens of Iacon into an order of knights and sends them on a quest: bring him his son, safe and unharmed, and the head of the beast whole stole him away in the first place. To whichever knight succeeds in this endeavor, Sentinel Prime promises a boon.
Ratchet did not expect to be picked as one of these so-called ‘knights’. Nor did he expect that, when finally confronted with the dragon in question, that he would be reunited with someone he never thought he'd see again.
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Deadlock despises going through heats. He despises them so ardently that he’s ruined his body with suppressants and can no longer even go through heats. In his opinion, this is for the best. He doesn’t experience a horrific loss of control and never again will beg for something he doesn’t want. Never again will anyone be able to use his body’s desires against him.
Hot Rod’s systems are sort of weird. It means his heats are pretty irregular and, more importantly, he never remembers a thing about them. The mystery of what he gets up to during his heats is sometimes a little… concerning. But Hot Rod doesn’t think too hard about it and doesn’t want to think too hard about it. He’s fine. It’s fine! So long as he knows who he was with, it doesn’t bother him at all. And he’ll just ignore the handful of times he doesn’t know.
Got all that? Good! Anyways—
Hot Rod goes into heat in a Decepticon cell. Deadlock finds him, but only after a couple ‘Cons have gotten to him first.
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Yuuji Itadori's Foolproof Guide to Avoiding the Apocalypse by kalipaw
Fandoms: 呪術廻戦 | Jujutsu Kaisen (Anime & Manga)
05 Aug 2026
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Yuuji Itadori was fucked.
Absolutely, supremely, inexplicably fucked.
Genuinely, totally, super-duper fucked.
Super fucked.
Because standing in the very not-destroyed, dense streets of Shibuya, lined with the bright colors of department stores, hotels, tourist attractions, and advertisements plastered across every available space, Yuuji did not have Choso as support. He didn't have Fushiguro as support. He didn't even have Okkotsu as support.
Yuuji was inconceivably, utmostly, wholly, not-awesomely fucked because he was in the year 2005.
🔴 OR: Stuck over a decade in the past, Yuuji has resolved to do anything to ensure his future doesn't come to be.
It would really be a lot easier if Geto Suguru wasn't so overbearing, if Gojo Satoru wasn't such an asshole, if Ieiri Shoko stopped instigating things, and if Yuuji were just a tiny bit smarter.
But he was on his own, so damn it if he wasn't going to work with what he got.
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It turns out that being wired into giant war machines doesn’t play nice with human brains. The Earth Mechanical Defense Force, or EMDF, learned that the hard way when their pilots started going… neurotic, let’s say, after a few missions.
The obvious solution to that problem was to simply wire the pilot into their mecha permanently, that way their mind wasn’t being strained by the constant in and out. Unfortunately that strategy backfired and the pilots started going neurotic much, much faster, and this time they were giant and made of metal and much harder to put down.
So, the obvious next step would be to pull the plug on that idea and go back to the drawing board, right? No, that’s ridiculous, the next step was obviously to simply…
Make the mecha forget they’d ever been human in the first place.
Somewhere along the line someone should have pulled the plug, but they’d already invested so much into the project, and you know what they say about sunk cost fallacy.
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- Part 2 of As Hubris Blinds The Mighty
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He Bites Back by SmellsLikeDeanSpirit
Fandoms: 呪術廻戦 | Jujutsu Kaisen (Anime & Manga), 呪術廻戦≡ | Jujutsu Kaisen Modulo (Manga), 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia (Anime & Manga)
03 Jun 2026
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Aizawa and Tsukauchi were close enough that words weren’t always necessary.
They had a tell. Simple. Small. Invisible unless one knew where to look.
The toe of Tsukauchi’s polished boot.
Right meant truth.
Left meant lie.
The dead centre meant that murky middle ground in between.
Aizawa watched for it now.
“What is your quirk?” Tsukauchi asked.
Itadori’s gaze levelled with his.
“Don’t have one.”
Tsukauchi inched his foot to the right.
True.
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Aizawa Shota stumbles across a young man with too many scars and far too many quirks to be natural.
He calls himself Itadori Yuuji.
Aizawa Shota has seen him in action. Yet, Itadori still believes, truly, and completely, that he is quirkless.
So, with Tsukauchi at his side, he begins to pull at the loose threads, to unravel the web of Itadori’s lies.
But truth, he would come to learn, was not always a kindness.
Ignorance is bliss, after all.
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Or, the one where I mash Modulo Itadori into the end of MHA and wait to see what happens.
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In This World, it's Just Us by wreckerdeckerr
Fandoms: Project Hail Mary (2026), Project Hail Mary - Andy Weir
05 Aug 2026
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Welcome aboard, passenger number three.
Ryland Grace now must face his biggest challenge yet: parenthood. It's going to be a long four years to Erid, and he and Rocky are going to have to team up and get creative in raising this tiny human together within the walls of the Hail Mary. Grace is going to have to sort through his own issues-- including painful memories and tricky feelings about his alien best friend-- all while being at the mercy of parenthood, deep space, and their limited supplies.
OR: Grace and Rocky have to figure out how to keep a human baby and themselves alive for four years until Erid. They also happen to be falling stupidly in love the whole time without realizing it.
For more context, please read parts 1 and 2 of this series! Updates every Wednesday, Friday, and Sunday.
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- Part 3 of Parting Gift
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I Just Sighed, the Universe Replied by Saturnniidae
Fandoms: 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia (Anime & Manga), 呪術廻戦 | Jujutsu Kaisen (Anime & Manga)
21 Jun 2026
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Okay, time to assess his situation. Yuuji is in a city he's never heard of, the people look strange and unnatural, there is no Cursed Energy anywhere and worst of all, he is seemingly in the future.
"Fuck," Yuuji hisses. He doesn't have time for this, whatever this is. Some kind of grand joke played on him by the universe maybe. Okkotsu and Todo could be dead right now. For all he knows Sukuna has won and this is what the afterlife is like.
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The very self-indulgent Yuuji in bnha AU turned partial character study