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Chess prodigy and future grandmaster Rio Vidal has only been dating acclaimed and successful graphic designer Agatha Harkness for a little over a month now. Things are still new, exhilarating… and terrifyingly meaningful.
So when Agatha invites her to spend Christmas Eve with her and her thirteen-year-old son, Rio can’t help but panic a little. The perfect gifts, the perfect outfit, the perfect impression… Everything suddenly feels like a high-stakes match she can’t afford to lose. Because she cares. A lot.
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- Part 2 of The Rule of the Game
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In late spring when it happened to me by Haji_sama
Fandoms: Real Person Fiction, mernosketti, Hidden Block (Video Blogging RPF)
11 Dec 2025
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—¿Sabes cuál es la posición más poderosa, por lo menos?
Moski no duda.
—La reina.
—Exacto — Manuel levanta la figura —. Cada movimiento y cada pieza perdida, cada peón que entregas por y para ella… Si defiendés ganás, si atacás ganas — Manuel enfatiza —. Pero si te olvidas de dónde está tu reina, pierdés
—¿Dónde está tu reina, Mernuel?
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Manuel es un atleta de alto rendimiento. Su vida es el deporte. No puedo no pensar en el próximo Mundial de ajedrez. Sin embargo, su madre, en un intento para que desconecte, lo trae a su antiguo pueblo de la infancia: Radiador. Un lugar de menos de 100mil habitantes, en lo más insólito y alejado del norte de Buenos Aires.
Manuel no espera nada. Pero se enamora.
Moski tiene cáncer. Y lo hace reír.
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Tobio bears the weight of the Kingdom of Miya on his shoulders. Hina has sworn to destroy that very future.
Standing on opposing sides of a war between the Crown and the streets, a bloody confrontation binds their fates irrevocably. What begins as a ruthless hunt for a rebel leader transforms, chapter by chapter, into something capable of shaking the very foundations of the monarchy.
To the world, they are mortal enemies. But within the shadows of a forgotten past, Tobio and Hina discover they are the only ones capable of truly understanding each other.
'Listen closely... the children of the city are still screaming.'
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Alexander Durnham is created by @fabulousagent1 an and I have her consent to write him.
╰┈➤ Charlotte Victoire is a former solider and former federal agent with a rocky past behind her. A past that she would rather ignore but it's instantly confronted at her new job at the Holmes Clinic, immediately working on her dead son's case.
Adam Croft consoles her one night and instead of admitting everything about his life currently, he states that he learned chess despite knowing nothing about it.
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Agatha and Rio thought the hardest part would be admitting they loved each other. They were wrong. A year in and their lives have fully collided. Now they must learn the delicate art of blending their routines, balancing their ambitions and weathering each other’s flaws with tenderness… and patience.
The opening is behind them. Now comes the true test: the middle-game. And in chess or in life, the middle-game is where pressure rises, opponents reveal themselves and every move counts.
New challenges. New tensions. Same love worth fighting for.
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OR: Chess AU - Part II
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- Part 3 of The Rule of the Game
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After the war, Hermione Granger walks away from the wizarding world, seeking a new life at St. Emrys University, where magic is nothing but a memory. She is determined to move forward—until she sees Draco Malfoy.
Except he isn’t Draco Malfoy anymore.
His name is Daniel Lucas Marchand. His past has been (temporarily) erased. He doesn’t recognize her. And by all appearances, he is just another ambitious law student thriving in the Muggle world.
But Hermione remembers. And no matter how much she tries to avoid him, their paths keep crossing.
What begins as resentment and avoidance soon becomes something far more complicated as Daniel—sharp, observant, and entirely unaware of who he truly is—notices that Hermione is hiding something.
And some truths refuse to stay buried.
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dead draw
/ded•drô/ noun • the position in which no player has any chance of winning.-
These people have known each other forever. Some were friends that turned into rivals, others rivals that turned into friends. And then there's Simon and Wilhelm, who hate each other (not really) and seem to be afterthoughts at this tournament. -
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“You get ten seconds,” said Milton. “Ten… nine…”
Hosea could glimpse movement from inside the bank. Bill rushing to the back of the room. Dutch handing the saddlebag over his shoulder off to Micah.
“Eight… seven… six…”
For as long as he had known him, Hosea had known Dutch’s greatest strength and his greatest failing to be one and the same. He was willing to do anything.
“Five… four…”
What would be the consequence this time? What new direction would Dutch send the gang spinning off in? Hosea couldn’t predict it. He never could.
“Three… two…”
When it came down to the wire, when all other options were exhausted, when lives were on the line, what would Dutch van der Linde do?
“One.”A what-if alternate universe in which Hosea survives the St. Denis bank robbery, lives to see the downward spiral of the gang, and knows he has to do something.
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this game that used to be ours by blueacid for reginaldmer
Fandoms: Best Served Cold (Video Game)
08 Dec 2025
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Sometimes, Maria’s friendship with Alina is like their chess games - complicity, movements in synch, and always, at the very last moment, Maria caving and letting her win.
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Vir Fen'Halam by Lithosaurus
Fandoms: Dragon Age - All Media Types, Dragon Age: Inquisition
08 Dec 2025
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"The sickening sensation of magic that should never had existed filled her and Kai tried to hold on. The world around her was unmade. With a crack and an impact of changing pressure, she fell backwards out of a rift in time into a snow drift. A second, far greater crack echoed around her. After a disorienting moment, she shook the snow out of her hair and recognized her surroundings; the Frostback mountains above the valley of Haven, 9:41 Dragon. Overhead, a pillar of sickly green light shot into the sky. "
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They failed. The Veil fell and Old Gods stalked the world. Driven to the brink, Kai Lavellan tries one last desperate ploy; go back in time and stop Fen'Harel before he could destroy the world. The Inquisition would march, she would march with them.
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- Part 2 of Owl, Raven, Robin
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The moment she stepped off the train, something proved her intuition right—the air was undeniably different. A fresh breeze accompanied by a promise of something unrecognizable, and a captivating smell of sugary treats from a small bakery nearby.
Bella was undoubtedly aware that she, too, would have to adapt.A musican gets hired at a local event planning company, while managing all the chaos in both her heart and mind.
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- Part 6 of The Dark Horse Covered In Candy
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No One Mourns the Quirkless by PrismaticColor
Fandoms: 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia (Anime & Manga)
06 Dec 2025
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This story follows Veridian and Viví.
Viví is a genius, only hindered mentally by the fact she is quirkless.
Veridian is a vigilante, she meddles in places she really shouldn’t and gets stabbed so many times she’s basically a pincushion.
If you think the names look similar, it’s because they are the same person.
Viví “Veridian” Midoriya goes to UA and pulls at strings she shouldn’t be, but changes the people around her’s lives, for better or for worse.
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The story follows almost every character at some point, and everyone has a backstory and a side plot. Just check the tags, those give a slight idea as to what is to come.
Also, Viví is not a genderbent Izuku. 😔Prism is back from Hiatus!! Story is still right after the entrance exams but before the first day.
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Two people who use sex as a weapon, love as leverage, and each other as collateral damage. A story about predation, manipulation, and whether damaged people can learn tenderness - or if some things are too broken to fix.
NEW CHAPTER DROPS EVERY MONDAY 8 AM GMT
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---Isabelle (Bells) Hann thought she had her life perfectly mapped out: a prestigious job at tech consultancy Larssens Ltd, an engagement to wealthy Theodore Watson, and a future built on safety and respectability. But her carefully constructed world begins to unravel around her predatory boss, Jude Larssen - a man whose brilliant mind and dangerous instincts have kept her orbiting him like a moth to flame for three years.
When Jude manipulates a high-stakes dinner with Japanese conglomerate Yamamoto Industries by claiming he and Bells are engaged, their simmering professional tension explodes into something far more volatile. As Bells becomes entangled in Jude's web of corporate machinations, late-night phone calls, and psychological games, she discovers that the line between manipulation and desire is thinner than she ever imagined.
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- Part 1 of Terms of Engagement
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sigma gets snowed in with fyodor. it's miserable, as she expected.
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- Part 2 of anon stuff
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Endgame by aikasse
Fandoms: The Lord of the Rings - J. R. R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings - All Media Types
03 Dec 2025
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Faramir revisits the Steward’s chess board, and mourns his family.
Faramir turns his gaze to the board – for just a moment, the chair is not empty; the pyre is not burnt; he is not the last living member of the House of Húrin, alone in all of Middle-earth.
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Based off the short film on yt: Detective Alice and the Inside Game.
Roblox HQ has been receiving countless reports for years from a certain red hacker.
A few months ago, Builderman handed the case over to Shedletsky after discovering something he refuses to tell people about.
But hey! Atleast the CEO’s assistant seems to be getting involved— maybe he can help shed some new light on this situation.
OR: Seven is Builderman’s personal assistant! Shedletsky goes insane! A very specific chaotic red exploiter! Oh and Builderman is so done with this.
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When your estranged father unexpectedly dies, he leaves you, of all people, with a strange invention he spent most of his life working on, and the Valorant Protocol wants said invention under their protection... and in their arsenal. To keep your father's work close, and get the answers you seek, you join Valorant as an agent, hoping to understand why all of this happened to you—and what you're going to do about it. There's only one person around who seemingly has the knowledge to help you—and that's Cypher, the information broker of Valorant. He knows everything about your father, and you have endless questions.
Too bad he won't answer any of them.
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Today's Bliss, Tomorrow's Posion by Soyeahthishappened
Fandoms: ジョジョの奇妙な冒険 | JoJo no Kimyou na Bouken | JoJo's Bizarre Adventure
02 Dec 2025
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22 days have passed since embarking on the journey of a lifetime to defeat Dio Brando and save the life of Holly Kujo, mother to your long-time friend. Through tribulations and feelings alike you travel alongside each other, anticipating the final battle for the lives of each other and those you love. Confidence does not guarentee success, however, as life seldom goes as planned.
Whisked away in a instant from a misty town shrouded in mystery, you are brought to Cairo against your will where you meet evil incarnate himself. Believing you to be the reincarnation of his lover long past, you must engage in a game of his design if you wish you make it out with your life and sanity intact.
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Rigging The Game by BitchIEatPeople
Fandoms: Hazbin Hotel (Cartoon), Helluva Boss (Web Series)
01 Dec 2025
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Dying was a shame. Dying just as she was about to achieve her Magnum Opus was an even bigger shame, and of appendicitis no less. But oh well, it was out of her control. She just hoped she could finally catch a break in the afterlife.
Famous last words.
Now, somehow, she's the Antichrist in a cartoon she used to watch, her father is a duck-obsessed ADHD-brained mess of a man, her mother is absent at best, and she's got less than two hundred years to turn Hell into an actual centralized state before canon starts and everyone else's problems start becoming her problems.
But hey, at least she won't be bored... probably.
(Or in which, a professional chess player is reincarnated as Charlotte Morningstar, Princess of Hell, and does what anyone would do in her shoes-tear canon asunder and dance on the ashes, because she is NOT going to tip-toe around the timeline just to get disrespected by a man with a TV for a head and literally half the cast of her own damn show.)
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Pawns and Snowballs by JustPaulInHere
Fandoms: Conclave (2024), Conclave - Robert Harris
01 Dec 2025
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After the conclave, Giulio and Aldo are both grappling with revelations regarding their character and their actions.
They need a distraction.