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People like this just loved to walk in like they owned the place, trying to ‘shake things up.’ He’d seen enough of this type in his 9 months here; they never lasted, and Astarion made sure of that.
Astarion's unlikely escape from Cazador has him holing up in the Lower City, working nights at the local pizza place. Things are going just about as fine as they could for a person in hiding, when a new shift lead gets hired on - a chef, ready to make some changes.Astarion is not a fan of change.
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In the Gaze of a Goddess by SuaviumSanguineum for Spacecampauthor
Fandoms: EPIC - Jorge Rivera-Herrans (Albums), Ancient Greek Religion & Lore
17 Nov 2025
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When a young servant named Lilia of Argos washes up on a mysterious paradise, she is met by its bewitching, sole inhabitant, the enigmatic and enchanting Calypso. As Lilia heals and strengthens, she confronts both her past and her future on this strange new island. Can she truly let old wounds heal, and bloom into something greater? And will Calypso give her the room to flourish, or crowd her in compliments and company? Because both of them, goddess and girl, have so much to lose at this second chance of life and love—including themselves.
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Продолжает звучать взаперти by wrwsr
Fandoms: Tetro Danganronpa BLUE (Web Series), Tetro Danganronpa Series (Web Series)
18 Nov 2025
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- Русский
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Erin Mitchell attends a protocore auction with a simple goal: to reveal the fake ones and offer her skills to the drunk buyers and hopefully get a job. Little does she know the infamous leader of Onychinous Sylus has attended the very same auction and bought all ten protocores. Suddenly, she is dragged to a small, dim room to face this man's red gaze and dared to prove herself. She doesn't flinch; instead, she fires back. Sylus is intrigued. Either she is crazy or she doesn't know who he is. Either way, this will be interesting...
What will happen when two predators circle each other? Will they tear each other apart? Or fall for each other?
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If to be tool means being devoid of life, feeling and myself. Better not be tool at all. by Saltynotstraight
Fandoms: Hollow Knight (Video Games)
17 Nov 2025
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My name is Ray. I am a seventeen year old.
The past few days i've come to terms with the fact of my mother's lack of genuineness on me. And in my strain to stop battling against myself, from justification of her actions and resignation—i've written. Through the reflection of a piece of fiction that's saved many before. I think it also serves well as a reflection on depth of the character.
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On light and darkness, and the duality of balance that comes with being king and queen.
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- Part 1 of from an eye outside
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Loss is a feeling many experience, the cold, empty feeling while you extend your hand towards something no longer there.
Elias finds himself in a long-abandoned national park that spans for half the country. It seems endless. He is trapped with nobody else but the people who will change his life, in an ancient cabin that was deserted as soon as it was built.
Something lurks behind the grove of trees outside his shelter. You can see its eye through the fog.
"I know you miss him. I do, too."
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A collection of scattered verses — about love, loss, longing, and all the quiet things that keep me awake at night. Each poem is a fragment, a heartbeat, a whisper I did not want to lose. Some are raw, some are soft, some may not make sense except to me, but together they are pieces of my heart, gathered here in one place.
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A slow-burn, emotionally layered dark fantasy set in a bioluminescent mire, haunted by the choices of a fallen empire. A land so tangled by rumors, its very name spoken like fable: Kymera.
Spiders crawl through the in-between, slipping through the cracks of reality. Grass hums your name before pulling you beneath the mud, muffled screams to never be heard. And somewhere between it all, the specter of a pale-beastman haunting the woods, wielding nature as blades. The land made mythical, horrific in its beauty.
Cael runs from his past, pursued by hands that would see him caged and sold. Straight into Kymera, and into the domain of a reclusive fox mage who clearly didn’t ask for this, nor the trouble that followed.
There’s no grand prophecy. No chosen one. Just a mage, his apprentice, and a world that would consume them both without blinking.
• Animalfolk leads in a world of men
• Found family beneath the ruins of an empire
• Reluctant Mentor and Reluctanter Apprentice
• High Magic meets Low Fantasy
• Character First Worldbuilding with vibe-based StorytellingUpdates Mondays and Thursdays
Social Links: https://ldnoirewrites.carrd.co/
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- Part 1 of Foxtale
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I hang my poetry like laundry on strings.(So my neighbors can see) by HangMeLikeLaundry
Fandoms: Original Work
17 Nov 2025
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And you’ll clasp those fingers around, tight.
Hold your glaze over my pitiful demise
As I squirm under the sole of your shoe
Like the insect I amUndeserving.
----I think, when I die this will be all that's left of me.
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Forgetfulness was supposed to protect Andrea. For Miranda, it feels like losing her twice. Bound by secrets, haunted by tenderness, and tested by jealousy, both women must face the hardest question: when love is forgotten, is it truly gone — or waiting to be remembered?
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Miranda Priestly jamás pensó que el mayor reto de su vida no estaría en la moda, sino en volver a enamorar a la mujer que ya había sido suya.
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at an imperial middle school, a girl hears rumors of the hound program, and fantasizes about domesticating a social outcast
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When her thirteen-year-old son announces he wants to learn how to play chess, successful graphic designer Agatha Harkness expects little more than after-school lessons and a new hobby to keep him busy. What she doesn’t expect is to cross paths with Rio Vidal, self-taught prodigy and future grandmaster, whose brilliance is matched only by her arrogance.
Drawn into Rio’s orbit, stubborn and haughty Agatha finds herself clashing with the other woman’s sharp wit and unshakable confidence. But as their worlds intertwine, spurred by the quiet intensity of the game, the lines between opposition and attraction begin to blur, both of them waiting for the inevitable checkmate.Or: the Chess AU nobody asked for but I wanted to write anyway.
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- Part 1 of A Game of Chess
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I'm not a violent dog, I don't know why I bite by gigineedssaving
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types, Batman (Comics), Batman: Under the Red Hood (2010), Red Hood: Lost Days
17 Nov 2025
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Bruce found Jason the way you find a stray dog on the street—reluctant, knowing it’s probably a bad idea, but unable to walk away. Maybe it was pity. Maybe it was guilt.
Either way, he took him in.
But Jason, like any mutt, wasn’t a very good dog. He couldn’t sit still.
Couldn’t help but disobey. Couldn’t stop biting.
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This work will basically just be me writing one shots on my OC's. I may make a creepypasta version of this, but I digress. This is all for writing practice and for the sake of my enjoyment, as well as my friends.
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Sylus Crow has everything in his life. Money. Power. Influence. Women. Status. Evol abilities like no other. He thought nothing could shake him anymore. Life became boring and predictable. Until his assistant dragged the fearless blonde to his private room during a protocore auction. She didn't flinch, didn't fawn over him, didn't try to seduce him for status or protection. Instead, she matched him in his own game. And he became addicted to the rush.
What will happen if two predators circle each other? Will they tear each other apart? Or fall for each other?
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Regulus Black miał piętnaście lat, gdy po raz pierwszy jego imię zostało wyczytane podczas dożynek. Ma dwadzieścia pięć, gdy dzieje się to ponownie. Przez ten czas wiele się zmieniło, a jedną z tych zmian jest to, że teraz jest gotów zrobić wszystko, by wrócić do domu. Nic ani nikt go nie powstrzyma, nawet James Potter.
James Potter nie zamierza powstrzymywać Regulusa Blacka przed powrotem do domu. W rzeczywistości jego plany zakładają coś zupełnie przeciwnego. Ma swoje powody, ale podjął już decyzję, że pomoże Regulusowi wydostać się z areny, nawet wiedząc, że będzie to ostatnia rzecz, jaką kiedykolwiek zrobi.
Syriusz Black miał szesnaście lat, gdy zgłosił się na ochotnika, by zająć miejsce swojego młodszego brata na arenie. Mając dwadzieścia sześć lat, bez możliwości ponownego poświęcenia się, nie ma innego wyboru, jak tylko zostać mentorem dla swojego brata i najlepszego przyjaciela, wiedząc, że tylko jedno z nich może stamtąd wrócić.
Dwa wyczytane imiona, mentor na skraju załamania oraz więcej sekretów i żalu między nimi wszystkimi, niż potrafią udźwignąć. Żadne z nich nie jest przygotowane na to, co nastąpi, ani na to, jak daleko się posuną, by przez to przejść.
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Bonded by Jereflea
Fandoms: Spider-Man - All Media Types, Spider-Man: Spider-Verse (Sony Animated Movies), Spider-Man (Tom Holland Movies), The Amazing Spider-Man (Movies - Webb), Spider-Man (Comicverse), Spider-Man (Movies - Raimi)
17 Nov 2025
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Netzknochen returns!
One year has passed since Ojo's defeat at the hands of a leather-clad, spider-themed hero, and her name has only gotten bigger around Lübeck.
Working her way through college with the help of her parents and the undying support of her best friend, Mandy, Ilse Schüler must find the correct balance between being a hero and being a person. She's not very good at it, until along comes a slithering second-skin of alien flesh, which binds itself to her in the night and makes her the best version of herself she could be. Gone are her brittle bones, gone is her filter; she is herself, loud and proud, except better.
Where is too far, though? When does pride become arrogance, and where does arrogance become megalomania?
Can Ilse get a hold of herself before she does something she'll regret? What happens when she tells her alien symbiote no? What do the people of her city, who respect her so, think of her after she goes on a tear of brutal violence in the night?
What does she do if she feels like she's wasted her second chance at life? What if she doesn't want it anymore? Can she leave the mask behind, and just die quietly, or is something always going to pull her back?Series
- Part 2 of Marvel's Earth-102402
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Written in Red by Fade_touched_Lurker
Fandoms: Dragon Age: The Veilguard (Video Game), Dragon Age: Inquisition, Dragon Age (Video Games), Dragon Age - All Media Types
17 Nov 2025
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If one looked at the different stories of how the Black City became Golden again, they all contained different elements of the truth, for a given level of mythological belief. But no one would know better than the two people who were closest to the source as they dreamed in the fractured, shattered reflections of red lyrium.
“So we’re in deeper waters now, as it were, being physically present in the Fade?” she asked.
He nodded.
“Well,” she said, thoughtfully, “I think I understand why you were so worried now, about me dreaming. My clan would fish in the Free Marches sometimes, in little coracles on the Waking Sea. Sometimes a squall would come up before everyone could get back to shore. More than once someone was drowned because they tried to save someone else and got pulled down too.”
“Yes,” he affirmed. “Much like that. And the mad dreams of the Titans are much greater than a squall.”
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- Part 3 of Redemption, Restoration
- Part 6 of The Mundane and Divine