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In a world where strategy wins wars and miracles demand impossible prices, Erin Solstice finds herself in Baleros teaching chess in the Academy. Fraerling-sized, battle-worn, and carrying secrets no one believes, she becomes both a puzzle and a wonder—forcing [Strategists], students, and even the great Niers Astoragon to confront truths beyond their understanding.
Spoilers up to 10.38 E. I deliberately omitted some characters and changed some of the original plot.
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Years after the Dark Flour War, when all of the Ancient Heroes are overcoming their weak points and facing the Beasts, White Lily begins to develop a deep guilty conscience over her actions. Her mind is in a constant push or pull of wanting to do everything she can to repent for the trauma she caused against her will, or simply succumbing to the dark thought that she doesn’t deserve any sympathy and should be out of her friends’ lives. Of her four closest friends, only three offer her an olive branch. The remainder, Golden Cheese, still harbors complex feelings towards her former ally, and this sends a rush of the very curiosity that gets White Lily going through her veins. How could she find a way to get her forgiveness? To make everything right again? This thought process only devolves with any doubt that White Lily may have been subdued by the recollection of sweet, distant memories of their past as heroes.
"I will do anything, just please forgive me." And so White Lily chases after the person who will give her the punishment she thinks she deserves.
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After one of Alastor and Vox's many fights, Alastor has some alone time with Vox's corpse.
Or The one where Alastor eats Vox and Vox haunts the narrative.
Pre-Canon, After 'the break up'.
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写了太久了的星露谷同人小说，自我满足之作。
写了四十多章发现自己真的很能流水账。五十多章了，再继续下去可以支援灌溉系统。
由于开始写的时候游戏还没有中文版，登场人物的名字皆为英文。
说不定日后会放出翻得稀烂的自制英文版。作者攻受混乱，届时请参照tag自卫规避。
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make yourself up, do yourself proud by aspen_yey
Fandoms: 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia (Anime & Manga)
11 Nov 2025
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5 times Keigo shows how much he cares for his younger half-brother, Akiko, and one time Akiko shows his appreciation.
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- Part 5 of akiko the machine
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- English
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- Chapters:
- 1/1
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~{ Strings Across The Galaxy }~ by Ace_Of_The_Card, Ronin_Ronnie9
Fandoms: SolarBalls (Web Series), Solar System (Anthropomorphized), planethumans
11 Nov 2025
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When Triton hits his 2 billion years mark, he discovers something horrifying. Strings that bind him to others.
One blue.
Seven red.
Two pinkish-purple.
Connections he never asked for, ties he can’t seem to break.
He hated them.
He tried cutting them, again and again, until his arm bled. No matter how many times he tries to cut them, they always mend and return. And he’s starting to wonder if he’s trapped not by gravity, but by fate itself.
Triton never wanted this.
Not Neptune’s gravity.
Not the responsibility.
Not the bonds that refuse to die.
But the universe doesn’t care what he wants; or The Universe Has a Sick Sense of Humor.
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ain’t no time, crossin’ your legs inside the diner by SpiderFoster
Fandoms: Hatchetfield Series - Team StarKid
11 Nov 2025
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Miss Holloway was pulled out of her nostalgia by the bell above the door ringing, signaling that someone had walked in.
Holloway straightened up her apron and fluffed up her hair.
“Heya darlin’!” Duke Keane called out, raising his hand in greeting. Holloway strutted over to grab a chair for him, placing it right in front of the counter that she leaned on.
She smiled, vivacious as ever. “Hiya Duke! How has work been?”
“Oh ‘s been jus’ fine!” He tapped his fingers on the counter. “Ya looked pretty lost in thought when I came in. What’s shakin’?” He raised a brow.
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It’s Miss Holloway’s birthday. She thinks back on her past.
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- Part 6 of take me to war ☕️ ♪
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When Sesshoumaru is brought back from the dead by his half-brother, he struggles to find a logical explanation. He remembers the warmth on his lips, and the scent of tears. A magical act of resurrection that shames his own mastery of Tensaiga. Torn between awe and envy, he sets out on an obsessive quest to understand this strange power.
Or, Inuyasha gives Sesshoumaru CPR, but Sesshoumaru thinks it was a true love's kiss.
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from flesh to flower (your hand in mine) by angeloftheark
Fandoms: Conclave (2024), Conclave - Robert Harris
10 Nov 2025
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Ten years before the conclave, Giulio Sabbadin is reassigned to a rural parish to do penance. Out there, loneliness is his only companion. Day in and day out, never changing.
Only one morning, a stranger shows up seeking help.
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- Part 17 of hymn to virgil
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" When Belly would allow herself the most horrifying of thoughts, she would imagine Conrad boarding a plane in secret. He would travel all the way to Massachusetts and find her, cowering and afraid of him. He would hunt her down, he would tear her away from his brother's arms uncaring of how much either of them would plead. He would eat her from the inside out, bones and all "
freak4freak bellyconrad but it's christmas 2.0. no it's not real cannibalism i promise
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Better (Not) Together by starlattes
Fandoms: キッチンのお姫さま | Kitchen no Ohime-sama | Kitchen Princess (Manga), High Stitches | Unearthed (2007)
11 Nov 2025
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but girl you know that: i still love you ― The Kitchen Princess x Unearthed fanfic that nobody asked for.
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- Part 5 of ⌗ ┆ yumeshipping fics 𓏵
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- 41
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- 1/?
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Love is a lemon tree with no face
only arms
as if it were built to cradle- Language:
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- 1/1
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Make Them Wither Away (You See Them Coming, It’s Judgement Day) by Icarus_the_writer
Fandoms: 崩坏：星穹铁道 | Honkai: Star Rail (Video Game)
10 Nov 2025
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Luocha muses upon his connection with the one who killed his people.
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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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sugar, spice, and a little bit of everything nice by PurpleCatGhost
Fandoms: KPop Demon Hunters (2025)
11 Nov 2025
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It’s been months since the Idol Awards. The two groups have semi-merged, more or less all on friendly terms. There’s some bickering sometimes but it’s all in good fun. Zoey is friends with Mystery and Abby now, her previous crushes on them long forgotten. It’s nothing new, Zoey lets her heart run free. She wants to trust it to guide her where to go.
Lately though, it’s been doing some… Funny things. Zoey doesn’t mean to suddenly fixate on Baby but she just keeps thinking about him. About the lollipops he always keeps somewhere on his person, ready to whip out at a moment’s notice. About his obsession with different spices and eating the hottest things possible. About the way he grins when there’s a challenge he wants to tackle, or the intensity in his eyes when he’s really focusing on something, or the way he laughs— his real laugh, not the fake, sardonic ones he makes when he’s trying to pretend like something doesn’t bother him.
(Or Zoey accidentally finds herself noticing certain things about Baby as they grow closer. In her effort to hide her growing feelings however, she fails to notice they’re reciprocated, until it’s right in her face.)
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Between six cardboard walls by Trickster (KAGAMINATOR7000)
Fandoms: Project DIVA (Video Games), Vocaloid
11 Nov 2025
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There are no mailboxes in Monochrome World.
Why would there be? Trickster doesn't use the postal service. It's too human.
There are no mailboxes in Monochrome World, but a package got delivered anyway.
Whose package is this? What's in it? Why does the content of the package thump around like cotton filling?
(Trickster, don't open mail that might not be yours. I mean, I'm just the narrator, he can't hear me anyway, so why bother?)Despite the lack of mailboxes in Monochrome World, the package made it in.
It must be fate, right? But then who did it come from and why did it come here?With a little teamwork and imagination, we can find the answer to about... maybe three quarters of those questions at most, sorry.
(This was inspired by my most recent package, a second-hand Ni-No-Sakura Fan Dance (Taito, 2013) plushie, which arrived unexpectedly early. The illustrations are edited and digitally drawn over from my own photographs. Trickster and the narration also discuss different ways to get merch and how to care for them, so you can also use this as tips for caring for your own plushies in real life.)
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An underground overlord. The ultimate gambler. She has gambled, lost and won against countless others. Her most interesting opponent? The queen of Hell herself. In a few drinks and a few rounds, the two powerhouses began dealing in something more meaningful than money.
Souls.
It eventually escelates, the queen adds a soul she couldn't possibly turn down the chance of winning. A rising overlord by the title of 'Radio Demon'. With more to lose, the gambler wins the prized soul and eventually part ways with the queen.
The gambler continues with her afterlife when a hotel catches her eye, seeing a quick glimpse of the commercial, specifically a certain Radio Demon in the corner of her TV screen. Reminded of her past and power, she decided it'll be fun to visit a friend she never met.
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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.
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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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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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a rib for me and mine by Beatty_About_Books
Fandoms: The Shadowhunter Chronicles - All Media Types, The Shadowhunter Chronicles - Cassandra Clare, The Dark Artifices Series - Cassandra Clare
10 Nov 2025
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The angels’ daughter, caught in a mirror, caught in a moment