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Falin, though alive again, is not quite the same. Marcille struggles with old feelings resurfacing and the guilt of bringing her love back into a world that continues to hurt her.
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The Thrush and the Flower's Eccentric Household by Anyacrypha
Fandoms: 裏世界ピクニック - 宮澤伊織 | Otherside Picnic - Miyazawa Iori
23 Jun 2025
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HEAVY SPOILERS FOR VOLUME 8. Some explicit chapters, most aren't.
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Kozakura can't hold back her forbidden feelings, and everything she tried to hide all this time came spilling out. How will Sorawo and Toriko react to the news? How will they learn to deal with each other despite all the abandonment issues that Kozakura has? And what about taking care of a Gundam addicted child who can barely communicate?With memories and feelings that aren't her own, how can a Doppelganger learn to forge her own identity?
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This is my participation in the Tumblr challenge June of Doom 2025. For every day in June, I will be posting a short story below 1k word, inspired by that day's prompt.
The main point of this collection is to torture Lucifer in every way I can think of. From body horror to mental illness, slasher to psychological horror, natural disasters to physical ailments, the only thread tying all these stories together is a guaranty of a bad ending for Lucifer. Multiple characters from the cast will make an apparition, but not always in the way you would expect.
Abandon hope, all ye who enter here, for Lucifer is about to meet his doom for thirty days straight.
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The Shape of a God in a Mirror by the_untamed_poet25
Fandoms: Death Note (Anime & Manga)
22 Jun 2025
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L placed the cup on the table. “And what should I be looking for?”
Light smiled.
“A god.”
Ritsuko was upside down on the ceiling, idly braiding strands of stormlight into her hair. She didn't comment, but the air thickened like a closing book.
“You’re not a god,” L said.
“No,” Light agreed. “But I’m what happens when a man tries to become one. That’s the same thing, in the end.”
L’s fingers tapped the porcelain in rhythm. “And what am I, in this myth?”
Light stepped closer. Their faces were mirror-close. Twin blades.
“You’re the only thing that made me doubt.”
Or, the one where Light Yagami forgets how to lie and L forgets how to stop watching.
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- Part 11 of Checkmate
- Part 5 of Lawlight Mind Games & Intellectual Foreplay
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Oh, what did you see, my blue-eyed son? by awalkonthewildside
Fandoms: Oppenheimer (Movie 2023), Watchmen - All Media Types
22 Jun 2025
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It is October, 1985. Nothing ends. It is futile to interfere in human's affairs. Follow through the bitter end.
A few pit stops along the way before he leaves. Maybe there is still something to learn from humankind, after all.
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Center of My Universe by Pheluminar
Fandoms: Original Work, Cthulhu Mythos - H. P. Lovecraft, Cthulhu Mythos - Fandom
22 Jun 2025
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"I don't know you, lady," he spat, digging the palms of his hands into the wheel until his joints ached. "Far as I can tell, the only thing you've managed to make a fool of are the poor saps willing to take pity on a lost stray."
"I am not lost. I am exactly where I am to be."
"Yeah? And where's that?"
"With you."
Nathaniel Crane, a reclusive antiquarian and bookshop owner, has resigned himself to a lonely life of dust and fading pages in the town of Morhaven. But when he discovers a mysterious woman with purple eyes unconscious behind his store, his reality begins to blur into madness.
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- Part 2 of Original Stories
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The twisted and cruel mind of Harley Sawyer is shoved into a computer and becomes what he has feared, property of playtime co, turned into machine and wire by his own co workers who are equal in there cruelty, trapped within the factory, limited in his new body, Sawyer must learn to survive and learn to accept others help, he also must sit with the fact that all of this, all the horrors, the evil, the anger and hate, was his doing, for he made a world of pain, a world he now has to navigate and endure.
Actions have consequences.
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Life is Cold Unless We Burn by RiceBroom
Fandoms: Dungeons & Dragons (Roleplaying Game), Curse of Strahd - Fandom
22 Jun 2025
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When an unwilling guest appears in Ravenloft, Escher feels that his time is running out. Forced to swallow his pride, and seek agreement in hopes of a light eternity he experiences feelings long pushed out from his head. In the end, everyone in the castle is subject to the good and bad will of the count.
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This is what happens when one of the pleyers asks you about his pc's girlfriend time in Barovia.
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Title is from a song by Finnegan Tui 'Fuel on the Fire' which accompanied me throughout writing.Series
- Part 1 of New Dawn
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 2,700
- Chapters:
- 2/40
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It all started on La Huerta, and it all ended here—or so it seemed. After Taylor used her connection to Vaanu to help Rourke, the whole world had been changed, and the change was not for the better. Finding her way in the dystopian empire, she tries to reconnect with her friends, build a relationship with her newfound family, find the love she had lost… and change the fate of an entire planet once again.
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It was a beautiful day.
Every day was a beautiful day.
The sun was always shining. The flowers were always in bloom. It was always warm with a cool breeze blowing from the north.
Living in this beautiful world in its endless beautiful day was a creature with human parts and a human SOUL named...
'kris.'
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“He’s not throwing himself off rooftops anymore. He’s not— He’s not asking for it.” His voice cracked at the edges before he forced it flat again. “He’s trying. He’s living. And you’re telling me that’s wrong?"
Stuart’s shoulders shifted, almost a sigh.
"This is his path, Nathaniel," he said. "And he must follow it to its end. You cannot shield him forever."Or: Neil is dead. Andrew isn’t. And some things are not meant to be.
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Danny's life is a bleak cycle of monotony, grief, and desperation. Orphaned after his mother’s death, he struggles to survive in a crumbling neighborhood ruled by crime and poverty. Working as a bartender in an underground casino, Danny keeps his head down, drowning in debt and haunted by a past he can't outrun—a father in prison, a lifetime of feeling invisible.
Everything changes the night he stumbles upon a drug deal in the bathroom involving Frank Morrison—a tattooed, volatile enforcer for The Legion, a criminal organization that controls the district with fear and precision. Danny’s decision to intervene sets off a chain of violence, obsession, and consequences neither of them can control.
Or,
A bartender with nothing left. A killer who feels nothing. They were never supposed to meet.
This wasn’t meant to be a love story. And maybe it still isn’t.
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Before reading: English is not my native language. I use AI tools to express my ideas, but Ink and Shadows is entirely my own creation.
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Shelly, a hapless mechanist, finds something of interest in the local scrapyard. She doesn't know that it (or rather, she) is going to change her life.
With no manufacturing date,
with no name,
with no purpose,"Vee" initially has no place in this world, that is, until she develops a longing to be on the screen.
As she struggles to find the meaning and nature of her existence, as well as balancing fame and the toon who cares about her the most,
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When you're living in a world that has been overtaken by violent creatures who want nothing more than to have you join their strange little hivemind, each moment is crucial. Split second choices, first meetings, instinctual reactions - everything becomes a life or death decision. 2 weeks with Eddie Munson is more than enough time to change both of your lives irrevocably. That is, if either of you make it out alive.
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We Are Just Alike by Gillymancer (gil_the_goblin_king)
Fandoms: Baldur's Gate (Video Games)
21 Jun 2025
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It's been a decade since Szeryn fled Baldur’s Gate and the confusing haze of memories it holds. Despite having no desire to return, while acompanying their mentor to the city, they are suddenly plucked from the wilderness and captured on a Mind Flayer's ship. And being kidnapped by Mind Flayers is only the second-worst thing to happen to them.
Looming shadows of a past they hardly remember begin to haunt their dreams as they get closer to piecing everything together, and Szeryn begins to have a very bad feeling of where this journey will lead them.
But at least they don't feel like they're drowning anymore.Series
- Part 1 of Little Stars and the Darkness Between
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Cogito Ergo Sum by Cruellinnet
Fandoms: Star Wars: The Clone Wars (2008) - All Media Types, Star Wars - All Media Types, Star Wars: Clone Wars (2003) - All Media Types, Star Wars Prequel Trilogy, Star Wars: Rebels, Star Wars: The Bad Batch (Cartoon)
21 Jun 2025
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“This isn’t a love letter to canon. It’s hatemail.”
General Grievous survives his duel with Obi-Wan on Utapau, but the Republic "wins" the war. In the remnants of the Separatist movement, one IG-100 MagnaGuard must take command of a broken fleet, wrestle with free will vs. programming, and discover what it truly means to feel.He was never meant to be a leader. But the Force had other ideas.
If Androids Dream of Electronic Sheep, then why do they see in their nightmares?
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Desolation’s Child by Siderus
Fandoms: 백작가의 망나니가 되었다 - 유려한 | Lout of Count's Family | Trash of the Count's Family - Yulyeohan
21 Jun 2025
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Home is a fragile thing—
built of laughter, soft footsteps, and morning light on worn stone.
But when the fire comes, it does not knock.
It devours.One child remains, where once a family stood.
And in the end, even memory begins to burn.Or
Everything burns, that's it, that's the plot.
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- Part 18 of LCF_Cafe_Angst_Versus_Fluff_2025
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 2,319
- Chapters:
- 1/1
- Kudos:
- 2
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When you wake up in the Dark World, everything changes for you. It feels like too much at first, and you barely know how to handle it.
But when you run into the television you used to be connected to when you were still used to play video games on, you experience an emotion that's far more complicated than you were ever meant to experience.
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Thermal Exchange by EiriTheBear
Fandoms: Marvel Cinematic Universe, Thunderbolts (Movie 2025)
21 Jun 2025
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John is not quite sure of his role in the new and fragile team he's ended up with. He isn't used to not being assigned one after all these years. Everyone else seems to fall into some duty or other—leader, strategist, moral compass, father figure, muscle—all of them are pieces falling in a puzzle that John can't seem to fill because the others fit better, and the thought slowly pushes him into a frustrated despair.
Or; John slowly spirals, becoming one with the sofa.
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Via Raditz’s broken scouter, Bulma tries to recover access to Planet Trade networks and technologies to get an upper hand against the androids. But in so doing, she discovers Raditz’s private files—writings and recordings he kept for himself over his long travels with Vegeta and Nappa under Freeza. Tales of their exploits and descent into madness come to change her perception of Vegeta and her relationship with him.
Homeworld Lost is a novel-length dark science-fantasy story with explicit violence, horror, and erotica (sometimes simultaneously). Generally canon compliant. Explores Vegeta’s backstory under the Planet Trade Organization and his fraught relationships with his comrades, particularly the twisted bond he and Raditz share. Most of the story is narrated by Raditz, but there are lots of twists. He is an unreliable narrator, and in places, altered mental states allow him to take other points of view. We also get interludes from Bulma as she reads and reacts to Raditz's account.