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illustrated by KAGAMINATOR5000
strangely dark's summer vacation started a few days ago (and he barely noticed, seeing as he keeps putting on his school uniform every morning) but he's not having fun.
because his grades were below his parents' expectations, they won't take him to the zoo.one evening after handing over a particularly scary nightmare to a certain baku, he was given a wish in return.
he didn't want to waste it right away and decide to hold onto it for when he knows what he wants: today.who cares about what adults say, anyway?
on the other hand the baku wasn't expecting to be dragged to the human world in daytime. it's an unusual wish, but he can't (and would never) refuse.
despite looking 14, trickster is hundreds years old, so he can chaperone the depressed human boy to the zoo.★
strangely dark gets rained on, some hugs and hand holding, and probably scolded by his parents.
trickster gets mistaken for an elf, a glimpse into human technology, and free ice cream. -
exit stage left by stranger_from_another_dimension
Fandoms: PVP Civilization (Web Series)
23 Jun 2025
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[ "'Fore I am a man, I am a marionette," he recites beneath his breath like a mantra (as if he would ever allow himself to forget- perhaps this is simply Death's will once more stripping him of his autonomy) as his weapon cuts through flesh, "an instrument of the will of what defines this world." There is little emotion to find in his words, besides the small glimpse of tiredness hidden behind the grin carved into the porcelain mask adorning his face. "'Fore I am a man, I am nothing," ]
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clown has no control over what he does. no, not anymore, he is just an instrument for the will of death. there is no reason for him to care, to fight back.
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Rain falls quietly on Pelican Town—but for some, the storm never left.
Or: A one-shot collection of character studies from our favorite bachelors/bachelorettes. More angsty than joyful chapters.
Chapter 1 - Harvey
More chapters will come soon.
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Bug Fables: Tales of The Hopeless by GrindyVine
Fandoms: Bug Fables (Video Game), Bug Fables: The Everlasting Sapling (Video Game)
23 Jun 2025
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In bugaria, team snakemouth was known for their close bonds, the family that bonded and strengthened by their teamworks.
In every up, in every down, and in every sideways, happy, and sadness… they had each other's back. A shining beacon that brightens the entire land.But… What if those shining beacons were to be snuffed? What if those who are there to support and to care, were to be perished?
What will be left of them as they succumb to their own darkness, into the pit of dark abyss with no one to lead them back to the light? What would become of them when they lost sight of their own path?In this tale of hopelessness. In loneliness and sorrow, they lost everything and fell into their own darkness, and desperation. As they walked towards the path of destruction, each by their own way.
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Chapter 1: Kabbu's Sorrow
Chapter 2: Vi’s Desperation
Chapter 3: Leif's Purposes
Chapter 4: Chompy’s FuryThis is NOT a happy story, but a character study of things that thankfully never happened, to show how IMPORTANT each of them for team snakemouth.
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The new semester at St. Dominic’s School is beginning.
Kira Timurov is obsessed with Yumeko Jabami and wants to take their relationship to the next level by any means necessary.
Yumeko Jabami, on the other hand, wants to learn more about this school and is willing to make a deal with the devil.
Let the Games continue.
Attention spoilers from the Netflix series
...“You're so beautifully wet,” said the black-haired woman.
“Please go on...” breathed Kira.
“Will you take the knife off my throat?” asked Yumeko.
“Only if you do it right,” she said with a smile.
The stuffy air in the student council president's office really takes the breath away from Yumeko, she doesn't even need a knife for that and pushes her middle finger deeper into her wet pussy as if it were her last day on earth and registers the slight sigh from Kira. Yumeko would love to undo the buttons of the soaking wet top of her school uniform to make this first time more sensual. Unfortunately, both hands are currently unavailable and instead she tries to give Kira a nice experience with powerful thrusts.
Maybe then she will let go of her sharp knife...
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- Part 1 of YumeKira Collection
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the only thing by purple_bougainvillea
Fandoms: The Dark Pictures: House of Ashes (Video Game)
23 Jun 2025
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“All he wanted was to bare his heart to him, with all the wounds, the bruises it still had. All he wanted was for him to hold it in those warm hands of his, and stitch it back together.”
Jason Kolchek has been brought up to believe all there can be in a man’s life is violence, a deep hatred for anyone who dares challenge the country and a whole lot more bullshit of the sort. It’s a difficult mechanism to escape, especially when it’s tied to a completely different kind of trauma. But it’s hardly possible to hide behind his walls when he's living with the man that changed his life and continuously shows him that what he’s been taught has never been the gospel truth.
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Victory Of The Defeated by Avarantis
Fandoms: Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling, Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them (Movies)
23 Jun 2025
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Not every villain dies in vain. Some choose to lose.
When young journalist Carlotta Edgecombe is granted three interviews with the most feared prisoner in modern magical history, she doesn’t expect charm. Or laughter. Or the unbearable gravity of a man who once tried to remake the world—and did. Almost. Or more?Locked behind the enchanted walls of Nurmengard, Gellert Grindelwald sits not like a man imprisoned, but like one who allowed the world to catch him. And as Carlotta peels back the layers of his philosophy, his manipulation, and the brutal elegance of his logic, truth becomes hard to ignore.
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Just as Friends (and just as lovers, too) by notmuchmoretosay
Fandoms: Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling
23 Jun 2025
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Harry's head is full of Wrackspurt, so Luna lends a helping hand. As the fuzziness in his brain finally begins to clear, he starts to notice that he doesn't quite feel at home in his own life; an issue in itself, sure, but one made far worse by a sudden, strange, creeping fear of his own Patronus. What better time to learn he’s fallen in love with Luna Lovegood other than eight years into his own marriage with Ginny on Luna’s very own wedding day?
In short, Luna is Harry’s unattainable Manic-Pixie-Dream-Girl except in an entirely fully-dimensional-autistic-magizoologist-whose-special-interest-is-mythical-creatures kind of way.
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Luna loves the world differently, and with her help, Harry learns there’s more ways to love and be loved than by just one pair of hands. He's always wanted a big family, and finds it’s much easier to have one with four other people involved.
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excerpts to the bird in my ribcage by Jupitersrising
Fandoms: Raven Cycle - Maggie Stiefvater
23 Jun 2025
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Gansey was supposed to die before he was eighteen. To go out in a blaze of youthful glory, forever remembered as something roguish and beautiful.
And then, he lived.
OR: Gansey and death are one in the same.
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is it avoidance if you're being productive while doing it...? by zedif_y
Fandoms: Empires SMP
23 Jun 2025
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In which the God of Stratos fears nothing.
...Nothing, except for the things he does.
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The thing is he can’t make a home without smelling the faint scent of smoke, ash lingering in the air that makes him cough and wrinkle his nose. He builds a foundation, lays down the plans, thinking maybe, this time–
He’s always wrong. Stupid, stupid. He’s always blummin’ wrong.
So is it worth it, then? To be his?
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It’s not your place to envy a corpse.
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“Joel!” Jimmy shouts, practically right in his face. “Joel, are you even listening–?”
This, Joel decides, is not Jimmy.
It's got the shape of Jimmy, sure. Right hair and face and everything. Right voice, right bloody curve of his eyebrows, which makes Joel laugh, because it isn't him.
It can't be. It can't be, because Jimmy's dead.
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my love has come along, my lonely days are over by Grace_aline
Fandoms: Grantchester (TV)
22 Jun 2025
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It was a moment that lived and then died and then became the posthumous beginning of many new frightening, complex, beautiful things. It was also the beginning of the end.
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A canon-compliant interpretation and possible expansion of Leonard Finch and Daniel Marlowe, both as individuals and as a couple, from day dot. (Free my boys from B-plot jail)
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Always running away by 21Anon12
Fandoms: Teen Titans (Animated Series), Teen Titans - All Media Types, New Teen Titans, Batman and the Outsiders (Comics)
23 Jun 2025
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Her name wasn't always Terra.
She has been many names before that.
She used to have a brother---two, actually. A father, too. And a mother.
This is her story.[The story is already completed, around 38k words total, originally divided into 3 giant chapters + prologue, I've decided I'd rather post shorter ones. I'm updating two or three times a week, usually on Mon/Thur or on Mon/Wed/Fri]
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- Part 2 of Putting together pieces of her puzzle
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just you and me by zedif_y
Fandoms: Limited Life | Last Life SMP Series, Life Series | 3rd Life SMP Series
23 Jun 2025
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A moment of contemplation up on the Nether roof.
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> Once, a god of suffering heard a prayer he could not answer.
> Once, an old thing in the dark laughed and said, “break the rules.”Buried beneath Baldur’s Gate, a vampire waits to be forgotten.
Above him, a chosen by pain walks without purpose—until the moment she unearths him.This is not chance.
This is the loophole in a god’s silence.
This is the wager of a forgotten archfey and a bleeding god.
A weapon of mercy and sorrow wrapped in mortal skin.A ruin forced to love.
He was made to hunger.
She was made to endure.Neither was made to survive.
But if they do, the game ends differently.
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- Part 1 of Mercy meets Hunger
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Green's Grey Shift by Bowz_01
Fandoms: Super Mario Bros. (Video Games), Paper Mario Series (Video Games)
23 Jun 2025
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Overlooked and unappreciated, Luigi carries a heavy resentment that festers after a humiliating public slight. Driven by a desperate need to be seen, a transformative shift begins within him. The Mushroom Kingdom soon finds itself facing a formidable new force: a masked, powerful, and utterly ruthless individual whose actions baffle even Mario. As the lines between hero and something far more dangerous begin to blur, a chilling new era dawns, leaving everyone to wonder: who is this new power, and what are their true intentions?
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- Part 2 of Mario AU's
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not alone by Tyrux for OhSnazz
Fandoms: Fire Emblem: If | Fire Emblem: Fates, Fire Emblem Series
23 Jun 2025
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“…You want me to take on retainers?”
“We heard the Hoshidans never allowed you any of your own,” Camilla said, her scowl shifting effortlessly into a gentle smile. “So, what better way to welcome you into our family now, hm?”
Azura’s gaze ever so slightly narrowed as she glanced across the meeting table to Camilla’s side. In reply, she received a quick, somewhat-guilty wave from Corrin.
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The Grip of Steel by aqeldroma
Fandoms: Baldur's Gate (Video Games), The Legend of Drizzt Series - R. A. Salvatore
23 Jun 2025
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The continent is aflame: the war between the undead armies of Thay and the Steel Watchers of the Sword Coast has caught entire countries in its wake. Meanwhile, Ruin and Minthara’s long-planned invasion of Menzoberranzan has hit a snag. A battered and broken Lae’zel has arrived with a dire warning: Vlaakith is hunting any who had opposed her.
It’s not the only problem: Gortash, under the physical strain of becoming Bane’s Exarch, has begun showing signs of instability.
Will Gortash and Ruin be able to hold it all together? Or will that bright and honorable band of heroes on the horizon, led by a vengeful Elminster, finally topple their reign?
Can be read fandom-blind and without reading previous in series (really! really really!). Updates Mondays.
Minthara/Lae'zel is not a background relationship; chapters are evenly split between Gortash/Ruin and Menzo adventures.
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- Part 7 of The Black Hand of Bane