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Morte's Kinder by Zermaroon
Fandoms: Life Series | 3rd Life SMP Series, Hermitcraft SMP, Empires SMP
16 Jun 2025
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People survive or die. Happens all the time.
Sometimes it has an explanation, sometimes it is a miracle or accident.
Not in this story though.If you are destined to live, you will be visited by a man dressed in white. Skizz is his name and you will maybe get to know that.
If you are destined to die, you will be visited by man dressed in black. Impulse is his name, but you will never get to know that.Together, they reap or save the souls of mortals for centuries and meet some new company and hurdles along the way.
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Carina DeLuca steamrolls into town and Police Chief Maya Bishop has a lot to hide.
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Ben Montgomery is your average teenager- at least, he was until his family moved.
It doesn't take long for him to find out some weird stuff about the town- Wynnewood- they're moving too. Something called "The Goat." It comes around every full moon, killing anyone who didn't lock all entrances to their house.
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it rattles the bones of our fathers, carries whispers from the dead by ChaoticFairy (Amanda908565)
Fandoms: 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia (Anime & Manga)
16 Jun 2025
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Izuku Midoriya is not what the world wanted him to be. He was too instinctual, too strange.
Godhood isn't something he asked for. It is not gentle, and instinct is not always kind. It came in a growl, in a bite, in a hiss.
There are no crowns here; no thrones. He never needed those.
But, as he finds himself, he finds understanding and love and pack - and that's more than enough.
Instinct is not lesser. It is older than language. It is what the gods called mother.
- Divina Incarna, Fragment 4Izuku is almost scared to go back – to face his pack with the knowledge of what he's becoming. He feels like he's manipulated them somehow. Taken their generosity and twisted it; molded it until it fit in his palm and was his to take.
He's not just Izuku Midoriya anymore.
Absently, there's a part of him that wonders if Aizawa knew of the myths and legends from the time before – wonders if that's why the man named him Wraith.
There's part of him that's pleased by the acknowledgement, but another part that is confused. He knows things now. Things that he shouldn't know – shouldn't remember.
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After rescuing a mysterious (and nude) woman from her would-be captor, Usopp wants nothing more than to find a way to get her back to her home and return to his quiet peasant life.
Unfortunately, the woman proves to be the most puzzling (and often infuriating) person he has ever met. How can he be expected to do right by a woman who wants nothing more that to throw herself right back into danger!?
Sure that his charge is quite mad, the liar puts all of his best skills to work in figuring out what to do about the orange-haired foreigner, and in the process finds his life irrevocably changed.
____________A swan maiden/celestial maiden tale. Borrowed a bit of folklore from various cultures, and kept the setting purposefully vague and medieval. Nami/Usopp.
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Matthew is a quiet guy who became a biologist against his parents’ wishes. He always loved animals and it was his dream to protect even the most unlovable of them. (Though he thinks all of them deserve love)
He’s doing his normal job and realizes something’s off in the forest.
That’s also when he meets Gilbert and his peaceful life suddenly is filled with noise and color. He doesn’t hate it. Quite the opposite actually.
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‘They said later that all the sorry souls of the Mississippi had waited their turn long enough. Oh, it was a cruise steeped in death from the start— all endings are deaths, if you think about it. These are haunted waters, always have been, and she was a ghost if ever I saw one. You heard of the old black train? Let me tell you, the Greeks, you know, they had it right. Before there were trains, there were boats. Ain’t nothin' older than a boat. That tour—the very last… we didn’t know it then, but, hell, they did. The dead always do, in the end.’ — Witness statement.
September, 1921: the SEVENTH DAY departs St. Louis for New Orleans. It goes not silently or darkly: they say its passengers dance all night and day, dragging the river out slow enough to turn minutes to hours, days to weeks, nights to days and back again. They say it’s ten times the size of a Mardi Gras float and twice as grand, patronised by the richest Baron in the south. Its shadow is vast and broad—the vision of an ending.
But it is a beautiful vision, while it lasts.
Besides—is it not said that all endings are also beginnings, in their way?
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Tenebrous Sciamachy by electrikitty_writes
Fandoms: Sonic the Hedgehog - All Media Types, Sonic the Hedgehog (Video Games)
16 Jun 2025
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In another universe, Shadow was created by alchemists who dwelled among the stars. He now spends his days as a hunter, travelling the world to safeguard it from threats, whether they be human or monstrous. But when the hunters' guild asks him to investigate a case of suspected vampirism in a desolate, rain-soaked town, he is left with more questions than answers. Rumour has it that a vampire dwells in the castle above the town, and so begins a decadent, dangerous dance between a battle-scarred hunter and an alluring femme fatale, both of whom are willing to use any means necessary to survive this star-crossed encounter.
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Some souls are born to walk the thread. Others were never meant to have one at all.
Grey Wyrde sees ghosts.
She always has—though the living world tries its best not to see her. As a Harrower, she guides restless souls across the Veil. But the balance is unraveling. The wars are digital. The famine statistical. The pain is quieter, and so should be the dead. But more spirits choose the oblivion of rebirth over an afterlife with memory, and Grey begins to hear whispers that the cycle itself is being tampered with.
When a corrupted spirit gate collapses in her hands, she's left with an uneasy truce with an ally she would really rather not have; Alaric Fen—a brooding captain of the Unseelie Wild Hunt with eyes like amber and secrets older than Stonehenge. Basically, a cryptid by her standards.
Together, Grey and Alaric descend into a world of forgotten bargains and rewritten fates, where souls are weaponized, and sometimes death comes at a terrible cost.
As their bond deepens, Grey must confront the truth: She was never meant to exist. And the threads of fate will kill to keep it that way.
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The Bird and the Spider - The Bird Eater, Story 1 by Its_Isabelly
Fandoms: Original Work, No Fandom
15 Jun 2025
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A young and hard-working woman travels to her Uncle's property to take care of his farm after he falls ill. Soon, she finds herself in a strange and isolated town in the heart Appalachia, a town where women often go mysteriously missing.
A strange, tall, and nomadic man, who she had befriended on the trail before reaching town, warns her of things that lurk in the night there. She is skeptical, but she will eventually learn just how dangerous the night truly can be. And just how dangerous some of the people are, too...
This story is a long trip and a slow burn. Be aware it contains Vore and unhealthy relationship dynamics.
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- Part 1 of The Bird Eater
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Morbid Hero by Alice_Snow_Vexi_Glade
Fandoms: 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia (Anime & Manga)
15 Jun 2025
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Izuku was long thought to be devoid of a quirk, yet it turns out that his true ability emerges later in his journey. Upon surviving a near-fatal attack, a shadowy family secret comes to light as he embarks on his first year at UA. Although he has finally unlocked his quirk, he chooses to keep it a secret, concealing the peril that could shatter his aspirations of becoming a hero.
This peril is tied to an unusual dietary requirement that he must navigate.
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King of Devas by Marioni
Fandoms: Ramayana - Valmiki, Mahabharata - Vyasa, महाभारत | Mahabharat (TV 2013), महाभारत | Mahabharat (TV 1988), देवों के देव... महादेव | Devon Ke Dev... Mahadev (TV), Hindu Religions & Lore
15 Jun 2025
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In the blink of an eye, a modern man wakes up not in his apartment... but in the celestial palace of Svarga. He's no longer a nobody- he's Indra, the King of the Devas.
Can a modern mind survive the politics of the Svarga or the traps of fate, or will he be just another name lost to history?
SI-OC. Self-Insert.
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The River Bends by SA_Wolfie
Fandoms: ทฤษฎีสีชมพู | GAP the Series (TV), ทฤษฎีสีชมพู | GAP the Series (TV) RPF, ปิ่นภักดิ์ | The Loyal Pin (TV), URANUS2324 (2024)
15 Jun 2025
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Bangkok pulses with secrets. Beneath the glittering skyline, beneath the heat and neon, something ancient stirs—a force that should have died centuries ago.
Rebecca never believed in fate. Not in past lives, not in curses. But when she meets Sarocha, fate doesn’t ask for her belief. It sinks its claws into her, drags her under, and refuses to let go.
Sarocha is power wrapped in silk, danger disguised as beauty. She moves through the world as if it belongs to her—and maybe it does. The moment their eyes lock, something shifts. A tether, unseen but unbreakable, tightens between them. The air thickens. The hunger ignites. And neither of them can walk away.
But with every touch, every reckless indulgence, Rebecca feels something pressing in. A whisper in the dark. A warning. The past is clawing its way into the present, and with it comes a choice that neither of them are ready to make.
Desire is intoxicating. Love is inevitable. But fate is cruel.
And in a city that never sleeps, where the river runs deep and the gods have long memories, the cost of wanting the wrong person may just be everything.
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The girl can't remember anything when she wakes up in the forest that never ends. There's rain that burns and a fog that consumes, and a boy she's sure she once knew is telling her something very important: don't forget your name.
As the years go by, the world forgets that a woman called Penny Valentine had ever existed, until one day day, a young girl finds an impossible photograph.
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- Part 4 of The Valentine Chronicles
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[ backstory to life is strange one. it follows the life of a Spanish girl dealing with prejudice and the hard work of balancing school, her mothers chores, her fathers duties, and her own curiosity that will possibly change her life. ]
New to a cold Oregon town, the daughter of Spanish immigrants, Mariposa walks the line between folklore and reality. Set in the late 1700’s, Her parents speak of Madre de la Vida, the Mother of Life, who gives wings to those who give everything.
Mariposa tries to fit in. She keeps her head down. She does the work. But deep inside, she notices things. Feels things. And when the storm begins to rise, she learns that the old stories were never just stories — and that time has a price.
This is the story of the first butterfly. The origin of Max Caulfield’s powers.
Were Max’s power given to her as a gift, or a learning experience from a girl from the past?
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"Everybody knows bards are famous for three things: Songs. Sex. Sorcery."
In the insular country of The Vale, the golden elf Jessamin takes pity on Kevyn, a lonely human boy, training him to follow in her footsteps as a bard.
As his musical skills flourish, so does the darkness around him. At 12, Kevyn barely escapes death; only surviving thanks to Jessamin’s dangerous, and powerful magic. From that moment, his heart belongs to her, and he dreams of the day they can leave the Vale for a life of adventure.
But something sinister is stirring in the Vale. Magic runs wild in the land, gods rise and fall, and the Wolf At The Door is on the prowl. In the shadows, an ancient evil with a hunger for blood and music whispers its deadly song.
Will Kevyn and Jessamin survive the darkness, or will the melody of fate lead them into its jaws?
A black comedy folk-horror romance. This is an original work based on Dungeons & Dragons, with much inspiration drawn from Harry Potter, Faust and the Discworld.
No AI was used in the making of this work. Updates are roughly every 2 weeks
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N wasn't the type to believe in cryptids or supernatural folklore, especially the idea of "murder drones" which just seems to be a modern mechanical twist on stories of old. The idea of worker drones, with all their tracking technology just suddenly disappearing without a trace at the fault of an undetected race of robots living in the woods seems out of the question!
N was so, so wrong...
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In Eastern Europe, two powerful sisters, Mother Rosamund of the North and Mother Carmilla of the South, each have an immortal sprite as a surrogate child: Alastor, a mischievous frost sprite, and Vagatha, a dutiful sprite of the aurora borealis. As they grow, Vagatha yearns for freedom, while Alastor falls in love with Charlotte, a beautiful maiden trapped in a difficult home life with her abusive stepfamily. Alastor wishes to help Charlotte but can only do so by becoming human, a transformation forbidden by his guardian. However, he persuades Vagatha to assist him in escaping the heavens to become human, and she eventually seeks her own freedom as well.
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Calls on a Midnight Stroll by smileforSmilez
Fandoms: X-Men - All Media Types, X-Men Evolution (Cartoon), X-Men '97 (Cartoon 2024), South of Midnight (Video Game)
14 Jun 2025
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Remy LeBeau, the Man from Nowhere has been dreaming of another life, a time so similar but so much more tragic than his life in the South of Midnight.
He enlists the help and guidance of their resident Weaver, Hazel Flood to unravel the hidden knots in his mind and reweave him anew.
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If We Were Vampires: Part Two - No Chains Left to Break by AlwaysAndForeverKate
Fandoms: Southern Vampire Mysteries - Charlaine Harris, True Blood (TV)
14 Jun 2025
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Sookie has built a new life from the ground up—a place where no one whispers her name, where the past can’t find her. A small-town girl navigating the vast, electric city, determined to outrun the ghosts trailing her every step.
Eric remains imprisoned in Oklahoma, shackled by an unyielding contract to a Queen as unbearable as the chains that bind him. But even in confinement, alliances form, a madman becomes his unlikely companion, his only respite trapped behind the castle walls.
Mysteries unfold—people vanishing into the night, whispers of secrets buried deep. New beginnings beckon, but freedom always comes at a price.
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- Part 2 of If We Were Vampires