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“I am going to ask you for something. You have every right to say ‘no.’ In fact, you probably should, but I need to ask anyway.”
Six months after Hob Gadling said good-bye to his oldest friend, Morpheus, Death comes to him for help with an impossible task. It’s up to Hob to care for the freshly resurrected--and painfully human--Dream, help him restore his memories…and ultimately let him go all over again. For his part, Dream is just trying to figure out who he is, what he's supposed to do, and why the dark is trying to get him. The only thing that makes any sense is Hob and his kindness, and the certainty that that all Dream wants is to stay by Hob's side.
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Now I Can Grow My Own Food by SaberX
Fandoms: 니케: 승리의 여신 | Goddess of Victory: Nikke (Video Game)
15 Sep 2025
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June 3rd 2148
My name is Snow White. I am currently living in a small cottage in the wilderness at the request of my Commander. He has requested that I write daily in this journal he gave me. I am doing that right now.---
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---The war is over, and well, Snow is kind of not really ready for that to be the case. So, now she has been deposited in the middle of the woods to work through her crap, and to write down whatever odd thoughts pass through her head. Maybe she'll make some friends, or trip on a hoe and die after having fought Raptures for a century. Who knows, Snow surely doesn't. This is more Scarlet's territory after all.
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---Snow basically plays Stardew Valley, Post-Rapture War.
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Made with inspiration from a playthough of 'Life on the Homestead'It's a really cool solo journaling RPG, and is basically how I got inspiration for this, and for what happens each day.
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- 1,877
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It was your wedding anniversary - and Blade left you a dress and a note to be ready at 9:00pm without stating his reasons. At exactly 9pm, he knocks on the hotel room door, and takes your hand for a romantic night away and a confession he's been keeping secret.
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- Part 11 of Honkai Star Rail
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- 6,656
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Castiel comes back, human, and suddenly the world feels different. Dean calls him Castiel at first for fun, to mask the weight of everything, but it doesn’t stay a joke. With every repetition, it becomes something else—tender, binding.
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A story about finding each other, quiet mornings, stumbling into domesticity, farmer’s markets, paint stains and coffee rings, maybe one last case, and the raw intimacy of learning each other without walls. In small rituals, they discover what it means to live without blood and fear, and to love without it.Or
A quiet love story about humanity, healing, and the way a name can mean everything.or
they get together, kiss, and have filthy sex, too.--
"The first time Dean says his full name, it startles him, deep, hits him like a thunderbolt. His eyes widen before he can stop it, and the word strokes something ancient in him, as old as the last wisps of his grace holding his skin together, and yet, embarrassingly human. It lands somewhere deep in his chest, somewhere to the top of his lungs, igniting him like a dropped match in dry grass. And something—heat or want maybe—flickers to life.
Dean doesn't look away. Then he says it again, slower." -
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John ordered a whisky, a decent single malt. He’d earned the good stuff, even if the reason for drinking it today felt pathetic.
He sank two, then a third, the warmth doing little to dispel the chill of irrelevance that had settled in his bones. The maudlin thoughts, usually kept behind a stout lock, began to seep out. He was fifty-five. A retired soldier. A civilian. A man buying biscuits for his younger, still-serving partner who was God-knows-where doing God-knows-what. A man so sidelined, he was drinking alone on his own fucking birthday.
or: John adjusts to civilian life, badly. He and Kyle settle into a new dynamic... which also has room for improvement.
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Daniel swallows the last of his drink. “So.” He clears his throat. “What did you call me here for?”
“I am retiring,” announces Morpheus, like he’s talking about the weather.
A celebrity au in which Morpheus steps down, and Daniel steps up. Shockingly, nobody kills themselves.
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Precious Little Moments Near the End of Time by OnigiriCat4Ever
Fandoms: Fruits Basket, Fruits Basket - Takaya Natsuki (Manga), Fruits Basket (Anime 2019)
14 Sep 2025
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A collection of shorter pieces set after the Fruits Basket: Another canon focusing (mostly) on Tohru, Kyo, and their grown children, with appearances by other characters as the mood strikes. This is a companion to my other collections, but focuses exclusively on events 23+ years after the end of the original Fruits Basket canon, picking up after Hajime's high school graduation.
Most recent entry: Chapter 60: Killing it - (Kyo and Sachiko, August, twenty-six years after graduation). Posted 9/14/25.
-Parenting teenagers is always fraught with challenge, even for good, caring parents like Kyo. He's glad his daughter is willing to tell him her problems, he just wishes he actually knew the best way to respond.Series
- Part 78 of Always and Forever
- Part 62 of Always and Forever - The T-rated version
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After the intervention, Dick's loved ones are always by his side. It isn't enough.
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- Part 13 of between villages
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Staring Down the Barrel of the Hot Sun by fuzzyshow
Fandoms: Red Dead Redemption (Video Games)
14 Sep 2025
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He thought to himself as he stared down the barrel of a gun, that the gang would be ok without him, it was only a matter of time, but he knew it wasn’t true.
Part of him knew that Dutch wasn’t in the right mind to continue to lead, that Micah was the type to rat them out, that something was off with Arthur. -
So Violently Do I Know Of The World by Pinkfrostdiamond
Fandoms: Marvel Cinematic Universe, Thunderbolts (Movie 2025)
14 Sep 2025
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"When you are not fed love on a silver spoon you learn to lick it off knives." -Lauren Eden
OR the fic where Bob meets someone who cares about him long before he ever had powers and becomes emotionally dependent on their memory. When he meets them in the future, (now with the edition of the Void), it becomes a full blown obsession. He struggles with controlling his impulses while Omen does their best to help heal all the hurt that has been done. (Obsidian black romance but its consensual).
OR the continuation of The Omenverse
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- Part 2 of Omenverse fix-it
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Wrestle Mommies by Elementalexperimental
Fandoms: World Wrestling Entertainment, All Elite Wrestling
13 Sep 2025
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Welcome to "Wrestle Mommies!" A fic series where I write different scenarios involving male and female wrestlers from WWE or AEW where they go through the beautiful journey of being parents! Whether it's pregnancy or raising kids, shenanigans will definitely happen when it comes to them!
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The Adventure of the Lighted Caves by EdosianOrchids901 for nununununu
Fandoms: Sherlock Holmes - Arthur Conan Doyle
13 Sep 2025
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Although Holmes and Watson are retired, they eagerly investigate reports of strange music and lights coming from the local Sussex caves.
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Death of the Endless takes her rules very seriously. Not as seriously as her late brother did, but still. A rule as important as "what died must stay dead" cannot be broken.
This time - she wants to make an exception.
She pays Hob Gadling a visit to see if he's up for the task of helping her with it.or:
Death brings Dream back and drops him into grieving Hob's lap. Dream needs to learn to accept his new very human, very mortal life. Hob is there to help -
One Million Missing Heroes! by ClairlyALily
Fandoms: 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia (Anime & Manga), The Backrooms - Anonymous on /x/
12 Sep 2025
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A strange case evolves into more for Aizawa. He really just wanted a peaceful night.
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- 1,950
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- 1/1
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Clone-A-Stucky by Anonymous
Fandoms: Captain America - All Media Types, Marvel, Marvel Cinematic Universe, Marvel (Comics), The Avengers (Marvel Movies), Thunderbolts (Movie 2025)
12 Sep 2025
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Steve Rogers and Bucky Barnes are a pretty normal couple, and they’re a little bit obsessed with each other, which is probably a requirement to being in love. But as for how their obsessions take shape once they discover the possibility of custom-made sex paraphernalia… maybe it’s not as normal. But who says it ain’t normal to make almost everything shaped like one of your fella's body parts?
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Himeya is a huge fan.
Not of Arrowette, but of Cissie.
It's a refreshing change of pace.Series
- Part 3 of Young Justice '98 Girls Week
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Attuned by EdosianOrchids901 for estelraca
Fandoms: Sherlock Holmes - Arthur Conan Doyle
12 Sep 2025
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Watson had never expected to remarry, but Holmes might have a surprise for him.
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Kakashi has spent his years of retirement building sanctuaries for his sanity around the village of Konoha.
Sometimes a man just needs a quiet place to read a good book, and sometimes he needs to share that space with a fellow reader who needs her own peace of mind.
A cozy book fic in which Kakashi builds elaborate and secluded reading nooks and annoys librarians.
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nothing retains its' original form by academic_of_the_endless
Fandoms: The Sandman (TV 2022), The Sandman (Comics)
11 Sep 2025
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Avery’s laugh is the first thing Morpheus hears on a Monday morning in early September. Just as he wakes, the hyperactive culprit jumps up on the bed and onto his chest, winding him in the process. Turning his head to the side, he notices Hob has already left the bed; likely, he is in the kitchen making breakfast. His heart flutters a little as he realises he was probably left to sleep longer, as he had been in a fair amount of pain last night and had not slept easily.
Set two years on from 'what was before is left behind', Morpheus is still adjusting to human life, Hob Gadling is being stubborn and refuses to give in, Avery is still being a ray of sunshine- but something is still not quite right.
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- Part 2 of what never was is now
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we wander on, shoulder to shoulder by ssaemilyhotchner (ssaicprentiss)
Fandoms: Criminal Minds (US TV)
11 Sep 2025
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A married Hotchniss season 18 fix-it — one ficlet per episode — featuring Jack teaching Emily what 'taking Ls' actually means, a redo of the Mendoza conversation, Emily in glasses, and more.