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>Be Lieutenant-Mistress of the Aquatic Hoofbeasts Stables at Derleth Palace on the Planet Mu by FailureArtist
Fandoms: Homestuck
15 May 2012
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The Condesce has her way with an ambitious young courtier.
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Traveler by sarcasmandcynicism
Fandoms: Dragon Age - All Media Types, Dragon Age: Inquisition, Dragon Age (Video Games)
22 Apr 2016
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My life is a lesson in change. It all started when I was pulled from my comfortable, average life and thrust into the unknown. That was ten years ago, and I've been thrust into a lot of unknowns since. I thought I understood, thought I knew the rules. And then fate decides to put me somewhere... maybe not so unknown.
☆Update 10/15/24: Rewritten version now being posted twice a week☆
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- Part 3 of Traveler
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the sky above them by orphan_account
Fandoms: Dragon Age - All Media Types, Dragon Age: Inquisition, Dragon Age (Video Games)
14 Feb 2017
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What happens in Thedas stays in Thedas. Ravi's sister has a strange mark on her hand, nothing makes sense, and apparently it's up to the two of them to save the world.
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Rather than being equally disturbed, Rai was looking unnervingly triumphant again, a smirk curling his lips as he inspected the dead man's inner cavity. His hand reached out to caress the stilled heart, fingers trembling ever so slightly, and a short laugh bubbled from his lips, as if he couldn't help himself. Lloyd was unable to hold it in any longer.
"What - are you - doing?!" he burst out in a trembling voice, and finally Rai turned to look at him, his hand leaving the man. Specks of blood dotted his face, probably from killing some of the other bandits, but his eyes shone.
Or: A somewhat messed up, calculating guy navigates the world of Symphonia, realizing that he has memories of the future from another life, and starts to realize maybe he can fix the world better than the original game. He doesn’t expect to actually start caring about anyone, much less Lloyd.
Now updates monthly.
Act 1 is now complete as of chapter 47!
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The best day of Wade Winston Wilson's life. by LlamaLlamaNewt
Fandoms: Marvel, Deadpool - All Media Types, Spider-Man - All Media Types
28 Apr 2017
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Wade kisses Peter... Or well... Ryan kisses Andrew. Deadpool loves it.
I don't even know what just happened. Pure Crack. Seriously, what are you even thinking of reading this?
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The Champion by HarmlessLandSquid
Fandoms: Wiedźmin | The Witcher - All Media Types, Wiedźmin | The Witcher (Video Game)
10 Apr 2021
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Maven is a modern women who finds herself transported to the world of The Witcher, but there's more to her than meets the eye. Will she be able to handle a world full of monsters and devoid of indoor plumbing? Will she ever get it on with a certain broody elf? Time will tell.
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The Half-Life of Element Zero by GraphiteGirl
Fandoms: Mass Effect - All Media Types, Dragon Age - All Media Types, Mass Effect Trilogy, Mass Effect: Andromeda, Dragon Age: Inquisition, Dragon Age: Origins, Dragon Age II, Dragon Age (Video Games), Mass Effect
02 Sep 2020
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After her discharge from the Alliance, Commander Helen Trevelyan joined the Andromeda Initiative, wanting to leave her personal tragedies and a psycho ex-boyfriend behind her. She expected to sleep for 600 years, and wake up in a med bay. Instead, she crash-landed on a snow-covered mountain, ten-thousand years later. She is alone, confused, and dying from eezo radiation. And the only sign of civilization is an old church in the distance.
A Post-Modern Girl on Thedas fic.
Many, many thanks to my betas, Dreadlordcherrycake and Duinemerwen, who have advised me on all matters of lore, plausibility and verb tense. If it wasn't for them, this story would still be in cryo. Any mistakes are mine, not theirs.
I have a regular work schedule IRL, which means I don't have a regular update schedule on AO3. This story is visually supported.
I sometimes tumblr at https://unhealthynpcobsession.tumblr.com/
Bioware owns all/legal boilerplate/blah blah blah.
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- Part 1 of The Half-Life of Element Zero
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Chicken Soup for the Soul and Other Comfort Foods by How_To_Be_A_Fangirl_101
Fandoms: Undertale (Video Game)
17 Dec 2017
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You're quiet, awkward, grumpy, and probably sleep-and/or-touch deprived. All you want to do is to eat pasta, watch TV, and avoid any and all social interaction. But you keep running into monsters that insist on talking to you. It's agonizing, it's stressful, it's ... it's actually kinda nice.
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A Northern Intellect by TeaFourTwo
Fandoms: A Song of Ice and Fire - George R. R. Martin, Game of Thrones (TV)
19 May 2018
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[ABANDONED/DISCONTINUED]
There was a moment of silence as the little girl gathered her thoughts. “I dream of a place that is not here. A place with towers of steel and flying metal boats. Of fires that never go out, of people so rich they throw out mountains of food and still grow so fat they can hardly move—”
“Oh,” Her mother sighs a laugh, interrupting her, “Wynnie, those are not like the True dreams. Those are just dreams, wild imaginations that bloom at night, when you have the time to think on them.”
“No!” Edwyna shouts, startling the laughter from Lady Starks’ face as quickly as it formed, “No, these are real.”
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Lady Lyarra Stark prays to the Gods for an answer to her husbands foolish southern ambitions, and gets more than she bargained for. But will her unnaturally intelligent daughter be enough to keep her children and the North safe?
Edwyna doesn't think she is as special as her mother believes. All she knows is that she wants the dreams to stop so she can sleep and play with her brother Brandon in peace.
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Kosuke Hikaru lives in the Village of the Hidden Leaf and her dream is to be the best ninja ever (she’s 4, give her a break). Well, that is until a self-righteous 5-year-old Senju Tsunade came into her life. After that, things get a little crazy.
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Advocating the Avengers by fandom_susceptible
Fandoms: The Avengers (Marvel) - All Media Types, DCU, Justice League - All Media Types, Avengers Assemble (Cartoon), The Avengers (Marvel Movies), Marvel Cinematic Universe, Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Heroes
03 Jul 2019
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It's a fic about a pro-mutant-superhuman rights journalist running a vlog which is my excuse to write Domestic Avengers. Allison Willow, the journalist, is not a self insert, and in fact did not even have a name nor a decided gender when I started writing drabbles for this universe, these are just the polished up versions.
It's just Domestic Avengers with a side of New People getting startled by the domestic Avengers, featuring a lot of shipping.
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What if Kay Adams reacted differently to Michael's marriage proposal? Michael Corleone has to test other options--and gets uncomfortable results.
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CT finds herself back in the wix world, this time growing up as Cassiopeia Black. She's determined to change the world and save her family - and make a better future for the alternate of the best mother she's ever known.
Cassiopeia Black is going to change the world - whether they like it or not.
Taking Over The World
Was
An Accident.
Really.
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- Part 7 of My Lives As Fate's Chew-Toy
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Many years after he defeated his last significant opposition, Kira rules the world with an iron fist. Still there are attempts at resistance. But Haruko, who just works for a menial job and reports to the secret police, wants nothing to do with them. However, things don't always go as planned.
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Esme thought things couldn’t get much worse when she lost her job. Then she was sucked into a mirror and sent to Skyrim. This is her journal.
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Assassin Among Heroes by DarkscytheDrake
Fandoms: 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia, Fate/stay night & Related Fandoms, Fate/Grand Order, Assassin's Creed - All Media Types, Kara no Kyoukai | The Garden of Sinners
18 Jun 2025
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Why are the most heinous villains allowed to live? Why do the heroes hold back against those who don't care for life? Whatever answer they give, it feels fake.
Could I do better, should I do better, if given the chance? With this mask, it's time for me and them to find out.
Monsters beware, for the evening bell hath tolled thy names.
First-person OC (no SI).Now with a TVTropes page!
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Axis by theladyofthelost
Fandoms: Dragon Age: Inquisition, Dragon Age - All Media Types, Dragon Age (Video Games), Dragon Age II, Dragon Age: Origins
04 Sep 2020
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When a green crack appears over Boston, people start to panic. Some say aliens have finally come or that it's the end of the world, but either way, chaos is king.
Recruited by the research company, Thedas Inc., Eleni "Elle" Anderson is brought on as the right-hand woman to the project lead-- a doctor she has a complicated relationship with, to say the least. Plagued with nightmares of another world for her whole life and an unlucky streak a mile-wide, Elle is surprised to find that the crack is not only the key to her nightmares but a portal to another world.
After a workplace accident, she's thrown into the world of Thedas, a place of magic and conflict, and pushed into the quest to save it. Adventure, romance, and mystery ensue, but while getting back is possible, the question of whether or not she'll want to grows as she learns to love not only this strange new world but also the people in it.
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A person from another planet wakes up to pain. He lives in a world that fights for very different purposes. A system cursed with an unbroken cycle of hatred. For better or for worse, his presence changes many things. He can only balance hope and fear; for when his life reaches its true end, that he can achieve Peace without Judgement and avoid Hell.
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The Landscape After Cruelty by abbyandersn (ahdraste)
Fandoms: The Last of Us (Video Games)
24 Oct 2020
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They were settling for her.
Well, at least their expectations were realistically low. She didn’t have much to live up to, considering everyone else was dead.
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Or, Abby gets a girlfriend. Eventually. Set a year before the events of the game.
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To See it Through by AvengelAzrael666
Fandoms: 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia
25 Nov 2020
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What determines one’s fate?
Is everyone the maker of their own destiny? Do the choices one makes directly result in the fortunes and misfortunes one experiences?
Or it is the gods that lay the paths humans walk. An unknowable, unfathomable being deciding where one goes and who one is?
Perhaps it’s all random chance. A million butterflies the world over flapping their wings and creating tsunamis humans can only weather and hope to survive.
In the end, it doesn’t matter what the truth is. Whether one’s path is forged before them, they pave their own or are swept along the tide of chance, everyone ends up at the same place. Death.
That said, for one unremarkable human, it is undeniable that the interference of a god changed his fate irrevocably. This is the remarkable story of that one unremarkable human.
Armed with the most powerful eyes in existence, Mikami Hiroko was going to be a hero.
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Esme thought things couldn’t get much worse when she lost her job. Then she was sucked into a mirror and sent to Skyrim. This is her journal.
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Welcome to Skyrim by Gradual_Apostate
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Stolen Remedy by Stormtide Leviathan
Fandoms: Fire Emblem: Fuukasetsugetsu | Fire Emblem: Three Houses
10 Sep 2022
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An ER doctor from Earth is summoned to Fódlan at the behest of desperate individuals bent on power and conquest. Now if only he could keep others and himself in one piece while trying to find a way back.
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how to get away with knowing everything about your travel buddies by AlexanderTheWorst
Fandoms: Doctor Who (2005)
12 Jun 2025
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I didn't actually mean to not tell him I knew everything about his past, present, and future. But at this point, I just wanted to see how long it'd take him to figure it out.