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They said they’d keep it casual.
No promises, no labels, no complications.But somewhere between wanting and letting go, they lost the line they swore they wouldn’t cross.
What used to be easy starts to feel too much like love — and when silence becomes safer than honesty, everything falls apart quietly. Months later, they meet again, carrying the same ache, the same questions:
Did they mean it when they said it was nothing?
And if it was nothing, why does it still hurt this much?Because some people aren’t meant to stay casual.
Some people you keep pretending you don’t love — until you can’t anymore. -
Strawberry Fields by AsherMarie
Fandoms: The Summer I Turned Pretty (TV 2022), The Summer I Turned Pretty Trilogy - Jenny Han
21 Oct 2025
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Wherein Belly never met the Fishers, but fate had other plans. What started as penpal letters with Conrad turns into something much messier when he suddenly transfers to her school—right when she already has a boyfriend.
Belly/Conrad center fic.
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The reincarnated person is the main character, not the ori master or the mob.
Many hardships await, and in the end, I will sacrifice everything and retire.
However, that momentary sparkle attracted fans helplessly.
"I will become the strongest Mr. Gon!" -
Between seclusion and empathy by Kaffenori
Fandoms: 魔道祖师 - 墨香铜臭 | Módào Zǔshī - Mòxiāng Tóngxiù
21 Oct 2025
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Jiang Cheng is overwhelmed by the avalanche of emotions that awaken in him after he learns the truth about the secret of his golden core. In attempting to enter seclusion (and miserably failing during such attempt) and learning that Sect Leader Lan has also opted for the same path, Sect Leader Jiang experiences a small glimpse of empathy. Do Lan Xichen and him have more in common than he thought? And... How can seclusion bind together a pair of broken souls? | Mixing various canons, so that Xichen and Jiang Cheng enter seclusion at the same time | XiCheng as the main ship | WangXian as the side ship
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free me, please. by sseungzhuo for seungmooongiiiee
Fandoms: Stray Kids (Band), Aespa (Band)
21 Oct 2025
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everyday not matter what day seungmin wakes up knowing exactly how his day will go.
get up, get ready for work, get shouted at by his boss, come home, felix tries to cheer him up, lee minho tries to undo it.
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The Meteor drifts through the furthest ring, half a home and half a death trap.
When a coolant leak threatens to melt the entire reactor bay, Karkat and Eridan are forced to work together to keep everyone alive which would be fine, if they didn’t also want to strangle each other every five minutes.There’s shouting, there’s sarcasm, there’s steam, and there might even be something like understanding buried under all the noise.
Featuring: explosions, too many feelings, and the entire crew’s inability to handle emotional vulnerability.
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NFWMB (Nothing fucks with my baby) by Readme4fun
Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender (Cartoon 2005)
21 Oct 2025
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The story takes place five years after the original events of ATLA.
What would happen if Aang breaks out of the iceberg five years later? How would the world look, and more importantly how would the characters change?
21 year old Zuko has been out at sea for the last six years, since his banishment. One day he sees a clear blue light near the South Pole. Naturally he investigates, not in the hopes of regaining his honour. That is something that he lost hope of long ago, instead he does it for the sake of his crew of misfits. Little does he know that the strange blue light is about to rock his fucking world upside down.
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* Chapter 1-10 The prisoner
* Chapter 11-28 The chase
* Chapter 29-49 Ba Sing Se
* Chapter 50-60 The guardians
* Chapter 61-70 The fate of the world
(Later chapters are generally longer)Mind the tags! A lot of focus on the spirit world, the avatars and what’s needed to end a 100 year old war. Moreover it's centered around Zuko, Katara, Mai, Ty-Lee and Toph. Aang and Sokka are important, but not main characters.
Please note that this is a WIP, chapters are posted consistently every Saturday.
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Tales of Humble Scrap & Ghost King by Yirochann
Fandoms: 天官赐福 - 墨香铜臭 | Tiān Guān Cì Fú - Mòxiāng Tóngxiù
21 Oct 2025
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When Xie Lian, the disaster-prone god of misfortune, accidentally bumps into Hua Cheng, the ever-cheeky Crimson King, neither expects their paths to cross so suddenly. With a sly grin, Hua Cheng insists they step into a nearby teahouse for a break. Over steaming cups of osmanthus tea, their conversation flows between teasing remarks, witty banter, and subtle challenges. As Hua Cheng’s playful charm unfolds and Xie Lian’s earnest stubbornness shines through, it quickly becomes clear that this unlikely meeting is only the beginning of something far more interesting than either could have imagined.
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A mysterious, ever-shifting library draws six visitors into a place where memory, love, and loss intertwine in ways they can barely understand.
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- Part 23 of The Donghyuck Disaster Files
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Dennis Whitaker has had to work twice as hard just to do half as good as everyone else. He's a hopeless case and deep down he knew it and so did everyone else.
and his boss?
Well Michael Robinavitch is no hero, he's just a man carrying more than he can handle.
AKA - extreme slow burn and angst
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Namgyu landed on the ground, the papers he carried shattered across the cold floor.
Looking up at the person he had bumped into- he let out a loud sigh, of course it had to be Lee Myunggi.Myunggi looked down at the boy below him,
His gaze darkened, he had always deeply despised Namgyu and his dumb failed rapper friend Subong. -
I Spent My High-School Career Spit on and Shoved to Agree by P0is0n_and_ker0sene
Fandoms: My Chemical Romance, I'm Not Okay (I Promise) - My Chemical Romance (Music Video), Fall Out Boy, Green Day, Panic! at the Disco
21 Oct 2025
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Illiana and Nikolai McMillin have to face the ultimate teenage horror: moving to a new town and starting a new school.
Lucky for them, two new friends Leroy Perović and Tray Ramirez are there to face the horror with them.
A story of friendship, coming-of-age, asshole classmates, unmatched obliviousness, and way too much drama experienced by four teenagers over the span of about two years. -
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Blood In the Water - SECOND COURSE by Sub_Stance
Fandoms: Zenless Zone Zero (Video Game)
21 Oct 2025
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Late one night after a commission with a mysterious proxy she's never heard of before, comes across a girl on the subway she quickly befriends. Instead of ending there this meeting of two people results in turbulent weather that reveals truths between and around themselves. Will this unlikely pair weather through the storm and come out stronger, or let everything they hold dear be consumed as a result? Find out now as we wade through, the Blood in The Water.
After an (unintentional) year in development, Blood in the Water is back for a second course in a fully realized story rife with new twists and turns alongside a heap of emotional and physical baggage that dives into the character of Ellen Joe along with a peek into the mystery that is the Phaethon Siblings.
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- Part 2 of BITW
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An Operative from an unknown species is researching places on Earth that are known for strange occurrences in 2025.
Her mission is to find Prothean technology to help her people build weapons to defeat, or protect against, the reapers.
As she scans an area she was ordered to look into she touches something accidentally and is suddenly flung into 2183
Now she needs to keep herself alive against her own people who think she abandoned her mission as well as help save the galaxy when she discovers the reaper threat is now here. That is if she can.
Primarily Garrus/OC
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yours truly by CY_wants_towrite
Fandoms: 陈情令 | The Untamed (TV), 魔道祖师 - 墨香铜臭 | Módào Zǔshī - Mòxiāng Tóngxiù, 魔道祖师 | Módào Zǔshī (Cartoon)
21 Oct 2025
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Recovered from the archives of Cloud Recesses are the scattered pages of Wei Wuxian’s diary, written during his seclusion, alongside correspondence exchanged with Lan Xichen and other members of the Lan sect.
Lan Zhan hasn’t tried to talk to me even once... he keeps looking at me from across rooms but he never tries to talk.
Zewu Jun let A-Yuan stay in the Hanshi for the night. He said “it will do you both good.” He’s too kind. Too good to someone like me. He even offered Liebing to me for playing since I miss Chenqing. I don’t know how to repay it. I don’t think I can.And yet, I want to keep his kindness for myself.
it feels trivial to say in a letter but I find myself thinking of you more often. We exchange letters so frequently, and yet, they cannot bear even a fraction of you.
I remind myself you are not mine to think of. I remind myself so often that the reminder becomes its own prayer. Do not look toward light that does not fall for you. -
Ichor and Enmity by DoflamingosStrings
Fandoms: Superman (Movie 2025), Superman - All Media Types
21 Oct 2025
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Lex Luthor had been a vampire for 5 years now. Unfortunately for him, he has an insatiable appetite and a palate that seems unable to be sated in any sense of the word. But, when Lex creates a clone of Superman, Ultraman, he is finally able to eat without being repulsed.
But, when Ultraman is killed in his conflict with Superman and Lex is left without a proper food source or fuck body, his intent on seeking revenge is multiplied. Without an adequate food source, Lex can’t control his urges and is forced to submit to his bloodlust.
Clark Kent, noticing a string of odd assaults in Metropolis, begins connecting Lex Luthor’s recent release from Belle Reeve to what the public is considering to be ‘vampire attacks’. Superman needs to take responsibility for his transgressions, and Clark Kent is getting dangerously close to a malnourished predator.
Lex’s urges can only be quelled with blood, and Clark Kent smells suspiciously sweet.
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Blaine Anderson, a star Cheerio, meets Kurt Hummel, kind of a nobody. Not wanting to risk his career as a cheerleader, Blaine (though well aware of his sexuality) doesn't want to come out. What will happen?
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Daniela Avanzini had been walking for hours, her sneakers soaked through, her mind fogged over by grief. The bridge over Lockwood Falls was the last place she’d seen her parents alive, twisted metal, broken glass, the sound of screaming she still couldn’t forget. Now, the silence felt heavier than the river mist curling around the railings.
or basically a Katseye x TVDU au
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dial-up hearts by elkysakura
Fandoms: 鬼滅の刃 | Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba (Anime), 鬼滅の刃 | Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba (Manga)
21 Oct 2025
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By day, they passed each other in the hall: one keeping his head down, the other pretending not to notice him.
By night, they talked for hours, telling each other things they’d never say out loud.Neither of them realized how close their worlds really were.
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