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The Honor Student Who Didn’t Belong by RoRo0
Fandoms: The Amazing Digital Circus (Web Series)
24 Sep 2025
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Pomni had been the top of her class for several years, but upon entering a university she couldn’t afford, she found herself surrounded by wealthy students with frivolous attitudes. When the university names her an honor student and sends her to live in a luxurious residence with other students, Pomni realizes that her plan to avoid everyone is impossible. There, she meets five people she will share the rest of the year with—and a rabbit who seems determined to organize her days.
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A Remnant for the Third Age by JoltedMind
Fandoms: RWBY, The Lord of the Rings - All Media Types
23 Sep 2025
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Team RWBY walk though the Ever After portal, but instead of Vacuo find themselves in Middle-Earth.
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You only wanted a momentary escape, it didn't matter how as long as you found a way to be free when no one was looking.
But... If you were told you'd be stuck in the dark, living in a cave lacking in privacy, with a Jellyfish mer, a Shark mer, and a mer that's of a species you never even heard of, you're not too sure you would have taken that risk.
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Sophia, once a cleaner on Earth, played a game with her nephew that thrust them both into Sanctuary, awakening latent Nephalem powers that forged her into a saviour amid a war between angels, demons and humans. Now immortal but haunted by guilt over those she couldn't save, she years to return to Earth, where her powers might fade, yet dreads facing her past.
Abducted by a mind flayer ship midway via returning home, she's hurled into Faerun, navigating a world of hidden dangers. Among a motley crew led by Tav, a noblewoman with a silver tongue and veiled motives, Sophia faces treachery and deception. Astarion, a vampire with a razor wit, trades barbs with her, their sparks kindling an unexpected bond.
As a dark force stirs within, Sophia's choices could save two realms - or doom them forever.Sorry to add this next part, but I've had quite a few of these on this story, and I'm not interested:
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- Part 1 of Act 1
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Alice, an asocial young woman, begins to notice a strange phenomenon: people are acting angrier and more aggressive than ever, with no obvious cause. She discovers that a dark force called Depravity is to blame, and she must unite with a group of legendary warriors called the Ephemerals to restore the balance of light and darkness and save the eight nations of Fairylyl from the dark forces threatening their peace and safety. With its immersive worldbuilding, diverse cast of characters, and complex themes, The Dark Fable is the perfect read for fans of animanga, fantasy, sci-fi, action, and adventure. An epic battle of light and darkness, a quest to restore truth and balance, and a journey to save the world: welcome to The Dark Fable.
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- Part 1 of The Dark Fable
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Hissing Hatred and Healing Hearts by normalisoverrated
Fandoms: Marvel Cinematic Universe, The Avengers (Marvel Movies), Black Widow (Movie 2021)
22 Sep 2025
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America wasn't like the sitcoms Wanda watched as a child. There were no laugh tracks, falling was painful not slapstick, everything didn’t come out OK after 20 minutes, and the guy in the hospital didn’t go home at the end of the episode. If the Avengers were one big, happy family, then Wanda wasn’t a part of it.
Steve and Sam didn’t trust her and they were right to. Natasha was perfectly professional, as if Wanda hadn’t locked her into her worst memory and walked away. Clint had to return to his family and the other boys were rarely around. And Pietro, the life always sprinting parallel to her own, as crucial as oxygen, lay unnaturally still and silent, his mind closed off.
And then, one day, Natasha brought her daughter to work. And for the first time in four weeks, Wanda felt hopeful. Wanda was good with kids. Really good. And the others adored Steffie. Maybe if the kid warmed up to Wanda, the others would too.
… That wasn't precisely what happened.
Or how Wanda and Steffie hate each other until they don’t, and their sharp edges cut until they stitch.
(Can be read without reading the previous fics in the series, but you'll miss some of the context and humour.)
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The Future's What We Make of It by SkyfireCN
Fandoms: 逆転裁判 | Gyakuten Saiban | Ace Attorney
22 Sep 2025
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Sapphic September 2025 Day 22 Prompt: Millennium
Yumemi thought her life was already strange enough when she was wed to the kitsune Kizuki. But after they were spirited away, they returned to find that more than a mere couple of years had passed in their absence.
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- Part 22 of Headlong into fall (Sapphic September)
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The Soul of a Dragon and the Heart of Winter by WaffleBlues
Fandoms: How to Train Your Dragon (Animated Movies), Rise of the Guardians (2012)
22 Sep 2025
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Eleven years ago, Hiccup had turned Berk's fate around by pioneering dragonriding in the Archipelago. Five years later, he'd lost his father. Eight years, and he'd given up his place as Chief. Now, he spent his time rescuing dragons, mapping the skies with Toothless, and parenting his kids. Yet, something was still missing.
Far away in the north, a bastard sneaked around the kitchens, stealing sweet buns for the sister he couldn't call his own in a castle that didn't want him and never would. Every winter, people died in the city under the claws of beasts the court wizard couldn't keep away, and every winter, it got worse. The king needed to do something, and perhaps the tribe of Barbarians his people had encountered by accident would help. They had dragons, and you know what they said. Dragons were magic.
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“He’s going to try for an alliance, you know?”
“What?”
The boy gave a noncommittal shrug.
“My sister’s old enough to be married.”
“I’m sorry, who’s your sister?”
“Princess Marianne, the king’s been looking to marry her off to a decent match for a while, and Pitch wants her out of the castle.”
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Dark Choco sped up in the middle of the foggy road after being banished from his own kingdom. However, the cacaoian prince stumbles and ends up unexpectedly in the Holly Berry Kingdom.
A fully warm and hospitable kingdom, where the passion of its citizens is perceived in a stunning way. And also, a kingdom that, despite having a different culture from his own, welcomed him with open arms.
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A Wonderful World by Ekatma
Fandoms: Dragon Age (Video Games), Dragon Age: Inquisition, Dragon Age: Origins, Dragon Age II
21 Sep 2025
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That's the world. Everything you build, it tears down. Everything you've got, it takes. And it's gone forever. The only choices you get are to lie down and die or keep going. He kept going. That's as close to beating the world as anyone gets. – Varric Tethras, Dragon Age: Inquisition
I should start this by saying, I really should have known better. There’s no such thing as coincidence; it’s an illusion, a fabrication we create because we just want to move on with our lives as if nothing happened. For the longest time, I clung desperately to that illusion, to the belief that being reincarnated into a world I’d once known as a game was nothing more than a coincidence.It sounds so foolish, now that I think about it. I was so foolish. My only defense is this: the power of denial can never be underestimated.
Yes, it’s a poor defense. Especially for me. Especially after what I’ve done.
So here it is. A compendium of my life’s memories, jumbled together in the hope that someone, anyone, finds it in themselves to understand.
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A Song of Ice and Fire Cut Short by Dust by Starfox5
Fandoms: RWBY, A Song of Ice and Fire - George R. R. Martin, A Song of Ice and Fire & Related Fandoms
21 Sep 2025
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It had been a simple mission for Team RWBY: Check some ancient ruins for danger. Then they found themselves in the middle of a frozen wasteland fighting strange ice monsters. That wasn’t actually that hard. But finding a way back home? That’s much harder. Especially without turning into monsters themselves.
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Devious fae tend to get a bad rap. Jimin isn't bad, he's just not as 'good' as his best friend, TaeTae. In the fae's eyes, rules are meant to be bent, and more often than not, broken. So when he gets the chance to portal jump and meet the human he knows in his heart is meant for him, Jimin doesn't just take the chance, he makes a leap of faith.
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Meteri is new to Lyos
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Erik has been living on the streets for most of his life, shunned by his village for his white skin and hair. He lives a pathetic life, just barely surviving on his own in his personal hell of loneliness.
But the outcast is soon to find out his uniqueness will be the thing that saves his life when his village is raided by strange, monstrous beasts. No longer is he considered a bad omen, but a rare delicacy.
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For Regina Mills Gaming had always been her Safe Place away from reality. As she enters an online chat with a rival streamer over the latest game, she finds that she may have revealed a little more than she wished to share about her life offline. As she tries to push her new friend away, the girl only digs deeper. Regina's secrets come pouring out as she reveals a life under her mothers control and influence, as well as a dependence on selling her body online, and copious amounts of alcohol to cope. When Regina's mother decides to attempt to sell her to another man Regina's new friend comes up with a plan. What if she married her and came to the States instead?
Get ready for a 90 Day Fiancé Story that will pull at your heartstrings and explore the challenges of life and love in this digital era.
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WE'RE NOT CUTE! by 21fad3d
Fandoms: My Little Pony Generation 4: Friendship Is Magic (Cartoon 2010)
21 Sep 2025
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Humans from a portal to another world declared Equestrian ponies to be very cute, adorable, and squeezable.
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A River of Ash and Ember by HiddenQ1347
Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender (Cartoon 2005), Avatar: The Last Airbender
20 Sep 2025
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Rivka, a Master Waterbender known for his wisdom and unorthodox tactics, roams the Water Tribes' outposts offering his knowledge and military defences. When the Avatar group visits a remote outpost, Rivka’s brilliance leads to an unexpected interaction with the Fire Nation, catching the eye of the Fire Nation Military Council. Their paths cross again as tensions rise, and Rivka is drawn into a reluctant alliance with the Fire Lord, whose power-hungry ambitions challenge everything Rivka stands for.
Bound by a mysterious moon soulmark, Rivka must navigate the dangerous line between conflict and connection, uncovering the truth about his bond and its power to change the fate of the world.
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Stranger Than Fanfiction by TolkienWhiteGirl
Fandoms: The Hobbit - All Media Types, The Hobbit (Jackson Movies), The Hobbit - J. R. R. Tolkien
20 Sep 2025
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For High School teacher Ann Harper, fanfiction is just a way to relieve stress and enjoy the world of Middle-earth. That all changes one day when two particular dwarves are catapulted into her home and her world, leading her to an adventure that she certainly could have imagined, but would have never dreamed possible.
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Reborn from the "Knowing Realm," Kya didn't expect her life to have any more meaning than the first time around. But when gravity delivers her to the surface and a familiar demon lord decides to keep her, her life becomes anything but meaningless. She just hopes her knowledge of the video game is enough to save herself...and perhaps even her new "Master" as well.
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After the Emperor returns to life due to the whims of the gods, the world finds itself with a shaky peace. Kyrie, a young woman from Bafsk who is living in Palamecia, finds herself having the unluckiest day of her life when fate throws her into the Emperor's clutches. If she can navigate her new reality, she might be able to turn her bad luck into fortune... for more than one person.
It's a story about finding the good in life, even if things seem bleak, and of connections, change and growth.
... also I think I just like to write stories with very challenging relationships. And this might be the toughest one I've ever thought of! Anyway... I hope people enjoy it! I should be posting on Fridays until it's completed.
Latest update: Chapter 41 is up! The next chapter should be posted on the 26th!