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Meng Shu never expected to wake up in a parallel world where VR technology is everywhere, but horror games are painfully primitive. His saving grace? A game development system that's incredibly easy to use, with a unique currency: player fear.
Every scream, every jolt, every moment of pure dread his players experience fuels his progress. With this terror tax, he can unlock the blueprints for every classic horror game from his past world. While everyone else ignores the genre, Meng Shu sees a golden opportunity.
He begins to unleash a series of VR horror experiences that leave players traumatized. Outlast has them pleading for mercy. Visage keeps them perpetually on edge, jumping at the slightest sound. SOMA plunges them into deep existential dread, and Alien: Isolation teaches them the true meaning of helpless fear.
From Silent Hill to Resident Evil and Five Nights at Freddy's, Meng Shu's growing library of nightmares has one simple goal: to become the undisputed master of fear and make the entire gaming world scream.
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Scott’s childhood was filled with bedtime stories told by his mother, stories of the other empires, of magic, of the gods. She told grand tales of corruption and the gods who sacrificed themselves to cast it from the realm, leaving the land they created and the people they guided safe.
Then she dies, and there is no more time for stories. Scott devotes himself to his studies. He molds himself into the image of a beloved king, elegant, knowledgeable, kind, and perfect. Always perfect. He provides for the citizens of Rivendell and watches as his kingdom thrives. He joins the Alliance, establishing trade routes and alliances, and gains a few friends along the way.
But something goes wrong. Something creeps through the land, corrupting it. Accompanying it is a creature of magic, a creature that speaks with a voice belonging to the shadows and Nether, and each day it grows stronger.
His mother's stories may no longer just be stories. But they may not be the entire truth either.
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empires season 1 lets gooooo, but with canon divergence, world building elaboration, magic systems, and some politics
(first fic in series is unnecessary to understand this one)
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- Part 2 of When the World Comes Crashing Down
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Four Corners: Behind the Wand - THE PILOT by myfatherwillhearaboutthisss
Fandoms: Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling, Four Corners: The Wizard Smutiverse (Original Fan Work Series)
06 Oct 2025
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The author opens her fic in the rain because she’s an elder millennial raised on Video Hits.
Includes: Ginny birthing Ash Goode by accident (not literally), Harry falling behind the cat on the call sheet (cat doesn’t even appear for about 80,000 words but I stand by it), Google-based New York research, and one headcanon about the Head Auror’s title that drove me to drink.
This is the first instalment of Behind the Wand – the DVD commentary side-series coming soon to a fandom near you (unless I ADHD it and don't keep writing them). Fingers crossed, huh?
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Before he was a soul reaper, Kurosaki Ichigo was an older brother. Big brothers are born first to protect the little ones that come after.
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Six months after Ganondorf's defeat, just as things are starting to get back to normal, Zelda begins having recurring dreams that suggest that her and Link's trials are far from over. She also receives a letter from a people she thought she'd never hear from, that only brings more concerning news. And if diplomacy and recurring dreams didn't give her enough to navigate, an old journal has also been dropped at her feet, describing a history very different from what she knows. Storm clouds brew over the horizon, and Zelda can't help, but feel there are things she and Link aren't prepared to know, things from over a century ago, that are now beginning to rear their heads in the worst possible ways.
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VFS-6787 has always been curious, though they assume it's just a part of their core programing. After a fateful encounter with a captured Autobot, their desire to learn drives them to accomplish more than their station would have them do.
(or, a Vehicon finds there is more they can do outside of the purpose they were built for)
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Tabitha is drawing some macabre art when her brother Nichols startles her.
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Worldbuilding (Because There Is Love And Then There Is You) by Beneaththesheets
Fandoms: Naruto (Anime & Manga)
06 Oct 2025
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All the things that won't make into the fanfic proper but that I've spent time on and want to share.
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A Healthy Rivalry by DarthDeadpool117
Fandoms: Original Work, Outcasts - Fandom, Dungeons & Dragons (Roleplaying Game)
06 Oct 2025
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When a rival team from a fighting tournament turns up dead, Amira and the others take it upon themselves to find the culprits.
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- Part 3 of Outcasts
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"Your heart," he said. "There's... an abnormality. A crystalline structure growing around the cardiac tissue."
Eden went very still.
"Protocore Syndrome," she said flatly.
Zayne's eyes widened, just slightly. "You know the term.""I know a lot of things."
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Dos dioses. Un mundo al borde del abismo.
En el Bastión de Térrenak, un imperio de orden y lógica busca controlar el poder de la creación, convencido de que solo su disciplina puede mantener al mundo unido.
En el Silencio de Kaivalon, clanes nómadas surcan los mares sobre titanes vivos, siguiendo instintos y rituales tan antiguos y caóticos como el propio océano.
Durante ciclos, un frágil equilibrio los ha mantenido separados. Pero ahora, el equilibrio se ha roto. Un proyecto imperial secreto ha despertado algo prohibido, y un sagrado sacrificio en el mar ha sido corrompido.
Atrapados en la colisión inminente se encuentran una soldado forjada para obedecer que descubre una herejía en su propia sangre; un noble exiliado que debe encontrar honor en un mundo que desprecia; y una nueva capitana que carga con el fantasma de un héroe y el futuro de su clan.
Cuando la roca y el mar finalmente choquen, ¿forjarán un nuevo mundo o lo reducirán a polvo y vapor?
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Foresight by MaraudingCaptain67_38
Fandoms: Game of Thrones (TV), A Song of Ice and Fire - George R. R. Martin, A Song of Ice and Fire & Related Fandoms
05 Oct 2025
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Part 2 of the Stag Ascension. Argilac Baratheon has won the battle of the Trident. The Dragon has been humbled and the Seven Kingdoms now belong to the Stag.
However, he finds out that there will be more battles to fight. And much to be done for Westeros. Game of Thrones AU.
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- Part 2 of The Stag Ascension
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'I grow taller the more you take away from me. I leave no mess, yet disappear when you stay. What am I?'
Daughter of a queen of riddles, yet never good at them, neither grew taller than 5 ft, but indeed a hole that the Queen tried to cover up, then did what royalty does best: ignore the problem even when it spirals out of control. Always leaving a mess.
'So, pray tell: What. Am. I?'
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- Part 2 of Garden Trove ☽
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The Spirit Tale of Fire Lord Ozai by Bored_Commehter
Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender
05 Oct 2025
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When La demands justice for Tui's favored mortal, Agni proposes a compromise and spirits become more active in the world of man.
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Fire Lord Zuko finds himself entangled in the spirits' schemes. He has been stripped of everything -- including his name -- except for the golden flame that adorns his head and the throne from which he guides his country. He... has a lot he needs to process, and even more to do.
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- Part 1 of Spirit Tales by the Sun and Sea
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The Marvelous Detective Comics (MDC) - SAGA 1:Legion of Doom vs. Illuminati - Marvel/DC Crossover Universe by MonkeyBuddha
Fandoms: Marvel (Comics), DCU (Comics)
05 Oct 2025
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Looking for an interconnected, overarching plot in a universe where the characters of Marvel and DC have always coexisted? Look no further. In Saga 1 of The MDC, familiar villains band together to form a brand-new, terrifying Legion of Doom. Together, the Legion will test our most beloved heroes and show them the devastating cost of saving humanity.
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World-Hopping Wizard with Patch Notes by patch4pray
Fandoms: Marvel, X-Men (Movieverse), X-Men - All Media Types
05 Oct 2025
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I didn’t expect to wake up in a white room, with three dice deciding my entire future.
Because nothing says “You’re screwed” like RNG being your life coach.Series
- Part 1 of World-Hopping Wizard with Patch Notes
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For the HSRTober 2025
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Tabitha eavesdropped of Nicholas who is hanging out in his room
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A kingdom fresh out of war sees the return of its soldiers and its crown Prince, which while good for the Kingdom, is bad for the criminal underworld, or more specifically...Bertholdt. The increase in security means eating will get trickier, after all.
Bertholdt didn't think life could get much worse. Of course, he had a tendency to be proven wrong.
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A Q and a Man: a brief character study by alexthebug1
Fandoms: Star Trek: The Next Generation
05 Oct 2025
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I wrote this while overtired and feeling philosophical. Don't think about it too hard or your head will hurt.
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