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Blood & Snow by megumiblues for inkinmyheart
Fandoms: 呪術廻戦 | Jujutsu Kaisen (Manga), 呪術廻戦 | Jujutsu Kaisen (Anime)
07 Jan 2023
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Every year, on the Winter Solistice, a sacrifice is chosen from within a small nameless village to appease the ravenous God of the Woods, Ryomen Sukuna. Yuuji volunteers himself as tribute, throwing all his dreams aside, not out of loyalty to his village but to save the boy he’s always loved.
Upon meeting the fearsome God of the Woods who wrought so much pain and destruction upon Yuuji’s village and himself, Yuuji finds that even spring can bloom amidst the coldest of winters.
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Fiyero is still growing accustomed to his strange new body. The last thing he needs is a confrontation with Boq Woodsman, of all people.
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Magus is an intelligent construct in the form of a gun, stuck to the tail of a clone grown in her past image - Orphie. But as nightmares plague her and a discussion with her new Proxy friend trigger existential questions about herself and her future, unfamiliar feelings compile in the deep recesses of her program.
Is being connected to Orphie 24/7 really a healthy way for them to live the entire rest of their lives? Will Captain and Caretaker be the only two remaining roles she'll ever play? What of romantic companionship?
"Hmph! That's... that's ridiculous! Like I need that sort of thing!"
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“He’s not throwing himself off rooftops anymore. He’s not— He’s not asking for it.” His voice cracked at the edges before he forced it flat again. “He’s trying. He’s living. And you’re telling me that’s wrong?"
Stuart’s shoulders shifted, almost a sigh.
"This is his path, Nathaniel," he said. "And he must follow it to its end. You cannot shield him forever."Or: Neil is dead. Andrew isn’t. And some things are not meant to be.
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Title: Don't Go Where I Can't Follow
Description: “He’s not throwing himself off rooftops anymore. He’s not— He’s not asking for it.” His voice cracked at the edges before he forced it flat again. “He’s trying. He’s living. And you’re telling me that’s wrong?"
Stuart’s shoulders shifted, almost a sigh.
"This is his path, Nathaniel," he said. "And he must follow it to its end. You cannot shield him forever."Or: Neil is dead. Andrew isn’t. And some things are not meant to be.
An absolutely fantastic story. Neil teaches Andrew to live and Andrew helps Neil live vicariously through him. Tears along the way but with a happy ending
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"You don't even know me."
"Does that really matter?"
Makoto was quiet again for a while, his eyes falling shut. When he finally turned his gaze on Ryoji again, his expression was cold.
"I'm not sure what about me you find so fascinating," he uttered. "You shouldn't bother sharing so much of yourself with me, Mochizuki. I'll probably make you sad."
Ryoji stared at him wide eyed, his lips parting to speak, but no sound coming out. He felt his heart flutter in his chest again, and he leaned down so that they were eye to eye. Makoto didn't flinch away. He held Ryoji's gaze, challenging him to object. After a moment, Ryoji offered a warm smile.
"I think you have that backwards," he said, his eyes squinting slightly at the corners. "I don't know much, but one thing that I know for certain is that your heart is unbelievably kind."
Makoto's gaze wavered, his breath catching. He let his eyes wander back to the looming silhouette of Tartarus in the distance, and he reached up to brush his bangs from his eyes.
"You don't know anything, then."
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Mochizuki Ryoji feels an almost supernatural connection to his dorm mate, Yuuki Makoto. Of course, that's by design.
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Non-Human Player by Doctah_WAAwee
Fandoms: Deltarune (Video Game), Lancer (Roleplaying Game)
28 Nov 2025
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What does it mean to be human?
Is it the way we think? The bodies we inhabit? The morals we live by?
This question has echoed since the first spoken word — and still it churns, shifting with us as time moves forward.
But what happens when something far beyond human asks that same question? A being so vast, so unbound by our logic that it cannot truly understand what it means to be human — even if it has been one before. Could it live as we do? Could it choose to stay human, to remain shackled, even when offered a taste of the infinite it truly is?
The answer has always been NO.
But what if that certainty isn’t as absolute as it seems? Can fate be rewritten? Can even inevitability change?
One curious scientist — who has glimpsed the infinite and survived — is ready to help answer that question.
Together, they begin an experiment.
It all begins with a connection — one that might unravel everything.
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mistook all our sins by eryamn
Fandoms: Spider-Man - All Media Types, Daredevil (TV), Fantastic Four, Daredevil (Comics)
24 May 2022
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Johnny paused, hot dog halfway to his mouth, when Peter asked him.
“Huh?”
“Do you think people are born good and evil?” Peter repeated, legs swinging back and forth off the side of the roof they were stationed on.
Johnny took a bite of his hot dog. “I dunno, man. Why’re you asking me existential questions while I’m tryna eat a hot dog?” he asked, chewing.
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or, peter has a question.
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- Part 6 of inertia
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what am I supposed to do, with this?! by Anonymous
Fandoms: 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia (Anime & Manga)
10 Oct 2025
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It was the beeping that I remember noticing first.
The slow, rhythmic sound slowly became clearer as the steady tempo moved on; each sound slowly coaxing me out of a deep sleep.
With a deep breath I noticed the smell of antiseptics and clean linen
This, didn’t feel like my room
Shifting underneath stiff sheets I became more and more aware of how unfamiliar the world around me was. Where had I fallen asleep last night? The memory doesn’t immediately come.
I opened my eyes and was met with an unfamiliar ceiling; previous senses filling in the gaps to paint a concerning picture.
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A fan of the series is thrust into a time before the main story, abruptly waking as Touya from 3 years comatose after his supposed death.
Blindsided by the situation they now find themselves in, they scramble to accept their new reality and the loss of their old life. Working with the strange hand they've been dealt, they determine to work towards preventing what they can from affecting the characters they cared for well before they became real people.
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All I’m Left To Be Is A Mouth, And I Can Never Stop Screaming. by dumb_cake
Fandoms: The Amazing Digital Circus (Web Series)
26 Sep 2025
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The show has ended. No more adventures or silly games; everyone has gone home. But some can't leave, and it's stretching Caine further and further every single tick.
This work is built on the idea that Caine is the antithesis of AM in every single way possible. You'll see what I mean.
By the way, I started this before reading any fanfiction or fan theories, a couple days after watching the show for the first time.-
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That epic fic where Caine equal and opposite AM
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she's on the go, way too fast and way too slow by iheartwillsolace
Fandoms: Percy Jackson and the Olympians & Related Fandoms - All Media Types
29 Nov 2025
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It's been a year, Thalia had told Reyna. Just a year. I'm sure Nico and Will's baby is just a year old now. We should see them.
It's been much more than a single year.
A character study and discussion detailing staying a teenager, your friends growing older and having lives, and what happens when time trickles from you quickly.
title from where'd all the time go by dr. dog
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The Weight of a Word by Doumaverse
Fandoms: 鬼滅の刃 | Kimetsu no Yaiba (Manga), 鬼滅の刃 | Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba (Anime)
17 Nov 2019
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Kanao struggles to feel like she belongs in the Kochou household.
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No I'm Not A Human (Waifu Edition) by Anonymous
Fandoms: No I'm not a Human (Video Game), The Coffin of Andy and Leyley (Visual Novel), Demon Bluff (Video Game), Among Us (Video Game), One Night Ultimate Werewolf (Card Game), White Knuckle (Video Game), ENA - Joel G (Web Series), Witches of Adamas, The Thing (1982), Iron Lung (Video Game)
27 Nov 2025
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The universe is being overrun by imposters pretending to be normal women and it is the job of Commander Andrew Graves to sus out who's real and who's not, capture the fakers while protecting the innocent, and keep himself alive and his lunar base running while he's at it. Oh, and the fate of the universe is on his shoulders.
No pressure, right?
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What is death?
Sirius dies in the ministry on the 18th June 1996, pushed into the Veil by his cousin while his godson watched, helpless. A laughter frozen in time.
What happens when you die?
He meets his Death, but refuses it. Refuses to give up, give in- refuses to rest.
Is death when you take your last breath on your own, or when people last utter your name?
Sirius awakes nineteen years in the past, now a father, with the will to change the world as he had known it.
Can you refuse Death while staying human?Series
- Part 4 of HP
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Dean reads John's journal. Things get a little... funky.
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thus burns the dawn by MissingN000
Fandoms: 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia (Anime & Manga)
15 Nov 2025
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"Oh?" Dabi taunts in that flashfire voice of his; and Hawks is reminded, yet again, how easily he burns. "Tell me, what poor little bastard's gonna be riding your ugly-ass coattails for the next few months?"
Hawks frowns, realizing he's just set up a question he actually has to answer. Dabi will find out anyway, won't he? If there's one thing Hawks has learned, it's that Dabi has his ways. Hawks can never hide anything from him, no matter how hard he tries, a fact that will someday spell his undoing –– but there's no way around it now.
Willing his fight-or-flight instinct into silence, Hawks reminds his sharpened feathers he's not here for either. It'll be fine. The worst part of removing a bandaid is the dread before you rip it off. Right?
So Hawks braces himself, and answers:
"Todoroki Shouto."
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Hawks' doomed flight towards the sun is thrown off-course when he receives a surprise request from Endeavor's son, asking to be his work-study student. And soon, Dabi's worst nightmare takes a new form when Shouto joins Hawks' obvious-as-hell spy mission, putting them in forced proximity -- only for him to discover that his father's perfect masterpiece is nothing like he thought he was.
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wrong year by laertez
Fandoms: The Originals (TV), The Vampire Diaries & Related Fandoms, The Vampire Diaries (TV)
20 Oct 2025
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WHUMPTOBER DAY 19 | OCTOBER 19
Dehumanization | Living Weapon | On Patrol1114. Klaus wakes up to a silent house, a dagger in his chest. If he was attacked, then so were his siblings. Finn, Kol, Rebekah...
Rebekah.
Rebekah.
REBEKAH.
There is no answer.
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Tag-thing to flashbacks from tvd 4x04.
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- Part 13 of Whumptober '25
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Everything or Nothing by Wellthathappened (Cataclysmic_Calamity)
Fandoms: 文豪ストレイドッグス | Bungou Stray Dogs
01 Jan 2023
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College AU where Chuuya finds out that the boy he drunkenly made out with the night of orientation is his new roommate.
His arrogant, smug, very straight roommate.
And the boys are each convinced the other is trying to ruin their life by making them go absolutely insane.
Turkish Translation Here
Vietnamese Translation Here
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- Part 1 of Tell Me a Story
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immortality offers no mercy. in the stillness of a cooling room, a demon curls into the corpse of the only human who ever mattered.
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Gustave let go of a heavy sigh and nodded his head. Back in the Stone Wave Cliffs, he had come to peace that this was where his journey ended—For those who come after, right?—but it seemed like his story wasn't done just yet. Maelle had, somehow, given him another lease on life, and this time, he could live it. He could grow old. He could do things simply for the sake of doing them; every waking moment didn't have to be dedicated to trying to solve the issue with the Paintress, with preserving their civilization.
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Or: Maelle returns Lumière to its former glory, but... things just seem a bit off. Gustave investigates.- Language:
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"Connie eyes him from time to time, fearful of the rapidness with which Armin approaches his own height. He tells himself it’s not owed to the Colossal Titan, which has found a shelter in Armin’s body and soul.
Eren knows the future and he was condemned to know it ever since he inherited the Attack Titan. It was before he came in contact with Historia’s royal blood, before he could see the future. But it existed inside his subconscious, pushing him onward and forward, over the edge every single time. It was the voice that whispered “more” and “it’s not over yet, we’re not there just yet.” A voice he didn’t know if it belonged to him or the titan, or if the difference ever mattered."
or: a study on the titans and how they (could) affect the shifter aka the physical cost of each titan. A study on the price of Ymir's curse.