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The Grip of Steel by aqeldroma
Fandoms: Baldur's Gate (Video Games), The Legend of Drizzt Series - R. A. Salvatore
04 May 2026
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Ruin and Minthara’s long-planned invasion of Menzoberranzan has been interrupted with news from the stars: a battered and broken Lae’zel warning that Vlaakith is hunting any who had opposed her.
It’s not the only problem: Gortash, under the physical strain of becoming Bane’s Exarch, has begun showing signs of instability.
Will Gortash and Ruin be able to hold it all together and conquer the world?
Post-canon, endgame plot fic. If you like drow politics, liches, worldbuilding, and a plot that involves deities (oh, and Ascended Astarion descending into madness) this might be the one for you.
Updates Mondays, 3x month
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- Part 9 of The Black Hand of Bane
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The Gehenna Corporation by Powexistent
Fandoms: エクソシストを堕とせない | Exorcist wo Otosenai | Make the Exorcist Fall in Love (Manga), Limbus Company (Video Game), Lobotomy Corporation (Video Game), Library of Ruina (Video Game), Project Moon - All Media Types
04 May 2026
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"Face the Fear. Build the Future."
In the beginning, there was suffering. And those who endured it were told this was the cost of something greater.
A tale as old as time.
Hell has always known what the mortal realm has only suspected: hope is a resource. Clean, renewable, and most potent at the precise moment it is taken away.
The Gehenna Corporation understood this long before the first soul crossed its threshold.
Every cry from the vortex, every soul stripped of the hope it carried into death, is energy.
From that energy, an ember of Light was nurtured.
That Light was an instrument that was forged at tremendous cost…all for the sake of usurping the throne of the architect of this broken world.
The project aimed to infuse every moment of suffering throughout history with purpose.
In short, it represented the long-awaited "Happy Ending" that humanity had dreamed of for ages.
However, to the Boy of the Prophecy, it was something remarkably smaller: it represented the ultimate form of compassion.
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- Part 1 of Re: Ekuoto
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Maro Raitelis is the adopted son of the late Grand Duke Jacob Raitelis. He is cold and calculating; Bathed in mystery, hiding dangerous secrets. His servents are strange and stare with bloodthirsty eyes at any guest who dares enter the estate.
Amber Lucas is the daughter of Duke Arthur Lucas and a mysterious woman he refuses to talk about.
Neither want to tread the path before them, but when a higher power gives you an order, you follow through or face the consequences, however unfair they might be.
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- Part 4 of Restless Universe
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The ironhands techmarine, Hasdiel, is trying to reconnect with his humanity as his Primark wanted him to. He plans on doing this by pursuing the Skitarii ranger, Kappa-Rho-748. Unfortunately, being a space marine, he is not very good at expressing his emotions and desires. Especially without terrifying people. Luckily for him, said skitarii is into him anyways.
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The Architect of Lies by LuniniA13
Fandoms: Dragon Age (All Media Continuity), Dragon Age (Video Games), Dragon Age: Inquisition, Dragon Age: Origins, Dragon Age: The Veilguard (Video Game), Dragon Age: Origins - Awakening
03 May 2026
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Two decades ago, the Blight was ended by a legend. Now, as the Veil shatters once more, the Hero of Ferelden returns to a world that has forgotten the true cost of salvation.
While the people look to Marcius—the man they call Rook—as their new lighthouse, those closest to the Amell bloodline begin to feel the chill of a gathering storm. Behind the masks of divinity and the desperate decrees of the Chantry, secrets are festering. Memories have been stolen, old alliances have turned into cages, and the weight of a forced peace is beginning to crush the very people it was meant to protect.
In a game played by gods and monsters, Emmrich Volkarin struggles to find the woman he loves beneath the shadow of a growing ambition. But some burdens are too heavy for any mortal to carry, and when the price of victory becomes higher than the soul can pay, the only way to win is to break the world entirely.
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Once, there were no collars. Omegas lived as they pleased, not as prey.
Will remembers that. Sometimes, he even remembers hope.
Now there is only the hunt.
If you're an omega, you run until your feet give out—or you're caught and broken.
Will runs.
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Hard Rain 2:0 - A Hard Rain's A Gonna Fall cont... by Kromatix
Fandoms: 魔法少女にあこがれて | Mahou Shoujo ni Akogarete | I admire magical girls and... (Manga)
03 May 2026
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A continuation of the Small Black Flowers series, with permission of the original author...
https://archiveofourown.org/series/4338883😏
In the aftermath of the Blooming, terrible events have been set in train which threaten not only our band of intrepid magical girls, but the whole planet. Can the unified team solve the mystery and do what is necessary to save the world - and what price will they have to pay...?
A Manga Chapter 35 divergence, part 3 of the Small Black Flowers saga. Parts 1 and 2 (In Bloom and Wish You Were Here) are complete works. MAJOR plot spoilers ahead if you haven't read the earlier stories...
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1: Prologue - The River
2: A bloom and a truth
3: Dark dreams; waking fears
4: An anxious icon
5: Heartache and hard facts
6: A drop in the ocean
7: Smoke and Brimstone
8: Lost and found
9: New Girls in town
10: The morning after
11: Truth and reconciliation
12: Broken things
13: ???
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The rules were simple:
-Play the game.
-Survive the grind.
-Log out when you're done.But something went wrong. I woke up in Warframe: 1999, and the game isn’t a game anymore. The missions are real, the bullets are real, and if I die here, that’s it.
There’s no exit screen. No UI. No way to know if this is a nightmare or something worse.
War is all I have now.
The only rule left?
Adapt or die.
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My eyes watered, tears mixing with the drool, streaming down my face as I was face fucked into oblivion, the sound of my gagging and screaming the only music in the dark room. The assault was so intense, so overwhelming, that my body began to rebel. It was not just saliva. It was a physical expulsion of fluids triggered by the sheer thickness of the intrusion. I gagged, a convulsive heave that had no escape route, and it came out in a thick, clear stream of mucus. It coated the veiny shaft in one long, viscous string, slickening it even more as he pounded into me.
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- Part 1 of Dear Diary
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40,000 Ways to Die by Necronos
Fandoms: Warhammer 40.000, Warhammer 40k (Novels) - Various Authors
03 May 2026
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Just yesterday, I was minding my own business, living a peaceful life, but I was killed by a stool. Well, who knew? Perhaps calling those guys "DoWerasts" was a bit of a stretch...
In any case, after death, it wasn't hell that awaited me, but something worse: a distant, bleak future and Tzeentch, who granted me the power of endless reincarnation, effectively immortality. It sounds good, but in practice... in the distant, dark future, there is only war and forty thousand ways to die in the name of someone else's goals. -
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Part 2 of Killer's Heart
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This is not a tale of redemption.
It is the birth of something new.
Something feral.
Something that does not ask for love — it demands it.
Something that does not seek a place in the world — it claims one.
Something that does not fear the god who narrates it — it challenges her.Here, tenderness is a luxury.
Violence is a mother tongue.
Memory is a weapon.
And growing up… is an act of destruction.If you wish to enter this world, set your humanity aside.
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The full invocation opens the first chapter — far too long to fit here, and far too dear to cut.
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- Part 2 of Of Blood and Ink, of Blades and Quills
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"I was right there!" - Astarion.
Sometimes seeking out new experiences might not what you expecting. After installing a secret mod, I found myself within the Forgotten Realms, for real, fighting for my life and for those adorable companions that we meet along the way.
It is also said that a little knowledge can be a dangerous thing as events depicted within a video game aren't necessarily going to be the ones you are expecting to encounter. Starting with a heavily modded custom honour mode run might not have been the smartest idea after all. Still, I get to meet and be with the amazing people who just need a little help from a friend.
A/N ~ if you are reading this you've most likely played the game and will have a good idea as to what happens within the progression of the game.
This is an ongoing, serialised novel that seeks to cover the majority of the story.
A first person narrative which I've chosen to create, taking a journey where the parameters of the game no longer matter or are applicable. The encounters and major events of BG3 are mostly the same as you would expect yet circumstances and choices made in the story drastically alter future events and outcomes.
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A lowly rat-catcher, desperate to join the Royal Guard, rescues the very Captain who rejected him. In a world where magic is born of passion and colour is a defiance against a consuming grey, an uneasy bargain leads to training, terror, and a fire unlocked only by love. [Fantasy AU for The Pitt.]
Updates (roughly) every Sunday!! <3
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Ashes and Blood by Shadesia
Fandoms: Invincible (Cartoon 2021), Invincible (Image Comics)
03 May 2026
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Your genetics aren't designed for a citizen's arrest, Mark. They're coded for conquest and extermination. You're terrified of the brutality living in your marrow. You repress it. But the day your people land, that human morality will make you hesitate for a microsecond. And in that microsecond, they'll tear your head off."
In the wake of Chicago’s ruin and Omni-Man’s betrayal, Mark Grayson isn't found by the GDA. Instead, he is dragged into a rotting basement by Nicholas Greengrass—a youth hiding the blood of a Major Demon behind a mask of marble and onyx. Using ancient sorcery and the alien furnace of Mark’s metabolism as a fission battery, Nicholas rebuilds the fallen hero’s body, forging a tense bond built on cold pragmatism and mutual hostility.
Mark fights to remain the man his father couldn't be. Nicholas, however, wages a private war against his own corrosive shadow, clinging to the only human anchor he has left: Julian.
But in a universe of multiversal chaos, normalcy is a fragile illusion with an expiration date. When tragedy strikes and the world corners them, they will discover that the only force capable of containing a monster is the darkness of another
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A Dark God by Orexin
Fandoms: 月が導く異世界道中 | Tsuki ga Michibiku Isekai Douchuu | Tsukimichi: Moonlit Fantasy (Anime), 月が導く異世界道中 | Tsuki ga Michibiku Isekai Douchuu (Manga)
03 May 2026
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Every person who enters our lives is either a test, a punishment, or a gift from destiny. Some encounters, however, are fixed points in time — immutable, with consequences that ripple far beyond the moment. Yet sometimes, even fate rolls a one.
What if, at the very start of the story, Makoto had taken the wrong turn and never crossed paths with Emma, Shin or Mio…?
A story of fateful encounters, far-reaching consequences, and the dangers of awakening things better left untouched.
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Every man may ask of god his dream. I never though he would grand mine, for it was such a meager one. I was asked; Which Primarch would I save from Chaos if given the change? And I answered; Perturabo and the Iron Warriors! And now I find myself awake within their ranks at the dusk of the Great Crusade. And onyl one goal remains, deperate and insane, to save the Primarch before Chaos and his own failings will claw the Lord of Iron and his Legion into dammnation and me with them...
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Mahoutokoro doesn't teach you magic. It teaches you how to be a weapon.
Kieran Morgan returned to Britain as a stranger, bearing the cold discipline of the Jade Halls and the invisible scars of a tragedy he refuses to name. To the students of Hogwarts, he is an enigma—a boy who bows too low, speaks too formally, and moves with the lethal precision of a predator.
He wanted to survive his final years in the shadows. He didn't expect Hermione Granger.
Guided by her relentless sense of justice and a memory of the boy Kieran used to be, Hermione is the only one who refuses to look away from his trembling hands and haunted eyes. As the Triwizard Tournament turns the school into a political minefield, she becomes his unlikely bridge back to humanity.
But with ancient conspiracies stirring and the graveyard calling, Kieran’s deadly skills might be the only thing keeping his friends alive—if his own broken psyche doesn't shatter first.
What to expect:
A grounded, psychological take on the Wizarding World.
Slow-burn, canon-compliant character dynamics (In-depth Hermione).
High-stakes action rooted in Mahoutokoro discipline.
No Harem. No easy fixes for trauma.
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- Part 1 of The Hogwarts Gaijin
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A Good Day's Work by Wardown for alperez, Sploot, chss, the_samovar_is_hot, Sph0015, ThatBishLizzie, ValNotThatVal
Fandoms: A Song of Ice and Fire & Related Fandoms, The Black Company Series - Glen Cook
02 May 2026
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Jon Snow flees from the Nights Watch to join his brother's military campaign
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Arknights: First To Hell by Approval, Cynical_Waste23, Democratic_Menace, Filteredboi, Historicalman123, Opera56
Fandoms: Helldivers (Video Game), 明日方舟 | Arknights (Video Game)
02 May 2026
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A Helldiver designated A1, found himself crash landed into a strange, alien planet protected with a dome, orbited by two moons, and plagued by a cancerous rock, that hasn't been charted by Super Earth's Expedition Forces. With his Super Destroyer compromised and damaged at the last minute, join this Helldiver as he navigates through this unfamiliar terrain by himself, with nothing but his guns, his strategems, and his sheer will and love FOR MANAGED DEMOCRACY.
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A story that is experimental, dense, and transgressive.
Featuring a world where lucky souls strive for eternal power, losing themselves along the way.