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Some things, it turns out, are easier to admit in the wrong language.
In Spanish, in Dutch, in words that feel just distant enough to be safe, you can admit truths you'd never dare to say in English. Because it doesn't count if you don't say it in English, right?
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the one where Max buys a dryer, Nico has a crisis in Switzerland, and Lance realizes Fernando understands French a bit too well
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Kept by the President by pedro_en_paris
Fandoms: Political RPF, Political RPF - France 21st c.
03 May 2026
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Pedro is nobody important. He is a broke boy from San Telmo, working in a bar, speaking the wrong languages, and trying to survive a life that has never offered him much tenderness. Then one night, Emmanuel Macron walks into his world, and everything begins to change.
What follows is not a fairy tale but a secret life built on distance, desire, class difference, shame, and the dangerous imbalance between being loved and being kept. Pedro is taken from Buenos Aires to Paris, hidden in elegant rooms he does not know how to inhabit, learning French word by word while waiting for a man who belongs more to history, power, and the public than he will ever belong to Pedro.
As their relationship deepens, fractures, and turns cruel in all the ways love can, Pedro is forced to ask what he is to the President of France: a lover, a weakness, a mistake, a passing refuge, or something far more difficult to name. Around them, politics keeps moving, and so do the people closest to power. Gabriel Attal and Stéphane Séjourné circle through the same world with their own history of ambition, loyalty, loss, and desire, reminding Pedro that love near power is never simple, and never private.
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The Saga of A Reincarnated Chao by CrimsonImpulse
Fandoms: Sonic the Hedgehog (Video Games), Sonic the Hedgehog (IDW Comics), Sonic the Hedgehog - All Media Types
03 May 2026
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A Sonic Fan isekais into the world he knows and loves more than anything else. The problem is, they are reborn as a mere chao. Having to be raised in a never-before-seen garden and stuck with a mischievous, inexperienced young girl as a trainer and partner, he slowly learns to unlock the mysterious and powerful abilities of a chao until they start to explore the world and use their knowledge to affect the events of the Sonic timeline.
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It turns out that being wired into giant war machines doesn’t play nice with human brains. The Earth Mechanical Defense Force, or EMDF, learned that the hard way when their pilots started going… neurotic, let’s say, after a few missions.
The obvious solution to that problem was to simply wire the pilot into their mecha permanently, that way their mind wasn’t being strained by the constant in and out. Unfortunately that strategy backfired and the pilots started going neurotic much, much faster, and this time they were giant and made of metal and much harder to put down.
So, the obvious next step would be to pull the plug on that idea and go back to the drawing board, right? No, that’s ridiculous, the next step was obviously to simply…
Make the mecha forget they’d ever been human in the first place.
Somewhere along the line someone should have pulled the plug, but they’d already invested so much into the project, and you know what they say about sunk cost fallacy.
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Outer Martian by Blackvoid35
Fandoms: Outer Wilds (Video Game), The Martian (2015), The Martian - Andy Weir
03 May 2026
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When activating the eye of the universe, Hatchling thought they were accepting the end to bring a new beginning, to restart the cycle of life. Letting new life form from their memories and experiences. After all they had no hope of stopping the impossible task of preventing their sun from going super nova and destroying their world. What they didn’t expect was to wake up on The Stranger. All alone. Drifting through unknown space.
The last thing Mark Watney expected while trying to science his way to surviving mars, until he could get rescued was a knock on his hab door……... -
Alphabet Boy by catkid3
Fandoms: Project Hail Mary - Andy Weir, Project Hail Mary (2026)
02 May 2026
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It was just like teaching his kids on Earth. Except it was one kid and he scooted around like a crackhead in a hamster ball.
A collection of short one-shots of Rocky learning about human customs and words. -
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An American student traveling across the oceans to arrive in Japan! As he navigates this new country, he will also navigate new relationships and sexuality!
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After the Others rescued him from the Darién Gap, Manousos wakes, and finds a face he does not expect.
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Yaoibus AU AKA Vince Gilligan Hates Me For Discovering This One Simple Trick to Double the Gay in Pluribus
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A free use BDSM society is in a resource conflict with a bordering sexually repressed country. When a group of soldiers from the sexually repressed country is captured, things get weird. Especially because one of the prisoners has a boypussy.
Multi-chapter plotty porn with switching perspectives.
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Project Ship by RegTheRag
Fandoms: Project Hail Mary - Andy Weir, Project Hail Mary (2026)
02 May 2026
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A Rocky POV of Project Hail Mary, but add in a sprinkle of originally named astrophages, petrova lines, and extra, extra worldbuilding.
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One day, his strumming was not answered.
The silence that answered his one verse of song was horrible and grating. Incomplete. Empty. A sick, horrible fear built up inside him.
(He was going to die out here. Alone.)
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Gifts of Spring by Calamityjim for LetoaSai
Fandoms: The Legend of Zelda & Related Fandoms, The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time, The Lord of the Rings - J. R. R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings - All Media Types, The Hobbit - All Media Types, The Hobbit - J. R. R. Tolkien
03 May 2026
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Link’s duty to the people had always been a gift he had freely given. When it is twisted into a cage, Link throws himself upon Farore’s mercy. She has always loved him and is more than willing to give Link something he never would have thought to ask for himself: a fresh start with a people who do not need him to save them.
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- Part 1 of Those Who Wander
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Earth is in shambles, and humanity is scrambling to find sustainable planets to colonize. Luckily, they’ve found a few.
Lance McClain is a cargo pilot heading to one such planet.
On the way, he spots something strange floating in space—a wormhole. A real, honest-to-god wormhole. It could be his ticket to fame and fortune! His chance to get his family off dust-bowl Earth and onto Altea, the wondrous new planet humanity has its sights set on.
Unfortunately, Lance gets sucked into the wormhole instead. His ship gets utterly fucked. There are no communications. He’s stranded on an expansive, unknown planet, and must survive and figure out how to get home.
At first, it seems like the planet’s wealth of resources might be exactly what his family needs for a better life. But when Lance discovers there’s an entire alien civilization living there—and finds himself forming a tentative bond with a curious (and pretty) alien—he realizes the right choice might not be so clear after all.
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updates probably a little inconsistent, as ive got other projects. aiming for 1-2 week updates.
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Kodir wanted to be Marc's friend, so he learns english for him.
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Spider-Gwen: The Warmth of a Foreign Universe by katumka
Fandoms: Spider-Man: Spider-Verse (Sony Animated Movies)
02 May 2026
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Although Gwen was rejected by the Spider-Society, she walked away with a multiverse watch and headed to the only person she had left. This is the story of a girl that Miles didn't ask for, but who showed up anyway. Can these two weave their worlds together without breaking canon — or getting themselves killed?
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“English is… is not first language,” the woman said quietly. Her accent was thick, and unmistakably Russian.
“Oh, sorry! I’m speaking too fast, aren’t I? Sorry,” she took a breath, and held out her hand. “I’m Yuna,” she repeated. The woman took her hand quickly, her hands bony and delicate.
“Irina,” she replied, before gesturing for Yuna to sit with her. Quickly, Yuna did. “Sorry, I have not been in Canada long.”
“No problem at all; welcome to Canada! Is that your boy?” Yuna asked, gesturing over to the child that had similar hair to Irina, which was poking out from under his helmet. He was taller than Shane, though his little hockey outfit still seemed to still dwarf him. He had a serious look on his face, but his eyes were light as he watched the other boys play. He was tapping his stick on the ice, clearly itching to get into the game.
“Ah, yes,” Irina nodded, taking a few seconds to translate the question, “Ilyusha.” Irina looked over at her son, a small smile on her face. “Is my Ilya.”
Or: Ilya and Irina move to Canada for a fresh start when he is six years old. He meets Shane Hollander at ice hockey practice, and they grow up together (and of course, fall in love).
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Томми счастливо жил на улице, пока не встретил дружелюбного инопланетянина по имени Дрим.
После этого все пошло наперекосяк.Космические путешествия, инопланетяне, приключения и, конечно, немного тревожности
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- 2,700
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Rage Against the Calamity by AmberDamselfly
Fandoms: The Legend of Zelda & Related Fandoms, The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild, Hyrule Warriors: Age of Calamity (Video Game), The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword, The Legend of Zelda: The Ocarina of Time, The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild/Tears of the Kingdom
02 May 2026
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Bokoblins, Moblins, Lizalfos, and Wizzrobe. One of each has managed to break free from the Malice that binds them. With their tie to Ganon gone, these monsters must fight to survive in a world where everything wants them dead. Yet, things are not always what they seem. For as unforgiving a land as Hyrule, it will continue to surprise even the most hopeless hearts.
This is the story of those four monsters, and all their unlikely allies...
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Look, I had this idea of writing a short story somewhere in the stone age (ambiguous whether paleolithic or neolithic) and so I did.
But I am still a massive fantasy nerd so of course it's still elves and orcs in my stone age fantasy. Take it or leave it.So a tribe of elves gets displaced (I guess there is a weird but specific pattern in my writing) and flees north into the desert.
Originally I wanted to write a bit of a romance subplot into this, but with a short story there isn't really space for any subplot; either it's plot or it isn't there. But I guess you can read a future relationship into those interactions, if you want. (if they ever manage to overcome their language barrier)- Language:
- English
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POV: Stray Kids, you, and one accidental demo that changes everything.
This is part 1 of a collaborative series from Rae and Noona! Thank you for diving in with us and giving our Bin some much needed love and support.
⭐Completed. Posting schedule - Two Chapters each weekend will publish!
⭐Changbin X Reader
⭐First Collaboration!
We would love to hear feedback as you go along with us to help us improve as we work on part 2 of this series! 🫶🏼⚠️ Content warnings for the fic as a whole: past emotional and physical abuse, mentions of domestic violence, panic attacks, on-page confrontation with an abusive ex. These will be tagged on relevant chapters
📝No Smut. Slow Burn. Strangers - Friends - Love Interest. Eventual smut for part 2? Will update as we go along!
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What Remains of Tim Drake by DineoandGriselda for g0thboyfriend
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types
02 May 2026
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“What was my name back in our old home?”
His dad abruptly stood up and left the room. His mother stared at her hands for a few, seemingly infinite moments.
He had foolishly not realized the gravity of his mistake and the rare opportunity his question meant for their future.
His mother seemed to gather her bearings after a few moments but still glanced at him like he transformed into something horrifyingly unfamiliar.
Her lips weakly stretched into a sad mirage of a smile.
Something about the twist of her lips looked like the porcelain pieces of her facade were cracking.
“Don’t worry about who you were then, Timothy. Focus on your name now. It’s the only one that’s going to be worth anything.”
The trials and tribulations of Timothy Jackson Drake in his new home of Gotham, featuring green nights, cultural dissonance, overbearing friends, a crazed bat creature, shadows, parental guilt, smiling clowns, and the birth of an oriole.