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How a Random Quirkless Orphan Ends Up With 6 Pro Heroes As Parent Figures by belicorn123
Fandoms: 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia (Anime & Manga)
06 Jan 2026
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Izuku is tasked at school with writing a letter to his favourite hero, but how is he supposed to choose between Eraserhead, Present Mic and Hawks?
Or: through letters, emails and messages, Izuku accidentally gets surprise adopted by a bunch of pro heroes
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Mike starts writing under a pen name, which turns into being pen pals with the boy he's secretly been in love with for years, because of course it does
Or a chronicle of Mike Wheeler's decades long, and increasingly ridiculous feats of yearning for someone he thinks he'll never be able to have
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Includes a "You've got mail", style of writing. After the events of Season One, Wednesday and Enid return to Nevermore, wearing masks of normalcy, while privately battling the weight of parental expectations, lost abilities, and a growing sense of isolation. Depressed, they seek a connection that won't demand perfection, and begin writing to a "stranger", leaving letters in a dead drop, never suspecting the person they're falling for is the hidden half of their roommate.
A slow, character-driven fic on identity, depression, and the masks we wear.
Little focus on other characters, just as small subplots to build the main story.
Season Two was not included. This takes place after the events of Season One.
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Time after Time (If you're lost, you can look and you will find me) by Artemisunicorn1000
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
06 Jan 2026
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"One minute he was with Lucas at the Quarry the next he was in his bed with a pounding headache and wave of nausea that made the room feel like it was being turned upside down.
Something was off.
He looked at the clock trying to figure out how long he had been asleep.
His heart jumped out of his chest when he looked at the date.
The clock read may 21st 1987.
It was suppose to be 1991."Or
After the deaths of Eleven and Will, Mike Wheeler is left griefing over the two people he loved. One night, drunk and overwhelmed, he jumps from the quarry—and wakes up in 1987.
He’s sixteen again.
Only this time, there’s no Vecna. No Demogorgons. No Upside Down.Hawkins is normal.
Mike is certain it has to be a dream. He just doesn’t care. If this is all he gets, he’ll take it.
A Mike-centric fic about second chances, growing up and finding love without fear and monsters, and discovering who you are when the world doesn’t demand you be a hero.
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Billy, Steve, and Eddie are in a secret relationship and have been...since before Billy first came to Hawkins. Steve and Eddie were best friends since kindergarten and in their freshmen year of high school, they decide to write to a pen pal, William Hargrove.
This will have bits and pieces of the letters they'd send to each other but mainly, the moment Billy stepped foot in Hawkins all the way until Eddie graduates high school-maybe more. -
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Gabrielle Delacour was saved from the Black Lake by none other than Britain's notorious Harry Potter. Rather than put the boy on a pedestal, the precocious French witch becomes his pen pal, his friend, and then more.
The initial idea was to have the least creepy Gabrielle/Harry story I could, without wildly changing ages or anything. I've read a few fun romance stories with the pairing, but often Gabrielle is aged up or veela shenanigans are story elements.
At first I thought I could keep it tight to canon, but the truth is that as soon as Harry starts talking to, and trusting, people outside his friend group and Dumbledore, things deviate. Not to the extent of my other stories though.
All content is letters between Harry and Gabrielle. Communications mentioned but not shown between these two and other characters are left to the reader's imagination. Some letters between the two are skipped as well, usually for narrative purposes.
'Correspondants' is French for Pen Pals (according to the internet).
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Everyone always thinks they have life down to a science, until life gets in the way. Then, they can't get away from it fast enough.
A collection of snippets and significant moments from the lives of Connor and Hank, throughout their lives and careers, brought to you by the Inktober 2019 prompts list. (Yes, I know it's 2025. Better late than never!)
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I used to live in your house. I’m drunk in Paris and it’s the only address I know. Happy holidays.
—Chat Noiror
Though grief leaves him aching with loneliness even among friends, Adrien finds the lucky stranger who helps him live again.
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Burned Hands and Dragon Tears | Tradução by ficsbystar
Fandoms: Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling
05 Jan 2026
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Após um encontro casual no Beco do Tranco, Hermione começa a trocar cartas com a última pessoa com quem ela esperava fazer amizade: Draco Malfoy. Eles trocam insultos e histórias. Enquanto Hermione se convence de que está apenas tentando reformar um Comensal da Morte equivocado, a verdade é muito mais confusa.
E Draco já está noivo.
Para aumentar a impossibilidade do relacionamento, Hermione está a 2.230 km de Wiltshire, passando um ano no exterior, na Romênia, em uma bolsa de estudos de Dragontologia com Charlie Weasley. Conforme as estações mudam, Hermione fica cada vez mais dividida entre sua cabeça e seu coração. Apaixonando-se por meio de cartas, mas encontrando liberdade no exterior.
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Ou: um triângulo amoroso pós-guerra com o tema de cartas, passeios de dragão e uma profecia inevitável de almas gêmeas.
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Stanley and Stanford Pines get forced into their school's nationwide Pen Pal project. The two of them each get a boy's address to send their letters to.
Stan gets a weird guy from Tennessee.
Ford gets an eldritch being from another dimension.
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stop sending letters (letters always get burned) by etheriian
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
04 Jan 2026
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“Do you know what a penpal is?”
Max paused the game and finally looked at him. “Is this a trick question?”
“No.”
“Yes,” Lucas said. “But also yes.”
Will frowned. “I’m serious.”
Max sat up a little. “Like letters, right? You write to someone you don’t know. My mom had one in California when she was a kid.”
Lucas nodded. “My sister tried it once. Got bored.”Will hesitated. “Would it be… weird? To do that now?”
Max tilted her head, studying him. “Weird how?”
“Like—” He gestured vaguely. “Sad. Or desperate.”
Lucas shrugged. “Depends. Are you sad or desperate?”
Will opened his mouth, then closed it again.
Max smiled, softer this time. “I think it sounds kind of nice.”
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LOSER mike wheeler shuts himself off and stops reaching out after the summer of graduation. will signs up to get a penpal…. it gets interesting
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Luna’s Lawful Guide to Lemon Drops, Larceny, and Llamas by galileagalilei
Fandoms: Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling
04 Jan 2026
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Luna turned her head slowly, taking in the sea of leafy columns around her. The earth smelled sweet and lush, as though someone had spilt an entire harvest festival on the ground.
“Well,” she said aloud – with no one else around to hear – “this is new.”
A sudden gust of wind tore through the field, bending the green towers nearly flat and making Luna’s hair whip against her cheeks. It also revealed, hanging from the plants, large tufts of shaggy, golden-brown fluff.
“Not entirely new, then,” Luna concluded, rising to her feet with a small grunt. She brushed off her dress – pointlessly, since it was already a disaster – and regarded the towering stalks with polite interest.
“It appears I have landed myself in a cornfield.”
In which Luna is accidentally blasted into the past courtesy of one of her mother’s experiments. Somehow, she then manages to hoodwink a Dark Lord, acquire a cult following, seduce unsuspecting wixen with nothing but apples in hand, and thoroughly enrage a priest.
Love, naturally, sneaks in at the end.
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- Part 5 of My Harry Potter Story Vault
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Minseo always noticed things around him more deeply than anyone else. In the summer rain, he saw glittering, weightless drops that seemed to float in the air like confetti. But he never imagined how one day this natural phenomenon would piece together the puzzle Minseo himself had been unable to solve.
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Violet Sorrengail lived by the rules, lived by the credibility of the Archives. She definitely hadn’t expected one trip to Aretia to uproot her belief in the Archives’ Historical Credibility, but here she is now. What’s the worst that could happen?
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Catra huffs and begins scribbling down some letters. The school is stupid. Her teacher is stupid. This whole freaking assignment is stupid! Sure, she'll do the assignment but she's gonna half-ass it.
In 7th grade, Catra is forced to write to a randomly assigned pen pal. Over the course of the year, she begins to genuinely look forward to those weekly letters with her new faraway friend.
(Or... Catra and Adora become pen pals! Based on the SPOP Creative Flex server's weekly prompt, the prompt being: "Letters, writing".)
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- Part 6 of SPOP Discord Prompts
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Gamilith an amrâl: A letter for a lover by midnight_blu3
Fandoms: The Hobbit - All Media Types, The Hobbit (Jackson Movies), The Hobbit - J. R. R. Tolkien
03 Jan 2026
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Bilbo Baggins’ letter was different from all the others Thorin had received at that time.
First, Bilbo actually got his name right. Very little people cared to learn Thorin’s name those days, so most of his packages were sent as “to the blacksmith in the woods”. He used to have a name, a title and a kingdom. And then, after the dragon fire, all was left were ashes, a hunted kingless kingdom and the bitter taste of defeat.
Yet, somehow as if a miracle, there it was: “To Mister Thorin, Blacksmith from Erebor”.
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But what shall they do, when a long awaited prophecy finally comes? When the war is sure, when the dragon wakes up, will love be enough?
Duty calls, Erebor must be saved.
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Alternative Meeting AU where Blacksmith Thorin meets the most curious hobbit by pure luck. And they fall in love with each line of their letters to each other.
ALSO, Alternative journey to Erebor! With new kin, new characters, new adventures and two dumbasses in love trying not to die!
Translation available in 中文-普通话 國語Series
- Part 1 of Alternative AU
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Old Habits Die Hard by hutaosghostt, ilikedemstars13
Fandoms: Marvel Cinematic Universe, Marvel, The Avengers (Marvel Movies), Captain America - All Media Types
03 Jan 2026
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"I’m not a good actor, I never was. Guess it took dancing in colorful tights in front of the entire country to realize that. You have always been the better actor between us, I’m sure. I remember how you used to lie so easily to get us out of trouble, how you charmed those girls we went out with like it was the most natural thing in the world. Later on you would tell me you didn’t even remember their names. Were you just acting then, Buck? I need to know."
Where Bucky and Steve start being pen pals in 1941 and never quite lose the habit...
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Hermione believes she’s found her soulmate when she begins exchanging letters with a mysterious, sweet and smart boy.
Meanwhile, Draco Malfoy is the bigoted bully who makes her life a living hell.
CANON REWRITE - HERMIONE'S POV. 4th year until post-war.
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Of Men Who Know Too Much by ChaosMarshmallow
Fandoms: 原神 | Genshin Impact (Video Game), 重返未来：1999 | Reverse: 1999 (Video Game)
02 Jan 2026
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There were tales going around the fatui, mere rumors really.
Usually, the Doctor didn’t bother himself with such frivolities, as the second fatui harbinger he had much more important things to take care of. Unfortunately, not all his segments seemed to share that sentiment…
For days now they had been restless, whispering amongst themselves and going rigid the moment they’d notice Prime’s presence, which wasn’t anything out of the ordinary, but it was starting to get on his nerves. How were they supposed to get any work done like this? What was the point in making these idiotic segments, only for them to spend their days entertaining these stupid rumors?
He was rather tired of it, to say the least.
So, when he finally approached Omega, fully intent on finding out what exactly had them in such a frenzy, he was incredibly disappointed by the actual topic of said rumor.
“A person capable of answering any and every question,” he echoed, his tone laced with thinly veiled contempt. That his own segments—beings who shared his intellect—could entertain something so absurd was almost insulting. Perhaps, he mused, their creation truly had been a waste of time and resources.