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Helen hits it off with Menelaus at her sister’s wedding. He is easy to love - steady, warm, uncomplicated in all the ways her life isn’t. With him, everything feels like it’s finally aligning.
As their relationship deepens, Helen finds herself caught between the life she’s building and the one she’s still searching for.
Until she meets someone who makes certainty feel like a kind of confinement.
(Modern AU)
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- Part 22 of Within the Viper's Coils
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A reimagining of the myth of Hades and Persephone.
New names, same heart.
Original names, ancient souls.In a world where gods are born with names that define their purpose, one goddess is born with none. For centuries she is simply "Child." When her father finally speaks her true name — Primavera — it is not a gift. It is a life sentence: six months bringing spring to the world, six months alone in absolute darkness.
In the deepest chamber of her cave, she discovers a crack that bleeds impossible light from the Kingdom of the Dead. She tries to open it with her bare hands. Not to escape her fate, but because she saw the King of the Dead once, at a party she attended covered in moss and nettles, howling like a creature — and he looked at her.
He has no idea she exists. She has already named her fungi after him.
Slow burn across millennia. Multiple POVs. A story about loneliness, identity, and choosing to love when no one asked you to. -
The Boy Who Cried FlameFrags by Jaywingsss for forealtheapple
Fandoms: Unstable Universe (Web Series)
17 Apr 2026
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The Boy Who Cried Wolf but Unstable-ised
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White as Snow, Red as Hunger by WriterDMathis
Fandoms: Schneewittchen | Snow White (Fairy Tale), Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937), Little Red Riding Hood (Fairy Tale)
17 Apr 2026
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Sequel to A Cloak for the Wolves.
Her tale began in blood and winter—the daughter of a red-hooded witch and a wolf crowned in shadow.
Her tale was taken, rewritten— a peasant girl remade into a queen, a mother turned monster, a woman who believed herself the fairest and would see all rivals fall.
But she did not know.
She did not know the child she hunted was the same child she had once spared. So the girl fled from crown, from blade, from betrayal—into the deep and ancient forest.
And the forest remembered. It stirred. It breathed. It rose. And so did she.
The Queen will fall.
The Snow Queen will rise, and the mirror will be hers to mold.
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The Upset of Camryn Arelaine, a Memoir by addipyon
Fandoms: Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, Elder Scrolls, Skyrim, Video Games - Fandom
17 Apr 2026
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Camryn Arelaine is not good at much of anything. A stewing discontent led her to embark on an adventure across Tamriel to find her calling shortly after her 27th birthday.
Upon her arrival in Skyrim, her world spirals into loss, terror, addiction- and culminates in the pursuit of redemption beyond an inconsolable depth of despair.
A raw, visceral, and sometimes unreliable departure from canon, reexperience Skyrim as a grim and atmospheric tribulation endured by the meek.This dense long-form diary, inspired in part by seinen manga, covers most major guilds, the main quest, several modded quests, as well as interpersonal and twisting psychological narratives
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Visions of CoroCoro Comics turned into Seinen
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- English
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- 4,078
- Chapters:
- 9/?
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All Hail the Naive Prince of Nanda Parbat by wichakos
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types, Batman (Comics)
16 Apr 2026
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Prince Al Xu'ffasch is not the youngest prince to rule Nanda Parbat, but that doesn't mean Dick agrees he's old enough. He wants to help the boy as much as he can. That starts by saving him from the Federation.
Or: An AU retelling of the rescue scene in Star Wars: The Phantom Menace, wherein Damian Al Xu'ffasch is the Prince of the planet being invaded by the Trade Federation, and Jedi Knight Bruce Wayne and his Padawan Dick Grayson come to the rescue.
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She had it all: friends, a father who doted on her, all the dresses and accessories she ever wanted while living on one of the safest colonies in the cosmos. At worst, she had found herself in an agonizing state of limerence for a boy while being pushed towards an unwanted arranged marriage.
But then, once ZAFT struck her home, she lost just about everything she held dear. It brought out a darkness from within her; a kind that turned her into a person she couldn’t even recognize.
It turned her into a person who hurt everyone she cared about.
Inspired by that one anon on Tumblr asking everyone in the GSD tag “what if Gundam SEED was in Flay’s POV”.
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Keeping Me From Killing You by FriendOfTheFugitive
Fandoms: Persona 5, Persona Series, Shin Megami Tensei Series
16 Apr 2026
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Akechi Goro leaped before looking - it was a simple opening, a simple proposition that would ingratiate him with his prime suspects. Their voices matched the ones he heard in Madarame's Palace. All he needed to do was confirm his suspicions. He rounded the corner and steel grey eyes focused on him as he appeared, sending his words to the back of his throat. Akechi's perfect smile bought him time, it always did. He was pleasant enough despite the empty-eyed looks possessed by the ones with lighter hair. Before continuing on his way after a miscommunication about food, he glanced over his shoulder, staring back at the lensed glare that practically pinned him against the wall.
Akechi set a task to add Amamiya Ren to his plans, unaware he already revealed his hand.
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A retelling of Persona 5 Royal, swapping between Joker and Akechi's perspectives with a heavy emphasis on Shuake/Akeshu. Original events have been added, tweaks to certain plot points to adjust for pacing, and the relationship between Joker and Akechi has been incorporated without changing the general course of the story.
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Our New Roommate (The Wark Edition) by J_masterHD, Warkiplier2
Fandoms: 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia (Anime & Manga)
16 Apr 2026
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(A retelling and remake of the story by 3PeopelInACoat)
After UA puts a new dorm system in place, Izuku has to stay with the girls of Class 2-B til his room is fixed... But things don't go as he would hope. For better and worse.
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A brutal counteroffensive on the Day of Black Sun alters the trajectories of Zuko and Katara's fates, changing their lives forever.
This work delves deeply into the world of Avatar, staying true to much of the source inspiration while taking liberties so as to age it up and break down so many of those amazing themes and questions brought up in the show. Specific focus on trauma, guilt, and PTSD; on the moral gray area that war creates and the inevitability of having to do the hard thing over the right thing. Early chapters set the framework, but later chapters are some of my best writing.
Sprawling, long-form character study (mainly 3rd person, with 1st person flashbacks).
Rated M (read tags). Ignore AO3—work first published in August 2022.
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- Part 1 of When Water Burns
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Oakhurst is a town with a bloody past, and a curse that lingers on the wind. 14 souls are dragged into the latest slaughter. How many will make it out alive?
A retelling of the Vampires SMP story, combining POVs to attempt to tell a cohesive story, with some minor changes because I sobbed while watching some episodes. You know the ones.
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Multi did not care about that case. If it was up to him, he would have just blown the whole building up. But he was not the judge.
Quackity was.
And because of that, he cared.
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- Part 2 of A Vial Full of You
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He may be a beautiful young man… or a black serpent lurking in the dark waters of the lake. One day, he appears before a local feudal lord to ask for the hand of his only daughter. But her father does not trust the stranger and proposes a game — a trial meant to reveal his true nature to the girl.
An adult retelling of the Japanese folktale Kurohime and the Black Dragon...but I made it SasuSaku.
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Hearts of Steel: An Ever After Tale by evil_woman81
Fandoms: Fairy Tales & Related Fandoms, Ever After High, Ever After High Series - Shannon Hale, كتاب ألف ليلة وليلة | Kitaab 'alf layla wa-layla | One Thousand and One Nights, Japanese Archipelago Folk Religion & Lore, Ancient Persian Religion & Lore, La Barbe bleue | Bluebeard - Charles Perrault, Dornröschen | Sleeping Beauty (Germany Fairy Tale), Смерть Кощея Бессмертного | The Death of Koschei the Deathless (Fairy Tale), Faust - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Slavic Mythology & Folklore, Original Work
16 Apr 2026
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Vasily Morozov, the son and only child of the legendary sorcerer Koshchei the Deathless, is navigating a world filled with luxury, illusive relationships, and political alliances where every action he takes could change the fate of his loved ones. He fell in love with the intelligent, clever-minded descendant of King Shahryar....but there are dark secrets he discovers through their relationship.
Katashi Fujimura, a Tengu with the ability to turn into avian forms, is concerned about two things: protecting his loved ones and paying off his hefty mortgage. But when he is accepted into his new job as a Junior Intelligence Analyst at DreamVentures -- an agency which works with the government of Ever After -- he is embroiled into a treacherous new realm where he has to carefully protect himself from the threats and schemes of those hidden from him.
Yeah, this started out as an Ever After High (but aged up) fanfic of my OCs and then just spawned into its own thing.
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red skies forecast herb of grace by icouldhyperfixatehim
Fandoms: Winter's Tale - Shakespeare, SHAKESPEARE William - Works
16 Apr 2026
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a retelling of the winter's tale, from perdita's perspective. original characters added and existing characters altered.
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Cìnche Cunti, overo Lo juorno de li juorne (Five Tales, or the Day of Days) by Das Märchen der Märchen (cotdanc)
Fandoms: Fairy Tales & Related Fandoms, Il Pentamerone - Giambattista Basile, Nennillo e Nennella | Nennillo and Nennella (Italy Fairy Tale), Lo dragone | The Dragon (Italy Fairy Tale), Li sette palommielle | The Seven Doves (Italy Fairy Tale), Corvetto (Italy Fairy Tale), Li tre ri animale | The Three Enchanted Princes (Italy Fairy Tale), Lo cuorvo | The Raven (Italy Fairy Tale), Original Work, Brüderchen und Schwesterchen | Brother and Sister (Germany Fairy Tale)
16 Apr 2026
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(Written in Commonwealth English despite the Neapolitan title).
When a brother and sister are torn apart and raised to live utterly different lives, how shall they ever reunite… without first trying to kill one another?
One becomes an honourable captain, sworn to serve the Imperio and guard the coasts of Naples.
The other becomes a cunning corsair, sworn to make the Mediterranean tremble before Le Corzare.A retelling of Nennillo and Nennella (the earliest record of Brother and Sister) through five other fairy tales.
“Sing me tonight, I pray thee, a song,
Thou who art fair, and hast a voice of gold!
Sing it tonight, and if I die ere long,
I die hearing a sweet song unfold!” -
Standing in Blood (It's a Taste of Bittersweet) by lottielovebuzz
Fandoms: Dragon Age - All Media Types, Dragon Age (Video Games), Dragon Age II
16 Apr 2026
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When Maeva Hawke fled from Ferelden to Kirkwall, the last thing she expected was for her life to change so drastically. Not just because she and her family have nothing to her name, nor because of the strange group of friends she's ended up with...but because of the odd, kind-hearted Warden mage that constantly plagues her thoughts.
And as tensions between mages and templars in Kirkwall begin to rise, Maeva finds that, no matter what, she and her friends are always at the centre. And her heart may no survive everything she will have to endure.
A novelisation of Dragon Age II with heavy focus on the Fem!Hawke/Anders romance.
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- Part 2 of A Light Kept Alive Under Darkened Skies
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Blood and Vows by Plaidamoosette
Fandoms: Gladiator (Movies - Scott), Ancient Roman Religion & Lore
16 Apr 2026
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There was a time before Rome ruled everything. A time when it was so ravaged by war, her resources spread thin, that Rome was left vulnerable. Rome was on its last legs. She had no future. No generations to carry her name into the next era.
Emperor Geta is faced with a horrible decision: let Rome disappear into oblivion as the last generation ages... or make the next generation. But how does one do such a thing without women? Rome was overflowing with wealth and resources, but she lacks one crucial thing.
Women. Mothers.
So, the Emperor is force to make a choice that will haunt Rome for all eternity.
If his allies will not provide wives for his men and mothers for the next generation, then he will take them.
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A retelling of the Rape of the Sabine Women.
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No Paths Are Bound - The Podfic by Cataclysmic_Calamity, Danmei_Podfics_With_Gem, FantasticDino, hells-ells (FireflyBells), RedLikeRoses11
Fandoms: 天官赐福 - 墨香铜臭 | Tiān Guān Cì Fú - Mòxiāng Tóngxiù, 天官赐福 | Heaven Official's Blessing (Cartoon)
16 Apr 2026
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Xie Lian found something in himself that he thought was gone—worn away with every mistake he had made.
Faith.
His arms opened, and the child was hesitant—but eventually, he fell into them, his body trembling with silent sobs.
"I remember you," he whispered again, voice breaking as Hong-er clung to him.
I remember you.
I remember you.
I will always, for as long as I live, remember you.
(A re-telling of TGCF where Xie Lian has his cursed shackle placed in his eyes, blinding him. And yet, through all of his struggles; there is always someone watching over him.)
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- Part 5 of No Paths Are Bound + Extras