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Jack’s Breadline was a little bakery in Hell’s Kitchen that did good business. And then Steve Rogers walked in looking for a cinnamon roll and everything went aRYE.
Or the bakery AU where Matt’s baking attracts superheroes and subsequently ruins his life.
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20 Aug 2026
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*Un-Time Travels Your Fix-It* by chermit
Fandoms: Star Wars Prequel Trilogy, Star Wars: The Clone Wars (2008) - All Media Types
08 Aug 2026
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You already know how the story goes: after dying at the hands of Darth Vader, Obi-Wan Kenobi wakes up in the body of his younger self years before the rise of the Empire. Having been given a second chance, Obi-Wan raises Anakin Skywalker to be slightly less homicidal, stops a number of Jedi from falling and/or dying, prevents the War, reforms the Jedi Order, befriends a Mandalorian or two, curbstomps Palpatine, etc. It takes many years and a few hundred thousand words of being very badass while pretending not to have PTSD around his loved ones, but eventually, Obi-Wan prevents a horrible future that only he knows about and gets a happy ending.
This is not that story.
This is the story of how, just before the grand climax of his time travel fix-it, Obi-Wan Kenobi loses a few decades of his memory, reverting him to the person he was at the age of thirty-six — the first time. Now no one knows about the horrible future Obi-Wan is supposed to prevent, least of all Obi-Wan himself. Whoops.
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17 Aug 2026
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Life During Wartime by chermit
Fandoms: Star Wars: The Clone Wars (2008) - All Media Types
28 Jun 2025
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Commander Fox has a lot on his plate: managing his Corries, filling out piles of forms, dealing with obnoxious Senators, and not thinking about the way he keeps waking up covered in other people's blood. All that considered, he really doesn't have time to deal with being investigated by the Captain of the 501st and the Head of the Jedi Order for two separate murders he (probably) didn't (want to) commit. But Fox is a soldier, and good soldiers follow orders, so when does he ever get what he wants?
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17 Aug 2026
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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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- Part 4 of As Hubris Blinds The Mighty
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16 Aug 2026
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Nor Is He Early by ObliqueVion
Fandoms: Transformers - All Media Types, Transformers Generation One, The Transformers (IDW Generation One)
14 Dec 2025
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A Prime is never late, nor is he early. He arrives precisely when he means to… give or take that one small paracausal nudge.
Or, that time the Matrix got impatient and stole a truck...
It's only going to get more and more hazardous to binge all of this:
✔️ Optimus Prime being iconically wholesome
✔️ Cybertron being an exotic mechanical wonderland
✔️ Mystery, adventure, and intrigue
✔️ Not so much a slow burn as a long fuse
❌ Civil warSeries
- Part 1 of Nor is He Early and Adjacent Stories
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14 Aug 2026