CurmudgeonOfTheSwamp



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    When Ranma Saotome was three, he picked up an interest in art, and asked his mother and father for a box of crayons. Instead, his father gave him a gi and promised to make him strong. When Ranma Saotome was five, he asked his mother to teach him how to cook. Instead, she sent him to go practice kata with his father. When Ranma Saotome was seven, he tore a hole in his gi, and asked his mother to teach him how to fix it. Instead, she told him to put on a new gi while she fixed his ruined one.

    All his life, Ranma had been forced into a box by his parents, and all his life, he’d sought more than their dreams for him. But his own dreams withered with age, and by sixteen, he would tell anyone who asked that he was going to be the greatest martial artist of all time, a man among men.

    Until one fateful day, when a training accident left him with a unique predicament, and he found himself questioning everything about who he was and who he was supposed to be. Now all he has to do is navigate telling one little lie after another and hope the snowball of deceit and guilt doesn’t crush him entirely.

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    29 Apr 2026

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    A butterfly flaps its wings, and Harry Potter ends up taking the place of Pansy Parkinson via polyjuice rather than Gregory Goyle. She discovers being a girl is pretty great, in her view. She's a little kinder to herself, a little more confident - and that makes all the difference. Starts in Year Two, Currently in Year Six.

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    28 Apr 2026

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    Taylor Hebert has some big, horrible boots to fill. But she's going to walk her own way.
    Butcher Taylor AU. Cross-posted from Spacebattles.

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    28 Apr 2026

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    Taylor triggers earlier than in canon, with the thinker power to...understand any language.

    Of course, this being Taylor, she immediately heads out and gets herself into a whole lot of trouble. Does she have a plan? Yes, but it's not always a good one.

    This is a fic about pushing a 'weak' power to its absolute limits. It's also a fic about Taylor biting off way more than she can chew and then chewing anyway, consequences be damned. She might not be able to beat an average guy in a fistfight, but boy can she be a pain in the neck for anyone dumb enough to think that means they can take her on.

    Updates every Wednesday.

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    26 Apr 2026