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Letter D, for Doggett, The by Forbes [archived by thebasement_archivist]
Fandoms: The X-Files
30 Aug 2001
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Um... Let me see. Standalone story. Doggett undercover, juicy situation, extreme possibilities and All the product of a very twisted imagination. I wanted to read something like this, and couldn't find exactly what I wanted, so I had to write it myself. No great hardship!
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21 Nov 2025
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everybody loves a winner, so nobody loved me by rreckonerr
Fandoms: Superman (Movie 2025)
20 Jan 2026
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Their eyes meet. Superman appraises him silently. Tracks the emaciated planes of his face down to the sharp jut of his collarbones from under the neck of his shirt. Lex doesn’t let himself wish for a door to close, for a curtain to drop, for a blanket to pull over his head. He feels like a child. Terrified and sick about it.
“It’s Wednesday,” Superman says, voice low. Gentle, almost, as if Lex is some sort of stray animal, tense and shaking, primed to bite. Demeaning.
Lex is not shaking. He holds his breath for a moment, wills the rhythm of his lungs to slow. He concentrates the fear into disgust, into a single heated beam of hatred. There are protections in place. Contracts, laws. Lex is government property. Superman won’t — he won’t.
Nobody will touch Lex Luthor.
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19 Oct 2025
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A Seed in Ashes by AeolianMode
Fandoms: 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia, Stardew Valley (Video Game)
06 Mar 2022
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Shouta Aizawa, retired highschool teacher and recently disabled, moves to the peaceful Pelican Town to escape the baggage of an old life. Instead, he unknowingly becomes neighbors with his despised rival faculty member, Toshinori Yagi. But something's not quite right with his new neighbor.
As the disturbing truth of the haunted valley unravels around him, he's forced to embrace the community in his new home or lose everything. His farm must become a bastion against a flood of vengeful spirits or risk certain doom to Stardew Valley.
It will take a village.
(Planned Word Count: 250,000ish, Updates Weekly or Twice Monthly. Mind the tags, the story gets progressively more intense.)
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11 Sep 2025
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Things that Haunt Our Hallways by ghostwriterofthemachine
Fandoms: 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia
18 Apr 2021
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“It was a kid,” Yagi gasped out. He had his hand balled up into a fist and the fist pressed to his lips, as if to remind himself that he could not start screaming. “Or. Young person, maybe 20. Homeless, I think. Activated their Quirk on reflex and then ran. The kids—” Here, he pressed his fist harder to his mouth, sucked in a wheezing breath, as if the air itself was pushing down something with physical weight. “The kids—”
“Scattered immediately,” Aizawa finished for him, and Yagi managed a nod.
Yagi’s eyes were so dilated that the blue was almost invisible. He shook violently. He looked like a scarecrow in a windstorm.
Someone activated a Fear-Inducer Quirk so powerful that it reduced All Might to this— of course Aizawa’s class had bolted.
Or:
A Fear Gas fic, BNHA style.
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09 Sep 2025
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The Maiden Voyage of the Tiresias by astolat
Fandoms: Sherlock Holmes - Arthur Conan Doyle
07 Oct 2003
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Someone's getting taken for a ride.
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24 Jul 2025