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Ode to a New World by SocialistOtterPenguin
Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender, Avatar: Legend of Korra
15 Mar 2024
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The age of Avatar Korra has ended. Passing away peacefully in her sleep, the world mourns the loss of its great protector, and of the lodestone ensuring its continued peaceful balance. However, across the formerly four, now many more nations, the White Lotus again begin their search for the new Avatar…
And find nothing.
Eighteen years later, young Meiying of Zaofu faces a personal crisis. An Earthbender blackmailed by the rogue state’s secret police agency to act as a “Listener”, Mei spends her days trying to avert her eyes from the victims of her work. However, when her handler tells her that her newest case will be her classmate and close friend Jinghua, Mei finds that she can no longer be so detached.
Caught between compassion and fear, Mei desperately tries to find a way to save her friend while avoiding the ever-present gaze of the secret police. Is there such a solution? What’s truly important to her? Can the shadowy machinations being set behind the scenes be stopped before they consume the entire country?
And who is the woman in wolf-pelts Mei keeps dreaming of?
Bookmarked by MarxSteel
25 Dec 2024
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Physically, there was nothing special about her birth. If her brain– and the number of souls inside– had been similarly unremarkable, then she would have lived a relatively decent, if short, life. Instead Yamanaka Sakura, born 23K, finds herself positioned to do so much more.
Politics, innovation, lots of canon divergence. Initially focuses on the main character as she comes to know the world and place in it, then expands to Konoha as a whole.
Slow progression. Also posted on fanfiction.net. Weekly updates.
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Bookmarked by MarxSteel
30 Jan 2024
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Follow the Butterflies by RainstormRadish for nanneramma
Fandoms: Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling
12 Nov 2023
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There is a visitor. A new beast in the Forest. It has four legs, like the centaurs, but it’s unlike anything Aragog has ever sensed. Cold, metallic, clanging. Few dare to venture deep enough into the Forest to reach Aragog’s lair, and those who do creep and hide, avoiding the Acromantula. The visitor makes no effort to be stealthy. It tramples through the undergrowth, loud and unapologetic. Foolhardy. Reckless. Intriguing.
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Bookmarked by MarxSteel
16 Dec 2023
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girlhood adjacent by travelingsymphony
Fandoms: The Last of Us (TV), The Last of Us (Video Games)
20 Apr 2023
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Ellie’s seen this before. Seen it a billion times actually when Joel played Mr. Macho Man in front of everyone they crossed paths with. Everyone, but her until—
Swear to me that everything you said about the Fireflies is true.
Sarah was lucky to have Joel Before. He probably sang her to sleep every night when the goodness of his heart was easier to grasp. Joel wouldn’t have lied to her. His actual Brown-Eyed Girl.
And all it took was two words to leave Ellie painfully aware of everything she wasn’t and everything she would never truly be.
I swear.
(Or, Ellie and Joel’s first year in Jackson goes as well as you can expect it to).
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- Part 1 of a haunted house with a picket fence
Bookmarked by MarxSteel
10 Apr 2023
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In another life, Orochimaru never leaves Konoha, opting to remain within the village that equally reveres and reviles him. Fighting a bitter battle against forces within the village that are more influential and well-positioned, he finds himself gifted with one last shining opportunity: three children, a team of genin, handed to him because Konoha has no better choice. Orochimaru agrees to become a jounin-sensei for the first and the last time, taking on the next generation's Team Seven: Uchiha Sasuke, Nara Shikamaru, and Uzumaki Naruto.
[ A gradual exploration of the author's very liberal Naruto headcanon, with a good!Orochimaru (well, sorta good) who eventually becomes the Godaime Hokage. Lots of chakra theory, cool jutsu, in-depth backstories, character development, political intrigue, and den mother Orochimaru feels! Also featuring: BAMF baby Team 7! Be prepared to suspend your disbelief; this will be another one of my long-running intense worldbuilding AUs. Let's go have fun! ]
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Bookmarked by MarxSteel
20 Feb 2021