asmallauthor
Fandoms
Recent works
-
Things That Don’t Make the History Books by asmallauthor
Fandoms: One Piece (Anime & Manga)
16 Jul 2025
Tags
Summary
People would argue over what kind of man the Pirate King had been, whether the Strawhats had been visionaries or fools, and whether their loyalty was earned, bought, or born from something darker.
They would forget how this crew didn’t carve their legacy into stone or gold.
They stitched it into each other's fabric.
It was this: the slow mornings and the lazy errands, the bickering and the laughter, the way Zoro carried more than he needed to so Usopp wouldn’t drop his paints, the way Nami’s shopping lists curled at the edges where Luffy had bent them absentmindedly—the way Sanji would make tea later without anyone asking, just because he could.
Someday, the legacy of the Strawhat Pirates would be warped and shrouded in mystery. The shadows of the Sunny’s hull would warp and shift until they outlasted the current era with only Brook to remember the warmth and comfort of the grass, the cozy bunks, and the famias nestled inside like Matryoshka dolls.
But that wouldn’t be for many years to come.
In other words, the East Blue crew goes shopping for each other in a manner reminiscent of soldiers preparing for war, or at the very least, a family preparing for their weekly shopping trip.
Series
- Part 7 of Patchwork Family
-
Tags
Summary
Zoro may have been his first mate, his sword, but Sanji was his shield, and as such, he stayed steady as harbor stones, steady like a man who did not ask questions when a hand reached for him in the dark.
He let his captain lean on him. Not because Luffy needed it, maybe. But somewhere beneath all that wild grin and that storm-wreck laugh was a boy who had once been very, very alone.
Sanji finally looked down at him fully, one brow raised. “What part of me being here makes you think I’m not doing exactly what I want?”
Luffy blinked at him, like that hadn’t occurred to him yet. “Dunno,” he admitted. “Sometimes I don’t know what people want.”
‘Please,” Sanji thought, ‘You may not always know what people want, but you always know what people need.’
Sanji could’ve laughed at the honesty if it didn’t sound so damn fragile coming from him. “Yeah, well… for someone who doesn’t know what people want, you’ve sure got a whole damn crew who’d follow you straight into hell barefoot.”
He’d know. He was one of them.Luffy grinned, teeth flashing faintly in the low light. “You all love me.”
Sanji huffed again, shaking his head slightly. “Idiot.”
Series
- Part 6 of Patchwork Family
-
Tags
Summary
And as the laughter faded, softer things grew in its place: sighs of relief, weary smiles, shoulders bumping together with casual intimacy, arms draped lazily over friends without thought. Touches that spoke not of necessity, but of trust so deep it was stitched into the bone.
The battle was over.
The bruises lingered across their skin like smudges of charcoal on old parchment, and the cuts marked them like threads yet to be mended. Tomorrow they would begin to yellow under a thick salve- more abstract paint than charcoal.
But aboard the Sunny, the air was thick with something else, something warmer than sorrow. Relief. Belonging. The unshakable knowledge that they had survived together.
The world outside the Sunny could rage and roar as much as it wanted in reaction to whatever coup they started. Inside her glowing hull, they were safe.
"Sit still, idiot," Nami muttered, kneeling beside Luffy where he slouched bonelessly against the mast.
Usopp, sprawled dramatically against Jinbei’s broadside, groaned, "We look like a total shipwreck of a crew!" His voice was half a whine, half a laugh.
"Don’t we always?" Sanji said dryly, limping as he passed.
Series
- Part 5 of Patchwork Family
-
Tags
Summary
Where everyone speaks different languages.
“You found the only cool spot on the ship.”
“I followed the smell of old paper and Robin,” he mumbled, voice half-melted, rolling onto his side and giving her a lopsided, sleepy grin.
She laughed under her breath, closing her book with a soft thud and setting it in her lap. “That’s either very flattering or very concerning.”
“Both,” he agreed, without missing a beat, his head rested on her thigh.
Robin resumed stroking his hair, her fingers moving quietly through his damp, sun-warmed strands.
“Whatcha reading?” he asked eventually, voice muffled and lazy.
“A short history of sea maps in the North Blue,” she said, lifting the book slightly. “In Common.”
He squinted up at her and scrunched up his nose. “That’s the language you write your notes in, right?”
“Yes,” she nodded- common was a unifying language across the seas in a world where every island seemed to have its language, dialect, or accent at least. “It’s used across many islands. A shared tongue—something like a bridge between people.”
“Huh,” he mused. “I never really learned it.”
Robin blinked. “You’ve never learned Common?”
Series
- Part 4 of Patchwork Family
-
Tags
Summary
"Remember when we first met?" Luffy asked suddenly, abruptly changing the subject, watching the lights below.
Zoro snorted. "Kind of hard to forget being tied to a post for weeks."
"You were so grumpy."
"I was starving."
"Still grumpy," Luffy grinned, dodging the half-hearted swipe Zoro aimed at his head. "But you smiled when I told you about my dream."
"Did not."
"Did too! A tiny one. Like this—" Luffy attempted to imitate what must have been Zoro's expression, screwing up his face into an exaggerated scowl that barely contained a smile.
Zoro shoved him, and Luffy fell back laughing, his hat rolling away. "You're making that up."
"Nope! I remember 'cause I thought, 'This guy gets it.' You didn't laugh at me wanting to be Pirate King. You just... understood."
Zoro was quiet for a moment, watching the stars. "Yeah, well. Hard to laugh at someone else's dream when yours is just as crazy."
Featuring soft Zoro, Luffy's infectious happiness, and squeaky fish sandals that Nami is going to be pissed they spent money on.
Series
- Part 3 of Patchwork Family
Recent series
-
- Words:
- 19,075
- Works:
- 7
- Bookmarks:
- 39
Recent bookmarks
-
Empathy Amplified by Filsamek
Fandoms: Rise of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (Cartoon 2018)
13 Dec 2022
Tags
Summary
It was cold. Bone chillingly cold. Mikey wanted someone to reach out and hold him.
He didn’t deserve to be held.
What?
Finally, Mikey could breathe. He craved the sweet relief of oxygen coursing through his veins.
But the breathing was too fast. It was too fast and Mikey couldn’t stop it and- it didn’t sound like him. He didn’t sound like Mikey.
He didn’t feel like Mikey.
He felt fear.
He heard nothing.
He smelled copper.
Heck, he tasted copper.
And he wished he didn’t see.
But he did. And he saw the Kraang. Worse, the Kraang saw him. It’s eyes could shoot straight through Mikey’s skull with how intently it was staring.
Wait, it wasn’t just staring.
It was targeting.
And Mikey was hit with a tidal wave of fear and loss and horror and regret and
relief?
OR Mikey’s always been one to shoulder his brother’s pain. What happens when the family therapist begins to experience mystic empathy? New powers plus old habits die hard.- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 61,995
- Chapters:
- 26/26
- Comments:
- 1,088
- Kudos:
- 3,455
- Bookmarks:
- 593
- Hits:
- 82,227
Bookmarked by asmallauthor
07 Nov 2025
-
I Get Knocked Down (But I Get Up Again) by Justalittleobsessed
Fandoms: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles - All Media Types
27 Aug 2024
Tags
Summary
Mikey lives, and Mikey dies. He’s been doing it for years, and yeah, sure it’s not his favorite thing to do, but it’s whatever. It’s nothing to worry about. He’s not worried about it. He just hopes his brothers never find out, ‘cause he has a feeling that they’d way overreact.
OR
Mikey’s died a bunch of times and is totally Okay™ with this. His brothers? Not so much.
Series
- Part 1 of Move Along
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 131,830
- Chapters:
- 50/50
- Collections:
- 1
- Comments:
- 2,058
- Kudos:
- 3,334
- Bookmarks:
- 508
- Hits:
- 108,454
Bookmarked by asmallauthor
06 Nov 2025
-
Mystic Malfunction by VanillaVengeance
Fandoms: Rise of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (Cartoon 2018), Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (TV 2012), Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles - All Media Types
18 May 2024
Tags
Summary
So, Mikey is faced with two negatives and one positive.
Positively, he's powerful enough to open portals to worlds he didn't even know existed.
Negatively, he owes Donnie his entire allowance for a year. And, more importantly, Mikey is stranded in a different dimension with no clear way home.
Why can't he have a normal day for once?
Series
- Part 1 of Magic Turtle Medley
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 242,818
- Chapters:
- 36/36
- Collections:
- 4
- Comments:
- 3,156
- Kudos:
- 4,986
- Bookmarks:
- 930
- Hits:
- 171,345
Bookmarked by asmallauthor
05 Nov 2025
-
Tags
Summary
About a week after starting back at the 118, and about three weeks before he was supposed to start getting a steady check again, Buck quietly moved out of his loft—
—and into his jeep.
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 52,530
- Chapters:
- 4/4
- Collections:
- 3
- Comments:
- 660
- Kudos:
- 4,416
- Bookmarks:
- 1,591
- Hits:
- 67,466
Bookmarked by asmallauthor
20 Sep 2025
-
Tags
Summary
It starts with bumblebees. Five of them to be precise. Each one only a couple of inches long and dotted almost randomly on the lower part of his spine, beginning from the waist line of his shorts and flying upwards. The three highest have their wings outstretched as if in mid-flight, the cross-sectioned patterns on them almost lost in the harsh light of the changing room; the two closest to his shorts have their wings tucked in, resting on an invisible flower.
- - -
One day after practice Tsukishima notices that Hinata has a tattoo.
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 15,866
- Chapters:
- 1/1
- Collections:
- 6
- Comments:
- 174
- Kudos:
- 3,308
- Bookmarks:
- 777
- Hits:
- 25,815
Bookmarked by asmallauthor
10 Aug 2025