20 Bookmarks by illbrix
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Love's Comforting Embrace by Lookingnerdy
Fandoms: 鬼滅の刃 | Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba (Manga), 鬼滅の刃 | Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba (Anime)
24 Nov 2023
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Nightmares, PTSD, and trauma - you name it, Kamado Tanjiro has it. And while he has the best support system anyone could ask for, he isn't exactly the best at accepting help - especially from those he has been protecting for years. Can anyone get through to him before things become much worse than they need to be?
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Tanjiro is experiencing horrible nightmares after the final battle, and Nezuko is doing everything in her power to make sure he gets the help he needs. It's a little hard.
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21 Sep 2025
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A Shot in the Dark by Silver_pup
Fandoms: The Hobbit (2012), The Hobbit - J. R. R. Tolkien, The Hobbit - All Media Types
24 Jan 2023
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When he opens his eyes again, he finds himself in his old bed in his old home in his old body. Is this death? Or a trick of magic? Either way, Bilbo recognizes a second chance when he sees one, and this time his adventure with Thorin is going to go a bit differently.
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- Part 1 of Take a Shot
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 213,631
- Chapters:
- 51/51
- Collections:
- 80
- Comments:
- 6,434
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- 30,930
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- 9,313
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- 1,080,377
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22 Aug 2025
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where there's a will, we make a way by bubonickitten
Fandoms: The Magnus Archives (Podcast)
28 May 2023
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"So, what does happen if an Eye learns to See within itself?
What happens is this: the Archive Beholds the Watcher – and the Watcher blinks first."
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Jon goes back to before the world ended and tries to forge a different path.
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- English
- Words:
- 305,690
- Chapters:
- 34/?
- Collections:
- 3
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- 3,362
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15 Jul 2025
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It begins with Ursa, with that sparkle of life she vanished to protect. When Zuko finds her, everything changes.
Hope is a tender, fearless thing. Zuko's hope has the shape of a child and the eyes of his mother, and it must be protected.
The Avatar can wait.
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In which Lu Ten II, Zuko's little brother, takes the world by storm.
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27 Jun 2025
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The attack on the Northern Water Tribe goes differently, Aang and the ocean spirit don’t destroy the entire Fire Nation fleet, only most of them.
Zhao escapes, taking Sokka and a few other Water Tribe men as prisoners. Knowing Sokka is traveling with the Avatar he gets sent to Zhao’s “special prison camp” that is hidden near the Earth Kingdom colonies.
Sokka gets a taste of the real war, not the war that he thinks he knows from traveling with the Avatar. While Zhao’s prisoner, he struggles to survive the inhuman conditions. Alone and thought to be dead, he feels himself slowly losing hope.
Seeing a familiar face brings back his hope, even if that face is the scarred Prince of the Fire Nation.
Sokka and Zuko come together to survive and end up depending on each other for a lot more than they ever thought possible.
-please read the tags, overall dark themes throughout-
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- Part 1 of Leaving It All Behind
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 259,814
- Chapters:
- 21/21
- Collections:
- 12
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- 3,513
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- 1,206
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- 220,534
Bookmarked by illbrix
07 May 2025
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This is the direct continuation of the series Leaving It All Behind, if you did not read the first book I promise that you will be really confused reading this. (go read that first and then come back to this)
If you have already read LIAB, welcome back!
Zuko and Sokka have successfully escaped Zhao’s prison camp and have begun their journey across the Earth Kingdom in search of Aang or Chief Hakoda, whoever they find first. Still recovering from their experiences in captivity, both Zuko and Sokka struggle to heal from their past trauma while facing new enemies in an unfamiliar territory. Lucky for them, Sokka is full of good ideas and Zuko never gives up without a fight.
The Gaang (plus Jet) are continuing their journey to help Aang master all the elements and are faced with a few unexpected surprises.
A group of escaped prisoners tries their best to fix past mistakes and find their place in the war torn world, it doesn’t come as easy as they would have hoped.
-Please read all the tags and just know that this story will have dark themes throughout-
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- Part 2 of Leaving It All Behind
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 383,617
- Chapters:
- 23/23
- Collections:
- 1
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- 4,960
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07 May 2025
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-This is the last book of the series LIAB, please go read the other two books before this, or you will be very confused-
Zuko has been taken by the Earth Kingdom army to who-knows-where, and Sokka is determined to get him back.
But he can’t do it alone.
With Suki and the Kyoshi Warriors by his side, Sokka is headed to Ba Sing Se to find Katara and Aang so they can go rescue his fire bender.
Things aren’t as easy as he had hoped. Corruption, lies, and unknown horrors await them inside the city’s walls. None of this is helping Sokka’s mental well-being.
Hakoda and his men face a problem of their own as Azula approaches with the intentions of making it rain fire.
Sokka and Zuko will both find themselves having to reintegrate back into a life they thought they left behind, with people they hardly remember. It isn’t easy for anyone, especially when they don’t recognize the person standing in front of them.
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- Part 3 of Leaving It All Behind
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 519,200
- Chapters:
- 25/32
- Comments:
- 3,988
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- 2,983
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- 441
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- 140,820
Bookmarked by illbrix
07 May 2025
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“What does the Hunt taste like?” he asks. "Sorry, I didn't mean—"
Daisy says, "Wind." She says, "Cold wind."
___There are versions of yourself you can never go back to.
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- English
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- 16,686
- Chapters:
- 1/1
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- 3
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- 73
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- 161
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- 4,009
Bookmarked by illbrix
28 Apr 2025
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Equivalent Exchange by notsolstice for straddling_the_atmosphere, circulation
Fandoms: Arcane: League of Legends (Cartoon 2021)
24 Mar 2025
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No one paid much attention when a young man from the Undercity was expelled from Piltover Academy after having been found to have forged his enrollment.
Significantly more notice is paid five years later, however, when one Jayce Talis is expelled after his trial by the Piltover Council. In this world, there is no keen-eyed assistant to the Dean to read through his notebook and to talk him off the ledge—but something draws him towards Zaun, where he gets his ass kicked and is rescued by an unusual man. Against all odds, Jayce manages to find Viktor anyways.
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AKA Viktor and Jayce in Zaun, and how that changes the fates of everyone in the two cities.
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- Part 1 of The First Law of Alchemy
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 97,463
- Chapters:
- 18/18
- Comments:
- 279
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- 910
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- 343
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- 25,500
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12 Mar 2025
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the line is covered in jellyfish by staroverlord
Fandoms: Arcane: League of Legends (Cartoon 2021), League of Legends
05 Oct 2025
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When Viktor finally asks why Jayce stayed behind inside the Anomaly with him, Jayce stares at him as though he’s supremely disappointed by the question— as if Viktor has betrayed his own brilliance by asking something so irredeemably stupid. “How could I not? We’re partners.”
Partners, Jayce calls them. Not for the first time, Viktor wonders: Partners in what?
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Or: Jayce and Viktor survive the Hexcore, a blizzard, their own bodies, sharing a bed and all the things they’re too afraid to say. Slowly, they put themselves back together— piece by stubborn piece.
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- Part 1 of the thin semantic line
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 129,796
- Chapters:
- 10/12
- Comments:
- 3,625
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- 11,290
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- 406,107
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02 Mar 2025
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The Line Between Stars by Disguised_Bird
Fandoms: Arcane: League of Legends (Cartoon 2021)
21 Apr 2025
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In this sequel to "After the Line’s Been Crossed", Jayce and Viktor return to Piltover—unwanted and forever changed. Jayce, fractured by his time in the alternate world, fights to contain the violent instincts and haunting visions that blur his grip on reality. Meanwhile, a shadow-cloaked mage has grown tired of waiting for Viktor’s cooperation—she won’t let his unnatural and powerful connection to magic slip through her fingers any longer.
Jayce convinces himself that love is a ruinous thing in his hands, that if he let it touch Viktor, it would leave only scars. But yearning desire does not wait for safe harbors, and in the storm of their return, it crashes through them like a tempest.
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- Part 3 of After the Line's Been Crossed
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21 Feb 2025
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Continuation of After the Line's Been Crossed!!!
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Jon has been acting odd lately. Sasha begins to notice strange events occur around the same time, and she can't help but feel that they're somehow related. She's determined to find out what exactly is going on in the Magnus Institute.
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Jon comes to in 2015, mere months after becoming Head Archivist. He's in his old flat, staring at a cup of tea that's still steaming hot. His hand is unburnt, and he can See himself: younger, unmarred by trauma and time. He smiles. He'll do better this time.
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- 212,772
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- 18/32
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- 2
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16 Feb 2025
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"Who the hell are you?" Jon could feel his hands shaking.
The man laughed, taking a step forward and raising a hand to point at him.
"I'm you, from the future!" he said, then swayed, eyes going unfocused, and collapsed to the floor in a dead faint.
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Post-season-four Jon and Martin time travel back to the season one Archives.- Language:
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- 12/12
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10 Feb 2025
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When Jonathan Sims is promoted to Head Archivist of the Magnus Institute, he does his best to live up to the demands of the job. He appoints his two closest friends, Timothy Stoker and Sasha James, to be his assistants. He works long hours to catch up on the backlog of clutter left behind by the previous Archivist. He tries to ignore the strange, disembodied voice that only he seems able to hear.
- Language:
- English
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- 43,084
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- 13/13
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- 1,131
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10 Feb 2025
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“It’s a preexisting condition,” Jon explains, sipping more bitter tea. “I sort of got—hm. You know Spiderman?”
Tim raises an eyebrow.
“Heard of him, yeah.”
Jon nods, studying his tea.
“It’s sort of like that,” he says. “A spider killed and ate me when I was a child, and now I can’t stay dead.”
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Resurrection isn't all it's cracked up to be.
- Language:
- English
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- 36,587
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- 1/1
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- 7
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- 470
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07 Feb 2025
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After the Line's Been Crossed by Disguised_Bird
Fandoms: Arcane: League of Legends (Cartoon 2021), League of Legends
20 Feb 2025
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Jayce and Viktor find themselves spat out by the rune and stranded in an unfamiliar wilderness, forced to confront the consequences of their Hextech dream and the scars left behind. As they struggle to survive their new reality, they become entangled in new political machinations that threaten to pull them back into the cycles of ambition and conflict. Will they repeat the mistakes of their past, or will they find the strength to chart a new path forward?
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- Part 1 of After the Line's Been Crossed
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 142,431
- Chapters:
- 22/22
- Comments:
- 832
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- 2,415
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27 Jan 2025
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Pale Light
Displaced across dimensions after the battle of Piltover, Jayce and Viktor, still in his Evolved body, adopt Isha and try their best to return home, while trying to understand what they're meant to do when and if they manage to.
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Arc II
Viktor is awake, trying to reconcile his identity and new body. Now, a year after the battle, it's time for Jayce to figure out what to do with this second chance they've both been given.Series
- Part 2 of Pale Light
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25 Jan 2025
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“You’re really suggesting this,” Martin says, voice pulled thin.
“Yes.” No hesitation.
“You would- actually do it?”
“I would.”
“With me.”
“Yes, Martin.”
“Why?” Because love is blind, says something cliché and cruel in the pit of his gut. Christ, he never was much of a poet, was he?Or,
When Jon asks Martin to Quit the Archives with him, Martin says yes. Things don't go as planned. In the Scottish Highlands, they hurt, and they heal.
(Re-written as of 22-12-27; see chapter 9 for more info.)
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 145,752
- Chapters:
- 9/9
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- 1
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- 874
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- 2,150
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- 741
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25 Jan 2025
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25 Jan 2025
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Something goes wrong. The crown is split during Narinder's defeat, splitting the power between him and the Lamb.
Narinder keeps a portion of his godhood, and the Lamb finds that abilities they had access to before are no longer possible: Healing is cut short. Powers are halved. And there is a very real chance of perma-death, as the ability to resurrect is not possible without full power, and the God of Death is not cooperative.
Afterlife and Purgatory are not options either. Dying means erasure. Gone.Lambert knows Narinder grows stronger by the day, crown or not, and yet keeps him spared as they try to figure out how to complete their own goals. Narinder vows vengeance on the lamb for usurping him. After a few unsuccessful murder attempts, he's in for the long haul. It is only a matter of time before the Lamb's guard is down before he can strike, and The One Who Waits is very patient. When a mystic being demands they save the bishops from purgatory, an alliance is in order.
Except...the lamb's actions and their presence begin to unlock abilities within the God of Death he didn't know he had prior to his imprisonment, among other fickle things, like emotions. The prophecy didn't warn him of that part.
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- Part 1 of The Rehabilitation Of Death
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 347,529
- Chapters:
- 23/?
- Comments:
- 3,571
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- 14,857
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Bookmarked by illbrix
25 Jan 2025