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    Starspun Soul by

    Fandom: Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling, The Dragel World - Chera Carmichael, The Dragel's Song | Neilson Hewitt Series - Chera Carmichael

    29 Mar 2025

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    This is a self-insert transmigration series, but one that doesn't gloss over how traumatizing or violating being forced to live out someone else's life could be.

    The Main Character has identity issues. She has body dysphoria issues. She has survivor guilt because Harry died and she's alive role-playing him. She has depression. The only reason she survives at all it because she has a Transmigration System that incentivizes survival for her.

    There's Video Game Mechanics tangled in with the Transmigration System.

    It's told in a different tense and writing style than my norm.

    It's a mess.

    I love it, and it's been so much fun to write and figure out.

    All that said, it's not going to be for everyone.

    This is going to be told in two parts:

    Part One - Being Harry Potter: where the MC goes through the motions and eventually comes to terms with her transmigration.

    Part Two - Starspun Soul: where the Dragel Universe comes into major play and we reunite with MC in Nevarah for the romantic, fluffy plotline(s).

    All that said, if you're still here and reading this, Welcome to the Chaos!

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    12 Oct 2025

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    Wild Card by

    Fandoms: Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling, The Dragel's Song | Neilson Hewitt Series - Chera Carmichael  

    10 Apr 2025

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    Hari James Potter would like it known that he *did not* sign up for this nonsense. All he'd wanted was to take a trip through the Veil and track down his godfather who he had on good authority was still alive. Somewhere. Just, you know, not in their original dimension. Or universe. Or whatever.

    That didn't mean he'd wanted to end up being the subject of divine rock-paper-scissors, or having to be remade into an entirely different species because of where the Veil had chucked out Sirius.

    Why were there two Siriuses? And what the heck were dragels again?

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    20 Aug 2025

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    Karma's a Bitch (And so am I) by

    Fandoms: Teen Wolf (TV), True Blood (TV)  

    16 Aug 2025

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    Stiles Stilinski survived everything Beacon Hills ever threw at her. She survived, and then she got out. FBI Internship, college degree, becoming an agent in what amounted to the Freak Squad for the FBI? She did it all. Survived it all.

    Until a shooter with either horrible or impeccable aim managed what everything that had ever gone bump in the night had failed at accomplishing - but of course, because Stiles was the universe's favorite punching bag, it couldn't just end there. One moment all she could hear was the high-pitched wail of a heart monitor flat-lining. The next, she was hearing voice in her head, something was chowing down at her throat, and a bloody arm was being shoved in her mouth as she was forced to drink. Blink, she's FBI Special Agent Mieczysława "Stiles" Claudia Stilinski, magical human and nogitsune survivor; blink again she's Sookie Stackhouse, part-fae telepathic barmaid dying from a dual attack by drainers and a vampire who just couldn't help himself but bite.

    Stiles didn't know where the blame fell for the weirdest twist yet in her story laid, but she had a pretty good place to start: with one Bill Compton, her would-be Maker.

    After all: karma was a bitch, and so was she.

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    18 Aug 2025

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    Match, Spark, and Gasoline by

    Fandoms: Teen Wolf (TV), James Bond (Craig Movies)  

    23 Nov 2025

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    In hindsight, sending Stiles away to live with his Uncle in London, while a good idea on paper, may not have been the best decision that Sheriff Stilinski ever made.

    However, in his defense, how was he to know that his chaos-gremlin of a son would flourish and find a new calling?

    Or that it would take him into the very belly of Her Majesty's Secret Intelligence Service?

    He couldn't know. All he knew when he sent his son away, was that he came far too close to losing him. Everything that came after, was allowed - so long as Stiles survived.

    Even if it meant taking on a new name, a new territory to call his own, and a new vocation that would lead him into far more danger than he ever would've encountered in tiny little Beacon Hills.

    All the good sheriff ever asked was that his son survive.

    Thankfully, in time, he'd have some help with that. 00-help. Though whether that was a blessing or a curse, only time would tell.

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    17 Aug 2025

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    Love, in Choice Beguiled by

    Fandoms: 人渣反派自救系统 - 墨香铜臭 | The Scum Villain's Self-Saving System - Mòxiāng Tóngxiù  

    21 Mar 2025

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    Luo Binghe's heart didn’t usually open so swiftly and fully for another. Rather than a flower blooming, it was like an oyster at low tide, hard-shelled and self-protective. He felt gratitude and admiration easily enough, but devotion, adoration, trust… he’d thought those feelings had been burned out of him in his youth.

     

    Yet at the very sight of Shen Yuan, Luo Binghe’s heart had unlocked and spilled out at his feet, soft and raw and helpless.

     

    Young demon lord Luo Binghe stumbles into a wifeplot—in the role of a wife this time. Fortunately for him, a rogue cultivator named Shen Yuan happens to live nearby.

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    08 Apr 2025