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The war against the Eggman Empire is won, and peace has finally returned to Sunset Heights. To the world, Gadget is the fearless hero who saved them all, a symbol of hope amidst the reconstruction. But behind the smiles and the praise, he feels like a fraud, hollowed out by trauma and haunted by a victory that feels strangely unfinished. Every night, he wanders the quiet streets, searching for a closure that the silence of the city refuses to give him. Hidden deep within the uncleared ruins of the Old City, a ghost lingers in the shadows. Stripped of the Phantom Ruby’s power and his mask, Zero is no longer the terrifying monster known as Infinite, but a broken soldier hiding from the consequences of his past. He survives in the wreckage of the very world he tried to destroy, fueled by bitterness and the belief that he has been cast aside by everything and everyone. When Zero and Gadget meet for the first time since the war, their paths collide not as hero and villain, but as two lonely souls. Forced to confront the person on the other side of the battlefield, they slowly realize that the only way to heal the scars of the past is to help each other build a future from the ashes.
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- Part 1 of The Shadows in Crimson and Onyx
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Fragile Hope & Broken Trust by Quillful (QuillfulWriter)
Fandoms: Fire Emblem: Fuukasetsugetsu | Fire Emblem: Three Houses, Fire Emblem Series
20 Jun 2026
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The reports say Ferdinand fell at the Bridge of Myrddin. Claude and the Golden Deer students saved him, though, even if it was touch and go.
No one told Hubert he was alive, and Ferdinand was at a loss how to let him know. He might manage a treaty to end the war between the nations of Fódlan, but repairing the ruins of his relationship? That might be a bridge too far.
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Ace wasn’t expecting to be rescued, especially not by the princess of Alabasta. If he had any energy to spare, he might be embarrassed - but it’s really just one shock after another, and as it stands he has to focus on moving forward before his phantoms both recent and longstanding swallow him whole.
Meanwhile, for all her diplomatic wit and experience in espionage, Vivi is not exactly great at communicating.
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Or: Ace survives, the battle at Marineford is averted, and he’s recovering in a safe place with a friend. All good things - except he has no secure way to contact his family, the trauma won’t leave him alone, and his haki and Devil Fruit abilities are growing unpredictable over the course of the pregnancy he’s determined to see through.
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Is evil inherent… or taught?
Taken from Tatooine as a child and forged into a weapon by the Sith, Anakin Skywalker has never been given the chance to choose who he is—only what he is useful for.
Now, as a hidden war threatens to tear the Republic apart, and the truth behind its architect begins to surface, Anakin finds himself pulled toward something he was never meant to understand: compassion, trust… and the possibility of something more than survival.
When a single act of defiance sets him on a collision course with the Jedi, the Senate, and his own past, the question is no longer whether he can defeat his master—
But whether he can become someone his master cannot control.
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Pancake (Блин) by ArcticSwan
Fandoms: Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid, Heated Rivalry (TV)
19 Jun 2026
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Rozanov, Ottawa's captain, gets injured during a match against the Voyageurs.
'Might' contain soft moments between Ilya and Shane as Ilya recovers
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- Part 3 of The Hollanov files
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Outrun the Lightning by kiriglow
Fandoms: LEGO Ninjago: Dragons Rising (Cartoon 2023), LEGO Ninjago (Cartoon 2011-2022)
20 Jun 2026
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No matter what the ninja told him at the Tournament of the Sources, he didn’t believe their manipulation tactics. He was not a ninja; he never was and will never join their team. But suddenly, during the battle with Thunderfang, he is sent into a coma and wakes up unaware of everything that happened after the Merge, and somehow all his memories from before flood back. Now, he is unaware that his goodness is shattered, unaware of every horrible thing he did. The ninja have to decide what to do when it is unclear whether Jay is back to normal, or still this "Rogue" they've known. Can they outrun what Jay became? Will the ninja tell him the truth, or pretend that everything is normal? And if the truth slips out, will it drive them apart?
Or maybe, the ninja just have to learn to accept him for who he is.
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Angel Devil didn't expect to talk to anyone in college, let alone his assigned roommate. But Aki Hayakawa is quiet in a way that doesn't ask for anything, patient in a way Angel Devil isn't used to, and somehow, slowly, impossible to keep at arm's length.
What Aki doesn't know yet is how much Angel Devil is carrying — the expectations he can't seem to put down, the food he can't seem to let himself have, the parts of himself he's spent years learning to hide. What he does know is that something is wrong, and that he isn't going anywhere.
A slow-burn college AU about two people learning that love isn't a cure, healing isn't a straight line, and staying — through the bad days as much as the good ones — is its own kind of choice.(CW: disordered eating, hospitalization, depression. Recovery is ongoing, not linear. Support resources linked in the end notes.)
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Trouble, that girl was dipped in it.
Sharp, sweet-talking, untouchable. He'd known girls like that in his youth. Might have even chased after one like Lola back then. Done all kinds of stupid things under the spell of a hot afternoon and the scent of cherry lip balm... but that was a long time ago.
Joe wasn't a kid anymore. He was thirty-eight with grey hairs starting to show and an ex-wife who still called him when the fridge broke down. He owned a business, paid taxes, had a daughter about to leave for college...
cw: there are themes of abuse and non-con in this story, but the central relationship (between Lola and Joe) is purely consensual.
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Alessia survived by stealing from soldiers, lying to kings, and keeping her daughter alive one day at a time.
Then she’s caught by the wrong men.
Rescued by two Aurean kings on the edge of a brutal war, Alessia finds herself trapped inside the enemy camp with a fever, a frightened child, and far too many secrets. Odrian, the cunning king of Othara, sees a political asset. Dionys, the war-scarred king of Kareth, sees someone trying desperately not to fall apart.
But wars are built on suspicion, and kindness has a price. As the siege tightens around Tharos, Alessia’s past begins to surface: harbor ghosts, old betrayals, a ruthless warlord named Walus, and a hidden connection to the Aurean alliance itself.
In a world of bronze, blood, and burning cities, survival is easy. Trust is harder.
Especially when the people starting to feel like home are the enemy.
Themes: Found family, war-time survival, trauma and recovery, reluctant trust, devotion through action, parenthood under catastrophe, political tension, and a slow-burn MMF relationship.
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Jabber wants to answer. Wants to tell him “I’m okay. I’m just... like this.”
But he can’t. Not like this. Not mid-heat, sweaty and shaky and not himself. He doesn’t want Zanka to hear him like that. Doesn’t want to drag Zanka into this mess.
So he stays in the nest. Listens to the silence after the call ends. Lets the ache come back in.
After a few rings the choker stops ringing.Jabber tells himself it’s better this way. For both of them.
Or Jabbers journey on accepting his secondary gender and learning how to open up and trust Zanka with his secret.
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Synergy: the concept that a combined effect of two or more entities is greater than the sum of their individual effects.
Kai has to have surgery or his illness will kill him. Gaku promised to take care of Kai, and he will keep that promise and won't give up on the man he loves, only as the treatment threatens to take everything from them, Gaku and Kai hold on to the one hope that can sustain them: going home to cook together.
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Water from a Poisoned Well by Anonymous
Fandoms: Danny Phantom, Batman - All Media Types, DCU
19 Jun 2026
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Danny is taken by the GIW and sexually assaulted by a member of the laboratory staff.
This work is not appropriate for minors. This work is not meant for profit. I do not give permission for this work to be copied or otherwise reproduced in digital or print form. I do not give permission for this work to be used to train AI/LLMs.
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They weren’t supposed to find each other.
But, okay, technically, there was nothing stopping them from finding each other.-
They got out of the circus, don't ask how. After C&A does what they can to cover it all up, Christine - Pomni - has to go back to her normal life. But that's easier said than done.
[ON HOLD FOR THE TIME BEING, WILL REVAMP ONCE I'VE PROCESSED THE FINALE LOL]
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- Part 1 of Unplugged (TADC)
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What Peace Could Not Command by jezuzwithagun
Fandoms: Percy Jackson and the Olympians - Rick Riordan, The Heroes of Olympus - Rick Riordan
19 Jun 2026
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After nearly two years of war between Zeus and Poseidon, Percy Jackson is living alone beneath a sky that seems determined to kill him.
On Olympus, the gods decide peace can be secured only by joining the warring houses through marriage. Neither Percy nor Artemis is asked. Neither is willing.
Percy arrives carrying wounds the gods have failed to see and a choice he has postponed for as long as he can. Artemis has spent millennia defending the right to remain unclaimed. Now both are expected to bear the cost of a war they did not begin.
The covenant may save the world. It may also destroy what remains of them.
What follows is a long story of survival, recovery and two people learning whether anything freely chosen can grow from an act of coercion. Beyond Olympus, something old is beginning to move—and the roads between myths are no longer as separate as the gods believe.
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Zhai'a does not receive many letters, so when one arrives from Mother Miounne he is quick to open it. He is not expecting a summons, let alone a request to help a fellow Keeper of the Moon. And he's certainly never met anyone less willing to be healed.
Menphina give him strength and remind him how to love, because Kiah'a certainly would not.
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- Part 9 of The Past Is A Story We Never Tell
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orbiter (i'm an astronaut, you're the moon) by vampyrl0ser
Fandoms: Project Hail Mary (2026), Project Hail Mary - Andy Weir, Iron Lung (2026)
20 Jun 2026
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Grace thinks back on all the nights he'd yelled at the dream manifestation of himself, told himself to march up that ladder at the first drop of blood – but to no avail. It was like he was an inaudible spectator, nothing he could say would change the outcome, nothing would be heard.
“Grace.”
He sighs. “Hm?”
“Human brain is strange and irrational. Make up stories. Scare on purpose. No meaning. Not always.”
“Not always,” Grace points out.
“This not exception.”
“You don't know that.”or
Every time Grace closes his eyes, he has the same horrific recurring dream. Every morning, he wakes up with a nosebleed. And for some reason, ever since the Eridians discovered a man left for dead on a desolate moon, he's been able to sleep just fine.
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more than my petty share by PebblePoet
Fandoms: Project Hail Mary (2026), Project Hail Mary - Andy Weir, Iron Lung (2026)
19 Jun 2026
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Ryland Grace had grown used to the fact that he was never going to see another human again.
Simon never got the chance to grow used to that fact, because he was dead. Or at least, he was supposed to be.
When Simon (notably not dead) washes up on the shore inside Grace’s biodome, both of them are proven very wrong.
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Full transparency: chapters will be released a little irregularly because my schedule at the moment is pretty unpredictable, but the fic itself is entirely outlined so have no fear, it will be finished! -
These sweet instincts (ruin my life) by featheredfellow
Fandoms: Guardians of the Galaxy (Movies)
19 Jun 2026
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“Mantis?!” Peter shouts, frantic now, as he kneels down and puts a hand on her shoulder to turn her towards him. Immense fear suddenly spikes through him and his hand shoots back. Was that her powers? Hesitant to reach again, he doesn’t have to when she looks up at him, a terrified look on her face as tears start to fall. She is cradling her left antennae, blood coating both hands and dripping down through as she slowly moves them to show Peter the damage.
“Shit.”
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Verity Lives by fuzzy_logic
Fandoms: Farseer Trilogy - Robin Hobb, Realm of the Elderlings - Robin Hobb
19 Jun 2026
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Set a year and a half on from the events of Assassin's Quest. Fitz, Kettricken and Chade find a way to restore Verity to human form. But the task leaves Fitz broken in mind and body. World weary, Fitz withdraws to his cabin in the woods to live in isolation for several months until King Verity seeks him out and drags him back to Buckkeep.
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Verity was my absolute favourite character of the series and I just couldn't get enough of these two. So here is the Fitz & Verity centered fic I always wanted read, but could never find. Where Verity gets his happy ending and finally has enough time to help our boy Fitz deal with his host of PTSD and abandonment issues. SLOOOW paced exploration of Fitz and Verity's relationship. There's also a bit of a Chade exploration in there too. (And yes spoilers because that's basically what all fanfiction is ;) ) -
I Want to See You Smile Again by Six_Impossible_Things_25
Fandoms: Wicked - All Media Types, Wicked (Movie 2024), Wicked - Schwartz/Holzman, The Wicked Years Series - Gregory Maguire
19 Jun 2026
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"Thoughts of Elphie and Fiyero had kept the abyss of despair at bay for a long time. Now, they were giving her something sweet to hold onto, some last glimmers of warmth and happiness and love, as she slipped towards the end."
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The day after Elphaba and Glinda parted ways in the Emerald City, Glinda went missing. After an agonizing year of futile searching, Elphaba learns the horrible truth: Morrible sold Glinda as a pleasure slave outside of Oz. Elphie and Fiyero go to rescue Glinda, but find a broken shell of the vibrant girl they knew at Shiz. Perhaps most disturbingly, she has completely lost the ability to speak.
Glinda has given up. But Elphie and Fiyero are determined to help her learn to be happy again.