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at fourteen, adulthood seems so far away by ArbitraryCategories
Fandoms: How to Train Your Dragon - All Media Types
08 Jun 2026
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Pre-HTTYD1, Snotlout finds a mirror that lets him see into the future! Naturally, he shows this off to the other teens in his generation, Chief Stoick, and his right-hand-man Gobber. Unfortunately, Hiccup wasn't invited, though the more they see of the future, the more it's obvious that something changed in a big way, and Hiccup's future self is right in the middle of it.
OR: pre-HTTYD1 characters react to Race To The Edge episodes, but I gave Snotlout the remote (at least at first).
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The Gang Gets Into Scrying by ArbitraryCategories
Fandoms: How to Train Your Dragon - All Media Types
05 Jun 2026
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Snotlout waved his hands over the mirror. “Show me myself twenty years into the future!”
To the amazement of everyone gathered, the surface of the mirror rippled like it was made of water and a stone had been dropped into the center. When the ripples passed, a new image was left behind. Not the reflection of the roof of the Great Hall, like it had been before, but the side-view of a man who looked remarkably like Snotlout, but older.
“Holy yak dung, it worked!” Snotlout exclaimed, leaning further over the mirror. “It’s my future self! What is he doing?”
OR: 14-year-old Snotlout finds a magic mirror that shows the future. 34-year-old Snotlout is trying to balance two jobs he loves, raising his son, his long-distance relationship with his wife and daughter, and his closest friendships on Berk. Unfortunately, with the week-long Thawfest festival approaching fast, emotions are running high.
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God Valley Divergence, MANGA SPOILERS.
Shamrock's role within the Freedom Fighters was acting as something of a secretary for his dad, taking notes, keeping track of their schedule, that sort of thing. But because they went up against the government, his dad was always scared that someone would discover the link between them and target Shamrock to try and make his dad give up on his goals. Already, the local armies of the countries they led protests in sometimes shot at them.
Or: What if Dragon managed to save Shamrock at God Valley?
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sand-gator gets his face punched in part two: this time sabo's here! by ArbitraryCategories
Fandoms: One Piece (Anime & Manga)
04 Nov 2025
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When a Donquixote pirate driven by blind revenge shows up at Kyros's house, the present Strawhats, Sabo, and Law suddenly find themselves thrown into an expansive desert! And, as Sabo is quick to discover, two years into the past!
“We just need to figure out where we’ve been sent,” Zoro decided. “If that pirate just wanted to hit us in revenge, he might have sent us somewhere random. Same if he just wanted us out of the way to try and re-overthrow the country. If this was an attack with any thought behind it, he would have sent us somewhere where we would be surrounded by enemies.”
“That, or this is a desert island with no life, where we will all starve to death without any need to waste the lives of his own men,” Robin countered.
“So morbid!” Usopp shouted back, though his knees started to shake.
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won't lose against the flow of time by ArbitraryCategories
Fandoms: One Piece (Anime & Manga)
03 Nov 2025
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Modern au, chat fic. Sabo reunites with Ace and Luffy.
Ace: youre never 🚫 gonna guess ❓ who showed up 🚪 thursday tho
Izou: Deuce?
Deuce: not me are you kidding? you could not PAY me to spend time in an old SURVIVAL CAMP with SILVERS RAYLEIGH
Izou: Damn, it was just a guess.
Deuce: also I am here? we are in the SAME CAFETERIA
Izou: Okay, well, you're all the way across the room. I can see you now. Stop flipping me off, sorry I didn't see you earlier.
Ace: lol no it is 🥁 sabo 💙🎩🤯‼
Deuce: uh. hang on.
Marco: Who's Sabo? Have I met them?
Deuce: Ace buddy, I thought Sabo was? Dead?Series
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Sunny's Merry Misadventurers and Friends by ArbitraryCategories
Fandom One Piece (Anime & Manga)
04 Nov 2025
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Early Warning Echo by ArbitraryCategories
Fandom Star Wars - All Media Types, Star Wars: The Bad Batch (Cartoon), Star Wars: The Clone Wars (2008) - All Media Types
11 Aug 2025
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Three months after the summer ends, Bill Cipher is thrown back into the lives of the Pines family, but this time as a powerless HUMAN!!! This is a mostly-comedy series exploring those ramifications: parents, Shermie, and explanations all await!
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Billy Batson Week twenty-eighty-four ⚡️ by ArbitraryCategories
Fandom DCU, DCU (Comics), Shazam! | Captain Marvel (Comics)
18 Aug 2024
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mended heart by ArbitraryCategories
Fandom 鬼滅の刃 | Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba (Anime), 鬼滅の刃 | Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba (Manga)
19 Mar 2023
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kny post-canon adventures in making homes and finding peace
series title from Uneven Odds by Sleeping At Last—full lyric is "no one expects you to understand, just to live what little life your mended heart can."
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The story of The Murderbot Diaries, but as told from ART's point of view.
NEXT UP: Network Effect
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Bookmarked by ArbitraryCategories
23 Jun 2026
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Most people are aware of the fact that they have a soul prior to meeting their soulmate.
We aren’t most people.
(Part 1: A partial retelling of Artifical Condition from ART’s POV, wherein everyone’s favourite asshole research transport discovers 1. That it has a soul, and 2. That it has a soulmate. It handles this news completely rationally.
Part 2: A partial retelling of Network Effect, Murderbot POV, where it also has some uncomfortable realizations.) -
Forging a Familiar Face by mismatchedmuses
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
26 Jul 2025
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Tapan and her family needed help to recover their research. The security consultant they hired, a shy but determined augmented human, saved not just their work, but their lives.
Months later, Tapan sees a familiar face on a documentary about constructs.
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23 Jun 2026
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“It’s an invitation to go to a university and talk to some bots, what’s to make of it?” I said. Then the obvious reason behind Bharadwaj asking occurred to me. Oh, great. “Don’t tell me you’re actually thinking about going?”
“I’m considering it,” Bharadwaj said. “I set my own schedule these days, and I would very much like to speak with the bots they’ve been working with, if nothing else.”
I sighed. I like sighing at appropriate moments, and I think I’m pretty good at it at this point. “There are bots on Preservation.”
“True, but the Pansystem University of Mihira and New Tideland has one of the most advanced programs in this section of the galaxy for the construction and study of higher-level bots!” Bharadwaj said, making one of those hand gestures she liked for emphasis.
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AU after Fugitive Telemetry. Bharadwaj, Mensah, and Gurathin take a trip to do some research and rapidly uncover more than they'd bargained for. Why did Murderbot tag along on this low-risk research trip? Listen, don't worry about it.
Bookmarked by ArbitraryCategories
23 Jun 2026
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ART makes an unexpected offer to Murderbot.
Rated Teen & Up for language
Contains some (non-graphic) discussion about surgery.Bookmarked by ArbitraryCategories
23 Jun 2026