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He Always Has Tears in His Eyes by Anonymous
Fandoms: 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia
03 Sep 2022
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“Kacchan,” Izuku says. He looks at his All Might drawing in the sand again, wiping at his eyes. “Do your parents play games with their friends?”
“Yeah. What do you think they’re doing while I’m stuck having to play with you?”
Izuku thinks the words should make him upset, but they don’t. He’s too busy digging his nails into his legs, thinking about the room, to be upset about anything Kacchan is saying.
“At the end of the game, do … Do you ever go into a room with them? With your parents’ friends and ... do stuff?”
When he turns around, Kacchan is staring at him with a twisted expression.
“What are you talking about?”
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Izuku Midoriya always seems to have tears in his eyes.Or: Izuku has been drowning his entire life. And when he begins to sink, his family (class 1-A, that is) is there to keep him afloat.
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the most remarkable thing about you standing in the doorway is that it’s you by greatunironic
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
20 Jul 2022
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Sixteen years after the world didn't end for the last time, Max Mayfield showed up on Steve’s doorstep and said, “You gonna walk me down the aisle in May or what?” Or, it’s 2002 and Steve Harrington attends a wedding, a funeral, and a birth.
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The One in Which a Time Loop is Fucking Exhausting. by badpancake
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
17 Jul 2022
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It’s the first time in a while that he doesn’t know what comes next. He’s dove into the water hundreds of times. Screamed as his flesh was torn apart, heard Master of Puppets in the distance and held back tears. Felt Max’s cold, small hand in his as she laid in the hospital bed. There are things that always happen, no matter how hard he tries: El doesn’t arrive in time. Eddie dies. Max is put in a coma.
Steve fails. They lose.
“Steve, how many loops have you been through?”
His head is nodding, and his eyes are watery, and Eddie has approached him like a spooked animal.
“I lost count.”
AKA: The one where Steve Harrington is stuck in a time loop, and Eddie Munson is really fucking hard to save, or: fuck Volume 2, these bitches are in love.
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By Any Means by spark_the_fangirl
Fandoms: 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia
03 Jul 2022
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Inko is a mother. She wants nothing more than the safety of her son, by any means. She will do anything to ensure that he is protected, even if it means he can never become a hero.
All for One is a cover. Inko has disposed of that mask in favor of something better, a family. She vows to accept this new life, to forget her past, to begin something new, but demons still follow the holder of All for One, and perhaps the only way to keep her loved ones safe is to embrace her true identity.
Izuku will be a hero.
Inko will not allow it.
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Leave Again Soon by MahouMou
Fandoms: 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia (Anime & Manga)
29 Jun 2022
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“I could’ve taken the train, you know,” he says. It’s true, and maybe it would have been even faster. He wonders why his mother came all the way here just to bring him back home.
She taps her fingers on the steering wheel, leaning her head toward him without taking her eyes off the road. “Oh well, you know, this felt like a special opportunity,”
“What do you mean?” he asks, even though he knows he won’t get a real answer.
“You’ll see.”
Midoriya Hisashi comes back from America, and maybe that's not such a good thing.
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Pieces Still Stuck In Your Teeth by howlsmovinglibrary
Fandoms: Baldur's Gate (Video Games)
22 May 2024
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“I mean it,” she said. “Don’t kill anyone, Astarion. You’ve gotten what you wanted. Seven thousand lives was enough.”
“I don’t take orders from you anymore. You just said so, yourself.”
“The moment you kill someone,” Rose replied, “is the moment I'll know that my next task is to stop you.”
“Darling,” Astarion grinned, “I would sincerely like to see you try.”
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The Vampire Ascendent has crossed a line. Eleven years after making the biggest mistake of her life and losing the man she loved, tiefling wizard (now Archmage) Rosalie decides it’s time to put this Astarion in the ground for good. Hopefully, both her head and her heart are strong enough to see this awful task through to its end.
(A lovers-to-enemies, ‘we’re divorced and going to make it everyone else’s problem’, Vampire-Ascendent-aesthetic-but-make- it “I can STILL fix him’ fic)
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- Part 5 of Rat Bastard Boi (BG3)
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This is so wonderful like I've reread at least twice already. Lovely fic.
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When Azula is nine, she becomes an only child. She hears the Fire Lord call for Zuko's life, and in the morning, her mother and brother are gone. Azula may be young, but she isn't naive. She knows what happened to them.
Which makes it all the more surprising when Azula tracks the Avatar down and fights his group of peasant friends, only to find herself staring into an eerily familiar face.
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Portgas D Ace bowed at the waist, gaze lowered in respect for the great pirate. “I wanted to thank you for what you did for my sister.”
Akagami no Shanks laughed heartily, waving away Ace’s gratitude. “Don’t even sweat it, how is little Anchor doing anyway?”
Ace froze, smile falling. “You… you don’t know?”
The Akagami Pirates slowed to a halt and listened with bated breath as Fire Fist explained. “Luffy is dead.”
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- Part 1 of what is grief, if not love persevering
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in·a·ni·tion, noun; lack of mental or spiritual vigor and enthusiasm; exhaustion caused by lack of nourishment.
(In which Luffy's metabolism is faster than his doctor understands.)
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"I one day wanna see a One Piece AU where everyone actually speaks different languages. Like, perhaps there’s a language that’s spoken in 95% of the world and everyone is bilingual."
Expanding on the above prompt, what would happen if everyone on the Grand Line really did speak different languages? A couple of little explorations done here and there.