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Alice, an asocial young woman, begins to notice a strange phenomenon: people are acting angrier and more aggressive than ever, with no obvious cause. She discovers that a dark force called Depravity is to blame, and she must unite with a group of legendary warriors called the Ephemerals to restore the balance of light and darkness and save the eight nations of Fairylyl from the dark forces threatening their peace and safety. With its immersive worldbuilding, diverse cast of characters, and complex themes, The Dark Fable is the perfect read for fans of animanga, fantasy, sci-fi, action, and adventure. An epic battle of light and darkness, a quest to restore truth and balance, and a journey to save the world: welcome to The Dark Fable.
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- Part 1 of The Dark Fable
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Eight-year-old Rayne Martinez lies dreaming in the Murto Ward—a place where children are hidden, contained, and forgotten. But Rayne is no ordinary child.
On the night of a terrible desert storm, her sleeping mind spills open, unleashing power too vast to understand and too raw to control.
As lightning splits the sky and rivers rise in fury, Rayne's fear reshapes the world around her. This is the moment her story begins, not in light, but in darkness, with a dream she cannot escape and a storm that bears her name.
Framed as a sacred tale told beside a fire, this opening session introduces a love story forged in silence, a friendship that will change everything, and a girl who dreams too deeply to be forgotten.
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It's 1987, and Rumi Hidaka is trying to survive as an idol.
But how can she do that when she's faced with a career that's possibly on the decline, alongside more personal issues and a one-sided rivalry with a fellow idol that happens to share the same first name as her? And on top of all that, how can she also make it in this industry if everyone around her mostly sees her as a two-hit wonder?
A.K.A the Rumi backstory fic I've been wanting to write since before I actually saw the movie.
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Is an object the same object after all of its parts were replaced?
It's 1814 and 2014, both and neither, and this Theseus is a long way from home.
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Softer Than Shadow, Quicker Than a Fly by shyvee
Fandoms: Cinderella Boy - Punko (Webcomic)
12 Oct 2025
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« 𝘊𝘩𝘢𝘴𝘦 𝘮𝘢𝘬𝘦𝘴 𝘢𝘯 𝘪𝘮𝘱𝘶𝘭𝘴𝘪𝘷𝘦 𝘥𝘦𝘤𝘪𝘴𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘵𝘰 𝘨𝘰 𝘪𝘯𝘵𝘰 𝘢 𝘤𝘭𝘢𝘴𝘴𝘪𝘤, 𝘩𝘰𝘱𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘩𝘦'𝘭𝘭 𝘨𝘦𝘵 𝘮𝘰𝘳𝘦 𝘯𝘢𝘳𝘳𝘢𝘵𝘰𝘯𝘪𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘸𝘢𝘺.
𝘏𝘦 𝘥𝘰𝘦𝘴𝘯'𝘵 𝘬𝘯𝘰𝘸 𝘩𝘰𝘸 𝘩𝘦'𝘴 𝘨𝘰𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘵𝘰 𝘢𝘱𝘰𝘭𝘰𝘨𝘪𝘻𝘦 𝘵𝘰 𝘉𝘶𝘥𝘥𝘺 𝘢𝘧𝘵𝘦𝘳 𝘩𝘦 𝘥𝘪𝘴𝘤𝘰𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘦𝘥 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘰 𝘬𝘦𝘺, 𝘯𝘰𝘳 𝘥𝘰𝘦𝘴 𝘩𝘦 𝘬𝘯𝘰𝘸 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘪𝘮𝘱𝘭𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘴 𝘰𝘧 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘣𝘰𝘰𝘬—𝘊𝘢𝘳𝘮𝘪𝘭𝘭𝘢—𝘩𝘦'𝘴 𝘨𝘰𝘯𝘦 𝘪𝘯𝘵𝘰. »
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Chase has to navigate a mysterious story and a mysterious boy named Buddy, who is now a stranger all over again.
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Vampires are just so hard to discipline. Night after Night, Kaname does his best. Renamed from Punishment Files
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A FINE LINE BETWEEN ORANGE AND YELLOW by Fantasy_Artist
Fandoms: Undertale (Video Game), Original Work
09 Oct 2025
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While Aneira didn't necessarily believe monsters existed, she did find the fact that everyone and their dog still did might mean something. Her childhood town of Beddgelert believed in monsters trapped under the mountains near their home that would need a seventh soul now to break out and destroy lands.
Aneira also knew that she needed to figure out what happened to the kid she was friends with who went missing. Which was how she found herself having fallen (probably) hundreds of meters below a mountain inside a cave system. Was she stupid for leaving without telling people where she was going, definitely, but, to be fair, she didn't expect to fall; she couldn't even see the hole.
Injured and wanting to go home, Aneira braves through the underground cave systems, finding MONSTERS both friendly and foes, learning about what happened to all the previous (children) HUMANS that fell.
tldr: Aneira falls instead of Frisk, is injured and is too stubborn not to use this chance to find out what happened to a friend (definitely dead by now, but she still wants to confirm), the Undertale cast feels like something is different, but not what. They also live in Wales here because why not?
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Scars run deeper than you can see.
Can you outrun them?
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- Part 1 of mysticcacao stories!
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Sundays by 3Nyasu3
Fandoms: Pocket Monsters | Pokemon - All Media Types, Pocket Monsters | Pokemon (Anime)
08 Oct 2025
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Jessie, James und Mauzi haben Sonntags frei von Team Rocket.
Und eventuell fangen sie an, sich daher Sonntags ab und an mit den Knirpsen zu treffen.
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A Lack of Proper Decorum by TheFemPC
Fandoms: Dragon Age: Inquisition, Dragon Age - All Media Types
06 Oct 2025
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Lindiranae of Clan Lavellan had been primed for leadership since the day she became first apprentice, but an unexpected turn of fate sees her don the mantle of authority in a way she never expected. Not only must she guide the Inquisition to victory against Corypheus, but she must also learn to navigate a world that is a stark contrast to the one she knows, and master some of her worst fears in the process.
Cullen Rutherford left behind his life as a Templar, haunted by a bloody past fraught with tragedy and failure. The Inquisition offered a chance to find redemption, but not without cost. Yet despite his own private struggles, he finds a sense of belonging in his new role as Commander of the Inquisition forces.
Although the fate of Thedas hangs in the balance, something wholly unexpected blooms within the strife and conflict. Two stubborn, wilful individuals come together and inadvertently soothe one another's old wounds and open each others minds to their very different worlds, despite a shaky start and a lot of awkwardness.
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El Pasado És Lo Que Más Cambia by if_not_now_tell_me_when
Fandoms: La sociedad de la nieve | Society of the Snow (2023)
05 Oct 2025
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"Los Andes no devuelven lo que toman (The Andes don't give back what they take)." - Chilean saying
"He’s spent years living on the periphery of Marcelo’s life, tagging along behind Eduardo and waiting to catch a moment of Marcelo's attention. Marcelo’s easy charm and winning confidence have been on display more times than Fito can count, whether on the rugby pitch, by Daniel’s pool, or around a crowded table at La Mascota. But this attention feels different, charged in a way that sends an exhilarating thrill down his spine."
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“Overnight, the flowers had decided that pink no longer represented them.”
A quiet talk on the Spadille.
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Daughter of the Trees | Éomer Éadig by kementari (dreambigdreamz)
Fandoms: The Lord of the Rings - All Media Types, The Lord of the Rings - J. R. R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings (Movies)
05 Oct 2025
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❝ Living all by myself in the Forest with no company but the trees, well, it must have taken quite a toll on my mental health for me to fall in love with someone that fast — at first sight. This is serious. ❞ In which a forest maid meets an insanely gorgeous himbo.
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The rules were simple:
-Play the game.
-Survive the grind.
-Log out when you're done.But something went wrong. I woke up in Warframe: 1999, and the game isn’t a game anymore. The missions are real, the bullets are real, and if I die here, that’s it.
There’s no exit screen. No UI. No way to know if this is a nightmare or something worse.
War is all I have now.
The only rule left?
Adapt or die.
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One Piece-Into the Weirdness by Nvr999 for XFangHeartX
Fandoms: One Piece (Anime & Manga)
01 Oct 2025
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The Straw Hats will set sail into the most dangerous and strangest adventure of all, even for their standarts, as they recieve the visit of a man from a legendary family and her teenager partner to save a group of people from the hands of a cruel tyrant which has tricks of it's own by sailing on a place called "The Sea of Oddities" . And as long as it goes by, the mysteriees of those tides and several secrets shall be brought to the light. Will the Straw Hats sail across those tidals of madness to stop that tyrant?
Inspired by XfangheartX's rendition of One Piece, which also includes some references to it and her OC's. LuNa and ZoRobin
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- Part 1 of The Robinson Diaries
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In an effort to establish relations with the rest of the galaxy, humanity proposes a cultural exchange with the Asari. Alaya, a somewhat reluctant participant of this venture, goes to Earth with her mother to experience human culture. But, how will she react to the strange wand sometimes weird culture of humans?
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For new found Victor, moving cities is an act of survival of his own. Turns out being a trans boy in the big year of 2006 isn't something people sympathize with. Left with the mental and physical consequences of severe bullying and an unforgettable trauma, he moves across the state to start fresh. But his best friend Leon—bound by a strong feeling of loyalty to his one and only friend—refuses to let him face it alone. He's coming with him, and he's taking his parents and his brother, too.
Life in this small, gossipy city starts just like you’d expect for three geeky teenagers: quiet, simple, and defined by the small-town rumors that swirl around the new kids and the why's they moved here. It's a peaceful feeling of boredom here they all have secretly craved for years.
But trauma leaves scars on everybody it stumbles upon, and new beginnings have the sharpest of sharp edges. When a small choice at the beginning of the morning begins to unravel the very fabric of their small existence, they realize their past isn't the only thing that haunts them in this city.
Everything is connected. Life is the result of a Butterfly Effect.
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有志青年丁丁在中国遇到了京剧名旦，因为不知其是男子和他陷入了二十年纠葛
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- Part 1 of 蝴蝶君M. Butterfly
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The Road to Mandalay by opapeldetrouxa
Fandoms: Life is Strange (Video Games 2015 2017 2024)
28 Sep 2025
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It is not a fair world. If it was, Warren wouldn't be having pseudo-therapy sessions with a friend and marinating in bed otherwise. In the midst of it all, he somehow makes an unlikely friend.
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Assimilated by Drakon475
Fandoms: 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia (Anime & Manga)
28 Sep 2025
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All for deku!
After years of life All For One realizes his death is inevitable, between his constant fights with the users of one for all and seeing the doctor grow older. He starts to make plans around this idea. He knows quirks hold some essence from their original holder, he has been haunted by them in the past after all. So, what if his did as well? What if a connection could be maintained like a download, slowly adding his consciousness to another body? Perhaps it would be possible, but he would need a rarity nowadays to do so cleanly. A quirkless individual, a child would be best, with no quirk there would be no defense against his own. And even if this process takes years, a child should be alive long enough to see it through.