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A direct sequel to A Long Fall
Now that the Joker's gone to ground, Birdie's faced with the unpleasant task of healing from the torture they sustained in New York City. Not only that, but they're faced with the prospect of finding a way to move past the fact that Bruce thinks that they're a rogue waiting to happen. Further complicating matters is the fact that they're moved back to Gotham, they can't seem to find a way to talk to Damian without fighting, and everything else seems to be going wrong in their life. All they can do is take things a day at a time, and fight to find a way to get better.
A character study in broken birds, families, and how healing can still be possible, even when it seems unlikely.
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- Part 5 of a bird in the hand
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Find Your Own Way by CowFish_53
Fandoms: Pocket Monsters | Pokemon - All Media Types, Pokemon Legends: Z-A (Video Game), Pocket Monsters: Scarlet & Violet | Pokemon Scarlet & Violet Versions
25 Oct 2025
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Alyx had thought that her journey had been over several times before. After all, traveling away from home for nearly eight months would make one pretty homesick for a long time. Though... life seemed to have other ideas.
Now Alyx finds herself on the cusp of yet another travel far from home- but this time, to her previous home; Lumiose City. All she wanted to do was stay for a couple of weeks, ask Professor Sycamore and anyone else about Battle Bonds, and then go home. It was simple really. And Alyx was content to simply leave it at that so she could go back home and be a normal teenager for once.
Little did she know that her trip would be way longer and more complicated than the two weeks that she wanted.
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Arknights: First To Hell by Cynical_Waste23, Democratic_Menace, Filteredboi, Historicalman123, Opera56
Fandoms: Helldivers (Video Game), 明日方舟 | Arknights (Video Game)
25 Oct 2025
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A Helldiver designated A1, found himself crash landed into a strange, alien planet protected with a dome, orbited by two moons, and plagued by a cancerous rock, that hasn't been charted by Super Earth's Expedition Forces. With his Super Destroyer compromised and damaged at the last minute, join this Helldiver as he navigates through this unfamiliar terrain by himself, with nothing but his guns, his strategems, and his sheer will and love FOR MANAGED DEMOCRACY.
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Michael was dead, but he was not done.
He would make William pay.
He would make William know what it was like.
And Evan is also along for the ride.
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Michael prevents William from killing Cassidy, but is forced to take her place as the fifth victim of the Missing Children's Incident. Now, both he and Evan possess the Fredbear suit, and they must find a way to bring William to justice.
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Tyrant by multistangaybanana
Fandoms: Interview with the Vampire (TV 2022), Vampire Chronicles Series - Anne Rice
25 Oct 2025
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Long ago, Russell De Pointe du Lac promised Lestat his firstborn omega in exchange for money and influence. Now Louis is eighteen, beautiful, and burning up the charts. Lestat has waited long enough. It's time to claim what was promised.
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- Part 3 of Toxic IWTV Omegaverse
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Crane promised Brecken he would get Rahim to safety. That's exactly what he intends on doing.
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Isabel is your average teenager with deep-rooted anxiety, a bad habit of overthinking every single social interaction and, most importantly, still looking for a place to belong. So, when she somehow ends up in the world of her favorite show, what comes next seems quite obvious: she's going to join Fairy Tail, finally settle down in a place to call home, and ultimately establish the bonds she's always yearned for.
Or at least, that's the goal - she somehow doubts it'll be as easy as it sounds.
“Then I guess we’re not so different after all.”
“What?”
“You want a legacy of might, while I want a legacy of love.” A wry smile graced her lips. “In the end, we both just want people to remember us once we’re gone.”
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Angsty teenager with a bad overthinking habit and mild social anxiety seeks out the one Guild reputed for its warmth and family-like bonds - and yeah, it goes about as well as you can expect.
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- Part 5 of Fairy Tail AUs
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Demon Hunting Takes Balls of Steel by Elliemechanical
Fandoms: 淫妖蟲 ～凌触学園退魔録～ | Inyouchuu ~Ryoujoku Gakuen Taimaroku~ (Visual Novel)
25 Oct 2025
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A struggling pub suffers a demon attack, hires an exorcist organization... and panics over the invoice. Backed into a legal corner, the owners offer to settle their debt with a dusty old pinball machine sitting in their cellar. And the team at Black Cat Demon-Hunting Agency grudgingly accepts the deal.
The promise of perpetual spare change inspires them to bring the game back up to operation to cover their lost expenses. Two months after escaping the worst night of their lives, the demon hunters dive headfirst into the world of arcade repair, connecting with a local restaurant interested in the game.
But when the girls land in the crosshairs of an undefeated Lord Nightmare - unearthing buried trauma in the process - the race to revive the coin-operated marvel evolves into a race to fund their own protection.
[Happy 20th birthday, Inyouchuu!]
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Fallen Constellations by akatsukiRinne
Fandoms: Star Wars - All Media Types, Star Wars Prequel Trilogy
26 Oct 2025
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Two children bound by the force.
A string of events bring them apart only to pull them back together again in most unfortunate ways possible
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- Part 1 of Anidala chronicles
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when the world comes crashing down by blueberryMilkshakes
Fandoms: Cookie Run (Video Game)
25 Oct 2025
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The Fount of Knowledge is the last Virtue standing - the last beacon of hope in a world falling to ruin. The only hope is the Beast Sealing Spell, yet it requires five - a fail safe, in case they corrupted. No one ever thought about what would happen if only Some of the Beasts corrupted, and thus Pristine Milk must be sealed alongside those he once loved - now warped nearly beyond recognition.
Once the Beasts break free, thousands of years in the future, Pristine Milk has to learn to navigate a world wholly unfamiliar to him - and deal with the eons of trauma he's been ignoring. Turns out being locked in a tree for thousands of years makes your trauma worse! Who could've guessed?
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You Drew Stars Around My Scars by TheWinterSoldier2002
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types, Justice League - All Media Types, Superman - All Media Types
25 Oct 2025
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After the Death of Superman, who is now alive, instead of Lex Luthor developing a clone child via his and Kal-El’s DNA, he develops a drug with the Kryptonian DNA. One that can alter human biology. And Bruce Wayne is his target.
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For her, Treviso isn't nestled between the sea and the sky. It's wedged among Templar swords and poisoned Crow blades, with the click of Caterina's cane ever at her back. Once the whole city felt like it might be a home, but the areas that welcome her shrink. The top floor of the Cantori Diamond; her few warded rooms in Lucanis's house; the docks. Always looking over her shoulder, listening for out-of-place footsteps and the hiss of a thrown knife.
At least she is, by her nature, never unarmed.
Varric chimes in with a chuckle. Isn't that why they put you in towers? Ceridwen doesn't grace her ghost with a response.
The gods are dead, the world's a mess, no one is happy about the new Talon, and Rook's haunted by regret. Rook, Spite, and Lucanis figure out how to live despite it all.
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- Part 1 of Ceridwen "Rook" Laidir
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No One's Hands Are Bloodier Than God's by isnt_it_pretty
Fandoms: Kingdom Come: Deliverance (Video Games)
25 Oct 2025
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Henry was of Skalitz, once. Before it burned. Before he survived. Before he was taken in by the man who murdered his Pa.
Or: The worst thing about Hans' guard in Maleshov is that Hans likes him.
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- Part 1 of Whumptober 2025
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Detective Jane Smith befriends a PC, named Yasmin Kahn, who is in need of support.
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Roughly one month after the seventh human disappears to Mt. Ebott, the worry seems to just... die down. No warnings or anything of the likes, things just... return to normal.
One person, however, grows restless, even despite his worsening illness. And thus, starts the journey of a human who was never meant for the underground...
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The 141 won't let Makarov escape again. After barely making it out of the tunnels alive, all four members are hell-bent on having him meet a bullet from the end of their rifles. Things get complicated when Ghost and Soap stumble across something very important to Makarov in a secret bunker.
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A Future Without Them by Baddrummer
Fandoms: Deltarune (Video Game), Undertale (Video Game)
25 Oct 2025
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Years pass. People grow. The world moves on without you. The Angel grew content with that for a while. It still hurt whenever they thought of the world that had long banished them, but something new pulled them out of the depths. Now, the Angel walks amongst friends who swear that they will not be banished. Kris, Susie, and Ralsei mean everything to them. Maybe this time, their banishment doesn't have to be as set in stone as they thought.
The Roaring comes. The light falters. Everyone falls.
A desperate connection is established in an attempt to save what remains of the Angel. If they fall, all hope will be lost. The world that banished the Angel long ago has forgotten them, but they have not forgotten it. This connection will have to be enough. Even if the rules have changed irrevocably, the Angel's one goal remains the same: Find them.
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- Part 2 of Clawing Toward What Hope Remains
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A Vessel for Sorrow by ruel02
Fandoms: Warhammer 40k (Novels) - Various Authors, Warhammer 40.000
26 Oct 2025
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An empty and perfect vessel, the nameless clone of Fulgrim was but an exhibit in the collection of Trazyn the Infinite. But a call from the depths of the warp—an echo of a soul trapped in an ancient portrait—granted him freedom and a curse. Having received the memories, sorrow, and guilt of the original primarch, he was reborn not as Fulgrim the Betrayer, but as his penitent reflection.
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Harry Evans lands into a Hogwarts unlike he remembers, one gripped by a silent, creeping horror. Students are dead, stolen in ways that defy sense.
One found dead in the prefect's bathtub, throat slit.
Another floats in the Black Lake, fully clothed, no signs of drowning.
The third victim is frozen before a mirror, their reflection distorted.
The fourth is found in a locked room, their body hollowed out.
The fifth in a ritualistic pose, their skin smoothly removed.
The sixth one is found deformed, choking in a silent room with whispering voices.
The seventh is frozen in terror, with a broken hourglass spilling sand unnaturally nearby.
The eighth has vanished, leaving only their clothes and a shadowy outline.
The ninth is found mute, mouth open in a silent scream, throat crushed.
No two deaths are the same. No clear connection ties them together. But one fact is inescapable: this is no accident.
Harry, Tom and Dumbledore search for answers in the darkened corridors of a school teetering on the edge of fear. But the deeper Harry digs, the more he realizes, Hogwarts itself may be keeping secrets no one was meant to uncover.Based on a prompt from reddit.
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Gaze Upon Another Dawn by Ghostie_haz_Insomnia
Fandoms: Marvel Cinematic Universe, The Avengers (Marvel Movies)
25 Oct 2025
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In another universe the ship of the asgardians was never attackedand they arrived safely on Midgard- well more safer for others than Loki. The God of Mischief faced trial for the things he had done years prior and was forced into a rehabilitation programm. Which, as one might guess primarily focuses on therapy, but will he accept the help and finally start healing or will he refuse, keeping his secrets and troubles safely inside but slowly descend back into madness?
Only time will tell.Series
- Part 1 of Borrowed Time Au | Earth-219135