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when angry, count to 4 (when very angry, swear) by bleedcolor
Fandoms: Fullmetal Alchemist - All Media Types
08 Feb 2018
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The polite way to introduce yourself to a stranger is by giving them your full name. Edward Elric has never been polite.
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13 Jul 2025
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A decade long, unfinished work that I will probably dream about in its perfection. I've got such a week spot for this pairing and this version is really quite a mindf-ck, what with the involved mentorship role Roy has, but they also very accurately pinpoint a good basis for connection- namely, the both of them are operating on a complete different level with a similar outlook- which I can see working in the future atop whatever grand twist I can FEEL coming down the pipeline.
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Beneath the Rising Sun by JuiceBox342
Fandom: 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia (Anime & Manga)
23 Jun 2025
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12 Jul 2025
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A really cool taje that's adjacent to another good fic, powers wise.
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Schrödinger's cat by AyzuLK
Fandoms: 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia
05 Oct 2019
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The cat is in the closed box, with a 50% chance of being alive and a 50% chance of being dead. According to the principle of uncertainty in quantum physics, he is alive and dead until someone opens the box.
Izuku doesn't want to open the box.
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Izuku didn’t return home after school. Two months later he was found roaming a deserted road with white hair, psychogenic amnesia and a quirk out of control.
Nothing is the same after that.- Language:
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12 Jul 2025
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Solid but vague in ways that felt unsatisfying, despite the fact I didn't want more detail. I both resent & respect how focused this is on the subject while also being vague: the writing is a bit off but, conceptually, very strong.
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“Not all soldiers see the front lines,” Mum says, a touch uselessly. “Not all State Alchemists even serve in the field.”
Ed shakes his head. “It’s war in Ishval, Mum,” he says. “It’s only a matter of time.”
Mum does not live long enough to see the truth in Edward’s words. She doesn’t live long enough to see him throw away his principles, either, though, so there’s that.
(AKA, an AU where Ed was born several years earlier than in canon, finds himself in the military under a different set of circumstances, and discovers, aged 15, just how much war changes things.)
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Bookmarked by TheMidnighTower
11 Jul 2025
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This feels like a little spark of potential, not a whole story.
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Bookmarked by TheMidnighTower
04 Jul 2025
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Lighthearted premise that gets pretty dark as it goes on. Everyone is fairly OOC but it's not necessarily against type & because it's gen, I get to enjoy both Todoroki, who's a bit of an Izuku syncophant & chaos gremlin, & Bakugou, who's tempered by having to deal with the perceived suicide of Izuku right at the start of the story & generally has to deal with the consequences of his actions. Also, the grape boy has on of the most tolerable characterizations I've seen, where he's still thirsty AF but with a consensual, free love type beat.
Worth a reread once but a bit scary in how it escalates. -
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Naruto gets stood up at his own wedding because—to be honest—that’s just how his luck runs.
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29 Jun 2025
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Unfinished but feels adjacent to this authors other work in world building.
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Trust Me, I'm an Alchemist by metisket
Fandoms: Yuri!!! on Ice (Anime), Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood & Manga
18 May 2020
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In which Yuri Plisetsky began life with the name Edward Elric, and this has made the world of figure skating a significantly stranger and more alarming place.
“Are you saying you lived a life of crime before you began skating?”
“I’m gonna have to check the statute of limitations on a couple things and get back to you on that.”- Language:
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Bookmarked by TheMidnighTower
28 Jun 2025
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Okay this one is absolute crack & also makes so much sense it's a bit ridiculous. Took me a while to realize that it actually picks up at the start of the events that kickstart FMA so the pairing is actually pretty excellent.
A fun, wild ride & one of the best. -
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Paths diverge after the Fourth War, in this new world Naruto works hard to build. He holds his highest dreams within his hands, but is he happy? [ Picks up post-Kaguya, some elements of Boruto & post-700 but not entirely adherent. ]
"When they were together, they had no need of words. Their touch, their breath, their heat was enough. They had no need of the future or the past; they had no need to cling to ideals or dreams. Sometimes the path leading into the light of happiness was found in the dark."
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Bookmarked by TheMidnighTower
27 Jun 2025
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Ugh. Follows cannon to a point so it's a bit too bittersweet for me, but it's beautifully written.
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Two decades after Lan Wangji becomes fed up with the elders of Gusu Lan and leaves with his husband, they step into a hidden array during a night hunt... and wake up in Cloud Recesses, shortly after the discovery of the Waterborne Abyss in Lake Biling.
Lan Wangji has no desire to remain a disciple of Gusu Lan. Wei Wuxian wants to save Wen Qing and Wen Ning's family.
And they both think that the cultivation world could stand to learn a few serious lessons.
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Wei Wuxian died on the cliffs at Nightless City...kind of.
But not quite.
Not right away.Or: Lan Wangji is more powerful than anyone expected and drags Wei Wuxian's soul back to Gusu with him. Then something very unexpected happens.
(This author sucks at summaries, and she knows it)
Bookmarked by TheMidnighTower
24 Jun 2025
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Ch 14
Unfinished but stops at a decent enough point that it's still a decent read. -
In This Reality (it could only be you) by Khashana
Fandoms: 魔道祖师 - 墨香铜臭 | Módào Zǔshī - Mòxiāng Tóngxiù, 陈情令 | The Untamed (TV)
01 Jan 2025
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Lan disciples Wei Wuxian and Lan Wangji are best friends who are always touching--hugging, scenting, holding hands, sharing a bed.
This is unusual, because they're both qianyuan (alphas), and are supposed to hate each other's scents.
Wei Wuxian goes into rut one day during lectures, and literally anyone in Cloud Recesses could guess what happens next.- Language:
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22 Jun 2025
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Yoohyun pushes his brother away harder than he intended, and this time he gets the hint
Hiding in another part of Seol, going to college and getting his degree, Yoojin finds the career he's most suited for. He plans to live his life peacefully, out of his brother's way, unfortunately a dungeon break brings him in contact with the person Yoohyun hoped his brother will never meet
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“You never could say no to your Master could you, Skyguy? Even when you really wanted to.”
That name.
It was no longer his.
“Anakin Skywalker is dead.”
It was sardonic, the faint hint of a smile that she gave him as she rose from where she’d been sitting. “If you say so.”Even as a Sith Lord, he could never say no to his beloved former master. Even after all these years.
That was why he agreed to this madness: saving the Jedi. Out of loyalty to Obi-wan. And spite, of course.
It certainly had nothing to do with some pesky craving for redemption.- Language:
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Bookmarked by TheMidnighTower
14 Jun 2025
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A late night binge read. Solid, plot heavy.
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Arthur wakes up. So many of his memories lately start with this. He wakes up, and everything hurts, and John is saying something—but John’s not saying anything this time, and there’s someone in this room with Arthur that sounds a lot like his friend.
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John’s voice always rose and fell, low into a deep growling bass and high into a rough yell. But one constant, one word that never sounded different no matter the tone was how he said Arthur’s name. Emphasis on the ‘ar’ and ‘ur’, the ‘th’ in the middle always smooth like wind. Other people tended to hiss that sound, the ‘th’. With John, it seemed he knew exactly how to say it to make it glide.Based on all that, he deduced it was in fact John saying, “Arthur!”
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John Lester. Arthur thought about him carrying that name around everywhere he went and grit his teeth like he was chewing sand. It was his own damned fault for telling John to pick whatever he wanted; he’d had plenty of opportunity to lay down ground rules, it wasn’t John’s fault Arthur had run out of other Lesters quite some time ago with no plans to bolster numbers.
Not that he’d been much more enthused to gift his name to Bella. Why couldn’t he seem to stop comparing the scrap of the King in Yellow he’d stolen to his dead wife?
(In which John and Arthur take up private investigating together once they find their way out of the Dreamlands and into separate bodies.)
Bookmarked by TheMidnighTower
10 Jun 2025
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Unfinished but the dynamic is interesting.
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All that is mine to me, all that is yours to you by Stringgoblin
Fandoms: Malevolent (Podcast)
05 Nov 2023
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"We'll find you a nice cadaver, or something."
After everything, Arthur and John finally have time to figure out how to get John his own body. It isn't a pleasant process. It turns out that having a fragment of a god excised from your mind has some side-effects, and being a fragment of a god suddenly resident in a human ex-corpse isn't particularly straightforward either.
They'll help each other through it. They always do.
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09 Jun 2025
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Body horror! Lots of understandable struggles! Jon & Arthur's Sherlock & Watson Era! Skinship!
One of the best & definitely worth a reread! -
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After a surprisingly amicable divorce, Arthur Lester found himself primary caregiver of his infant daughter. However, as a working man, he found he was in need of assistance, so at the urging of his father, he placed a small advert in the local papers for a nanny.
Whoever it was he had been expecting to answer, it was not the boy with dark skin and bright gold eyes who spoke his name so fondly.
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Rotation of The Lost and Found by AdministrativeCatBoy
Fandom: Compilation of Final Fantasy VII, Final Fantasy VII (Video Game 1997), Final Fantasy VII Ever Crisis (Video Game 2023), Final Fantasy VII Remake and Rebirth (Video Games 2020-2024), Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children
26 Aug 2025
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Bookmarked by TheMidnighTower
08 Jun 2025
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2/20
Not really a time travel concept but a alternative timeline that overlaps. Part two continues in the original timeline.