Parallel Narrative
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Two men, two centuries, one name. In 1830, Mathias is a jaded novelist battling a laudanum addiction, hiding a secret and trapped by hypocritical society. In 2013, he's a lonely children's author struggling to find his path in life. One will fall for a captivating creature of the sea, the other for a troubled man who seems not quite of this world, an illustrator whose pictures show far more than just the story.
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Tweek shatters Craig's expectations by jumping his bones one night, after an adolescence spent under innocent shelter. Craig can't get enough of him, but he's also quickly realizing he doesn't really understand him or his proclivities, and that's not an easy epiphany to bear the weight of. Especially when his experiences are so refreshingly boring, and Tweek seems to know too much, only gradually letting him see behind the wall.
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- Part 1 of Troubled By the Way We Came Together
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Kyle and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day by metrophobic
Fandoms: South Park
28 Jan 2015
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Kyle has the worst luck in the world, and then this asshole won't stop antagonizing him.
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- Part 2 of Troubled By the Way We Came Together
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Two stories in parallel. After the war, Shepard finds himself isolated despite the constant care, love, and attention of Kaidan. Invited to a celebration honoring him on the Citadel, he is confronted with what it means to be a man alone--the man who saved the galaxy and broke the cycle of harvests forever.
In the distant past, the most famous Prothean general awakes on Ilos, ready to rebuild his empire, only to find that the world he has awakened to is as dead as the world he abandoned in his cryo-stasis pod.
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To the Lighthouse: Photograph by GinFlameRebellion
Fandoms: Life is Strange (Video Game)
17 Oct 2021
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Chloe doesn’t remember the first time she saw Rachel. She remembers that night at The Mill, of course she does, but that wasn’t the first time she saw her. Not even close. The truth is, when it comes to the story that consumed every part of her life for three years, she doesn’t even remember the start.
But memories don’t tell stories; they are shredded images, sensations—jumbled up, turned upside-down, the pieces glued back together but never the same. A laugh in the dark, love-drunk, dripping honey. The scent of jasmine on shower-damp skin. Not stories. Never whole stories.
For three years Rachel ripped through Chloe's life like wildfire—warming, burning, all-consuming. But now that flame is gone. Rachel is missing, and all Chloe has left are memories. But which of those memories can she trust, and where does the truth really lie? In the present, or in the past?
(A parallel narrative story that shifts between the events of Life Is Strange, as told from Chloe's perspective, and Chloe's memories of the three years between Before the Storm and LIS.)
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- Part 1 of To the Lighthouse
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Blue-tinted Red Walls by BrokenJardaanTech (BlastedHead)
Fandoms: Detroit: Become Human (Video Game), Mass Effect: Andromeda, Mass Effect - All Media Types
19 May 2021
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In 2028, rumours emerged that Sara Ryder, inventor of androids and co-founder of Cyberlife, disagreed with her father Alec Ryder, another co-founder of the company, over the direction the company was heading. Speculations were rendered pointless as the younger Ryder disappeared off the grid after thousands were killed in an explosion outside Detroit, the site which later became a dumping ground for abandoned or damaged androids. A few days after Alec took over CyberLife, reports of androids breaking away from their programming started to emerge, and for a decade, it was CyberLife's best-kept secret.
In 2038, Connor, an RK-series prototype, began development under Ryder's supervision and was released in August in the same year as Cyberlife's last resort towards the deviancy crisis. Rumours among CyberLife employees put someone else as the lead of the RK800/900 project, and although the company goes through extensive measures to dispel the rumour, it somehow manages to reach the Detroit Police Department. It is with this rumour in mind that Lieutenant Hank Anderson is partnered with the same android in question.
Little do they know that the revolution brewing on the horizon is just the beginning.
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- Part 1 of Groom Lake Aftermath
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who wrote history if there were no victors? by BrokenJardaanTech (BlastedHead)
Fandoms: Detroit: Become Human (Video Game), Mass Effect: Andromeda, Mass Effect - All Media Types
13 May 2022
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Gavin Reed: Detective-turned-Special Operative for the mysterious Alliance. Tearing through North America in an RV with a spy who defected not once but twice from two different employers, a dying cyborg kid who can probably nuke an entire state out of existence on a bad day, the deadliest linguist he has ever met, and an android with glowy blue magic whom Gavin swears looks exactly the same as the very Captain Allen back in the DPD, he realises that although he might be hitching a ride back home, surviving the trip in one piece and being able to return to his life from before is wholly another matter.
Louis W. Allen: a man with a charge of treason on his back reinitiated by the DPD to investigate a turf war that is destroying Detroit block by block by reducing it into a radioactive wasteland. With the help of his team, it doesn’t take long for them to realise that the situation is way out of their paygrade, one that is directly tied to their seemingly separate past.
They say that history is written by the victors, but who will write theirs if no one is left to document their victory?
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- Part 3 of Groom Lake Aftermath
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When The Player leaves, The Batter dreams of other things: other lives, other people, other choices; and other possibilities.
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Once upon a time, in a tiny apartment by Jayjay_Kiku91
Fandoms: Rise of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (Cartoon 2018)
10 Feb 2023
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This is a for fun, for me, writing based on one of my many maladaptive daydreams.
Based on an alternative version of me that moved to NYC instead of staying in my hometown in Upstate/Western NY, even though I haven’t been to NYC in over 25 years.
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The Final Days of the Croft Family by ThisFiniteLife
Fandoms: Project Zomboid (Video Game)
19 Sep 2024
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A phone call from the youngest of the Croft family leads the surviving members on their individual journeys to an overdue reunion. Unfortunately, there is a little setback called the "Knox Infection" wracking the entire state of Kentucky, which may delay it indefinitely.
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A Tale of Two Sisters by Jayjay_Kiku91
Fandoms: Rise of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (Cartoon 2018), Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles - All Media Types
10 Mar 2024
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Technically part 1.5 of the “Found(ing) Our Family” fanfic series
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littleprequel and backstory to Lita, Jennika and Hob, who will be semi-major players in Part 3 (technically part 2, man this is confusing) in the series, following “No Road Back to Bethulia”Working on this part in tandem with part 1 so my goal is to have both parts done before I start part 2.
Edit: took off certain tags and will reapply them when the story gets closer to those points.
However this story will eventually include accompanying cast such as Repo Mantis, Old Hob, Krang Prime/the Krang, and possibly others. (I don’t intend to make this longer than 40-50k so I will try to keep this part on track.)Series
- Part 2 of Found(ing) Our Family
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On Raising Tigers, Doggies, and Boys by RedPiperFox for TheSunshineDragon, maelstromdeparture, Smileyoureoncamera, K1mHeechu1, Ink_and_Salt
Fandoms: Stray Kids (Band)
24 Dec 2023
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The triplets live with their cousin Minho now.
(Minho is sorely underprepared to raise three little boys.)
They really like Minho. He's kind, and strong, and does everything for them.
(Minho has no idea what he's doing.)
But they really can't wait to go home.
(Minho's home is their home now.
But how exactly do you show that to six year olds?)Series
- Part 14 of twitter made me (Red's one-shot collection)
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I understood that I couldn’t expect everyone else to drown in the same unbearable grief I lived with every day. That would’ve been too high a price for anyone to pay. After all, Andrés had been the love of my life. For Sergio, he’d been an older brother. For Rafael, a father. Losing family was something people eventually learned to live with. But losing the only soul that ever truly belonged to yours…At the very least, I was a terrible example of any philosophical conclusion about surviving grief. My entire existence made it painfully obvious that people could’ve written me off just as easily as doctors once wrote Andrés off. The difference was that Andrés hadn’t chosen his fate.I had willingly cornered myself in the darkest place imaginable.
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Приємні спогади by re_eirene for Fuvcking_sun_fish
Fandoms: 呪術廻戦 | Jujutsu Kaisen (Manga), 呪術廻戦 | Jujutsu Kaisen (Anime)
14 Mar 2024
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— Мені варто боятися вбивцю заклиначів?
Тоджі втягнув повітря із шумом, який викликав чергову посмішку, та протягнув крізь зуби:
— Так.Просто Тоджі, який згадує чужу руку в штанях, і уявляє її на місці своєї зараз. От тільки його рука — не Сукуни, і рота із язиком, на жаль, не має.
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Project Hail Mary by jeralee
Fandoms: 怪獣８号 | Kaiju No. 8 (Manga), 怪獣８号 | Kaiju No. 8 (Anime)
24 Jan 2025
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As Izumo Tech supplies Japan’s Defense Force, a little return on investment is expected. Enter Project Hail Mary, where Narumi Gen is selected to be part of the breeding program to ensure the preservation of Japan’s strongest combatant.
That would explain why you were suddenly being called the Chosen One after Gen saves you from a kaiju attack.
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- Part 1 of Trained for War, Bound by Love
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Hidden Agendas by Jayjay_Kiku91 for MorningLarkspur, LilliputianDuckling, VioletVulpini
Fandoms: Mega Man (Cartoon 1994), Rockman | Mega Man - All Media Types
26 Dec 2024
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An AU based on the 1994 Ruby Spears Mega Man show.
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What if Dr. Light wasn’t the altruistic, kind scientist he fooled the world into believing? What if the entire premise of Dr. Wily trying to take over the world wasn’t just a solo endeavor? What if both scientists had a secret agenda to make a team effort and fake a war between robots for their own gain?And how does such a discovery affect the robots they created to serve their whims?
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Dr. Light is actually evil, and secretly working with Dr. WilySeries
- Part 1 of Hidden Agendas- A Ruby Spears Megaman AU
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The Crown is Stained (but you're the real queen) by scalenesofwisdom
Fandoms: Pokemon Legends: Arceus (Video Game), Pocket Monsters: Black & White | Pokemon Black and White Versions, Pocket Monsters: Black 2 & White 2 | Pokemon Black 2 & White 2 Versions, Pocket Monsters: Diamond & Pearl & Platinum | Pokemon Diamond Pearl Platinum Versions
27 Aug 2025
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On the evening of her eighteenth birthday, Sinnoh Champion Dawn Berglitz disappeared from her bedroom without a trace. The blame is quickly pinned on Team Plasma, an anti-trainer organization in Unova that the Champion was actively against. Hilda isn't sure if it's true, but between N's recent betrayal in Nimbasa City and the threat of a complete takeover hanging over their heads, she can't rule it out. One thing's for sure: if anyone hopes to find out what happened to Dawn, Team Plasma must fall.
Meanwhile, Dawn herself has landed in the strange world of the past. Sinnoh is now 'Hisui,' and poké balls have just been invented. She knows she must find a way home, but how? And, more importantly, does she want to?
(A sometimes canon-compliant retelling of Pokémon Legends: Arceus and Pokémon: White/White 2)
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Better Left Unsaid by lithic_lapidarian
Fandoms: Trigun Stampede (Anime 2023), Trigun (Anime & Manga 1995-2008)
06 Feb 2025
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Vash has been skipping meals, but Meryl is onto him, and she's about to make it her problem.
In which Vash spectacularly misinterprets an offer of care, coming to all the wrong conclusions. And in which Meryl is right, except for when she's very wrong.
As told from both perspectives, Rashomon style.
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unknown sea by slverlght
Fandoms: 魔道祖师 - 墨香铜臭 | Módào Zǔshī - Mòxiāng Tóngxiù, 陈情令 | The Untamed (TV)
01 Jun 2025
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All words I know for conveying longing, in every language I know – I find them appropriate now. I miss you in every language I know, and in those I don’t.
I love you more than you will ever know, he never got to say.
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wei ying was there, and then he was nowhere. he gets better at being here, with time; with lan zhan.
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- Part 2 of on the cusp of a word
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Oscar只是想去闯一闯自己的导师Mark一直避之不谈的冰川蓝洞。
Max则跟着Sebastian的房车来冰岛旅行。
在冰川的边缘，两段看似平行的旅程正悄然交汇。