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#1 reason why you should get better at arranging dinner dates with your friends and family: imminent death! by Excalis

Fandoms: Naruto (Anime & Manga)
27 Oct 2024
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“Hokage-sama,” Kakashi said, aware he sounded like a harried retail worker. From the corner of the ceiling, Hawk's chakra fluttered with silent laughter. Kakashi flicked a glare at her before settling his gaze back onto his sensei's impenetrably beaming face, feeling distinctly harassed. “This is flagrant disregard of protocol.”
“Yes,” Minato-sensei said peaceably, and nothing more. The smile on his face didn't budge an inch. A silence filled with expectation swelled between them.
“What are you doing?” Kakashi asked finally, hands placed on his hips disapprovingly.
“Abusing my authority as your supreme commander,” Minato-sensei replied smilingly.

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be as you've always been by Excalis

Fandoms: Superman - All Media Types, Batman - All Media Types, DCU
06 Oct 2024
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“Difficult to explain,” Bruce said shortly, looking at nothing in particular.

Slowly, Clark lowered his head, wordlessly prompting eye contact. Then, he raised a brow.

“What was I supposed to say?” Bruce asked archly in response. “‘Hello, mother, your untimely murder opened my eyes to the glaring flaws in Gotham’s criminal justice system, and in the decades since, I’ve gone out every night in a bat costume to perform acts of vigilantism through gratuitous application of incredible violence. Would you like more milk in your tea?’”
Martha Wayne is resurrected for a day. Clark is mostly here for moral support and to make sure Bruce doesn’t crawl out of his skin from sheer stress, but he certainly wouldn’t mind making a favorable first impression on one of the most influential women of his best friend’s life. He just hadn’t expected her to be so incisively observant, though he really, probably should have.

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a stolen moment by Excalis

Fandoms: DCU, Superman - All Media Types, Batman - All Media Types
26 Jun 2024
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Then, Clark’s eyes met his, and he pulled away so quickly that the sound of his retreat whipped through the air. His face, for a moment, was startlingly open, and naked grief cracked harshly through his expression like a fist shattering the surface of a frozen lake. Then, it was gone, and the slate was wiped clean as though there had been nothing but a mild smile there since the very beginning.

But Bruce knew what he’d seen.

“How long?” he asked.

Clark’s mouth twisted. “I don’t know why I thought I’d be able to keep it from you,” he said softly. “You know me too well. Was that even five minutes?”

“Clark.”

Clark’s lips turned up into a smile, fracturing his face, his eyes glittering shards of lapis lazuli. “How long for what?” he asked. “For how long we were married? Or for how long it’s been since you died?”

Series
- Part 3 of Hurt and Comfort Bingo
- Part 2 of Kryptonite Week 2024
- Part 2 of the flower, never watered, turns to the sun
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Sunflower Care 101 by Excalis

Fandoms: DCU, Superman - All Media Types
25 Jun 2024
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A hand snapped out, wrapping around his wrist and tightening until he could nearly feel his bones grinding against each other. Superman’s eyes were open, but his pupils had swallowed his irises until there was only a thin ring of blue. He didn’t blink at all, gaze faraway and unfocused. Not quite conscious.
His grip certainly wasn’t weak, in any case. Batman took that for a good sign.
He opened his mouth to say something sufficiently reassuring that would hopefully result in him without a broken wrist—he’d still be able to get the kryptonite out, of course, but having to accommodate for an injury whilst performing a medical procedure wasn’t exactly his idea of a pleasant experience. But Superman cocked his head a little, and all the tension in his body fled him, his grip loosening from around his wrist.
“Br’ce,” Clark slurred indistinctly, his hand falling to his side, and immediately, trustingly fell back into unconsciousness.
Bruce stared at his slack face, hands frozen, mind buzzing with white noise.

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- Part 2 of Hurt and Comfort Bingo
- Part 1 of Kryptonite Week 2024
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my heart (it digs its own grave) by Excalis

Fandoms: DCU, Batman - All Media Types, Superman - All Media Types
14 Apr 2024
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Kryptonians ran hotter than humans by about 5.4 degrees, give or take a few decimal places. Clark felt like a radiator even on the bitterest of rainy nights on Gotham rooftops, a foot's distance between them; Bruce wondered if it would feel different somehow, if he pressed his hand against his chest, where his shield would lay, with intention—touch for the sake of touching. If it would feel different without the barrier of triple-weave kevlar and impenetrable alien fabric between them, stripped of the context of battle and the excuse of necessity.

Bruce was, however, in possession of all his faculties and thus was sound of mind enough to create a 20-item list (organized by relevance) of all the reasons why following through on his desires would be unwise. Chiefly among said reasons was, of course, that there were approximately thirty minutes before Clark would be married to the love of his life, Lois Lane, and that Bruce would never jeopardize their happiness for something as petty as feelings that he’d failed to smother in the cradle—no matter his alleged ‘self-destructive tendencies’.

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- Part 1 of Hurt and Comfort Bingo
- Part 1 of the flower, never watered, turns to the sun
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animus revertendi by seathings

Fandoms: 恋与深空 | Love and Deepspace (Video Game)
03 Jun 2026
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“I think you’re mistaken, I feel like you want a surgeon,” you said, eyeing him strangely. “I’m a coroner.”
“Are they that different,” the man questioned.
“Uh, yes?”
Or: you try to be a good samaritan by saving the life of a boy that was brought into your office to be autopsied. somehow this turns into you becoming the private doctor for a crime lord despite the fact you are much more qualified to take people apart than you are to put them together. you don’t know what you did, but surely you did not survive medical school, divorce, and everything else life has thrown your way just to have to survive him too.

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- Part 2 of 机缘凑巧
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24 Jul 2026
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Prophylaxis by Aurelius0517

Fandoms: Superman - All Media Types
01 Jan 2026
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You’ve timed it, once. Out of idle curiosity. How long it takes Superman to cross the city versus how long Clark Kent takes to come back from lunch.

The numbers line up beautifully.

You don’t say anything. Why would you?

You did scoff, though, when you read Clark Kent’s interview with Superman. An exclusive. You rolled your eyes at the byline. There was lazy, and then there was lazy.

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Superman somehow becomes your friend in between chess games, instant coffee, and Mario Kart.

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You know a secret about Superman. That's ok, he knows a secret about you too.

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24 Jul 2026
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Getting Married for Fun and Profit by WyvernQuill

Fandoms: 역대급 영지 설계사 | The Greatest Estate Developer (Webcomic)
26 Apr 2026
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"I," Lloyd declares, slapping the royal tax form down onto his desk, "am going to get married."

"Are you?" Javier, standing at parade rest by the window and looking, as usual, vaguely bored and deeply unimpressed with Lloyd's shenanigans, raises one delicate brow. "Your blind, pointless, utterly unrealistic optimism is truly inspiring, my Lord. Good luck."

Or: Lloyd's eager to take advantage of reduced tax rates for wedded couples, and makes it know that he's in the market for a spouse of convenience. Javier, his trusty knight and newly appointed Fronteran marriage broker, will surely find him a suitable candidate... any... day... now.......

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24 Jul 2026
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Co|Re: Pride by slex (slexenskee)

Fandoms: Re:ゼロから始める異世界生活 | Re:Zero Starting Life in Another World (Anime)
23 Feb 2022
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He’ll never know it, but this is hardly the first time she’s intentionally upturned his life in such a manner. It’s not even the first time on this ‘run’. He feels like he’s lost something unfathomable, although he cannot imagine what.
Fem!Baru pulls a newgame+ after losing everything at the very end of her first run (life), deciding to become the Sin Archbishop of Pride and save the world without involving any of her former friends.

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21 Jul 2026
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GOOD MORNING WORLD by onesourfish

Fandoms: Dr. STONE (Anime & Manga)
26 Jun 2026
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“Stanley could have completely destroyed your chances of revival,” he heard himself say. “Of anybody’s survival.”

“So you’re saying he suddenly grew a conscience?” Chrome said.

“What I am saying, Dr. Chrome,” Xeno said, eyes on Senkū, “is he let go of my gun.”

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In which Stanley wakes 10 months after Xeno does, rather than 5 years after.

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20 Jul 2026

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oh my god................ these bitches gay. good for them. good for them.