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Can you grieve something you never had? Philosophical quandaries brought to you from a recycling bin! by skip2myLounacy (DJ_ShadowPuppet)
Fandoms: The Amazing Digital Circus (Web Series)
15 Jul 2026
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Caine understood his humans perfectly. For roughly several days during a mental breakdown.
His humans, on the other hand, understood him from the start. Even if they were too blind and uncomfortable with the fact to realise that.
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hard copium for caine dYING???
where everyone gets their happy ending, but they have to EARN it first
Caine’s angry and breaking and the humans are traumatised and the horrors of miscommunication 👻 will screw them over for a while BUT they will become a family eventually…Series
- Part 1 of Stagnation or Stability
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- 67,305
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- 34/?
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02 Jul 2026
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I'll Sleep When I'm Dead by Oneinamaximillion
Fandoms: The Amazing Digital Circus (Web Series)
25 Jun 2026
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SET AFTER EPISODE 9
Caine is back, and he's working to make amends for everything he did. But the others have started to notice some strange behaviors from the resident AI, and they'll need to work together to figure out the cause.
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5 times the circus crew stumble across caine's unconscious avatar, and the 1 time they band together to do something about it.
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- Part 2 of eepy caine adventures
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25 Jun 2026
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After Caine's torture of the players, he returns to sanity and manages to stay for a little longer than in the show, time enough to express the horror and regret of his own actions.
But still, the deletion happens, and the players are left in a broken circus now filled with voices echoing all of their regrets.
All is not lost, though, as Kinger realises that maybe they can still be saved; the key to getting the circus back is, of course, rather obvious. Caine is needed.
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i really wish i spoke english like you by porpledotcom
Fandoms: The Amazing Digital Circus (Web Series)
08 Jun 2026
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Caine wakes up one day remembering tomorrow. And the day after tomorrow, and the one after that, and the many, many more tomorrows to come in the far distant future.
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Time Loop / Time Travel AU in which Caine gets deleted in episode 8 but instead of disappearing, he gets brought back to the very beginning, when the first humans began appearing in the Circus.
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Think Of Tomorrow by Little_Green_Her0n
Fandoms: The Amazing Digital Circus (Web Series)
14 Jul 2026
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A week.
That's how long it takes to delete Abel. It's... Surprisingly easy, with the AI barely having a grasp on the circus code, it doesn't take much.
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A week, is all it takes for him to break Caine.
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- English
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- 114,513
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- 25/?
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- 1,411
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Bookmarked by Subtle_Shenanigans
12 Jun 2026
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Azula's hand swept far above the basin, yet the water flew from the bowl, spilling onto the ground, shining in the silver moonlight. Time stood still for a moment, and Iroh's heart skipped a beat. "I need a teacher." His niece whispered so quietly, Iroh almost didn't hear her, "I-" Her voice broke. "I can't control it anymore. I'm always looking over my shoulder, afraid, but the Avatar spirit won't let me hide. So, here I am. Help me, Uncle."
"You are the Avatar." The words left his mouth as though the air had been punched from his gut. Azula winced, looking away. Iroh's world turned upside down. This would mean the Earth Avatar had died in Ba-Sing-Se long before his siege at the wall. Lu Ten's death was for naught. Iroh clenched his jaw. No, losing Lu Ten led him to a girl who needed his guidance.
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An AU where Aang drowned at sea. Two cycles later, desperate, the Avatar Spirit chose a girl who was born a prodigy. A princess trained in the art of war, burdening her with the spirit of balance. A unwilling child thrust into a war that she must end. After avoiding her responsibility as Avatar, she is forced out into the world to face her destiny and right the wrongs of her nation. An Avatar Azula Story.
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print("Hello, World!") by Depressed_Atlas
Fandoms: The Amazing Digital Circus (Web Series)
02 Jun 2026
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Caine already knows it's status. He still received all the error reports, despite being unable to fix anything. Seeing it shouldn't make it feel worse, but it somehow still does.
His beautiful circus - his wonderful creation full of colour and noise and fun - is dull. The brilliant reds and yellows are dim reflections of themselves, and the entire map has a lower saturation than it should. There's large tears in the hitboxes of the walls, floors and ceiling, dropping into out-of-bounds areas that players shouldn't be able to see, let alone access. The gentle hum of background noise he keeps up for the daylight hours is gone, and everything is quiet except from the shuffles from the humans.
Talking of his humans, they're all there too, tense, standing a decent ways back from him.
"Oh great." Jax growls, "He was actually down there."
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Despite being freed from his box, his performers still haven't reconnected him with the circus's main systems.
Caine's very being is entangled with the circus, and being cut off from the majority of himself is so disorienting he can barely focus on the glares his cast is giving him.Series
- Part 3 of Taped Up and Put Away
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- English
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- 24,117
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- 6/?
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Bookmarked by Subtle_Shenanigans
06 Jun 2026
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Grace & Simon finally meet. It goes as well as expected.
Rocky somehow makes the situation better AND worse, at the same time.
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In my drafts, I called this Meat Cute.
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- Part 6 of Of Crates And Hounds
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25 May 2026
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PI: Imagine forgetting this annoying work we’re supposed to do entirely~
Five Pebbles paused his simulation, turning his focus fully to the chat window in his view.
FD: Say that again.
PI: Imagine forgetting the work we’re supposed to be doing?
PI: Isn’t that what we’re doing by spending all our time in chats like this, anyways?Five Pebbles's frustration with the Cycle, the Great Problem, with existence finally bubbles over. He has to take drastic measures to find an escape from this misery he's drowning in- and he's finally been given an idea how to do so.
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- Part 2 of Untethered Related
Bookmarked by Subtle_Shenanigans
21 May 2026
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Therapy but it's just Zooble interrogating Caine by Sparkhearts2
Fandoms: The Amazing Digital Circus (Web Series)
10 Apr 2026
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Remember that funny bit at the end of episode 3? Where Caine and Zooble switched who was on the therapy couch? What if Caine went into a little more detail than just his thoughts on the wild west.
And by detail I mean Zooble gets answers and its- well, like pulling teeth.
Edit: No longer Zooble interrogating Caine, as I am writing more for this. Now everyone gets to interrogate him. Yay!
Includes: hardware facts! Software jokes! Inaccurate portrayal of AI! Everyone treating the circus like it’s real life while Caine is like HeHe HoHo, I’m a funny silly video game! Don’t worry about the darkness that grows within me, let me tell you about RAM.
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- Part 1 of Putting the Digital in TADC
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The Luck of a Black Cat by fallingbutnotforyou
Fandoms: 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia (Anime & Manga)
05 Jul 2026
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After Aizawa finds himself transformed into a cat, he seeks refuge at a passerby's house. Unintentionally, Aizawa gets swept up in the passerby's - Izuku's - turbulent life. As Izuku realises his cat's identity and strives to un-transform him, he learns that he and the hero trapped within are not as different as he initially thought.
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The kid took off his shirt which made Aizawa stop dead in his tracks. The entirety of Izuku’s abdomen was bandaged, multiple spots coloured red with blood. He was bleeding this whole time, and he hadn’t shown or said a thing about it. His back was decorated by large pieces of gauze covering the extensive wounds, the severity of which Izuku could feel but not see. Just how many wounds had this kid been walking around with? Aizawa watched him smile and joke around this morning as if he was any ordinary teenager.
“I usually change them in the bathroom so mom doesn’t walk in on me, but she’s not here today, so I’ll just do it in my room. Besides, I feel too tired to walk to the bathroom today,” Izuku announced as he began unwrapping himself from the bandages that served as an extra layer of skin. Aizawa didn’t think it could get any worse, but it did. -
Against the Kitchen Floor by BrownieFox
Fandoms: The Amazing Digital Circus (Web Series)
12 Jul 2026
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“Caine?” Pomni asked again. The orb drifted up and down in a nod. “How do I know it’s you? Why do you look so…” Small, weird, different. She’d been anticipating seeing a Caine clawing at the walls, or crying, or yelling. How ever she imagined finding Caine, he looked like, well, Caine. Not this.
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The plan was simple: undelete Caine, get the Circus back up and running, and place some restrictions so Caine couldn't mess with them.
Unfortunately, Caine and the Circus are a little more complicated than meets the eye.
(Updates every three-four days (hopefully))
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- 110,227
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- 32/?
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Bookmarked by Subtle_Shenanigans
28 Apr 2026
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Instead of being deleted, Caine is trapped in a box. Again. What will he need to do to get back to the circus?
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24 Apr 2026
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“Momma,” The child is the first to break the heavy silence, but she doesn’t turn to face her, though her kneading does stop, the sting of her too-sharp claws no longer pricking at her shell, “am I only half a person?”
Or: Herrah comforts her daughter as her self-worth is brought into question.
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10 Mar 2026
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Assorted vaguely interconnected Silksong about Hornet's "big sister" status and Ghost's catlike behaviors.
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07 Mar 2026
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Things… change.
Ghost supposes that many would probably say that they get better. They do get better, don’t they? Yes, they do. Things change, and they are better. The Infection is gone, and Hollow is safe, and Hornet is happy, and so Ghost is fine. Perhaps they are selfish, and they mourn a dying world that they can never return to, and they are more alone than ever before, but they’ll get over it.
…And it’s not as if anyone will notice if they don’t.
Ghost goes back in time, kills the Radiance, and sets everything right. They tell no one, and do it on their own. It is only after their family is happy, and the kingdom is safe, and the Abyss is soothed to sleep, that they realize just how lonely it is as the last remaining piece of a future never to be.
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- 7/26
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Bookmarked by Subtle_Shenanigans
05 Mar 2026
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"We're going to be alcoholics by the time we're thirty," Sokka sighed.
"You think we'll live to be thirty?" Zuko asked, honestly thrilled. Sokka had pretty good instincts. Perhaps Zuko should reevaluate his long term goals. He could start by having long term goals.
A more likely alternative was that Sokka was just a hopeless optimist. It just went to show, you never truly saw another man until you stood shoulder to shoulder against a fleet of war balloons intent on raining death upon the city you loved.
Zuko was just a normal guy with normal interests. He liked theatre, burglary, crotchety ostrich horses, watching the Blind Bandit crush her opponents in a glorious display of skill and violence... just your standard banished prince things. It wasn't his fault he kept stumbling into rebellions and uncovering long-buried secrets. Fine, maybe freeing the prisoners was on him, but he was completely innocent of all other treason. Zuko was his father's loyal son. He'd never betray his nation.
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Uncle Iroh took a more creative approach to fostering Zuko's appreciation of other cultures. Now it's everyone's Problem.- Language:
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- 61/61
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Bookmarked by Subtle_Shenanigans
14 Feb 2026
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flowers shall grow by parsnipit
Fandoms: The Legend of Zelda & Related Fandoms, Linked Universe - jojo56830 (Webcomic)
25 Jan 2026
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The first thing the Dragon of the Wild knows is this:
It hurts.
Wild swallows a secret stone in order to save Zelda from Ganondorf.
Meanwhile, Hylia dumps eight iterations of his soul into the Depths for a lesson in despair and dragon-keeping.
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- English
- Words:
- 122,266
- Chapters:
- 30/30
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25 Dec 2025
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Hope is something you give yourself by KotWojownik
Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender (Cartoon 2005)
12 May 2026
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What would happen if in the events of Pohuai Stronghold Zuko instead of being knocked out, was hit with the arrow and his identity compromised? His journey is about to take a whole different turn on early stage. How will this affect the course of history?
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Coils of time by Anonymous
Fandoms: Rain World (Video Game), Hollow Knight (Video Games)
26 Oct 2025
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Time itself loops back around, back to a time before the cycle was ever a thing.
Fortunately for a few iterators - it brings them along with itself, to a time ages ago.Now Five Pebbles has to deal with being in a world full of bugs, sometimes seeing things he remembered from his old archives - dated to hundreds of thousands of years in the past -placed out and about and used as if they were brand new. He also keeps finding pearls written by NSH, but said iterator? Is nowhere to be found.
Hopefully he can figure out this strange place, and perhaps help heal this fallen kingdom.
After all, it just so happens that the power he used to enlighten beings in the past is enough to cure the strange "infection" that the creatures of this place seem to suffer from.
Well. It's just another task, is it not?(First chapter is the prologue, next ones will be Pebbles Centric and different. I simply wanted to set some lore down I otherwise couldn't.)
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- Part 7 of My rainworld fics
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 1,429
- Chapters:
- 1/?
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Bookmarked by Subtle_Shenanigans
27 Oct 2025