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From my pulse's flagging beat by candlebreak
Fandoms: Wiedźmin | The Witcher - All Media Types
09 May 2026
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“What if it had been Oliwia, buttercup?” Lambert asks.
Jaskier goes still. Little Oliwia, barely sixteen and still as naive as any noble child gets - if she had been sent as a sacrifice, that would have been - “Monstrous,” he says, through a dry throat. “That would be monstrous, and a grave insult to the Wolf, that anyone would think he would do harm to such an innocent - that he would be that sort of monster.”
—inexplicifics, Only Love Proudly and Gladly and Well, Ch. 2
…What if it had been Oliwia?
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“How do you know my name?” Hermione demanded.
Harry manfully resisted the urge to roll his eyes. “The wrackspurts told me,” he said instead, which satisfied his innate need for sarcasm quite nicely.
Harry takes the train out of that white void, expecting to meet Death, and instead ends up on the Hogwarts Express at the beginning of his second year. Also he’s Luna Lovegood now.
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I measure every Grief I meet by candlebreak
Fandoms: Spider-Man - All Media Types, Spider-Man (Tom Holland Movies), Marvel Cinematic Universe, The Avengers (Marvel Movies)
07 Jan 2026
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She found herself once again staring down the Parker kid in her office. It was a familiar scene. He was curled into the sagging armchair she’d scooped off the curb, feet scuffing against his duffel bag on the floor, arms hunched over the backpack in his lap. Over the past two months and six moves, the boy had quietly trimmed down all of his possessions to fit in those two bags.
“What,” said Rhee, “the fuck.”
Peter shrugged, defensive.
If someone had told her three months ago that this doe-eyed white boy with his cheerful geekery and his pathological adherence to respectful forms of address would be one of her most troublesome cases, she would have laughed them out of the room. Now, she wasn’t laughing.
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Yet another homeless Peter Parker fic feat. a very tired social worker trying to care; badass Ned and MJ; your friendly local trans Spider-Man; an actual real Stark Industries internship; extremely in-depth and realistic depictions of the US foster care, legal, and criminal justice systems; the beautiful disaster that is Harley Keener; dismantling systemic oppression with weaponized empathy; the unshakeable Pepper Potts; a small army of lesbians; hardcore hero Peter Parker; and soo much trauma
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- Part 1 of My Revolution is Born Out of Love
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“Since when do cadets have parents?” Fox asked, switching over into Mando’a since apparently this little shit was too good for Basic.
The cadet glared up at him, panting after his latest efforts to break free. “Since I was born, asshole,” he said.
This was not helpful. “Since when were cadets born?”
The cadet looked at him like Fox was the crazy one. “I’m not a cadet.”
“What are you, then?”
“…A kid?”
Obligatory ‘Fox gets sent back in time AU.’
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Avatar: The Legacy of Fire (Book I: Air) by candlebreak
Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender
12 Jun 2025
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Fire. Air. Water. Earth.
The sages used to tell stories of the old days: a time of terror when the tyrant Avatar suppressed all people and divided the land between the Fire Nation, Air Nomads, Water Tribes, and Earth Kingdom. But everything changed when Sozin’s comet allowed the Fire Nation to fight back. Only the Avatar, master of all four elements, stood in the way of a prosperous and united world. But just when we almost managed to defeat him, he vanished.
A hundred years have passed, but the world cannot truly be united until the Avatar is found. Three years ago, my father entrusted me with a sacred task: to find and capture the Avatar, and thereby redeem a great shame and failure of the Fire Nation. And although many believe this is an impossible task, I still have hope. I still believe that, somehow, I will find the Avatar and restore honor to the Fire Nation and to myself.
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AU where the Avatar Spirit left Aang in the iceberg and was eventually reborn in everybody’s favorite grumpy fire prince.
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- Part 1 of Avatar: The Legacy of Fire
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∀(𝑥) {𝑥∊DROID | 𝑓(𝑥)=𝑓(slave)} ⟙ 𝑥⇒[𝑓𝑟𝑒𝑒𝑑𝑜𝑚]⩣[𝑑𝑒𝑎𝑡ℎ] by candlebreak
Fandom Star Wars - All Media Types
17 Mar 2024
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My Revolution is Born Out of Love by candlebreak
Fandom Marvel Cinematic Universe, Spider-Man (Tom Holland Movies), Spider-Man - All Media Types, The Avengers (Marvel Movies), The Avengers (Marvel) - All Media Types
07 Jan 2026
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Peter Parker: trans, tired, and shit on over and over again by the universe. Also Spider-Man, a hardcore hero, and just 100% the best boy.
There was a reason that Peter Parker decided to become Spider-Man, to become a vigilante, to look out for the little guy. The systems we currently have obviously aren't doing the job well enough. People are getting hurt. This story explores in depth the many, many flaws of the United States justice and social safety systems, and how Peter Parker and Spider-Man deal with them. This includes everything from foster care to food banks to access to medical treatment to courts to policing to prison and parole.
An exploration of grief, loss, and trauma. Expect bureaucracy, lots of OCs just trying their best, and righteous fucking anger. Plus lots of radical caring and empathy. Eventual hopeful ending.
Series title taken from 'Poverty of Philosophy' by Immortal Technique.
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Joker Recovery Squad (tm) by candlebreak
Fandom Batman - All Media Types, Batman Beyond, Batman: Arkham (Video Games)
22 Oct 2022
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Mark Watney's Twitter Adventures by orphan_account
Fandoms: The Martian - All Media Types, The Martian (2015), The Martian - Andy Weir
13 Aug 2020
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NASA gives Mark permission to return to social media. Hijinks ensue.
Post-rescue.
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27 Oct 2026
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You Know You Have a Permanent Piece of My Medium-Sized American Heart by tricatular for iamtheenemy (Steph)
Fandoms: The Martian (2015)
19 Dec 2015
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“Hey Hermes!” The ambient suspicion level in the Rec ratcheted up significantly. Kapoor was disturbingly cheerful. “We’ve sent you some mission updates in the data dump, but Mitch and I wanted to personally let you know—” Mitch visibly rolled his eyes in the background. “—That thanks to some…strong suggestions from the White House, and on Annie and Director Sanders’ recommendation, we’ve started releasing Watney’s Mars logs to the public.”
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27 Oct 2026
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oh man! look at those cavemen go by fallingvoices for radialarch
Fandoms: The Martian - Andy Weir, The Martian (2015)
20 Dec 2015
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ARES 3 @AresIII
Boy's onboard. We're headin' home.- Language:
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27 Oct 2026
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The Dead Astronauts Club by TheWhiteLily
Fandoms: Project Hail Mary - Andy Weir, Project Hail Mary (2026), The Martian - Andy Weir, The Martian (2015)
23 Oct 2026
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It’s been twenty-five (or maybe sixty?) years, and Ryland Grace is cruising back into the Sol system, trying to notify Earth that he’s still alive and bringing a couple of aliens home with him.
It’s been five hundred and seventy-five Sols, and Mark Watney is stranded in a dust storm, trying to notify Earth that he’s still alive and probably never making it home at this point. He wasn’t expecting a Hail Mary.
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26 Oct 2026
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Couple of Hometown Heroes by TheOneWithTheBook
Fandoms: Project Hail Mary - Andy Weir, Project Hail Mary (2026), The Martian (2015), The Martian - Andy Weir
03 Jun 2026
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Mindy Park is rapidly realising that the first intelligent extraterrestrial to make contact with the human race thinks they’re fucking stupid. She’s pretty sure that Dr Grace isn’t accurately translating half the things Rocky is saying, but most of what he is telling her is that Rocky has a better way of doing what NASA wants them to do, and honestly, it seems like Rocky is mostly right. She probably doesn’t want to know what the other half of what Grace’s new alien friend is saying, if the things that are making it through what she’s calling the “middle school teacher filter” are “why would you do something the dumb way when you could do it the right way”.
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Mindy has a headache, Grace has trauma, Mark is confused and Rocky is wondering how humans made it in to space when they're all so, so dumb.
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- Part 1 of Most Of The Time, We Don't Have Anyone
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25 Oct 2026