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From my pulse's flagging beat by candlebreak
Fandoms: Wiedźmin | The Witcher - All Media Types
10 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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Brothers Gained and Brothers Lost by AmberSkyKing, TooManyTeeth
Fandoms: Star Wars - All Media Types, Star Wars: The Clone Wars (2008) - All Media Types
09 Jul 2024
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Fox's troops were loyal, his chief medical officer most of all, here's why.
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- Part 3 of Fox Gets the Second Chance He Deserves
- Part 8 of NLB Verse
- Part 5 of The Lights You Make
- Part 3 of Stories Not Found In The Reg Manual
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08 Jun 2026
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time flies by (bye) by WHYISEVERYNAMETAKEN
Fandoms: The Avengers (Marvel Movies), Spider-Man (Tom Holland Movies), Spider-Man - All Media Types, DCU (Comics), Marvel Cinematic Universe, Batman - All Media Types
25 May 2024
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"Maybe," Peter thought, "I can make a life here."
Hence the tears and the guilt and the grief, because was Peter allowed to move on? Was he allowed to… to leave it all behind? Leave all the bad things in the past?
Peter was "The Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man!" after all, and wasn’t he letting Queens - his people - down if he didn’t fight tooth and nail to get back to them?
orPeter's tired. He's so tired, and he doesn't know what to do, but maybe things will get better.
(They do.)
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Spider-Man: Finally Home
technically inspired by Dark Matter by mysterycyclone but really only the "Peter in the DC Universe" partSeries
- Part 1 of Spider-Man: Finally Home
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Turning it off and on Again by Ptolemy25
Fandom Star Wars: The Clone Wars (2008) - All Media Types
20 Dec 2022
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04 Jun 2026
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Like Mother, Like Son by Taxonamie for duc
Fandoms: Star Wars Prequel Trilogy, Star Wars - All Media Types
24 Dec 2025
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Kindness sometimes doesn't look like itself.
Content Warning: slavery, children in slavery, beating, public execution, mercy killing/euthanasia
Stand-alone but it's a cornerstone for how I build Anakin/Vader in my larger fic
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- Part 5 of Thusly, I Name Myself
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Nameless, on the Edge of Nowhere by Taxonamie
Fandoms: Star Wars Original Trilogy, Star Wars - All Media Types
16 May 2026
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[Title Scrawl]
A Galaxy in Tumult!
Following the presumed death of the evil Emperor and his hulking henchman Darth Vader, the fledging Alliance stands on the verge of victory! But as they press their advantage against a destabilized Empire and manifest from the seeds of Rebel resistance, can this new government survive their own instability?
Among the scattered Imperial forces of the second Death Star, Darth Vader's disapparence is not so final as they would hope. Worse yet, the Rebel Hero Luke Skywalker has gone missing!
Alone and disadvantaged, what will Anakin Skywalker do to find his son? Will he walk the razor's edge of tentative alliance with the Rebel Forces, or succumb to the draw of Imperial power? Free from all Masters, can Anakin Skywalker learn who he wants to be, at last?
Princess Leia Organa must navigate this minefield of clashing obligations and dripping grudges, while attempting to understand a heritage she hates, a brother she loves, and a mysterious mother she cannot understand.
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This is a story about a man who overcomes self-hatred and despair and is in turn compassionately and violently reminded that the real answer is mutual aid and blowing up fascists.Series
- Part 1 of Thusly, I Name Myself
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03 Jun 2026
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