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please don't touch the pumps by JBS_Forever
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types, DCU (Comics)
01 Jan 2025
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It starts the night Batman tries to break one of the most cardinal laws in all of New Jersey: no pumping your own gas.
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Or: as a teenager working at a little gas station in Gotham, Liam has dealt with the craziest of crazies. He thinks he's prepared for anything – until the Batmobile pulls up.
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07 Jun 2026
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love in different fonts by areyouabadwolf2
Fandom 薬屋のひとりごと - 日向夏 | Kusuriya no Hitorigoto | The Apothecary Diaries - Hyuuga Natsu, 薬屋のひとりごと | Kusuriya no Hitorigoto | The Apothecary Diaries (Anime), 薬屋のひとりごと | Kusuriya no Hitorigoto | The Apothecary Diaries (Manga)
30 Apr 2026
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Collection of stories about Jinshi and Maomao's journey through engagement, marriage, and parenthood - as individuals, as a couple, and eventually, as a little family.
Lots of humor, fluff, smut, canon-typical violence, politics, and antics. Some angst, but nothing they can't manage. Most importantly, lots of love and learning how to share it.
set post LN 14/15, largely canon compliant.
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05 Jun 2026
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In which Shane Hollander has the favour of the Honorable Siblinghood of Equipment Managers (or at least, the South-Eastern Canada regional meeting thereof) by ineptshieldmaid
Fandoms: Game Changers | Heated Rivalry - All Media Types, Heated Rivalry (TV)
02 Jun 2026
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The best players, Stefan's mentor had told him, are like racehorses: highly strung, and easily spooked. Hollander was the best of the best. And his career - the challenge of working with him and his particular routines - had elevated Stefan's standing in the Honorable Siblinghood, so it was as much professional debt as favouritism that had Stefan taking a particular interest in Hollander, by the time he came out to the locker room. Stefan expected to be working with him until one or other of them retired. [...]
If, after that, Hollander's skate laces were replaced before they started to wear thin, and if the new laces passed through the hands of at least two fully-sworn Senior or Very Senior Equipment Managers before they met his skates, that was within Stefan's discretion. He never even spoke of it, directly, to his team.Bookmarked by cows_read
05 Jun 2026
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If you're on the road by Bergen
Fandoms: Marvel Cinematic Universe, Spider-Man (Tom Holland Movies)
02 Jun 2026
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“Listen,” Pepper says. “I’m at the food bank right now and Ms. Zavala from R&D called in sick. She has two students coming in this morning to be interviewed for the internship, 9 AM. I won’t be back in time, so if you could just talk to them, or at least start with the first one, until I get back.”
Tony processes all that a moment.
“Tony?” she asks.
“You’re at the food bank? How much do I pay you?”
She gives another little huff. “Charity, Tony. Did any of the actually important things I just said register in your brain?”
“Oh, all right. Consider it my charity work for today.”
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Pepper should have known it was a mistake, setting Tony’s dumb ass on these kids.- Language:
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02 Jun 2026
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Alina Oretsev owns a bookshop in a neighborhood in Os Alta that is escaping gentrification by the skin of its teeth and the sweat of its most notorious occupants, the Dregs. There are plenty of reasons why the secret police might be interested in Mrs. Oretsev’s shop, and none of them (thank the Saints) have anything to do with the fact that she occasionally glows in the dark.
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02 Jun 2026
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Sometimes some bots are simply meant to be and they find each other in the most random of places.
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26 May 2026
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Teacher Grace's Extraordinary Curriculum by Acewithapaintbrush
Fandom Project Hail Mary (2026), Project Hail Mary - Andy Weir
02 Jun 2026
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Grace has always been a teacher and it's not any different on Erid.
These are his adventures with his pebbles (and Rocky and Adrian of course)
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25 May 2026
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The Greatest Act of Optimism by Acewithapaintbrush
Fandoms: Project Hail Mary - Andy Weir, Project Hail Mary (2026)
30 Apr 2026
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The Eridian thrills a high sound that doesn’t get picked up by the translator which means that it has no clear meaning. Like when a human gasps or sucks in a deep breath. It actually sounds a little like that. When they notice that I’m staring straight at them they scramble back into their hiding spot and hold very still.
A child, I realize with a start.
That’s a child!
“Hey,” I call and the kid squeaks again. I was about to get to my feet but abort the movement and crawl closer on my hands and knees until I'm inches away from the xenonite wall. I wait and it takes me much too long to realize that they don’t have to peek around the corner to see if I’m still there.
“Hey there,” I try again, my voice low and calm. It’s my teacher voice, the one I use for shy and scared students.
Used.
The fact that I haven’t had to use it for years and it still comes to me automatically almost knocks the air out of my lungs but this is not about me, it’s about making sure the little pebble doesn’t die of fright from the scary alien. “Hi, I’m Grace. It’s alright, you don’t have to be scared.”
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How Grace finally gets back into a classroom, where he belongsSeries
- Part 1 of Teacher Grace's Extraordinary Curriculum
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25 May 2026
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I’m freaking out and I need someone to talk me down.”
“Are you sure? I’m the opposite of the person you should be calling for something like that.”
“Well, I have no social life, so you’re my only friend,” May says. “After you, my closest relationship is with the woman who delivers my sushi.”
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Tony Stark: official secret-keeper for the Parker family, for some unfathomable reason. And sure, it’s nice that they both trust him. But why can’t they ever just talk to each other. This family needs a new M.O.Bookmarked by cows_read
17 May 2026
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Fine, Come to my Rescue by Blueseabird2
Fandoms: DCU, Batman - All Media Types, Nightwing (Comics)
22 Mar 2025
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Batman and the Justice League get captured in a completely ridiculous and entirely unpredictable way. Batman's plans get called into question and by his team mates and a villain that doesn't deserve the name. He decides to abandon them to his best and most vicious general plan; let the kids sort everything out. He just wants to stop sneezing, get home, and have some soup.
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- Part 7 of Batfamily Feels
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16 May 2026
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Uncle Leaky Space Blob and The Pebbles by Stratagem
Fandom Project Hail Mary (2026), Project Hail Mary - Andy Weir
09 Jun 2026
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14 May 2026
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what exists beyond, beyond, beyond by tardigradeschool
Fandoms: Project Hail Mary (2026), Project Hail Mary - Andy Weir
16 May 2026
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"Many stages in Eridian reproductive process. Rocky Adrian laying cycles finally sync up recently. So, Rocky Adrian think finally time for eggs. Adrian lay five eggs, very good. Only, strange thing happen. Rocky only lay one egg."
“Oh,” I say. “That’s unusual, right?”
"Very," Rocky hums.
My throat tightens. "Does that mean there's something wrong? Are you sick?"
Rocky makes a gesture I usually interpret as "not exactly". "Not sick," he says. "But doctors still worry. When Eridian start to make fewer eggs, this usually means laying period of life is over soon. Rocky very young for this. Rocky supposed to be in ideal time of life for laying. Rocky younger than Adrian, even." He shifts on three of his feet. Already, my mind is racing ahead, wondering -- "Doctors told Rocky to ask Grace, is this radiation side effect, question?"
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14 May 2026
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And Home Followed With Us by ajsmellslikebooks
Fandoms: Project Hail Mary - Andy Weir, Project Hail Mary (2026)
05 Jun 2026
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Ryland Grace wakes up in space... and he's not alone.
All three members of the Hail Mary wake up en route to the Tau Ceti system. One of them doesn't know who he is. All the answers they need are here for them to find, deep in interstellar space. They just don't know it yet.
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11 May 2026
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By our third day on horseback, he gained enough ease to loosen his clench upon my waist.
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08 May 2026
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Four Peculiar Limbs And A Head That Doesn't Fit by RosePocky
Fandoms: Project Hail Mary (2026), Project Hail Mary - Andy Weir
06 May 2026
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“Are you sure you want to do this?” Grace asked, sitting cross-legged in front of Rocky’s xenonite barrier. The alien stood on the other side, tapping a foot impatiently against the metal floor. “Human bodies can be… gross.”
Rocky’s radiator vents let out a small huff. “Yes. Human body disgust but must learn everything for living on Erid.”Rocky wants to know all about human anatomy, and Grace opens up a lot more than he was expecting.
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07 May 2026
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Star Thrum by Totallyottie99
Fandoms: Project Hail Mary - Andy Weir, Project Hail Mary (2026)
05 Jun 2026
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Eridians fall in love hard.
Humanity's not ready for just how far they'd go to keep only one of them happy.
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07 May 2026
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To celebrate a decade since my first fic on Ao3, I've decided I want to spend some time infodumping about worldbuilding decisions I've made in my fic, and HOW I make decisions like that.
I do a lot of research and thinking about things like letter-writing styles, transport, societal structures, culture, speculative creature biography, how magic works... and all these ideas come from somewhere! A LOT of briefly-mentioned things in my fic have more thought behind them than appears on screen, and research too. So where do I go looking when I'm building those ideas? What do I research, and what do I just make up?
Comment with your questions, and I'll post my answers as chapters in this work.
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07 May 2026
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Ear to the Ground, Eye to the Sky by allthegoodnamesaretakendammit
Fandoms: The Lord of the Rings - All Media Types, The Hobbit - All Media Types
31 Jul 2017
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He remembers. He remembers waking up this fateful morning, the way the sun had slanted through the window and struck the cut glass mirror, throwing scattered glory across the stone ceiling in fractals of rainbow color. He remembers thinking what a good omen it must be, to have gemstones transposed above his bed, for his eyes alone.
Today, Thorin stares at the light dancing above him and is paralyzed by mounting horror. He knows that he is not in the halls of his ancestors because he feels no sense of peace.
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06 May 2026
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'No, no it's not that. She's one of this year's chicks. One of a large clutch. The others bully her: pluck out her feathers and steal her food. She's getting thinner by the day. I fear she's not long left for the world: that they'll drive her to her death. I tried to make her leave for the Greenwood, thinking she'd be safer, but...'
'But she won't go.' Bilbo's heart crumpled in his chest. He knew what it was to be bullied. As a faunt he had been as troublesome as the other young hobbits, but as a tween he'd struggled to fit in. He had wondered if there was something fundamentally wrong with himself as the other hobbits his age shunned or mocked him. It was part of why the start of his quest with the Company had been so challenging. He'd felt like an outsider all over again, and not just because he was a hobbit among dwarves.
Life was cruel, but Bilbo wasn't.
(For the prompt "Raven" - For Mim)
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06 May 2026
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'Lord Thranduil gave you a seed, as a gift, and you... planted it?'
'That's what you do with seeds!' Bilbo snapped, his gut twisting anxiously. By the Valar, he hoped he had not started another war by burying something valuable and symbolic in the ground, rather than treasuring it.
'Did he say what it was?' Dori asked.
He had, and its name was so new to Bilbo's ear that he had been immediately intrigued. He'd had a rummage through Erebor's library for more information, but the scribe's halls were in such a sorry state that he'd found nothing of note. Instead, he'd decided to let the tenderness of soft rain and summer sun work its magic and unveil the secret.
'Peridexion.'
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06 May 2026