the reason i'm an insomniac
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back and forth from new york by alphalupi
Fandoms: Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid
20 Feb 2026
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After coming out to Rose, Shane decides he doesn't want to lie anymore, even if he isn't sure coming out will mean he gets happily ever after with Ilya. When coming out to the Voyageurs leaves him wondering what his future in Montreal might look like, he lets himself be a little selfish, he lets himself wonder if there might be somewhere else he might be happy. If Montreal wants to get rid of a generational player, he's not about to stop them, especially if it means he can get a little closer to joy.
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Or: Shane Hollander leaves Montreal in search of something better.
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- Part 1 of back and forth from new york
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He finds her on Friday, the 18th of November, 1983. She's a small kid, out in the woods and the freezing cold, the first time he's ever seen a girl with hair that short. His parents are leaving for some business trip in the morning. He is going to be alone.
She's alone.
Steve hates the idea of another kid growing up alone.(In which Steve finds Eleven in the winter of ‘83, before Hopper could, and the sudden changes that pull apart his life. Some are far deeper in the bones than he ever could've imagined.)
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- Part 1 of Anyway, Don't be a Stranger
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It Never Hurts To Ask by Nightfire1023
Fandoms: 鬼滅の刃 | Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba (Anime), 鬼滅の刃 | Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba (Manga)
18 Feb 2026
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It never hurts to Ask you never know what might happen
Or Mitsuri wonders if Tomioka would accept a hug if she asked and now the other Hashira are curious as well, it's all downhill from there.
(this is so not my usual style... but lets have some fun!)
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- Part 5 of The Flow of Water
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The Unsteady Retirement of One Mr Peter Benjamin Parker by aestorian
Fandoms: DCU, DCU (Comics), Batman - All Media Types, Spider-Man - All Media Types, Spider-Man (Tom Holland Movies)
05 Feb 2026
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After the world forgot him, Peter kept fighting. He was Spider-Man after all. But as the villains get worse and the heroes dwindle, Peter finally grows tired. Hasn't he done his time? He's never once shirked the responsibility forced upon him. Never once has he put himself first.
Eventually, the straw breaks the camel's back. Peter finally hangs up the cape.
Unfortunately the universe seems to disagree. When Peter wakes up in Gotham he knows he should probably find a way home. But what's the point? Normal people don't find their way home across the multiverse, and Peter is normal now. He refuses to be anything else.
So why do unfamiliar heroes keep ending up on his doorstep? And can he really turn them away?
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In which Peter Parker just wants to retire but instead he becomes a mentor for young dcu heroes and his home becomes a vigilante halfway house
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- Part 2 of Batfam fics
- Part 1 of DCU WIPs
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Existential Crisis Mode by LuciaInTheSky
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types, Spider-Man - All Media Types, DCU, Marvel Cinematic Universe
22 Jan 2026
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Peter was alone, mid-way through an existential crisis after the Erasure™ and was dreading the upcoming month of May.
Jason was sick of people telling him how he felt. ‘You don’t need us anymore,’ Artemis had told him, as if saying it would make it true. As if Jason needed someone to justify keeping them around. But three weeks back in Gotham and all Jason felt was fucking bored and lonely.
It was a relief, then, when some random New Yorker was thrown into his living room through a portal straight out of some LSD daydream.
Finally, something interesting to deal with.
Cue some wild family misunderstandings, criminal conspiracies and cults.
Because there’s always a goddamn cult.
(Portuguese translation available; Spanish translation available)
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- Part 1 of Crisis of Faith
- Part 1 of The Spideyhood Obsession Continues (More at Five)
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past and future running free by CharlieDiscouri
Fandoms: Percy Jackson and the Olympians - Rick Riordan, Percy Jackson and the Olympians & Related Fandoms - All Media Types, Percy Jackson and the Olympians (TV 2023)
30 Jan 2026
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Percy was four years old the first time his dreams led him to his many-great-grandmother’s chambers- a woman long dead yet somehow still seated in front of him, fingers grasping at her hair tightly as she wails about a wooden horse on the beach while her servants look on in pity. He feels the weight of something ancient and heavy settle on his shoulders in that moment.
He was in his 1st grade classroom when his teacher screamed at him for making up lies about gods and monsters and scaring the other children. He was eight when his mother's own visions become too much for her to bear.
He's at Yancy when Grover Underwood finally finds him and says "I believe you" for the first time. And as Percy begins to feel lighter, that ancient weight that has followed him his whole life slowly dissipating, he realizes that being believed can be just as horrifying as being thought mad.
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- Part 1 of past and future running free verse
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The Shark in the Other Water (Or, Hunger Games Reacts) by sunsets12
Fandoms: Percy Jackson and the Olympians & Related Fandoms - All Media Types, Hunger Games Series - All Media Types
02 Nov 2025
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The characters from The Shark in Your Water read Percy Jackson and the Lightning Thief
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- Part 6 of The Shark in Your Water
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Tim is a psycic or clairvoyant if you will. He uses his powers to fight the rogues and solve cases.
Essentially,
He can speak to ghosts.Or: Tim is just a silly guy who wants to live peacefully with his ghost friends. What could go wrong?
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Steve made a promise to himself then, sitting there in Carol Perkins’ spare room in a hellish version of Hawkins, that he was going to stop at nothing to find a way to get them both out of here. He felt the words settle into his bones, an undeniable truth that he had put out into the universe, unable to take back. An oath that nothing could force him to willingly break - He was going to get Will back home. He was going to keep him safe.
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Instead of Barbra Holland being taken by the Demogorgon, Steve Harrington is grabbed instead. This is a fact that changes everything.
Now he must survive alongside a missing kid, all while being hunted by a monster. Neither Steve nor Will realise the effect this will have on more than just themselves, or on the world.
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Will and Steve’s journey through the Upside Down.
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- Part 2 of Separate Ways (Worlds Apart)
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“We saved the world,” Robin said, softly. “And that had some side effects.”
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On July 5th, 1987, Steve Harrington bleeds to death in the Upside Down helping his friends defeat Vecna.
Four days later he wakes up in his bed in Hawkins, in a world where the Upside Down never existed.