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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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From my pulse's flagging beat by candlebreak
Fandoms: Wiedźmin | The Witcher - All Media Types
28 May 2025
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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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∀(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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Pebble in a River by kj_feybarn
Fandoms: Star Wars - All Media Types, Star Wars Prequel Trilogy
21 Jul 2020
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He woke up.
And everything changed, but of course, that's what life does. It changes.
There are so many options, so many things that seem right. And yet each of those things also feels wrong. Failure isn't an option, not again. But there is no outline for success, and he's hardly the only one in the game. He's tired, and exhausted, and so very lonely.
But force help him, he's going to save as many people as he can.
Really, Force, he needs the help.Series
- Part 1 of Current of Fate
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19 Feb 2026
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Love is a Trap (We Trick Ourselves) by kj_feybarn
Fandoms: Star Wars - All Media Types, Star Wars: The Clone Wars (2008) - All Media Types
29 May 2022
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Obi-Wan never meant for Dooku to capture them. (Jango did.) He certainly never planned for everything between him and his fellow captive to change. (Jango did.)
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“Ben,” Myles kept his voice calm. “I was looking for you.”
Jango’s head whipped around, staring at Ben in shock. There hadn’t been time between stumbling on the fight and getting involved in the fight for Myles to explain just who it was they’d just found.
Ben’s gaze darted toward the street again. “Why’s that?” Ben asked, tone not-quite conversational. He sounded exhausted, Myles noted, even with only two words to judge and Myles could hear the strange slowness to the words that came when a person was struggling to string a sentence together.
Myles tapped at his ribs where the two lies lay. “Found a few scars on my body that hadn’t been there before.”
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19 Feb 2026
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Regulus Black was Dead.
And he was supposed to stay dead- lie low, until he figured out how to destroy that damned locket. And perhaps the many other Horcruxes the Dark lord made. Until the war was over, and he could face his brother.
But his brother betrayed the Potters. And he was legally the parent of their son. They were supposed to raise him together, after the war, the three of them together.
But James and Lily are dead.
And Regulus doesn't get to be. Not anymore.Series
- Part 1 of How to Raise the Chosen One
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29 Jan 2026
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Seventeen-year-old Tom Riddle is in the middle of a fight against Grindelwald when he slips through a crack between dimensions, and lands in the future of an alternate reality where he's the villain.
It's totally fine. He's definitely coping. Really.
(Not.)
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Dumbledore is positively delighted to have a Tom Riddle of his own, Harry gets a decent guardian, and Tom would like a redo, please.
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- Part 1 of riddle me this