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When you're supposed to be a weapon, how do you find peace?
In Atlas, a lost silver-eyed girl is found hidden away like a buried treasure, her origins a mystery. She grows up in secrecy, training to be the perfect warrior and believing her destiny is to save the world.
(The second child of the Rose-Xiao Long family was killed in a tragic Grimm attack, and there was nothing left of the infant to bury.)
In Vale, a girl made of metal, circuits, and a soul that burns bright wakes up with no memory. As she learns to protect herself and so many others, she watches the stars and wonders what she was built for.
(Dr. Polendina's lifelong project was destroyed in an unfortunate incident, reduced to a few unidentifiable scraps.)
Neither Ruby nor Penny know what secrets they hold. But when their lives collide, together they will discover a future of unlimited possibility and love. The world will never be the same.
A Nuts & Dolts role reversal/switched at birth AU.
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02 Jul 2026
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Ruby and Weiss keep each other company during another raging snowstorm. (Written before RWBY's release, characters OOC)
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22 Jun 2026
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The oldest RWBY fic on Ao3, (and the oldest Whiterose fic here as well).
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A Messy Manifesto: Incest in Life and Fandom [NOT A FIC] by Anonymous
Fandoms: Original Work, She-Ra and the Princesses of Power (2018), RWBY
18 Oct 2020
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THIS IS NOT A FANFIC
I just had a moment. This is a rant/essay I suddenly felt compelled to write after hearing about incest shipping on twitter.
I cover Genetic Defects, Reproduction as a staple of romantic/sexual relationships, Family Dynamics, and Power Dynamics.
I also discuss the interpretation of Catra and Adora as adopted sisters, And at some point I go off on a tangent about a fanfic I never finished.Bookmarked by Dualight
10 Dec 2025
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An interesting read, definitely makes a good point as to why it may be a good idea to reexamine why one has the responses they do, regardless of what that response is.
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She rasps at him. “H... hua..”
“How...?”
A nod. “Luh...”
“Long...? How long...” The doctor sighs. “You’ve been through a lot, Summer. I don’t know how much you can recover--”
She shakes her head. “Nn! Nn.... Hua... luh... gugh?” Every fragmentary sound is a monumental struggle, and by the end of it she’s shaking, begging the man to understand her with her eyes. She has to know...
“...How long... were you gone?”
Summer nods, desperately.
“Hmmm.” The man takes off his hat. “I’d have to ask Yang and Ruby that to be sure, but... I would guess around twelve years.”
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28 Nov 2025
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After recovering from a betrothal gone wrong, Blake finds that the council, despite her parents’ best efforts, expect her to marry before she takes to the throne.
Now the question is... will history repeat itself and grant her a second malevolent betrothed? Or will the Fates take pity on her own this time?
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10 Nov 2025
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"Her venerable bows looked bearded": One Piece, Intertextuality, and Moby Dick by ghostwriterofthemachine
Fandoms: One Piece (Anime & Manga), Moby Dick - Herman Melville
23 Dec 2023
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Eiichiro Oda’s One Piece is a decades-long, sprawling, occasionally unhinged serialized manga, and within that decades-long sprawl there are many, many references.
Herman Melville’s Moby Dick is another overly-long, sprawling, unhinged piece of fiction, thought by some to be the greatest novel in the American canon.
Let's discuss.
Or: 2.6k of meta essay analyzing and unpacking Oda's use of the Moby Dick allusion. Yes, really.
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24 Mar 2025
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Traveler by TheStraightElf
Fandoms: Pocket Monsters | Pokemon (Anime), Pocket Monsters | Pokemon (Main Video Game Series)
22 May 2026
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Born and raised in sleepy little Pallet Town, Ash Ketchum has always looked outwards to the vast and beautiful world beyond. Driven by wonder, ambitions sparked by the legendary Champion Lance, and the entirely justified desire to shut up Gary Oak, Ash sets out to make his mark on Kanto and the Indigo Conference that awaits him.
But the world of Pokémon has other plans. Joined by a humble Nidoran, Ash soon finds himself in for more than he bargained for when they find themselves facing Team Rocket, fantastically powerful pokémon, and friends he never could have imagined.
An epic journey story, unfinished but actively updating and fully planned. 2.1 million words on FFN and counting.
*I will be posting this fanfiction on Royal Road shortly as well.
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05 Sep 2024
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The only point Stain has is the one he uses to murder children by underoriginal
Fandoms: 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia
24 Sep 2018
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A lot of people consider Stain to be a complex, nuanced villain with a lot of interesting things to say about hero society. I agree with all of that, but I would like to point out that "interesting" is not the same as "in any way resembling something even close to correct".
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04 Jul 2024
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A Historical Reevaluation of the Banishment of Prince Zuko by EmperorNorton150
Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender
19 Nov 2022
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Professor Sen Huang
Ba Sing Se University
Republic of Ba Sing Se
United Earth States
The Early Modern Review
654 A.G.Few historical events are as well-memorialized as the Banishment of Prince Zuko. One of the pivotal events in the conclusion of the Hundred Year War, Prince Zuko’s scarring and exile led directly to the overthrow of Fire Lord Ozai, the return of the Avatar to world-prominence, and the collapse of Fire Nation’s century-long grasp for global domination. Since then, the dramatic denouncement of the familial feud has been portrayed countless thousands of times—in books, plays, radio dramas, and movies—and remains a staple of historical education in most schools. But is it possible that we’ve all gotten the story wrong?
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26 Jun 2024
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Things that Haunt Our Hallways by ghostwriterofthemachine
Fandoms: 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia
18 Apr 2021
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“It was a kid,” Yagi gasped out. He had his hand balled up into a fist and the fist pressed to his lips, as if to remind himself that he could not start screaming. “Or. Young person, maybe 20. Homeless, I think. Activated their Quirk on reflex and then ran. The kids—” Here, he pressed his fist harder to his mouth, sucked in a wheezing breath, as if the air itself was pushing down something with physical weight. “The kids—”
“Scattered immediately,” Aizawa finished for him, and Yagi managed a nod.
Yagi’s eyes were so dilated that the blue was almost invisible. He shook violently. He looked like a scarecrow in a windstorm.
Someone activated a Fear-Inducer Quirk so powerful that it reduced All Might to this— of course Aizawa’s class had bolted.
Or:
A Fear Gas fic, BNHA style.
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22 Jun 2024
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I've decided to cope with this extra long hiatus by making everything worse! :D
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22 May 2024
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While Remnant at large believes Salem to be the queen of evil, mostly due to circumstances out of her control, she herself mostly lives a peaceful life as a hermit.
In a massive castle in the middle of the Lands of Grimm.
On one of her sporadic visits to civilization, Salem comes across a mother and child being hunted for having silver eyes, and cannot help but become involved.
Summer Rose finally gets a chance to learn the truth about her world and work, and to reunite her unconventional family. And apparently she'll have to add a few more people to it in the near future.Bookmarked by Dualight
21 May 2024
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AU: Blake Belladonna was bad luck. At least, this was Adam’s excuse when their crops began to fail. She was a curse, he liked to say. She began to dread each moment spent alone with him, and how quickly his eyes would flash with anger. Blake wasn’t a superstitious woman, but after a while, it was hard not to feel like she was cursed. Maybe he had a point.
But curses weren’t the only superstition in their village. One night, Blake heard a sweet song echoing through the valley. Blake had never heard of a banshee before, but she couldn’t believe that such a beautiful song could be an omen of death. There had to be more to it than that. So it was refreshing, to meet someone who agreed with her.
“You know,” Yang remarked, tilting her head thoughtfully. “You almost make me want to sing.”
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- Part 1 of Banshee
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20 May 2024
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After an argument, Weiss learns some history about the place where Blake was born.
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14 May 2024
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Weiss Schnee's Guide to Wooing your Incredibly Attractive Teammates by BottledLemon, Power_Taco
Fandoms: RWBY
15 Aug 2022
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Life hadn’t turned out exactly how Weiss imagined it.
She certainly hadn't expected to fall in love with two of her teammates, and she certainly didn't know what to do about it.
But watching Blake and Ruby grow steadily closer lets her know she needs to do something before she risks losing them both forever.
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13 May 2024
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timeless
/ˈtīmləs/
adjective
not affected by the passage of time or changes in fashion.Or
Timeless moments in Blake and Yang's relationship
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05 May 2024
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if you ever had a real heart (i don't think you'd know where to start) by iwillwalk500miles
Fandoms: RWBY
30 Jan 2020
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Weiss Schnee has a plan—a step by step way to success that is so mind numbingly simple she could probably do it blindfolded. Unfortunately for her, she may have miscalculated. (And by 'may have' I mean she totally messed up.)
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ten times weiss schnee couldn't look pyrrha nikos or ruby rose in the eye, and the one time she could.
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14 Feb 2024
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Blake looks at her and swears she can see the particles of the universe settling, can see them laid out and miraculous like a map of fates for gods, can see the stars all spinning at her from underneath a sky that could very well be a dark, murky ocean. The truth is that it's been six years of too much fear and not enough skin. This is the anatomy of breaking down.
Date me, Yang says, which seems like a great idea at the time.
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05 Feb 2024
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I’ll never leave you, even if it’s me. Yang makes a promise in spite of fate; fate makes her regret it.
Eight teenagers run away from home, bound by a duty to return for a ritual in which one of their lives will be traded for the rest of the world’s peace. At least, that’s what they’ve been led to believe since birth: Be strong, be smart, and be alone. If you are to die, it is an honor.
Or maybe it’s a lie.
Eight teenagers run away from home, and upon returning nine years later, they’ve broken a few too many rules to go quietly.
(Blake thought she was seeing things, then. Thought she loved a girl so much she made her a god, mythologized her, created a folktale so gorgeous and enormous it’d surpass the one they actually lived in. Now she knows she wasn’t.)
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31 Jan 2024
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Every resident of the town of Silvercloud knows that something isn’t quite right about their home. It’s an ancient instinct, a drive for self-preservation, for knowing when you’re being hunted. They may not consciously know that their town was a nexus for all kinds of the supernatural, but something still drove them to check the locks every night.
But that’s why Ruby wants to be a Hunter. Why she wants to help her family keep her town safe against the wraiths, the ghosts, and above all else, the vampires.
The Schnee bloodline have preyed upon the citizens of Silvercloud since they helped build the town itself, and Ruby knows that the next scion, Weiss, isn't going to be any different from her predecessors. No matter how much she seems like she wants to be better, or how she shows a level of restraint that should break her just to attempt, deep down she was just as monstrous as all the others of her kind.
…right?
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28 Jan 2024