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The Dark Below by DarthPeezy
Fandoms: 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia
07 May 2020
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Izuku must learn his place in a broken and cruel world. He must learn the cost of being a hero. He must learn the cost of changing the world to his own image. In a world divided by factions vying for control, oppressive governments, and sympathetic villains, Izuku must decide his place amongst the chess pieces. He'll have to decide what to make of the broken dreams and shattered faith of an indifferent world. He'll need the power to rise above the mire and muck of despair.
Thankfully, he was never quirkless.
Sometimes quirks hide until they are triggered. Izuku tasted death and found it lacking, every flavour bitter and lacking spice. In the moments between death and life, he gazed into the howling abyss and it followed him home. Everything he thought he knew about the world is a lie. There are monsters lurking in the dark below, always waiting and always watching.
They wait patiently, waiting for one to sit upon a throne of crystal madness and eternal suffering. They have waited for aeons and will wait until the end of eternity.
They wait for Izuku Midoriya.
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- Part 1 of The Abyssal Stories
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- 672,881
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- 75/75
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09 Jun 2026
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A Walk in the (Space) Park by musicofthespheres for surgicalstainless
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
31 Jan 2025
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On one of Murderbot’s first missions post-Adamantine colony, it discovers that ART’s crew has added a new mission type to their roster…
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01 Jul 2025
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A few minutes pass before the human wakes up. He stirs weakly, then opens his eyes. To his credit, he recovers his lucidity and realises where he is very quickly. He rocks up to a crouch and meets Essek’s cool stare with one of his own.
“You…countered my spell,” the man says. “I did not know that was possible.”
Essek shrugs, not particularly interested in teaching this man the basics of nano-commands. “If you had been a little faster, you might have actually hurt me. But, to be completely honest, I have much experience dispelling my own…spells, when they go awry.” It happens more than often than he could care to admit.A thief steals into the tower of a reclusive and ancient mage from another world on a mission to steal magic secrets.
An extra-planetary scientist finds himself the unwilling host of one of the planets' barbaric locals who thinks he is some sort of magician.
They can make the most of this situation.Bookmarked by FlatApple
30 Nov 2024
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Give me love, I'll put my heart in it by whynotcherries
Fandoms: Six of Crows Series - Leigh Bardugo
21 Jun 2021
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"What he’s feeling is not mushy and soft. It’s like being caught in a ship during a storm--a nice storm, but still a storm--and he’d hardly describe that feeling as soft."
Or, Kaz trying to show Inej that he loves her. It's much harder than he'd hoped it would be.
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- Part 5 of (old) post-ck oneshots
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16 Nov 2024
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Mid-Season-One Zuko is held for ransom by Chief Hakoda. Ozai's replies to the Water Tribe's demands are A+ Parenting. Hakoda is… deeply concerned, for this son that isn't his, and who might be safer among enemies than with his own father.
Podfic and translations in Dutch, German, Hungarian, Russian, Spanish, and Ukrainian now available! See chapter one author notes for links.
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- 127,154
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- 20/20
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09 Aug 2024
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Combustion Man never finds the Western Air Temple, and the Gaang goes ahead with the plan to capture Zuko and hold him prisoner so he can’t hurt anyone. Now Zuko has to convince them he’s on their side without having any proof he doesn’t want the Avatar dead anymore, and preferably before Katara decides to kill him.
… If only he weren’t so bad at being good.
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- Part 1 of Combustion Man goes missing AU
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- English
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- 78,063
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- 17/17
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07 Aug 2024
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The kid in front of Haskell’s desk was hell to look at— a plague orphan, he could tell that much. His face and neck were still marred with the slightly reddish pits that the pox left behind, even months later, and he was gaunt with sickness and malnutrition, bones jutting hard and nasty. They’d have pinned him down as a weakling, before the plague. But that was before. Now, in the miserable, scraping afterwards, not only was he alive, but half the gambling halls and gangs on the Lid were desperate to have him— or so Seeger said, anyway. Haskell didn’t know why this kid wanted to be in the Dregs, when the Razorgulls were practically throwing cash at him, but he wasn’t going to count his chickens. Maybe he preferred crows to gulls.
(the rise of dirtyhands, as witnessed by per haskell)
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02 Aug 2024
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you're so easy to love by DancingShadows9174
Fandoms: Six of Crows Series - Leigh Bardugo
27 Oct 2025
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Kaz isn’t struggling. And even if he was, he’s not about to make a big deal out of it. Because he’s strong. He can make it through a little pain. It’s nothing new, after all. This happens every winter anyway. So why is he failing so badly suddenly?
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Kaz’s knee is giving him a lot of grief this winter. He finally caves and gets a cortisone shot. His partners are there to help him before and after.
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07 Jul 2024
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into the desert of your pitiless faith by burningdarkfire
Fandoms: Critical Role (Web Series)
12 Dec 2021
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Because even though by many metrics Caleb should have been a terrible choice to put in a beacon-machine, having never received one himself, and by many metrics Essek should have been a terrible choice to receive a beacon-machine, given his pointed refusal to being consecuted at the usual age of sixteen, they had scored so highly in aptitude with each other that now here they were: sun-blinded and eyes wide open as the ship finally docked, shuddering, in the City.
Essek is a newly-arrived ambassador in Rexxentrum, Beauregard is his assigned cultural liaison, and Caleb is the consecuted soul at the back of his mind. Empires and Dynasties do not serve: they consume.
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02 Jul 2024
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All those who enjoyed the prosperity of Kaga knew to give their thanks to the Gilded Eyes: a child blessed by Buddha, who suffered bravely for his people, and brought judgement upon evil with blind eyes that could see through souls.
(AU where Hyakkimaru was not abandoned at birth, and grew up in the Daigo estate. Prologue to The Path Between.)
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- Part 1 of The Gilded Eyes of Kaga
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24 Jun 2024
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i never told you what i do for a living by 19burstraat (astardanced)
Fandoms: Six of Crows Series - Leigh Bardugo
21 Mar 2023
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“Before what?” demanded Jordie.
Inej’s gaze bored into them, for a moment. Finally, she said:
“Before I try to convince Kaz that you’re not imposters, that he should have strangled and thrown into the harbour.”
Jordie’s neck prickled, thinking of the hard-eyed stare in the Crow Club.
“I’ve been in enough harbours for one lifetime, thank you.” he said.
He was rewarded with a very faint smile.
“...you’re not as dissimilar as he’d like, you know.”
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besting impossible odds is apparently a genetic trait, because jordie is definitely not as dead as kaz thought.
or dead at all.- Language:
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03 Apr 2024
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guild me, build me by 19burstraat (astardanced)
Fandoms: Six of Crows Series - Leigh Bardugo
21 Aug 2023
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Kaz was out of town when the Komedie Brute decided to have audacity in spades.
Later, Wylan thought this was probably best. Giving the actors a grace period of about a week without having to worry about the presence of Kaz was probably a good thing.
The real Kaz, that was.
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(The Komedie Brute, Ketterdam’s favourite theatrical troupe, opens this year’s season with the addition of a new character to their lineup… starting this Ghezen’s Day, come to the staves to see Ketterdam’s very own urban legend– Dirtyhands, the Bastard of the Barrel!)Bookmarked by FlatApple
03 Apr 2024
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“If you’re here for something honest and respectable, I’ll eat my guns piecemeal,” said Jesper. He scrubbed his face. “How long have you been telling those poor girls about your sick mother in Oldendaal?”
“It was Zierfoort, actually.”
“I don’t care where it was! What are you doing?”
“I thought I wasn’t supposed to involve you in my schemes anymore.” said Kaz petulantly, glancing in the mirror to rearrange his jacket.
“Kaz, you playing the victim is about as natural as a flock of lime-green flamingos, so don’t bother,” said Jesper. “Is it a heist? A blackmail job? Gathering information?”
“Who said it was just one thing?” said Kaz, straightening his cuffs with two brisk jerks. “This place is the playground for the children of the rich and prosperous, Jes. I could have a million reasons for being here. But since you’re here for reasons both honest and respectable, I can assure you I’ll stay out of your way–”
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(jesper goes back to university. kaz follows him... and trouble, as usual, follows both of them.)Bookmarked by FlatApple
01 Apr 2024
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what the water gave me by 19burstraat (astardanced)
Fandoms: Six of Crows Series - Leigh Bardugo
02 Dec 2023
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In time, he almost forgot what he had once been able to do. Water was his most ardent foe, not an ally. Water was the bodymen’s boats, Reaper’s Barge, and Jordie’s corpse. The water had given, and could give him, nothing that he wanted. It would make no bargain with him that could be worth it– so he would not try. He eked out his fortune and his revenge with every bloody punch and petty swindle and broken bone. He ignored the hiss and slap of the filthy water in the canals that wended through the city, the roar of the waves at the harbour that smashed boats to pieces, the sinuous curl of the mist on wet nights that got you jumped if you weren’t paying close enough attention. The Ketterdam water had a touch of the mocking about it– a determination to be as awful and monstrous and polluted as he was. But Kaz didn’t need a reminder of what he’d become. The water had his brother; it would not have him, too.
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Assuming Kaz was a Tidemaker; what, then?- Language:
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31 Mar 2024
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take these broken wings and learn to fly by stelian
Fandoms: Six of Crows Series - Leigh Bardugo
19 Dec 2016
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Sometimes, Matthias wonders how six people with enough collective trauma to scar a person for life come together, become best friends, and manage to never talk enough about their own issues to work through them. Until, of course, they have no choice but to confront their problems.
{or; Kaz tries to end it but crows never stop fighting, and they're convinced that there must be a way to work through this together.}
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- Part 1 of fly, blackbird, fly
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31 Mar 2024
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Take two of the most dangerous and capable hackers in all of Amsterdam and put them together. What do you get? A love story, of course. (College AU)
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30 Mar 2024
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“Was it something I did or are you just being an ass for nothing?”
Kaz feels his old instincts kick in, hackles rising. It’s none of her business and he doesn’t owe her anything, is the old refrain. Except, it doesn’t feel true any more. Kaz owes Nina a great deal; at the very least, a little patience.
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OR: Kaz struggles with human emotions. Another entry into the Kaz-practicing-touch genre of SOC fic.
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- Part 4 of The Same Dark Road
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26 Mar 2024
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save the undone years by Whitherward for R_umpel
Fandoms: Six of Crows Series - Leigh Bardugo
21 Jan 2024
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He’s like all the others, when they bring him in. More than half dead, covered in mud. Leg almost hanging off him, just a mess of torn flesh and exposed bone. Likely won’t survive. God knows Inej has seen better off than him succumb to their injuries.
Northern France, 1917. In a battlefield hospital, Corporal Kaz Rietveld lies gravely wounded. His nurse is determined that he will not be another thing she loses to this war.
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- 2/2
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26 Mar 2024
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Muzzen had been bored out of his skull until his holding cell got a new inmate: fourteen year old Dirtyhands, rage in his eyes, a limp in his leg. It seemed that keeping his head down wouldn't cut it when Dirtyhands decided that he's good enough to extend the offer to join his gang, and Muzzen would be a fool to say no. Also, Dirtyhands is hot.
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25 Mar 2024
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i will continue to accidentally give Kaz BPD by DancingShadows9174
Fandom Six of Crows Series - Leigh Bardugo
05 May 2026
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As the title suggests, I accidentally gave Kaz BPD, and then I just...continued to do so for several installments <3 This is very much a soup of BPD and CPTSD symptoms cooked on high for way too long, so make of that what you will.
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24 Mar 2024