OnceThereWasAPondering
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The player character of Need for Speed: Heat had to come from somewhere, maybe this was their beginning.
Showing up in Palm City without even a car to race in? She just rolls into town and then takes over the scene like she was fated to be there.
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Shadows: The Horror Movie Heroes by Clouds (myheadinthecoudsnotcomingdown)
Fandoms: 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia
22 Jul 2024
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Izuku Midoriya and Hitoshi Shinso are never going to be the kind of heroes that make civilains think ‘oh, thank god we’re saved,’ when they arrive at the scene. There's too much prejudice against them, so a kid with a villain quirk and one with no quirk at all are never going to be able to inspire that sort of trust.
So instead of becoming heroes that bring hope, they decide to become the next best thing.
The kind of heroes that make villains think, ‘oh, fuck, we’re screwed.’
This fic has a discord.
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- Part 5 of For The Want Of A Nail
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Bookmarked by OnceThereWasAPondering
07 Aug 2026
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This fic did a great job of building a learning scenario, which does seem like Nezu's brainchild, that allows Izuku and Shinso to traumatize the UA staff (and students) into letting them be heroes. Izuku is unhinged and terrifying in all iterations. I wouldn't say there are any overt slash relationships, everything is mostly getting to know eavhother and hanging out.
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He cannot remember but thankfully Hikaru never forgot, not even after a decade, several dan-levels and just as many paper fans.
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06 Aug 2026
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Previous knowledge of Hikaru no Go definitely required to make sense of this fic. It's cute, Hikaru has minimum impulse control and Sai is an anxious lost lamb; the obsessiveness with Sai's everything definitely tracks.
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When the King is attacked in his tent on patrol and falls into an unending sleep everyone is worried. What they don't know is that Arthur is fine. In fact he is standing right here next to them, watching them all fret over his prone body. To stave off the boredom whilst a cure is found Arthur takes to wandering the castle and soon discovered a hidden side of Camelot he never knew about.
Or: Arthur's soul gets trapped outside his body and takes to following his servant around. He gets an interesting insight into Merlin, his servant's life and just how much Camelot needs the man.
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Bookmarked by OnceThereWasAPondering
06 Aug 2026
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This fic is a quick jaunt through Merlin's daily (and nightly) activities through the eyes of a soul-displaced Arther. It's almost sweet in the care it shows while still being a fast paced tale.
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A painter and committed coward disguises himself as a woman to avoid the draft, falls into the orbit of a sincere captain who courts him without knowing the truth, and saves China entirely by accident.
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Fa Ping is not a soldier. He is a coward in borrowed robes. China gets saved anyway.
Bookmarked by OnceThereWasAPondering
06 Aug 2026
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This fic follows the Disney version of Mulan, but remixes it with an Inventory Management perspective. It's got the same humorous friendships of the movie, with all new guilty perspectives.
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primped and polished till you glow with pride by VagabondDawn for RomanticPrincess
Fandoms: Disney Princesses, Mulan (1998)
30 Jun 2019
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Fa Zhou gets offered an advisory position in the Imperial City instead of riding to war and Fa Mulan finds her second attempt at Matchmaking goes better than the first.
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- Part 1 of primped and polished
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06 Aug 2026
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Mulan meets her match, through a matchmaker even, in this fic. Captain Li is adorably awkward while Mulan is bulldozing through life, both are doing their best. I wouldn't say this fic is romantic, or that the characters are in love by the end of it, but it is a hopeful ending.