the best fics (are those that loop in your mind)
For the fics that leave your mind spinning; the ones that sound like poetry; the ones that alter your view of the world just enough to keep you from sleeping
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For the Greater Good. Harry understands this.
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we are bound, by each crime and every kindness by honeysoo
Fandoms: 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia, Avatar: The Last Airbender
02 Jul 2020
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Todoroki Shouto dies, ice in his veins and ash in his lungs.
Zuko is born with fire on his lips and tears on his cheeks.
(or, when Shouto is reborn as a prince in a world desperately needing a hero.)
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- Part 1 of souls cross ages like clouds cross skies
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this is what it is by MashpotatoeQueen for rosemallow, braigwen_s, immolationfox
Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender
04 Jul 2020
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At her house, she plays the porcelain doll. She smiles pretty and stays quiet, the perfect daughter, the soft shut in. She hides skinned knees underneath her skirts and dirty fingernails in the curl of her hands. Sharp words and cold anger bubble up in her mind and she keeps them down, works them out in crumbled stone and collapsed caverns until she’s sweaty and panting and alive, alive, alive.
Toph: Another character study.
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- Part 4 of childhood living is (not) easy to do
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Let’s talk about Hakoda, who left.
Let’s talk about Sokka, who was left behind.
(This is a boy so defined by loss. )
Sokka: A character study.
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- Part 5 of childhood living is (not) easy to do
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The thing about Guilt. by Punctuation_my_archnemesis
Fandoms: 原神 | Genshin Impact (Video Game)
22 Jan 2022
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It starts with Venti, who sees that one blue eye, pupil cut like a jewel and recognizes it.
It starts with Venti who feels something, something twisting and unsettling.
Guilt.
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Venti meets Kaeya and gets to know him. Character study on the burden of guilt and how it effects Venti.
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The day his sister is buried, Jiang Cheng’s heart creaks once, twice, and comes to a halt.
Time stops moving when it can no longer touch, push, or pull a man into action.
It hits him then, as he stands over an indistinct crowd, that he has nothing to be afraid of anymore.
— A collection of vignettes: of small, quiet moments in Jiang Cheng's life after the death of the Yiling Patriarch. What he did, what he couldn't do, and how he continued to live.
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Soon, he’ll be dead. He’ll be dead, because he’s not good enough to be loved. Good enough to be distrusted and thrown aside by his own brother, but not good enough to be loved and cared for by people he considers friends.
He wishes he could be killed by something else—anything else.
Why does he have to die from the fact that he is unloved?
Feeling unloved by those he considers dear, Kaeya develops a case of Hanahaki. Of course, the most logical course of action is to hide that fact from everyone.
He has five days left.
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- Part 2 of genshin impact fics
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the stars are floating and we are flying by lunalou
Fandoms: 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia
12 Oct 2018
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Aizawa starts walking towards the exit, obviously expecting Shouto to follow him, but Shouto's feet are frozen in place. His eyes flicker from the distorted reflection of himself in the ice to where All Might is giving him a long look, eyes kinder than anything Todoroki has ever been deserving of, and he feels sick.
“Todoroki-kun,” Midoriya says gently, squeezing his arm in what Shouto presumes is meant to be a reassuring gesture. “It’s going to be okay.”
He doesn’t think Midoriya is in any place to tell him what okay is, all things considered, but he chooses to keep quiet on the matter.
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Bookmarked by wild_dreamer
06 Jul 2021
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This was an incredible portrayal of dissociation and the lasting effects of abuse.
Honestly this is up in there in the top 30 most beautiful things I’ve ever read.
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will I ever be more than I’ve always been? by aloneintherain
Fandoms: 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia
05 Apr 2018
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“I want,” Bakugou says, “you to wake the fuck up. Make teachers look out for their kids. Don’t put up with any kind of violence—this should be a fucking safe space for kids. And the little shit-stains who think they’re above the rules because they’ve got a fancy quirk? You deal with them, too. Quirk usage is illegal. Physical assault is illegal. And yet I saw all that and more when I was here—I did all of that and more when I was here.”
The principal stares at him. “You’re saying you wanted us to give you detention?”
Detention. Like that would have done anything.
“I’m saying,” Bakugou says through gritted teeth, “that you should’ve expelled me.”
Or: how Bakugou became an anti-bullying advocate.
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- Part 5 of see it all in bloom
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And I've never felt more alone , It feels so scary getting old by imaginarypasta
Fandoms: 原神 | Genshin Impact (Video Game)
12 Mar 2022
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Kaeya examines the wound, moving his coat away from the blood, only to find his corset torn though and completely ruined. It’s bad enough to be painful, but not so bad he can’t make it to get healing.
Diluc appears beside him and crouches down to observe, his eyebrows all pinched together.
“Are you okay?” he asks with a grimace.
“It’s a flesh wound,” Kaeya returns cooly. He’s lucky it was the debris that hit him and not the fire. He shoots Diluc a glare he doesn’t seem to notice, not while he’s pulling Kaeya’s coat off his shoulders and tightly wrapping the cape around his torso. “You want to ruin my jacket as well?”
“Shut up,” Diluc says. Kaeya presses his hands behind his back to pick himself off the ground, but he’s immediately thwarted.
“What are you doing,” Kaeya squawks as Diluc scoops him up. He grabs Diluc’s shoulders to steady himself before pushing him away as best as he can without falling. There is a rough lurch of pain that does not deter his efforts. “Put me down.”While investigating ley line anomalies, Kaeya gets hurt and Diluc, moved by guilt, takes him back to the winery for healing.