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at fourteen, adulthood seems so far away by ArbitraryCategories
Fandoms: How to Train Your Dragon - All Media Types
08 Jun 2026
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Pre-HTTYD1, Snotlout finds a mirror that lets him see into the future! Naturally, he shows this off to the other teens in his generation, Chief Stoick, and his right-hand-man Gobber. Unfortunately, Hiccup wasn't invited, though the more they see of the future, the more it's obvious that something changed in a big way, and Hiccup's future self is right in the middle of it.
OR: pre-HTTYD1 characters react to Race To The Edge episodes, but I gave Snotlout the remote (at least at first).
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The Gang Gets Into Scrying by ArbitraryCategories
Fandoms: How to Train Your Dragon - All Media Types
05 Jun 2026
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Snotlout waved his hands over the mirror. “Show me myself twenty years into the future!”
To the amazement of everyone gathered, the surface of the mirror rippled like it was made of water and a stone had been dropped into the center. When the ripples passed, a new image was left behind. Not the reflection of the roof of the Great Hall, like it had been before, but the side-view of a man who looked remarkably like Snotlout, but older.
“Holy yak dung, it worked!” Snotlout exclaimed, leaning further over the mirror. “It’s my future self! What is he doing?”
OR: 14-year-old Snotlout finds a magic mirror that shows the future. 34-year-old Snotlout is trying to balance two jobs he loves, raising his son, his long-distance relationship with his wife and daughter, and his closest friendships on Berk. Unfortunately, with the week-long Thawfest festival approaching fast, emotions are running high.
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God Valley Divergence, MANGA SPOILERS.
Shamrock's role within the Freedom Fighters was acting as something of a secretary for his dad, taking notes, keeping track of their schedule, that sort of thing. But because they went up against the government, his dad was always scared that someone would discover the link between them and target Shamrock to try and make his dad give up on his goals. Already, the local armies of the countries they led protests in sometimes shot at them.
Or: What if Dragon managed to save Shamrock at God Valley?
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sand-gator gets his face punched in part two: this time sabo's here! by ArbitraryCategories
Fandoms: One Piece (Anime & Manga)
04 Nov 2025
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When a Donquixote pirate driven by blind revenge shows up at Kyros's house, the present Strawhats, Sabo, and Law suddenly find themselves thrown into an expansive desert! And, as Sabo is quick to discover, two years into the past!
“We just need to figure out where we’ve been sent,” Zoro decided. “If that pirate just wanted to hit us in revenge, he might have sent us somewhere random. Same if he just wanted us out of the way to try and re-overthrow the country. If this was an attack with any thought behind it, he would have sent us somewhere where we would be surrounded by enemies.”
“That, or this is a desert island with no life, where we will all starve to death without any need to waste the lives of his own men,” Robin countered.
“So morbid!” Usopp shouted back, though his knees started to shake.
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won't lose against the flow of time by ArbitraryCategories
Fandoms: One Piece (Anime & Manga)
03 Nov 2025
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Modern au, chat fic. Sabo reunites with Ace and Luffy.
Ace: youre never 🚫 gonna guess ❓ who showed up 🚪 thursday tho
Izou: Deuce?
Deuce: not me are you kidding? you could not PAY me to spend time in an old SURVIVAL CAMP with SILVERS RAYLEIGH
Izou: Damn, it was just a guess.
Deuce: also I am here? we are in the SAME CAFETERIA
Izou: Okay, well, you're all the way across the room. I can see you now. Stop flipping me off, sorry I didn't see you earlier.
Ace: lol no it is 🥁 sabo 💙🎩🤯‼
Deuce: uh. hang on.
Marco: Who's Sabo? Have I met them?
Deuce: Ace buddy, I thought Sabo was? Dead?Series
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Sunny's Merry Misadventurers and Friends by ArbitraryCategories
Fandom One Piece (Anime & Manga)
04 Nov 2025
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Early Warning Echo by ArbitraryCategories
Fandom Star Wars - All Media Types, Star Wars: The Bad Batch (Cartoon), Star Wars: The Clone Wars (2008) - All Media Types
11 Aug 2025
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Three months after the summer ends, Bill Cipher is thrown back into the lives of the Pines family, but this time as a powerless HUMAN!!! This is a mostly-comedy series exploring those ramifications: parents, Shermie, and explanations all await!
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Billy Batson Week twenty-eighty-four ⚡️ by ArbitraryCategories
Fandom DCU, DCU (Comics), Shazam! | Captain Marvel (Comics)
18 Aug 2024
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mended heart by ArbitraryCategories
Fandom 鬼滅の刃 | Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba (Anime), 鬼滅の刃 | Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba (Manga)
19 Mar 2023
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kny post-canon adventures in making homes and finding peace
series title from Uneven Odds by Sleeping At Last—full lyric is "no one expects you to understand, just to live what little life your mended heart can."
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A new us has begun by ChaoticEldritchEntity
Fandoms: Project Hail Mary (2026), Project Hail Mary - Andy Weir
13 Jun 2026
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“Oh, it’s a way for humans to tell each other they’re taken. To remember,” I say, popping a bunch more gummy bears into my mouth. Rocky makes a disgusted sound and I smile as I chew. “It’s just a nice way of showing they have someone they committed to.”
Rocky freezes. I don’t notice for a good few seconds, not until I get the pressing sensation that he’s staring at me, his lack of eyes irrelevant.
I turn to face him. He’s jittering, something like shaking from excitement or anger, I’m not sure.
“Rocky?” I ask.
“Grace have ring,” he points, and oh no. “Grace have mate? Why Grace no say!?”
I hold up my hands before he can get too excited, though I can already hear a familiar sound, a repeating joyful and confused song start to escape from him.
“No, no, no!” he freezes again. Deflates, a little. I sigh and run a hand down my face. “It’s… complicated.”
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14 Jun 2026
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The Space Between by Saereneth
Fandoms: Project Hail Mary (2026), Project Hail Mary - Andy Weir, The Martian (2015), The Martian - Andy Weir
13 Jun 2026
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How old was he, even? He’d been thirty-five when he left Earth — would that make him seventy-five, or forty-six, or forty-two once he returned?
Grace is returning to Earth, but what will that mean for him?
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14 Jun 2026
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It's Worth It by HulkJanitor
Fandoms: Iron Lung (2026), Iron Lung (Video Game), Project Hail Mary - Andy Weir, Project Hail Mary (2026)
14 Jun 2026
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Grace and Rocky are on their way to Erid when they encounter a strange terrestrial vessel that has somehow made its way to space. The single occupant is alive and Grace and Rocky rescue him, but they are then faced with the challenge of gaining this stranger's trust and dealing with the contamination he brought with him.
*slaps roof of fic* This bad boy can fit so many near-death experiences in it! But also friendship! And fucking (eventually)!
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"What do you WANT?"
“I just want you to live!” Grace threw up his hands in exasperation “Is that so wrong? Is that so hard to believe?!—” he lowered his hands and quieted his voice. It took enormous effort. “I just want you to stay alive, and I need you to just sit still so you don’t die.”
The man’s expression dissolved from roiling rage to bafflement. There was something else too though. Grace could see cogs spinning behind the man’s eyes. Something about that answer had stuck.
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13 Jun 2026
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I'm with the science team! by lemonadelesbian69
Fandoms: Project Hail Mary - Andy Weir, Project Hail Mary (2026)
14 Jun 2026
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Disaster strikes the Hail Mary on its way back to Earth. The taumoeba escape their breeding tanks, and make it to the fuel lines. Stranded in space just outside the Tau Ceti system, Dr Ryland Grace can't do anything. He can't go save Rocky, he can't go save Earth. Exhausted, out of options, and distraught, he fills the ship with nitrogen, and takes his final breath.
Next thing he knows, his eyes flutter open in his San Francisco apartment. It's a year before ArcLight touches down on Earth, but he remembers the Petrova Task Force.
He's not the only one.OR: Time-Travel Fix-It AU but it's not just Grace who came back in time.
OR: My first time writing fanfic since my wattpad days as a preteen be niceys to me
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11 Jun 2026
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Drops of Jupiter by TheTearThatHangs
Fandoms: Project Hail Mary (2026), Project Hail Mary - Andy Weir
12 Jun 2026
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Dr Captain Ryland Grace returns to an Earth that had long designated him “history”; 58 years old, and with a body that ached in vicious revenge, Grace wanted to take Rocky and Adrian through the wonders of Planet Earth before his time came.
Rocky and Adrian would very much like it if Grace stopped referencing his mortality, and are finding Earth about as peculiar and spectacular as the man the planet gave them.
Earth is pleasantly surprised to see their intergalactic neighbours at their doorstep, and would very much like to confiscate Grace from Rocky for scientific study, because how the fuck was he still alive.
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09 Jun 2026