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An SI's Guide to Surviving the Shinobi World without Dying Tragically by LadyNyxRavus for samfu
Fandoms: Naruto
04 Feb 2026
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Honestly, I just want to make it past thirty this go-around. Contending with Uchiha Clan Nonsense, an Orochimaru still convinced he needs my baby cousin's eyes, and the knowledge of precisely how bad all this can go, that's looking more and more out of reach by the day.
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15 Feb 2026
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For diplomacy and rank test bureaucracy
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Harry Potter and the Power of Proper Communication by herebewyverns
Fandoms: Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling
11 Nov 2022
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After the Christmas argument about Harry's Firebolt, Hermione decides that she's not putting up with the boys' sulking anymore, and she's going to do something about it. What happens next is a testament to the strong bonds forged through people actually talking to each other, the desperation involved in keeping your best friend alive and in one piece, and the desire to build a better, safer world for him to live in, no matter what the objections from the adults.
In other words, the risk in manipulating things to create child-soldiers is that they will decide that you, too, are also something to protect themselves against.
Revised, Edited, and Rewritten: After a lot of feedback about how the writing got better as this fic went on, I've been taking a break, not just to have the burn-out breakdown from IRL work, but also to rewrite some of the earlier chapters (mostly 1-5) hoping to improve on what was already there, and add things I wish I'd thought of the first time.
Updated So Far: Chapters 1, 2, and 3 - an additional chapter inserted after Chapter 3 - and 4 (which is now Chapter 5, I guess)Series
- Part 1 of Stand As One, Forever
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08 Feb 2026
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Ch 4: “necromancy, they used to say it was, when we went and did what the dead commanded, but stick a few bits of papers and ink blots into the mix and suddenly it’s ‘learning’!”
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Once upon a time there was little boy.
And then there wasn't.
Once upon a time there was a little wolf who dreamed of being a little boy. He got his wish for seven years... and has been paying for it ever since.
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- Part 6 of Harold the Normal
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02 Feb 2026
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The tragedy of Quirrell, and why Muggle Studies isn’t a core class
Petunia rights and wrongs!!! -
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Argus' life was a largely thankless one (unless you counted the thanks of the paintings he maintained), working on keeping a thousand year old castle from falling down around the ears of students who didn't care. He had his cat, his work, his books, and a constant boil of self hatred and resentment to get him by.
And then a sixth year handed him a letter from her aunt, thanking him for acting as conservator of Hogwarts and calling him Dr. Filch. It was the first time he had been called Doctor since he started at the castle. He had little choice but to write back, after that.
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Harry Potter and the Greatest Show by shadowscribe
Fandoms: Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling
26 Jul 2022
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The last real thing Harry remembers is standing across from Voldemort and watching the killing curse fly at his face.
Then he visited a fluffy white limbo that somewhat resembles King Cross Station and instead of choosing to move on or go back he does something else entirely.
And wakes up in his cupboard on the morning of Dudley's eleventh birthday.
Because that makes sense.
(No. No it doesn't.)
But Harry is going to roll with it anyway.
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- Part 1 of Look At My Life
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23 Jan 2024
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Chapter 8 for Severus as Head of House
Chapter 9 for handling Harry’s trauma and the role Dumbledore plays in it seriously.
Chapter 14 for MoD worldbuilding