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The Split River High Afterlife Support Group by StillTryingToFly
Fandoms: School Spirits (TV)
25 Jan 2024
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The Split River High Afterlife Support Group has been meeting since 1958, even if the two oldest members have been lying to all the others about it from the moment there was anyone else to lie to. I wondered what it was like for them, for all of them, and what better way to explore that than from Janet's point of view.
Also, why did they even bother adding those other three ghosts to the support group if they gave them zero lines and no names?
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Nikandros would eventually come to the conclusion (the same conclusion his parents had reached some fifteen years earlier) that the only saving grace with his Words, was that they were in Veretian and he lived in Akielos where the number of people who could read Veretian was fairly small.
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Part 5(?) of a series. The Apocalypse has been averted and the Commission dealt with, so now its time to deal with all the loose strings of trauma, and oh yeah their thirteen year old brother from the original timeline.
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Four and Seven have been been gone for almost a year but for everyone else, it was just a few hours. Everything is different now and no one has all the pieces. What will happen next?
Part 4 of a series, will not make much sense if you haven't read the others first.Series
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“But I’m--I’m just ordinary, how could I be dangerous?”
Ben gave an involuntary snort at that blatant lie. Ben had been given a front row seat to the Banana Incident of 1999, okay? Vanya had been plenty dangerous even when she had been “just ordinary”.Like most things that went horribly wrong in the Umbrella Academy it wasn’t the actions of one single person that caused everything to go to hell in a hand-basket; it was a group effort. But The Banana Incident of 1999 did start, as many disasters did, with Four.
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How Four and Seven Learn To Love Themselves And Stop The Apocalypse by StillTryingToFly
Fandom The Umbrella Academy (TV)
03 Mar 2020
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A canon divergent AU where Hazel kidnaps both Klaus and Vanya after the fight at the Academy. Featuring torture, sibling bonding, time travel, and love in wartime; this is my self indulgent angst with a happy ending because I like to suffer but don't crush my soul you know?
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People Mark Watney needs to buy a beer by StillTryingToFly
Fandom The Martian (2015), The Martian - All Media Types, The Martian - Andy Weir
17 Jan 2016
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Mark is back on Earth and ready to have drinks with the people who helped save his sorry ass. Told in no particular order and filled with head canons about minor and major characters alike, these are my self-indulgent "missing scences" from both the book and the movie.
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Answers from NASA by StillTryingToFly
Fandom The Martian (2015), The Martian - All Media Types, The Martian - Andy Weir
30 Nov 2015
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"You're an awesome player to watch."
"I watch you too…I like watching you."
One line changes everything.
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OR: Instead of turning him down, Ilya and Shane become fast friends at the Prospects Cup. Their relationship (and how they hide the truth) completely changes when the media poses them as best friends instead of rivals.
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Reads as a series of connected oneshots within this AU. Now including prospects cup 2008, draft celebrations, rookie all-star weekend, and their first MLH awards.- Language:
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16 Feb 2026
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OWNED (hollanov dom/sub-verse) by vividblossom (dirtymudblood)
Fandom Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid, Heated Rivalry (TV)
31 Jan 2026
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22 Jan 2026
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A Treatise on Friendship by HH_Arrow
Fandoms: Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid
28 Dec 2025
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Cliff Marleau finds out his best friend has been secretly dating Shane Hollander the same way everyone else does—via a video that's already gone viral—and spends the next three hours trapped in a car with two of Shane's teammates, one of whom is convinced Ilya is the worst person alive.
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- Part 2 of A Formal Study of the Heart
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09 Jan 2026
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we cannot waste time (—only ourselves.) by llamallamaduck
Fandoms: Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid
17 Feb 2026
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The photos leak on a Wednesday. Ilya sets his life and career on fire on Sunday, mostly out of spite. On Monday, he is the first out queer player in the NHL.
Nobody handles the ensuing circus well, least of all Scott Hunter.
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- Part 17 of Miscellaneous 'Verses
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06 Jan 2026
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Wolfbird by OpalApparition
Fandoms: Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid
18 Feb 2026
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Shane Hollander is hockey’s closeted golden boy with everything to hide. Ilya Rozanov is a professional Dom with everything to lose and an expired visa.
Through their arrangement at a discreet Montreal kink bar, where NDAs protect secrets and sessions are charged per hour, they discover the most dangerous thing isn’t being caught—it’s wanting more than those hours allow.
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17 Dec 2025