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A Passion For Mushrooms by Chrononautical
Fandoms: The Hobbit - All Media Types, The Hobbit (Jackson Movies), The Hobbit - J. R. R. Tolkien
21 Sep 2017
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There are many trials for a hobbit attempting to make a life among dwarves. A hobbit wants a garden. A hobbit wants to eat regular meals. A hobbit wants friends, good books, and comfortable chairs. Bilbo does his best to carve out a little hobbit life for himself in the mountain. If only there were not one final obstacle. For a hobbit heart wants love, and among dwarves that is a sticky subject.
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- Part 1 of The Mushroom Mine
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 89,912
- Chapters:
- 34/34
- Collections:
- 40
- Comments:
- 4,526
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- 14,075
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- 4,008
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- 330,353
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28 Jan 2026
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A Long List of Happy Endings by vicious_summer
Fandoms: The Hobbit - All Media Types, The Hobbit (Jackson Movies), The Hobbit - J. R. R. Tolkien
19 Feb 2022
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“–Come Durin’s Day, the Mountain will host great entertainments, games, and feasting in your name and in the names of the other thirteen of the Company. Your path through all of Arda shall be made smooth to ensure your welcome in our lands, Bilbo Baggins. I bring this summons as it was sent from the Throne of Thorin, King Under the Mountain.”
Bilbo’s heart, racing as it had been from this thrilling invitation, seemed to trip over itself at the name. “Thorin?” he whispered, and he stepped forward without thinking.
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Or: Bilbo learns that his story isn’t actually a tragedy, and that happy endings still take a bit of luck.
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 162,620
- Chapters:
- 8/8
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- 9
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- 1,441
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- 1,954
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- 132,213
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04 Nov 2025
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‘We may have won the battle, but I fear the war with winter is just beginning.’
The aftermath of war is no laughing matter. Those who died must be honoured, those who are wounded must be healed, and those who remain need food and clothing, peace and sanctuary. With Thorin's life hanging in the balance, it is up to Bilbo and the rest of the Company to rule the rag-tag remnants of Erebor in his place.
Then there is the matter of the gold...
Can Bilbo save both king and kingdom, or is Erebor destined to fall deeper into ruin?
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- Part 1 of The Riven Crown Universe
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- English
- Words:
- 254,270
- Chapters:
- 31/31
- Collections:
- 22
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- 3,029
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- 8,982
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- 3,120
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04 Nov 2025
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in the shade of a sunflower by FallingNarwhals for BelleAmant, Ashynarr
Fandoms: 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia
04 Nov 2020
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A waft of spice hit Ochako’s nostrils and she reeled back in shock. She has faced down countless villains since coming to UA. She has been in battle and in hand to hand combat possibly a hundred times. She faced Overhaul’s minions with support from her peers, but otherwise without outside help. But no villain with a terrifying quirk has ever struck her with more fear than quirkless Melissa shoveling curry made of peppers so deadly it killed an unprepared Pro Hero famous for his spice tolerance on live TV. Deku was still guzzling water directly from the sink, Tokoyami’s quirk was crying in pain as he casually shoveled more into his mouth, and Melissa was handling the spice like a pro.
Being biologically quirkless came more with an extra pinkie joint in the toes and a stunning lack of vestiges mutations. It came with smaller things, like extra teeth that did virtually nothing, exploding organs, and weird exposed nerves that weren't designed to feel pain.
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Five time's Midoriya Izuku struggled with being biologically quirkless and one time it was a gift
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 5,510
- Chapters:
- 1/1
- Collections:
- 57
- Comments:
- 371
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- 13,194
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- 99,718
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20 Jun 2025
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lacing the same shoes (worn through to the bottom of the line) by Stardust_Painter
Fandoms: 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia
16 Sep 2020
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Midoriya's shoes were hideous. It was just a fact. Mina had managed to help him change his entire wardrobe except for those stupid shoes. That was okay though. She was sure she could find a way around it.
alternatively, Mina tires to fix Izuku's fashion sense, and it bites her in the ass.
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 3,472
- Chapters:
- 1/1
- Collections:
- 15
- Comments:
- 80
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- 6,202
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- 944
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17 Jun 2025
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“Ghost?” Dick chokes on his cereal, and Bruce absentmindedly thumps him on the back while staring at Jason.
“Yeah.” Jason doesn’t understand why this is so shocking, “Manor’s haunted. We all know that.”
Everyone just stares at him, and Jason gets the feeling that he might have jumped to some untrue conclusions.
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Or: There's always been something off about Wayne Manor, but Jason never gave it much thought. Now after he's come back to life, though, things are starting to make sense.- Language:
- English
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- 4,408
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- 1/1
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- 197
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11 Jun 2025
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You Don't Look Like a Bodyguard by join_the_conga for pastelfeathers
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types, DCU (Comics)
23 Aug 2020
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The new bodyguard doesn’t wear a suit. Doesn't look a hundred years old. Doesn't frown in the quiet all day long.
And he doesn’t take a single ounce of shit from any of the Wayne boys. Not even from Dick.
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- English
- Words:
- 5,661
- Chapters:
- 1/1
- Collections:
- 1
- Comments:
- 112
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- 1,752
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11 Jun 2025
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interstellar light years from you by flailingthroughsanity
Fandoms: Voltron: Legendary Defender
30 Jun 2018
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It’s not difficult, Shiro thinks, realizing who is lurking in the shadows behind Lance, by the pillars of the oddly-lit cantina. It’s not difficult at all – if he can get past the rushing memories of laser-fire and binary sunsets and Corellia’s relentless waves, all swept under purple-gleamed eyes and a soft kiss against his lips – and if Shiro can swallow his tattered pride and the ice in his heart, he can almost forget the burn of where his arm used to be, forget the moment he turned his head and found himself in the crosshairs of Keith’s blaster fire.
Almost.
It’s not difficult, Shiro realizes, as Keith slowly makes his way towards them, slithering in like a ghost. It’s unbearable.
Keith had promised forever, in the star-lined, blue backdrop of hyperspace and past the rush of Star Destroyers and Naboo’s glittering rivers. All it takes is blaster fire, a broken starfighter wing and crashing into the gunship’s side for things to go terribly wrong. Shiro doesn’t know when it all fell apart.
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- Part 1 of stardust
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10 Jun 2025
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After the seniors get a subpar lecture on secondary genders (Alpha, Beta, & Omega), Keith and Shiro start talking about the differences between alphas and omegas. But really, why tell when you can show?
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Keith laughs. “I don’t even know. And what was with everyone laughing about it after? They were acting like they already knew everything.”
“Pssh,” Shiro dismisses, dropping the game controller beside him to wave Keith off, “they’re just faking to make themselves look good. As if they know better than the teachers.”
“Right?!” Keith agrees. His breath comes a little easier now that he knows he and Shiro are on the same page. “And like, half of that didn’t even sound real.”
“I know,” Shiro nods enthusiastically.
“Like…” Keith pretends to cast about for an example, though he knows exactly which part he wants to say. The part he can’t stop thinking about. “…knots? That’s so weird, that can’t be real.”
Shiro stops nodding abruptly at that and gives Keith a look like he’s the weird one. “What? No, knots are normal. But what they were saying about omegas? How they…” his voices tips down into a whisper, “get wet?”
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- English
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- 5,417
- Chapters:
- 1/1
- Collections:
- 1
- Comments:
- 90
- Kudos:
- 950
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- 143
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- 10,952
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07 Jun 2025
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Personality Swap AU by BelleAmant
Fandom 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia, 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia (Anime & Manga)
24 Dec 2023
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- 203,805
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- 54
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- 9,093
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07 Jun 2025
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Occupational Hazard by pandajelley
Fandoms: 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia (Anime & Manga)
27 Feb 2022
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Izuku Midoriya, celebrated journalist on the international Hero beat, hasn’t lived in Japan for over fifteen years. But when a disturbing pattern of suicides among Hero agency support staff pulls him home, he comes back determined to investigate. If the pressure of the Pro Hero system is killing people, he’s going to prove it—even if that means working alongside Katsuki Bakugou, his childhood bully turned top-tier Hero.
The story quickly becomes bigger than expected. A high-profile death. Political interference. Pressure from his editor, his family, and the ghosts of who he used to be. The case matters—but so does what it’s doing to him.
As Izuku digs deeper, he’s forced to confront more than corruption: old wounds, complicated friendships, and the parts of himself he’s been avoiding for years. Recovery isn’t part of the plan—but it might be part of the story.
A slow-burn narrative about institutional failure, mental health, complicated history, and the long road to something like healing.
(Solving a mystery, going on a mental health journey, and repairing relationships. Prequel to From Mended Soil.)
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- Part 1 of To shame the devil
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 138,028
- Chapters:
- 26/26
- Comments:
- 702
- Kudos:
- 945
- Bookmarks:
- 332
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- 36,462
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30 Nov 2023
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Like Fractions (Baby We're Breaking Down) by RayShippouUchiha
Fandom 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia
31 Oct 2021
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The Final Exam is the final straw for Izuku when it comes to Bakugou and the past decade of abuse.
With Todoroki at his side Izuku sets out to finally begin to heal.
And step one might just be a move that no one would ever see coming.
Leaving UA.
Can the teachers of UA open their eyes enough to do what needs to be done to keep from losing two of their most promising students?
- Words:
- 20,187
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- 3
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- 3,299
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30 Nov 2023
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Like a Heartbeat by Lockea
Fandom Batman - All Media Types, DCU (Comics), Nightwing (Comics), Red Hood and the Outlaws (Comics)
19 Feb 2019
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30 Nov 2023
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Instead of getting there in October, Billy Hargrove rolls into town at the end of November; complete with a broken arm, a head full of stitches, and some newly-refreshed fear of his father. There he meets Steve Harrington: the preppy dreamboat who seems content with hating Billy's guts on sight and is determined to ignore him for the rest of the year. Billy's never been easily ignored, though, and Steve is about to really learn what happens when an unstoppable force meets an immovable object.
or, another season 2 AU that occupies my mind rent-free
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 172,688
- Chapters:
- 13/13
- Comments:
- 384
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- 1,574
- Bookmarks:
- 527
- Hits:
- 44,750
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30 Nov 2023
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On the night of September third, 1999, Jason Thomas Wayne disappeared from Gotham Memorial Hospital. Born prematurely just two weeks ago on August sixteenth, the baby had been staying in the NICU until stable enough to go home with his father, billionaire Bruce Wayne. Reports say that it was most likely an inside job, as there was no evidence of tampering with security or personnel. So far there have been few leads into the disappearance, but police have detained a paramedic under allegations of aiding and abetting. Security cameras show him entering and exiting the NICU within the time frame Jason Wayne went missing. So far the police have not released a statement on the matter.
Jason Thomas Wayne was stolen from his crib at two weeks old by a money hungry Willis Todd, who intended to keep the kid until he would "find him" and return him for a reward later. Although, things don't always go to plan...
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 43,418
- Chapters:
- 12/12
- Collections:
- 9
- Comments:
- 626
- Kudos:
- 6,963
- Bookmarks:
- 1,735
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- 82,873
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16 Jul 2023
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Children Will Listen by ParkerAvenue
Fandoms: Batman: Wayne Family Adventures (Webcomic), Batman - All Media Types
10 May 2023
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Jason Todd is good at extortion. He's what the adults call a snoop - nobody paid attention to the little kid with the big ears. Without even realizing, adults would hand him the keys to getting what he needed. Jason knew how to collect information, because adults found information valuable. And it was. It was free, easy to get, and easy to carry, so long as he kept his head clear and his facts straight.
Jason had information Batman could use. He knew it. He had thought it over all day, sitting on that moldy couch, eating stale saltines. Batman would definitely be interested in the information Jason had.Batman had become scary again, like the old stories Jason used to hear the goons in the area tell. Breaking bones, just barely keeping people alive. Batman didn’t kill, no, but sometimes? Sometimes living was worse, maybe.
Jason stayed crouched behind that dumpster, silent, because he simply couldn’t decide if Batman was far gone enough to make a kid wish he was dead.(Jason Todd knows how to get what he wants, and Batman tries to lure him to safety.)
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Billy Hargrove Hates Nancy Wheeler.
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Steve gets in a car accident, and nobody understands why Billy Hargrove is in the waiting room with them.
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The Density of Fog by ive_been_losing_sleep
Fandoms: 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia
28 Oct 2021
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Aizawa Shouta hasn’t seen or heard anything of Shirakumo Oboro in over a decade, mostly by design, but he’s thought of him every day since his death.
And then he watches Shirakumo Izuku, younger brother of Shirakumo Oboro, take down the zero-pointer, and he knows he’s already identified one problem child of the year.
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- Part 1 of Shirakumo Izuku
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Balthier's Guide to Ivalice by empyrean
Fandoms: Final Fantasy XII, Final Fantasy XII: Revenant Wings, Final Fantasy Tactics A2: Grimoire of the Rift
11 Nov 2011
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Balthier takes us on a tour of Ivalice, from the Westersands to Giruvegan, and not-so-gently guides Vaan into sky piracy the best way he knows how. Which apparently includes a fair bit of leering combined with verbal abuse. Vaan is smarter than anyone suspects and Fran finds the whole thing incredibly amusing.
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Just Like The Comics by brichibi
Fandoms: 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia
17 Nov 2018
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If this were anything like the comics, Izuku Midoriya being quirkless would be the norm while heroes would be treated as a rarity. As it stands, everyone’s got a super power, except for Izuku, of course. No worries, though, because he’s over it (nope) and has moved on to bigger and better things (again, nope) like working at a tiny comic book shop and indulging in stories where being able to lift a bus with your bare hands was deemed impossible until proven otherwise.
Oh, and running into your heroic ex-boyfriend? Also unlikely. But Izuku’s life isn’t like a comic book (maybe?) and Katsuki Bakugou is standing right in front of him: still perfect, still handsome, and still putting his combat booted foot in his mouth.
[Or: AU where Izuku works at a comic book shop because that’s as close to a hero as he’s gonna get, and Katsuki plays the part of heroic ex-boyfriend who is good at everything except winning Izuku back... maybe]