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I measure every Grief I meet by candlebreak
Fandoms: Spider-Man - All Media Types, Spider-Man (Tom Holland Movies), Marvel Cinematic Universe, The Avengers (Marvel Movies)
29 Nov 2025
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She found herself once again staring down the Parker kid in her office. It was a familiar scene. He was curled into the sagging armchair she’d scooped off the curb, feet scuffing against his duffel bag on the floor, arms hunched over the backpack in his lap. Over the past two months and six moves, the boy had quietly trimmed down all of his possessions to fit in those two bags.
“What,” said Rhee, “the fuck.”
Peter shrugged, defensive.
If someone had told her three months ago that this doe-eyed white boy with his cheerful geekery and his pathological adherence to respectful forms of address would be one of her most troublesome cases, she would have laughed them out of the room. Now, she wasn’t laughing.
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Yet another homeless Peter Parker fic feat. a very tired social worker trying to care; badass Ned and MJ; your friendly local trans Spider-Man; an actual real Stark Industries internship; extremely in-depth and realistic depictions of the US foster care, legal, and criminal justice systems; the beautiful disaster that is Harley Keener; dismantling systemic oppression with weaponized empathy; the unshakeable Pepper Potts; a small army of lesbians; hardcore hero Peter Parker; and soo much trauma
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- Part 1 of My Revolution is Born Out of Love
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Avatar: The Legacy of Fire (Book I: Air) by candlebreak
Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender
12 Jun 2025
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Fire. Air. Water. Earth.
The sages used to tell stories of the old days: a time of terror when the tyrant Avatar suppressed all people and divided the land between the Fire Nation, Air Nomads, Water Tribes, and Earth Kingdom. But everything changed when Sozin’s comet allowed the Fire Nation to fight back. Only the Avatar, master of all four elements, stood in the way of a prosperous and united world. But just when we almost managed to defeat him, he vanished.
A hundred years have passed, but the world cannot truly be united until the Avatar is found. Three years ago, my father entrusted me with a sacred task: to find and capture the Avatar, and thereby redeem a great shame and failure of the Fire Nation. And although many believe this is an impossible task, I still have hope. I still believe that, somehow, I will find the Avatar and restore honor to the Fire Nation and to myself.
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AU where the Avatar Spirit left Aang in the iceberg and was eventually reborn in everybody’s favorite grumpy fire prince.
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- Part 1 of Avatar: The Legacy of Fire
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From my pulse's flagging beat by candlebreak
Fandoms: Wiedźmin | The Witcher - All Media Types
28 May 2025
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“What if it had been Oliwia, buttercup?” Lambert asks.
Jaskier goes still. Little Oliwia, barely sixteen and still as naive as any noble child gets - if she had been sent as a sacrifice, that would have been - “Monstrous,” he says, through a dry throat. “That would be monstrous, and a grave insult to the Wolf, that anyone would think he would do harm to such an innocent - that he would be that sort of monster.”
—inexplicifics, Only Love Proudly and Gladly and Well, Ch. 2
…What if it had been Oliwia?
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The kid was going to die at this rate, whether or not Jason had anything to do with it. Apparently dead Robins were just a thing, now, and Bruce didn’t give a shit whether they lived or died.
There was something almost comforting about that, that Jason’s wasn’t the only life that didn’t matter.
There was something fucking infuriating about that, that Jason’s wasn’t the only life that didn’t matter.
Well. If those fucks didn’t care about their baby bird now, Jason would just have to make them care. And he had a few ideas on just how to do that.
Robin might get a little broken in the process, but what was a little kidnapping and torture between friends?
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a.k.a. the Titans Tower AU where Jason kidnaps Tim instead of trying to kill him. And then he kidnaps Steph. And Dick. And Cass. And...
Jason may have a problem.
Less crack-y than it sounds. This is mainly hurt, angst, and reckoning with canon trauma. Comfort will come! There *will* be a happy ending.
[summary updated 1/21/22]
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- Part 1 of Red Robin Hood
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Deleted scenes and AUs from my work Red Robin Hood.
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- Part 2 of Red Robin Hood
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∀(𝑥) {𝑥∊DROID | 𝑓(𝑥)=𝑓(slave)} ⟙ 𝑥⇒[𝑓𝑟𝑒𝑒𝑑𝑜𝑚]⩣[𝑑𝑒𝑎𝑡ℎ] by candlebreak
Fandom: Star Wars - All Media Types
17 Mar 2024
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My Revolution is Born Out of Love by candlebreak
Fandom: Marvel Cinematic Universe, Spider-Man (Tom Holland Movies), Spider-Man - All Media Types, The Avengers (Marvel Movies), The Avengers (Marvel) - All Media Types
29 Nov 2025
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Peter Parker: trans, tired, and shit on over and over again by the universe. Also Spider-Man, a hardcore hero, and just 100% the best boy.
There was a reason that Peter Parker decided to become Spider-Man, to become a vigilante, to look out for the little guy. The systems we currently have obviously aren't doing the job well enough. People are getting hurt. This story explores in depth the many, many flaws of the United States justice and social safety systems, and how Peter Parker and Spider-Man deal with them. This includes everything from foster care to food banks to access to medical treatment to courts to policing to prison and parole.
An exploration of grief, loss, and trauma. Expect bureaucracy, lots of OCs just trying their best, and righteous fucking anger. Plus lots of radical caring and empathy. Eventual hopeful ending.
Series title taken from 'Poverty of Philosophy' by Immortal Technique.
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Joker Recovery Squad (tm) by candlebreak
Fandom: Batman - All Media Types, Batman Beyond, Batman: Arkham (Video Games)
22 Oct 2022
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If he's going to be a hooker anyway, he may as well find himself a sugar daddy.
This...does not go as he planned, but at least he got adopted?
(now with Bruce's POV)
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Can't Raise Hell as a Saint by historical_allusions
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types, Batman: Under the Red Hood (2010)
26 May 2025
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When an adult Jason Todd is thrown into the past, he must balance raising his childhood self with reinventing his vigilante personae, all without revealing his knowledge of the future...
A task made infinitely more difficult when he starts changing things in the past and attracts the attention of a young Batman and Robin.
Impossible, with a supernatural killer on the loose.
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Journey to the Centre of the Multiverse by AddictedApple
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types
22 Jul 2025
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“This definitely isn’t my universe,” Jason said blankly.
“What the fuck?” Alternate-Jason asked, his crassness clashing with his neat business attire.
“Language, Jason,” Martha Wayne chided with a fond smile.
“Sorry, ma’am.”
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Or… Jason Todd discovers that he can travel through the multiverse (on top of his usual weirdness, ie, immortality) and chaos ensues.
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The Divine Calling Community Church by Chemical_Processes, GalaxyThreads
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types, DCU
09 Dec 2025
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Bruce’s investigation into the Divine Calling Community Church, a fringe group of survivalist Christians, is only at its outset before it all goes terribly wrong. The idyllic compound is hiding dark secrets, and, somehow, Bruce finds himself right in the middle of it all.
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13 Dec 2025
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