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Everything You Love Will Burn Up In The Light by dropout_ninja for Marfacat
Fandoms: The Transformers (IDW Generation One)
23 Dec 2025
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They wanted a souvenir.
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Rewind doesn't react quickly enough after the DJD kill Chromedome. The DJD acquire an archivist.
Surrounded by death, and existing after the death of his love, the world twists and turns. It lingers and looms, inescapable amidst killers. Cracks hide in the DJD's stability. Rewind's already dead. But he won't let them kill him until he can watch them all break like his friends first. -
All Shall Love Me And Despair by dropout_ninja
Fandoms: Hollow Knight (Video Games), Hollow Knight: Silksong (Video Games)
24 Dec 2025
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The Grand Mother was truly gracious. Yet how could she not be? What was a Mother, with no children?
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Nature refused her motherhood. For so long, she was alone. The world’s soul itself insisted she should stay alone. Gods must be. Any like them would want her worship, as she demanded theirs. Higher beings were rare and widespread; they did not have families, they had enemies.
Her daughters were beautiful.
Her daughters caged her, to be alone again.
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Things would be different this time.
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We Cannot Escape The Tide Of Our Cruel Mistress Keeping Time by dropout_ninja
Fandoms: Sonic the Hedgehog - All Media Types, Sonic the Hedgehog (Video Games), Sonic the Hedgehog (IDW Comics)
22 Dec 2025
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While trying to S rank the Mephiles fight, Shadow inadvertently gives the guy one too many chances to simply not play the same game by the same rules anymore.
Free to restore himself to the timeline, the dark half of Solaris finds…the world well and truly has forgotten he ever existed and doesn't care, his continued existence is ever-unstable without the help of a human scientist, Soleanna is a tourist trap, Shadow is never going to bother to learn his name, Silver is a little too easy to manipulate still, rent’s not free, the Iblis-sized whole inside- well, next to- his soul is forever hollow, and while it's easy to convince a blank slate of a world you're the hero, the list of cons to maintaining that hustle is actually really annoying.
Oh, and he's not even the biggest fish (godlike being) in this pond (Earth and space and time and the whole of existence, are you kidding him) anymore.
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Politics were new to them.
He was staring again.
Watching. Judging. Evaluating. Determining worth. Deciding if they were weak enough to find a crack in, to claw and cut and rip open.
They, too, stared, once. Staring was all they could do. They looked into a world they could not touch, and they knew. They knew the smallest of the Mantis Lords dreamed of the sun. They knew the eyes which judged them now would have voluntarily took in fire.
(He was one who wished, willingly, in passing fancies and growing obsession, to call the light into himself.
Who could want such?They had they had they had)
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Or: That time when cultural misunderstandings and unresolved trauma almost caused a diplomatic incident. Oops.Series
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Still The Haunted Ruins Of Night Call Your Name by dropout_ninja
Fandoms: Over the Garden Wall (Cartoon & Comics)
02 Sep 2025
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Some souls that wink out in the forest do not go gracefully into that good night.
The Beast claws, scrapes, and lawyers its way back to life and prematurely celebrates this as a victory. It is not. But it's not the end of the world, either, if it can be flexible and smart about the long con.The Woodsman and his daughter are trying to find their lives again after years separated. There's love, there's nostalgia, there's miscommunications, there's missing pieces; there's everything that could be expected of their situation. It would just be a lot more comfortable if they didn't feel like they were being watched and judged by a shadow peanut gallery the whole time. (It would be even better if they didn't have to know there was, in fact, a peanut gallery in the shadows that they both have every right to wish was dead.)
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These are all based off of the universe of It’s Burned In My Mind. That fic functions as a stand-alone and does not need these bonus stories to be read. These bonus stories, however, very much run under the assumption the base fic was read.
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Random short stories for KFP
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sometimes family is a mad scientist spider, his amoral ex, their build-a-child kit gone right, and the human sidekick by dropout_ninja
Fandom: The Transformers (IDW Generation One)
31 Oct 2023
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Post ROTW au where Tarantulas survives and Springer sticks around in this timeline to make sure no messes get made.
Verity is just chilling.
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Fourtober Challenge found here!
Collection prompt: Those Without Names
4 prompts:
Unknown (The Pale King)
Buried (Traitor’s Child)
Caged (Brumm)
Forgotten (The Radiance/THK/Hallownest)- Words:
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Hornet completes her task in the Abyss and begins her return to Pharloom—against all odds, alive and not alone.
"A pleasure to make your acquaintance," Lace says, voice like nettles. "Though I must ask, spider: are you brave, or stupid?"
"You may rest if you wish, Hornet Wielding Needle." Shakra's voice is quiet, nearly amused in its affection.
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Bookmarked by dropout_ninja
21 Dec 2025
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Hornet gets hunted while she sleeps... she was never the one in any danger.
Bookmarked by dropout_ninja
17 Dec 2025
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"Hope is like a poison, rotting the host from the inside out. Lifts you up high only to dash you against the rocks. My chum here knows all about that. Don't ya, chum?"
The Caretaker wanted nothing more than to rot in peaceful silence within the First Shrine. But thanks to a meddlesome Bellringer, a greedy merchant, a boisterous knight, and—worst of all—a naive pilgrim named Sherma who refuses to stop singing, his solitude is thoroughly ruined.
This is a journal of the end of days. A record of a shabby refugee camp called Songclave, of the fools who gathered there, and of a grumpy old Snail Shaman who learned, far too late, that he might actually care about them.
Bookmarked by dropout_ninja
09 Dec 2025
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Does she want Mother dead? Does she want Her attention? Does she just want everything to stop?
She can’t tell.The events after the fight in the Cradle, from Lace‘s perspective.
Bookmarked by dropout_ninja
04 Dec 2025
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Messengers by optimistic-violinist (Britt30)
Fandoms: Over the Garden Wall (Cartoon & Comics)
04 Dec 2025
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As Wirt gets ready to graduate high school, he finds himself wanting to invite the one person who can't possibly come. Greg insists they write a letter anyway, and Jason Funderberker makes sure it gets delivered.
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Bookmarked by dropout_ninja
04 Dec 2025