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  • PARACOSM ␈ ᵇᵃᵈ ˢᵃⁿˢᵉˢ ˣ ʰᵉᵃˡᵉʳ ʳᵉᵃᵈᵉʳ by yourwifeAn
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    "the healer likes t' sleep. like, a lot." Axe looks at the sole female AND human member of Nightmare's subordinates. She was only ever awake for about 8-10 hours a day, rarely ever 12, it was both fascinating and irritating at the same time. He was damn sure humans would be awake for more hours than that, he even asked Murder at the time if it was normal. Said skeleton didn't give a single care though, his words: "who cares, makes her more tolerable. 'sides she gets her job done." The cracked skeleton just couldn't shake off the feeling that there was more to it than meets the EYE. ━━━PHOTO CREDITS: Whale鯨豚 [@Whale5511] on X! ━━━MOST NOTABLE RANKING: #1 in sansxreader, horrortale, something new and badsanses on 23/12/2025 #1 in undertale on 25/12/2025 #3 in bittersweet on 24/12/2025 #5 in reader on 24/12/2025 #19 in sans on 23/12/2025 ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ DATES PUBLISHED: 001 ━━ July 29th of '25 002 ━━ July 30th of '25 003 ━━ August 1 of '25 004 ━━ August 3 of '25 005 ━━ August 6 of '25 006 ━━ August 8 of '25 007 ━━ November 8 of '25 008 ━━ December 22 of '25 009 ━━ December 23 of '25
  • The Tide Between Us by It_losersclub
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    After Riven's life fell apart losing friends, family, and the person he thought he was - he ends up in the quiet beach town of Windlow, living with his uncle Nick. His parents failed him in ways that can't be undone, and he's trying to forget, to start over, to be someone new. Then he meets Vinnie. The captain of the hockey team, hard to like and just as hard to really know. Everyone sees confidence and charm, but Riven sees something else - a kind of loneliness that feels too familiar. Vinnie's the type of person who carries his past like it's stitched into his skin, pretending it doesn't hurt. As the two of them grow closer, secrets start to surface - the kind that don't stay buried no matter how far you run. Will they save each other from drowning, or will the tide pull them under?
  • Until My Heart Gives in by jofullyJOY
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    "She was innocence, he was chaos. Their love burned slowly but for so long, fragile yet fierce. Fate broke them apart, only to bind them tighter-until shattered hearts must decide if love can survive the storm." Broken hearts, shattered promises, and a search that never ends... until their hearts finally give in. A slow-burn romance where survival itself is the proof of love." A love lost and Found "Two hearts, torn by fate, stitched together by love-until destiny tests them again." - Joy
  • The Shape of soul by sadhanawrites
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    Sadhana Fushiguro has never been the kind of sorcerer people expect to save the world. One year older than Megumi, she drifts through Tokyo Jujutsu High with an easy smile, and Ten weapon technique, and a habit of caring far more deeply than she lets on and chaotic teasing, While the events of Jujutsu Kaisen unfold around her, Sadhana finds herself caught between missions, friendships, losses, and the quiet moments that make survival feel worth it. But even small choices can change the future. As bonds deepen and canon begins to shift, Sadhana must decide how much of herself she is willing to give to protect the people she loves, including the strongest sorcerer who slowly becomes impossible to ignore. Canon-divergent JJK with action, humor, traumedy[comety+traume],emotional slice-of-life moments, found family, and a slow-burn Gojo/Sadhana romance.
  • Honeymilk - A Dark Fairytale  by tinna115
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    She married him because he tasted like honeymilk... Ruru, a mischievous alien stranded on Earth, ends up marrying the tastiest man in the village, literally. Her strange ability lets her taste humans through touch, and Shian's flavor? It was addictive, sweet like honeymilk. Shian, the kind and unlucky village boy she claimed as her husband, believes she's just a clumsy city girl with strange habits. Hopelessly in love, he thinks her presence in his life feels like a fairytale he never thought he could have. But what happens when the snack she married becomes the only person she can't let go of? When her secret slips? When the villagers call her a monster? When fate tries to tear them apart? Will Shian still love her? How far will he go to protect her? _________________________ Tropes : *Alien wife x human husband * Gremlin Predator x Cute prey *Protective FL x gentle ML Update every sunday! ❤️ (Cover is made by @VeraChendra)
  • 𝐚𝐮𝐠𝐮𝐬𝐭 by stolenreveries_
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    ❝𝐚𝐮𝐠𝐮𝐬𝐭 𝐬𝐥𝐢𝐩𝐩𝐞𝐝 𝐚𝐰𝐚𝐲 𝐢𝐧𝐭𝐨 𝐚 𝐦𝐨𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐢𝐦𝐞❞ 𝗶𝗻 𝘄𝗵𝗶𝗰𝗵, 𝘢𝘯 𝘶𝘯𝘳𝘦𝘲𝘶𝘪𝘵𝘦𝘥 𝘭𝘰𝘷𝘦 𝘮𝘪𝘨𝘩𝘵 𝘣𝘦 𝘳𝘦𝘤𝘪𝘱𝘳𝘰𝘤𝘢𝘵𝘦𝘥 𝘢 𝘭𝘪𝘵𝘵𝘭𝘦 𝘵𝘰𝘰 𝘭𝘢𝘵𝘦
  • Echoes of Her by archanaprakash2011
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    "Echoes of Her" follows Kabir, a lonely, middle-aged architect in New York whose sterile life is disrupted by the arrival of Rhea, the daughter of his deceased first love who strongly resembles her mother. Over time, a complex emotional bond develops, forcing Kabir to confront his obsession with the past and choose between a haunting memory and a new, genuine connection with Rhea. Archana Prakash, writing as Anna P.
  • 𝐃𝐞𝐚𝐝𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐞 - 𝐃𝐞𝐟𝐞𝐧𝐝 𝐏𝐚𝐫𝐢𝐬 by TaffytaTealz
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    𝘞𝘪𝘵𝘩 𝘰𝘯𝘭𝘺 𝘵𝘩𝘳𝘦𝘦 𝘸𝘦𝘦𝘬𝘴 𝘭𝘦𝘧𝘵 𝘣𝘦𝘧𝘰𝘳𝘦 𝘕𝘢𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘯𝘪𝘦𝘭 𝘭𝘦𝘢𝘷𝘦𝘴 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘓𝘰𝘯𝘥𝘰𝘯, 𝘩𝘦 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘔𝘢𝘳𝘤 𝘢𝘳𝘦 𝘳𝘢𝘤𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘢𝘨𝘢𝘪𝘯𝘴𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘤𝘭𝘰𝘤𝘬 𝘵𝘰 𝘧𝘪𝘯𝘪𝘴𝘩 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘪𝘳 𝘧𝘪𝘯𝘢𝘭 𝘤𝘰𝘮𝘪𝘤 𝘵𝘰𝘨𝘦𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘳. 𝘉𝘶𝘵 𝘸𝘩𝘦𝘯 𝘔𝘢𝘳𝘤 𝘪𝘴 𝘵𝘳𝘶𝘴𝘵𝘦𝘥 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩 𝘢 𝘴𝘦𝘤𝘳𝘦𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘲𝘶𝘪𝘤𝘬𝘭𝘺 𝘱𝘶𝘵𝘴 𝘢 𝘵𝘢𝘳𝘨𝘦𝘵 𝘰𝘯 𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘣𝘢𝘤𝘬, 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘪𝘳 𝘱𝘦𝘢𝘤𝘦𝘧𝘶𝘭 𝘴𝘶𝘮𝘮𝘦𝘳 𝘵𝘶𝘳𝘯𝘴 𝘶𝘱𝘴𝘪𝘥𝘦 𝘥𝘰𝘸𝘯. 𝘚𝘶𝘪𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘶𝘱 𝘢𝘴 𝘊𝘢𝘱𝘳𝘪𝘬𝘪𝘥 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘙𝘰𝘰𝘴𝘵𝘦𝘳 𝘉𝘰𝘭𝘥, 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘵𝘸𝘰 𝘩𝘢𝘷𝘦 𝘵𝘰 𝘱𝘳𝘰𝘵𝘦𝘤𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘪𝘳 𝘧𝘳𝘪𝘦𝘯𝘥𝘴, 𝘰𝘶𝘵𝘴𝘮𝘢𝘳𝘵 𝘢 𝘳𝘪𝘴𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘵𝘩𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘵, 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘧𝘢𝘤𝘦 𝘸𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘭𝘦𝘢𝘷𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘗𝘢𝘳𝘪𝘴 𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘺 𝘮𝘦𝘢𝘯𝘴 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘪𝘳 𝘳𝘦𝘭𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘴𝘩𝘪𝘱. 。★ 𝐃𝐈𝐒𝐂𝐋𝐀𝐈𝐌𝐄𝐑: 𝐈 𝐃𝐎 𝐍𝐎𝐓 𝐎𝐖𝐍 𝐌𝐈𝐑𝐀𝐂𝐔𝐋𝐎𝐔𝐒 𝐋𝐀𝐃𝐘𝐁𝐔𝐆 𝐀𝐍𝐃 𝐈𝐓'𝐒 𝐂𝐇𝐀𝐑𝐀𝐂𝐓𝐄𝐑𝐒. 𝐀𝐋𝐋 𝐑𝐈𝐆𝐇𝐓𝐒 𝐆𝐎 𝐓𝐎 𝐌𝐈𝐑𝐀𝐂𝐔𝐋𝐎𝐔𝐒 𝐂𝐎𝐑𝐏 𝐀𝐍𝐃 𝐓𝐇𝐎𝐌𝐀𝐒 𝐀𝐒𝐓𝐑𝐔𝐂.
  • Eternal Ember: A Forbidden Alignment Across Worlds by The_Spiral_Pulse
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    To the world, they were only sequences: 1227 and 0323-precise, untouchable, designed to never deviate. But systems were never meant to be observed the way Astra Solari observed them. Astra never expected to find an anomaly that answered back. Not until a ghost inside Helix Dynamics began responding to her presence-fragments of a sequence once labeled 0323, now archived as 0914: Solin Eriksson, preserved within corrupted memory layers that should have been erased. And then there was 1227-Caelum Aurelius Vane of Aurion Industries. A controlled architecture of logic and silence, built to remain stable under every variable. Until Astra became the one variable he couldn't solve. What begins as interference becomes pattern. What begins as resistance becomes recognition. The system does not correct their connection-it learns it, adapts to it, and mirrors it back in ways neither sequence was designed to survive. Every interaction leaves residue. Every silence gains weight. And somewhere beneath the architectures of Aurion and Helix, reality begins reorganizing itself around two variables it can no longer isolate. Because some anomalies don't break systems. They rewrite them.
  • Jennifer... The Girl Who Gave Me a Broken Heart by Youngsmart246
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    Daniel was not looking for love when Jennifer entered his life. She arrived through ordinary conversations, late-night messages, shared jokes, and the quiet comfort of becoming part of someone's routine. Before he understood what was happening, Daniel had given her his time, his trust, and the hidden parts of himself he had spent years protecting. But love cannot survive on one person's devotion alone. When Jennifer begins to pull away, Daniel tries to understand, wait, and hope. Then she gives him the truth he is least prepared to hear: she no longer feels the same. Left behind with memories that now feel heavier than regrets, Daniel must learn how to grieve a relationship without turning the loss into a sentence against his own worth. Jennifer... The Girl Who Gave Me a Broken Heart is a reflective romantic drama about emotional dependence, family responsibility, creative ambition, friendship, and the difficult work of rebuilding a life after love ends. It is a story about two people who matter to each other, but are not meant to remain together.
  • Chosen Love by Love_wrote
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    After four years away, Aarav Singh Rathore returns to a life he never wanted to claim. Arrogant, wealthy, and fiercely private, he comes back only to step into Rathore Industries and attend his sister's wedding. Power and control have always defined his world-until destiny forces him to confront something he never planned for. Ishika Singh is a woman of quiet strength. A school teacher by profession and the director of a family-run NGO, she believes in living simply despite belonging to a wealthy background. Kind, humble, and selfless, she finds purpose not in privilege but in service-teaching children by day and fighting for social change beyond the classroom. When Aarav's world of business empires collides with Ishika's world of compassion and responsibility, their lives intertwine in ways neither expects. What begins as an accidental crossing slowly turns into a battle between ego and empathy, ambition and values, destiny and choice. Some loves are loud. Some are gentle. And some are chosen by fate itself.
  • A City Worth Forgetting by Maveloff
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    Adrian Vale arrives in Meridia for a seven-day vacation, hoping to leave work behind. Instead, he finds himself returning almost every night to The Amber Glass without knowing what keeps drawing him back. Before the week ends, he will realize that the answer has been standing behind the bar all along.
  • You Were My Favorite Season (Sub Indonesia) by Berryplumsr
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    Selama enam bulan di London, Grace dan Samuel nyaris tidak pernah berbicara. Samuel menyukai perempuan lain, sementara Grace hanya fokus menyelesaikan program pelatihannya sebelum kembali ke Portugal. Sampai suatu malam, sebuah pesan masuk dari Samuel. Have you seen Inês? Grace mengira itu hanya sebuah pertanyaan sederhana. Ia tidak pernah membayangkan bahwa pesan itu akan menjadi awal dari percakapan mereka. Dari obrolan singkat, mereka menjadi teman. Dari teman, mereka mulai saling mengandalkan. Dan ketika akhirnya mereka menyadari bahwa yang mereka rasakan lebih dari sekadar persahabatan, waktu yang mereka miliki hanya tersisa dua bulan. Samuel harus kembali ke Amerika. Grace harus kembali ke Portugal. Mereka memilih untuk tetap bersama, meski tahu hubungan mereka memiliki batas waktu. Namun, ketika Grace menunggu Samuel memenuhi janjinya untuk bertemu di Lisbon, Samuel tidak pernah datang. Bertahun-tahun kemudian, ketika Grace berusaha melanjutkan hidupnya, masa lalu yang sudah lama ia kubur tiba-tiba muncul kembali. Karena pada akhirnya, musim memang selalu berganti. Tetapi bagaimana jika musim favoritmu adalah seseorang yang tak pernah benar-benar berhasil kau lupakan? Bertahun-tahun kemudian, ketika Grace berusaha melanjutkan hidupnya, masa lalu yang sudah lama ia kubur tiba-tiba muncul kembali. Kini Grace hanya memiliki satu pertanyaan. Mengapa Samuel menghilang tanpa pernah memberinya penjelasan?
  • Bittersweet  by rora_nyx
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    මගේ බෙල්ල වටේ එතුන තද නිල් පාට ස්කාෆ් එකෙන් ආවේ සැර සිගරට් සුවදක් එක්ක එකතු උන cinnamon සුවදක්.. සමහර විට මේ මනුස්සයා පාවිච්චි කරන පර්ෆියුම් එකේ cinnamon note එකක් ඇති... මට තියන ප්‍රශ්නේ මුළු බෝතලේම මේකට හළලද මෙච්චර සැරට සුවද එන්නේ??. - යුවීනා නූර්වී මන්දාරා ඇන්ඩ්‍රීව් ඉතින් එන්න ... අපි ඒ මීදුමෙන් වට උන සීතල පාරේ ඉස්සරහට යමු..🤍
  • He Killed Me 399 Times (And I Keep Falling in Love With Him) by Cheekygurl_2
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    Kael is a Ferryman bound for four centuries to guide the dying safely into the afterlife, never once breaking the rules. Until the night a dying girl on a rain-soaked street looks at him and remembers him. Her name is Ivy. And this isn't the first time she's died in his arms. This time, Kael does the one thing a Ferryman can never do: he steals her soul before the crossing completes. Now she's neither alive nor dead, Unresolved, hunted by something ancient that's been waiting centuries to slip through the door her stolen soul just opened. And the truth behind why she keeps finding her way back to him, life after life, is bigger and older than either of them ever imagined. He broke the one rule that was never his to break. Now they have four days to uncover a four-thousand-year-old secret before her four hundredth death becomes her last.
  • Until the Blue Fades by Blue_Hour_Stories
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    Some people stay in your life. Others become a place your heart never leaves. Kai never expected that a single encounter would change the way he understood love. What began as an ordinary meeting slowly became a bond that time could never erase. As the years pass, he learns that love isn't always about holding on. Sometimes, it's about letting go with kindness, cherishing the memories, and quietly wishing happiness for someone-even from afar. Until the Blue Fades is a heartfelt slow-burn BL romance about friendship, healing, growing up, and discovering that the people we love can become the place we always return to in our hearts.
  • The Seasons of My Life  by WhiteLotusInk
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    "The Seasons of My Life-" Some people enter our lives like seasons. They arrive unexpectedly, fill our days with warmth, laughter and memories, and before we realise it, they begin to fade away. Hinako never expected Yoshikawa Akihiko to become such a person. He was charming, carefree, and perhaps a little too fond of changing girlfriends. She was simply trying to survive school, practice her passion of writing and create weird philosophies Yet somewhere between ordinary days, late-night conversations, shared meals, laughter, and flowers blooming beneath the changing sky, an unexpected philosophy begins to form. A philosophy that neither of them knows how to name. Spring. Summer. Autumn. Winter. Four seasons. A thousand memories. One friendship that changes everything. And when the final spring arrives, Hinako must learn that some goodbyes aren't truly endings. Sometimes, they are simply another kind of beginning. The Seasons of My Life A story of love turning into friendship
  • The Golden Crumb by archanaprakash2011
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    They ran for freedom. They stayed to survive. Mira Garg was never meant to be a bride; she was a bartering chip. Handed over by her social-climbing parents to Shreyas Mittal, the volatile heir of a massive shipping empire, Mira chooses a different path. At midnight, she packs her laptop and flees the city with Dev Tomar-the fiercely loyal neighborhood mechanic her family despises. But freedom is cut short on a pitch-black highway. When a manic Shreyas tracks them down, a desperate struggle ends in a horrific accident. Within forty-eight hours, the machinery of old money turns against them. Dev is framed for premeditated murder, and Mira is publicly disowned. Hiding in the shadows of a shuttered storefront, the two unravel a dark truth: Mira's bakery was never just a business. It was a front for a multi-million dollar laundering ring tying their families together. With a corrupt prosecution demanding blood, their only hope lies in a fiery public defender, a broken truck driver with a deadly secret, and an encrypted hard drive. But when the dust settles in the courtroom, will the trauma of the past destroy the very love that saved them? The Golden Crumb is a gripping tale of corporate greed, courtroom vengeance, and the haunting, beautiful reality of healing apart. Archana Prakash, writing as Anna P.
  • The One I Couldn't Choose [Coming Soon] by eclipselure
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    "Some loves are written in the stars, but destiny belongs to the earth." 15th-Century Gwalior. Devendra, Crown Prince of Gopachal, carries the fate of an empire on his shoulders. In a court filled with political shadows, his only sanctuary is Kavyanjali.A gifted musician whose melodies touch his soul. Their connection is unspoken, eternal, and absolute. But when the heavy burden of duty demands impossible sacrifices, choices must be made between devotion and destiny. Entering Princess Vaidarbhi bound to the crown by royal duty and Commander Vikramaditya, a warrior offering shelter in a rising storm. Amidst kingdom rivalries, unspoken vows, and sacrifices made in silence: What happens when the one you love is the one you can never choose? ✨ Historical Romance | Radha-Krishna Dynamic | Angsty Drama
  • Until The Sand Runs Still (Seascapers 1) by queriustrae
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    There are things she remembers without trying, and things she has spent years trying not to. He belongs somewhere in between. She remembers him in pieces, like a book she never got to finish. Some pages worn as time pass by, some words blurred as the ink ages, and an ending she thought would come but never did. Years later, they met again. Strangers with the same old ghosts but carrying different versions of it. Will the sand runs still this time or was it never meant to?