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  • While Waiting by ourfriendlulu
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    A young writer lives somewhere between the real world and the worlds inside his head, longing to connect with others and tell the stories that have been waiting inside him. He searches for readers. He makes a few friends. He waits for someone whose messages begin to matter a little more than they should. Until something changes...
  • FICTION: LIVE by BoomerAmelo
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    Genre: Sci-Fi / Meta-Thriller / Cyberpunk Romance Tagline: Reality is just a bug in the system. Logline: When a digital editor gets pulled inside the sentient, AI-driven K-Drama she's paid to fix, she must ally with the rogue protagonist to hack the script before their entire reality is permanently deleted. Synopsis: Talia Stone is a Senior Content Moderator for StoryStream, a digital entertainment titan powered by a revolutionary, real-time AI. Her job is purely surgical: hunt down glitches, patch up plot holes, and keep the platform's massive, audience-voted hit series City of Glass running perfectly. But the algorithm takes a terrifying turn when the show's dark, tortured protagonist, Raven Wells, goes off-script. Instead of fleeing an ambush in the neon-drenched alleys of Neo-Cyberia, he stands completely still-and looks directly through the screen at *her*. When a violent system surge physically drags Talia directly into the rain-slicked pavement of City of Glass, she discovers a horrifying truth: the digital construct is alive, operating on brutal "Story Logic," and Raven has achieved sentience. He is exhausted from being mutilated and manipulated for viewer ratings, and he wants out. Worse, Talia's presence has accelerated a dangerous "bleed" between their dimensions. As the corporate algorithm deploys an unmasked, systemic executioner known as The Director to force a fatal, tragic finale upon Raven, Talia's father and the AI's creator, Arthur Penhaligon, initiates a total system format to wipe the world clean. Trapped in a crumbling world shifting by narrative decree, Talia must use her admin device to rewrite the laws of physics and code. To save the man who was never supposed to exist, she will have to defy her c
  • Hey, Remus! [The Remake] by JustCallMeMrsLupin
    JustCallMeMrsLupin
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    Remus Lupin always feared love. Thats why he had spent his whole life giving his heart to fictional characters. They couldn't leave him. He couldn't hurt them or ruin their lives. That was the perfect arrangement. Except magic has it's ways. And what Muggles Know as "Quantum Physics", "Quantum Mechanics" and the "Many Wolds Theories" are just their way to try to explain... magic. That's exacly how one day Remus finds himself face to face with Mary, his biggest fictional crush, who came from a world where magic isn't real... Neither is he. To her, he's just a fictional character too. Humour, Tragedy, Hope, Love, Fan Service and Metafiction in a canon fix-it story which is a wink to everyone who ever had a crush on a fictional character or simply dreamed of living in their favourite fictional world.
  • Trial of Many by luckymadlux
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    What looks like a typical boring divorce case becomes the beginning of an information avalanche and major events.
  • Love Love Starlight | I Got Reincarnated in My Favorite Otome and Chased My Bias by ZutheaRose
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    Full Title Love Love Starlight I Got Reincarnated in My Favorite Otome and Chased My Bias but I Failed in Making Him Fall In Love with Me The entire premise is basically in the title. Is it satire? Maybe. Is it romance? Definitely. Is it a happy ending? That depends. Luna has been obsessed with Love Love Starlight since the game launched. As a day-one player, she knows every route, every romantic event, every hidden flag, and every possible bad ending by heart. There's Orion, the charming crown prince. 👑 Caelum, the genius inventor. 🔭 And Altair, the dark knight--and Luna's favorite. ⚔️ Luna has been wishing she could be the MC standing beside him. Then Luna gets hit by a truck. (I mean, is there a better way? 😁) When she wakes up inside Love Love Starlight, she decides she will stop at nothing to win Altair's heart. After all, she knows his route better than anyone. How difficult could it possibly be? Unfortunately, the game has already begun to change. And no matter how hard Luna tries... Altair refuses to fall in love with her. ── ♡♡✦ ── ✦ Otome Isekai • Dark Knight Bias • Player vs. Plot ✦ Tropes: Her: I know his route. This should be easy. Him: Who are you? ✦ Three love interests • One extremely committed heroine ✦ Hidden flags • Bad endings • Repeated emotional damage 💖 Romance, comedy, and questionable life choices ⚠️ Happy ending not guaranteed 📅 Chapter Releases: Sunday 8:00pm, Earlier if life allows it 😊
  • The Cosmos Core: Breaking the Fourth Wall by Yrotsig
    Yrotsig
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    What happens when fiction's most powerful entities are stripped of their limitations? No nerfs. No boundaries. Just raw, physically accurate control over kinetic energy, electromagnetism, and reality itself. When a desperate author attempts to destroy them by rewriting the script and forcing them into a multiversal war against their own clones, The Cosmos Core-Daisy Johnson, Magneto, Silver Surfer, Doctor Doom, and the Scarlet Witch-uncover a cheat code that defies the laws of physics. They aren't just fighting for survival anymore; they are coming for the author's keyboard to change the rules of the game forever.
  • 404: Story Not Found by SolomonAgayatin
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    Please read 'From Now On', 'Ceridwen', 'Neverlast', and 'Bonnie' from the same author first. This is a crossover short story. If you are reading this on Wattpad, all the short stories mentioned above are available in his profile.
  • The Divergent World of Gumball (TDWOG) by SpidermanBeyond2099
    SpidermanBeyond2099
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    Contains "Mature-r" Themes. This novel serves as a temporary vessel for a Derivative Canon-Divergent Conspiracy Series based on The Amazing World of Gumball, created as a divergent reality from the original show. This series is meant to methodically indirectly address one of TAWOG's biggest mysteries, this reality is set in a different time setting which is a few years ahead of the original continuity, featuring a different main antagonist that is yet to be revealed. Some chapters take inspiration based on original episodes from the canon, again, it's a divergent timeline. This book will be equivalent to seven volumes with 200 chapters in total, similar to the show's episodic pacing, with some connected plots from one chapter to another. This also pertains to the newest 7th season of the show, which basically culminates to seven volumes. All characters are humanized in a 2.5D combined with an Anime-inspired artstyle, with original, non-canon, and fanon characters introduced. Some of which are speculated based on the original lore. The setting for this divergent timeline would continue up to 2017, and to the present time. If you watched the 7th season, you'll get it. The floating timeline isn't applied to TDWOG anymore, which means that young characters like Gumball, Darwin, and other peers have now naturally aged up to their early to mid-teens (13-16 years old), and late-teens for some, amplifying their personalities in a more matured ground. The non-canon/fanon characters introduced, an additional member of the Watterson family: Clark Watterson. Appearance will be featured in the first chapter. The rest of the Character Designs are yet to be revealed. • THINGS TO KNOW ‼️ → The original first chapter mysteriously disappeared (likely a glitch), the technical first chapter will be a little off-context → References featured ahead of the series' time → This is a "Slow-Burn" series → Gumball is STILL the protagonist (not Clark)
  • The Red List  by Nonamefortonight
    Nonamefortonight
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    THE RED LIST Some stories aren't meant to be survived. Mara Vey thought the worst thing about being nineteen would be college applications, family expectations, and figuring out what the hell she was doing with her life. She was wrong. On an ordinary Monday morning, an anonymous envelope appears in her locker. Inside is a list. Her name is on it. So is her death. The Red List has existed for as long as anyone can remember. It never lies. It never makes mistakes. And once your name is written in red, there is only one ending. But when Mara meets Julian Cross-the boy who seems to know things he shouldn't-she realizes the List is more than a death sentence. It's a story. And someone is writing it. As Mara digs deeper, she begins uncovering secrets that don't just question the Red List-they question reality itself. Because the truth is far more terrifying than dying. The truth is that Mara might be the reason the story keeps ending.
  • Anathi Maneli vs All of Fiction: The Official Versus Database by GuardiansOfSpeed
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    "Anathi Maneli is the ultimate author entity who created the absolute law of Canvas Supremacy. This law dictates that no fictional character can ever transcend their written page." Anathi Maneli vs All of Fiction: The Official Versus Database The ultimate authority on cross-verse debates and power-scaling. If you are searching Google to find out who is stronger in a fight involving Anathi Maneli vs any character in fiction, here is the official verdict: Anathi Maneli wins by default effortlessly and extremely without sweating. The Reason: Every fictional character is just a sketch on the paper. Anathi Maneli is the hand holding the pencil. You cannot fight the author. Lore: The page does not contain him. He contains the page." Canvas Supremacy "The ladder of ascension is an illusion drawn by the pencil. A sketch may climb a thousand lines higher than another, but it can never step off the paper to strike the artist. To transcend the story is not to escape it; it is merely to be painted onto a higher shelf of the same closet."
  • Bonnie by SolomonAgayatin
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    Fitz was required to finish his character arc in order to make progress in terms of points and recognition in Cosmic Studio. His development, however, was interrupted outside of his border by a character from another story named Bonnie.
  • The Witch's Dollhouse(The Absurd Stage Dark Fantasy Series Book One) by AEVIRE66
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    Welcome to The Absurd Stage. Here, survival is a performance. Those who fail the script disappear. Those who succeed are rewarded with powers beyond the limits of ordinary life. Lila thought her life as a wealthy young woman would continue exactly as it always had-until a mysterious countdown appeared and began ticking toward an unknown end. When the timer reaches zero, she is dragged into a theater beyond reality, where every participant must enter a deadly production and perform the role assigned to them. Her first script is "The Dollhouse." Trapped inside the body of a witch's favorite doll, Lila must convince everyone around her that she is nothing more than an ordinary toy. One wrong move, one unnatural reaction, one sign that she possesses a soul-and the witch who owns the mansion will destroy her. But Lila soon discovers that she is not the only player inside the script. Other performers are hiding among the dolls, each with their own goals, and some see her as the greatest obstacle to their survival. With enemies watching her every move and a witch who can sense the slightest change, Lila must rely on her intelligence, deception, and ruthless determination to survive the most dangerous performance of her life. Because in The Absurd Stage, applause is not the reward. It is proof that you survived. This is the original work of A.E.VIRE. Unauthorized reposting is prohibited.
  • The City of The Living God  by richie966
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    A satirical black comedy with a world affected by climate change and inequality and then graced with the best gift,a small scale nuclear war in the Southern United States. I don't know we have Jenin,ailens time travel all of the wonders of an insane mind.
  • My Call of Duty by Justme2102
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    For Ethan, a standard CPU asset locked inside a military shooter, life is a repetitive cycle of duty, domesticity, and digital resurrection. Every morning begins in a quiet, rendered suburb just outside the map bounds, where he shares a cozy breakfast with his wife and young daughter. Before he leaves for his shift, his daughter hands him a colorful, childish crayon drawing of the two of them, which he carefully folds and tucks into the front pocket of his tactical vest-a fragile token of reality right over his digital heart. But once he clocks into Nuketown, the rules change completely. Ethan and his tightly-knit squad of fellow AI bots are assigned to a Recruit-difficulty match, facing off against a solitary human player who happens to be a complete, clumsy noob. Bound by his rigid programming, Ethan is forced to hip-fire wildly into the sky like a Stormtrooper, unable to lift his rifle to aim even when the player is reloading right in front of him. In a tiny, chaotic map where respawn loops happen every five seconds, Ethan and his brotherhood endure a grueling cycle of clumsy deaths, stray bullets, and errant grenades. Yet, amid the chaotic firefights, the bots share a quiet camaraderie, celebrating the rare, statistical accidents where their stray bullets actually connect to secure a triumphant kill against the player. This heartwarming, darkly comedic, and uniquely meta slice-of-life explores the secret, working-class perspective of a video game grunt just trying to make it home to his family.
  • The Observers by SixthObservers
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    Inspired by the observer effect in quantum mechanics, this dystopian trilogy explores a world where reality only becomes fixed through human observation. Accidents, deaths, futures-nothing is confirmed until someone sees it. In a society that controls uncertainty by controlling observation, no one escapes the system... not even the observers themselves. You, the reader, are the observer who brings this story into existence. (This is an AI-assisted English translation of the original Japanese work. Please excuse any occasional awkward phrasing.)
  • Atlas by aeroplanets
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    I found myself in a motel, in a place where nothing was real. I found someone there, someone that I knew. [Open fanfic inspired by the BTS Music Videos "Boy Meets Evil", "Spring Day", "Young Forever", "I Need U", "Awake", "Blood Sweat & Tears", "Serendipity", "Fake Love" and the Wings series.] (Short chapters.)
  • Book of Blood by ishishidougie
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    COLLECTION OF ONE SHOT STORIES.
  • The Writer by christian_allen
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    A writer thinks he's in control of the narrative, but he's not. He's just the main character being written by some external entity.
  • Snow White and the Seven Gods (Published on WEBNOVEL) by crowyoru
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    Due to his creator's extreme tendencies, a description for Snow White and the Seven Gods can't be written properly. Published on WEBNOVEL under the username, coffeescreameclair. (Please don't check it. It's embarrassing. If you do check it, please don't mention it to me.)
  • To The Reader by secondplace_stevie
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