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Allura Altea-Smythe is autistic. She struggles with social interaction, preferring to read and study rather than form friendships. Plagued by bullies slating her disability and her dads’ relationship, she grew to hate school.
But sixth form proves to be a welcome change: Allura meets Katie Holt. Katie is kind and supportive, and proves to be the sort of person Allura has always wanted to know. Although she does begin to wonder if Katie’s feelings for her are not just platonic.
But as Allura finally starts to feel like she fits in, her once stable family life is crumbling around her. Her ill father takes a drastic turn for the worse, her dads argue all the time, and her brother has a secret that threatens to damage the already fragile family relationship.
Unable to cope with the changes, Allura is drawn to Katie and her ‘normal’ family. But when she discovers that Katie’s family life is not as it appears, she begins to wonder whether or not a traditional family is as important as many others think, and if who you are, rather than what you are, is really what matters.
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- Part 29 of Neurodivergent Voltron
- Part 171 of Autistic Headcanons
- Part 28 of Aspec Characters
- Part 1 of The Altea-Smythe Family AU
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When Ryoma's parents die in a car accident, it leaves his six-year-old half sister, Yukiko, alone and orphaned. He and his husband, Xander, are suddenly thrust into parenthood as he was given custody in the will. Both struggle to raise the young girl while coming to terms with the ghosts of their often broken childhoods. Will they overcome their pasts or leave another child scarred and broken as their parents had done before them?
Updates: Every two weeks/one week if I'm in the mood
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Fostering Hope by TheGriefPolice
Fandoms: Captain America - All Media Types, marvel cinimatic universe, Iron Man - All Media Types
21 May 2018
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Another foster home. That's all Tony saw this as. He didn't think kids got to go to back into fostering after group homes. But here he was, walking up the steps to another weird family with three other weird kids.
So, no, he doesn't see anything coming out of this. They'll ship him off in four to five months just like all the others. They'll get annoyed and find him too wound-up even if he tries really hard not to be, just like all the others. They'll call him stupid, too, just like all the others. He's sure if it.
And then these people do the craziest thing and... don't.
Updates every Tuesday!
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Dave and Rose are an unstoppable pair of detectives. Rose is an expert puzzle-solver, especially when the puzzles are people, and Dave's neurotype helps him be an exceptional interrogator. But when they hit a run of dead-end cases, is Rose just losing her grip when she insists there's a superhuman killer on the loose? Updates every other week (roughly). Tags subject to change.
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When Pidge's family gave her an ultimatum--either find an extracurricular activity in which she could socialize with actual other human beings by spring break, or her parents would find one for her--she had no idea that would lead to her spending her weekends running around with a broom in her hand. She definitely had no idea that it would lead to her crushing on the Quidditch team captain...
Just when Shiro's starting to think he's finally starting to get his life back together, he learns that his Quidditch team is under the threat of being disbanded due to lack of funds and members. However, he's determined to save his team, and beat Altea University's biggest rival--Galra Tech--in the biggest Quidditch tournament of the region. But how long will it take him to realize that he has slowly begun to fall in love with his newest teammate?
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Carrie Shepard has been assigned to the most important posting of her career thus far, but neither she nor her crew could have expected the extent to which all of their lives are about to change.
[each chapter is delicately crafted around a different song, which will always be linked in-fic, and listening is highly recommended; ongoing playlist also available here]
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- Part 1 of I Was Lost Without You
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“That’s me,” he says, and that’s when Kyungsoo notices the curl of his tail peeking out behind his back.
Kyungsoo is both a polite man and a master of understated reactions, line of vision quickly tripping down from the fur to Junmyeon’s denim jacket, to their hands as they shake. Hands? Paws?
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Alex learned to play the drums when they were very young, and the sound could shoot through the stuffy auditorium like a persistent heartbeat, screaming, thick wet Alive, the veins all singing - they started playing then because their teachers thought it might help them focus their energy.
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Garrus Vakarian in canon seemed personally enraged about Saren's actions on Eden Prime. A colony slaughtered. A Spectre dead. Geth, everywhere. He dropped everything to see justice done when the opportunity presented itself. That's not normal, not unless the losses and betrayals were personal.
Maybe they were. Maybe... they were *very* personal.
Begins the tale of Mass Effect just a little early, starting in 2167. T minus 16 years until Eden Prime. A story of talented people who aren't exactly whole inside, but find some of the missing pieces in the warm regard of unexpected friends.
Caffeine addictions. Spectre missions. Boring council meetings. C-Sec. The people behind the legends, and bullets. Many, many bullets...
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The city was full of ghosts; on either side of the street the pale, tall buildings rose like marble headstones.
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- Part 1 of pierce the twilight
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Alternately titled "In Which Tony Has All the Author's Health Problems Because He Has Half of Them in Canon Anyway"
A character study/exploration of the canonical health issues Tony is faced with throughout his life, plus a few more I threw in because a) I identify strongly with Tony and shoved all my problems onto him for stress-relief; and b) having had a lot of his canonical health problems myself (i.e. anxiety, PTSD, heavy metal poisoning, insomnia), it made sense for certain things to be happening behind the scenes, things a normal audience wouldn't have the context to realize just from watching the movies.
Heed the warnings—should you read this, you will know a LOT more about what chronic illness is like, and what sort of mindset it engenders, than you probably ever wanted to know.
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Eren's best friend has a secret, his sister made him promise to try out for a musical, and a visiting professor is too attractive for words. Corsets are involved. Flesh-eating giants, not so much. Students and professors alike learn what it means to love and to be honest, and the many ways in which they can do so.
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- Part 1 of Rainbow Fruit Smoothie
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Newton Geiszler is great with a deadline.
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Mechanics of Fatherhood by YodelingProspector for Nessaiya, AbstractionDesolation
Fandoms: Original Work
29 Apr 2018
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My journey as a single dad with an autistic son.
Written by Jake Williams.
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- Part 3 of Single Dads and Special Kids
- Part 1 of Single Dad Stories
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“God Tetsuya, why are you like this?”
He knows it’s a rhetorical question said with exasperation and fondness, but he still spares a second to seriously consider an answer. And after a brief moment of contemplation, he comes to a conclusion, ‘I have a deeply rooted fear of dependency because I’ve been taught that most comforts are temporary – a mindset which has been reinforced by my time in Teiko.’ But instead of sharing this insight he shrugs; a gesture which goes unseen.
Or,
The death of his grandmother sparks a series of life-altering events. Tetsuya has to hit the bottom before he allows anyone to pull him back to the surface.
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Endless Grey by wildheartmustang
Fandoms: Dragon Age - All Media Types, Dragon Age 2, Dragon Age: Inquisition
24 Apr 2018
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Bethany Hawke did not choose the life of a Grey Warden. For her, it was not a Calling, a desire or something she wanted in life. She had dreams of princes and silk dresses. Of freedom and being normal.
"Being a Grey Warden is not a cure. It is a calling." That's what Stroud told her sister, and yet Hawke gave her to the corruption thinking it would save her. Of course the Taint never saved anyone - what a foolish notion.
Now Bethany must endure what the Maker has given her in life whether she wants it or not, but the thought is always there in her head - "What if I can't?"
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I'll Fix you With my Love by jilliangilbert
Fandoms: Ghostbusters (2016), Ghostbusters Answer The Call
20 Apr 2018
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The ghostbusters are on a hiatus while the Firehouse undergoes renovations
Erin and Holtzmann spend time away from work together in a cottage, and eventually Erin teaches an apprehensive Holtz how to swim
+ Erin learns everything that's important about herself and life thru getting to know Jillian Holtzmann
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Typhoon by SuuriSakara
Fandoms: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles - All Media Types, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (TV 2012)
19 Apr 2018
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Maybe it was his demeanor, that dash of cocky confidence mixed in with humility and naiveté? More likely, I thought, a decade-plus of repressed wants and needs were finally bubbling beyond the point I could control them, and they just happened to reach a breaking point as this mystery man came into town. Bad timing on his part, I scoffed internally.
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Raphael has finally eked out a stable existence for himself and his little brother. Strangers move into the city, and all that stability gets thrown into a storm of chaos.
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A collection of tumblr prompts or short-form andreil/general foxes things I've done and wanted in one place :) Multiple AUs and settings, explained in each chapter.
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Symptoms of ADHD in Ray Palmer by SophiaCatherine
Fandoms: DC's Legends of Tomorrow (TV)
17 Apr 2018
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Five aspects of ADHD that sometimes make Ray Palmer's life more difficult, and one that often makes it better.
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- Part 8 of Neurodivergent DCTV
- Part 6 of At Home with the Legends