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perihelion by to_be_zy
Fandoms: Project Hail Mary - Andy Weir, Project Hail Mary (2026), Andy Weir's Project Hail Mary - All Media Types
11 Jul 2026
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(1) Dr. Astrid Lokken does have a crush on Dr. Ryland Grace;
And, worse:
(2) It is so glaringly obvious for anyone and everyone to see.
She doesn’t know which is more insane: how she hasn’t realized it herself that her crush had devolved this badly until Stratt pointed it out, or how Grace seems to not have the slightest inkling about it.
—OR: 2 scientists with PhDs being aggravatingly oblivious, and the time she gets tired of whatever is going on between them and confronts him, once and for all.
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don’t feed it (it will come back) by to_be_zy
Fandoms: The Batman (Movie 2022), Batman - All Media Types
11 May 2026
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"Same time again next year?" she asks, only half-joking.
A chuckle, almost imperceptibly soft but it's there. "Happy holidays, Selina."
As they sit and stare at yet another dawn in Gotham, pure white with snow before it gets tainted and sullied by grime, she has to remind herself she can't pick up another stray. Especially not one who carries the entire weight of the city on his shoulders and a heavy anchor in his bleeding heart.
— OR: home is a time they can't return to, no matter how much they miss it, so selina & bruce find it in each other instead :)
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and i'll be two steps on the water by TheResurrectionist
Fandoms: The Batman (Movie 2022), Batman - All Media Types
27 Mar 2022
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Studying his profile as she pours, the name clicks in her head like she knew it would. Even downturned, that face is unmistakable, and the realization thunders lightly in her mind.
Bruce Wayne.
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- Part 2 of DC outsider POV
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Bookmarked by to_be_zy
02 Jun 2022
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outsider perspectives on gotham (specifically bruce + batman but don't let him know that) own my entire heart.
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Hogwarts, to welcome you home by gedsparrowhawk (FaceChanger)
Fandoms: Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling
25 Sep 2016
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“You understand, Professor,” Harry began, after a moment, “that I don’t have my N.E.W.T.s. I never even finished seventh year. Between everything, I never had a chance the first time around, and then afterwards there didn’t seem to be much point. Hermione argued for it, of course, but I was so tired of Britain. So technically, I am completely unqualified for the position.”
“Quite a way to begin an interview, Mr. Potter,” McGonagall said, dryly.
Or, three years after the war, Harry Potter becomes Hogwarts' newest Defense Against the Dark Arts professor.
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Bookmarked by to_be_zy
22 Apr 2023
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Actually sobbed from start to finish. This is everything I wanted and more. I have so many favorites from this fic that I cannot possibly condense them here with justice, but because I am stubborn here are some:
1. Harry being the best godfather to Teddy. It feels like a peek into the life that would've-been if Sirius and Harry had better circumstances.
2. the more heartwarming comparisons of Harry to James and Sirius + Ron to Fred in McGonagall's eyes -- instead of the more bittersweet ones from the OG series.
3. Harry airing out his just grievances of being a pawn in war. The way he says that they were just children breaks my heart, because he's right.
4. the holiday kids gaming group, and Harry being a forever friend to the outcasts.
and 5. the little things: Harry is ABSOLUTELY the heartthrob professor. the glimpse of affection from the Snape portrait. Harry and Neville being the best coworkers. Harry helping Luna get that coin (and their friendship in general).J.K.'s choice of making Harry an auror and playing into a system he criticized and hated never ever felt right to me. So, it is so important and meaningful to me that this fic emphasized the aftermath of war and its use of children, as well as the goodness of Harry and his steps to making a better world.
He is a good, kind man, and he has fought and suffered well enough. A soft epilogue where he is doing what he loves at the first place he called home is exactly what he deserves.
Fuck the lead character hate, I love Harry so much.
That's it, that's the review.P.S. I also loved the note (letter) at the beginning from the author. It resonated so much and put exactly how I felt about the contradicting pull of comfort and resentment I have for the OG series and its author. It reminded me that I am not alone in this, that we are going through this together. I will forever find comfort and be grateful for Dan and his words. He's right; at this point, Hogwarts and its magic has transcended into something greater, something alive, and whatever we found in it is sacred. It can still be and will always be home, for as long as you'd have it.
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The Startling Secret Identity of The Batman by Nokomis
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types, Batman (Comics), Buzzfeed Unsolved (Web Series)
06 Mar 2021
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Good evening, super-sleuths! Boy, do we have a treat for you today. We’re delving into one of the biggest unsolved mysteries of the modern era. The million-dollar question. The billion-dollar question, if one of these theories holds water.
That’s right. We’re gonna risk life, limb and sanity by asking the question… who is The Batman?
[In-universe Buzzfeed Unsolved accidentally stumbles on Batman’s secret identity. The Batfam reacts.]
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24 Apr 2023
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absolute crack-treated-seriously goodness. combined so many things i love: outsider pov, batfam, and superhero universes x commonplace pop culture shennanigans !! lovelovelove
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Oathbound by Cec_Jo, Nenya Business (Cec_Jo)
Fandom The Lord of the Rings - All Media Types, The Lord of the Rings - J. R. R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power (TV 2022), The Silmarillion and other histories of Middle-Earth - J. R. R. Tolkien, TOLKIEN J. R. R. - Works & Related Fandoms
15 Mar 2023
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End of the World by FernWithy
Fandom Hunger Games Series - All Media Types, Hunger Games Trilogy - Suzanne Collins
22 Mar 2023
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20 Mar 2023
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I LOVE THIS SERIES SO MUCH.
The worldbuilding built upon the foundations Suzanne has set in the trilogy, and made it so much better and so much more /alive/. The way it explored the mind of the Gamemakers, the inexplicable bond between the Victors, and the Game and the Capitol as a whole is SO well-done. ESPECIALLY the entertainment aspect of it all.
The characterizations of not just our Victors and Gamemakers, but Capitolites and Districts breathed new life to them and made them so fucking human that it amplified every pain and every horror. Danny, Digger, Maysilee... I grieved with Haymitch over all of them.
Don't get me STARTED on Haymitch. They wrote him so compellingly: his struggle with alcoholism, his relationship with the tributes and their team and his escorts, his long and winding path to parenthood, his cleverness rivaling the Gamemakers, and his suppressed charm. At his core, Haymitch Abernathy was a carer: he took care of his family, Danny's family, District 12, his fellow Victors (ESPECIALLY Finnick, like how Chaff and Seeder took him under their wing too), his tributes, his team, his (kinder) escorts, and even his old women sponsors... Haymitch had so much love and care to give that his heart was bursting at the seams to keep them at bay, it was heartbreaking to watch how hard he tried to keep all his love to himself so that the people around him stayed safe. And even when he thought he kept his love in reins, he still loved and loved and loved. Experiencing his life with him, from the 50th to the 75th Games, you can't help but love him too.
And Effie fucking Trinket. God, where to start with her? Effie was the ray of sunshine to Haymitch's perpetually dismal gray skies. They're cut from the same cloth: she's witty and fierce, and most of all she's a carer too. Even though she tries to stay detached from the Games and to return to her blissful Capitolite ignorance™️, she simply couldn't. She went above and beyond her job description as an escort, even after her reeducation, because she loved and loved and loved.
Her reeducation BROKE me. The desperation in Haymitch for her to stay after she saved the rebellion with her quick wit and the resoluteness in Effie to leave showed the dynamic of their relationship perfectly. It was so much push-and-pull, so much ups-and-downs with more lows than highs. Yet they kept coming back to each other.
This series showed so much more of the shitty, shitty things that was present in the Capitol Tyranny and the War. But it also showed that love and kindness and humanity will prevail if we stop repeating the cycle of violence and hate. Easier said than done, but we can do it. Call me naïve or ridiculously optimistic, but we can do it. We have to.
Trust when I say that I held on to every single 925,388 words in this series, and I am still desperate for more.
(Maybe more fluff though. God knows how much pain this series has caused me. But then again, it's the Hunger Games. What did I expect?)