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at fourteen, adulthood seems so far away by ArbitraryCategories

Fandoms: How to Train Your Dragon - All Media Types
08 Jun 2026
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Pre-HTTYD1, Snotlout finds a mirror that lets him see into the future! Naturally, he shows this off to the other teens in his generation, Chief Stoick, and his right-hand-man Gobber. Unfortunately, Hiccup wasn't invited, though the more they see of the future, the more it's obvious that something changed in a big way, and Hiccup's future self is right in the middle of it.

OR: pre-HTTYD1 characters react to Race To The Edge episodes, but I gave Snotlout the remote (at least at first).

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The Gang Gets Into Scrying by ArbitraryCategories

Fandoms: How to Train Your Dragon - All Media Types
05 Jun 2026
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Snotlout waved his hands over the mirror. “Show me myself twenty years into the future!”

To the amazement of everyone gathered, the surface of the mirror rippled like it was made of water and a stone had been dropped into the center. When the ripples passed, a new image was left behind. Not the reflection of the roof of the Great Hall, like it had been before, but the side-view of a man who looked remarkably like Snotlout, but older.

“Holy yak dung, it worked!” Snotlout exclaimed, leaning further over the mirror. “It’s my future self! What is he doing?”
OR: 14-year-old Snotlout finds a magic mirror that shows the future. 34-year-old Snotlout is trying to balance two jobs he loves, raising his son, his long-distance relationship with his wife and daughter, and his closest friendships on Berk. Unfortunately, with the week-long Thawfest festival approaching fast, emotions are running high.

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Lucky Bloody Shamrock by ArbitraryCategories

Fandoms: One Piece (Anime & Manga)
21 Nov 2025
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God Valley Divergence, MANGA SPOILERS.
Shamrock's role within the Freedom Fighters was acting as something of a secretary for his dad, taking notes, keeping track of their schedule, that sort of thing. But because they went up against the government, his dad was always scared that someone would discover the link between them and target Shamrock to try and make his dad give up on his goals. Already, the local armies of the countries they led protests in sometimes shot at them.
Or: What if Dragon managed to save Shamrock at God Valley?

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sand-gator gets his face punched in part two: this time sabo's here! by ArbitraryCategories

Fandoms: One Piece (Anime & Manga)
04 Nov 2025
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When a Donquixote pirate driven by blind revenge shows up at Kyros's house, the present Strawhats, Sabo, and Law suddenly find themselves thrown into an expansive desert! And, as Sabo is quick to discover, two years into the past!
“We just need to figure out where we’ve been sent,” Zoro decided. “If that pirate just wanted to hit us in revenge, he might have sent us somewhere random. Same if he just wanted us out of the way to try and re-overthrow the country. If this was an attack with any thought behind it, he would have sent us somewhere where we would be surrounded by enemies.”
“That, or this is a desert island with no life, where we will all starve to death without any need to waste the lives of his own men,” Robin countered.
“So morbid!” Usopp shouted back, though his knees started to shake.

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won't lose against the flow of time by ArbitraryCategories

Fandoms: One Piece (Anime & Manga)
03 Nov 2025
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Modern au, chat fic. Sabo reunites with Ace and Luffy.
Ace: youre never 🚫 gonna guess ❓ who showed up 🚪 thursday tho
Izou: Deuce?
Deuce: not me are you kidding? you could not PAY me to spend time in an old SURVIVAL CAMP with SILVERS RAYLEIGH
Izou: Damn, it was just a guess.
Deuce: also I am here? we are in the SAME CAFETERIA
Izou: Okay, well, you're all the way across the room. I can see you now. Stop flipping me off, sorry I didn't see you earlier.
Ace: lol no it is 🥁 sabo 💙🎩🤯‼
Deuce: uh. hang on.
Marco: Who's Sabo? Have I met them?
Deuce: Ace buddy, I thought Sabo was? Dead?

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- Part 2 of Sunny's Merry Misadventurers and Friends
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I'm with the science team! by lemonadelesbian69

Fandoms: Project Hail Mary - Andy Weir, Project Hail Mary (2026)
12 Jun 2026
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Disaster strikes the Hail Mary on its way back to Earth. The taumoeba escape their breeding tanks, and make it to the fuel lines. Stranded in space just outside the Tau Ceti system, Dr Ryland Grace can't do anything. He can't go save Rocky, he can't go save Earth. Exhausted, out of options, and distraught, he fills the ship with nitrogen, and takes his final breath.
Next thing he knows, his eyes flutter open in his San Francisco apartment. It's a year before ArcLight touches down on Earth, but he remembers the Petrova Task Force.
He's not the only one.

OR: Time-Travel Fix-It AU but it's not just Grace who came back in time.

OR: My first time writing fanfic since my wattpad days as a preteen be niceys to me

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11 Jun 2026
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Drops of Jupiter by TheTearThatHangs

Fandoms: Project Hail Mary (2026), Project Hail Mary - Andy Weir
12 Jun 2026
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Dr Captain Ryland Grace returns to an Earth that had long designated him “history”; 58 years old, and with a body that ached in vicious revenge, Grace wanted to take Rocky and Adrian through the wonders of Planet Earth before his time came.

Rocky and Adrian would very much like it if Grace stopped referencing his mortality, and are finding Earth about as peculiar and spectacular as the man the planet gave them.

Earth is pleasantly surprised to see their intergalactic neighbours at their doorstep, and would very much like to confiscate Grace from Rocky for scientific study, because how the fuck was he still alive.

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09 Jun 2026
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Apex Predators by Eight_Brass_Monkeys

Fandoms: Project Hail Mary (2026)
08 Jun 2026
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“I'm an apex predator too, remember,” I say, and Rocky and Adrian completely stop their conversation and twist their carapaces around to me.

On Earth, Rocky says, and there’s an undertone of amusement to his voice. Not on Erid.

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08 Jun 2026
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camello patagonico by FulminateTheSun

Fandoms: Project Hail Mary (2026), Project Hail Mary - Andy Weir
08 Jun 2026
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Rocky lived his happily ever after with Grace and Adrian. Until he died. And then woke up a week before the Blip A was meant to launch. He makes a few last minute changes.
Eva Stratt is not having a good day. It was hard enough dealing with the aliens trying to eat her sun. Now she has to deal with the other aliens that know much more about her and Earth than she's comfortable with. And they also claim to have the answer to the Astrophage problem, provided she's willing to hand Ryland Grace to them.
Grace wishes he could stop getting 'promoted' with no option to say no. At least his new job has better hours, if you could ignore the whole being stuck in space on an alien vessel thing.

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07 Jun 2026
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Live, Laugh, Laser Cannons by glitterinsect

Fandoms: Project Hail Mary - Andy Weir, Project Hail Mary (2026), Guardians of the Galaxy (Movies)
06 Jun 2026
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“I am Groot.”

“♩♫♪♩♩♫♪♬♩!” Rocky sings.

“I am Groot?”

“♩♫♩♩♬.”

“I am Groot!”

“♫♩♫♪♩♬♫♩!”

Grace doesn’t understand a single word of what Rocky is saying. Or Groot, for that matter. “What is happening right now?!”
Two instances of cosmic anomalies bring two different spaceships to the same universe. When both crews become stranded on a hostile planet, searching for a way home, they find they’ll have to work together to survive.

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Grace is seriously out of his depth here, but he does enjoy studying all the new alien life. Rocket is teaching Rocky, his new engineer buddy, all kinds of fun things. Quill and Mantis are glad to be back with their family (even if they are stuck on a deadly planet that's trying to kill them…). Drax hates the colour pink, Groot hates the acid rain, and Nebula just wants to keep all these idiots alive.

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06 Jun 2026