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She's here to kick ass and chew bubble gum...and she's never even heard of bubble gum. by Worffan101
Fandoms: A Song of Ice and Fire & Related Fandoms, Protector of the Small - Tamora Pierce
08 Jan 2016
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Keladry of Mindelan and two of her friends show up in Westeros and kick major ass, as there is a lot of deserving ass to be kicked in Westeros. Oh, and Kel and the Hound become bash buddies, and Joffrey is a little shit.
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Bookmarked by Burraku_Pansa
19 Jan 2026
Bookmarker's Notes
I've always meant to get around to reading the Protector of the Small series and other Tamora Pierce works, but going into this fic, all I knew of that half of the crossover is the general themes and vibes. That's all I really needed, though. I wish this was just the first entry of something longer, but what's here is immensely satisfying.
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Death came easily to Yi. The lessons it taught were harder.
Bookmarked by Burraku_Pansa
26 Jun 2025
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One of the best examples I think I've read of building on some property's canon by threading a few extra scenes and some introspection throughout it. It helps here that the scenes in question fit very well into spots the game left as open space, perhaps especially the one set immediately before the game's opening scene – which I've consistently thought was a time that's a little too vague in canon given all of the other things that were satisfyingly backfilled as you went along.
Anyway, I'm not necessarily going to say that this story added a lot of depth, because Nine Sols is honestly pretty appreciably deep all on its own, but I'd absolutely say that everything added felt fitting and interesting.
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Original One-Shot based on the Otome Villainess Reincarnation CYOA
Bookmarked by Burraku_Pansa
12 Jun 2025
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Man, this author is really great at establishing one-off original settings and the casts to populate them. That's four I've read, and three I've had to recommend (with the fourth – White Stone, Red Blood, Blue Qi – also being fun, but ultimately being so short that I really just came out of it wishing it had more meat (and/or lesbian strangers-to-rivals-to-lovers romance (…and/or lesbian friends-to-lovers romance, given that there really were a lot of hooks for different possible romances for such a short thing!)))
Anyway, as for this piece, it was a standard isekai'd-as-an-otome-villainess premise that shifted narrative tracks immediately into a purer political intrigue and light action/fantasy piece, with solid characters in a surprisingly well-developed setting for something that's over so quickly. Edit: Oop, I apparently missed that this is a setting from a CYOA. Definitely stand by the author having established it beautifully, though.
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Wang Chen's wife is missing. That's a problem.
He hasn't seen her since their wedding, five years ago. That's a crisis.
His mother expects her daughter-in-law for tea... tomorrow. That's a disaster.
Bookmarked by Burraku_Pansa
12 Jun 2025
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Right after recommending that last fic, I see the author has since posted this new one in a similar vein – an original piece built up around a foundation of an interesting combination of tropes and narrative styles. This time, it's xianxia + isekai (more as background) + pretend marriage… and the result is as funny as it is endearing. The characterization was a particular treat, as I think I enjoyed pretty much everyone presented here, even down to unnamed side characters who got a couple lines of dialogue in a fraction of a single scene.
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Seigneur Lionel de Berry stands accused of deflowering the prince's fiancee. Well, as his law professor told him, "when in doubt, audacity!"
Bookmarked by Burraku_Pansa
12 Jun 2025
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A very charming little twist on the marriage-broken-off-with-the-prince-at-the-academy-party plot hook cliché, from the perspective of a relative everyman and with a side of bombastic legal drama. Fun stuff!