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When Jax Briggs calls in his last favor, Sonya Blade finds herself dragged into a mission that ticks exactly zero of her boxes: find a missing OIA agent named Kenshi Takahashi, navigate the treacherous politics of Outworld, and do it all with Johnny Cage as her unwanted shadow.
The man is a walking liability. Loud, reckless, and armed with a smile that suggests he's never been told no in his entire life. He's also frustratingly connected to everyone she needs to talk to and infuriatingly capable in a fight.
But the trail is getting colder, the Black Dragon is somehow involved, and every lead she follows suggests Kenshi's disappearance is tangled up in General Shao's rebellion. With no backup, no clear exit strategy, and a partner who keeps looking at her like she's the only person in the room, Sonya's in way over her head.
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side effects may include by ktbl for Nary
Fandoms: 薬屋のひとりごと - 日向夏 | Kusuriya no Hitorigoto | The Apothecary Diaries - Hyuuga Natsu, 薬屋のひとりごと | Kusuriya no Hitorigoto | The Apothecary Diaries (Anime)
23 Aug 2026
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Perhaps she could make a medicine. Something for Master Jinshi that would benefit Gaoshun as well. It might help Jinshi with all the paperwork he was no doubt having to deal with. His propensity for overwork wouldn’t change. And perhaps she could send the medicine through the old man; he’d verify them as safe for consumption and make sure Jinshi got them. She wouldn’t need to worry.
It was an excellent plan.
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Marinette has spent years fighting the English from the back of her dragon, Tikki—a spotted red courier who would sooner have a cream puff than a gold coin. When a brush with acid puts them on leave in Paris, the last thing she expects is to collide with a handsome stranger on the Rue Saint-Honoré.
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Test pilot and astronaut Marlena Glenn has spent her entire life chasing something she can never quite catch: her family's approval. A solo mission in an experimental spacecraft to Jupiter's moon Europa is supposed to be her crowning achievement—the farthest anyone has ever gone, proof at last that she is enough.
The universe has other plans.
When an unexpected storm sends her ship tumbling through a rift in the stars, Marlena crash-lands on a world that shouldn't exist. Eternia has one sun, several moons, magic that actively defies the laws of logic—and a king who seems to be struggling more than he’s willing to admit with holding everything together.
Randor is fighting a war on two fronts: against his usurping half-brother Keldor and the gnawing certainty that his missing father is never coming home. The last thing he needs is a strange, stubborn, captivating woman who absolutely refuses to stay where he puts her. What he wants, on the other hand...
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Johnny's spent the past years focused on the man he was and the achievements he's made; finding out that it all means nothing in the scope of the fate of the world is a hell of a shock. Sonya pokes at him, urging him to think about what the future might bring - good and ill. The question is: what's in the future worth fighting for?
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CageBlade Week 2026, "future/legacy"
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Paper Rings by ktbl
Fandom Mortal Kombat (Video Games 1992-2020), Mortal Kombat (Video Games)
20 Jun 2025
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Page by Page by ktbl
Fandom 薬屋のひとりごと - 日向夏 | Kusuriya no Hitorigoto | The Apothecary Diaries - Hyuuga Natsu
19 Oct 2024
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Shades of Time by ktbl
Fandom Mortal Kombat (Video Games 2023-), Mortal Kombat (Video Games)
09 Oct 2024
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Maybe you will knit the poem that makes the world where I might live
She flings herself into animals to see different worlds, and he writes tales that make and remake reality. In a land steeped in civil war and bids for power, they are prey.
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01 Sep 2026
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We Don't Stop in Hell by Tafferling
Fandoms: Dying Light (Video Game), Dying light: The Beast
26 Aug 2026
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tenacious, adjective
te·na·cious | tə-ˈnā-shəsa: not easily pulled apart
b: tending to adhere or cling especially to another substanceSeason One: Kyle Crane steps into a world he no longer recognizes, carrying grief on one shoulder and fear on the other. He grieves the loss of his own life, snatched from him, and he fears for his soul; fears he’ll slide across that thin line between monster and man, with nothing left in this fallen world to guide him back.
Then again... he has a man to kill. And revenge? Vengeance? Maybe a monster—leashed by anger—is what it’ll take.
You know the drill! This is a campaign rewrite: More heroes, more villains, new end game.
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Biscuits and Bitemarks by AkkadianScribe
Fandoms: Marvel Cinematic Universe, What If...? (Cartoon 2021), The Avengers (Marvel Movies)
30 Aug 2026
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Peggy took the serum and went into the ice as Captain Carter. She comes out 70 years later into a world of mobile telephones and energy drinks, still reaching for a past she can't get back to. Natasha doesn't reach for anyone — it's safer that way. Until she is assigned a supersoldier as a new partner, and suddenly things get complicated.
Two women, a century apart, now have to learn each other's language and that it's alright to want something you're allowed to keep. Neither of them is any good at this.
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- Part 1 of The Tie That Binds
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11 Jul 2026
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Days after the tournament, Sonya Blade and Johnny Cage wake up on different coasts of the US and discover magic isn't done with them yet. Magic tattoos burned themselves into their skin overnight. They have to confront gods and government secrets to discover what's happening to them and between them.
But magic does what it wants. Magic answer to no one - not even the gods. And it's decided Sonya and Johnny are bound together for the sake of the world, in spite of each other, and because someone has to stand in the center of everything.
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- Part 1 of CageBlade Week 2026
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I could teach you, but I'd have to charge by sporkmetender
Fandoms: KPop Demon Hunters (2025)
06 Nov 2025
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Rumi is still not a hundred percent sure why she agreed to this objectively ridiculous “tutoring” session.
When it comes down to it, she thinks she's mainly doing this for Zoey, because Zoey is the only kind, genuine person at this whole damn school, and Rumi wants to help her. Zoey is absolutely hopeless with boys, and she needs help with her confidence before she tries to date one. Rumi sort of…didn’t mention the fact that all her own experience is with girls, but she’s pretty sure Zoey already knows. Kissing is a gender-neutral skill anyway, and Mira is going to handle the other part (thank god).
It’s definitely not because Mira made intense eye contact with her in the bathroom mirror last week while applying lipstick way too slowly. Or because of that time Mira coolly demolished the boy who was trying to score points by talking shit about Rumi at lunch.
Nope, it’s definitely not any of that. Rumi just wants to be a good friend to Zoey. A best friend. A friend who has never once been paralyzed by the desire to find and kiss every single one of Zoey’s freckles.
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03 Mar 2026