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Formula 1 RPF
#044
Title: lake effect
Pairing/Characters: James Hunt/Niki Lauda/John Watson, James Hunt (Formula 1 RPF), Niki Lauda, John Watson (Formula 1 RPF)
Rating: Mature | M
Warnings/Tags: No Warnings apply
Summary: John Watson isn't expecting his teammate and his teammate's partner to invite him to a small Michigan beach town after the inaugural Detroit Grand Prix. He agrees to accompany Niki and James, but as the trip continues, he finds himself wondering what exactly prompted the couple to come. The answer might just be the last thing he was expecting.

#046
Title: you'd have to stop the world just to stop the feeling
Pairing/Characters: Elio de Angelis/Nigel Mansell, Elio de Angelis, Nigel Mansell, James Hunt (Formula 1 RPF)
Rating: Teen | T
Warnings/Tags: No Warnings apply Alternate Universe - Always a Different Gender or Sex/Rule 63
Summary: Summary
It's been two years since Elio de Angelis' lover left her in the rain. Now living in New York City and working as a journalist, she is assigned to cover the trial of a book about two women falling in love - a trial which will bring her face to face with the one person she thought she'd never see again.

Or; the Well of Loneliness fix-it au




Formula 1 RPF, Motercycle RPF, Motorsports RPF
#047
Title: We both know hearts can change
Pairing/Characters: Nico Rosberg/Lewis Hamilton, Valentino Rossi/Marc Marquez
Rating: Mature | M
Warnings/Tags: No Warnings apply
Summary: An alternate universe where Valentino Rossi went into Formula 1 instead of MotoGP, and Lewis Hamilton went to MotoGP instead of Formula 1. Together, they dominate their respective fields, winning titles left and right, but they wouldn't be able to do that without their race engineer and mechanics.

Thank God there's one that they like. Only one problem.

They're in the wrong sport.



My Hero Academia | Boku No Hero Academia
#110
Title: Play With Me Kaachan
Pairing/Characters: Midoriya Izuku & Bakugou Katsuki, Bakugou Katsuki & Class1A
Rating: Teen | T
Warnings/Tags: No Warnings apply kidnapping, child abuse implied, kidnapping victim is recorded live for viewing, victim is stated being naked briefly on camera,
Summary: Bakugou Katsuki was an ordinary boy, that studied, worked out and hung out with his friends , that is right up until he found out about a website that used real children as video game characters to act out people's sick and twisted fantasies.

#111
Title: United Heroes
Pairing/Characters: Todoroki Shouto/Midoriya izuku, minor kaminari denki/Shinsou Hitoshi, Todoroki shouto & Midoriya izuku & Kaminari denki & Shinsou Hitoshi & Iida tenya, Todoroki shouto & Todoroki Touya/dabi, minor Todoroki Touya/dabi/Keigo Tamaki/hawks, Yagi Toshinori/all might & Midoriya izuku, Aizawa Shouta & Shinsou Hitoshi, Iida tenya & Iida tensei, league of villians, kai chisaki, Shie Hassaikai, bakusquad (Bakugo Katsuki, Kirishima Eijirou, Sero Hanta, Ashidou Mina), various heroes, justice league, heroes commission
Rating: Teen | T
Warnings/Tags: Graphic Violence manipulative behaviour, minor hypnosis, injuries due to power, mention of car accident, endeavour's a plus parenting, abuseive parent (endeavor and trigon)
Summary: What do you do when you wake up with 4 people you’ve never met and a group wanting nothing more, than to take you down?

Deku, the unpowered hero who doesn’t give up. The sidekick to All Might who chooses to use only his tools and strength to save people. A person who’s lost his brother due to a fight that right now seems so stupid.

Shouto, the alien prince who won’t back down. He left his home with his brother to ask for help, but the person they stood up against managed to outsmart them, letting them be tortured and experimented on. Now in a world where everything is new, he feels lost.

Chargebolt, the electric guy who stands up for what’s right. While his smile is a bright as his powers, it hides a lot of pain. Between giving up the family he had before and wanting to keep the one he has now, he feels like he can’t show the pain.

Ingenium, the cyborg who rises above. An accident left him and his brother near death and when answers came, he was the only one who responded. Able to walk while his brother is in a wheelchair, is it possible to take anger out on yourself?

MindJack, the mysterious hybrid who won’t give in. The circumstance behind his birth means that his life and the world he’s in won’t last long. It’s easy to hide in the dark when that’s what’ll surround everything soon.

Each with their own stories and each with their own demons. Together they make United Heroes, protecting the city of Musutafa, Japan. But before they got there, they had to learn how to work together. They had to try and work past issues of brothers and fathers and families of choice. They had to earn new experiences while fighting for their lives. They learn new experiences saving their city every day. Living with new people, crushes, becoming their own family.
It's those new experiences that will help them as villains both manipulative and dark try to bring them down.




#125
Title: Take My Fucking Hand…
Pairing/Characters: Ibushi Kota/Jay White
Rating: Explicit | E
Warnings/Tags: No Warnings apply Panic Attacks, Dissociation
Summary: After challenging for Ibushi’s titles and failing, Jay’s time as Bullet Club leader is over. That’s made very clear the next day, when they attack him after the show, along with their surprise new recruit—who just happens to be his ex, joined up to take over the role in an act of betrayal that in retrospect, Jay really should have seen coming. What Jay never would have anticipated, is Ibushi running in to save him. Sure, they’ve been sleeping together for months, but that’s more of a convenient way to blow off the steam of their feud, or more accurately, for Ibushi to vent the frustration that Jay so cunningly cultivated to get into his head just as much as his bed. Ibushi may have a history of saving Bullet Club leaders from their traitorous underlings, but Jay is not Kenny, even if he did fill the void Kenny’s departure left in more ways than one. Ibushi barely even seems to tolerate him; he’s no comparison to a love story people make documentaries about. But then Ibushi’s always been known for being impulsive, and with his boyfriend halfway across the world he’s bound to get lonely, so is it really that much of a shock that he steps in again when Jay finds himself suddenly homeless and contemplating leaving Japan for good?



Saiyuki
#128
Title: Winter's Treasure
Pairing/Characters: Genjyo Sanzo/Cho Hakkai
Rating: Mature | M
Warnings/Tags: No Warnings apply Pre-Slash Sanzo/Hakkai
Summary: Two years after their return from the Journey West, Hakkai is living in a small town in the mountains known as Kanwang, as the village healer, having left Chang’an a year and a half ago.

In the middle of a winter snowstorm, a patient appears - a patient who turns out to be Sanzo. Who, Hakkai finds out, has left Chang’an himself for reasons he doesn’t want to talk about, until he’s forced to by the fact that things are coming out.

Decisions are made, and things change.

Part One of a series; pre-slash.



Zero Escape
#197
Title: roadkill
Pairing/Characters: Kurashiki Akane/Diana, Kurashiki Akane/Mira
Rating: Mature | M
Warnings/Tags: Graphic Violence, Major Character Death, Non-con/Rape Infidelity, Manipulation, Grooming, Gaslighting, Canon Typical Violence, Suicide Attempt, Suicidal Thoughts, Kidnapping, Emotional Abuse, Smoking, Substance Abuse, Mental health issues, drowning, divorce
Summary:
A beaten down Chrysler, a cheating scandal, a dead body.
Diana doesn't want to believe the three things are connected. But she's lost her faith.