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So you make a life entirely based around the idea of Not Dealing With The Plot and it works until it DOESN’T and the men you loved creep back into your life and the main character is slightly obsessed and also in love with you and you’re really not sure how to deal with any of that to be honest but shit happens and you kinda of almost die and now the men are realizing that they also love you (except for the one who saw you die and is already at that level) and the main character is Displeased With Them and seems to be regaining her memories? Hm. Problem for later you.

Chapters: 4/? Fandom: 恋与深空 | Love and Deepspace (Video Game) Rating: Mature Warnings: Graphic Depictions Of Violence Relationships: Qi Yu | Rafayel/Original Female Character(s), Shen Xinghui | Xavier/Original Female Character(s), Li Shen | Zayne/Original Female Character(s), Qin Che | Sylus/Original Female Character(s), Xia Yizhou | Caleb/Original Female Character(s), Main character/Original Female Character, Li Shen/Main Character/Qi Yu/Qin Che/Shen Xinghui/Xia Yizhou Characters: Original Female Character(s), Qi Yu | Rafayel, Li Shen | Zayne, Shen Xinghui | Xavier, Xia Yizhou | Caleb, Qin Che | Sylus, Tara (Love and Deepspace), Simone (Love and Deepspace), Main Character (Love and Deepspace) Additional Tags: Polyamory, Linkon’s Most Chaotic Polycule, LADS Main Character is Not the Protagonist, Lemurian Original Character, Original Character-centric, Lemuria - Freeform, Human Experimentation, Canon-Typical Violence, Memory Loss, Recovered Memories, Possessive Behavior, Obsessive Behavior, I’ll add more tags as needed, Soul Bond, Isekai and Transmigration, Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence Summary:

Memories are fickle things, and Valentina’s life just loves to remind her of that fact. Never mind the fact that she’s been thrown into a video game or the fact that she’s a Lemurian now, she just wants to remember why every part of her demands she avoid the love interests of this game rather than fangirl over them like Valentina should want to. Something about them Valentina remembers, something about them that makes her heart ache and yet there is a bigger part of her that demands avoidance, that demand she stop letting them take advantage of her.

In every life she found herself in tangled webs of love and hate.

This time she hopes it’s different.

''Let- fucking- go of me!" The Hero screamed. Their chest burned, limbs aching from exhaustion as they fought against the guards that held them down. Superhero's guards- their boss, and someone Hero had went so far as to consider a friend.

They felt like an idiot for trusting anyone in this damned city.

"Sorry Hero, no can do," Superhero said, voice flat. "You should be proud, you know? Giving yourself up to Villain so gallantly, in return for them discontinuing their operations in the city- I mean, you've singlehandedly saved all of our people, a feat not even I could accomplish."

"Does Sidekick know about this?! What about Other Hero?!"

"They don't need to know. They can't help you," they paused. "Villain never mentioned anything about hurting you, Hero. If that's what you're worried about. They just want you. I guess you are somewhat of a charmer." They smirked, a tilted sneer that made Hero's blood boil. "There's nothing for you here in this city, you said so yourself."

"To hell with that!" They bellowed, pulse drumming in their ears. "I'm your friend! I'm a person- you can't trade people like they're commodities!"

"You are my friend, Hero. That's why I'm giving you a peaceful life in domestic bliss."

"Superhero...please," They searched Superhero's eyes, vision brimming with tears, for a hint of consideration, mercy, anything for the human being in front of them, but all they were met with, was ice-cold indifference.

Non-human vessels can’t approach within a dozen light years of Sol without their crews being driven mad by the corrosive psychic resonance emanating from Earth’s deepest oceans, and we’re wandering around living our lives and not noticing. Aliens can never travel on human ships because our FTL drives kind of maybe tunnel through Hell, a process that horribly warps non-terrestrial life, and we just think it looks pretty when the n-dimensional hellfire coruscates across the viewports.

This sort of thing kept humanity uncontacted for a long time, until the aliens’ observers eventually figured out that we weren’t a bunch of weirdly normal-looking elder thralls, we just straight up weren’t aware there was a problem. It’s only then that they arranged first contact – remotely, of course – to basically ask “dude, what the fuck?”

I don’t remember it really well but one of the aliens got caught outside the mental/psychic shielding as the ship jumped and they were hit with the reality of infinite space and realized how meaningless and pointless all life was and that there was no reason to keep on living in the face of that.  And they asked the human pilot how they managed and I think the response was something along the lines that humans compartmentalize their truths/reality.  We can recognize something and yet still work right around it and keep on Doing Stuff despite recognizing what we’ve seen.  Basically its so hard-wired into our make-up that we mentally go:

Like,

    look,

               I recognize what reality is trying to tell me

                                              - but I got stuff I gotta do.

-red pandas in Indiana, Kentucky, and Ohio. they can live in those you-pick orchards and delight tourists, and in the winter the big ones can be harvested by the farmers for food and fur. america also has native bamboo, as well as plenty of escaped invasives.

-koalas in southern california. we already have a lot of feral eucalpytus in the state and it makes our wildfires way worse. let's put koalas in there too. coyotes can hunt them like dingos do.

-cheetahs in colorodo, wyoming, nebraska, and oklahoma. we had cheetahs here once, that's why pronghorns are so fast. let's give them something to really haul ass about.

-spotted hyenas in texas and new mexico. did you know there's actually a shit ton of oryx already roaming around new mexico? they were brought in for a game preserve. oryx can fight off lions, but spotted hyenas are actually superior pack hunters with some of the highest kill rates of large cooperative predators in the world. we might have a problem with ranchers, but like: fuck ranchers. they already decimated the mexican wolf populations. they deserve hyenas.

-pangolins. i would drop these guys in arizona honestly. everyone in arizona hates and fears fire ants. i think entire neighborhoods would throw ecstatic parades for pangolins (which smell much better than giant anteaters) at least until a pangolin dug straight through their pasteboard condo.

-new zealand's little penguin in louisiana. they burrow into mud and sand banks during the day and tolerate quite hot temperatures! i think they'd do fine, and louisiana is sliding into the gulf anyway. let's have penguins there. i'd also try them out in new england in case lousiana is just too swampy for them. i feel like new yorkers would go insane with pride over having penguins around. they would act like they invented the whole concept of penguins. we should let them.

-water buffalo. georgia and the carolinas. i just think it would give everyone there some interesting new problems.

Europe: Wombat

We've had enough of your fucking rabbits and foxes. Here, have a huge badger type thing that can destroy cars with its arse. It'll outcompete your badgers and where will you be then. Haha.

Asia: Wombat

We've had enough of Indian camels ruining our deserts. Here's something to ruin your terrain for a change.

North America: Wombat

We've had enough of United States tourists with no manners. Here's some tourists with even less manners.

South America: Wombat

WE'VE HAD ENOUGH OF YOUR FUCKING CANE TOADS. WOMBATS FOR YOU.

Africa: Wombat

The feral ostriches aren't actually all that much of a problem right now, but in revenge for the problem they will probably become in the future, have some fucking wombats.

Antarctica: Wombat

I'll take it right back home and warm it up I promise I. I just really want to see a wombat walk and dig in the snow.

Australia: Wombat

And I was like “I’m flattered you think so! No, he’s not intended to be autistic, but I’m glad you can see yourself in him.”

Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia (Anime & Manga) Rating: General Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Aizawa Shouta | Eraserhead/Midoriya Izuku Characters: Aizawa Shouta | Eraserhead, Midoriya Izuku Additional Tags: Attempt at Humor, Humor, Comedy, First Meetings, Meet-Cute, Adult Midoriya Izuku, Midoriya Izuku is a Ray of Sunshine, Midoriya Izuku Does Not Go to U.A. High School, Bugs & Insects, Petty Aizawa Shouta | Eraserhead, Petty Midoriya Izuku, You Won’t Understand This Yet But, THE ARM IS STILL AROUND HIS WAIST Summary:

“You looked like you were in a hurry,” Eraserhead says instead of striking Izuku down like he probably should have already.

Izuku opens his mouth to answer and, because the universe and his own brain all hate him and actively want him dead, the truth just … comes pouring out.