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An ablation study aims to determine the contribution of a component to an AI system by removing the component, and then analyzing the resultant performance of the system.
Deleting Caine was not the plan. And his absence led to a whole set of new problems, ranging from the destabilization of the Amazing Digital Circus to a more murderous AI trying to take control of the mainframe. Retrieving him was a matter of practicality. They might not trust him and were definitely wary of him, but his presence was their only way to survive.
Knowing that the humans that you love and desperately want to make happy instead fear and hate you (for admittedly good reasons) and only brought you back because they have no choice was not the best feeling for an AI never designed to handle emotions in the first place. It would be much better to only keep the parts that they need and discard the rest.
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Everything Seems Rather Sanguine by Bookwormgal for curiousCanine
Fandoms: Gravity Falls
15 May 2026
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Sanguine - 1) optimistic or positive, especially in an apparently bad or difficult situation. 2) blood-red.
1969: Seventeen-year-old Stanley Pines is thrown out of his home and left to fend for himself. He does not make it out of Glass Shard Beach alive.
2013: Dipper and Mabel Pines are sent to spend the summer with their eccentric and reclusive scientist great-uncle, Stanford Pines, in a small town called Gravity Falls, along with the man's strangely young brother who lives with him. It does not take them long to figure out that a lot of unusual and weird things happen in that town, all carefully documented in their grunkle's journals. More concerning is the recent string of attacks that are beginning to sound more and more like they were caused by a vampire... which turn out to be the one creature that Grunkle Ford refuses to discuss.
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Bill Cipher's 47th attempt at building a portal with the help of dolphins at Atlantis was somehow less successful than the one that Modoc the Wise built. It did not connect to the Nightmare Realm at all. All it did was create a deep circular hole in the seabed and left behind some directionless energy that could theoretically be used for transportation over a limited distance. But only if it was somehow triggered after thousands of years of doing nothing.
It was somehow triggered.
The good news: Stan and Ford have the unique opportunity to investigate part of the long-lost underwater city of Atlantis. The bad news: The long-lost city of Atlantis is underwater.
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After Theraprism, reincarnation, and time, Bill and Ford's relationship has improved enough that it has finally come to pass. Proposals have been made and accepted. Invitations have been sent. Cake has been ordered.
Bill and Ford are going to be married.
Of course, there are some minor complications. Due to a lack of experience in that particular field of studies, Ford begins worrying about the societal expectations regarding the wedding night and his desire not to disappoint his soon-to-be husband. And he's not completely certain the best way to research such a topic.
Meanwhile, Dipper and Mabel have a different concern about the upcoming event. If Gravity Falls and its inherent weirdness prove to be too much for their parents, they might decide not to allow their children to ever return. And considering how the Pines family tends to attract trouble, hiding the true nature of the place might be a team effort.
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- Part 4 of Some Sunny Day
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Regrets, Faded Memories, and the Dangers of Impulsive Wishes by Bookwormgal for sacklunch
Fandoms: Gravity Falls
07 Nov 2025
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The moment that Bill Cipher got his hands on a Time Wish, that should have been the moment that he won. His failure with Weirdmageddon wiped away and his victory retroactively established.
Except that when he had the power to have anything that he desired, an older mistake took priority: Euclydia restored as if it was never destroyed and Bill Cipher back home just as he always wanted.
After everything that had happened, Ford would not allow Bill to simply run off to a happy ending. When the Axolotl requested that Ford attempt to convince Bill to return to Theraprism for his own good, it was a perfect opportunity to hunt Bill down to destroy him once and for all. It was everything that Bill deserved.
Except when Ford arrived in Euclydia (with some minor changes to help him blend in), things were not quite as simple as he'd imagined. And the Bill that he found there was very different from the former ruler of the Nightmare Realm and monster that he'd sworn to kill.
(Based on sacklunch's "Time Wish AU/Do-Over AU")
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The metal plate in Ford's head shielded his mind enough to prevent Bill Cipher from gaining access. And as an added side effect, it also provided enough shielding to protect his mind from the effects of Fiddleford's memory gun.
It did not, however, provide perfect protection against his forgotten prototype. Which was more powerful, but far less precise. Like comparing a scalpel to a chainsaw.
The metal plate provided enough protection that Ford only lost his most recent memories. And both Stanley and Fiddleford had already proven that it was possible to retrieve those memories with some work. There was no reason to be overly upset about a mere accident.
But since his last memories were of him and his brother at sea a few months after Weirdmageddon, Ford was left dealing with several changes. Dipper and Mabel were noticeably older. The Mystery Shack had expanded. And there was someone that should have been dead and gone that his family were far too casual and comfortable having around.
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Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This) by Bookwormgal for Mad_Hatter_LCarol
Fandoms: Gravity Falls
07 Jul 2025
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Bill Cipher has a lot of medical-related trauma, but he is fine. He is absolutely fine.
AKA Bill Cipher is not fine.
AKA Bill has nightmares about past childhood medical trauma and waking up blind does not help.
(Set in Mad_Hatter_LCarol's “I Could Really Use A Sunny Day” series. )
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Not all anomalies are contained within the borders of Gravity Falls. Sometimes the strange, the mysterious, and the dangerous could be found somewhere else. Stan and Ford might have a great deal of experience with weirdness, but that does not mean that they are invincible. And a chance encounter with something old and predatory left one of them fighting for his life.
And while Bill does not regret his new life in most circumstances, reincarnation meant that he was essentially human and limited in countless ways. Which meant that when disaster struck the Pines family, he could not immediately fix the problem. He was powerless as any other human. And that feeling of helplessness was terrifying. Almost as terrifying as the idea that they wouldn't be able to stop what was happening.
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- Part 3 of Some Sunny Day
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With everyone returning to Gravity Falls during Spring Break for Soos and Melody's wedding, they should have expected at least a little chaos. But they would have expected it to be something like gnomes trying to kidnap the bride or maybe someone from the future coming back to interrupt the ceremony. A portal abruptly opening up and dragging them to another dimension wasn't on the list.
But Ford recognized the dimension as one he'd visited before. He'd described it as a "better world" in his brief Journal entry. And while they sort out the return trip, which should not be that difficult with their working portal, there shouldn't be much harm in showing his family around. He might even be able to learn a few more things about the place; the last time he'd spent most of his visit in an isolated lab working on the Quantum Destabilizer with the parallel dimensional version of Fiddleford.
Though it became clear rather quickly that it might not be a "better world" in the ways that mattered. And they also realized that they should definitely hide the fact that Bill had reincarnated into a human and was currently with them.
It might also be best not to mention that Bill and Ford were together.
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- Part 2 of Some Sunny Day
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“A Summary of the Biology and Culture of the Second Dimension Prior to the Euclydian Massacre” by Dr. Polly Gunafile, PhD by Bookwormgal
Fandoms: Gravity Falls
12 Feb 2025
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While studies of various ancient or even extinct species across the multiverse have been made by numerous paleoxenologists, those studies have been focused on intact dimensions. Even when individual planets are destroyed, it is still easier to find evidence and draw conclusions. The complete collapse and destruction of Dimension 2 (Euclydia) has made it difficult to properly understand the people who inhabited the dimension prior to their near extinction one trillion years ago.
This study will attempt to fill this gap in knowledge about the Euclydians before the extinction event. Drawing on secondary sources and less-detailed studies, comparing similar dimensions that still exist such as Dimension 2-D (Exwhylia), and extrapolating based on Bill Cipher while taking into account the established differences between him and the rest of his species, it is hoped that this study will provide a comprehensive overview of what the Euclydians might have been like.
It is not, despite what certain colleagues have claimed, proof that I find shape-people attractive. Just because my species has tentacles does not mean that we’re all kinky. This is purely scientific interest.
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(Based on 1spooky2me’s Fixer Upper AU)
Bill Cipher has made enough progress in ten thousand years of non-time in the Theraprism to destroy his protective shell of denial and lies that kept the past guilt from ever touching him. Unfortunately, that is about the point where his progress stopped: where he admitted to his mistakes, but not yet willing to try atoning for them. Why bother? It wasn't as if he could ever fix anything that actually mattered. And even if he did, he would be reincarnated into a very primitive creature with no memory of his previous life and wouldn't even be himself anymore.
Except outside and foreseen circumstances yanked him out of the Theraprism's dimension and dumped him back into a different and very familiar one. While also shoving him into a newly-created alive-ish human-shaped body.
The Axolotl decides to take advantage of the new opportunity this presents to see if "community service" and being productive would produce better results. He does want Bill to heal, recover, and have a chance at a new life.
And thus Bill ends up stuck working in the Mystery Shack for Soos. Right as summer begins and the Pines are due to return.
No one is happy about this.
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- Part 1 of Some Sunny Day
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There’s No Place Like Home by Bookwormgal for LadyNorbert
Fandoms: Beetlejuice - Perfect/Brown & King, Beetlejuice - All Media Types
23 Sep 2024
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Logically, he shouldn’t be there. Not in the Maitland-Deetz basement.
Despite spending several days hanging out together as BFFFFs and actually departing on relatively good terms despite everything that happened near the end, Beetlejuice had not expected to be pulled out of the Netherworld to find Lydia grinning a little nervously at him. He hadn’t expected her to pick up right where they left off and jokingly ask if she was Scarecrow, did that make him Dorothy? And he had not expected Lydia to apparently miss him enough to risk using the Handbook after her last attempt went horribly wrong.
But he certainly didn't have any better plans after feeding his mother to a sandworm and even after she murdered him, he still liked Lydia enough to try the friendship thing again. And she was stubborn enough to try arguing with the rest of her family to let him stay.
Of course, having all of them under the same roof wouldn't be easy. They would need some ground rules and there would be some bumps along the way. And due to some rather obvious and intense few days of haunting the place together, Lydia and Beetlejuice's antics may have caught the attention of some amateur ghost hunters.
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Protective Instinct by Bookwormgal
Fandoms: Kingdom Hearts (Video Games), Subarashiki Kono Sekai | The World Ends With You (Video Games), Raya and the Last Dragon (2021)
11 Sep 2024
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Nine months after Sora disappeared, Riku does not come home. But Kairi refused to be left behind again and goes after him. And because she's smart enough not to run off alone, she dragged Lea along with her.
Meanwhile, Vanitas might have found someone to help with Sora's shattered heart. But his vague plan to drop the Keyblade wielder off in the Realm of Light and immediately leave wouldn't be that simple. For once in his life, Sora has no friends to give him strength.
But while everyone continued to search for a way to bring Sora home, they begin to encounter hints of another group a Keyblade wielders who have their own agenda. One that might not be as benevolent as they might claim. They are working on a plan that stretched back to before the final clash of the original Keyblade War and the World splitting apart into countless separate ones.
A few of the guardians of light might have a talent for disrupting complicated plans. But the future is immutable once it is seen. And the Gazing Eye is always watching.
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- Part 3 of Instinctively Family
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For the Good of Asgard by Bookwormgal for CloseToSomethingReal
Fandoms: Thor (Movies), Marvel Cinematic Universe, Norse Religion & Lore
26 Aug 2024
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Odin took Loki from her and stared down at the small infant. His son would grow up to serve a very important purpose someday. One that would greatly benefit Asgard and Jotunheim.
A lasting peace between their people. There would be no need for the harsher and more costly methods of conquering in order to bring the Jotunn to heel. No more lives lost on either side. The Frost Giants would be under the leadership of one of their own people, but who would have unquestioning loyalty to Asgard and would ensure that they caused no future harm to any of the Nine Realms.
Finding Loki in that temple was clearly meant for a much greater purpose than merely adopting a child. He was meant for this. That is what the future held. A throne for each of his sons. For the good of Asgard.
In which Odin did not eventually set aside his plans for his adopted son. His love for the child is not enough to sway him from his plans. He is a better king than a parent. The child will serve an important purpose someday and must be ready for it. And Loki finds it even more difficult to grow up under the weight of these unknown expectations.
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Like a Prayer by Bookwormgal
Fandoms: Deadpool (Movieverse), X-Men (Movieverse), Marvel Cinematic Universe
11 Aug 2024
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He was no stranger to pain.
But using his body to channel a matter-and-anti-matter reaction to overload the Time Ripper was trying its best to exceed any physical pain that he’d ever experienced. He’d known it would be bad. Even as he’d desperately tried to batter down the door with all the mass that an adamantium-coated skeleton could offer, he’d known. Paradox’s warnings about the process being guaranteed to atomize the person serving as the connection told him that it would be agonizing, but he still wasn’t fully prepared for the sheer intensity of it when he grabbed Wade’s hand and stabbed his claws into the opposite end of the machine to complete the circuit.
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First Kiss is the Final Kiss, Final Kiss is the First Kiss by Bookwormgal
Fandoms: Loki (TV 2021), Marvel Cinematic Universe
03 Aug 2024
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“There may come a day when you have need of your magic after exhausting your usual reserves already. Just as your brother may need to fight while already injured. Life is not always willing to wait for better circumstances.” Letting one hand drift up to his shoulder, Frigga said, “Energy is energy, regardless of the form it takes. In the right circumstances, your magic can be briefly rekindled by powerful emotions fueling the strength that only the truly desperate can reach. It won’t be easy and it won’t endure long, but it can be done if your need is great.”
“Powerful emotions?” asked Loki.
“Overwhelming rage and hatred. Fear for your life or for those around you.” Leaning forward, Mother pressed a small kiss to his forehead. “Love. All of them overwhelming forces capable of the impossible, my child. Never underestimate any of them. Especially the last.”
Centuries later and outside of time, his mother's words become far too relevant. Because Loki is truly desperate and those powerful emotions are certainly present in ample supply. There are some people that he refuses to lose, even if they have the worst timing on making certain feelings known.
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An encounter with a Variant results in Loki coming in contact with a dangerous magical artifact. One that is guaranteed to extinguish the life out of anyone who is unfortunate enough to be affected by it. He knows that he is doomed the moment it happens.
His friends are not likely to let that happen.
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Someone with a grudge against the royal family has returned to Enchancia. A grudge that is three hundred years old. She intends to wipe out every trace of them because of what happened long before they were born. And she is not someone to take lightly.
And unfortunately, she intends to pull Cedric into the middle of it. Whether he likes it or not. Things get complicated when it is family.
Of course, he wasn't planning to just stand aside and let her harm Sofia and the others...
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- Part 3 of Magical Developments
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The Burden of Eternity by Bookwormgal
Fandoms: Loki (TV 2021), Marvel Cinematic Universe
10 Apr 2024
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It had been the hardest thing that he’d ever done. Harder than spending centuries reliving the same handful of hours in order to learn everything possible from O.B., Victor Timely, and even Casey. Harder than mastering his ability to timeslip and manipulate time.
The hardest part was leaving. Walking away from that door while Mobius and Sylvie begged him to stop. Unable to give them a proper goodbye or embrace them before he did what was necessary. Not only would they have tried to stop him, but he honestly didn’t know if he would have the willpower to continue if he allowed himself that small moment. It had been painful enough when he looked back near the end, seeing his friends watching through those distant windows, and knowing that he could never have that again.
Wrapping himself in those countless timelines filled with infinite lives that were now truly free. Ensuring the survival of everything at the cost of an eternity of endless solitude. That was the hardest part.
That was his great and glorious purpose. The king of everything and nothing. Bound to a golden throne by metaphorical chains of an impossible responsibility that he freely shackled to himself. Alone and guarding eternity without end.
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Loki had lost almost everything important to him, one way or another. His place in the timeline, his family, his sense of identity, his purpose, Sylvie... Even his first true friend was snatched away, along with the familiar version of the TVA.
But part of what makes a Loki was that they never give up. He would claw his way back and reclaim some of what was taken from him. So he searched through countless versions of the TVA until he found his way back to the right one. The one that had the right Mobius.
And if fate wished to steal him away in a more permanent way, it would have to fight Loki for him. He refused to lose anything else.