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Fic Masterlist

Spider-Man (Tom Holland)

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The Ballad of Mona Lisa (Complete): It has been five years since Peter Parker's "death." In those five years, the world has kept turning, causing Peter's world to flip upside down seemingly overnight. Mr. Stark and Miss. Potts got married and have a five-year-old daughter named Morgan--who has grown up on exaggerated stories about the greatness of Spider-Man, stories that Peter can't live up to. May and Happy also married each other during the Blip--the name being used to call the five years half the population missed. Needless to say, Peter is struggling to find where he belongs in this new world. But, he has always persevered through the difficulties life gave him, and he can make it out of this one as well, right? And if he needs the help of an up-and-coming hero named Mysterio…well, no one can fault him for that one, right?

Peter Parker's Europe Trip (Complete): After his junior year of high school--a year filled with chaos because of the Blip--Peter’s science class decide to go to Europe. They spend the weekend touring various places in Europe, including Venice and Paris--where Peter is planning on asking his crush, MJ out. His plan half-works, as he manages to get MJ to agree to go on a date to the Louvre with him, yet it fails when they find themselves involved with a heist that may or may not involve stealing the Mona Lisa… (Part One of "The Many Adventures of Peter Parker, Michelle Jones, and Ned Leeds")

The Mystery of Peter Parker (Complete): Michelle Jones has a normal life where nothing weird has ever happened, besides the lack of knowledge of how she had cut her head or the lack of knowledge of how she had gotten the broken necklace around her neck. But when a stranger walks into the café where she works, a stranger that she can't help but feel like she knows, Michelle gets the feeling like she's missing a major part of her life. And Michelle is nothing but determined to get to the bottom of what's happening with Peter Parker, the boy who she swears is familiar. (Part One of "Remembering Peter Parker")

May Parker's Secret (Complete): It has been a week and a half since May Parker's death and Happy Hogan is still struggling with life after her passing. When he is stopped by two high schoolers at a FEAST shelter, he is struck with the possibility that the woman he had loved had hid a secret from him. And Happy is intent on figuring out the truth behind May's secret and to help the nephew named Peter Parker that he had never heard of before. (Part Two of "Remembering Peter Parker")

Spider-Man's Arrest (Complete): Ever since the city's blizzard a week ago, Spider-Man has not been seen. Rumors are circulating around, but nothing is taken seriously until Midtown School of Science and Technology's Academic Decathlon team, spurred on by Peter Parker, start saying that the police have arrested Queens' beloved hero. Taking matters into their own hands, the people of New York City feel an obligation to help their hero. Peaceful protests quickly turn into a riot as the NYPD continues to deny arresting Spider-Man. (Part Two of "The Many Adventures of Peter Parker, Michelle Jones, and Ned Leeds")

One-Shots

A Birthday Surprise: A day after Peter's birthday, he goes to the Avengers Compound, planning on spending the weekend with his mentor. Little does he know what the Avengers team is planning...

All Mr. Rhodey's Fault: "Let him fight with us and reprimand him later,” Mr. Rhodey said. Mr. Stark sighed. “Fine. But if he gets hurt, it’s your fault, honeybear.” --- Or, Peter skips school to help the Avengers fight aliens, much to the frustration of Mr. Stark. From there, Peter may or may not have gotten injured...

Birthday Shadows: On Peter's eighteenth birthday, he reflects on the people not present for it, grieving for the people not there to celebrate it with him. --- A birthday story written for Peter Parker. (Part Three of "Remembering Peter Parker")

You Remember?: Tony and Pepper need a babysitter for Morgan. Enter Peter Parker, a random teenager Tony trusts to watch Morgan for him. What could go wrong?

Ranger's Apprentice

Left Behind (Complete): Horace heard a cry of pain and he looked up, his heart skipping a beat as he watched Will crumple to the ground, clearly unconscious. “Will!” Horace shouted, stopping to watch as Evanlyn scrambled to pick up Will’s discarded bow off of the ground, watching as Skandians hurried out to where she and Will were. Behind him, he could hear Tug’s distressed whinnies, seemingly upset by the sight of his master being knocked unconscious. “Evanlyn!” he yelled, his voice breaking as the emotions of the current moment caught up to him, as he watched a Skandian grab her, holding her tight, heedless of her struggles. He could hear her cries of frustration from where he stood and he blinked back the tears pricking at the corners of his eyes. --- Or, the story detailing Horace's reaction to that scene in Burning Bridge.

Owl_Lover013's Ranger Gathering 2024 (Complete): Welcome to my addition to the Ranger Gathering 2024! I hope to do as many--if not all--of the prompts I can.

Ranger Gathering 2025 (Complete): My contribution to the Ranger Gathering 2025!

Original Work

The Archer's Son (WIP): Tension has been brewing in the continent of Esmaya for seventeen years now. With the Aspayan Empire taking control of three of the four kingdoms, it seems inevitable that a rebellion is about to erupt against the Aspayan Empire… Thomas Hayes has grown up without any knowledge about his family. When he is offered information about his family, he leaps at the chance, heedless of the warnings whispering in the back of his head. Hunter Wright is intent on his quest to avenge his parents’ death. When he finally gets the chance to, he does so, ignoring the feelings that he might be doing something wrong. Braya Moore is looking for her missing brother. When she meets up with two people heading the same direction as she is, she travels with them, holding a secret tight to her chest, a secret that could become the starting flame of the rebellion. Three people with different backgrounds, countries, and desires find themselves thrust together, their fates intertwining together. They carry with them the chance to take down the Aspayan Empire and they find themselves carrying the fate of their kingdoms and the future of the continent of Esmaya. **NO update schedule**

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An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

Day Three of the Ranger Gathering is here!

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Day Two: Ruins of the Ranger Gathering is upon us!

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

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My contribution for the Ranger's Gathering this month! Hopefully I'll be able to post everyday during the Gathering.

Here is Day One: Trust!

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

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Welcome to the Ranger Gathering, coming June 2026!

How it works:

The Ranger Gathering will run for the entire the month of June, 2026. Each day has a prompt that participants can use to inspire works about Ranger's Apprentice, The Early Years, The Royal Ranger, or Brotherband.

Check out last year’s stuff here!

If you want to participate, tag your post with #ranger gathering 2026 so we can all find it!

A few notes on the Gathering:

You do NOT have to do all the prompts, or even most of the prompts to participate in the Gathering! The most important thing is to have fun and avoid burnout. Pick whichever prompts inspire your creativity, and ignore the rest.

The Gathering is meant to show off all forms of creativity! This means art, music, writing, memes, textpost, moodboards, playlists, or whatever else you can come up with. Don't feel like you can't participate if you're not an artist or author.

This blog is going to showcase a few posts from the tag every day of the Gathering, so make sure you support the creators with reblogs and comments.

Good luck, and see you all at the Gathering!

Text Prompts:

1. Trust

2. Ruins

3. Quiver

4. Parchment

5. Fierce

6. Ancient

7. Dagger

8. Resolve

9. Embers

10. Steed

11. Midnight

12. Rally

13. Vow

14. Spare

15. Mountain

16. Feral

17. Blizzard

18. Pride

19. Longbow

20. Allegiance

21. Tournament

22. Moat

23. Prophecy

24. Falcon

25. Forged

26. Flee

27. Heritage

28. Enchanted

29. Unbroken

30. Return

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I’m rereading the RA series for the first time in a long time (and I’m having a ball over here) and I’m on book three right now.

I’ve always found the development of Erak to be interesting in this book and overall in the series. He goes from the one capturing Will and Evanlyn and giving them as slaves to becoming a friend of Will’s to the point that Will and co. travel to Arrida to help rescue him in Erak’s Ransom.

After a decade of reading the series I’ve gotten some quotes and scenes stuck in my head and think about them repeatedly over the years. Some scenes include the ones during the third book where Erak and Will are thinking of the other and having thoughts of mutual respect and understanding. Both characters understand why the other has done what they have done and respect them for doing that. And, they respect each other as warriors. Cool scene, but now on this reread, I’ve been struck with a thought:

Did Erak know what was to happen?

Chapter three, Erak is looking at Will and Evanlyn interacting and thinking about how much they’ll need each other when they arrive at Hallasholm. He thinks “they’d be sold as slaves and their life would be hard physical labor, with no respite and no release. One grindingly hard day after another, month in, month out, year after year. A person living that life would need a friend.”

What got me thinking was the “year after year” part.

I don’t know if this is said later in the book (I’m only on chapter three in my reread right now), from other online discourse about the books, or a fanfic, but I remember hearing somewhere that most of the yard slaves don’t survive long at all (unless of course they’re a part of the Committee) and after a brief peruse through the book, I did find some quotes that support this idea being canon (when describing the Yard, Will thinks that being a slave in the yard is “downright dangerous” and Erak, when talking with Evanlyn about helping her and Will escape, says “no one survives the yard”—which does answer my earlier question of yes, Erak did, in fact, know what was to come).

Surely, and as the “no one survives the yard” quote suggests, Erak knew Will wouldn’t make it to being a slave “year after year.” He has expressed respect for Will being a warrior and surely he would’ve thought “huh, he’s a warrior, he’s athletic and muscular, I wonder if they’ll put him in the yard then. After all, the yard typically takes the athletic and muscular people as slaves.”

And I suppose that’s just his character. I think connecting Will’s physique and where he will be as a slave isn’t something he could do because it meant thinking through it and connecting it together, something that I don’t think he wanted to do.

I think emotionally, he couldn’t connect those things together. He’s devastated when he sees Will’s condition and what warmweed has reduced him to. I think on some level he knew that Will’ll be a yard slave and that “no body survives the yard.” But he couldn’t know know it, not consciously. And not because the plot dictated it but because of his character at this time.

At the end of chapter three, right after the scene I discussed earlier and quoted several sentences from, is the scene I mentioned earlier about Erak respecting Will and understanding his actions. And he thinks about how hard the future will be for Will, but not too far into those thoughts, for Erak tells himself “getting damn maudlin!” and stops thinking about that anymore.

At least until he runs into Will later on in the book and sees what has happened to him. When he has to confront it head-on. When what he has known sub-consciously (“no one survived the yard”) becomes something he knows consciously.

And it is at that moment that Erak makes a choice to help Evanlyn and Will, to give Will a chance to live, and ends up saving them.

A very, very long post, but it’s just a reminder to me of why I love Erak’s development so much. Such a cool character with such interesting development. So yeah, love Erak, I think he’s neat and thank you for listening to my long ramble.

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COMPLETION OF THE RANGER GATHERING 2025

We here at the Ranger Gathering want to give a huge shoutout and thank you for everyone who participated in this year's gathering. There were so many incredible stories, pieces of art, and creative posts this year throughout the entirety of August.

The Ranger Gathering will be back next summer, but for those of you who would like to challenge yourself year-round, the Gathering blog will be bringing back Gathering Assessments! These are mini-challenges that run every few months with a specific theme. If any of you are interested in collaborating or creating an Assessment for the community, please drop a non-anonymous ask in the inbox.

If you'd like to see all of this year's posts, check out #ranger gathering 2025. If you'd like to see specific content from all the gatherings, head to the Gathering Archive and check out the pinned tags there.

See you all next year, and Happy Gathering!

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Thank you to those who hosted the Ranger Gathering this month! I really enjoyed participating and seeing everyone’s works. I’m already looking forward to next year’s gathering!!

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An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

Day 31: Roots of the Ranger Gathering is here!

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An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

My story for Day 16 of the Ranger Gathering with the prompt 'Anguish'! Apologies for the lateness of it, but it's here!

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An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

Don't mind me playing catch-up on the days I missed for the Ranger Gathering.... This is written for Day 14 of the Ranger Gathering for the prompt 'Bloom'!

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An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

Day 15 of the Ranger Gathering is here with the prompt 'Trade'!

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An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

Day Nine of the Ranger Gathering is here with the prompt 'Forge'! Check out my fic for today!

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An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

Day 8 of the Ranger Gathering is here with the prompt 'River'!

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An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

Day Seven of the Ranger Gathering is now here! Go check out my fic for today's prompt, Throne!

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An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

Day 6 of the Ranger Gathering: Masked!

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An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

Day Five of the Ranger Gathering with the prompt 'Cavern'! Today's story is a bit shorter than the other stuff I've posted and it's much later than usual, but hey I still have two more hours of Aug. 5 where I live so it counts.

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An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

Day Four of the Ranger Gathering 2025 is upon us!