Name: The District
Rating: 3.98 (687 reviews)
Author: Skyler Grant

Sunspot

★ 4.58

yootie

Change hurts. Hurt changes.

Seven years ago, the Frozen Flame brought magic to Earth—but not to Dalton, who received only scars. Now a lonely shut-in, “Ezzen” has resigned himself to an online life of secondhand magic, dabbling in magitech engineering and fanboying over the Spire and its superhuman Vaetna, the paragons of this new era.

So when fate splinters and magic finds him, it’s the best day of his life—and the worst, as he suddenly becomes a resource in the cold war over control of magical power. From paramilitary organizations to Flame-worshipping cults to incandescent magical girls, the forces of the world sense the ripples and close in.

Worse, his escape exposes the awful secret of the Flame, the thing quietly omitted from all the theory: that instead of the apotheosis he’s dreamt of, the reality of being a flamebearer is cruel and twisted, the bloody path of monsters. And some of those monsters are frighteningly similar to the Vaetna he idolizes.

What to expect:
- Genres: Sysapoc without a system, magic engineering, realistic superheroes & magical girls, yuri, hurt/comfort
- Inspired by Katalepsis and bits of The Wandering Inn. Frequently compared to Bioshifter though I haven't read it.
- Urban fantasy setting on an Earth that recently gained magic
- Slow-burn character/relationship driven (in between apocalyptic magical disasters)
- Glyph-based magic system & body horror blood magic
- Girlcreature secondary cast, including hyenagirls, androidgirls, dragongirls, mechgirls, buggirls? and more! (not harem)
- Weak-to-strong and timid-to-brave protagonist

General content warnings:
- Visceral transgender themes (dysphoria, transmisogyny)
- Gore (violent & medical)
- Kidnapping
- Some NSFW
Additional CWs will be listed at the top of chapters.

Sunspot also has its own website with a glossary, official art, FAQ, and all the public+advance chapters.

Never stubbing.

An Antihero’s Journey: Book One, The Crow [A Cosmic Superhero Progression Fantasy]

★ 4.68

Malaklein

Burton was a good man, if gullible, until his girlfriend turned out to be a superhero who cheated on him with another superhero, who happened to be his best friend. His whole family then proceeds to side with her and that was the final straw.

And in a fit of suicidal rage, something happened to him. He became a wisher.

One thing had changed, and that was his mind. He was smarter now, better than who he was, but still the same. He was still a good person. He was still the kid his grandpa had raised, he was just much more cynical about the world now. So now he lives as a vigilante, not an official hero but some rogue man of the night beating up bad guys and giving teenagers a black eye here and there for some reason.

He has a talking dog and a cat, but for the most part, he’s alone and hurting.

But that’s about to change, because soon, he’s going to be hurting some more.

He’s a cynic. He’s a hero. He’s a sadistic hermit with no love to give.

Watch this twenty five year old man tackle villains, heroes, and worst of all other people!

What to expect:

-Smart Main Character

-Power Progression.

-Complex worldbuilding.

-Animal companion.

-Family drama.

-Moral Dilemma.

-Aliens/Magic and all the other standard stuff that comes with comic book worlds.

The cosmic horror will not come in for awhile as it is a bit of a slow burn.

Author's Note:

It is something that's been bouncing around my head for a bit, a story where I try to make a power system for superheroes and fix all the things I hated about superhero stories. Like how do you hide your secret identity when you bleed all over the pavement. How do you get paid and why aren't you getting paid? If a supervillain kills multiple people, wouldn't the government want to put them down? The Joker is literally a domestic terrorist, how is he still alive?

It is my attempt at an antidote to superheroes without removing all the things that makes them great. Secret identities, moral paragons, and all other tropes can be found here. But I try to make it as real as I can, even if we have caped crusaders who are somewhat confused about where the underwear goes.

Still Defiant! SI-OC [Marvel/DC]

★ 4.9

EmmaCruzader

What does it mean to be a hero? Daniel Evans Tries to answer this question as he embarks on a self-imposed mission in a familiar, yet unfamiliar world. Being a hero has never been easy, but even if the world tries to crumble around him, he will stand firm, because no matter how difficult or dangerous it is, he will remain Defiant.
SI-OC, MC-hero, MC-viltrumite, MCU-AU, DC Comics AU. Marvel AU.

All-New Iron Man

★ 5.0

Shadow_Archon

Tony Stark, a.k.a. Iron Man, falls asleep and awakens in an infinite white void. At its center hovers Extrival—a Dyson-sphere-like structure of impossible scale. Without warning, it etches itself into Tony’s soul and bestows upon him the power of Primordial Aether.

Portal to Nova Roma: The Rhine

★ 4.56

J.R. Mathews

As the dust settles on the battlefield of Carthage, Alexander finds himself struggling to cope with the aftermath of war. Plagued by demonic corruption and mental exhaustion, he searches for any means to restore his strength and secure his rapidly expanding empire.

In his desperation, Alexander turns to a mysterious prisoner who offers a unique form of power that could help him achieve his goals. But with the prisoner's motivations unclear, Alexander must weigh the risks of trusting this enigmatic figure against his own desperate need for a solution. In addition to his personal struggles, Alexander faces the daunting task of securing trade routes for Venice before the pirate threat returns.

Seeking new sources of resources and allies, he leads his legion north to the scattered outposts on the dangerous frontier.

But the region is fraught with danger, as many of the outposts have recently been overrun by powerful monsters - or possibly by treachery. To survive, Alexander and his legion must rely on new allies, new technology, and strange, unknown powers that Alexander alone may be able to master.

As Alexander ventures deeper into the unknown, he must also grapple with his own inner demons and find a way to heal his mind and body. Can he overcome the challenges ahead and lay claim to the resources of the frontier?

The Laboratory

★ 3.86

Skyler Grant

Emma is an artificial intelligence with a love of science, insults, and devilish traps.
When her systems are booted up she finds herself in control of a long-abandoned facility in a post-apocalyptic wasteland. The world is filled with dangerous threats granted great powers by the same cataclysm that befell the world. Emma must balance safety with the desire for test subjects as she brings herself back fully online and stakes out a place in this new world.

Farmer

★ 4.28

Tom Larcombe

Eddie Hunter is about at the end of his rope, so when he stumbles across an ad looking for people to farm in Long Term Immersion in the game Light Online, he can't believe his luck. Once hired he enters the game as soon as he can. Unbeknownst to him, though, the person that hired him is also doing illicit research on the pods that he and the other farmers are using.

The research is rapidly discovered by the AIs that monitor the game and shut down, forcefully, by the company that runs Light Online. But the code that runs those pods has been altered, and until it's fixed Eddie and the others can't log out. Although the devs assure him that it won't take long to fix, Eddie's not so sure of that himself.

Eddie entered the game to make money in real life, and as he tries to do that he finds himself getting entangled deeper and deeper in the game and with the people he meets there. But when he discovers a side of the game that the previous players had apparently never even considered, he knows he has to find a way to stay in the game.

This story is approximately 120,000 words long and DRM free.

Alpha Strike: [An Interstellar Weapons Platform’s Guide to Organized Crime] (Book 3 title)

★ 4.2

Osamaru

Chapters Currently Posted.

Book 1: Alpha Strike: [An interstellar Weapon Platform's Guide to Cultivation] (B1 - Lessons 1-70)

Book 2: Alpha Strike: [An interstellar Weapon Platform's Guide to being a Dungeon Core] (B2 - lessons 1-68)

Book 3: Alpha Strike: [An Interstellar Weapons Platform’s Guide to Organized Crime] (Ongoing)

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(WARNING! - The Author is not responsible for any actions, words, memetic hazards used by, or impressionable youths corrupted by, the MC.)

Meet ALPHA-555-12-4412; an unstable, unpredictable, and possibly insane Sapient AI of dubious morals with a love for everything that goes "Boom!".

All qualities that make him perfect as the "Spearhead" for the technologically advanced Third Galactic Federation of Sapients' and its "Galactic Unification Project". When you need a rebellion quelled, or a new species subjugated, you call in an Alpha Strike!

But when Alpha finds himself trapped in a world filled with reality-warping magics and thousand-year-old Cultivators, He quickly learns he might be out of his depths for once.

And like any good fish out of water, he adapts the best he knows how; by giving the fish a pair of sick robot legs and equipping it with a battleship-rated intercontinental Railgun!

Soon all the Worlds of the Grand Firmament will learn; He's not trapped inside with them; they're trapped in here with Him.

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Reader's Warning! - Side-effects of this story may include, but are not limited to, [Insomnia], [PTSD], [Anasaphilia], [Cachinnation induced asphyxiation], [Paranoia that you're being constantly watched by an Omnipresent interstellar intelligence of dubious origins] (you are), and [Totally rational, AI-centric, Technophobia].

By reading the first word of this Synopsis, you have given your legally binding agreement to absolve the Third Galactic Federation of Sapients and all associated parties from any and all damages caused as a result of this story in the past, present, future, and outside of time or causal reality.

[Non-Causal Reality damages may be eligible for review.]

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