existential reflection
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You Made A Mess Of Me by MiyuYuma for yellowmoonbag
Fandoms: Subarashiki Kono Sekai | The World Ends With You (Video Games)
18 Aug 2022
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Commission for @redmoonpockets, who kindly let me share this online. Post-game one-shot focusing on Jaz (my name for Haz and Joshua) on a hot summer's day. Needless to say, they really be creating some sweet JAZZ. !Not a crack fanfic! I am just on crack, not the work itself. Thank you.
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Threads of Destiny: A Meeting at the Crossroads by rxchelle90
Fandoms: 文豪ストレイドッグス | Bungou Stray Dogs
09 Feb 2025
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In a quiet café, Natsume Sōseki meets a young Oda Sakunosuke, initiating a cryptic and philosophical conversation that leaves Oda both curious and unsettled. Natsume speaks in riddles about a boy consumed by darkness, death, and nihilism, hinting that Oda and another individual are destined to guide him toward a brighter path. As their discussion delves into fate, time's cyclical nature, and intertwined destinies, Natsume subtly suggests that Oda’s role in a larger cosmic design is more significant than he realizes.
Through his enigmatic guidance, Natsume challenges Oda’s perception of life and purpose, testing his resolve and hinting at the profound impact his choices will have on others. Though Natsume departs with a final cryptic message about their paths crossing again, Oda is left with lingering questions, an eerie sense of direction, and the feeling that his life has been set on an unalterable course toward a future he cannot yet comprehend.
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The White Whale: A Journey Home follows Herman Melville, a man who once found contentment in life’s simple pleasures but becomes increasingly lost in the complexities of adulthood. Each week, he visits a bench by the sea in Yokohama, reflecting on his life and the enduring whispers of a lost childhood friendship with a fantastical white whale. As a child, Melville had encountered the whale, a magical being that became both companion and confidant, but was forced to part ways with it as he grew older and the world demanded more of him. Years later, as a leader in the American Guild, Melville reconnects with the whale, only to find that the pressures of ambition and responsibility have distanced him from it once again. Faced with internal turmoil and the Guild's changing leadership, Melville realises that he has neglected his true self. He resigns from his duties, returns to the sea, and reunites with the whale, embracing the simplicity and magic of his past. As he embarks on his journey home to America, Melville understands that the whale, symbolising both innocence and his truest self, will always be a part of him.
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- Part 5 of The Guild 🇺🇸💰🦅
- Part 25 of Happy Birthday Celebrations For BSD Characters!!!! 🎉🎂✨
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Ranpo Edogawa was born with a brilliant brain—sharp, quick, and capable of incredible feats of memory and logic. Yet, it was not biology alone that made him a master detective; it was the experiences of his life—the puzzles he encountered, the hardships he endured, and the mysteries that fueled his curiosity—that shaped his raw intellect into a powerful, intuitive mind. His brain processed facts, but his mind wove those facts into meaning, intuition, and insight. Through pain, joy, and relentless self-challenge, Ranpo transformed the biological gift of cognition into a living, breathing mind capable of perceiving truths hidden to others. In the end, his genius lay not just in his innate ability but in how life sculpted his thinking into a uniquely human art of deduction.
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- Part 16 of The Armed Detective Agency 🕵🔫
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【警探组亲情向】授翻｜尾声：我们，依旧……（Coda:Us, Still…） by Gggggyh
Fandoms: Detroit: Become Human (Video Game)
30 Aug 2025
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城市继续前进，我们也是。
没有庆祝，只有咖啡，还有阳光，还有仍然在这里的人们的声音。
我曾经用我能证明什么来衡量自己，
现在我明白了更深的道理。Series
- Part 4 of 授翻｜Detroit - Soulsmith （底特律﹣灵魂工匠）
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A collection of thoughts I never learned how to say out loud. Each page is uh like a quiet conversation with myself it’sa little messy, a little cinematic, but honest.
Not a story, not quite poetry just the way my mind sounds when it’s trying to understand itself. I don’t know where else to publish them idc if this gets no
views highkey im just keeping them here. If you grew up emotionally intelligent or autistic or smth idk man then uh yeah read- Language:
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For all of my life (I will love you) by chorumelas
Fandoms: 鬼滅の刃 | Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba (Anime & Manga)
16 Apr 2026
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'Growing old and dying is what gives meaning and beauty to the fleeting span of a human life.'
ShinoMitsu through the time.