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    As he stared down into the lumpy grey goop that was his evening rations, he contemplated whether it was really worth it.

    They’d come a very long way just for Grace to give up and die at the last hurdle, both physically and emotionally. The Tau Ceti system was a long, long way away now, and Grace had faced not one but two highly emotional suicide missions. Three, if you counted the time before he was given a military grade roofie and hucked into space without his memories.

     

    Rocky and Grace make it back to Erid! Huzzah!
    Now they have to navigate all of... that.

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    25 Jul 2026

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    “I said I’m fine, Alice,” Daniel snaps, and time itself grinds to a halt.

    Not literally. Ha. The things you have to specify with vampires. Daniel wishes he could laugh, but the sound is stuck somewhere in his throat, along with his heart. Now, of course, his hand chooses to be perfectly still.

    Why the fuck did he say that?

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    daniel keeps slipping up and mistaking armand for his ex-wife and the more he looks back on his memories, the less reliable they get. he's pretty sure he married alice molloy, but how do you marry a woman who apparently never existed?

    armand is armand about it.

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    03 Jul 2026

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    A boy, OLRUGGIO, lies in a pile of scattered paper. Another boy, QIFREY, sits beside him. QIFREY is crying.

    QIFREY: You don’t understand. (He touches the crown of OLRUGGIO’s head.) You don’t understand.

    OLRUGGIO: …

    QIFREY: Or maybe…

    OLRUGGIO’s breathing is soft. QIFREY looks DS.

    QIFREY: I loved your spell.

    OLRUGGIO shifts in his sleep. QIFREY looks back down at him.

    QIFREY: (Whispering.) I love your spell.

    OLRUGGIO’s hand twitches in his sleep. QIFREY keeps watch over him.

    Blackout.

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    A two-act play on the ways we grow, and how it happens.

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    12 Jun 2026

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    “Can you show me?” Qifrey asks, feigning just a little of his frustration. Running his fingers up and down his own neck only feels marginally less stupid than Olruggio lying isolated beside him, his want palpable.

    “Show you?” Olly’s voice is thready.

    “Yes,” Qifrey replies, tilting his head to look at Olly until his gaze is met. “I’ll follow you.”

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    or; olruggio shows qifrey the best ways to get off. nothing, at all, goes wrong.

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    11 Jun 2026

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    Olruggio wrapped his arms around Qifrey’s waist and pulled him close. He rested his chin on Qifrey’s shoulder, warm and real and solid. Qifrey returned the gesture, his eye sliding shut. He let out a breath. They remained that way for a long while, leaning against each other. This could not ease Qifrey—he’d managed a delicate balance that allowed him to indulge in these small ways while retaining his ever-present fear—but Olruggio’s weight became heavier and heavier as he relaxed into it.

    Qifrey could do these things for Olruggio; he could take care of him, though it would never make up for everything that he had done.
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    Qifrey and Olruggio build themselves a home. The days pass in the closest thing to domestic bliss that Qifrey can manage. It cannot last.

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    08 Jun 2026

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    He wants to ask about the implications of Yoshiki’s statement—so he’s the one who takes it? Makes sense, he’s never been especially physically active. But he’s tall and handsome and not especially effete. He imagines Yoshiki laying beneath him, demure and unguarded. Without meaning to, he says, “So you’re the girl?”

    “Go die,” Yoshiki says automatically.

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    15 Apr 2026

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    The blooming twyre dizzies, but the point of touch is grounding.

    His words, still, come clouded and vague, “This has happened before.”

    “Not like this,” Artemy’s voice is rough and curt. Hopeful again. “You never stayed.”

    He blinks. “I can’t stay. It’s not how this works.”

    [Or; Daniil starts remembering.]

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    27 Jan 2026

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    I knew in my heart that if I slept, my body would take me back to the Crucible like a salmon beating upstream. It is that inevitable, my origin and destination.

    When strange sounds are heard at the Crucible, Maria confides her investigation-- sparingly-- in the architect of its Focus, beginning a multidirectional exchange of letters between the visionaries and their perennial co-conspirators. But as unusual phenomena accelerate, the secrets of the Kains: the language of houses and dreams, experimental interactions with the fabric of time, the theory and practice of Memory, and the esoteric science of vitality and the soul-- as well as Maria's own secretiveness-- may threaten the future of their House, and even the afterlife of Wild Nina.

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    25 Jan 2026

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    A dead man bound to a chair, his guts spilled into his lap. An Innocence running in the rain, her silver hair stuck to her skull. A spy, his wife, her ex and his partner.

    SHIVERS: SHE'S COMING BACK.

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    18 Nov 2025

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    Body, eyes, hands, teeth.

    Or,

    “What? I dunno, I’ll just…” Yoshiki lifts his arm and bends it and is surprised to find how much it hurts. “Shit- wait…”

    Hikaru watches him struggle to even touch the top of his head, then lights up and suggests, “Hey, why don’t I do it?”

    “Do what?” Yoshiki mumbles, still preoccupied with figuring out the best way to go about showering.

    “Wash your hair.”

    Yoshiki keeps fidgeting with his hair for a second before he actually hears Hikaru, at which point he lowers his hands and turns around agonizingly slowly, like a rusted hinge that screeches when moved. “…What?"

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    01 Nov 2025

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    Humans are complex. Monsters are rather simple.

    What does that make you?

    “I don’t want ya to force yourself to be human,” Yoshiki says again. “So if it helps…”

    You nod, eyes wide. Your insides shiver in anticipation. Even just the prospect of it has you excited. It’s lame, it’s so lame, but you can’t be bothered to care.

    “Yeah,” you hear yourself say. “Let’s do it.”

    Or: Love can be difficult when your love is not quite human.

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    27 Oct 2025

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    “Sorry, Yoshiki,” Hikaru groans as tears come out of one eye and more of him comes out of the other. “Ughh, I don’t – ”

    Yoshiki can see how hard he’s trying to calm himself down, but it just isn’t working.

    “It’s ok,” Yoshiki says, quiet. “It’s ok. Instead of shovin’ it back inside completely, can you try just...lettin’ it out? Just a little bit?”

    He has no clue how any of this works, but maybe a half-measure is better than trying to force it all at once.

    “Okay,” Hikaru says, but it sounds like a sob. More of the unknowable, incomprehensible swirl leaks out into the dark room.

    “Yoshiki – shit – ‘m sorry but can I…” Hikaru’s face – what’s visible behind the bloom of him – twists in a small kind of agony. “Can I touch you? Not much. Just – ”

    It's been years since Hikaru first took the body of Yoshiki's dead best friend. Despite everything - every horror and hurt - they managed to find a home in each other. Not quite friends or family. More and not. What they have is complicated, but precious.

    But when Yoshiki escapes their small town – to college, to Tokyo – Hikaru follows. And things start to change for them both.

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    22 Oct 2025

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    (SPOILERS FOR THE MANGA)

    Yoshiki kept his head down and stared at his clasped hands, struggling to stay present. The 5:30 morning train to the prefecture’s capital had been the earliest one they could find.

    “Hey,” Hikaru whispered from beside him, “you think this plan will work?”

    Yoshiki frowned, pressing down on his knuckles with his fingers. Despite wearing a long sleeved shirt, his newest gnarly scar was clearly visible on his hand, covering most of it. He still couldn't get used to it. “If it doesn’t, we’re both as good as dead, so…”

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    When the mysterious company makes a move against Hikaru, he and Yoshiki are forced to flee Kubitachi, becoming a part of a plan that isn't even their own. Blindly putting their trust in Tanaka and accepting his help, the two run off to Tokyo. Things don't go how they expected. Both boys are forced to survive in an unknown environment as Hikaru is being hunted, keeping secrets from each other (and themselves) while struggling with inner turmoil.

    Underneath it all, what keeps them going is their quest for acceptance and understanding.

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    22 Oct 2025

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    The possibility that the same stubborn trainer who faced a terrorist organization head-on at 11 years of age would have anything to run away from never even crossed his mind. His rival wasn’t soft enough for fear—wasn't selfish enough to vanish just because she wanted to.

     

    Crystal was long gone, and Silver was dealing with it fine. Six years was enough time to bury something. He couldn't fall apart over her anymore, not when he had a Gym to take care of now.

    Then he came back.

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    20 May 2025

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    Viktor is visited by a future version of Jayce, fresh from a world overtaken by the Arcane. And then it happens again. And again. And again.

    (originally meant to be a crack fic poking fun at the prevalence of the s1!Viktor and s2!Jayce trope, but then I decided to place Viktor lovingly into the torment nexus and shake him like he's a cobb salad I bought from the supermarket deli)

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    19 Jan 2025

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    When Viktor finally asks why Jayce stayed behind inside the Anomaly with him, Jayce stares at him as though he’s supremely disappointed by the question— as if Viktor has betrayed his own brilliance by asking something so irredeemably stupid. “How could I not? We’re partners.”

    Partners, Jayce calls them. Not for the first time, Viktor wonders: Partners in what?

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    Or: Jayce and Viktor survive the Hexcore, a blizzard, their own bodies, sharing a bed and all the things they’re too afraid to say. Slowly, they put themselves back together— piece by stubborn piece.

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    10 Jan 2025

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    After destroying the same world he always dreamed of saving, Viktor must live out decades of solitude.

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    05 Jan 2025

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    The thing is…they're not dating.

    Frankly, Jayce doesn't know what they are.

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    Sometimes in the dark, late at night, boundaries blur. Sometimes two people exist in the in-between of all the things their relationship could be, with a lot left unsaid.

    Jayce and Viktor have been dancing around each other for a long time.

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    27 Dec 2024

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    A being, a demon, sits at a door. It plays a game of skill with molecules. This one goes in, this one stays out.

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    22 Dec 2024

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    “Worse than last time?” Jayce posits a guess.

    “It’s, eh-” Viktor shrugs. Tilts his chin this way and that. A tsk. “Bearable. I’ve endured worse hangovers in college.” he was going for a laugh, but the punchline never truly lands. Instead, Jayce’s thumb rubs softly into the back of his palm, pressing like he wants to idle the muscle mass into something new. It’s such a small thing, whatever this is, and yet it steadies the flow of his blood; the relief of loosening a valve, flicking off a pressure switch. It’s the necessary cracking-open of his breast. Jayce squeezes. Viktor allows himself the luxury of a sigh. “You shouldn’t be here.” he mutters.

    Jayce reflexively shakes his head. “I took the day off.”

    “We both know that’s-”

    “—I could take the week.” he insists, almost a threat, a flicker of that eternal stubbornness coursing through him.

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    Viktor longs for a soft place in which to bury his teeth.

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    16 Dec 2024

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