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Locked Behind Doors of Steel by CouldBeABird
Fandoms: Penny Arcade Adventures: On the Rain-Slick Precipice of Darkness (Video Game), Penny Arcade (Webcomic)
15 May 2026
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Tycho Brahe has a tumultuous (at best) family history with mental health. Tycho Brahe cares far too much about his family -- and his family cares far too much about their legacy.
Or, Tycho visits his father.
Do note, this is set in the OTRSPOD universe, that's pretty important.
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The Desperado (And the Divorcee) by CouldBeABird, DeltaLorien for ankarios
Fandoms: Baldur's Gate (Video Games)
04 Jan 2026
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Astarion Ancunin has been running from Szarr Estates for longer than he'd like to admit.
Gale Dekarios could use the bounty.Thanks to @CouldBeABird for editing and co-writing because I would NOT have gotten this done if not for him. Go check him out, AMAZING writer (and also my brother!)
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Robert Robertson is a name that follows a generational scourge ripe with self-loathing and grandiose posturing in some half-assed attempt to make up for it. Mecha Man is hardly different.
Still, it keeps happening.
Or, the Robertson's on generational trauma.
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Robert’s well adjusted, he’s a “hero”.
Robert’s also killed before. This causes problems he can’t escape from – not easily, at least.Or, Robert on life, death, and the impacts of taking a life.
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He copes in any way he can find the means to. It's never really about hurting himself, it's about leveling things out. It's not an issue, he's not an issue.
Or, Robert Robertson on self-harm, in the most traditional sense.
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It is far easier for Joshua Graham to believe God set him on fire for living in sin than to admit his own cruelty forged the man who held the torch.
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25 Oct 2026
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"What do you think the Garden of Eden looked like?"
Joshua paused, his brow furrowing slightly at the question.
"I had always pictured the orchards back in New Canaan," he finally said. "Only more verdant. Perhaps more like the greenways along the river."
A faint nod came from Bill. "I thought this canyon was it when we first arrived. Clean water right through the heart. Wildlife without peeling skin or cancerous masses. Unmutated fish swimming in the shallows. A river that gave life instead of disease, and a forest that nourished the people here."
"It used to feel like heaven compared to the Boneyard."
Joshua gestured toward the surrounding cliffs. "It still is beautiful. The canyon still holds that promise. Once the final tribe is conquered or absorbed into the whole, true peace will come. No more petty squabbles between factions. No more bloodshed. We will build something wonderful here, Bill. Something entirely untouched by the sins of the old world."
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Recovering from the Courier is a twelve step process, and every step is "don't die." Vulpes struggles to get past step one.
This is a direct sequel to "That We Become"
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21 Feb 2024
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chapter 18, genuinely devastating. 10/10 fic.
CHAPTER 27!! WELCOME BACK, VULPES INCULTA BEING BEAT TO A PULP (by circumstances that are sometimes his own doing
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Ford does not want to be at Backupsmore University. He should be in California, at West Coast Tech, showing the world that he's more than a freakish waste of space from Jersey; showing the world that he's more than the scrawny, brainy half of a dynamic duo. He's angry, sure, and he's sure-as-fuck tired of being just one-of-two-Stans.
But who isn't angry right now? The world is in turmoil, they're sending our boys to Vietnam and if it wasn't for this stupid school, Ford would have probably been sucked into the draft himself.
But then he meets Fiddleford Hadron McGucket, and everything is different now.- Language:
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22 Sep 2024
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it's got some kick to it I will not lie. 13/
^ 22 Sep 2024reread on 29-30 Jan 2025
reread 09/09/2025... took an eight week. going poorly. (not the actual class, just the work load)
(I'm being over dramatic, I just haven't finished my homework)
((it'll be done before I walk into class tomorrow.))
(trust.)^^ 12/11/2025 It was Not done before I walked into class. I did pass the class with a rather good grade though. In spite of flunking the mid-term and tanking the final in honestly an impressive way. If I was anyone else I'd say that was impressive.
^^ 14/10/26 taking calc with the same prof, she is my GOAT, it's not an eight week (don't do that to yourself) and the class is still hard as balls but I graduate with one of my degrees at the end of this term so, you know, we ball. my mid term is in two weeks. 🗿
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when the morning comes by marconiandcheese
Fandoms: Star Trek, Star Trek: The Original Series
08 May 2021
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“Chekov,” Jim says, “How close are we to the coordinates Komack sent us yesterday?”
“Maybe an hour away, Captain?” Chekov estimates.
Spock blinks, then shakes his head. Something sounds familiar.
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Following the tragic destruction of the Enterprise, Spock is given another chance. Somehow, despite his best efforts, he can never quite manage to save anyone.