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"Hey," Twilight murmurs.
They are further down the mountain, now. It is no less cold. Warriors occupies himself with thoughts of campfires and blankets. His hands shake so violently it's embarrassing. He must be an awful sight, tired, bruised, barely seeing eyes. He might even look worse than Twilight, who can currently only move one leg.
"Hey, are you sure you know where you're going?"
"Don't doubt me," Warriors replies.
Twilight attempts a shrug. "Been a while."
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“What’s Belos, uh," Luz pauses. "Like." she finishes, the word pushed out with an unceremonious thud.
Hunter sits across from her. You've met him, he writes.
”I, well— I wanted to ask you a couple questions before — you know — but we got a little sidetracked," she takes a couple hour-long seconds to deliberate, "so, I’m asking you now.”
Hunter takes a few minutes to write and erase words. He considers ignoring the question outright, but, well...
He’s sympathetic, almost in a mean way, like whoever made him is out to get you. Maybe it’s his face. Or his voice. Whatever it is, he makes you make a fool of yourself. He makes you, he pauses, not knowing quite what to write. He erases the beginning of the sentence. You'll forgive him. Everyone does.
Luz purses her lips.
Then again, he killed me. So I don't really know anything.
Hunter dies in Hollow Mind, becomes a ghost, and haunts Luz Noceda. The effects are more consequential than anyone would prefer.
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rosencrantz and guildenstern's excellent adventure by artificialCharisma for LazuliQuetzal
Fandoms: Linked Universe - jojo56830 (Webcomic)
28 Apr 2026
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THIS IS HIS PROBLEM:
Hyrule is not good at being a person, nor is he good at faking being a person. This comes to be an issue when the Goddess keeping him from his black hole of a self decides to disappear on him.
(This is a story about Farore not caring much about the first two Zelda games. In her words - they're boring. This kicks off more than she would have hoped. And everyone tends to hope a lot of things.)
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eschatology by artificialCharisma, schooltownfollies for What_coin, wishbone12
Fandoms: Percy Jackson and the Olympians & Related Fandoms - All Media Types
13 Apr 2026
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It’s three AM. One week ago, Jason (no last name available) hitched a ride with Leo Valdez and Piper McLean in a stolen (borrowed, from Piper, and acquired, from Leo) 2004 Subaru Crosstrek and has driven with them since from Nevada’s very own Wilderness School all the way to Long Island, where Leo claims a “a last-resort safe place” is.
It started with angry Greek winds attacking them on a field trip. It’s continuing with Leo hitting whatever a dryad is with a car.
Jason can pick up a slight shake in her voice when Piper asks, “On a scale of one to ten, how bad will your divine punishment be?”
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IN WHICH: Hera swaps Jason and Reyna with Thalia and Annabeth, the Labyrinth comes back wrong, and Camp Half-Blood and Camp Jupiter make some pit stops before coming to America.
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- Part 1 of sophocles heard it on the aegean
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His secrets are tightly wound, and his thought was that they'd only escape when he died. But he knows how he dies, and he knows what he's like when he's dead, and they're definitely not coming out then.
So, well, being stabbed through the stomach is a fine alternative to death. And a fine point for Time to spill everything he thought he'd take to the grave.
(Here's the story: there was a boy, and he was so awful, he couldn't help but infect everyone he knew with it.)
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sophocles heard it on the aegean by artificialCharisma, schooltownfollies
Fandom Percy Jackson and the Olympians & Related Fandoms - All Media Types
13 Apr 2026
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keep on living (walk this earth alone) by fensandmarshes for Ultraviollett
Fandoms: 斉木楠雄のΨ難 | Saiki Kusuo no Sai-nan | The Disastrous Life of Saiki K.
12 Jan 2020
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Saiki doesn’t know how long he’ll cling (although 'cling' isn’t quite right, given the deliberate desperation it implies; perhaps 'defer' is a better word) to a youth that doesn’t want or become him. His body seems determined to plod in the same annual cycle, unshakeable. He watches faces narrow, stubble appear, bodies fill out into adulthood. He makes excuses, or lets the excuses make themselves and nods in all the right places ("You’re so baby-faced, Saiki-kun" or, Aiura’s words, "You’ll have to show me what you use on your skin!"). It’s an unforeseen side effect of the time loop, and one he resents. Slowly but determinedly, the world moves forwards - and those he knows (or tolerates) with it.
or: as contemplated by suckerforsaikik on tumblr, saiki ages slowly (and i make it less fluffy than originally intended)
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- Part 4 of tumblr au!saiki fics
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"The human world is full of weak-minded people, who think they're as clever as can be and are convinced that it's terribly important to persuade even the children that Fantastica doesn't exist.”
Homestuck is the postmodernism Final Boss.
This is an essay about Homestuck's philosophy, its theses on reality and growing up, what it means to live a good life, why the ending feels "off", why anything ever happens. This essay explores Homestuck's Deep Lore, the bottom of the iceberg, its most foundational core values.
Chapter 1: Why the ending is bad (it's on purpose!).
Chapter 2 & 3: Classpects and denizens explained, with religiously cited sources and textual evidence. I cracked the code.
Chapter 4: How the dancestors created Lord English.Bookmarked by artificialCharisma
09 Feb 2026
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yeah ill incorporate that into my worldview
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Your name is Dave Strider. You are dead. Game over. You tried to trick Sburb and the game just spit in your face and made you fight the biggest enemy you’ve seen since Jack Noir killed your Bro and royally fucked over not just your session, but the troll’s session too. You’ve probably now also fucked over the other kids’ session, just by dragging all your shitty bullshit into their probably-fine session.
It’s just… you don’t feel dead. You feel very alive, in fact. Your internal clock is still ticking, even though you know your death was heroic enough to count as a real one. Your body is lying somewhere, something that doesn’t feel fuzzy the way the dream bubbles did, and warm air hits your arms, which are bare. You’re not in your godtier clothes.
You open your eyes and find yourself in your bedroom.
or, Dave comes back home after he dies. There is something wrong about that.
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20 Dec 2025
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TT: One is not easily shaken from the broodfester tongues, John.
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02 May 2025
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WELL WE ALL THINK YOU'VE PICKED A GRAND SIDE by arealsword
Fandoms: Sanders Sides (Web Series)
02 Nov 2023
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But there are no sides.
Or: It’s April 14th. There goes Janus to be buried alive.
Bookmarked by artificialCharisma
22 Mar 2025
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i think i said it all in my comment so i'll just paraphrase from there:
This was the longest fucking plane crash I've ever been on.
Please read this fic. The motifs are skilled at punching In the gut and sometimes straight to the throat also. It is the most self-inflicted a tragedy could possibly be, and speaking of which - the wordplay! Hot damn the wordplay! Take a shot every time you read a pun in this fic. Take a shot every time you read this fic. Take a shot when you read this fic, you'll need it.
This and nothing more is what I need from Sanders Sides. It is a very tall order. And tonally different from the source material. But it is also the best anything will ever get.