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tot’s phone goes off once.
twice.
three-four-five-six-too many times to count.
“check the news,” ze says, doesn’t even glance at hir phone, sits up from where ze’s sitting between malik and arturo, “check the news, turn it on-”
WARNING: BREACH IMMINENT
tot watches with quiet, bated breath, and lets hirself cheer with the other two as the screen flashes to video of the crabs standing in the middle of their old field, again.
(or; after years and a lot of voicemails, luis finally comes home.)Series
- Part 4 of voicemails to/from ascension
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denzel is used to this sort of thing, maybe. what ve's not used to is the quiet.
and then someone else gets shelled.
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"hey," ze says, flat, and they startle and drop a container to the floor with a familiar hiss of fuck, goddammit. "why are you in my house?"
"why are you awake?" jaylen says, annoyed, and the fridge swings shut behind her as she kneels down and picks up the tupperware. "i was going to scare you in the morning."
(or; i am speaking directly into your ear now. breaking and entering is fine if you're friends, i promise.)
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arturo huerta, being remembered, and routines.
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like songbirds in the city air by paopuleaf
Fandoms: 約束のネバーランド | Yakusoku no Neverland | The Promised Neverland (Manga)
24 Feb 2021
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there’s a necklace that you keep close, because it means something. there’s fuzzy faces in your nightmares that you keep close, because they mean something. there’s that meaning thrumming beneath your skin, but you can’t remember any of it.
you’re missing something. a lot of somethings, if the hole in your chest is to be believed.
but you’re relieved.
despite everything, it feels like it went right.
(or; a post-canon story about learning to live as you are.)
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voicemails from tot clark to luis acevedo.
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a series of worldbuilding drabbles.
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an au in which tillman henderson was resurrected during the season nine elections.
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and they were roommates (oh my god they were roommates) by paopuleaf
Fandom: Half Life VR But The AI Is Self Aware
14 May 2020
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A series taking place in a post-game au in which the Science Team + Benrey make it out of the game and become Real Fleshboys with only a little bit of fuckery.
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gordon is a ghost, benrey is alive, and there's a murder mystery on their hands. memories aren't the most trustworthy evidence in the world, and grief twists too/too/too much. [currently on hold.]
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you could really go (no one's gonna stop you) by baliset
Fandoms: Blaseball (Video Game)
26 Jan 2021
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The sound is soft, gentle taps on the glass, and Jaylen thinks it’s rain until she realizes that this is San Francisco, not Seattle. She opens the window without getting out of bed, kneeling so she can stick her head out to look. She almost gets a pebble in the eye for her trouble.
“Ow,” she hisses, then, “Derrick, what the hell?”
(or: jaylen hotdogfingers gets a late-night visitor.)
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26 Jan 2021
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One short day in sunny Mycenaean Greece.
One short day in a crowded French square.
One short day in their apartment in Seattle.(Twelve 100 word scenes about two immortals, the masks they wear, and permanence.)
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07 Jan 2021
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"Everything was still, stale. All the things that made it harder for Derrick to rest at night, made it easier to find his sleep-of-the-dead in small moments in the here and there, surrounded by sound (friends in the foyer—the CD skips—I remember laughing with them). He could do nothing but stare (staring at a telephone, staring at a Telephone) off into space, spending all his mental effort on staying a quiet, comfortable place for Sebastian to rest his head.
Until Seb started shaking."
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whatever here that's left of me is yours (just as it was) by cryptidgay
Fandoms: Blaseball (Video Game)
20 Dec 2020
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It’s not that Finn expects them to leap back into… whatever it was they were, before. It’s difficult to expect something as undefined as that. But there’s still something there; beyond the simple consistency of Kennedy being Kennedy, beyond the gentle way he’d asked her if she wanted to come back to his house after the game. The war against the Crab Mother had been long, longer than she’d been there for, but wherever Kennedy was was always a safehouse; him with his medic’s kit and his brave face and his seemingly boundless love for the people around him. It hasn't changed in the decade-plus in between then and now.
She feels safer here than she thought she would anywhere above water, after so long below.
(Finn James comes home.)
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- Part 5 of things you said / blaseball prompt fics
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20 Dec 2020
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“You can’t just hit someone with a pitch because you’re mad.” Mike says it gently, like he’s not sure Derrick is aware. Or maybe like he doesn’t want to bring it up in the first place.
“There’s nothing in the Book that says I can’t,” Derrick points out, maybe a little too defensive. He runs his free hand through his hair, and lets out a long exhale. “I dunno. I guess I got up there, and I just realized - nobody cares, you know. That I’m back. None of them remember me. The big players, like Boyfriend, they look right through me. So does the band.” He pauses. “They kind of did the same thing to you. When you were pitching, I mean.”
Mike sets his mug down on the coffee table, and frowns. “Kind of.”
“Didn’t it ever make you mad?”
(an alternate reality, a fragmentary dream.)
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15 Dec 2020