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The Gospel of the Inked [MS eps.] by Beatrice_Sank for BlueFloyd
Fandoms: Series of Unfortunate Events - Lemony Snicket, All the Wrong Questions - Lemony Snicket, Original Work
05 Jan 2017
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Every great slaughter needs a myth of origins.
Of how VFD came into existence. Of how the last children were tatooed.
[Transcript of MS Epsilon as found in the ashes of the Winnipeg estate.]
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- Part 1 of Last of the Inked
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When the Floodwater Comes by mewCoyote for catastatic_symphony
Fandoms: Shoujo Kakumei Utena | Revolutionary Girl Utena
29 May 2025
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Does a fish see the water in which it swims?
- It probably depends, doesn't it? On how cloudy the water is?
That's not the point! It's supposed to be a metaphor!
- It's not a very good metaphor if it has an answer, is it?
Do you see the air around you?
- That depends too. Is it foggy or clear? Kashira? Kashira? -
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Kazuma:"You want to know why you failed? It's because you explained yourself to them, Princess. Top-tier players don't ever explain themselves to anyone. They drop a vague instruction, and everyone else scrambles to read between the lines and make it happen on their own. Craving to explain things—that’s what second-rate blokes do, like middle management or outside analysts. In other words, the exact moment you stood there and explained yourself, you might as well have told them, ‘Look at me, I’m a nobody who’s absolutely desperate for your validation.’"
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Episode 2:The Four Sacred Covenants for Collective Survival by Tomson
Fandoms: Original Work
01 Jun 2026
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Lysander:
"Behold the social contract—the monumental wisdom that the West extracted from the crucible of its own bloody history."Kazuma:
"You’ve dressed that up a bit nicely, haven’t you? Did this Rousseau bloke actually say anything of the sort, or are you just spinning it?Your explanation of the social contract doesn't sound holy at all, you know. It’s so bloody pragmatic, it actually makes me a bit suspicious."Series
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Episode 3: The Gift Economy and the Mountain of Receipts by Tomson
Fandoms: Original Work
01 Jun 2026
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Lysander:
"What on earth is this? ‘The day after tomorrow’? ‘One coffee’? You cannot possibly call this a receipt. Go back, demand a proper itemized invoice, and ensure it is logged via double-entry bookkeeping."Kazuma:
"Look, if I go and do that, they might hand over a receipt this once, but they’ll freeze me out completely from the next day on. The only reason I bother buying their coffee and shriveled radishes isn't because the bloody produce is enticing. It's because the intelligence leaking out of their mouths is invaluable. That's why I pay a premium at that shop. What you're doing is sabotaging my information pipeline. Surely even you know how critical intelligence is to a professional analyst?"Series
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Kazuma:
"Look, Tatemae is your public code, alright? But Honne—that’s the encrypted stuff running underneath!"
Lysander:
"So, you are telling me that despite being a natural language, Japanese operates on two entirely separate layers of code? What a preposterous cognitive load."Series
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Kazuma's Theological Autopsy: "The Catholic Church didn't reserve its deepest hatred for the heathens who knew nothing of Christ; it unleashed its absolute worst fury upon the heretics—the insiders who knew the scripture but chose to champion a different doctrine. You get a pass because you’re a heathen who doesn't know the code. But if I break the atmosphere? I don't get a pass. I just become a heretic beyond salvation."
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Lysander:
"It’s the glass cliff and a mafia contract in japan. How utterly irrational."Kazuma:
"You only think it’s irrational because you’re looking at the company as a whole, mate. Look at the individuals instead—the actual people scrambling to survive right now. They’re making perfectly rational choices, aren’t they? This is that classic Japanese pathology: ‘Everyone is so bloody busy surviving, no one’s left to think about the big picture.’ Don’t go taking that back to America with you as a bloody souvenir."Series
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Kazuma:
"Conflict is inherently evil."Lysander:
"Conflict is the baseline from which consensus is built."Lysander & Kazuma (Simultaneously / In their minds):
Lysander: "This man is a complete psychopath."
Kazuma: "This bloke is a proper psycho."Series
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Lysander: "As a good and upstanding citizen, I abide by the social contract."
Kazuma: "As a professional analyst, I maximize the client's return. Simple as that."Series
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Lysander: "If your structural analysis holds true, then Japan is effectively operating under a reign of terror. Even if the state isn't pulling the triggers directly, turning a blind eye to a mob conducting a collective lynching makes the state complicit for failing to police it."
Kazuma: "Everyone's living in fear, mate. The silence in this country is just the price paid for that fear. The herd—every single one of them—thinks, ‘If we don’t do this, society falls into chaos. Madness takes over. So we’ve got to do it, even if we hate it.’ The truly terrifying thing about Japan is that everyone is doing it with the absolute best of intentions. If there were a wicked demon king like in a children's story, it’d be easy to spot. But it’s not that. It's just ordinary people, perfectly politely, hounding a criminal’s family to death."Series
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Lysander: "Aiding the vulnerable, protecting minorities, the inherent value of diversity—I shall give you a perfectly practical explanation for all of it, Kazuma."
Kazuma: "Every time I hear you go on about liberal democracy, it makes me wonder. These pragmatic words spilling out of your mouth—are people in America actually saying this stuff, or is it just a robot named Lysander passing down his own warped misinterpretations like a bloody game of Chinese whispers?"
In his heart of hearts, Kazuma harbored something truly beautiful, yet he never let on for a second, wearing his usual mask of the cynical realist for Lysander. Practically speaking, he never had any other choice to begin with.Series
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Lysander:
"Look at that shop over there. It says ‘No Foreigners Allowed.’ That is appalling discrimination."Kazuma:
"Let’s start by aligning our definitions of discrimination first, shall we, Princess? I’d rather our wires didn’t get crossed. Surely having that chat first is the only rational choice here?"Lysander:
"And what exactly would we be aligning? I should warn you, if you are going to trot out 'statistical discrimination' as an excuse, I am not interested."Kazuma:
"Oh, it's something far more sinister than that."Series
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Lysander:“Liberty, in its only coherent formulation, consists of two inseparable vectors: the freedom to act, and the freedom to refrain.
Allow me, therefore, to deliver a brief paean to liberty.”Kazuma:“Oi—look at that. The whole bloody lot of our colleagues just froze solid.”
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The Grammar of the Invisible: A Rational Critique of High-Context Architecture by Tomson
Fandoms: Original Work
13 Jun 2026
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Bonus: Lysander’s Audit of High-Context Culture
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