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Miles to Go by kuruk, Skylark
Fandoms: Pocket Monsters | Pokemon (Main Video Game Series), Pocket Monsters | Pokemon - All Media Types, Pocket Monsters: HeartGold & SoulSilver | Pokemon HeartGold & SoulSilver Versions
04 Jan 2020
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After Red's descent from Mt. Silver, Leaf leads him, Green, and a rather unexpected tagalong on a road trip through Unova. Red is aimless, Ethan wants what he can't have, Leaf hopes for the best, and Green doesn't know where he stands anymore. [ABANDONED/INCOMPLETE, remaining plot notes and leftover scene snippets in chapter 6.]
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please speak well of me by kuruk for transversely
Fandoms: 言の葉の庭 | Kotonoha no Niwa | Garden of Words (2013)
17 Dec 2014
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There she was, back where she had started, without being any poorer for it. On the plane she had no way of knowing her good fortune yet, but when she finally gave up on reading and abandoned her book to look out the window, into the stillness of the blue sky above the clouds, she felt an unexpected surety suffuse her body like the warmth of the sun: there were gains too, amidst the losses.
Earlier that year she would have looked back on that way of thinking and called it naive. Now, surrounded by reminders of who she had been and still was, even, she was more inclined to call it optimistic, or at the very least say ‘naive’ with less derision, thinking with newfound tenderness not of herself at that age but of Akizuki’s filleting gaze, his demands that she treat him with the same derision, for believing and for striving and for trusting her with his dreams. He deserved better than that, was what she had wanted—no, what she had needed to tell him before she left. That which could not go unsaid, the immutable truth underlying it all. It was what she owed him. It was what she owed herself.
Yukino Yukari, returning home.
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blank maps by kuruk for pyrophane
Fandoms: Mahou Shoujo Madoka Magika | Puella Magi Madoka Magica
18 Oct 2014
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The miasma faded. I hefted my spear behind my neck and along my shoulders, stifled the instinctive urge to scoop up the cubes off the pavement right then. Waited you out.
But when you finally touched down on the street and walked your way over to me, with that flowery scent getting stronger the closer you got, there was a second I thought you’d be someone else. Would’ve said so, if I hadn’t realized how stupid it'd have sounded. I've never met another girl who's got magic with that kind of scent.
“Huh,” was what I said instead. “Well, look at you. And here I thought you’d gone and disappeared on us.”
“Evidently not,” you said, all toneless. You stopped at the mouth of the alley and stood there. Staring. Not at me, just in my general direction, and with that stained-glass expression on your face again to boot.
[Nearly everything about Akemi irritates her, and there's a lot that doesn't make any sense, yet Kyoko finds herself trying to get a handle on it all anyway, despite herself.]
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a cost-benefit analysis on inter-team fraternization by kuruk for cephea
Fandoms: Ookiku Furikabutte | Big Windup!
19 Jul 2014
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He’d jotted down GOOD INSIDE SOURCE FOR HATOGAYA in Sakaeguchi’s favor before he reminded himself that Hatogaya hadn’t even made it past the first round of the regional tournament the year before, so he appended VERY LIMITED UTILITY for the sake of clarification. Below it was what logically followed: HATOGAYA SPY? dutifully written in overthick characters, this particular item underlined with such frequency that the lines had metamorphosed into one, misshapen blot of blue ink. The transcription accurately conveyed the gravity of what was a very real possibility, he decided, and thoughtfully filled in two more lines.
[Abe and Sakaeguchi run into each other at the convenience store and their middle school computer lab—and strike up...an acquaintanceship. Sort of.]
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Ritsuko’s hand was warmer than she could have foreseen. Misato kept her hand atop hers for an overlong moment, if only to make good on the gesture, before she retracted it and wiped the small film of moisture that had accumulated on her palm onto the counter.
[Misato and Ritsuko try their hands at friendship, again.]
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"I love you," Harry says on June 25, 51, halfway through a game of cribbage. Cuno has done nothing more notable than tell a joke that made Harry laugh.
Cuno doesn't know what to say. Nobody loves Cuno. Loving Cuno should probably be an interisolary crime. "Gross," he says.
An exploration of those Cuno has lost, those he's gained, and those he can't let go.
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23 Mar 2026
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and the walls kept tumbling down in the city that we love by TheKnightsWhoSayBook
Fandoms: Babel - R. F. Kuang
01 Oct 2022
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The army moved forward, and the tower shivered. Nobody else seemed to notice. Lettie blinked, hard. For a moment she thought tears had distorted her vision, and touched her face, but it was dry. And the tower shivered, again, violently, an undeniable vibration. Shouts rose from the army, which broke, lost its neat rows of soldiers as they scattered backwards, and great chunks of Babel began to fall.
The roof, fallen in. The walls, clattering downward in a wave as each lost stone knocked loose another. Books, shelves, desks, indeterminate objects blurring in midair, falling like missiles. Her home, her Babel, her tower, falling.
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Lettie sees the fall of Babel and the rise of Hermes. She still can't admit she's not the victim.
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02 Jan 2026
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and i spit out the seeds by linearity
Fandoms: Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid, Heated Rivalry (TV)
30 Oct 2025
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A video of Shane sucking Ilya’s dick is leaked. Over the next twenty-four hours, Ilya goes on an odyssey.
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27 Dec 2025
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half alive by vavavavoom
Fandoms: 光が死んだ夏 | Hikaru ga Shinda Natsu | The Summer Hikaru Died (Manga)
15 Jun 2023
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The corpse, the boy who loved it, and the thing it became.
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Everything changes, nothing perishes. In other words, what if the dead aren’t really gone?
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08 Dec 2024
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On the way to work, a flashing orange sign says ROAD WORK AHEAD. KEEP LEFT. YOU ARE DYING. He puts on his turn signal and merges on the empty road.
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There's only so much you can endure before the crazy starts to seem reasonable. Owen needs to make a decision before time runs out.
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14 Aug 2024