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    (wake up your saints, ryland, i need them)

    In which Ryland Grace makes it his mission to rescue the broken, bloody man he and Rocky found drifting among the stars. (He just doesn't realize that this broken, bloody man is going to rescue him too.)

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    04 Jun 2026

  2. Rec 7

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    Etho knows how to mind his own business, it's a trait he's honed over many years of keeping his head down, but it gets hard when his new neighbor seems so dead set on being caught red handed.

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  3. Rec 88

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    Another obstacle cleared. He looped back around, brain so focused he didn't notice the wraps around his ankles coming loose, whipping like flags in the wind. He allowed himself height, spreading his wings to the fullest in the open sky, projecting massive shadows onto the ground below. 

    "Go 'round again!" Came Jimmy from the ground and Grian permitted a single pant before diving to restart his weave, counting the seconds in his head. He would beat his best. 

    Left. Right. Up. And down. Don't get caught. Don't touch the wood. Slip. Float like a feather but have the strength of a bull. Faster. Faster or they'll catch you, get caught and you're dead. 

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    Grian was a soldier, he did as he was told. Trained hard each and every day despite the fatigue. Anything to defeat the cruel evil of the Watchers, but having to kill...to harm...what did that mean for his own sanity? What did that mean for his health? What did that mean for the war that waged mercilessly around him?
    What did that mean, when Scar...an enemy soldier...showed him love?

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    02 Apr 2026

  4. Rec 49

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    None of this would have happened, Pearl reasoned, if Lapis hadn't cheated in their sparring match. So really it was all her fault, and clearly Pearl was the innocent party in this. Hence, the only logical outcome of all this was that Pearl had to utterly annihilate her in this stupid competition.

    (Or how the first annual Pearl vs Lapis Kissing Competition came about)

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    25 Mar 2026

  5. Rec 28

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    Grian cowers from him, shrinking back into the wall. It does nothing for him but make him an easier target. Bdubs plants a hand in the middle of his chest, pinning him to the mossy stone walls, and drags him upwards.

    “What are you doing?” Grian gasps, forming the words breathlessly around Bdubs’ hands at his lungs. He whimpers as the stone digs into his back, rips through his shirt, tears into his skin– “What are you-!”

    Bdubs puts his free hand on Grian’s face. For a moment, he holds it there and does nothing. Grian’s breaths puff over the palm of his hand, hot and panicked, as the blood from his broken nose drips down his arm. There exists a moment in which Bdubs considers not doing what he’s about to do.

    He pushes his fingers into Grian’s eyes and cracks his skull open on the wall.

    And then there is clarity.

    No- wait, now hold on.

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    You are the boy in the cage. You don't want to hurt them, but you don't know what else to do.

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    18 Jan 2026