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  1. Rec 97

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    The Absolute’s infection should’ve stripped him of all higher functions beyond that of his enthrallment. No manner of injury or exhaustion should keep him from attacking her. Yet, here he was, touching his face with a confused look that seemed all too human for Uzi’s taste. Vampires especially craved the look of what they once were, even if they no longer saw humans as anything more than cattle to feed on.

    “Can you…can you see me?” Uzi asked tentatively, still breathing hard from the fight.

    “I can see you…?” the vampire responded in loose lucidity.

    “Holy shit it talks,” Uzi deadpanned incredulously. “You have to be fucking kidding me.”

    “Sorry,” he slurred, his eyes closing again sleepily, “You’re bleeding.”

    Holy shit, again.

    . . .

    Uzi had been doing well enough on her own for years now. She'd learned through heartache and betrayal that nothing good had come from her vulnerability. She didn’t need anyone, but when she comes crashing home with a vampire in tow, Uzi is forced to come to terms with the fact that sometimes…she needs help too.

    Besides, if he were easy to kill, she’d have done it already, but something in him refuses to die, and for that they are alike.

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    23 Oct 2025

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    One cannot define grief as a solid entity; It shifts and changes like the tide, rising and falling, waxing and waning. Its unexpectedness rips off a layer of one's life like a band-aid, and an exposed underbelly is never pretty. J is no exception.

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    Micro updates with syntax fixes, illustrations for chapter 6 are up :)

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  3. Rec 12

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    The battle against the Absolute Solver shook the entire world. Rumors about what happened flooded the other outposts. Stories about our heroes spread from drone to drone; word-of-mouth storytelling warping it as it went on.

    On the other side of Copper-9, Outpost 76 began hearing stories about the fearsome Murder Drone who stole away a beautiful Worker to be his bride.

    Someone probably shouldn’t have told the drone obsessed with larping and knights about it though.

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    24 Sep 2025

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    What were the stages of grief again?

    Denial, Jax remembers. He knows that one. It’s the first on the list, the one that clues people in that it’s developing grief in the first place. Not that he’s grieving. That was silly. And a straight up delusional take on his situation. He doesn’t grieve.

    Cartoonish purple rabbits don’t grieve.

    The dead can’t speak, the guilty don’t deserve to. Pomni has Thoughts™ and makes it Jax’s whole problem.

    (Or: the one where she gives one last push.)

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    22 Aug 2025

  5. Rec 2

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    Danny wakes up in a strange place, gets almost buried in an avalanche of decomposing books, and then meets a catperson, in that order.
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    "Hey, uh…" The person began, their voice sounding like they'd swallowed sandpaper. "You, uh, okay over there? I know that's a silly question."
    Danny coughed and, yes, impolitely did not answer because he preferred to hack out his lungs.
    "I felt that was a better opener than 'you look like shit', or 'damn, how long have you been decomposing up there?'. Don't speak ill of the dead and all that."

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