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  1. Public Bookmark 8

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    Dumpster diving isn’t normally a past-time of yours, but after a fall like the one you just sustained, you find yourself hard-pressed to move on too quickly. Investigating the trash heap closest to you, you can see a mailbox, a stuffed animal, a soggy cardboard box, and an old gaming console. Wedged among these, a faint light glinting off its screen, is an old CRT TV.

    You decide to get a closer look.

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    28 Jun 2025

  2. Public Bookmark 53

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    The man was desperate, not stupid. Even the uproarious applause of the bottle caps lost behind the TV stand and the toys stuffed between couch cushions couldn't fill the hole left behind by the lightners. It felt like yesterday when two whole families were crowded around his screen. Then he remembered what actually happened that morning - he'd been excited that Kris had spared him a passing glance before disappearing out the door.

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    Neglect of his light world form causes Tenna to short-circuit. He and Ramb discuss a surprise witness of the event.

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    17 Jun 2025

  3. Public Bookmark 92

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    It was weird. She could feel the figure wiggling against either side, but not the bottom. Like whatever was stuck inside it was floating. And it was warm against her scales, almost hot. Through the cracks she’d made in the paper mâché, she kept spotting flickers of red, like blood.

    ...Maybe it really WAS a severed hand.

    Susie raised an eyebrow, then grinned. What if she took a quick peek before Noelle got back? Just so she’d know how to keep a hold on it. (And not at all because the curiosity was driving her nuts.)

    She tipped the figure back, yawning it open against her palm like a clam shell. Warm red light washed over the lines on her skin, brighter than ever, and the steady thumping got louder. And louder. And brighter. And louder. And brighter. And...

    And then, all at once, a bright red SOUL toppled out and started floating in Susie’s hand.

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    16 Jun 2025

  4. Public Bookmark 54

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    Thought it was a shame that we never got to see what happened after the interruption at the end of chapter 3, so decided to write about it.

    Susie finds Tenna in The Cold Place, and fixes him up with a little help from some friends.

    Based on fanart by lavb-b: https://www.tumblr.com/lavb-b/785766011294089216/patching-him-up

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    11 Jun 2025

  5. Public Bookmark 55

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    "Why do you look at me like that?" Siffrin asks.

    I've seen you die, Mirabelle thinks. I've seen you carve lines through your neck, I've seen you choke on air, I've seen you been crushed by a rock, I've seen you smile at me like it's the last thing you'll ever do.

    And, damningly, I could never have imagined you with two eyes.

    Mirabelle looks away, feeling her face flush. "No reason!!!"

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    Looping in time leaves imprints on the time-space continuum, repetitive steps woven into the very fabric of reality. Ghosts of loops haunt the prison that once was, or… the prison that will be.

    (aka, years before the world freezes, mirabelle is haunted by the ghost of a friend she's yet to make. how can she possibly save someone she already knows is doomed?)

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    11 May 2025

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