OfTheRiot
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The Utopians attempt to escape the only world they know, that in which they are trapped together.
Yulia faces the inevitable. Nina plays a game of chess. Peter betrays only himself. Andrey breaks his own heart. Maria inherits a curse. Daniil and Eva become infected with two facets of the same idea. The universe is its own witness; Simon Kain strives to do the same.
_____________The fall of the House of Kain.
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Will it hurt?
“Him, yes. You, no,” Andrey says. The knife in his hand, his old knife he's changed the blade and the handle of. He hands it over reluctantly. Peter takes it dispassionately. The blade is cold, the handle is warm. “Show me how you would do it.”
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The Stamatins rehearse Farkhad's death.
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Somehow he's not beautiful. There's an unearthly plainness to him that makes the eye reject him, a symmetry that makes him nauseating.
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Longin tries to capture something living.
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Once you put your heart in the hands of the worst of men, what are you not to lose?
It is all for nothing. And yet it returns, invariably, to beauty.This is a horror story.
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No line left uncrossed. No law left unbroken. No crime left unforgiven.
I will take everything from you but your loyalty.
This is the nature of evil and the nature of love.[ Editor’s note: No, no, no, no. We can’t publish any of this. Good Lord. What are you thinking? ]
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“From what Persian miniature, from what mysterious realm … Comes the snow-white hind that appeared to me this morning in my dream?” – Jorge Luis Borge, The White Hind
Inquisitor Mark Karminsky interrogates a ghost in the machine.
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10 Jun 2026
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Peter was asleep. Peter was safe. Peter was happy. Andrey wanted to be happy. Andrey was happy– Andrey made himself happy– but he was tight-wound and burning inside and something red-hot was cauterising his throat shut.
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There was just Peter and him for a while. Then, there was the third architect.
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05 Jan 2026
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Thaumaturgic Arborescence & the Architect's Traumaturgy by Creaturial
Fandoms: Мор. Утопия | Pathologic
27 Jul 2023
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This one didn’t quite feel like them, like the rest. Andrey almost felt agitated by a shiver of excitement — newness, again, finally at once, for once. He kept himself from rejoicing too much, too early — the man still had chances to be disappointing, as most men, even the most charming, were.
He sat opposite the twins, themselves in separate chairs. His coat was a striking, startling red against the vert-de-gris stripes of the settee, so painfully carmine it looked like its damask had been woven in blood itself [...].
As they sat, the Kain men, each at their turn, introduced their guests to each other in superlatives, in almost-religious exaltation. [...] As their lungs swelled with pride for the stranger’s works, something coiled around the brothers’ necks, unnervingly taunting, something akin to mistrust, to incredulity, tinted by the black ink of jealousy — something they wouldn’t have admitted so early, if at all. All the man did was nod conservatively, humbly; as if observing instead of listening.Know thy friend well, thine enemy better, and he who walks the tightrope between the two more than the sum of that threefold.
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05 Jan 2026
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“There is nothing else outside.” Piotr's voice. charming — not because he tries. Charming because it's a little bit fragile. [...] Because the edges are frayed. Because there's heart to it [...]. He's trying to mean it.
“Is that what you wish was true?” Rubin asks.
“That is what I'm trying to make true,” Piotr doesn't-quite-agree.
He wants the world outside gone maybe as much as Rubin does. For what reason? What is there, outside, for Rubin? — there's his master in the ground, there's a hole in the ground in a shape of another man's master, and the other man's master's not in it. Where is this other man's master? He is in a masterless man's hands. Nobody must know. In the world outside, there is knowledge, there is a hunt, there's the wait for the other sword to drop. And what is there, outside, for Piotr? There's his tower. It claws a hole through him. [...] And so Rubin stays the night.
A collection of expansive vignettes in which two men who have something wrong with them get closer to each other. A kiss that feels like the lover wants to crawl inside. A dream in which he does. Peter ripping a man's throat out in self-defense. The mechanisms of fluids.
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05 Jan 2026
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I knew in my heart that if I slept, my body would take me back to the Crucible like a salmon beating upstream. It is that inevitable, my origin and destination.
When strange sounds are heard at the Crucible, Maria confides her investigation-- sparingly-- in the architect of its Focus, beginning a multidirectional exchange of letters between the visionaries and their perennial co-conspirators. But as unusual phenomena accelerate, the secrets of the Kains: the language of houses and dreams, experimental interactions with the fabric of time, the theory and practice of Memory, and the esoteric science of vitality and the soul-- as well as Maria's own secretiveness-- may threaten the future of their House, and even the afterlife of Wild Nina.
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05 Jan 2026