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The Vault has its claws in him. He knows it’s bad when he starts seeing God.
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“You misunderstand me,” says Dream, setting his clipboard deliberately aside. “What I meant is, I'm the next test subject. Why rely on secondary sources of information when you can have a primary source, right?”
The eyeholes in the mask are just wide enough for Punz to tell he’s being watched carefully.
“You’re going to kill me,” Dream says with a kind of absolute confidence that would have frightened a lesser man, “and then you’re going to bring me back.”
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Punz and Dream traumatize each other, perfect their grilled cheese recipe, and co-navigate the inherent eroticism of killing and resurrecting each other repeatedly for reasons of scientific inquiry.Series
- Part 3 of the unending amends
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A prisoner asks how much he should give. The black walls only answer more, more.
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When Dream slays a dragon, it's nothing personal. He's just trying to provide for his adventuring party: get enough food to last through the winter and neutralize a hostile enemy in the process. It should be simple, right? He certainly doesn't expect the dragon to use its dying breath to curse him. Now he's a dragon too, thanks to eating cursed dragon flesh - and the only way to reverse the spell is to do a favor for the Ender Dragon, a mythical beast who rules a dimension beyond the bounds of reality. The journey to the End is long and arduous, but Dream has no choice. Along the way, he meets a warrior, a crow, a jailer, a ghost, and a prince.
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Quackity smiles mirthfully, shrugging off his jacket. “Yeah, yeah, I know. Gentlemen prefer blondes, right?”
Sam pauses. “I don't— What do you mean? I’ve never dated a blonde.”
“No need to get all tense, man.” Quackity eyes him with carefully-crafted disinterest. “It’s just a turn of phrase.”
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Two long-time friends and short-time business partners have a fun, no-strings-attached one night stand. Or, alternatively: a warden and a torturer have cringe fail sex and try very hard not to psychoanalyze each other about it. Everything’s a matter of perspective, after all. -
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ABJECT (/ˈab-jekt/)
- Adjective (noun form: the abject)
Definitions:
1. The often disturbed reaction to a threatened breakdown in meaning caused by the loss of the distinction between the self and the other.
2. A place of immemorial violence that defies symbolic order.
3. The product of repression that precedes the establishment of the individual's relation to its objects of desire (id) and of representation (ego.)
4. A place where meaning collapses.
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The prison they built together comes alive in a dangerously literal way. Pandora’s Vault breathes and hungers. Canon-compliant through nearly all of the imprisonment arc, branches off into canon divergence between Techno’s visit/escape and the jailbreak stream. -
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A series of snippets exploring the prison arc and its aftermath from various angles:
1.) Sam helps Quackity with an “emergency” at the prison and does some rare self-reflection.
2.) Sapnap and Quackity finally talk about the whole torture thing. It goes better than expected, all things considered.
3.) Dream picks up a new hobby in prison. Sam has mixed feelings about it.
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- Part 2 of the unending amends
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Sam thinks Dream is pretty. Dream never anticipated he would have to include this fact in his cumulative assessment of risk factors and threats to his person — but then again, there is nothing about their lives the prison has not twisted.
Or: an exploration of the scrapped lore discussed on cc!Dream’s twitter space on 09/11/2022. You can listen to the 5-minute clip here! Partly inspired by this post by tumblr user ethek.
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hardening to every heart but one by swordfright for ringenthusiast (Deadist)
Fandoms: Dream SMP
06 Aug 2022
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After the prisonbreak, Dream risks his life sneaking into Kinoko to see George…but his nightly visits come at the price of his safety and George’s sanity. Buckle up for some very heavy-handed metaphors.
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- Part 1 of the unending amends
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Letter of Recommendation by swordfright
Fandoms: Rise of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (Cartoon 2018)
17 Jan 2022
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A retired supervillain needs a new job. Mikey's eager to help him draft a resume...and fix his dad's relationship with the Baron, while he's at it.
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superfight by swordfright
Fandoms: Rise of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (Cartoon 2018)
27 Jan 2021
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You’d think Leo’s superiority complex and Donnie’s inferiority complex would be at least somewhat compatible.
They’re not.
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The space between was real, tangible. There was a pocket in the world, a veil of liminality that one could reach into and withdraw as something new, something old, something other. Natsume closed his eyes and reached into that space now, into the place where he tucked his true form away, out of sight.
“I could make a fight or flight response joke.” Madara’s voice was far away now. “But I’m fairly sure you’ve made it for me.”
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Retired super-assassin John Wick faces his greatest enemy to date: the Homeowners' Association.
Russian translation available here!
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John Wick Has A Relaxing Day At Home And Doesn’t Have To Kill Anyone by swordfright
Fandoms: John Wick (Movies)
08 Aug 2019
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Precisely what it says on the label.
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longdrawn carol, mournful holy by swordfright for lavendre
Fandoms: Natsume Yuujinchou | Natsume's Book of Friends
19 Jun 2019
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Shuuichi smiled. “You’ve got a real morbid streak, you know that?”
“Yes.” Seiji said, “I’m told it runs in the family.”
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A daughter grows up, a father doesn't.
(snapshots of the gang, as seen through the eyes of the inspector's child)
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Invocation Theory by swordfright
Fandoms: Natsume Yuujinchou | Natsume's Book of Friends
31 Jan 2019
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Matoba’s boredom was a summoning circle in its own right: something you didn’t want to stumble into unawares, if you knew what was good for you.
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Natori doesn't take kindly to being accessorized with.
(Very loosely inspired by "Devils in Daylight" by Junichiro Tanizaki 'cause i just can't keep my slimy hands off nice things)
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They orbit one another until they can't anymore.
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Amid much-needed post-battle home renovations, Alucard is paid a visit.
This fic is mostly about trying and failing to cheer up your friend whose parents are dead, but it’s also a little bit about canoes.