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Where Zandik had stumbled, Dottore played perfectly. It is, technically, a superior performance. Where age had stiffened Zandik's fingers and stolen the fluid ease of youth, Dottore played without fault. If he were a fairer man, he would have complimented Dottore, whose body has never, and never will, experience the weight of time.
Pantalone is aware of this. He is also aware that he does not care. He will admit, nostalgia does make him a little biased, and Pantalone finds that he still prefers Zandik's playing. He's certain that he always will.
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Elaboration on the quest
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17 Jun 2026
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There are many ways for a story to end.
In one world, the Doctor dies.
In another, the Regrator does.Faced with an outcome that should not exist, the Doctor, a man who values knowledge above all else, retraces his steps on where it all went wrong. That, while accompanied by an unexpected variable.
This is not a confession. It is an impartial eulogy.
Or: A retrospective featuring an unreliable doctor and an equally unreliable narrator.
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- Part 1 of Memento Iter
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11 Jun 2026
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in the delusion of man, an act of god by alicura
Fandoms: 崩坏：星穹铁道 | Honkai: Star Rail (Video Game)
29 Mar 2024
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“Not to be rude, but you have a lot to learn about human society.”
"Teach me then,” Sunday says. Does he realize the implications in how he says that, while half-naked in his office? Probably not.
“I can start off by saying that we don’t usually start stripping in the middle of business meetings.”
“Usually,” Sunday says, one finger raised, like he’s found a gotcha moment.
Working with angels can drive a man insane, if only because it's often likened to bashing your head into a brick wall, repeatedly, while the angel looks on in chaste delight on watching the human perform. Aventurine, however, can roll with the punches; his angel is weird, and often disconcerting, but he sure is nice to look at.
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10 Jun 2026
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Half expecting to see him at his desk, Regrator walks into Zandik’s office and sits in the opposite chair, trying to stave off his disappointment in the dark. The room is dead silent, the desk empty, the chalkboards clean and blank. Regrator is left with nothing but the acrid, bitter aftertaste of being left behind. Lifetimes and lifetimes spliced together, moments of vulnerability and victories, camaraderie, bickering, and countless more of their strange, steadfast companionship. Dottore was his constant for better or for worse. Feofan can hardly remember a life without him. And as much as this was planned, knowing something is imminent is quite different than stepping through the threshold.
Pantalone returns home in the wake of Irminsul's burning.
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- Part 3 of Dottolone
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10 Jun 2026
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The doctor always wore a mask. He crouched and leaned in, close enough that Feofan could see the viscera-glint of his eyes through the slits of bone porcelain. With one hand, the doctor pressed his gloved fingers into Feofan’s mouth, to deposit a single pill. Feofan swallowed. The pain in his midsection bled out of him within seconds.
“Well, Feofan Sergeyevich, today is your lucky day.”
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Five times Dottore puts Pantalone back together, and one time he tears him apart.Bookmarked by Monarche
06 Jun 2026
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Happy Birthday, Zandik
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06 Jun 2026
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Anomalous Tree Marrow inspired
Four times Feofan wondered, "How is it possible to seduce Il Dottore?" and one time, he got seduced himself.Bookmarked by Monarche
06 Jun 2026
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After a failed assassination attempt leaves a banker in Zandik’s care, he discovers that “professional interest” becomes significantly harder to maintain when the patient is beautiful, philosophically radical, and keeps touching his face under anaesthesia.
Or, after being betrayed and sold off, Feofan ends up in Zandik’s laboratory, where hatred of the gods proves to be an unexpectedly intimate thing to have in common.
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28 May 2026
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It said something about Gai that Iruka was actually unsure whether that was a line.
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14 Apr 2026
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He was a chuunin academy teacher, not a courtier trained in statecraft and diplomacy.
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14 Apr 2026
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Kakashi is like a stray cat, and Iruka knows damn well that he shouldn't feed Kakashi if he doesn't want Kakashi to keep coming around.
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10 Apr 2026
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After Erwin loses his arm, Levi is sent to an outpost to play babysitter while he awaits the Survey Corps' next move. One night he receives an unexpected guest.
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03 Apr 2026
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The answer was so simple in the end.
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03 Apr 2026
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Levi wonders if Erwin has ever considered a punishment for him. Because Erwin thinks of everything.
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03 Apr 2026
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Levi struggles with his feelings as Erwin returns from the expedition with a mangled, bleeding stump where his right arm should have been.
(My entry for the 2022 Eruri Write This in Your Style over on Twitter)
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29 Mar 2026
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It's been twenty years in the army, and Levi is finally home--retired, bored, directionless. The world has moved on without him, including his friend Erwin. He struggles to learn to adjust, to deal with his nightmares, to flourish in a world he's never understood, only to find that Erwin is dealing with the same thing.
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- Part 1 of The Appalachians
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27 Mar 2026
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The villagers come to the end of the street and soon they see what the blond-haired boy and his two friends had seen earlier that morning: the familiar, teal chocolate shop, boarded up and closed. Instead, tacked across the wooden panels covering the large, glass window, is a new sign.
The sign is in neat, looped cursive.
On it, the writing says: ACKERMAN’S TEA SHOP.
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24 Mar 2026
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Levi nearly snorted at the look of him - flushed, hair awry, yet still his eyes had the look of a man in the midst of calculating one of his improbable field maneuvers, of solving some impossible thing when nothing in the world, Levi thought, could be simpler. Play the game, or don't.
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13 Mar 2026
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He chased his sighs with hands that felled beasts.
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13 Mar 2026
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After the war, they all try to heal.
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13 Mar 2026