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  1. Public Bookmark 17

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    Connor Stern is a law school dropout who dreams of making it big in the music industry. He manages to get into a special apprenticeship program with the musical genius Elijah Kamski and, despite working two jobs and struggling to stay afloat, feels like his dream is finally within his grasp.

    When Hank Anderson stumbles into the lounge Connor performs at, The Red Room, he becomes entranced with him. As Hank falls in love with Connor's voice, he ends up entangled with conflicting emotions and delicate situations. Slowly, his nights are filled with Connor's songs and his closeness, even if he feels he doesn't deserve it.

    They reach several roadblocks along the way of getting closer, some more dangerous than others.

    A collaboration written alongside Connor-sent-by-Cyberlife for the Reverse Big Bang 2024, told with a POV alternating between Hank and Connor. Chapters added weekly.

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    15 Dec 2024

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    YOU - [Look around.]

    INLAND EMPIRE [Legendary: Failure] - You are alone in a place that is empty.

    PERCEPTION (HEARING) [Impossible: Failure] - It is quiet here.

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    26 Nov 2024

  3. Rec 16

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    Five Pebbles is consumed by his own Rot, and dies. Or, that's what he assumed would happen, but instead he wakes again, bound to the cycle, trapped in a body that is not his own, and perhaps this is his solution: a mobile body, capable of bringing him down to the Void Sea, where he can finally, finally, find his peace.

    But his so-called sister has never been able to just let him rest.

    (Pebbles, Moon, and the Artificer: a story about surviving, old mistakes, and the families built in the strangest of places.)

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    09 Nov 2024

  4. Rec 50

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    A collection of dialogue excerpts that needed a home. Originally posted to even-disco-baby on tumblr, archived here.

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    06 Nov 2024

  5. Rec 4

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    He draws back the bow-string. Halfway to his ear, his arm shudders to a stop. Mo Xuanyu probably never did need to use the muscles between his shoulderblades, did he?

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    14 Sep 2024