💔 Zombiewoodn't [One-Sided Martyn/Cleo]
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“… I’m gonna need a clock from you. To seal this deal.”
“Okay! Yeah, yeah…” He crosses his arms. He tries to smile… Not that Bdubs notices, still squinting through the flames inside the bottom furnace. His heart beats once. He feels it in the thumb pressed against his chest. He’s not wearing any armor. Impulse clears his throat. Twice. “I’m not making that mistake again.”
It beats again. He feels it in his shaking knees. It beats a third time.
“What do I get?”
AKA - The one where Bdubs eats worms and Impulse is tasked to make a clock.
Series
- Part 3 of 🎃 Riddle's Traffictober 2023
- Part 1 of 💔 Zombiewoodn't [One-Sided Martyn/Cleo]
- Part 1 of 🍹 Roundabout [Misc. MCYT]
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Their breaths swirl, steamy with water vapor. You can see your breath in the Nether, but it leaves you in a warm gas instead of a frosty chill. As Martyn eases Pearl’s hair behind her hood, his legs begin to shake. The shield hanging from his left wrist bonks against his knees.
He pokes Pearl’s hair into her hood, folding the cloth around it. He sort of tucks it beneath the neck of her armor. “Is that okay?”
“That’s fine.”
Martyn and Pearl spend 9 long days trekking the server in search of their soulmates. They even duck inside the Nether. The inability to sleep down there does not remove their exhaustion… or the longing for safety, rest, and maybe cuddles.
Scott and Cleo notice.
Series
- Part 27 of 🚥 Pixels Imperfect AU
- Part 7 of 🎃 Riddle's Traffictober 2023
- Part 8 of 💡 Nightlight [MCYT Cuddles]
- Part 2 of 💔 Zombiewoodn't [One-Sided Martyn/Cleo]
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My lips are chapped; I know you’re there by FountainPenguin
Fandoms: 3rd Life | Last Life SMP Series
28 Sep 2025
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Every time he licks his lips, it’s like his mouth’s on hers. Sometimes, late at night, his tongue zigzags like he’s writing his own name. And sometimes like he’s writing hers.
Or, Double Life is weird for Martyn and Cleo both.
Series
- Part 31 of 🚥 Pixels Imperfect AU
- Part 3 of 💔 Zombiewoodn't [One-Sided Martyn/Cleo]
- Part 10 of 🎵 Harmony in A Major [Admin Scott]
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Aloof as a Cat; Alone as a Rat by FountainPenguin
Fandoms: Life Series | 3rd Life SMP Series
28 Sep 2025
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Should he even be watching this? It’s… It just seems a little…
I wouldn’t say I’m a prude, but what the hell, man? Save a little soulmate action for the rest of us.
Martyn watches Scott and Cleo cuddle late at night.
OR, I particularly enjoyed Martyn's decision to stalk Cleo with a spyglass in Double Life Session 2 <3
Series
- Part 32 of 🚥 Pixels Imperfect AU
- Part 4 of 💔 Zombiewoodn't [One-Sided Martyn/Cleo]
- Part 11 of 💡 Nightlight [MCYT Cuddles]
- Part 80 of ⭐ Personal Faves
- Part 11 of 🎵 Harmony in A Major [Admin Scott]
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"Why can't we ever small talk like a nice family when you come over?" Martyn grumbles, and gives the glass of binary code another lousy swish.
"Excuse you," his mother mutters back. They all fall silent as Impulse sets the bowl of salad-like soul bits on the table and finally takes his seat at the head of the table. She makes a waving motion that greenlights everyone to partake of the feast. Hands lunge forward. As they scramble to serve themselves, she says, "So tell me about this Netty girl you've been seeing."
"Martyn ate her," Bdubs says, dumping out a clump of soul salad, and Martyn almost spits his drink. "Ask him about Cleo. They're doing some kind of roleplay thing on Double Life. He had the cat ears out and everything."
Can’t stop thinking about Double Life Ep 2 and Ren refusing to join Martyn in the Deep Dark unless he gets confirmation that his date with Martyn’s mom is still on and Martyn just grumbles about how his mom needs a man, not a boy.
Can’t stop thinking about how everyone in the Pixels Imperfect universe hatched from an egg laid by a dragon.
Series
- Part 33 of 🚥 Pixels Imperfect AU
- Part 18 of 🎃 Riddle's Traffictober 2023
- Part 5 of 💔 Zombiewoodn't [One-Sided Martyn/Cleo]
- Part 36 of ⭐ Personal Faves
- Part 6 of 🦴 Bones to Pick [Phantom Flock]
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“Tch. Glen and Schmoobles are still going at it out there. Nipping.”
Martyn exhales. His breath is warm. Fresher tonight than usual, actually; Cleo crafted him a toothbrush and shoved it in his hand, telling him to use it if he wanted to last much longer in her base. “Mmhm… I think they just snort and bite to show they care. Reminds me of someone else I know.”
While the entrance to Martyn's base is guarded by a warden in the ravine, Cleo lets him sleep inside their house.
Series
- Part 26 of 🍹 Roundabout [Misc. MCYT]
- Part 6 of 💔 Zombiewoodn't [One-Sided Martyn/Cleo]
- Part 14 of 💡 Nightlight [MCYT Cuddles]
- Part 79 of ⭐ Personal Faves
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Walking on Cluckshroom Shells by FountainPenguin
Fandoms: 3rd Life | Last Life SMP Series
14 Oct 2023
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"I just left something here when BigB and I broke up. I want it back."
"What is it?" He can't help himself. He's bored and curious, hands sliding up just so he can tuck them in his pockets. His jumper's rumpled, he realizes a second later, and takes more satisfaction than he maybe should in the way it makes Cleo falter. They've got the spare key, but he's got BigB. He's got his man wrapped tight around his little finger.
"Something… for the museum."
An impatient itch sidles up his back. "If you don't mind me here, I'll stay. If it's all right with BigB."
Cleo's eyes trail down to the blinking green screen of his wrist-comm. "That's fine. I don't mind if you stay, but you look like you're about to summon phantom hybrids."
Grian grits his teeth. She's right. He can't argue with that.
It wouldn’t be a goofy slice of life rom-com without the stereotypical slipping out of roleplay and blowing up over your partner’s ex (/jk). We’re all friends here, but does that friend really need to have OP powers and the spare key to your portal room?
Series
- Part 36 of 🚥 Pixels Imperfect AU
- Part 14 of 🎃 Riddle's Traffictober 2023
- Part 35 of ⭐ Personal Faves
- Part 10 of ☀️ Blue Desert Sun [Scar & Grian]
- Part 7 of 💔 Zombiewoodn't [One-Sided Martyn/Cleo]
- Part 20 of 👁️🗨️ Parallel Park [Watcher Grian]
- Part 7 of 🦴 Bones to Pick [Phantom Flock]
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Here's to the Health of Married Men by FountainPenguin
Fandoms: 3rd Life | Last Life SMP Series, Hermitcraft SMP
22 Dec 2023
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Ren shakes him back and forth like a handheld chew toy. Grian stares back at him like his mind’s been blended up, chest heaving as he fights through the raw binary in his system. He blinks several times and Ren huffs again, ruffling his hair.
“Martyn… My bow.”
Martyn hovers beside Cleo, clutching his half-empty cup. “Ren, this is horribly stupid- We’re all real drunk-”
Grian smacks Ren’s other hand from his hair. “Poor man’s Dodgebolt? I’ll take that challenge, Ren; you’ve no idea who you’re dealing with. Hope you’ve got a comfy bed waiting at the wolf hybrid spawn temple… New Bork’s gonna wish you never met me. Well? Let’s begin. This is child’s play.”
Ren and BigB are dead. Tango and Jimmy went too, but that’s nothing noteworthy. At Jimmy’s afterparty, maybe with a few too many 1s and not enough 0s sloshing around his system, Ren finally confronts Grian about his and BigB’s secret soulmate affair.
Scar watches from the sidelines... And lets it all play out.
AKA - Watching Great Comet of 1812 animatics again and this came to me in a daydream... Might happen again. (Don't need to know the Great Comet canon)
Series
- Part 45 of 🚥 Pixels Imperfect AU
- Part 16 of ☀️ Blue Desert Sun [Scar & Grian]
- Part 8 of 💔 Zombiewoodn't [One-Sided Martyn/Cleo]
- Part 45 of ⭐ Personal Faves
- Part 14 of 🎵 Harmony in A Major [Admin Scott]
- Part 27 of 👁️🗨️ Parallel Park [Watcher Grian]
- Part 8 of 🦴 Bones to Pick [Phantom Flock]
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Maybe Grian's such a grump because he doesn't rest, and it's never the right time to bring that up, because Grian's closed off and cool-minded every single day.
It's okay.
This morning's different. They're sharing the blanket. They're sharing the bed. Neither of them has gotten up to start the daily chores, because Grian needs his rest and Scar doesn't want to yet. He's breathing, soft like a whisk in waffle batter, against the ruffles of Grian's hair. Scar keeps one arm tucked across him. Since he's the one awake, the soulbond is biased in his favor. He can feel the chronic pain aching at the small of his back, right below the spot his wings would normally be.
That's okay, too. Scar tucks his face in Grian's hair, holding him to his chest. You stayed, he wants to whisper, except he won't, because Grian's still drowsy (if not entirely asleep). They've never shared their bed before. And Scar's not going to be the one to scare him off.
AKA - "One soulmate watching the other sleep" snippets for every Double Life soulmate couple, because I love them all. 💚 💛 ❤️
Series
- Part 46 of 🚥 Pixels Imperfect AU
- Part 17 of 💡 Nightlight [MCYT Cuddles]
- Part 25 of 🎃 Riddle's Traffictober 2023
- Part 39 of ⭐ Personal Faves
- Part 9 of ☀️ Blue Desert Sun [Scar & Grian]
- Part 3 of ⚓ Paper Boats [Etho & Joel]
- Part 9 of 💔 Zombiewoodn't [One-Sided Martyn/Cleo]
- Part 13 of 🎵 Harmony in A Major [Admin Scott]
- Part 19 of 👁️🗨️ Parallel Park [Watcher Grian]
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Martyn swivels back to face her, this time ripping an entire crust piece off the edge of his bread. For some reason, he goes to eat this one instead of tossing it aside. "Look me in the eyes. Look at me, all of me, right here. Tell me I look like a man who would cheat on his own soulmate."
Cleo glances over him, ruffled haystack hair and black bandana all the way to his bare feet. He normally wears crocs, but he must have kicked them off before he came upstairs. Martyn has stereotypical 'dad bod' and a wildly scruffy chin. She says, "You look like you think the sprinkler and snorkling are 'hip dance moves.'"
Martyn claps one hand to his chest, leaning back. "Whoa! Whooooa. Hey, ask anybody here- I was the coolest person at the Last Life party, and that one had Lizzie and Mumbo."
Martyn and Cleo shelter for the night in Box, which - by law and by will - is now their base. They make midnight snacks and talk about their soulmate-ship.
AKA - After all the Traffictobers about pixel people phasing through each other’s bodies because they didn’t have golden carrots, here’s one where Cleo successfully carries a sleeping Martyn to bed. 🖤💛❤️
Series
- Part 47 of 🚥 Pixels Imperfect AU
- Part 30 of 🎃 Riddle's Traffictober 2023
- Part 41 of ⭐ Personal Faves
- Part 19 of 💡 Nightlight [MCYT Cuddles]
- Part 10 of 💔 Zombiewoodn't [One-Sided Martyn/Cleo]
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Come On, Snake- Let's Rattle! by FountainPenguin
Fandoms: 3rd Life | Last Life SMP Series
04 Oct 2023
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"Let me… Let me ask Skizz about this."
"No, no!" Bdubs whirls around, striking his pickaxe down by his feet. Cleo pulls up short. Bdubs' eyes flash green, glowing in the dark like a phantom on the prowl. He stares up at her, one hand yanking his collar from his throat. He fidgets. His dark blue wings (pruned back by on-server rules; much smaller than Skizz's right now; she does not point this out) flap several times. "Don't ask nobody about it; come on! This is free!"
Cleo stares across the river that divides the Clockers from the T.I.E.S. And she breathes, slowly, through her nostrils. And she wishes, not for the first time…
… that I was running this roleplay dynamic with him.
LimLife Ep. 3 Cleo comforting the freshly respawned Skizz with the same headbutt and dialogue that he gave her in Last Life Ep 2… That confident "Because Skizz likes me" comment at 3:47:15 of Bdubs’ superfan cut… I see you and I love you.
Can be read platonic or romantic... No kissing, but they're definitely ambiguous and turning heads... Rattlesnake Duo, my beloved <3
Series
- Part 54 of 🚥 Pixels Imperfect AU
- Part 4 of 🎃 Riddle's Traffictober 2023
- Part 11 of 💔 Zombiewoodn't [One-Sided Martyn/Cleo]
- Part 3 of 🕙 Rotting Ladders [Cleo, Etho, & Clockers]
- Part 16 of 🎵 Harmony in A Major [Admin Scott]
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Dog's Life by FountainPenguin
Fandoms: Life Series | 3rd Life SMP Series, Minecraft (Video Game)
08 Dec 2025
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Grian keeps his pickaxe in hand. With his other, he materializes his shield. It wraps his wrist in a shower of sparks. "Listen, listen-"
Joel draws his iron axe. He starts to pace, testing his wings with small flaps in and out. Grian glances around again. Should I drop down? He doesn't have a water bucket. Teleporting should work. He's only used it twice, and since he's no longer glittering, that probably means he's charged enough to use the jump again, yeah?
Welcome to Dog’s Life, where this game’s twist is stealing the traits of the mobs you kill. Stranded in the jungle with rival players beefed up by hostile mob traits, the way forward is clear… Survive, steal, betray, and watch out for unhinged Red Names.
AKA - A dramedy about hybrids in a digital world (both in their Life game and their server hub). If you like to watch pixelated menaces yeet each other off cliffs [Scar], weaponize salmon [Tango], fight PTSD [Scott], get Minecraft surgery [Joel], make super nice friends [Jimmy], stress over an AFK life partner [Grian], or reunite with two half-exes [SnifferMyFeet], this could be the 'fic for you!
💜 - 💚💛❤️
Series
- Part 26 of ⭐ Personal Faves
- Part 64 of 🚥 Pixels Imperfect AU
- Part 18 of ☀️ Blue Desert Sun [Scar & Grian]
- Part 9 of ⚓ Paper Boats [Etho & Joel]
- Part 12 of 💔 Zombiewoodn't [One-Sided Martyn/Cleo]
- Part 31 of 👁️🗨️ Parallel Park [Watcher Grian]
- Part 17 of 🎵 Harmony in A Major [Admin Scott]
- Part 9 of 🦴 Bones to Pick [Phantom Flock]
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Mystery Work
Part of Riddle WIPs
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This is part of an ongoing challenge and will be revealed soon!
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“I’m beginning to realize you drink heavier on nights you know I’m the one who’ll walk you out.”
“Mere coincidence, surely,” he insists, patting his knee like he thinks that’s where they’d ever want to sit.
Martyn eats too many golden carrots and slips under love hearts. Cleo walks him safely to the cooldown room.
Series
- Part 79 of 🚥 Pixels Imperfect AU
- Part 14 of 💔 Zombiewoodn't [One-Sided Martyn/Cleo]
- Part 37 of 👁️🗨️ Parallel Park [Watcher Grian]
- Part 82 of ⭐ Personal Faves
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Mystery Work
Part of Riddle WIPs
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This is part of an ongoing challenge and will be revealed soon!
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Anything You Ask, M'love by FountainPenguin for KeroseneLamp
Fandoms: Life Series | 3rd Life SMP Series
20 Apr 2025
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Cleo only needs him to make appearances- Show his face in pretty photos so their families think they had a honeymoon.
Cleo shoos Martyn to a strip club on their wedding night. If he's obedient, maybe one day he'll be welcome in their bed.
OR, I see the prompt "Arranged Martyn/Cleo marriage that doesn't work, but you can throw in Ren, Etho, and Bdubs as their lovers for more fun" and am impaled with crying laughter. Lmao, bet.
Series
- Part 16 of 💔 Zombiewoodn't [One-Sided Martyn/Cleo]
- Part 14 of 🍹 Roundabout [Misc. MCYT]
- Part 74 of ⭐ Personal Faves
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Scary Stories For Young Fox Hybrids by FountainPenguin
Fandoms: 3rd Life | Last Life SMP Series
13 Oct 2023
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“Hey, Uncle Skizz! I think I found soul juice!”
The voice belongs to Scar, who went around the edge of the building back towards the town and street. Skizz, hiking up his pack, goes to join him. Scar’s standing to one side, holding his pant legs up from his paws again. He looks at Skizz, then at the gravel.
There’s a distinct gap in the wooden wall, singed black, like a creeper exploded right beside it. Skizz’s eyes trail down to Scar’s feet. Spattered purple globs paint the grass, like modern art made from lollipop spirals. Gunpowder glints on nearby sapling leaves.
Uh…
Happy Friday the 13th! Enjoy a sneak peek at a [dark] Life series AU I'm working on where I attempt to smoosh all the season mechanics and roleplay into one coherent timeline.
❤️ Today’s Story - To give Cleo a weekend alone, Skizz brings Bdubs and Scar with him on what would normally be a Solo Skizz resource-scavenging trip. They didn't expect the wounded phantom hybrid lurking in an abandoned game show studio.
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- Part 13 of 🎃 Riddle's Traffictober 2023
- Part 15 of 👁️ Neighborhood Watch AU
- Part 10 of 🕙 Rotting Ladders [Cleo, Etho, & Clockers]
- Part 17 of 💔 Zombiewoodn't [One-Sided Martyn/Cleo]
- Part 3 of 💠 Cornflower Waltz [NW - Martyn/Cleo]
- Part 14 of 👁️🗨️ Parallel Park [Watcher Grian]
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"Hey, Mr. Littlewood? If you're Mom's 'one true soulmate,' how come she had us with Etho?"
Martyn half chokes on his bread. Scar's shameless; he chases his gaze wherever it flicks, shifting his weight between his paws, too. Like him, Martyn's on his Yellow life. Scar likes to think his own eyes are wide and innocent, lashes fluttering. His relationship with Etho was poisoned long ago; he has no opinion on Martyn either way.
Bdubs, however, has no such hesitations. "Mom always says she hates you," he says, utterly disinterested, and Martyn's face could be a meme. You know: Cleo, pick me up- I'm scared.
❤️ Today’s Story - Back at camp, the Clocker kids approach a tired, hungry Martyn with the hard-hitting questions...
Series
- Part 16 of 👁️ Neighborhood Watch AU
- Part 27 of 🎃 Riddle's Traffictober 2023
- Part 11 of 🕙 Rotting Ladders [Cleo, Etho, & Clockers]
- Part 18 of 💔 Zombiewoodn't [One-Sided Martyn/Cleo]
- Part 4 of 💠 Cornflower Waltz [NW - Martyn/Cleo]
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Top 10 Hanahaki Life Hacks (#9 Will Shock You) by ScarletPenguin (FountainPenguin)
Fandoms: 3rd Life | Last Life SMP Series, Hermitcraft SMP
04 Nov 2025
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“Just… Tell me you were drunk or something. At least try to make up a story I’ll believe. Do you even care? Am I just…? Does it even matter to you, what I think?” And with a hasty backpedal, “If she took advantage, you can tell me. You can tell me. She’s Scott’s ex anyway; I’ve got her blocked everywhere I could think of. We never talk.”
“It was late and I boarded the wrong subway,” Martyn says again, but he is lying. It’s always an excuse; never an apology.
Martyn coughs up flowers for years after the divorce, making bank as a florist, dye salesman, painter... anything he can put his on-and-off Hanahaki disease to use for.
Cleo just wants to move on.
Series
- Part 4 of 🥀 Sour Petals [Hanahaki AU]
- Part 19 of 💔 Zombiewoodn't [One-Sided Martyn/Cleo]
- Part 13 of 🕙 Rotting Ladders [Cleo, Etho, & Clockers]
- Part 68 of ⭐ Personal Faves
- Part 27 of 💡 Nightlight [MCYT Cuddles]
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The Candles We Light (and Should Regret) by FountainPenguin
Fandoms: 3rd Life | Last Life SMP Series, Hermitcraft SMP
16 Dec 2025
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“Would you… care to know what clothes I’m wearing?”
Cleo turned her head, eyes still squeezed. She didn’t respond, but heard the spirit shift. Metal clicked against metal somewhere out of sight, maybe around his neck or back.
“If you will have me, Cleo… take my ties and silks and draw them off. Undress me as you would a mortal man, and I am yours.”
“Undress you?” The words left her in a whisper. “Is such a thing sacred?”
“Yes,” he breathed, and Cleo shuddered despite herself. He gripped her arm, pulling her in. “To take my silks is to possess my heart and soul, as the skins of seal-folk. You remember, of course, how the god of travel and arts stripped the god of war and sky. Make a mortal thing of me.”
Cleo has never seen her husband; the father of her children. He only visits in the dark.
(And the tales that came before).
- A Cupid/Psyche-inspired AU
Series
- Part 2 of 🐛 The Pantheon of Silk and Plays
- Part 12 of 🕙 Rotting Ladders [Cleo, Etho, & Clockers]
- Part 20 of 💔 Zombiewoodn't [One-Sided Martyn/Cleo]
- Part 67 of ⭐ Personal Faves
- Part 1 of 🌳 Sequoia [Martyn/Mumbo]