17 Bookmarked Items in Phrygian (Friends at the Table)

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    It takes her millennia to notice what has become of the Golden Branch. Will become, has become, will have become.

    [Perennial, the Branched, and the war, which is not over.]

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  2. 2

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    “Does the Divine Principality ever stop?” Phrygian asks.

    “Yes,” Figure A says.

    They double-take, despite themself. They hadn’t actually expected an answer.

    “Yes,” Phrygian repeats, suddenly unsure. “You’re sure of that? You saw it in the machine?”

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  3. 8

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    Phrygian moves through Millennium Break in the years before Palisade, entangling with the people around them in the process. The most incidental and yet most bizarrely persistent of these connections are with one Eclectic Opposition, and one Exeter Leap.

    Our gift for @152Createz on Cohost for Secret Samol 2023.

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  4. 7

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    Is that drone a scream or a cry? Or is it laughter?

    “I don’t know why me,” they admit. “If you’re trying to- to figure me out, or something- I know who I am. I guess, I guess I don’t always know how I’m doing some of this. But I know why. I know who I am.”

    It is definitely laughter.

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    Brnine dreams, but it's not that simple.

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  5. 4

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    A day in a room, as a room, as Phyrgian.

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  6. 9

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    Brnine blinks. Tries to refocus. Brecheliant still sprawls out below. “Uh, hey, guys? What just happened?” Red numbers on the dashboard. It’s well before dawn.
    Hunting glances over at them. “We’re on the approach. Is something wrong, Captain?”
    They’re on the Blue Channel. Phrygian and Hunting are there. The sky overhead is leaden, but calm. They’re alive. They’re alive.
    They’re alive.

    [or: Kalvin Brnine vs. the end of the world—again, and again, and again. A time loop au.]
    [major spoilers through PALISADE 20]

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  7. 1

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    Just a weird dream. Totally normal to have one weird dream. A glass of water, they'd get a glass of water - a totally classic and normal thing to do after a weird dream - and then they'd go back to bed.

     

    Brnine receives a few spectral visitors when the ship passes through an odd patch of the Mirage.

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  8. 1

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    Coriolis Sunset needs a freaking break. And on a little planet with a truck stop and a diner, she gets just that. And finally tries a ham slurper.

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  9. 2

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    Perennial weeps and her sobs wrack Phrygian too. They feel her grief, before it is subsumed by their own. They see through her eyes as the Figure Perennial blooms and then wilts. Such brief connection, yet she is changed by it. Phrygian knows how that goes.
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    Phrygian feels the echoes of Figure's death from beyond the grave.

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    • 16 Jan 2025

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      so incredibly beautiful and painful and YEOWCH!!!!!

    • 27 Mar 2024

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      hi love to see someone else having the palisade experience and making it *everyone's* problem. read this fic. the word choice is unbelievable. you wanna be upset? yes you do. gonna print this on my brain don't mind me.

  10. 11

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    The morning before they were set to make landfall on Palisade, Figure stumbled into Phrygian. He had opened a door he thought to be the second entrance to the kitchen and instead found himself inside what appeared to be a fully furnished studio apartment.
    Figure froze, gaze scanning across the four-poster bed heaped with plush blankets, fully stocked bookshelf, half–curtained window letting in natural sunlight just above an overstuffed armchair. For a moment, they were certain they were still dreaming as they stood statuesque in that impossible space.
    Then a familiar voice resonated through the room, seeming to come from everywhere and nowhere all at once, “Good morning.”

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    The Figure in Bismuth takes stock of the amenities available on board the Blue Channel and discovers that his favorites are all Phrygian.

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  11. 4

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    "Can I help?" Phrygian asks.

    Jesset shrugs, and then winces in pain from the movement. “Ah– fuck. I don't know, man. Ask the doctors, I guess.”

    “No, I mean…” They pause, searching for the words. “Is there a thing that you need that I can be right now?”

    Or, Phrygian shares a moment of closeness with a wounded, weary friend.

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  12. 1

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    Phrygian doesn’t feel like they had when they’d finally fallen asleep. The apartment that is their friend’s body is dark and cold. All the warmth has leached out of the bedsheets. The pillows are clammy. Figure breathes out, and mist touches the air. Is it actually morning? They can’t tell.

    “Phrygian?” he asks.

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  13. 2

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    « You're quiet, » Corrasion remarks. Their currents shift around the flat rocky outcropping that Phrygian is sprawled on top of, deadly foam brimming up at every turn. They are a moat of turquoise around their one safe patch of ground, gradually wearing away at it. It's too slow to be of immediate threat to them, at least physically, and outside of implications. They apparently have deigned to show them that much courtesy.

    « I guess so, » Phrygian says.

    « Unsatisfied? »

    « Yes, » they say. « Obviously. »

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  14. 4

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    Phrygian needs a break so they join Thisbe for some gardening. Phrygian finds themself more invested than they first expected.

    Title from Absolute Lithops Effect by the Mountain Goats.

    A gift for ShelfTabby! Happy Secret Samol.

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  15. 4

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    After the battle, Phrygian explores Figure’s new body.

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  16. 1

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    Three very different nights at the First Annual Blue Channel Halloween Party.

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  17. 1

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    Four bouquets for four conversations between Phrygian and Em.

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