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A Treatise on Rhetorical Incompatibility (or, How to Build a Relationship Out of Excessive Adverbs and Poorly-Cited Passion) by the_untamed_poet25
Fandoms: 原神 | Genshin Impact (Video Game)
03 Nov 2025
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“I don’t understand,” Kaveh says, pacing again, running a hand through his hair with a kind of wounded artistry that makes Alhaitham’s eyelid twitch. “You read all the same texts I did. You studied the same traditions. You know what the Sophists meant. You know about the agora. The gift economy. You know rhetoric isn’t just about manipulation—it’s about response. About risk.”
“I’m aware,” Alhaitham says. “I simply disagree.”
“With—what? The entire premise of interpersonal communication?”
“With the fetishization of indeterminacy,” Alhaitham says, adjusting his gloves. “With the idea that language must be excessive, emotional, endless. That clarity is somehow oppressive. That restraint is dishonesty. That the only ‘authentic’ utterance is the one that bleeds.”
“Oh,” Kaveh breathes, like he’s just been stabbed with a particularly pretentious dagger. “Oh, so now you’re anti-poetry.”
“I’m anti-delusion.”
“And yet you look in the mirror every morning.”
Or, how two men weaponize rhetorical praxis to avoid admitting they care.
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The Man in the Mirror by NeurotropicAgentX
Fandoms: Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, Star Trek: The Original Series, Star Trek: The Original Series (Movies)
27 Oct 2025
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In a timeline where Section 31 was unable to successfully produce a bioweapon against the Founders (despite pouring near-endless resources into the project), the Dominion War still ends in roughly the same fashion, give or take a few lines in a few treaties.
Without Sisko’s support and a war that necessitates Starfleet accepting all the medical help it can get, Julian finds his career options as a known Augment narrowing. Sloan offers him a dubious opportunity that might be a way to allay Starfleet’s concerns - if Julian can stomach it after their previous two encounters.
Section 31, however, has something in its basement more dangerous than just war-crimes and records of assisted coups. They have something compelling and seductive that could pull Julian into a world that has haunted him all his life, even while the Federation had left it behind long ago.
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The Crane Sings Of Freedom | The Manifesto Of Prophet Maverick by TypicalMan0124
Fandoms: School Bus Graveyard (Webcomic)
01 Oct 2025
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After the hostile takeover of the headquarters of Crane, Ashlyn Banner and the gang make it to Maverick’s study. In his hand is a pencil, and on the desk in front of him is a hastily scrawled message on top of a small book.
Maverick is dead before he knows it — shot and killed by Logan Fields. The Six finally have a moment to rest, and with that time, Ashlyn walks over to the desk that Maverick’s corpse lays in front of, and moves the note out of the way, picking up the book. She calls the other five over, and they begin to analyze the cover, and its contents.Alternate Summary: A manifesto written by Maverick talking about his past, his ideals, and his plans.
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In the days following the core collapse the drones of Copper-9 rose from its ashes to rebirth society anew. The tribulations, struggles and accomplishments of these drones were swept away in the chaos of the companies return. But this history was never forgotten, for those who lived through it all, the core collapse, the chaos, violence and hope of the early days, to the great tragedy of the Murder drones arrival. In the hard drives and in their cold steel hearts the memories of the days before the doors must be chronicled and remembered, an old drone takes on this task, to remember the dreams they once had, and the path that led them to the recesses of the earth. Before the disassemblers, before the doors, there was a dream, a world of drones where their destinies were their own and the world theirs to fight over - this is that tale, from beginning to end of the great nations of old new Copper-9.
This is the Tale of Three Doors, from the days before its inception, to the day the last bulwark closed their hopes to the world. A chronicle of the rise and fall of drone society on Copper-9.
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oh how much i am deprived of my own being! a being that i am! yet maybe you took it from me so that i won’t suffer from the malady that is ‘being’. yet all i thought was THIS is the actual suffering for you to wash away all my sinful being.
for i am deprived of it.
and i am gifted for it.
for that i shall bask myself in your glory. for that i shall sing your song to sleep, a deep eternal sleep. -
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In which Catch-22 is an infinite loop, and the characters are doomed to repeat it continuously. Between loops, Clevinger and Dunbar discuss the meaning of life.
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In the months following the Battle of Yavin, Jyn and Cassian are sent to the city of Janos, the heart of the troubled Lant Mining Corporation. Their task: disrupt corporate operations, and foment insurrection. But the revolution will not be shown on the holos, and it cannot be controlled - nor, for that matter, can its consequences.
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Karthago Delenda Est by ManiaManiaMania
Fandoms: Classical Greece and Rome History & Literature RPF, The Aeneid - Virgil
03 Jan 2024
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Carthage and Rome have been fucking each other over for generations. But what if... they fucked each other... in their sloppy imperial holes?
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Derrotado mais uma vez numa disputa de intelectos, Ominis se farta da situação e toma o que deseja de Rosalie.
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- Português brasileiro
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Berhenti mencoba, Dazai, kau tahu pasti cara untuk berhenti.
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Another in-world tumblr post. Dark satire.
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A retelling of the MASH episode "The Novocaine Mutiny" from within the Reds! universe.
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Another day of surgery at the fighting' MASH 4077 in sweaty, miserable Vietnam. But tidings of news - Commander Jessup Blake is finally set to go home.
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Satire. Similar in style to some previous things. A post from in-world tumblr.
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The Glorious Scalpel of Revolutionary Anger by boothnat
Fandoms: 明日方舟 | Arknights (Video Game), SPY x FAMILY (Anime)
21 Nov 2022
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Everyone loves their first Isekai!
Probably.
Look, to me it doesn't seem like a faulty assumption- you're depressed, you're on boring old vanilla Earth, and then you get tossed into a world with a family that loves you, enemies you can beat, and social issues that while very sad and in need of resolution, ultimately don't affect you.That was great! I loved that. Was wonderful for my mental health.
Getting dumped into the flaming dumpster fire that is Terra, pulled away from my happy life with my family? Not a big fan of that. One star. Would not recommend.
Hey, at least I can punch some of my problems away. That's something, right?Series
- Part 1 of Societal Repair through Heavy Artillery
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With America embroiled in the all-encompassing inequities of the Gilded Age, as industrialists make their riches while the workers fight for their freedoms, a teenager's vicious account of a Chicago riot comes to color the class tensions of the era.
In this short piece of historical fiction, an ode to peaceful demonstration comes crashing down as bodies tangle and lives are lost, and violence remains the only path to salvation.
Contains light gore. Enjoy.
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You can't do it for them. It's only restricted for yours truly, the birthday girl!
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- Part 26 of Unofficial 2022 Love Live! Birthdays
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- Part 2 of bitter
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“You thought I needed cheering up, like a child?” He says, trying to alleviate his giggles, and only partially succeeding. “That is the opposite of flattering, Zhongli. You’re correct, that does further my perception that you think of me as weak and insignificant.” He turns away, moving to go grab his discarded boots and jacket.
“No, that is not what I think at all. Your strength could be greater than Celestia itself, and I would still have given you my coat.”
Tartaglia stops.
For Tartaglia, it’s easier to lie to himself than to anyone else.
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Churning With You (v1) by Rambling_Chantrix
Fandoms: Are You the One? (TV), Original Work, Sad Porn about the End of the World
27 Jul 2022
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Note: ran into difficulties. Am doing a full rewrite. Please hold for v2!
Four years after the events of Burning With You, Lamb and Hesther—academic acquaintances, friends, occasional lovers, mistress and bound succubus—join the cast of a unique season of Are You The One?. Will they find their respective perfect matches on an island paradise?
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- Part 2 of With You