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    1930s journalist/photographer AU

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  1. Public Bookmark 10

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    It's been a year since his fateful simulator run, and Gordon Freeman has long since returned to the truth of his real life: PhD dropout, living alone, holding onto his research tech job at Black Mesa by a thread. But when his AI companions arrive at his employee dorm, inexplicably in the flesh, they bring a dire warning that will once again upend Gordon's entire reality. As they set off in search of a mysterious technology from Black Mesa's defunct rival company, everything would be a hell of a lot easier if they weren't also on the run from the authorities.

    Oh, and if the science team hadn't decided to bring Benrey along. Fuck.

    [ACT 1 COMPLETE! Future acts in progress.]

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    19 May 2026

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    Spiritual Successor to "It Came From the Vents." Gordon Freeman has spent three years trying to stabilize the AIs he befriended after a disastrous end to a military project. He's stolen company property, ignored his family, and neglected himself in hopes of success. Now that he's made progress, it's becoming increasingly apparent that one of the AIs in question may not be a program at all. No one can say for certain what this revelation will lead to, but one thing's for sure: HR is going to have a field day with this one.

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    02 Mar 2026

  3. Public Bookmark 5

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    Arthur wondered, sometimes, what it would be like to die for real. Permanently, definitively, no chance of coming back to the sound of a heart monitor and a doctor shining a light into his eyes. It wouldn't be like it was in dreams, he thought. It wouldn't be an awakening, a desperate reaching, lungs burning, until you broke the surface of reality. It wouldn't feel like a relief.

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    09 Nov 2025

  4. Public Bookmark 8

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    Eames is trying to propose to Arthur. Why is the universe so set against them?

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    14 Aug 2021

  5. Public Bookmark 96

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    A discussion of trauma, treason, and a silver lining or two

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    04 Apr 2020