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    "In art, chiaroscuro (...) is the use of strong contrasts between light and dark, usually bold contrasts affecting a whole composition." (Wikipedia).

    How long can a lie remain a lie before it becomes a justification to linger? For how long can one lie about motivations before the lie becomes their truth?

    Shadow Milk Cookie makes good on his threat that Pure Vanilla Cookie's kindness will be his undoing. He arrives in the Vanilla kingdom asking for help, lying that his followers have turned on him and his magic is gone. This lie wraps him up in itself until he is completely enmeshed, unable to tell where the lie ends, and where his true motivations begin. That lie becomes an excuse to linger.

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    19/19
    Comments:
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    18 Jun 2025

  2. Public Bookmark 60

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    18 Jun 2025

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    This was no memory. He was actually here, back at the Silver Tree. Before the world collapsed, before the beasts were set free, before... everything. In a moment, they would fail to reseal the tree, setting Shadow Milk Cookie free from his restraints. There was still the possibility of this being one of Shadow Milk's games, but it just didn't make sense. He wouldn't be so foolish as to send Pure Vanilla into the past.

    He's in the past... Before everything went wrong. He had the chance to fix everything-- stop the beasts from spreading their chaos and destruction. Stop his friends from suffering. But, most importantly, he had the chance to speak to Shadow Milk again and understand him better-- to convince him that they truly were one in the same.

    It was a second chance.

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    Chapters:
    9/21
    Comments:
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    647
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    18 Jun 2025

  4. Public Bookmark 16

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    The Virtue of Knowledge, Blueberry Milk Cookie, starts to realize his soul jam has become corrupt. He scatters the corrupted pieces and keeps the pure untouched part for himself. He then disappears without a trace, leaving his other virtues with the grim misunderstanding that he is dead.

    Blueberry Milk doesn’t realize this simple action will set off a chain of events that will change everything.

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    Chapters:
    1/1
    Comments:
    14
    Kudos:
    258
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    16
    Hits:
    2,250

    10 Jun 2025

  5. Public Bookmark 54

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    A sequel to a Trick's Consequences.

    While Shadow Milk Cookie and Pure Vanilla Cookie are officially in a relationship it is not smooth sailing. The beasts are still at large and they won't let Shadow Milk turn a new page in his life.

    The Jester walking along the path of redemption will be faced with his friends and the trauma of his past.

    Will he walk through the other side with Pure Vanilla Cookie at his side?

    Or will he lose him forever?

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    Chapters:
    32/32
    Comments:
    438
    Kudos:
    319
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    54
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    10 Jun 2025

  6. Public Bookmark 96

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    10 Jun 2025

  7. Public Bookmark 29

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    10 Jun 2025

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    At the cusp of defeat, Shadow Milk gets transported to a backwards world: Dark Enchantress was sealed away before she could do any lasting damage, the Beasts never came to be, and the Ancients rule over an otherwise peaceful world.

    Oh, and apparently his counterpart is dead and hailed as a hero. Because his life wasn’t already complicated enough.

    OR

    What happens when the guy who basically saved all of cookiekind comes back as an evil, corrupted version of himself?

    Healing. Healing is what happens…hopefully.

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    Chapters:
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    Comments:
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    10 Jun 2025

  9. Public Bookmark 17

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    Shadow milk may have a massive crush on a certain vanillian, so they decide that the best way to handle this is to completely avoid him at all costs.

    Until theyre standing in the doorway of an unused bathroom looking at a sobbing curled up ball of vanilla.

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    Chapters:
    3/3
    Comments:
    23
    Kudos:
    210
    Bookmarks:
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    Hits:
    2,657

    10 Jun 2025

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    09 Jun 2025

  11. Public Bookmark 30

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    “You don’t get to wear that,” Shadow said, glaring at the Soul Jam like he could yank it off with his eyes. “Not like it’s yours.”

    Pure Vanilla blinked slowly then he gave a tight, polite smile and said, “Shadow Milk, per Royalberry Regulation 9.6, all students must maintain a minimum distance of two feet when… underdressed.” His gaze flicked down to the barely there towel, then back up without shame.

     

    Oh this asshole

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    Chapters:
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    Comments:
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    3,988

    09 Jun 2025

  12. Public Bookmark 36

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    Shadow Milk Cookie didn't say goodbye.
    No excuses to Candy Apple Cookie. No second glance at Black Sapphire. He just left.
    Just a pull in his chest—his soul jam—begging him to go through a portal toward something he couldn't explain.
    He landed just outside the borders of the Pure Vanilla Kingdom. He could've escaped. He had the chance. He would've—
    Until the scent of vanilla.
    Until the sheep.
    Until his voice.
    A flash of gold. A whispered spell.
    Pain in light that felt like it was splitting his soul in two.
    He tried to run.
    Instead, he woke up in a room he couldn't leave.
    Not bound by chains.
    Bound by the other half of himself.

    Language:
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    Chapters:
    7/?
    Comments:
    60
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    210
    Bookmarks:
    36
    Hits:
    4,321

    09 Jun 2025

  13. Public Bookmark 36

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    Burning Spice travels to Crispia to get revenge on Golden Cheese but when trying the local cuisine is disgusted by the food being bland and lacking spices. Burning spice puts his plans on hold to try and fix the disgrace that is the local cuisine resulting in him creating an influential restaurant. Hijinx follows just not in the way Burning Spice was expecting.

    Language:
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    Chapters:
    19/19
    Comments:
    42
    Kudos:
    334
    Bookmarks:
    36
    Hits:
    4,973

    08 Jun 2025

  14. Public Bookmark *

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    A final thought came to him.

    Eventually... He would slip into his permanent drift.

    Not sleep. Not death. Something slower. Quieter. A dream that never ends.

    In it, perhaps, he could build the world he never had. A world untouched by betrayal, unburdened by power.

    Or maybe… he’d dream of what came after. Where he no longer had to be good or wise or anything at all.

    Perhaps he’d see them again there, Eternal Sugar, Mystic Flour, Burning Spice, Silent Salt; shadows of themselves, softer, kinder.

    But maybe not.

    It didn’t matter.

    The dream would be his.
     

    Shadow Milk is torn between further corruption and redemption. But comfort is easy to fake. Paradise is easier to build when it’s built on lies. Maybe he’ll make his own.

     

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    Chapters:
    8/8
    Comments:
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    08 Jun 2025

  15. Public Bookmark 5

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    Shadow Milk has managed to get pills, which he chooses to use on the Truthless Recluse. Nothing could possibly EVER go wrong, could it?..

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    Chapters:
    3/3
    Comments:
    11
    Kudos:
    121
    Bookmarks:
    5
    Hits:
    2,553

    08 Jun 2025

  16. Public Bookmark 4

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    Shadow milk cookie is so conflicted about wether to accept pvcs offer that he passed out in his arms, so gingerbrave finds a cabin to hide out in gayness ensues

    [discontonued]

    Language:
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    Chapters:
    16/?
    Comments:
    7
    Kudos:
    63
    Bookmarks:
    4
    Hits:
    683

    08 Jun 2025

  17. Public Bookmark 99

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    I never expected this.

    Shadow milk showing up on my doorstep less than a month after our last battle.

    "Why are you here?" I ask, staring at him. He's injured. Clearly. Badly. But I cannot offer my help. Not until I know more. I simply cannot trust him the way I want to.

    "I-" he seems surprised by the question. He thinks for a moment, before sighing. "I didn’t know where else to go."

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    Shadow milk ends up making a habit of asking pure vanilla to patch him up when he gets into a fight, and things begin to escalate beyond his control.

    Language:
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    Chapters:
    2/2
    Comments:
    94
    Kudos:
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    Hits:
    10,055

    08 Jun 2025

  18. Public Bookmark 29

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    Shadow Milk floated once more, trying to go through again. Something completely solid was in his way. Was it an invisible wall of sorts?

    Whatever this stupid obstacle was, it prevented him from leaving. No matter. He can just float over it.

    …he could NOT, in fact, float over it, as there was some kind of invisible wall there too.

    (Plot is a bit inspired by Jambound!)

    In short: Shadow Milk is trapped in the Pure Vanilla Kingdom and cannot leave.

    Language:
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    Words:
    23,176
    Chapters:
    12/?
    Comments:
    44
    Kudos:
    200
    Bookmarks:
    29
    Hits:
    4,488

    08 Jun 2025

  19. Public Bookmark 66

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    Beast cookies didn't get sick. Shadow Milk Cookie couldn't get sick. That's what he'd been repeating in his head all day, and that was what he made himself believe. The haziness in his head was... he was just tired.

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    Shadow Milk gets sick but refuses to believe he's actually sick, brushing it off as magic exertion.

    - finished! -

    Series
    Language:
    English
    Words:
    6,634
    Chapters:
    5/5
    Comments:
    88
    Kudos:
    670
    Bookmarks:
    66
    Hits:
    6,971

    08 Jun 2025

  20. Public Bookmark 68

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    After Shadow Milk Cookie is defeated at the Spire of Deceit, he can't get the word "friend" out of his mind.

    Or: Shadow Milk only has half a soul and he blames Pure Vanilla and the Witches for all of his problems because of it

    Language:
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    Words:
    40,452
    Chapters:
    14/14
    Comments:
    70
    Kudos:
    461
    Bookmarks:
    68
    Hits:
    9,814

    08 Jun 2025

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