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Safe Ship (Harbored) by thornsy (KCHL)
Fandoms: Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid, Heated Rivalry (TV)
11 Feb 2026
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She’s protective of Shane, is the thing. It feels sometimes like she’s known both him and Hayden her whole life. Like she’s grown up with Shane as her little brother and Hayden as his best friend. Some whirlwind coming-of-age story locked away in the attic with all the other books from her childhood she’ll show to the kids when they’re older. She thinks maybe she was too lonely growing up – thinks, sometimes, it’s why she was so happy when the twins were born, her Ruby only had to spend twenty-three minutes alone in this world. She thinks Shane was lonely, too. So, she’s filled the void with a hockey player as she is wont to do, and he’s filled that same void with her. She’s protective, is the point.
So, when she unfolds the slip of paper and sees a string of digits and the name Lily, she knows exactly what she’s holding.
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Kingfisher and Loon by thornsy (KCHL)
Fandoms: Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid
01 Feb 2026
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Scott doesn’t know what to make of Rozanov still. He’d appreciated him showing up at that bar in Vegas, had curiously watchedhim dance with men with all the air of someone who knew what he was doing, had shaken off the weirdness of watching Ilya Rozanov in a gay bar in Vegas pull another man in by the belt loops and ghost a breath over his ear. He thinks Rozanov went home alone that night. He’s not sure. He doesn’t know which answer would surprise him more.
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the one where Scott finds out
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Silver (beats the devil) by thornsy (KCHL)
Fandoms: Life Series | 3rd Life SMP Series, Empires SMP, Hermitcraft SMP
25 Jul 2025
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It shows up on an unassuming morning, bright and glittering in the centre of town. Purple swirls in a pitch-black frame, dancing in the sunlight like nothing Mumbo’s ever seen before. When he looks out his window, he can see it.
He goes to work like he normally would, though the takes a wide berth around it, following the throws of people also straying from their usual paths right across the market square. The café he gets his breakfast at is emptier than usual, and he has a sneaking suspicion that some Grimm fae have decided to avoid the square altogether.
Mumbo can’t, though, since he works here.
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- Part 10 of Cracksiverse
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The Tide's Slow (the river moves fast) by thornsy (KCHL)
Fandoms: 3rd Life | Last Life SMP Series, Empires SMP
03 Jun 2025
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A short walk away, back in the castle, an exhausted owl collapses on Emperor Consort Smajor’s desk, worn out from the fastest flight of its life.
Attached to its foot is a short letter – more of a note, really, scribbled on a scrap of paper. The edges are singed slightly in spots. It’s tied to the owl with a strip of fabric that looks like it was cut from someone’s robes, rather than a piece of string.
The message itself is short, only four words.
“Snow owl. Cuckoo’s nest.”
The paper reads. It’s meant for Scott’s eyes and nobody else’s. Martyn finds it instead.
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- Part 9 of Cracksiverse
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You and Me (won't be unhappy) by thornsy (KCHL)
Fandoms: 3rd Life | Last Life SMP Series, Empires SMP
18 Mar 2025
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Scott bows before his parents as he enters the room, barely managing to suppress the hand that wants to reach up and fix his hair further. There’s still some purple hair clinging to him from where he’d fixed Xornoth’s hair in the hallway. He knows his mother will be mad at him for it.
Next to him, Xornoth also dips into a bow. They’re angry, of course, as they always are, and Scott prays to Aeor that his brother’s anger won’t boil over today.
He can’t remember the last time he heard his father speak.
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- Part 8 of Cracksiverse
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God's Very Simple (love shouldn't burn) by thornsy (KCHL)
Fandoms: Empires SMP, 3rd Life | Last Life SMP Series
01 Mar 2025
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In the time Before, when fae still lived in their own realms and nothing roamed our Continent with thumbs to create or minds to conceptualize, there exists the start of something terrible and infinite. Endless cycles, for all their cyclical nature and lack of endings, must still start somewhere. This, too, is true about the Clash of the Stags.
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- Part 7 of Cracksiverse
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Light the Fuse (lean into the blast) by thornsy (KCHL)
Fandoms: 3rd Life | Last Life SMP Series, Empires SMP
25 Feb 2025
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When Scott wakes up, it’s to the sun shining bright into his window and an arm slung around his waist. He allows himself to bask in it a moment, ducking further under the covers and into his husband’s arms. The morning can wait a moment longer, preferably for when Scott’s head stops pounding.
Jimmy mumbles something sleepily as he pulls Scott closer, arm squeezing around his middle for a moment.
“Morning can wait,” Jimmy mumbles into his skin, and Scott is rather inclined to agree with him. Unfortunately, they both have empires to run.
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- Part 6 of Cracksiverse
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I Started Running (nowhere to run to) by thornsy (KCHL)
Fandoms: Empires SMP, 3rd Life | Last Life SMP Series
18 Jan 2025
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Scott’s eighteen when his world comes crumbling down.
On a cold autumn morning he decides it. He’s eighteen now, an adult by Rivendell’s standards, and therefore old enough to hire his own staff. He’s a prince, after all. So, he pulls out a map of the empire, splays it out on the main table, and lets his eyes glide along it to its northernmost point.
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- Part 3 of Cracksiverse
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Lift Me Higher (let me look at the sun) by thornsy (KCHL)
Fandoms: 3rd Life | Last Life SMP Series, Empires SMP
11 Jan 2025
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It's alive. Maybe. Maybe it’s got a brief shot at being alive and sentient and more conscious than the sun has permitted it to be before. Maybe there is a split-second where the sun hits it just right and evokes the illusion of something more. Something that’s worthy of a name that bears repeating – a life that’s actually worth living.
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- Part 5 of Cracksiverse
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A Mountain Song (chills my warm skin) by thornsy (KCHL)
Fandoms: Empires SMP, 3rd Life | Last Life SMP Series
07 Jan 2025
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Since the assassinations, the general mood in Rivendell has been weird, to say the least.
He knows they whisper amongst themselves when they spot him on the balcony, the ravine they owe their name to beneath him. He bows his head there, sometimes, and shoots a prayer up to a silent god. Neither of them are permitted choices now.
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Prince Smajor, in the wake of his parents being assassinated and his brother being crowned Emperor, addresses the crowd.
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- Part 4 of Cracksiverse
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Hold Me Closer (although you leave before the sunrise) by thornsy (KCHL)
Fandoms: Empires SMP, 3rd Life | Last Life SMP Series
01 Jan 2025
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“You come here often?” Skizz starts with a wink, putting the mead down in front of prince Smajor.
The prince rolls his eyes at his antics but does gratefully pull the mead towards himself.
“Yes, actually,” Smajor says, “do you?”
Skizz knows the reputation this bar has – knows that very few people will be leaving here alone today – but that’s an invitation if he’s ever heard it, and he’s in a reckless mood.
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The start of something beautiful and finite
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- Part 2 of Cracksiverse
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The Cracks in the Lake (a mighty fine grave) by thornsy (KCHL)
Fandoms: Empires SMP, 3rd Life | Last Life SMP Series
31 Dec 2024
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He's engaged.
As of this afternoon he’s officially engaged to be wed to the Codfather, whom he’s never met. Of course, this is an expected reality for him – he’s a prince, after all – but still. Some part of him had hoped he’d get to choose
Two weeks from now, Scott will meet his husband, and he will have to make his peace with whoever he finds.
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- Part 1 of Cracksiverse
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5 times Impulse worries about the life series winners, and the one time he doesn't.
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Major is dead. Now, nearly a year later and with an eternal winter threatening the world, his old allies need his help again. Could a local necromancer have the solutions they seek? Or is there more to this story than even Scott's closest friends know?
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“Yes, uh-“ fWhip only just manages to not spill tea everywhere as he begins to speak, “we need your help with something. I’m sure you can imagine what,” he says, leaning back in his chair.
“Oh? Do enlighten me just to be sure,” Cleo replies, planting both of her elbows on the table as she locks eyes with him.
“The frost, Cleo. It’s snowing in June,” fWhip says, refusing to break eye contact.
"'Frozen' and 'dead' are two very different states of being."
"I know," fWhip replies, "which is why we need someone who's both."
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Here’s the issue: the date went well.
The guy-of-the-week Katherine had set him up with this time was perfectly sweet. He was funny without dominating the conversation, he had a completely normal job, and he seemed genuinely interested in whatever Scott was talking about at any given moment – and he’d started ranting about specific Pantone colours at one point, so that was quite the achievement. He’d even paid for both of them, without ever pushing Scott into going home with him. It had been a perfectly pleasant night of good food and better company and returning to the safety of his own apartment afterwards.//
A reflection upon grief and the way it stops you in your tracks, and what it takes to go on.
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"She'd used Wilbur's lighter for the first time during Doomsday, and it had been Wilbur's spark that lit the L’Mantree, finally finishing his work."
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aka Niki and Techno try to work through some things together
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“Maybe we don't let Techno near him, not yet at least. You know how he gets around kids.”
It's an offhand comment, one that Techno was never supposed to overhear, definitely not one he should be lying awake at night thinking about. But Techno remembers being fifteen, being way too young to be doing what he's doing, and having his companion through it all walk in one day with a kid by his side.
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Techno hates kids, right?
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There are three common interpretations of the story of Orpheus and Euridyce, specifically pertaining to why Orpheus, knowing it would cost him his lover, turned around to greet her one final time, only to see her soul dragged back to the Underworld.
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Wilbur's Pogtopia arc told through Orpheus and Euridyce
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“You don't have to count for me, Phil. I'm not twelve anymore,” Techno whispered against the fragile peace, only getting a snicker in return.
“We both know stopping would cost me my feet, Techno.”
Techno snorted softly, faking annoyance. His antics didn't faze Phil these days, though, and the older let out a light laugh as he continued leading Techno.
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Five times Techno follows and the one time he leads.
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what tore us apart, rebuilds us again by thornsy (KCHL)
Fandoms: Video Blogging RPF, mcyt, DreamSMP
08 Feb 2021
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“I never asked for your name, by the way, you mind telling me?” Bill asked then, motioning for a waitress to fill his mug again.
“It's Techno.”
“I'll forgive you the weird name since you're American. You're here with the Ferry?”
Techno chuckled a little.
“Yeah, second voyage. And the name is more of a nickname that just kinda stuck. Not much use for legal names now anyways.”
Bill shrugged, nodding slightly.
“Well the name's familiar at least, are you one of Phil's not-kids?” He asked, thanking the waitress in between breaths. Techno just nodded as an answer and smiled to himself. Phil was alive, and that was all that mattered.
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The end of times has come and gone, now Techno has to find his family in the rubble.