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The downing of the Aurora was one tragedy among many in the long history of Planet 4546B, but it is, perhaps, one you can survive.
Once a young boy stood on a sterile, white sand shore, dreaming of the stars.
After the fetters of broken dreams rain down with the thousands of red-hot meteors that scatter across an endless ocean with no hint of land in sight--maybe this tragedy will set you free.
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A gamebreaking glitch tore the game session to shreds, right before they reached the end. Dirk Strider was already dead at the time. Temporarily. Which left him to revive in the aftermath. As the Prince of Heart, he doesn't have much experience putting souls back together, only breaking them, but at this point he seems to be the only one who even knows shit is broken.
He's the last person who'd trust himself with this. Not when he's out of time, out of place, and over his head being responsible for a little brother, a life, and a body his conveniently dead asshole of a splinterself already, thoroughly fucked up.
AKA: A game crash creates an unholy mashup of who the hell knows how many sburb sessions, and Dirk-as-Bro attempts to figure out wtf happened and how to fix shit for the brother who fears him, and the friends who don’t remember him. Because that’s what he does. But no Dirk has ever excelled when truly alone. Good thing he isn’t, he just needs to learn how to accept the help.
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- Part 2 of Memory Not Found: Shatterstuck
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Game Over wasn't an end.
It was a beginning.
Change one thing, and a new pattern emerges.
This drive is a little too fucked up for a simple Defrag to work.
AKA: Dragged forcibly from the void of non-existence, Dirk Strider is shoved into a life he doesn't want. A responsibility he hates. And a second chance he does not believe he deserves. Especially when that second chance comes with baggage he can't afford to just up and drop.
Three people lived in that apartment before. Three people have to live in it now. Someone has to be the adult here and he sure as shit is lacking in qualifications.
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- Part 3 of Memory Not Found: Shatterstuck
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Once was an Accident.
Two was a Coincidence.
Three...there's gotta be some Sburbnanigans going on. Kids don't just fall from the sky!
Just when things were settling down, it became very clear that DARquius was not the only one to fall between the cracks. Be careful what you wish for.
Spin-off of Beneath the Glitch and the Damned & Ersatz Abyss.
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- Part 2 of After and Again
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John turned more than a page.
When a timeline is undone, what else is there to do but fall?
When the story moves on, when the lens of the narrative fades away to black, who tells those who lived it?
You did not want to die.
D isn't sure if he did.
What's one more note, shoved haphazardly into a requiem the Gods left behind? A key change that dissolves the chords into chaotic dissonance.
Two (three) notes that were never meant to meet.
It's not their fault Sburb and anything related sounds completely bonkers when you haven't lived it.
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- Part 1 of After and Again
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A game-breaking glitch shattered the session right before the game was won, but like all games, sburb has it's recovery protocols. Unfortunately, said protocols splintered everything across the known universe, and if this remixed Delta Session is going to get back on it's feet, Dirk is going to have to find them all before the reckoning catches up with them again, all while navigating the horrors of modern life and doing his best to not fuck up raising a child. But he accepted the responsibility of his splinters and he's going to follow through with it, because that's what a Heart player does.
Basically the Strider family figuring out wtf to do with feelings shit with a side of broken sburb nonsense.
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Sixteen years ago he lost his brother.
Thirteen years ago he lost the chance to get to know him again.
Is the third time the charm? Or will it all crash and burn?
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Shorts relating to King Asgore and how he handles the death of children.
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Owls and Souls, Witches and Resonance by Jarl_of_the_North
Fandoms: The Owl House (Cartoon), Soul Eater
01 Nov 2025
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We all know the story. The Witches held a nigh unbreakable sway over the world, abusing their magical powers with reckless abandon until the Grim Reaper led a war upon them with humanity, breaking their hold and defeating their evil... but, perhaps, the tale is not so clear cut as the history books say. This is the story of a Death Scythe's daughters, and the people they love.
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12 Jul 2025
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Surviving and a failure to thrive aren't mutually exclusive. Things rack up. Injuries don't always get the chance to heal. Appetites wither in the face of repeated and prolonged stress. He's keeping up, but he isn't. He's making it through, but not well. Supplies continue to dwindle, and he's feeling the toll.
Dirk Strider's life has never been easy. But if humanity's hallmarks advertise anything, it's tenacity above all adversity, and, above all else: Adaptability.
Now, who could blame him for taking that to heart?
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17 Oct 2024
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Imbibition (Or: How To Cope With The Dead God In Your Mirror) by Alex_HellStorm
Fandoms: The Owl House (Cartoon)
01 Nov 2025
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When a young Luz Noceda decides to drink the "potion" she finds, she was not expecting to end up with her reflection being replaced with a dark figure in the shape of a horned skeletal beast staring at her. Nor was she expecting to have her dreams filled with nightmarish lands, walking across black fur and twisting veins.
And if it had been anyone else subjected to this, they would see this as an unending hell.
Good thing Luz wasn't just anyone.
Grabbing her glitter pen and sparkly notebook, this small child is going to crack open the mysteries of her new friend "Skulley" and the weird patterns lining them, unlocking the magic she's certain lies within.
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The Titan, Father of Witchkind and Demonkind, The Boiling Ilse itself has spent its afterlife trapped, waiting to succumb to "The Dark Place" where it lays and rots. The most it can do is watch their children be led to their deaths by a false prophet, unable to do a thing to stop it. The only thing distracting it from it's misery are the hallucinations of a small colorful blur whispering questions to it excitedly. A light in the dark, as it were.But is it just a hallucination?
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11 Jan 2022
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Dirk returns to his old childhood home several years after an incident took place, ready to move on with his life and put old superstitions to bed.
But maybe those urban legends aren't so unfounded after all.
Bookmarked by Katreal
04 Jan 2022