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As a new member of The Fun Gang, you thought it'd be good to ask Ralsei for some tips on how to be a better support. Ralsei sees this as an opportunity, and so he seizes it.
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14 Jun 2025
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The room you’re in is dark. There’s a bed underneath you. Where are you now? The night before the House might be the answer—
No, that was looong past now, wasn’t it? You got out, didn’t you? This isn’t real, you must be having some strange… dream.
Your eye sees your hands. No, no no no no no! Those aren’t your hands, not anymore!~
So then WHY ARE THEY ATTACHED TO YOU RIGHT NOW.
(Or: the Universe took "I'll join you and become one?" in a very different direction than desired by any parties involved)
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- Part 2 of Joined again
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03 Jun 2025
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Instinct Like the Pull of the Sun by Alya (Aniyha)
Fandoms: In Stars And Time (Video Game)
15 May 2025
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Loups-garous are venerated by followers of Change, but all Siffrin can see when he shifts is a monster. Luckily for them, Isabeau is around to give them a bit of perspective.
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03 Jun 2025
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You’re the shoulder people will allow themselves to lean on even if they know they should stand on their own two feet, and you don’t have advice but you promise to be there, and you stick to it.
Unlike your squadmates, you receive not a single reprimand— you never need any higher up to step in and correct, to smooth over a mean act. The only time you are called up is to be praised, and you luxuriate in it.
You have plans, ambitions. You have thoughts.
You have enough apprehension to be mistaken for fear.
(or, in which Isabeau feels control)
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- Part 3 of changeling
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02 Jun 2025
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The thing about self-supporting systems was that, if there wasn’t redundant measures, any small flaw was enough to make things stop working.
The thing about stress was that it tended to make people worse. And one of the most common ways people got worse was by becoming unreliable.
That sounded mean. But it wasn’t wrong .
Any other words you could come up with wouldn’t have softened the blow. Unsteady, untrustworthy.
The crux of the matter was that stress tended to make people slip up. Lose control. And when they did, they tried to regain it, but their nerves had gotten jittery, so they would eventually slip up again, get frustrated, and—
And it would take the smallest things for them to blow up, or collapse.
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Stress made people worse. And you were very, very stressed.
(Or, in which Mirabelle thinks about stress, people, and lowercase c changes.)
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- Part 2 of changeling
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02 Jun 2025