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    The Kingdom of Skaia is an oppressive hegemony. Most of its eligible men are fed to a constant war against the distant Republic of Alternia. The others are left to live mundane lives of wildly variable comfort. For Karkat Vantas, self-styled revolutionary, life is a day-to-day slog of collecting and selling assorted trash.

    Then, there's Dave Strider, one of two Lalonde Press heirs. Despite his wealth, he prefers his job as the late-night variety radio host at Skaia Central Station. When he's not obsessively cataloging and collecting new music, he's using one of Lalonde Press' old backrooms to print and distribute illicit anti-imperial materials.

    (Title from Selwyn S. Schwartz's poem, "Soldier Boy".)

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    30 Jul 2025

  2. Public Bookmark 18

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    That said, you are a person of restraint. There is no need to sit on your hands because your hands aren’t grasping towards anything in the first place, and are perfectly fine staying right where they are. You have self-control, damnit.

    But acting out in reality is very different from fiction and Dave Strider is writhing on your couch again, his cast sandwiched between his thighs as he tries to win a war against his bladder.

    There’s movement in the corner of your eye and you witness him lurch into the pillow, cramming it deeper with a louder, resounding whine. It's official, there is no god. Not on your side at least. This is torture and you hate yourself.

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    23 Jun 2025

  3. Public Bookmark 20

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    Dave Strider is twenty-three years old, and for the past three years he has finally gotten to live a normal life; a retired monster hunter living in a town near the Rainbow Falls in New York. Though, it’s been a month since he’s even heard from his new best friend, and his old instincts tell him that it can’t mean anything good.

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    23 Jun 2025

  4. Public Bookmark 19

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    "They think I'm mad. The University refused funding, the Archaeological Society laughed me out of their quarterly meeting, and even Roberts, my most loyal colleague, has abandoned the expedition. But I know what I saw in those fragments from the '48 dig. The symbols on the cartouche don't match any known dynasty, and the material composition is unlike anything documented in Egyptian archaeology."

    —From the Personal Journal of Jacob Harley, March 3, 1958

    Almost seventy years later, Jacob's granddaughter Jade finally proves he wasn't crazy. The device buried beneath Egyptian sands is real, and what lies beyond that ancient ring will change everything.

    When John Egbert reluctantly accepts command of humanity's first team through the portal, he expects a routine mission. Instead, he finds himself leading a team of Earth’s brightest into a universe far stranger and more dangerous than Earth ever imagined.

    Some doors, once opened, can never be closed again.

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    23 Jun 2025

  5. Public Bookmark 96

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    Peter fights a villain who uses a bio-engineered dart to kill their enemies in brutal ways. It interacts with his modified biology in a way none of them could possibly imagine.

    [Also known as; wings and whump!]
    [Title from Make me a Bird by Elektrik People.]
    COMPLETED!!

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    06 Feb 2025