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The Hatchling fumbled the fingers of their gloves together and turned their helmet away. “I’m not just going to- I mean, I want you to come with me.”
Gabbro stared while they ambled after their thoughts, which had scattered across the many winds of Giant’s Deep.
“Gabbro?”
Their ears bumped against the inside of their helmet as they returned to attention. They rolled their shoulders and went back to laying in their hammock. That hadn’t been quite enough time to process an answer, but they found themself replying anyway. “Whatever you want to do, buddy. You’re the one with a dry ship. It’s your call.”Bookmarked by Staringatablankpage
13 Oct 2025
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Your works will be remembered. Your song will be sung.
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13 Oct 2025
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Slate was getting ready for the new launch, prepping the rocket and getting everything in order while the Hatchling took their traditional campout under the stars. Of course, Slate always thought that just made the new astronauts jumpy, but what did the know? Not like they've seen every previous astronaut off and they always went a little stir crazy before launch. Although, it was odd really.
Did the Hatchling always stare like that?
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06 Oct 2025
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Feldspar is back! So that wedge is gone at least.
But are there more things to be fixed? And can they be fixed?or: Gossan and Slate have a talk.
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- Part 4 of Rondo's Foundersverse
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05 Oct 2025
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The Hatchling did it. They've explored the solar system, reached the Eye, and completed the legacy of the Nomai. They said goodbye and hello simultaneously. They let go. So why do they wake up staring at Giant's Deep? And why is the Orbital Probe Cannon still intact? Perhaps by exploring the solar system again they can find out exactly what happened when they entered the Eye of the Universe.
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- Part 1 of And the universe breathes.
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01 Oct 2025
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Gossan can't keep staring at the ceiling and worrying. Waiting for morning will put them in a terrible mood which is going to make Obsidian nervous when they come to say their good-bye in the morning. With a huff they kick their blankets up and get up to get ready for the day.
There are still a few hours before they can go wait for Obsidian in Zero-G cave. If they show up too soon, Hornfels will inevitably find out they didn't sleep and fret. That's okay though, Gossan still needs to sew the patch on to the hatchlings flight jacket anyways. They are hoping that the surprise will put the young pilot into a more confident space.
A series of one-shots of Gossan reflecting on their relationship with pilot-types. Starting with the loss of Feldspar and ending with the end of universe.
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30 Sep 2025
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Off the Marshmallow Stick and Into the Campfire by awanderingmuse
Fandoms: Outer Wilds (Video Game)
15 Apr 2025
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The light of the exploding singularity is brighter than anything Obsidian has ever imagined. Breathtaking as a spark of hope when they thought everything was lost. Obsidian would know, they'd worn that feeling like a second skin, loop, after loop, after loop. The feeling still holds them even as pure light, pure possibility, consumes them. Then, nothing.
Obsidian wakes up…
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30 Sep 2025
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There's only so much you can do to in a 22 minute time loop that ends in the sun going supernova. You've tried a whole lot of what you can do, but at some point, there's a change that needs to happen, and you have to try something new.
So you can try to fix it, or give up. You're leaning on the former.
But as you realize, it's a painfully hard job to keep a dying universe from going out completely.
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28 Sep 2025
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It's been loops. Granite knows what they have to do. They are not doing it. But, someone just did something Granite hasn't ever see them do in the time loop.
Alt: How do you get *sick* of *marshmallows*?
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28 Sep 2025
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What's The Best Planet In The System For Date Night by PoisonHemloc
Fandoms: Outer Wilds (Video Game)
19 Mar 2023
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Gossan is always out of sorts on the anniversary of Feldspar's disappearance. Porphy would like to distract them.
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20 Sep 2025
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A new astronaut is launching today! They just woke up-
Why are they crying. What do they mean, they were on the Interloper, they haven't even launched yet.
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20 Sep 2025
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Feldspar's been stuck in Dark Bramble for... a while, but it's fine, they're taking a break! Hey is that light another anglerfish
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18 Sep 2025
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The More the Merrier (Or So They Say) by Schrodingers_Rufus
Fandoms: Outer Wilds (Video Game)
09 Oct 2021
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Being stuck in a time loop is lonely work, but is finding company worth the cost?
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18 Sep 2025
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every word is a word made for saying goodbye by anodymalion
Fandoms: Outer Wilds (Video Game)
14 Apr 2024
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"Huh, Gabbro? What's wrong?" Riebeck asks, and Chert says with vindictive glee, "That's what I said!"
"Is it really so hard to believe that I'd call my two best friends just to see how they're doing?" Gabbro asks.
"Yes," they both say in unison.
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18 Sep 2025
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"There's something down there," you say, as afternoon light catches something metallic in the subterranean caves, something unknown flashes like the sun on the scales of the silver fish that swim in the river outside the crater.
"Gabbro says that before Slate made the big rockets, they used the geysers to help launch the first ships. We were too little to remember. Lots of the first ships didn't make it. The water came up and just blew them apart."
"Gabbro says a lot of things. Gabbro says there are trees that move around when you're not looking at them."
"Gabbro's going to be a real astronaut soon," Hal says, and you can feel their forehead wrinkle in doubt. Gabbro is the best at stories, but they're also the best at tricks and pranks, so it's a tough call which of you is more right.
You both fall into thoughtful silence, and if you squint against the dark and the deep you can kind of identify the silver something as a fuel canister, or maybe a tin of salted fish. But that might just as well be regular old garbage from when the grown ups stay up too late and drink too much, and not the remains of a broken rocket that couldn't make it into space.
It's a thought worth thinking about, though.
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18 Sep 2025
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Hatchling stumbles into Gabbro's camp in search for their secret remedy stash. Why? ... For science of course.
Or maybe just to avoid thinking. About uncomfortable things.
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15 Sep 2025
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“Hey, I thought I might see you before the big launch,” you call out as they approach you. “Nerves getting the better of you?”
They don't reply, just... look at you for a while. They slowly scan over your clothes, your hands, your face, lingering at your scarred eye.
You arch a brow at them. “Need something, hatchling?”
Eventually, they settle within themself, square their shoulders, and look at you. “Think you can give me a hand with something for a minute?”
or - a series of goodbyes that didn't stick.
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15 Sep 2025
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So Gabbro’s always gotten a giggle or two out of a twisted situation. So Shale’s getting more morbid by the hour. So they’re both more than a little sick in the head by now.
All this to say—you can’t really blame them for making the joke, can you?
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A story about loneliness, and laughing not to cry, and whether Time Buddies can just be buddies too.
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14 Sep 2025
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“Come on, get up. We’re going together.”
Riebeck’s fingers falter on their instrument. A note bends in the melody. “Uh, sorry? I don’t, you want me to…?”
You lift your gaze up. The bridge is practically framing their spherical helmet, almost mockingly close. Nothing shaken loose yet.
“The Hanging City,” you say. “You always wanted to see it, right? So we’re going. Right now.”
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14 Sep 2025
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The Rule of Quantum Certainty (or: i'll still be here if you blink) by TimeturnerJay
Fandoms: Outer Wilds (Video Game)
07 Jul 2023
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Gabbro sees their Time Buddy dying. dead.
Things change, after that.- Language:
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13 Sep 2025