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A clapped out old Cloudmining Station beyond Alliance Space, with a slightly unsavoury past. A hot-shot Zero-Restrictions Level-13 tech from the Tokyo Cluster, named Imai Hisashi, arrives on a supply ship to do repairs, and finds the station has only one, very lonely inhabitant with a hole in their mind.
As he starts to repair the station - and the inhabitant - the truth slowly emerges about what and who he was running from, and the secret history of his lover, Acchan-92, whom he was forced to leave behind in the Tokyo Cluster.
See notes on the first chapter for general Content Notes. Individual chapters will have content warnings.
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Near-future London riven by climate change, plague riots and vast social inequality driven by surveillance capitalist algorithms depends on The Grid, a green energy system that enables the city to survive twice-daily tidal deluges since the Thames Barrier failed.
During a routine monitoring exercise, an eccentric team of data scientists and white-hat hackers record a mysterious electronic fungus attacking users before disappearing into The Grid's infrastructure. Soon, the distinctive algorithmic data signature of the fungus begins to appear all over the internet: trading turbulence in global financial markets; anonymous cyberattacks in Russia's ongoing proxy wars; and the micropayment trails of a dodgy diet app called Eat Light.
Forensics implicate two rival billionaires: Maverick electric car tycoon Billy Barbel, infamous for supporting the 'blood and soil' eco-terrorists eMerge, and his ex-business partner, Eris Bianjie, the elusive Chinese super-programmer behind The Grid’s technology. After years of NDA-enforced silence, she appears to be active again, releasing clever Grid hacks on CodeHub.
IPRA has only one week to stop the fungus - or is the fungus trying to warn them of something worse to come?
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Historical fantasy involving BUCK-TICK, but set in the universe of RF Kuang's The Poppy War.
At an obscure old inn, in a backwater village of Mugen's Northern Island, a teenage girl dreams of escaping from the drudgery of daily life.
Her life is turned upside-down when the poetry-loving playboy princeling, Sakurai Atsushi, is plucked out of his decadent life of wine, women and song amidst the Floating World of Mugen's Eastern Capital and forced to go on the run by vast political forces outside of his control. He is supported by his personal bodyguard, the Nikan-trained Shaman, General Imai of Sloth Clan; the Southern Islands' leader, Lord Hide of the Gorilla Clan; and the heirs to the Crow Clan of the Northern Island, the Higuchi Brothers, Toll and Yuta.
This is set about a century before Kuang's books, during Nikan's Warring States period. Generations after the death of the Red Emperor, while the 12 feuding warlords of Nikan are at each others throats, the Mugen Federation break away from the Nikaran Union. As two massive empires slide ever closer to war, can Sakurai and the Inkeeper's beautiful daughter prevent the inevitable outbreak of the First Poppy War, or will they rush headlong into it?
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In the darkest depths of 2020's Lockdown, Atsushi is worried about the guitarist he's been in unrequited love with for nearly 40 years. An unexpected text message prompts him to dig through old memories, from the first time they met, to the sexy games they once played onstage.
But it turns out, Imai has been worrying about him, too.
(This is mostly fluff. I was going to say there was no sex at all in it, but actually there are a few brief sexual references because: Atsushi.)
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It’s 1994, and the hottest nightspot in New York City is the Limelight, a sprawling super-club in a labyrinthine church on the edge of downtown, known for its drug-fuelled debauchery as much as the music of its legendary dancefloors.
DJ Alice (of Clockwork Sky, London) is the resident DJ in the Groovie Ghoolies lounge, playing Ethereal Goth / Psychedelia / Shoegaze / Trip Hop.
An old friend of a friend, Raymond, turns up with his new band – featuring two ultra-cool Japanese rockstars, Imai and Maki – shopping for a record deal. Together, DJ Alice and Imai Hisashi embark on a DMT-fuelled rocket trip of sex, dissolution and cosmic love through the seamy underground of 90s NYC club culture.
To provide contemporary atmosphere, I have made a Spotify Playlist of all of the songs Alice namechecks in her DJ set.
(Eagle-eyed readers may spot that this fic takes place in the same cinematic universe, and has some of the same background characters as Der Himmel Über Brooklyn
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The Deep Field Universe by TheAstronomyMod
Fandom Blur, British Singers RPF, BritPop (music), Damien Hirst (Artist), Dandy Warhols (band), Radiohead - Fandom
26 Dec 2014
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New York City in the 90s collides with BritPop in a TransAtlantic love affair.
I moved to NYC in 1993. I moved back to London in 1998. This isn't how it happened, but kinda how I wish it had happened.
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Pulse Universe by TheAstronomyMod
Fandom Aphex Twin, Electronic Dance Music RPF, Erol Alkan - Fandom
18 Jun 2021
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