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• Looking for a Bizarre Animated Film I Watched on the Dark Web by Vayer for tur66

  Fandoms: 原神 | Genshin Impact (Video Game)  

  • Mature
  • Graphic Depictions Of Violence, Major Character Death
  • M/M
  • Work in Progress

  01 Aug 2026

  Tags

  • Graphic Depictions Of Violence
  • Major Character Death
  • Flins/Varka (Genshin Impact)
  • Flins & Illuga (Genshin Impact)
  • Flins & Lauma (Genshin Impact)
  • Rosaria & Varka (Genshin Impact)
  • Illuga & Varka (Genshin Impact)
  • Flins (Genshin Impact)
  • Varka (Genshin Impact)
  • Illuga (Genshin Impact)
  • Lauma (Genshin Impact)
  • Rosaria (Genshin Impact)
  • Dead Dove: Do Not Eat
  • Mentioned Mondstadt Characters (Genshin Impact)
  • Angst
  • Hurt No Comfort
  • No Smut
  • Trauma
  • Psychological Trauma
  • Alternate Universe - Modern Setting
  • set mostly in 2010s - 2020s internet
  • Psychological Horror
  • Analog Horror - Freeform
  • Urban Legends
  • lost media - Freeform
  • Forum Posts
  • chatfic
  • kind of half of it
  • Custom Work Skin
  • Unreliable Narrator
  • Dark Comedy
  • a little interactive and 4th wall breaking
  • Out of Character
  • everyone is very ooc
  • Written Before 6.0 | Luna I Update (Genshin Impact)
  • Ambiguous/Open Ending
  • Betaed
  • By Major Character Death I MEAN IT
  • Self-Harm
  • Suicide
  • Unhealthy Coping Mechanisms
  • Dehumanization
  • Implied/Referenced Child Abuse
  • Severe Mental Illness
  • Blood
  • Mild Gore
  • Additional Warnings in Author's Note
  • Implied laufer but very minor
  • they need therapy
  • and now so do you

  Summary

  Inspired by the real lost media "go for a punch" a user asks on 4chan to find a strange animation they watched many years ago, leading to investigations of supernatural events.

  An English translation of a beloved varflins fic in the chinese community originally posted on LOFTER with ARG styled elements. The project is finished, and chapters will be uploaded every Saturday.

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  "Life’s always like that, there's nothing we can do"

  Series

  • Part 1 of I am Archaeologizing Within Lost Media

  Language:

  English

  Words:

  13,603

  Chapters:

  6/20

  Collections:

  1

  Comments:

  27

  Kudos:

  52

  Bookmarks:

  7

  Hits:

  608