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"And we are only bugs, who had yearned for the flame enough to burn ourselves up to try for its love."
There is this undeniable fact of the world that nobody will see you for who you are. Beyond that, it’s the fact that the desire of want propels it.
To make an impossible machine, a machine that runs on the ideal of perpetual motion is one regarded as a fool’s errand. To him, to a man such as Luca Balsa.. It’s a want that has bled him repeatedly.
It whips him, it beats him, it holds him down and threatens to break his face, and it aches like it won’t ever leave. In that regard, he knows it won’t. Just as he knows that he stares at the walls more often than not, trying to conceptualize something distinctly unreal. Not yet.
It has always left him staring at a wall, trying to put together equations that slip from his mind without something to bind it to reality. It’s a fetus in the making, a creation he strives to set as his magnum opus. It will be the greatest thing he will make, something that will leave him either disgraced or exalted beyond his blood.
He is a man that’s always strived to be more than it.
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Bookmarked by Watercooledunit
21 Apr 2026
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I don't have enough words. I have loved Luca Balsa for five years and this is the exact sort of work I have been craving recently. All his flaws and intricacies on display!! And balanced so perfectly too– it is clear where he goes wrong and yet his internal logic and beliefs are believable, easy to follow, and make SENSE from his point of view. I feel ill. And I mean that positively.
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ACT IV: INTO THE RADIANCE by PyronormalSimplicity
Fandoms: ULTRAKILL (Video Game), VALORANT (Video Game)
21 May 2026
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STATUS UPDATE:
MACHINE ID: V1
LOCATION: UNKNOWN
CURRENT OBJECTIVE: KILL ALL RADIANTS- Language:
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Bookmarked by Watercooledunit
13 Feb 2026
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Despite my own complete and utter lack of any preexisting knowledge of Valorant, this fic has very quickly become one of my all-time favorites! Intriguing story, fun to reread, and excited to see where it goes next!
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Throw Away Your Mask by MollyPollyKinz for spartanqueenem
Fandoms: Persona Series, Persona 5, Persona 4, Persona 3
04 Sep 2024
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Instead of dying, Akechi finds himself eight years in the past. With his persona abilities still intact, he has to find a way to stop the end of the world.
And work with a bunch of teenagers who thinks he's a child.
Akechi would've preferred to stay dead.
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- Part 1 of No More Pretending
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Bookmarked by Watercooledunit
08 Jan 2026
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When I first read this fic last year, I had very little knowledge of persona 4, and next to none of persona 3. I didn't even know what Shinji looked like, but I still absolutely SOBBED over him when I reading this for the first (and second) time. That's some powerful writing.
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Where Black Stars Rise by KingofTrees
Fandoms: SIGNALIS (Video Game), Mass Effect Trilogy, Mass Effect - All Media Types
11 Jan 2026
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The Migrant Fleet found something in the shadow of Relay 314. A lone ship, tiny, adrift, its engines dead. Shortly after reporting this discovery, the entire Migrant Fleet vanished without a trace.
Six weeks later, it has returned. A crack team of mercenaries led by the illustrious Spectre Garrus Vakarian, on special orders from the Citadel Council, are sent to investigate.
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Bookmarked by Watercooledunit
01 Nov 2025
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I am indescribably insane about this fic. The best words I have for it is that it plays with the medium in the same way some of my other favorite stories of all time do, has a similar feel to that of playing signalis, just through text; achieved masterfully through the twisting of perspective, of time, of space, of the very formatting itself. I hope with all my heart that I can write like this one day.
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A Devil Walks the Dragonsphere by LouRea (MementoVitae)
Fandom Devil May Cry, Devil May Cry (Gameverse), Drag-On Dragoon | Drakengard (Video Games), NieR Gestalt | NieR Replicant | NieR (Video Games), NieR: Automata (Video Game)
18 Apr 2024
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Bookmarked by Watercooledunit
28 Oct 2025
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One of my favorite series of all time, really sparked my love of crossovers and made me realize the sorts of things that are possible with them!!! I initially read this as the last two entries were coming out and have returned to it many, many times since :]