arachnistar



Recent works

Recent bookmarks

  1. Public Bookmark 34

    Tags
    Summary

    "[...]the king constantly needs the renewal that begins with a descent into his own darkness."
    - Carl Jung

    Helena reintegrates. Her case is possibly the most complicated one they've seen after it became an actual procedure.

    Language:
    English
    Words:
    3,041
    Chapters:
    1/2
    Comments:
    22
    Kudos:
    142
    Bookmarks:
    34
    Hits:
    1,371

    07 Sep 2025

  2. Public Bookmark 20

    Tags
    Summary

    Helena feels Helly coming back to her, and she's not sure why.

    Set during the later half of season 2.

    Language:
    English
    Words:
    12,847
    Chapters:
    1/1
    Comments:
    29
    Kudos:
    125
    Bookmarks:
    20
    Hits:
    1,523

    18 Aug 2025

  3. Public Bookmark 38

    Tags
    Summary

    “Hey,” he says. “I’ve never come so hard I changed consciousnesses before. So you must have been really nailing it.”

    “Oh my god,” says Helly into her knees.

    ***

    Post-Cold Harbor on the severed floor, Mark's chip is starting to act up, interrupting all kinds of activities.

    Series
    Language:
    English
    Words:
    18,994
    Chapters:
    9/9
    Comments:
    158
    Kudos:
    322
    Bookmarks:
    38
    Hits:
    6,315

    18 Aug 2025

  4. Public Bookmark 47

    Tags
    Summary

    A year after the fall of Lumon, Mark Scout and Helena Eagan, now a couple, decide to reintegrate.

    Part 1, Helly POV: When she wakes up with the other Mark, he always seems startled, like he doesn’t quite know what to do with her. He doesn’t say hello, just starts telling her where she is, what she’s doing. He’s distant, but he’s also…sweet. He often asks her how she’s feeling, asks her if she’s hot or cold or hungry or thirsty.

    He always looks at her out of the corner of his eye. But he’s always looking, always watching, like if he looks away, she’ll be gone.

    --

    Part 2, Helena POV: He doesn’t want her; he wants Helly. And she doesn’t want him; she wants Mark S., the one who looked at her like he loved her. But only, she knows, because he loved Helly. Still, she remembers how it felt, being her, being someone who hadn’t been born into her family’s legacy, who could laugh at their stupid origin stories and make uncouth jokes and be loved by people who didn’t fear her.

    She knows that both Marks belong to Helly, and she starts to think that maybe she does, too.

    Language:
    English
    Words:
    10,970
    Chapters:
    2/2
    Comments:
    75
    Kudos:
    245
    Bookmarks:
    47
    Hits:
    2,354

    19 Jul 2025

  5. Public Bookmark 11

    Tags
    Summary

    By choosing to live, Mark’s doomed himself to life in hell. He’d told her one time that Lumon was smarter than they were; he was right.

    And because of that, Helly knows she’ll lose him no matter what.

    Would it have been easier, less painful, if he’d have just followed Ms. Casey out the door? If she didn’t get her wish of more time? If she didn’t have to live every moment wondering if it would be their last?

    --

    Post-Cold Harbor. During the Innie Revolution, Mark's reintegrating, and Helly thinks every moment might be the last she has with her Mark.

    Language:
    English
    Words:
    4,208
    Chapters:
    1/1
    Collections:
    1
    Comments:
    45
    Kudos:
    87
    Bookmarks:
    11
    Hits:
    756

    19 Jul 2025