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“Hey yourself. Thanks for agreeing to this.” Max added, eyes on the toes of their boots.
River blinked at them, gently bewildered. “Of course I agreed to this.” They only managed to close their teeth over I missed you at the last second.River and Max get coffee. It goes rather sideways.
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Immensity Taps at Your Life by bluejay_07, sylvansalvia
Fandoms: The Mars House - Natasha Pulley, Arrival (2016)
28 Jun 2026
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“You do realize that you’re putting yourself into potentially mortal danger and a very tense political situation,” Colonel Liu said.
“Yes!” River said brightly. “Should be fun.”The President of the United States needs a linguist to make first contact with aliens. River is more than happy to volunteer.
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River sends Max illicit letters while Max is deployed, attempting to reassure Max that everything is all right. Somehow, they only seem to make Max want to come back to Tharsis.
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“Do you want to see something good?” Max asked one night, sternum pressed to January’s spine as the pair of them waited for River to come back from their late-night meeting.
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Aubrey could see the pair of them in their mind’s eye, distant as two mountain peaks. Maybe they would never really understand one another; maybe they were too far apart for a bridge. But, Aubrey decided, that didn’t mean they weren’t too far apart for a telegraph line. And before they could lose their nerve, they pulled Max down to their level by their collar and kissed them.
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Max and Aubrey have it out.
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Though the January of two years ago never would have believed it, his favourite time of day was early in the morning.
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“Alright. Do we know what the symptoms are?”
“Nothing physical, that’s the issue—there’s no way to tell whether someone’s been infected without risking infection oneself. Emotionally, however, the virus causes extremely inhibited impulse control. The infected display difficulty lying, possibly as a result.”
“And that’s all we know?”
“And that’s all we know.”
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A haptic virus begins affecting Tharsese high society. House Gale attempts to continue with business as usual.
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Yuan learns a new word—and the concept of linguistic appropriateness.
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Stuck in a prison hulk in Jupiter’s orbit, Guang Song has plenty of time to think.
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- Part 3 of Mars House Post-Canon
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Colonel Liu Has Got It Going On by bluejay_07 for hahafool
Fandoms: The Mars House - Natasha Pulley
21 Apr 2025
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There was an old quote somewhere that defined war as “months of boredom punctuated by sheer terror;” Max found themself inclined to agree. As base postings went, Ganymede was less than ideal; the only things on the moon were an army base and an iron mine. No civilization, no conflict—Max hated to say it, but either one would have been welcome at the moment. At least getting flirted at by cougars passing through security checkpoints on the Moon or getting into gunfights on Enceladus kept everyone distracted.
Unfortunately, it was fairly easy to make one’s own entertainment; at least, if one was an entire regiment of marines with access to the Internet. Which is why Max found the loud wolf-whistling coming from the mess hall just so disconcerting.
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An...unorthodox photo of Max is released along with their engagement announcement. The Internet loves it; Max does not.
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“Oh, Max—don’t worry, you’re still lovely.” he said instead, a wry smile twisting his mouth.
Max laughed. “No, I—shit, January, that’s not it at all.”
“Well, what then?” River inquired.
“I didn’t really think I would live long enough to go grey,” Max explained without thinking.
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Max finds some grey hairs, and, despite themself, has some emotions.
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ὁλοπόρφῠρος (loving the anvil) by bluejay_07
Fandoms: The Hymn to Dionysus - Natasha Pulley
06 Apr 2025
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Agave’s biggest regret was always not serving. She’s Sown, damn it all; what else was she born for if not that?
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That morning, you kneel beside your bed and attempt to pray. It goes as it always does; the familiar words like shouting into the ether. You pray for answers, you pray for forgiveness, you pray for the health of the Holy Father. And nothing comes.
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It was accepted science that the brain took around ten minutes to fully die; it seemed Max could corroborate that, now.
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It wasn’t frequently that River Gale broke down. There’d been an incident, once, near the end of their secondary education—best not spoken of, other to say that River had taken a thick skin and an unshakeable belief in the structures of power from that experience. But the structures of power were crumbling, now, right before River’s very eyes; quite literally.
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The new Senate gets off to a rough start, and River, as Consul, is powerless to help.
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- Part 1 of Mars House Post-Canon
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“Are you…all right, there?” River hazarded, overcome with relief to find them mostly uninjured.
Max shrugged with the shoulder not currently emptying their lifeblood onto the floor of the bathroom. “I’m not about to go into hypovolemic shock, if that’s what you’re asking.”
River seriously doubted that, but okay. “And other than that?”
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Max acquires an injury. River puts them back together.
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It was so stupid—in every movie, there was something massive that ended the dancer’s career. A bad fall, an injury from a rival, something big and dramatic and life-changing; none of this sorry mate, career’s over, take it up with the massive tears in your hip nonsense. But fate had no such courtesy for January.
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In which January's dance career goes out with a whimper, and River does politics in the American Midwest.
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They laid Aubrey to rest under cover of darkness, in a remote part of the pine forest; the night was still and quiet, the proceedings unadorned. It was the most awkward funeral January had ever been to—then again, he supposed that most traitors didn’t typically get funerals.
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Five or so years into January and River's marriage, House Gale lays Aubrey to rest; along with a few other things.
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- Part 2 of Mars House Post-Canon
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Espionage for the Linguistics Professor by bluejay_07
Fandoms: The Mars House - Natasha Pulley
14 Nov 2024
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Kuznetsov paused, as though trying to work out how to word something. “That’s the thing, sir—they’re saying that they’re Senator Gale.”
Well, then. Senators had very high clearance, as a general rule; if Aubrey really had shown up to Max’s place of work in order to continue a fight from six hours ago, they would have just been sent up. Max had learnt that one the hard way. “And are they?”
Another long pause. Finally, Sergeant Kuznetsov sighed. “They won’t answer the security questions—you should probably just come see for yourself, sir.
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Max gets a visitor.
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Emily Roland dreams of the first man she ever killed.