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    I may be ice: as frigid and deceptively fragile as frost at dawn—an apt crown for aphelion of the tantalising warmth that has ever tempted but never thawed me. Yet I’m also summer: mesmerising menace masked by mirth, debauched bearer of every earthly delight, purveyor of such luminescence that I rival Sol, although I’m damned myself to gloom that only a half–denizen of the Void can know.

    He may be fire: as fervid and dazzlingly ferocious as wildfire at zenith, subjugated to the furious tempest that rages within him, mercilessly as surf ravages scar, demanding immolation on a protean pyre—for whom does he burn tonight? Yet he’s also winter: winsome woe of reckoning, scourge to the sublime and dread of the decadent, although all he covets in these worlds are the halcyon days he’s due.

    We are both creatures of contradictions. It’s why we understand one another. But it’s not lost on me that ice and fire cannot mingle without the frailer’s demise, that summer and winter never meet anywhere but the Ice. We tried for temperance.

    We failed.
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    What if Cassius and Darrow were lovers? A reimagining of Red Rising, told from Cassius’ perspective.

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    20 Jun 2025

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    “You-you want to cook me breakfast?”

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    25 May 2024

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    The whispers of his name grow into chants. Muad’Dib. Muad'Dib. Muad'Dib. She could kill a thousand men, and still the first one after would utter his name. It is pointless to run from it, to hide from it. She knows this. She does not bother with lying to herself about a truth as fundamental as this. She cannot escape him.

    But for a time, life is simple.

    And then it is not.

    Or — Chani, in the aftermath.

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    18 Mar 2024

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    Peter tried to navigate the world without his friends, believing it was for the best after everything they'd been through. But like most of his plans, that doesn't work out as unexpected circumstances bring them together again before he was ready for it. Now he tries to navigate his way back into their life, juggling his own anxieties with the goal of keeping them safe no matter what. Unpredictable evils plague him: monsters from his past, supernatural creatures, assassins, and more. He's just trying to find a home for himself in this lonely world of his own invention, and he wonders if the way there even exists for him anymore.

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    12 Apr 2022

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    The Fourth Hokage's body was never found, but they never suspected that was because he hadn't died.

    Minato Namikaze wakes up six years after the devastating Kyuubi attack, alone in an overgrown clearing with not a scratch on him. Disoriented and confused, he does exactly what any father would do in this situation. He fights through the pain, gets up, and goes to find his son. He trudges through the pounding in his head and forces himself to move-- to go and find him, because that masked man was still out there, and Minato is willing to do anything to protect his little ball of sunshine.

     


    Needless to say, the blonde kage wasn't expecting so much time to have passed. Nor is he very impressed with the way the village has been treating his son all these years.

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    14 Dec 2021