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How does that joke go again?
After a hundred million years for him and just five years for them, a washed up triangle dream demon and a cosmic amphibian god arrive at the Mystery Shack.
...Bill Cipher is not the same person he used to be. And that worries most of them.
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aka. I throw in my “bill is so traumatized and worn down by the theraprism staff he becomes numb and despondent to everyone and nobody knows what happened” spin on the bill cipher redemption fit and see what happens
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17 Oct 2026
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Dreaming was a luxury sinners had no right to.
Dreams were gifts. Given after a day of work and devotion, they made one’s invested energy feel like something worthy of being spent. It is endearing how dreams captured unspoken truths many did not even recognize as such. How sweet and yet so cruel of them to show such an indelible illusion of everything one could never obtain in the first place.
Thinking about it, what a painfully sadistic divinity it was that cast dreams in slumbering minds. Watching them curl into a haze of adoration and purpose only to rip it away with the vicious arrival of the morning sun.
Shadow Milk had not been given a dream in centuries.
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- Part 1 of the ryuverse
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20 Oct 2025
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What lingers first in Pure Vanilla’s memory are two eyes— cyan and blue.
They were not simply colors, not merely shades to be catalogued among the blossoms that lined the Vanilla hills. They were shadows caught in ice, stars buried in snow. And in the middle of all that frost, a boy who looked too small for the crown that would one day press against his brow, eyes too large for the timid boy who held them.
Pure Vanilla had not known then that love could strike so young.
He had thought it the sort of thing that bloomed late, like the orchids that only flowered when the sun coaxed them after patient months of waiting.
But with Shadow Milk, it was not coaxed— it was immediate.
Pure Vanilla is six, and he knows he's in love.
(It never changes)
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- Part 7 of All Quill Stories
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The God of Deceit was once a god who danced through truth like a flame through old parchment— destructive, beautiful, inevitable. But that was before the fae turned their backs. Before they bound him in this tree, with chains etched in runes that gnawed through flesh and soul alike.
Now he is stillness. Now he is silence. Now he is Shadow Milk— the god no one remembers, watching the world like a man at the bottom of a well watches the light too far above to reach.
And so he waits.
Through the thin membrane of reality, where the veil is weakest, he sees the world. He sees the golden fields stretching in humble simplicity, dotted with the flicker of sheep. He sees the hill, where wildflowers bloom with such audacity they seem to challenge the sky.
And there, in the middle of it all— white as a breath, still as a prayer —is the shepherd. Pure Vanilla.
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Pure Vanilla thinks of his flock as he dies. He thinks of Dandelion. He thinks of warm bread and honey. Of sun on his face. Of the feeling of grass beneath his feet.
Death is not merciful, it is not quick.
The shepherd bleeds, and The God of Deceit does not intervene.
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- Part 4 of All Quill Stories
- Part 1 of Deceit's Lamb dimension
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01 Oct 2025
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10/10, so many amazing metaphors and vivid descriptions.
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"In art, chiaroscuro (...) is the use of strong contrasts between light and dark, usually bold contrasts affecting a whole composition." (Wikipedia).
How long can a lie remain a lie before it becomes a justification to linger? For how long can one lie about motivations before the lie becomes their truth?
Shadow Milk Cookie makes good on his threat that Pure Vanilla Cookie's kindness will be his undoing. He arrives in the Vanilla kingdom asking for help, lying that his followers have turned on him and his magic is gone. This lie wraps him up in itself until he is completely enmeshed, unable to tell where the lie ends, and where his true motivations begin. That lie becomes an excuse to linger.
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- Part 1 of Chiaroscuro
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08 Jul 2025