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    “It’s time to play the music, it’s time to light the lights,
    It’s time to meet the Muppets on the Muppet Show tonight!”

    The manor ought to have been silent as the grave when Bruce returned, so it caught him by surprise when he heard a familiar jingle drifting through the empty halls. He paused at the foot of the grand staircase, head tilted to the side as he listened to the Muppet Show theme song jangling away happily. It sounded like it was coming from the first floor, which meant the most likely origin was Dick's bedroom. Which would be fine, if it also wasn't almost three am.

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    What do you do when you come home late and find the orphan you've taken guardianship of is crying alone in his room watching the Muppets?
    You sit your brooding ass down and join him.
    And if you later end up on a talk show with said Muppets and end up embroiled in a running gag about your playboy persona being in a throuple with Miss Piggy and Kermit the Frog, well, it's not like anyone's ever going to believe you're Batman now...

    Based on the Tumblr shitpost.

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    10 Dec 2025

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    Some voices just sound like others. There’s no way Viktor is the same person whose voice has been conducting Jayce’s body through a week-long marathon of self-discovery because Jayce, at age twenty-eight, had finally discovered audio erotica.

    Viktor’s voice just sounds really similar to the Machine_Herald’s. 

    Almost impossibly similar. 

    Coincidence. Total coincidence.

    Or: after months of email collaboration, Jayce meets his engineering partner in person to try out Viktor's stabilization theorem.

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    27 Oct 2025

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    The guy grins and wipes his hands on a towel before turning to the register. “What can I get you? You’ve never been here, right? I think I’d remember a skyscraper walking in.”

    X huffs out a soft laugh despite himself. “Yes, first time. I smelled something good on my way to work.”

    “Oh? Then you have good instincts,” the guy says, then leans slightly forward on his elbows like he’s about to tell him a secret. “Everything’s fresh. And I always put out the really good stuff in the early morning.”

    X’s mouth opens. His brain says something stupid along the lines of ‘you're really good stuff so early in the morning’, but his mouth, blessedly, filters it into, “What do you recommend?”

    The guy straightens. “Depends. What do you like?”

    Cute guys with brown hair and cat pins on their aprons. X hesitates. His eyes are tracing the boy’s features, the flour on the forearms, the smile that’s a little too bright for this early in the morning and that creases beneath his eyes. He smells like vanilla and butter when X breathes in.

    “Sweet,” he hears himself say instead. “Really sweet.”

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    15 Oct 2025

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    try. verb.
    1. to attempt to do or accomplish;
    2. to subject to strain, as of endurance, patience, or tax;
    3. to determine the truth of (a quarrel or question) by test or battle

    [Academy Era]. "God forbid you're a Shakespearean wife then," Bones grumbles, and Jim laughs.

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    15 Oct 2025

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    “M’names Daisy Unwin, and my brother is Eggsy. He got hurt real bad. I’m at hospital, and there’s coppers here and I think they’re gonna take me away.” She scrunched up her eyes and remembered the last part. The part Eggsy made her say every night before she told him their nightly story. “Ossfords, not brogues.”

     

     

    When Harry Hart responds to a phone call from a young girl, he has no idea how it will change his life.

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    10 Oct 2025