inward_outward
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Even as she spoke Chantilly was pulling out from nowhere a matchbox emblazoned with a cormorant. She removed a match, struck it not on the box but on her bottom lip, and used it to light the end of Pickman’s cigarette.
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It is difficult, but not impossible, to negotiate with a train.
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The non-Divine had their mewling, reliant babyhoods or tedious periods of emerging sentience, which invited a certain level of nostalgia. The Divine, Arbitrage, too, had had Its early millennia.
So It explained to Riah Connadine.
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someday there'll be nothing left to heal by inward_outward
Fandoms: Friends at the Table (Podcast)
28 Jan 2024
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She’d tried to connect herself to the Chariot and gotten halfway through when she realized she couldn’t do it. It was just a test, really, just making sure things worked how they were supposed to — that she worked how she was supposed to — but she couldn’t.
Before the funeral, with Elle still aboard the Blue Channel, Cori struggles to stay afloat.
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After leaving Partizan behind, Gucci and Brnine reach a detente. Or something like one, anyway.
(They were smiling. It was almost, she thought, the same annoyed I-don’t-wanna-be-here smile they used to have before they turned into a grieving mess wanted for breaking Divine treaties. Wider, though. Their teeth were showing.)
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Ten years ago, a clueless young girl found something in her mother's jewelry drawer that unleashed the fated warrior Heart Sentinel Emerald Passion. Over those ten years, Emerald and her mundane alter ego, Eithne Kelley, have been many things—a specter, a champion for the downtrodden, a heroine, a killer—but above all else they have been profoundly, terribly alone.
But now, after nearly a decade of fighting alone, there are new magical warriors in town who might begin to understand what she went through and how it made her who she is. Their presence might help unravel years of mysteries that have woven through the sleepy town of Brooksend, and change everything for her forever.
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Notes from a Haunted Railway by theorangewitch for misspickman
Fandoms: Friends at the Table (Podcast)
30 Jan 2023
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A catalogue of Ernestina Pickman's time aboard the malign engine known as the Last Dance.
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Mr. Transport has lived an exciting and varied life. Or possibly more than one.
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How the Questing Beast Chased, and Caught, Her Own Tail by pseudoactual_mahou
Fandoms: Mahou Shoujo Madoka Magika | Puella Magi Madoka Magica
14 Apr 2026
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For the Incubators, a diagnosis of "mental illness" is as simple as having a personal interest outside producing negentropy – for example, in wordplay. Kyubey, the assigned Incubator for Mitakihara City's magical girls in their fight against wraiths, is diagnosed with an unnecessary emotion after making an unprompted joke, and scheduled for execution and replacement. It accepts gracefully, knowing its death serves the purpose of fighting entropy... right up until it can't.
In for a penny, in for breaking and rewriting your identity, as they say.
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- Part 1 of Questing Beast
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