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Home to the lost, the desperate and the hopeless, Neo City is a cold and heartless place, the neon-lit refuse heap of the universe. Mighty heroes and villains—Powers, everyone calls them—fight for control of the city, but someone’s got to look after the little guy and that duty falls to you. With your trusty sidekick the Seer of Doom at your side, you sort out the missing people, the burning buildings, the muggings, even the robot cats stuck up artificial trees when you have to. But tonight you have bitten off more than you can chew. It’s not about helping someone any more. A monster who feeds on the innocent is getting bolder and stronger, and the fate of the entire city depends on you stopping them.
(It is inconsequential that you wish to remain a small-scale hero, Joey. You have a purpose in all of this—you are the lead dancer in the cruel ballet of Fate, if you will—and I can’t have you hiding from the spotlight forever.)
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Liu Dehuai is only thirteen years old when Master Yong, the reclusive and kindly Taoist sage who took him and his younger brother Zhuzhen in, is murdered by a savage and inhuman killer. Dehuai sets out to find the assassin, determined to take revenge and reclaim his master's stolen Icon of the Jade Tiger. He has no way of knowing that his master's death was just one small part of an ancient and vicious being's machinations, and that his quest for vengeance will expose both Zhuzhen and himself to vile and unfathomable horrors humanity was never meant to behold.
(This fic contains no spoilers for the Shadow Hearts games and can be read as a standalone work.)
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In the wake of Haurchefant's passing, Emmanellain is forced to contend with the legacy he left behind -- in form and in feeling.
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Exquisite corpse (from the original French term cadavre exquis, literally exquisite cadaver) is a method by which a collection of words or images is collectively assembled by being allowed to see only the end of what the previous person contributed.
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11 Nov 2023
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This apartment, these walls and corners, these floors and doorways, they’re Dirk’s refuge. His shell, his armor. This place is light and warmth in an endlessly empty dark sea, a piece of the past to cling to in the wreckage of the future. A gift from his brother, a birthday present, the present of having birthdays, of being a human in a place meant for humans. Dirk could go out on rocket board, on rap-bot, on rafts, following the gulls, living free out under the sky, sailing by the light of the stars, but always he’d return to his sanctuary, his roost, his home.
This apartment is Dave’s cage, and he spent thirteen years crammed up against the bars by a man who did not love him.
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25 Oct 2017
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"And then there's a customized copy of PONY PALS, a gift to you on your 14th birthday from the slippery Mr. Strider. Each page contains lovingly hand-written commentary on the deeds of this intrepid young horse. Later, about halfway through the book, rather than see the gag through to the bitter end, Strider began pasting over entire pages of original text with his own completely rewritten version of the story, while keeping all the chapter titles. His revision is a tough, emotionally draining read. But it's cathartic, in all the worst ways possible.
He tends to get carried away with his projects."Note: this work is an altered book, and it plays on the physical relationship between the original pages and the edited text. As such, it's presented as a series of images. Reading the images is the only way to get the full experience, but I'm aware that some people can't/don't want to read it that way. So if that's the case, you can skip to chapter 13, which is a text-only version of the story, including rough descriptions of the most important illustrations.
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16 Apr 2021
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“Four Dirks In Search Of an Author”
“The Unbearable Lightness of Being Four Dirks”
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22 Nov 2017
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“Holy shit. What did you see?”
You look down at your cup–-still steaming, still too hot–-and say, “I saw you.”
Dave goes totally still. Sun catches his shades in a silver flash. “Me.”
“Or my bro, I guess. I knew what he looked like from pics and videos.”
(Dirk tells Dave a story from his childhood.)
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29 Nov 2017