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  1. Public Bookmark 9

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    " “I needed you here.”
    It’s said so matter-of-factly. Mark could turn it over in his head for hours, search every crevice of the sentence and still find it devoid of a deeper emotion.
    Why should he want to find anything more than the words themselves?
    John doesn’t understand that the sour taste on Mark’s tongue, the venom seeping into the tone of his voice, isn’t spite. It’s regret. It could’ve been grief and that makes it all the more bitter to hold against the roof of his mouth. He keeps the thought in.
    I need you here. "

    In the aftermath of Henry Kessler's trap, Mark and John talk.

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    02 Jun 2025

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  2. Public Bookmark 4

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    "If the pathologists weren’t around, he’d put his hands inside the open hole and just let the blood cover his forearms, consuming all that was left of the man who mentored him."

    Analysis of Hoffman at the start of Saw IV. I think he is insane <3

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    29 Oct 2024

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  3. Public Bookmark 11

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    Peter Strahm and Mark Hoffman, eight years later.

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    08 Jun 2024

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    one of the best fanfics i've read period

  4. Public Bookmark 23

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    Strahm loses his voice after the water cube. Hoffman probably has something to do with it.

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    13 May 2024

  5. Public Bookmark 20

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    Adam escapes the bathroom, but he's left with more anger than he started with. The healing process takes time, but if he can learn to forgive Lawrence, it might go a little faster. Too bad he doesn't want to.

    Meanwhile, Mark has to deal with Peter. It's not an easy job in the slightest.

    (a halfway canon compliant rewrite of otherwise major deaths in the franchise. also an exploration of anger, love, trauma, and forgiveness. with a healthy dash of early 00s vibes.)

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    28 Apr 2024