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Faith — there's not much else to have. He's not sure how much Burakh wants it from him—if he even wants it at all. But the days go, and the lives with them. He's not sure what else couldn't fault him. He misses, almost, Death as it once was — an almost placid force that he knew [...] he could stand up to. [...] Death, back then, was winning more often than not (well, it always won in the end, but the Bachelor could put up a fight), but it was, mostly, a fair foe.
But this was—this is no Death. This is Conquest, Pestilence.
(The black night mare, dusk after dusk, bleeds out her colors, pales like a wet ink stain patted then rubbed dry; like bone slowly sun-bleached. She turns the color of blood-stained enamel, of the rot of a cavity.
Rot, rot, rot. To the bone, to the marrow. [...])The Bachelor weaves in and out of the story, between its lines — where the story develops.
A Bachelor-centric study of the Plague in mythified half-vignettes, for when one is faced with the un(com)prehensible it is always easier to see things through someone’s worse, and sadder story.Bookmarked by practicalgothicism
17 Mar 2025
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"He would prefer mass cremation in one of the many furnaces in the shuttered factories. But when he suggests this, people have a visceral knee jerk reaction, like what he suggested was sacrilegious. Maybe it is. But what was sacrilege in the face of ever sharply mounting casualties? Every decision’s rectitude was measured in corpses."
What if instead of delegating the task to Artemy, Daniil goes and checks out the rumors of the teenage girl who runs the cemetery?
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16 Feb 2025
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The first thing that struck Artemy—upon his waking—was discomfort.
The second thing that struck Artemy—upon realizing that his wrists were thoroughly bound together in front of himself—was that The Bachelor was more than likely responsible for it.___
In which The Bachelor interprets an offhanded joke a little too literally, but The Haruspex decides to roll with it.
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11 Feb 2025
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Artemy's bloodline makes some strange demands on him - and on Daniil in turn.
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10 Feb 2025
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i wouldn't fall for someone i thought couldn't misbehave by undeadarchivist for diggybrands
Fandoms: Мор. Утопия | Pathologic
15 Dec 2024
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Artemy, lonely during his time in the Capital, decides to make a friend. He thinks the head of Thanatica would understand.
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10 Feb 2025
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Daniil interrupts an autopsy. Even in the worst of circumstances, Artemy is good with his hands.
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10 Feb 2025
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A little scene of a potential life for Victor and Daniil in the Capital.
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19 Jan 2025
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Designations Congruent with Things and Other Subsymbolic Networks by cleanwhiteroom
Fandom: Pacific Rim (Movies)
01 Dec 2025
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What happens to a fraction of a hive mind?
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06 Jan 2025
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Daniil has a fantasy, and Artemy has the means to fulfill it: the tools, the right, the skill, the love that differentiates it from an act of violence.
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06 Jan 2025
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After the Plague, Artemy travels to the Capital to understand the present, and finds the past. Now with a Russian translation.
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06 Jan 2025
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At the end of all things, Artemy Burakh is faced with a desperate choice.
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06 Jan 2025
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Drunk at a party he is forced to attend, Viktor encounters Councilor Salo, who has a proposition too good to turn down - Make me a shock collar for my pet, and I will fund your next project.
Jayce finds out.
Jayce isn't happy.
... Jayce becomes Test Subject #1 (and likes it far more than either of them expected).
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"“I've become quite close to someone in the half year I've lived in this town, and I wish to make my affections and intentions clear to them. How is this usually done? I must admit, I am a little out of my depth and I never quite paid attention to how others courted each other. I figured that I could try to read about it, but I believe that practical experience will be much more valuable here than theory.”
Daniil would consider himself a worldly and experienced man, but one thing he doesn't have experience with is all the intricate rituals that come with pursuing a man for more than a tumble in the sack. He asks for a trustworthy acquaintance's advice and starts devising a plan on how woo the object of his affections.
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26 Nov 2024
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“You’re a surgeon, Burakh— you would have dug it all out of my guts.”
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21 Nov 2024
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With practiced ease Artemy cuts the ventricles free and lifts the heart from its cage. Still warm, he holds the prize out and for a moment he can pretend the pounding in his chest is coming from the organ he gingerly handles.
Slowly, Dankovsky reaches out to take it, eyes confused, evidently feeling the tension in the air. When the heart is held safely in his hands, Artemy squeezes his own eyes shut and for one moment lets himself wish.
He lurches forward and stands back up. Then he addresses the worms behind them: “Tell everyone it is done.”
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Artemy receives his inheritance on day one. Although some of the Kin aren’t happy with his return, it does make a few things easier – like when Daniil is caught performing an autopsy. Only, he wishes someone had told him what consequences marrying the man would have.- Language:
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02 Nov 2024
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Daniil cleared his throat.
“The Powers That Be are the embodiment of order. There are always threads in the universe that dare to hang loose, and like a moth to a flame, they are always there to tug on them. The Powers That Be unravel everything simply to see what falls.”
“So what? The plague is... it's all gone.”
Daniil noted the slight tremor in Artemy’s voice. Artemy Burakh also lost many things in the chaos. He must also suffer from the nightmares. He must.
“They wanted me to die in the plague along with Aglaya and Block and yet, the more information they received from us, the more they urged us to cure the incurable. To preserve the town. Do you hear me? They will not leave a town of miracles alone. It may not be right away… but they will send someone.”
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There's no choice but to build a new life and live with the consequences, and so they do. But the events of the plague left deep wounds with the pain and fear of loss ever looming.
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29 Oct 2024