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1. Public Bookmark 68

   My Cute Mute Co-Worker is Testing Power Armor, But He's a Meek Physicist Who Can't Even Fire a Gun? by caramujo

   Fandoms: Half-Life (Video Games)  

   • Teen And Up Audiences
   • No Archive Warnings Apply
   • M/M
   • Work in Progress

   26 Jan 2026

   Tags

   • No Archive Warnings Apply
   • Barney Calhoun/Gordon Freeman
   • Gordon Freeman
   • Barney Calhoun
   • Isaac Kleiner
   • Eli Vance
   • Gina Cross
   • Colette Green
   • First Kiss
   • Doujinshi
   • Illustrations
   • the fermi paradox
   • non-OSHA compliant
   • academic disillusionment

   Summary

   Barney goes out of his way to make the new hire feel included.

   Language:

   English

   Words:

   0

   Chapters:

   18/?

   Comments:

   86

   Kudos:

   635

   Bookmarks:

   68

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   6,307

   Bookmarked by punk_vamp11

   23 Jan 2026

2. Public Bookmark 2

   The Ministry of Disinformation by ministryau

   Fandoms: The Network (Band)  

   • General Audiences
   • No Archive Warnings Apply
   • M/M
   • Work in Progress

   19 Apr 2022

   Tags

   • No Archive Warnings Apply
   • dr. svengali / dr. aiten
   • z / captain underpants
   • van gough / fink
   • Dr. Svengali (The Network)
   • Fink (The Network)
   • Van Gough (The Network)
   • Balducci (The Network)
   • Original Male Character(s)
   • The Snoo (The Network)
   • Z (The Network)
   • Captain Underpants (The Network)
   • Reverend Strychnine Twitch
   • Other Additional Tags to Be Added
   • Time Travel
   • Alternate Universe
   • 17 year separation
   • Evil Corporations
   • svengali isn't the bad guy this time
   • Tags Are Hard
   • fink isn't human
   • van gets lost in the time space continuum
   • fbht is canon
   • snoo is The trash man
   • Historical Inaccuracy
   • lushotology real
   • chapters 1-3 were rewritten 3 months after ch4 was released
   • shitty cliches throughout some of the story
   • van nose trauma
   • this has not been proofread and or edited
   • the prophecy is confusing and for What.
   • no one in this story is mentally sane
   • oc x canon technically
   • network and gd rivalry
   • why the rivalry? fink tripped bja once probably and now their bands hate each other
   • reverend twitch and the snake oil scheme
   • its not snake oil its lushotology
   • z is trans Real

   Summary

   A prequel of sorts to what, and where, The Network came from before that fateful day in 2003.
   [[@ministryau on instagram for updates :)]]

   Language:

   English

   Words:

   11,718

   Chapters:

   4/?

   Comments:

   1

   Kudos:

   26

   Bookmarks:

   2

   Hits:

   423

   Bookmarked by punk_vamp11

   10 Nov 2021