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  1. Public Bookmark 8

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    Just a bunch of Gempearl one shot

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    05 Oct 2025

  2. Public Bookmark 14

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    Gem was wrongfully imprisoned nearly seven years ago
    Pearl misses her wife

    or: shiny duo, but they always try to find their way back to each other

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    04 Oct 2025

  3. Public Bookmark 4

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    she played flute. she sang alto. can i make it any more obvious?

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    01 Oct 2025

  4. Public Bookmark 5

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    Put that way, the prospect of just one more game doesn't seem all that bad. It seems… really nice, actually, one more moment of leaf-dappled shaded and golden sunset, of cool earth and warmth clinging to her skin. One more moment of Gem in her life before a long, lonely winter.

    “Yeah, sure,” she sighs, as though she hasn't just caved embarrassingly easily.

    The smile Gem gives her in return is wide, a little too wide for them to maintain the illusion of humanity. Have their teeth always been so sharp?

     

    or: Do ghosts get hungry? / ‘Cause they take, and they take, and they take…

    or: Pearl never stood a chance against that beautiful woman of the woods.

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    28 Sep 2025

  5. Public Bookmark 34

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    After the events of Wild Life, Joel arrives in the Winner’s Lounge, where the previous winners reveal what—rather, who—the Life games are really for: the Watchers. Outraged and unwilling to just deal with this cruel fate, Joel refuses to associate with any of the others and keeps to himself while they await the next game. That is, until Scott (the only Winner who still makes an effort to befriend Joel after so long, despite Joel’s immense detestation), brings Joel back to the group just in time for the Watchers to stop by for a visit.

    Disappointed by the Winners’ indifference (and, in turn, the staleness of their emotions), the Watchers strike a deal with them; the Winners will have three chances to get the Canary to join their ranks. If they succeed, the Watchers will let everyone go—forever.

    But winning Ultimate Life is far from easy; the Winners will have to play dirty, betray their allies, and compromise everything they hold dear all while fighting their own emotional vices and playing by the Watchers’ twisted rules. Relationships were made to be tested, tears were formed to be shed, and sacrifices were born to be slaughtered, but just how much are the Winners willing to give up for a chance to succeed?

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    25 Sep 2025