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narrow is the strait by januarymorning for springbeetle
Fandoms: Life Series | 3rd Life SMP Series
26 Dec 2025
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Lift those hateful black eyes to a star-studded skybox, a moon glowing at its center. It’s the last time you’ll see it like this for a while. This session will be over soon, and the season with it.
or: Gem's name turns red. Pearl is dead already. Grian is in the endgame, and the endgame always goes the same way.
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27 Dec 2025
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walk with my legs by WhisperNorbury
Fandoms: 3rd Life | Last Life SMP Series, Hermitcraft SMP
14 Jan 2025
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"That has to hurt." Cub says distantly, already recovering from his daze at the sheer force of Scar’s magic. That much power, and absolutely none of it leaking into Scar’s voice? He knows that's painful for Scar.
"It's okay, it's okay, I don't want to spook you, it's fine, I'm fine, see, I'm fine and I'm here." Scar babbles reassuring circuitous and repetitive nonsense, smooth and over-eager and so painfully devoid of even the slightest charm. Cub has heard this before. He knows what this is.
"You're bound." Cub realizes, the words flat on his lips. Frigid chill tightens around his ribcage.
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Scar and Grian return home changed by their summoning bond and soul bond, and Cub has some pretty strong opinions about this.Series
- Part 2 of Untamed Beasts
Bookmarked by springbeetle
20 Jan 2025
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attention's sweet center by januarymorning for faeriecrowne
Fandoms: 3rd Life | Last Life SMP Series
20 Jan 2025
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Scar stares for a minute, eyes going glassy. They are green— a nice, human color— and Grian imagines, for a moment, that they are back on Hermitcraft, and Scar’s eyes are gleaming bright blue with mischief, magic, a little bloodlust and the capacity to act on it. He imagines that he is years younger, that they both are, that Cub is here and coming around the corner of the ConCorp building any second now with his own bright blue magic dancing off of his eyes and his shoulders, and Grian is standing up and bouncing on his heels and giggling as he tells Scar about something else that Mumbo’s done, how silly Mumbo sounds pacing back and forth muttering himself as he tries to get the redstone working for Sahara— Grian misses Mumbo so much—
“Another take,” Scar echoes, sounding hollow. “Oh.” His throat bobs up and down, and after a moment he says in a very small voice, “Okay.” His gaze flicks down to where Grian lies, flat on his back and trying to breathe shallowly, shivering with leftover pain.
“I can do another take.”
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or: post-secret life, the watchers arrange for another kind of performance. grian and scar don't exactly get a choice in the matter.
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Bookmarked by springbeetle
20 Jan 2025
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Something has been different in her, since she came home— different enough for her to be the one to bite this bullet. Time on the Hermitcraft server has been cleaved, now, in two— a before and an after, and for the players who weren't taken, a middle that stretched on and unbearably on— and in the before, Pearl and Doc never had sex.
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04 Jan 2025
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An addiction to living by InsomniWillow for minniegoodasgold
Fandoms: QSMP | Quackity SMP
28 Dec 2024
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she'd still had Roier and all the other eggs and then Roier got Cellbit, and then Foolish and then she'd gotten Bolas and... it wasn't a fix by any means but it'd definitely made everything feel more manageable.
That first night had been a breaking point in some way, smashing through some barrier in her mind as she'd stepped into the fire that night, screaming at anything and everything that could hear her and even things she knew couldn't, confessing everything she'd been keeping close to her chest.
It'd been... maybe not like, the healthiest group, but it still felt like it'd been something she'd needed then, a release and a reliance in a completely new and reckless way.
(or: five kind of bummer conversations with bolas and then one awesome conversation with my kid after everything's over)
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Bookmarked by springbeetle
02 Jan 2025
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For a moment Xisuma feels as though the world has dropped out from under him— as though he has been sundered from it, and there is nothing below or around him as far as the eye can see— as though there is no anchor and nothing to grab hold of, only himself and a vastness on all sides. This world that he has built, the world his players have built— negligible, at best, hardly realer than a flicker on a silver screen. It would crumple like wet paper, if he told it to.
He is the universe cradling his players, holding them in his palm above a silence that’d claim them if he let it claim them. It would have had Scar. It would have had Cleo. It would have Joe, now, if he allowed it. They are so terribly fragile.
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aka 4 times xisuma gets propositioned by his players who are expecting him to make use of certain admin privileges, and he is really not whatsoever interested in hurting them even though he theoretically should be according to some people. and 1 time that is, uh, NOT what happens.
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the burning in me in you by Anonymous for salemoleander (heartbeatsinreverse)
Fandoms: 3rd Life | Last Life SMP Series
25 Dec 2024
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The Watchers are meant to have suppressed the heats and ruts of all of the players of their games, as to suppress pack bonding and allow for more unpredictable behavior from their players. Unfortunately, the Secret Keeper got a bit lazy with it and only suppressed the players' natural cycles. Cleo’s trans. Her cycle isn’t “natural”.
That is to say: Cleo wakes up in her room of her base with the Roomies deeply in a rut that isn't supposed to be happening after the zombie wild card is over with. Luckily, taking care of this is a sacrifice Etho is more than willing to make and that Grian isn't opposed to being dragged along with as well.
Which, put like that, may be more of a net positive than a problem...
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Bookmarked by springbeetle
25 Dec 2024