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Rei is not a comforting person. Comfort and compassion weren't exactly family traits.
Kazuki would know exactly what to do, were their positions flipped. Rei is certain of this.
But Rei isn't like Kazuki.
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- Part 10 of 2025 Monthly Fanfic Challenge
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I'll leave a light on for you; by starlight_matrix for StuffyCandle
Fandoms: Life Series | 3rd Life SMP Series
11 Sep 2025
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Six months since she and Etho divorced, a year or more since he’d actually lived in her house, and yet his absence was felt. It wasn’t that his things weren’t there anymore; he hadn’t kept so much as a spare set of clothes there in years. It wasn’t that she couldn’t hear him anymore; he’d always been so quiet.
It wasn’t even that he was gone. He had already been gone.
It was knowing for certain, without a doubt, that that was never going to change.
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- Part 9 of 2025 Monthly Fanfic Challenge
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[ “Vice Captain Hoshina.”
The voice that came through the headset was unfamiliar, and Hoshina’s name was mangled by the static from having an outside line patched into their communications system. Hoshina felt himself straighten nonetheless- there was a calm certainty in the voice that reminded him of Captain Ashiro.
“This is Captain Takagi of the 9th Division. My team is en route to the honju, but I have extra people to send your way if your platoons need help with the remaining yoju. What do you need?” ]
Or: Captain Ashiro is away from Tachikawa base, and a honju appears in her absence. Vice Captain Hoshina is left to rely on the rarely-seen 9th Division Kaiju Defense Force to neutralize the threat.
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Impulse had lived with August for ten years. It was impossible to count or even recall how many times August hurt him during those ten years, and Impulse refuses to try.
He just wants to forget.
But the scars are a constant reminder.
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- Part 3 of Sorry About the Blood in Your Mouth
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Years ago, Scott had asked Gem to marry him, and she had understood.
Gem was of noble birth; her mother had been a member of the royal council before her death, and her father had been a member of the royal guard. It was his footsteps Gem had followed. Gem had risen to the top and earned her place by the king’s side. She had proven her loyalty to the crown.
If Scott were to marry Gem, even the council would have to admit she were a worthy princess.
And Gem loved Scott, in her way. He was her dearest friend, her king. She had sworn her life to him.
But she couldn’t marry him.
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- Part 8 of 2025 Monthly Fanfic Challenge
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"No one knows you 'til it's over..." by starlight_matrix for VanishingVoid
Fandoms: Life Series | 3rd Life SMP Series
08 Aug 2025
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In which Pearl is cursed by a witch, transforms into a dog, and finds her forever home.
In roughly that order.
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The More I Try, The More It Shows by starlight_matrix for Contrarian1107
Fandoms: Life Series | 3rd Life SMP Series
31 Jul 2025
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It all starts with the reappearance of a pink rash across the bridge of his nose, and as Etho gazes at the reflection of it in his bathroom mirror, all he can think is: Not now, please, not now.
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- Part 7 of 2025 Monthly Fanfic Challenge
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Without You, Love by starlight_matrix for StuffyCandle
Fandoms: Life Series | 3rd Life SMP Series
12 Jun 2025
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While touring with Gem and the Scotts during Pride month, Impulse admits to his bandmates that he’s sad he can’t be with TIES to celebrate. Lucky for him, Gem has a remedy in mind.
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- Part 6 of 2025 Monthly Fanfic Challenge
- Language:
- English
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- 2,776
- Chapters:
- 1/1
- Kudos:
- 42
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- 210
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How three Hermits adjust to exile.
Or, how Jevin adjusts to having his friends back, and how Ren and Cleo adjust to the existence of Sal.
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- Part 5 of 2025 Monthly Fanfic Challenge
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Prime Lens by starlight_matrix for Contrarian1107
Fandoms: Life Series | 3rd Life SMP Series
27 Apr 2025
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Cleo is an erotica model and Martyn is her photographer.
He loves her, your honor.
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- Part 4 of 2025 Monthly Fanfic Challenge
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It's Too Cold For You Here by starlight_matrix for Contrarian1107
Fandoms: 3rd Life | Last Life SMP Series, Hermitcraft SMP
07 Apr 2025
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Impulse doesn’t know what he’s doing. Ex isn’t someone he should be messing with.
But…
He’d looked so vulnerable, collapsed and unconscious in the sand.
Impulse doesn’t know what else he could’ve done.
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Evil Xisuma breaks into Grian's special server for death game recovery, and wreaks havoc on Impulse's heart.
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Ren loves his queen, and he knows her well. She would do anything to protect her kingdom.
And Ren will do anything, anything, to protect his queen.
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- Part 3 of 2025 Monthly Fanfic Challenge
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Married at First Sight by starlight_matrix for Contrarian1107, notquitesummer
Fandoms: 3rd Life | Last Life SMP Series
21 Feb 2025
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Nine couples, paired together by a team of scientists and psychologists, meeting for the first time at the wedding altar.
What could possibly go wrong?
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I Look For You in Everything (You'll Find Me Here) by starlight_matrix for honeybeebuddy
Fandoms: 3rd Life | Last Life SMP Series
18 Feb 2025
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Joel had been on the edge of getting sick for weeks now- plugged sinuses, a sore throat, the occasional splitting headache that made him pause whatever he was doing and squeeze his eyes shut for a moment. Lizzie had warned him to take the hint and rest, but Joel was the king of willful ignorance, and neither she nor Etho or Cleo had the energy to try and beat reality into his stubborn, stubborn head.
And so, the night before Valentine’s Day, Joel finally got sick.
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- Part 2 of 2025 Monthly Fanfic Challenge
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What does it mean to be the canary?
Lizzie asks this the first time she hears the phrase, uttered under one’s breath or belted out with a crude laugh. She has to ask the question several times before she gets an answer.
What does it mean to be the canary?
It means being Jimmy, and it means being cursed.
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- Part 1 of 2025 Monthly Fanfic Challenge
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It’s been four years since Shoyo last heard from Kenma, and more than ten years since the last time Shoyo saw Kenma in the flesh. He harbors no hard feelings for the distance.
Kenma is the prince, after all, and Shoyo is just… Shoyo.
But then a challenge is announced: any potential suitors must catch the prince’s magical familiar, a cat, and retrieve the enchanted gem around its neck. The first to catch the cat and bring it back to the palace unharmed will win the prince’s hand in marriage.
Shoyo has no interest in participating, firmly believing that the prince, of all people, should have the option to choose his own spouse, not be won in a game like some kind of trophy.
Shoyo has no interest in participating.
But if he accidentally makes friends with Kenma’s familiar…
Well, what’s the harm?
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My Pulse is Clear, Rushing in My Ears by starlight_matrix
Fandoms: 3rd Life | Last Life SMP Series
21 Dec 2024
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Her eyes are as blue as the ocean itself, glowing with the same pulsing rhythm as the plants in the caves, and when she smiles, she presents rows of teeth as sharp as any shark’s.
“Welcome, Captain,” the Ocean Queen says.
Ren smiles, and bows low before her.
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The Sleeping Giants are Waking, Waking by starlight_matrix
Fandoms: 3rd Life | Last Life SMP Series
12 Dec 2024
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Sometimes, Impulse wonders if he’d have been happier, staying in that safe place.
The day Impulse reveals himself as a demon to the crew of the Scarlet Hound, he thinks back to those simple few years, and regrets having ever left home.
Deep down, he knows he’d have been bored out of his mind if he’d stayed.
But perhaps the pain of boredom would’ve been less than the pain of loss.
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This isn’t the first time Sausage has stayed with Joel during heat. But this is the first time Lizzie won’t be there, and Sausage feels a hint of nervousness prickling beneath his skin.
He squashes the feeling immediately. Like Joel said- what could possibly happen?
They’ve done this before. It won’t be any different than all the other times.
Nothing can go wrong.
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Lizzie trusts Sausage to accompany Joel through his heat, and Sausage makes a mistake.
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- Part 1 of "Hey, Mr. Angel Boy-"
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Here Comes the Sun (Am I falling up?) by starlight_matrix
Fandoms: 3rd Life | Last Life SMP Series
30 Oct 2024
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The bus stop Gem uses to commute to work can be seen from her and Pearl’s apartment, with only a massive empty field between their apartment complex and the main road. Gem starts her daily trek across the field, lifting her feet high as she can to avoid soaking her shoes through.
She has time. She’s hurrying, but she has time.
The bus arrives six minutes early.
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Gem has a really, really shitty morning.
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