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A series of papers detailing the recordings of one "FalseSymmetry." The ending, of course, is already known.
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09 Apr 2026
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You feel half-awake, shunted out of one language and into another, although you and the revenant speak the same way. You understand one thing and one thing only, with the kind of clarity constructed of dreamwork, of rabbit’s-paw instinct: the last time you saw this man should’ve been the last time he was seen at all.
or: It's time to solve a murder mystery. Pix finds a clue and not much more. False finds a trail and nothing else remains.
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07 Sep 2025
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The guards left, slamming the door shut behind them, and Pearl felt her hair stand on end as the wards reactivated, a staticky zing traveling through her shackles and grounding in her skin.
The prisoner startled, levered himself up and hissed through his teeth. “Right, that wasn’t the smartest decision I’ve made this week,” he remarked quietly. “Scar? Are you across from me?”
Shuffling in the opposite cell. “Can you do me a favor?” a second voice asked. “The next time you threaten guards, can you try to have a weapon first to strike fear into their hearts? I think you broke our hand.”
“We have another,” the man said defensively, and Scar huffed a laugh. “And anyway– oh. There’s someone else in here with me.”
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- Part 15 of mcyt fic my beloved
- Part 3 of hermit/traffic sampler [personal favorites]
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14 Feb 2025
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Untamed Beasts by WhisperNorbury
Fandom 3rd Life | Last Life SMP Series, Hermitcraft SMP
13 Mar 2025
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22 Jan 2025
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nothing you can say by WhisperNorbury
Fandoms: 3rd Life | Last Life SMP Series, Hermitcraft SMP
31 Dec 2024
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Then the thing he'd summoned beams at Grian, and despite the sharp fangs and ashy color of the lips, Grian knows that smile. The bright sunlight of Scar having accomplished something, too delighted with himself to keep the feeling inside his own body.
"...Scar?" Grian asks, feeling every inch the idiot he'd been to get into this mess.
It nods, hovering back close into his personal space, reaching down and beginning to fuss with-
A scream of pain tears itself free from Grian, and he passes out.
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Grian messes with some magic he shouldn't have while desperate, and gets himself and Scar tangled up in a new magical bond as well as their old soulmate bond.Series
- Part 1 of Untamed Beasts
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20 Jan 2025
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“If you’re going to get married,” Jiang Cheng ground out, “then you’re going to damn well get married at Lotus Pier.”
Wei Wuxian blinked once. Again. Then: “what?”
Or: the one with sibling reconciliation, brother-in-laws from hell, and Jiang Cheng trying to sort through his feelings while acknowledging them as little as possible.
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- Part 35 of Author's Favorites
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16 Aug 2024
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The court proceedings of Hermitcraft’s first ever divorce, centering on Grian (Petitioner #1), Scar (Petitioner #2), Mumbo Jumbo (defense lawyer), a cat (also somehow a defense lawyer?), several judges since they keep quitting because of all the nonsense, and your tireless Court Scribe JoeHills.
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24 Feb 2024
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you fall on me like night (so far from sight and mind) by greyquills for strifetxt
Fandoms: 3rd Life | Last Life SMP Series
26 Aug 2023
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Scar stands victorious in that cactus ring, with Grian's blood drying beneath his fingernails, and all he can think is: I want him back.
Canon divergent. Written for AU Exchange 2023.
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20 Sep 2023
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Blade-Three, also known as Three, is the living weapon of the Watchers. Conditioned to follow orders, it is meant to use its considerable strength, combat abilities, and total loyalty to obliterate the enemies of the Watchers. Of course, the "following orders" part comes first, which is how, when Listener agent Martyn InTheLittleWood comes along with the right command words, he manages to steal it.
Now, instead of missions that make any sense, Three must navigate as Martyn and his roommate Jimmy attempt to teach it how to be human, or at least enough of a person to be itself. It would help if either Martyn or Jimmy knew how to be human either, and if they weren't falling apart at the seams after the death of an old friend.
(And of course, there's the matter of Three's original identity, a question no one thinks to ask...)
Or: in which Evo had a bad end, and five years later, the pieces that were left behind start to accidentally fall back together.
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18 Jul 2023
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In which Mumbo crosses several towns, learns some creative methods of self-defense, fights some monsters, sees things no human is meant to have seen, befriends a stranger, steals multiple cars, has inconvenient moral scruples, grows increasingly terrified of his own culpability in the apocalypse, grows a spine, blows up at least one building, accidentally prevents a murder, and attempts to find his best friend in the futile but ever-burning hope the man’s still alive.
He has to say, he’s so exhausted and terrified that he thinks he might just be mad?
(OR: the one where, after most of humanity turns into a series of terrifying monsters, Mumbo decides he’s going to risk his life on an apocalypse road trip to try to find out if Grian is alive. Things, as you might imagine, devolve from there.)
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17 May 2023
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“I have no idea what you’re talking about,” Techno says frankly.
“You know,” Grian says again. “Your- Watchers.”
Techno squints for a moment before understanding visibly dawns behind his eyes. “Ohhh, you mean Chat?”
(On watchers, and Watchers.)
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17 May 2023
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literally seminal to my interpretation of watchers and lives rent-free in my head forever
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"Scar?" Grian repeated, more shifting, like he was sitting up. Tired but gentle confusion in his voice. "Are you okay?"
Scar should've hung up. It was bad enough he'd actually called. He should've lied, should've said it was a misdial and pretended to be okay. He should've done a hundred things and he did the one thing he shouldn't, because despite everything that happened between them, Scar felt safest with the one who hurt him. He said, a trembling whisper, "No."
or: fake dating your ex, what’s the worst that could happen?
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- Part 1 of reach me out here
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25 Feb 2023
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The illusion is shattered. The crown on his shelf means as much as the ring or the shield. Broken promises– no, even worse: Promises newly renewed and left up in the air. The house reopened their wounds as much as their hearts (which broke in the end, anyway, so nobody walked away with anything they wanted).
a sequel / epilogue to oxeye daisy (c!dnf)
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- Part 3 of angelbride's c!dnf cinematic universe
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14 Dec 2022
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Mumbo drops his hands from the ceiling to cross his arms petulantly. “In fact, why isn’t Scar taking up this job?”
Scar is, indeed, sitting very daintily on a plush chair that Grian hadn’t seen him drag in. “Don’t let me bother you!” he says, giving them a wide wave. “Wouldn’t want to interrupt your learning!”
“I didn’t even want to be here,” Mumbo bemoans. “I’m not good at gardening, Grian, we both know it! I could be- I could be building a flying machine right now.”
He says that wistfully, and Grian takes one hand off of the dirt he’s pressing against the ground - ceiling - whatever, and sets it on Mumbo’s very white shirt. “Mumbo,” he says, with a gentle and caring tone. His friend looks up at him.
Mumbo’s dark eyes are practically voids in the dank man-made cavern, and dirt flecks have rubbed their ways onto his face like a smattering of stars.
“I’m only going to say this once,” Grian continues, and the shoulder underneath his hand relaxes. “Get good.”
Or: Grian has some grass issues. Mumbo and Scar try to help.
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- Part 1 of all goes outward and onward
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09 Oct 2022
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Grian kills Bdubs, and then comes after Scar with the fury of a man scorned. As he should. As is his right.
Scar does not begrudge him this. Scar kneels, waist deep in murky water, and bares his throat, and says, Kill me. And then he says, hot and desperate, We’ve won, Grian, we’ve won. Can’t we both win?
Grian, his head full of whispers, bares his teeth beneath the rising full moon, and says, No. He says, The ghosts demand a fight.
And Scar, on his knees, smiling, says, Who cares what they have to say? It’s just us here now.
And Grian – a fool, always a fool – listens to him.
(In which Scar and Grian decide to win 3rd Life together. This changes everything, and nothing at all.)
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- Part 1 of here i am, again
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01 Oct 2022
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Wash The Sorrow From Off My Skin (Show Me How To Be Whole Again) by Anonymous
Fandoms: 3rd Life | Last Life SMP Series
23 Aug 2022
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The singing is what keeps him up, most nights.
Or, well, it's not really singing, more like – rhythmic speaking. Words he can barely make out, enunciated as if read from a book of prose, an odd, unnatural lilt to them. The voice itself is smooth, and deep, and accented differently to his own.
Three days ago, Grian killed a man. He had beautiful green eyes, and scars ran across his body. An unshakeable feeling of familiarity clung to him. Grian is convinced that somehow, it's his voice he hears.
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26 Sep 2022
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If you notice anything, it leads you to notice more and more
The humans talked, throwing bits and things into the passage they called Boatem Hole.
The humans spoke to It, gentle and curious. They kept It company, called It a friend. It didn’t understand, but something beyond walls and walls of frosted glass and impermeable fog whispered pained and haunted behind It’s eyes with a voice that hurt to dwell on, don’t you remember this?- Language:
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05 Aug 2022
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Nobody Feels Like You by LovesickPrince
Fandoms: 3rd Life | Last Life SMP Series, Hermitcraft SMP
18 Jun 2025
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After emerging victorious in Third Life, Grian wakes up at the start again. Time has been rewound, the game has been reset. But now, Grian is carrying the weight of a victory that feels like a loss, and he doesn’t intend to play to win again. This time, Scar has to survive, no matter the cost. If that means rewriting time, manipulating his enemies and friends both, and staining his hands with more blood than ever before? So be it.
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- Part 1 of It's You (it's always you)
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24 Jul 2022
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After several hundred years of solitude, Phil thought he’d have conquered that strange, ringing hollowness that reverberated through his chest when the silence turned deafening, but something about stillness had become suffocating in the past month.
Or: November 16th and the many weeks before it, as seen through Philza's eyes.
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- Part 1 of thoughtza - a study on c!phil
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24 May 2022
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After he saves Dream's life in a split second decision, George is on the run with Dream after he escapes prison. With so much left unsaid and festering between them for so long, they're stuck with each other and it all has nowhere to go but out. They still love each other, but it's all just so fucking broken
c!dnf reunion + on the run fic
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- Part 2 of angelbride's c!dnf cinematic universe
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16 May 2022