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    Dirk Strider goes out into the world with two goals: find something, and lose himself in the process. It works well enough until a handsome boy with bottle green eyes follows the trail of missed connections and ticket stubs right to his heart and decides to help himself to everything Dirk was determined to throw away.

    (Fae Jake/listless semi-sex addict Dirk, and a lot of self-indulgence.)

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    30 Nov 2025

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    "Why is this shitfuck pan-rotting pile of artifact-ridden, glitchy, nonsensical sewage that can barely pass itself off as a movie somehow a thoughtful criticism on the global rise of authoritarianism and well-put commentary on how young working class males are forced into the military? What the actual fuck? Why do none of the other reviews mention this?"

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    Aka famous movie director "D Strider" pays Karkat to review his shitty movies, and Karkat grows increasingly alarmed that they actually mean something under all of the mind-numbing bullshit. Meeting Strider, the biggest douchebag in the world, does not help. Also he keeps meeting this annoyingly smart human kid and his awkward/obnoxious but very hot guardian. These two things are entirely unrelated.

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    26 Nov 2025

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    Dream-sharing: a highly illegal little industry in which agents delve into people's dreams, and unearth their deepest secrets and memories.

    Within this business, the Strider-Lalondes are known as the best there is — until Dirk Strider gets his fool-ass trapped within the confines of his own subconscious, with his Auto-Responder playing malicious prison warden.

    To save him, the best and brightest dreamers in the world will have to form a team. Backed by the token rich friend, lead by the surliest extractor ever bribed out of retirement, haunted by the shade of the latest, greatest agent in the biz, and on the run through a dangerous tiered dream in a hostile mind... It's going to take a miracle to pull this one off.

     

    11/11/21: FULLY REVISED WITH A "FIVE YEARS LATER" EPILOGUE

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    26 Nov 2025

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    Clifford Unger opened his eyes.

    The gun was still there. Lisa's heart monitor beeped away. But he hadn't fired the gun yet. He hadn't fired because he suddenly knew what was about to happen. Or what could happen if seemingly inconsequential choices were made, like taking a few seconds too long or turning down a different corridor.

    They weren't memories exactly. It was impossible how to describe them, but what was important was the information he got from them. He knew what to do. He knew how to save himself and his BB.

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    11 Sep 2025

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    Time kept coming, speeding faster and faster at a breakneck pace as Sam stayed exactly the same.

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    10 Sep 2025