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    Kris was done. They weren't going to tolerate the interdimensional invader in their ribcage any longer. And if they had to open a fountain to get rid of it, they were going to.

    Or at least, they were. Until that invader offered something new: the chance to remember between resets. To make their own decisions with nothing more than some minor advice and a helping hand if requested. Naturally, Kris was interested. And that's why they woke up on Thursday morning, remembering two days that technically hadn't happened yet.

    Messing with the code can be delicate work. Do the wrong thing at the wrong time, and the bridge might just break. Or change fundamentally.

    It's a good thing nothing like that could happen, right?

    ...Right?

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    28 Jun 2025

  2. Public Bookmark 35

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    Angela Ziegler is at all manner of crossroads in her life. Between the professional turmoil of moving across the pond to start her doctoral research and the personal upheaval she thought she could leave behind, her stress is at an all-time high. She just needs one night to unwind, and she picks a random spot to throw herself into the orbit of an apparently random redhead. It quickly becomes apparent that nothing is truly random, and that one night can kick off a series of events that cohere and complicate in the messiest ways.

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    13 Sep 2024

  3. Rec 24

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    The Caliban is a marvel of modern engineering. It boasts an incredibly fast TTK, a cheap cost, and the history of being a living solution to one of the biggest military sticklers to make a name for itself. The average observer may take this as evidence that IPS-N's noted reputation for pragmatism and efficiency has once again reared its surprisingly well-proportioned head.

    The Development Direction team, unfortunately, knows better.

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    11 Aug 2024

  4. Public Bookmark 30

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    She-Ra has existed for uncountable millennia, has fought armies, monsters, kings, wizards, and gods to a standstill. She has proven her existence in the eyes of the Logic.

    What is Despondos, anyway?

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    17 Jun 2023

  5. Public Bookmark 10

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    "I didn't start out as a hero. And as much as I tried, I don't know if I ever became one. But I knew heroes. I fought beside heroes. Paragons of virtue and glory, shining bright in their colors against the encroaching dark. I began life as nobody from nowhere... a slave without a history, a randomly-generated three letter name, and no hope for anything better. I stepped out of a centuries-old rathole of an apartment one night, and wound up starting on a journey that would result in me meeting the person who would change my life forever, change who I was, change how and why I lived. Pretty blue eyes that looked on me with disdain when they first saw me... and would come to be filled with love. And she'd take me by the hand, etch her soul into mine, and lead me home. To the place over the rainbow."

    In which words are said to a listener the speaker doesn't know.

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    03 Sep 2022