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    mutualism
    mu·tu·al·ism | \ ˈmyü-chə-wə-ˌli-zəm

    noun—
    1. the doctrine or practice of mutual dependence
    2. a mutually beneficial association between different kinds of organisms

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    25 Jun 2025

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    Crocodile's watching her almost fondly. “You know, Miss All Sunday, I do believe we’ll kill each other someday.”

    “You bring that out in me,” Robin says.

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    "That was our deal," Straw Hat snaps. "Twelve hours with you in exchange for my crew.”

    “Indeed. Although I believe how we spend that time together is up to my discretion.” Crocodile taps the ash from the end of his cigar, takes a sip of brandy. It goes down bittersweet and smooth. “Lock the door behind you.”

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    Luffy makes a deal with Crocodile for his crew's safety and gets more than he bargained for.

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    10 May 2025

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    The boy’s an utter terror. Someday he’ll be even more of a monster than he already is. Someday, Crocodile grudgingly suspects, he’ll be untouchable. His hand circles Straw Hat’s entire neck and he squeezes very lightly, just to hear Straw Hat’s breath hitch. His thumb drags along the kid’s raw and bitten mouth.

    Someday. But not yet.

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    As a teenager, Ruby collected bullet casings like prayer beads.

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    13 Apr 2025

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    Ruby stares at the wreckage of her machine, at years of stolen Coalition diagrams and hunting down illegal parts and fitting pieces together herself and studying the frequencies and disentangling the pale and frustration and hopelessness and love, endless stupid love, and she doesn’t know whether to laugh or cry.

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    It’s like Reigen’s been waiting for the question. He stops dead on the pavement, grips Mob by the shoulders, and stares down into his eyes with an expression as haunted as though every ghost the pair of them has ever exorcised has taken up residence behind it. “Mob,” he says. “Mob,” he says again. “Tell me, Mob. Look at me and tell me. Tell me truthfully. Do I look cursed to you?”

    Mob looks at him, and tells him truthfully. “No.”

    “Well, you didn’t look very long,” says Reigen. “Let’s just stand here for a moment, like so, and you can have another look, a nice long look, and really think about it...”

    (There's nothing strange about being called back to exorcise the same haunted photocopier six days in a row. It must just be a very haunted photocopier.)

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    17 Feb 2025

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    Toward Will she feels a fluttery, queasy tenderness, veined through with something deep and warm which she suspects is love. Wants to kiss him sometimes, thinks about it, practiced once on her pillow until she was overcome by the giggles.

    She cannot say what it is she wants from Norrington, but she does not think it is kissing.

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    10 Nov 2024