20 Bookmarks by offthebeatenpath
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When the violence against merchant and civilian ships escalates, Phainon is tasked with hunting down the pirates responsible but there's more danger on the seas than roaming brigands and it may take a pirate to save the world. They just have to learn how to get along first.
Or, Phainon gets pulled out of the water by Captain Mydei and they decide to investigate the Black Tide together.
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Bookmarked by offthebeatenpath
07 Dec 2025
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everything to ever need and want from a story
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Veritas Ratio V.S. The Universe by cakecats
Fandoms: 崩坏：星穹铁道 | Honkai: Star Rail (Video Game)
31 Jan 2026
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Apocalypse: Star Rail might be the worst game Dr. Veritas Ratio has ever played. In what world is murdering half the known universe for no reason even remotely reasonable? What kind of game kills off its most compelling characters just for shock value?
Also, why is he now in the game — and as a damn NPC, out of all things?
【 Activation Code: “Moronic developers, moronic game.” It is our sincere wish that during your time, you can fulfill your desires and, in accordance with your wish, transform a piece of moronic work into a magnificent, high-quality, first-rate classic. Bound Role: Unnamed male NPC of the Veritas Prime star system, age 0. 】
【 Congratulations! Welcome to Apocalypse: Star Rail, version ██! 】
Well. If these idiot developers can’t take constructive criticism, Veritas might as well construct the criticism himself… by forcibly inserting himself into a plot where he’s never existed.
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Bookmarked by offthebeatenpath
03 Jun 2025
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epic awesome INTRIGUING with good research put in.
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Familiarity (Breeds Contempt) by bell (belldreams), belldreams, usomitai (belldreams)
Fandoms: House M.D.
03 Oct 2006
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House and Wilson stumble into a relationship, but they run into problems before long.
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26 May 2025
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i dont know how to feel about this. toxic. old. men. yaoi. delivered. this is fucked up. i got a concussion. what the fuck. i think i hate to love this. 10/10
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Bookmarked by offthebeatenpath
24 May 2025
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clawing at the bars of my enclosure. i am in awe of this.
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love and other vulnerabilities by SerpentineJ
Fandoms: 崩坏：星穹铁道 | Honkai: Star Rail (Video Game)
30 May 2024
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Ratio and Screwllum have been marked by the Aeon of Love.
What's a scholar to do?
Run an experiment, of course.
Even if it means experimenting with their own hearts.
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- Part 1 of serp's screwtio library
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What else can he give Veritas?
The greatest joy for the man is sitting in a bath with his codex and Ser Humdrum, reading. Well, not recently. Ser Humdrum had gotten left behind at Veritas’s apartment when the man last packed and so he’d—
“A rubber duck.” Silver Wolf blinks at him.
“A what now?”
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Or, Screwllum picks out a gift for Veritas.
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- Part 1 of Gifts Given
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Animal, Vegetable, Mineral by stilitana
Fandom I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream - Harlan Ellison
16 Aug 2021
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Bookmarked by offthebeatenpath
24 Apr 2024
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IC heaven!!! complex, moody, right amount of everything in a continuation
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Aventurine had been a slave to the capitalist machine for far too long, and having successfully used the Penacony plot to escape it, then escape the dormancy within the dreamscape, all is well. Ratio is not as pleased with the situation, not knowing whether or not the gambler made it out alive at all. Luckily, Aventurine finds an interesting looking beetle and who better to ask for its name than the knowledgeable Doctor Ratio?
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23 Apr 2024
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SOMEONE FINALLY UNDERSTANDS THE VISION. I FEEL AS IF AN ANGEL HAS RAINED ITS LIGHT DOWN UPON ME. PRAISE BE!
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who will guard the guards? by rei_okumura
Fandoms: 崩坏：星穹铁道 | Honkai: Star Rail (Video Game)
09 Jul 2023
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Gepard Landau has always been known as the iron wall of Belobog, standing tall in the face of any challenges. It is his sworn duty as Captain of the Silvermane Guards to protect the citizens of Belobog, as well as his men,
but who will guard the guards?
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A strange case has presented itself to the Silvermane Guards that has vexed their best investigators: over the course of a month, three healthy, seemingly unconnected people have suddenly dropped dead. His curiosity piqued, Gepard decides to investigate, and the case takes him on a wild ride through every part of Belobog. It also brings him into the attention of one Sampo Koski, who has—for some reason—taken a personal interest in Gepard’s investigation, and keeps popping up everywhere. Where he isn’t wanted. (Gepard definitely doesn’t want him there and definitely doesn’t enjoy his company even a little. Nope. Not at all.)
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Bookmarked by offthebeatenpath
21 Apr 2024
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this was SUCH a good mystery its literally perfect, just the right amount of everything my god. bless ace attorney fans
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Contact by Loopy44
Fandoms: Space Odyssey Series - Arthur C. Clarke, 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968), 2010: The Year We Make Contact (1984)
19 Jun 2023
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He, with all the harnessed background energy of the universe propelling his mind like liquid plasma through a void of matter that vibrated at a balmy negative two hundred seventy degrees Celsius.
Hal, by contrast, with all his sharp angles and kilometers of near-microscopic fiber optic wiring, primitive body a simple conduit for a mind that spoke through ones and zeroes, sharp enough to keep up with Dave's. His golden clockwork circuits and crystalline memory banks were the perfect middle ground for Dave to settle, between the nanoseconds of conversation that passed between them.
"Do you read me, Hal?"Bookmarked by offthebeatenpath
04 Apr 2024
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grinning, beaming even
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Glass dusted the wooden floor, the walls, even Miles’ clothing. It glittered in the fading afternoon light filtering in from the windows. “What happened?” she asked.
He clutched an unfolded paper in his hands. The instructions, she realized, when she stepped over glass dust to get closer. The back showed a list of parts and numbers, illegible to her. Miles was sweating. “It exploded,” he murmured.
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a dissertation on affection as a logical locus, by Dr. Veritas Ratio, Ph.D. by profligate
Fandoms: 崩坏：星穹铁道 | Honkai: Star Rail (Video Game)
26 Mar 2024
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Here was the risk that Ratio had been anticipating. He made a move to enter, but beyond the doorless opening he heard a sound.
“Dr. Ros.” It was Aventurine. Ratio suppressed a groan. How could he be so stupid? Didn’t he know that this room was what Eosphoros-I was famous for? He prepared to stride inside and drag whoever was there out to a proper meeting room—
—before he stopped short at the sight of himself.
On a distant planet slated for IPC acquisition, there exists a room designed to extract one’s deepest desires.
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“Hey, uh,” His colleague nods at Velite. “There’s a hands- a guy looking for you. Tall, redhead, dressed in fantasy armour…?”
“Oh my aeons.” Velite scrambles out of his chair and races to the door.Post-"Night of Universal Hallucinations" brainrot because...
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- Part 1 of Gwen's HSR Rarepair Collection
- Part 3 of Gwen's Magic 8 Ball (HSR)
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After the events of the movie, Edgar realizes it really can't stay away that long.
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wish that you were here by roundtriptojupiter
Fandoms: 2010: The Year We Make Contact (1984), Space Odyssey Series - Arthur C. Clarke
30 Jul 2022
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Walter and Hal talk about the monolith, and the people they lost within it.
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A Monolith Made For Two by weakinteraction for TiaNaut
Fandoms: 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
16 Jun 2019
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What if Dave Bowman had been able to reprogram HAL, rather than simply shut him down?
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"Just as 2010: Odyssey Two was not a direct sequel to 2001: A Space Odyssey, so this book is not a linear sequel to 2010. They must all be considered as variations on the same theme, involving many of the same characters and situations, but not necessarily happening in the same universe." Arthur C. Clarke in the introduction to 2061.
A fic which takes place in one of the many parallel universe versions of the 2001 canon.
Bookmarked by offthebeatenpath
04 Apr 2024
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every time i get reminded of this stupid dumb fic i am so depressed. its so over.
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“Are you enjoying yourself, at least?” Wilder says. Being spat out by a wormhole into the middle of nowhere wasn’t Wilder’s idea of a great time, but Velite had, as a child, wanted to go space exploring.
“Enjoying myself?!” Velite exclaimed on the phone. “This is too much excitement for me! I think I’m going to be sick.” A pause. “No, I’m not actually sick-”
A muffled yelp. Wilder strained his ears.
“-don’t have a fever.” Argenti’s voice, now close up.
“You-! That was a figure of speech!”
“My sincerest apologies.” This Argenti fellow spoke so formally.Wilder watches his brother get lost in space and then bring home weird men.
"Night of Universal Hallucinations" from Velite's (canon) brother's POV.Series
- Part 5 of Gwen's HSR Rarepair Collection
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Bookmarked by offthebeatenpath
04 Apr 2024
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i love this outsider pov its soo good
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'You don't always have to be the hero, Gepard.' Why were his sister's words echoing in his head, why now?
But she was right. Right now, he would be the coward, and he would run to hide behind the walls of their city the same way he hid behind her outstretched arms as a child.Gepard's hands wouldn't stop twitching.
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- Part 1 of Renewed
- Language:
- English
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- 26,303
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- 7/7
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Bookmarked by offthebeatenpath
04 Apr 2024
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local moles found shot dead in apt