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    “Do you think you deserve this?” the Oldest Dream asks.

    Dokja is exhausted, miserable, shaky in his own skin. He’s so tired of being tired. “I’m starting to think I do,” he says.

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    27 Jul 2022

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    Harry hits Light Yagami with his car. (Based on a joke post, taken extremely seriously.)

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    12 Apr 2025

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    beautiful

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    When I arrive at the office, I am informed that, to thank me for all my hard work, I am being sent on an all expenses paid holiday abroad, leaving in ten minutes.

    It's odd, because I don't ever remember working here. Not in the sense that the place is unfamiliar, but that for the past five months I have been splitting my time between reading books and doing the crossword, and nobody seems to have noticed yet.

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    11 Apr 2025

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    “Oh. I mean.” Denji shrugs. “Gotta make money, ya know,” he pinches his fingers together, giving Aki a sleazy grin. “Like I said. It’s not like I actually did it- I’m not gay, like I said-”

    “Denji, that’s not the point. It doesn’t matter that they were dudes, it doesn’t really matter if you’re gay or not, it matters that you were a kid. You still are a kid. And they were adults they should’ve-” What? Protected him? Helped him? Not asked for services?

    He could list all those things, and he can already imagine Denji’s indifferent expression, a shrug, or a thumbs-up (that stupid thumbs-up) as he remarks: well, still gotta make money somehow, right?

    Denji understands that activities are legal, or illegal.

    Aki isn’t entirely sure if Denji realizes there’s a moral scale that differentiates them, as well.

     

    Aki hates learning new things about Denji.

    Aki thinks a lot about Denji.

    About how Denji is a mistake.
    About how thinking too much about Denji is the bigger mistake.
    (an entire fic whose dialogue depends on denji, who's unaware he's trauma dumping, and aki, who never asked)

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    09 Apr 2025

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    crying tears of mirth in spirit oml. the humor combined with the morbid topics is just. chef's kiss. mwah. just a very good balance kudos to the author

    COMING BACK A FEW MINUTES LATER TO ADD THAT IT'S ALSO SUCH AN INTERESTING CHARACTER STUDY. i generally suck at thinking deeply about characters and this got my brain to deeply consider how denji ticks and it was just super interesting to think about the whole time. so good prose AND interesting+detailed character analysis. deadly combo

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    The door to Mr. Spider's home closes, and Tommy Bradstaff disappears behind it, and the book does not.

    Jon picks it up.

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    Sometimes Jon wonders who he'd be if Gertrude had taken his Statement that day.

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    08 Jun 2024

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    ch. 17