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    “Look, if you’re another, uh, avatar of a horrible eldritch demon god come to assassinate me in a spooky manner, could you get it over with quickly? I haven’t eaten all morning and I’m starving.”

    The thing that calls itself Michael stares.

    “And this sandwich cost most of my weekly salary,” Gerry adds after a belated moment.

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    08 Feb 2026

  2. Public Bookmark 93

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    “He was born. He was pointless. And he should’ve died.”

    Michael Shelley knows very little. The main points of his knowledge can be summarised as follows:

    One: He is, as far as he knows, still Michael–although this is dubious, and perhaps does not count.
    Two: The world that he lives in is not what he thought it was. It never has been, and it never will be again.
    Three: He cannot, in any circumstances from now until the end of days, trust Gertrude Robinson.

    An AU in which the Great Twisting crumbled before Michael could be consumed by The Distortion–and he emerges, alive and angry about it. Alternatively, an AU in which Gertrude begins to work on her theories about the rituals much, much earlier, and Gerry finds himself chasing the mystery that is Michael Shelley.

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    05 Jan 2026

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    Gerry encounters a plot by a nascent avatar of the Corruption. It should be straightforward enough to deal with, especially considering his apparently ongoing... "alliance" with Michael. But when have things in his life actually been as simple as they appear?

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    16 Dec 2025

  4. Public Bookmark 36

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    Michael finds itself flung back in time to before Michael Shelley was sacrificed to the Great Twisting. Great! It can fix what happened, right? The spiral-incarnate can make a good simple plan that works, right?

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    In all the years - again, time is such a silly concept - Michael has been the distortion, even pulling memories from before it was Michael and Michael was it, it had never been able to go *backward* in time. It could go forward, it could send people into states of warped time. It could change time as it happened. But it couldn’t reverse it. It could never reverse it.

    So then how is it 10 years before when it died?

    “No!” It spits out, nearly terrified. Gerry’s eyes go back to the brick wall. “I-“ Michael thinks about its words. “I don’t know why she chose him. He didn’t deserve it. Doesn’t. I… I needed to remind myself that he doesn’t deserve it.”

    Michael takes a steadying breath.

    “And I need to do something to stop it.”

    Gerry is ripe with questions, Michael is sure of it. Gerry always was too curious for his own good.

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    13 Dec 2025

  5. Public Bookmark 75

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    “…You want me to get close to them,” Gerard says, slowly.

    “In a manner of speaking,” Gertrude replies.

    Gerard pauses, considering her words. It takes him a minute to even begin to formulate a response but he manages. Incredulously, he asks, “Are you telling me you want me to try and seduce the Distortion?”

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    12 Dec 2025