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    Happy Fictober!! I'm following the Tumblr prompt list (most likely in order). I will not be doing Fictober for only one fandom, so expect to see X-Files, Stardew, Outer Worlds, Starfield, and Zelda fics. Enjoy!

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  1. Public Bookmark 6

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    Luck and likeability are both valuable traits in a superior officer. A likeable superior is easy to follow; a lucky one won’t get you killed.

    “And, uh... Tristan, if you want to... ‘visit a friend’ too, that’s fine? I’m not your boss.”

    More important, however, is the ability to take charge and make hard decisions.

    “I wouldn’t be so quick to denounce your authority, Commander. If you do, Arbiter Rao may feel he has a responsibility to no longer tolerate the continued presence of traitors and malefactors on this vessel- and I would prefer to avoid removing a familiar variable from the Equation unless absolutely necessary.”

    Unfortunately for Commander Lane Perry, a surplus of the former is not an adequate substitute for an absence of the latter.

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    22 May 2026

  2. Public Bookmark 10

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    The ‘Red Spores’, as they called them- typical Auntie’s Choice behaviour, not even assigning the void damned things a proper taxonomic designation- were a scientific curiosity.

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  3. Public Bookmark 3

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    “Ever the dramatist, Tristan,” Virgil told him, slinging an arm around his shoulders companionably. “Do not be so quick to dismiss this as a tragedy! You and I are already in our thirties- without such an intervention, who is to say that I might not find you still a bachelor ten years from now, diligently waiting for the arrival of his destined lady?”

    Needs must, and the timely discovery of the trespasser Augustine de Vries on Horizon Point Station has created a need: with the possibility of interlopers lurking amongst ordinary subjects, it is no longer sufficient to allow Arbiters to simply be selected via aptitude testing. To ensure no interference, they must be born into the role.

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  4. Public Bookmark 3

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    Virgil was wrong. He had excellent restraint.

    Commander Jean-Pardieu Beauchamp of the Earth Directorate remained unharmed, despite everything.

    (He wanted to break every single one of those maledict fingers.)

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    She tried to scoff. It turned into a sigh. “Not everything is worth gambling on, Pardy. This wouldn’t be a problem if you’d just stop.”

    The winning smile turned coy. “See, that right there? That’s the difference between us,” he said, lifting his index finger and gesturing conspiratorially with it. “With A.C. folks, Order folks, Protectorate folks, even Aza’s little cult: you all think the whole Universe can be broken down into tidy little production quotas, a list of product values- sums and totals and summary executions. A Universal Equation, a Paradigm, a Grand Architect waiting on the other side of a rift... or a long black number on a bottom line.” He leaned towards her conspiratorially. “Everything in this life is a gamble, Inez. All that really matters is how you’re betting.”

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    14 May 2026

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    As it turned out, there was an Arbiter on the other side of this door. She was alone, and a Protectorate Arbiter was standing inside the 2nd Choice Saloon on Free Market Station.

    Commander Aspen Wilkes has a lot of problems, and saying no to folks in need is one of them. Even if that person is potentially the next Supreme Arbiter of the Protectorate.

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