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Some sleepless nights, Daniil Dankovsky walks into the Steppe.
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He could do more, now. For her, he could.
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The curtains are drawn, and he won't look at the clock.
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Nestled inside his own cast shadow, Gary reads:
“To err is human. To forgive is divine.”They find themselves; they find each other.
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Paul Leskowitz doesn’t really look at himself anymore.
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29 Jan 2026
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The worst and best and most dangerous part was when insomnia started to feel like holy revelation. When his eyes unfocused and the tiny, malevolent lives under the microscope swam into new patterns, trying consciously, it almost seemed, he was almost certain, to show him something.
And he leaned closer, and it had to be dangerous to be so breathlessly receptive to anything the Sand Pest might tell him. To push himself that way, when nearly everyone he’d met in the town had told him that spelled a quick death in September.
He might have been starving, or aging, at triple speed at that moment. Withering away like a fairytale’s unlucky mark while the microbes whispered to him.
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25 Dec 2025
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ART said, more cautiously than I was used to from it, This is more akin to physical touch than what you usually find tolerable.
I knew that, but I didn’t like thinking about it. It was fine.
ART took me at my word for it, and having it squish me became part of the things we did when I was anxious or plagued by stress toxins in my system. Sometimes I asked it to do it even when I was feeling okay. It was a nice feeling. At the time I thought of it as comfortable and relaxing. Without someone physically present touching me, it registered more like the pressure of being underwater, and that just didn’t repulse me like touching skin did.
It’s true that it was relaxing, but the reason I liked it so much was secretly that it felt good. I hadn’t even admitted it to myself at the time, but I kept asking ART to squeeze me, and eventually things escalated.
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03 Dec 2025
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Combining Bad and Worse by worthless_weight_in_gold
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
07 Nov 2025
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There are many ways to cope with trauma. Some avoid. Some ignore. Usually, Murderbot does one of those two things.
This time, however, it chooses to revisit. In a controlled (up to a point) experiment with a friend it (mostly) (completely) trusts: an Asshole Research Transport. All hell breaks loose quickly, but that's not always a bad thing.
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03 Dec 2025
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An Only Mostly Dead Dove Kinktober (2023) by starsforscales
Fandoms: Мор. Утопия | Pathologic
31 Oct 2023
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Guess what time it is again?
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20 Oct 2025