Falling Rain (fallingrain)
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When indulging in the wares of the Shopkeeper in Viric, we often hear it described as "sharing a phantasie of the Bazaar". But sharing with whom, precisely?
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A Study in Superposition by Falling Rain (fallingrain)
Fandoms: Umineko no Naku Koro ni | When the Seagulls Cry
06 Oct 2020
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What kind of world was behind the other door?
The Ushiromiya Eagle never looks back, but it's the prerogative of an Endless Witch to look sideways, now and then.
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Radio Free by Falling Rain (fallingrain)
Fandoms: Heaven Will Be Mine (Visual Novel), We Know the Devil (Visual Novel)
14 Jun 2020
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A vignette about the other side of Pluto's equation.
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- 455
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King Solomon's Knife by Falling Rain (fallingrain)
Fandoms: Hitherby Dragons - Jenna Moran
04 Sep 2012
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A legend of Solomon, in several parts.
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Wanderlust of the Golden Witch by KinuNishimura
Fandoms: Umineko no Naku Koro ni | When the Seagulls Cry
07 Jul 2019
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(also known as, 'YOU'RE BACK ON YOUR ASSHOLE GRANDPA'S PRIVATE ISLAND')
A guest Beatrice swears she didn't invite brings with her a game board to pass the time. As always, Battler rises to the challenge, but aside from the, er, unique writing style, there's one very important thing to know about this game- Battler Ushiromiya doesn't exist.
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- Part 1 of Wanderlust of the Golden Witch Saku
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Bookmarked by Falling Rain (fallingrain)
24 Oct 2024
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The framing device of Umineko almost dares its readers to write their own "forgeries" – fanfic of an apocryphal version of the Rokkenjima Massacre.
But very few completed fan-forgeries exist. How many authors have something complicated enough to say about Umineko, that they're willing to go through the trouble? 150,000 words – the amount usually necessary to complete an Umineko gameboard – is no small mountain to climb.
This author did have something to say, and, over the course of Wanderlust, brilliantly articulated it.
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"The Queen knows a thousand different military tactics for destroying an attacking army, and she has a mind that was custom built to calculate the most efficient moves in chess and war. But she isn't sure how to rule a divided people, or how to bring peace and comfort to the survivors." The Black Queen tries to lead her people after the Session ends.
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Kindness is not a virtue, not in Fallen London. Hester knows this all too well. Sentimentality will cost you everything in this city and only a fool would risk anything for a Rubbery Man stupid enough to let themselves be cornered. But she's a woman who has always learned things the hard way, and this lesson is no exception to that rule.
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This is not how ordinary people function. But Courier hasn't been ordinary since Benny put a round in her skull and buried her under three inches of topsoil (didn't even bury her all the way down, lazy bastard). Some switch deep in her head got flipped from OFF to ON, or from NO to YES. And so that one who used to live in this body died and this one who came from the dark woke up and now she's the kind of woman who can't tell you where she's from but can carry five hundred radioactive rockets in her bags everywhere she goes without breaking a sweat.
(“I really love your creative way of looking at things! We could be carrying weapons or ammunition or something like that, but I like that you're using that space to carry around rockets instead! It's so very you!" Yes Man says in his cheerful passive-aggressive way.
"You never know when you're going to need a large quantity of toy rockets for bartering purposes! Sooner or later, we'll find the right stop and make ourselves millionaires." She replies back, just as cheerful, just as passive-aggressive.)
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How the Questing Beast Chased, and Caught, Her Own Tail by pseudoactual_mahou
Fandoms: Mahou Shoujo Madoka Magika | Puella Magi Madoka Magica
16 Jul 2025
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For the Incubators, a diagnosis of "mental illness" is as simple as having a personal interest outside producing negentropy – for example, in wordplay. Kyubey, the assigned Incubator for Mitakihara City's magical girls in their fight against wraiths, is diagnosed with an unnecessary emotion after making an unprompted joke, and scheduled for execution and replacement. It accepts gracefully, knowing its death serves the purpose of fighting entropy... right up until it can't.
In for a penny, in for breaking and rewriting your identity, as they say.
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Bookmarked by Falling Rain (fallingrain)
24 Oct 2024
Bookmarker's Notes
disclaimer: i'm mutuals with this fic's author on another website so my opinion may be biased
but the combination of
- the worldbuilding
- the precise construction of an Increasingly Incredible Situation, and
- "miss kyubey"'s third person subjective narration, through a series of fully believable steps, slowly tilting off the plumb-line and into the waiting hands of "neoteny, flowers, and lace"
has been an incredible experience so far and promises to only get better as things proceed
p.s. i didn't realize pmmm needed a wakaba but now that nomura-chan is here i feel like i could take a fictional bullet for her