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The Sinful Singing Games is a wonderful show where every lowly Hellborn can compete against each other in bloodsport and song for a chance at an Impossible Wish! Down on your luck? Looking for a change by any means necessary? Apply now for your benefit - or spectacular death - and all of Hell’s amusement!
Blitzø is seeking an Asmodean Crystal to finally turn all of IMP’s lives around for the better, and puts his own neck on the line to do so with the confidence of a man who never loses. Stolas breaks the mold by competing as demon royalty seeking his own Impossible Wish to be free of his gilded cage. Yet he finds that from High Society to his life in The Garden, a cage is still just a cage.
When they find each other again after over two decades apart, both men realize they both got more than they bargained for when signing up. For better and for worse.
Or: Helluva Boss with a little bit of Alien Stage, a little bit of Hunger Games and a lot of Stolitz.
( Egg-plosion 2025 )
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- Part 2 of We Lay In The Flower Bed We Made
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09 Jan 2026
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Once upon a time, in a far away junk yard, there lived an imp named Blitzø whose precious solitude is suddenly shattered by an invasion of annoying demons. They were all banished from their kingdom by the evil Lady Stella. Determined to save their home, not to mention his, Blitzø cuts a deal with Stella and sets out to rescue Prince Stolas to be Stella’s husband. Rescuing the Prince may be small compared to his deep, dark secret.
A Shrek AU/Retelling minus the swamps and onions!
With Art from @Doriaplume
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- 1/1
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08 Jan 2026
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Brushing past some gaudy elites, their clothing leaving very little to the imagination, relying on their pristine feather patterning to turn heads, Blitzø slipped further from the guards. Sweeping his gaze over the crowd, trying to find signs of The Marquis, he paused — his eyes catching a tuft of gray feathers.
Blitzø’s heart sank.
It couldn’t possibly be him.
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While tracking their latest target, Blitzø comes face-to-face with his former lover, Stolas, who is decidedly not pleased to see the imp who walked out of his life years ago.Stolas has his own reasons for wanting The Marquis found, and is forced to team up with the imp who broke his heart. As they chase their target across the universe, old habits return, desires resurface, and feelings never truly forgotten begin to take hold.
Will they reconcile before the end of their uneasy alliance, or are the old wounds too deep to mend?
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- 8/8
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08 Jan 2026
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Assassination businesses are a dime a dozen in Hell, but Blitz is determined to make I.M.P. a success by any means necessary. So, when his very first customer turns out to be a Princess concerned over where her father has been going every day, he reluctantly agrees to take on the role of private detective. It was supposed to be a quick job, but Blitz could never have imagined that tracking Prince Stolas down would be the easy part. Or that the stuffy Prince would change his life. Quite possibly forever.
For Helluva Egg-plosion 2025
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- English
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- 10/10
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07 Jan 2026
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It had been over a year since Stolas turned his back on his duties as heir to the Ars Goetia. Having reached his boiling point with both his apathetic father and his shrill wife, he scandalized polite society (if one could call the Ars Goetia that) by divorcing Stella and abdicating the throne. Using the money he had received in the divorce settlement, he opened a small bookstore.
All seems to be going well.
Except for this one imp who keeps stumbling into his store...
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(Written for Helluva Egg-plosion 2025, featuring art by Kaz.)
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07 Jan 2026