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  1. Public Bookmark 33

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    There are, apparently, multiple ways to be redeemed in the eyes of the Nora.

    She already knew of two.

    The first was, that you could serve your time in the wilds. Feel the loneliness of being forgotten.

    The second, of course, is that you can (if you’re still young) run in the proving. Fight to prove your worth to the tribe.

    And she now knew of a third.

     

    You could become a mother.

     

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    I read “Mother Tongue” by knitbone and my brain would not let the implications of Aloy carting a baby around on her big world saving, life threatening adventure go.

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    12 Jan 2026

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    From a tumblr writing prompt "You have one super power: The ability to know without fail what the truth is to any asked question. You planned to help the world as a super hero. It took you six hours for the government to declare you public enemy number one and the most deadly super villain alive."

    The Soothsayer just wanted to help.

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    17 Nov 2025

  3. Public Bookmark 38

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    Choose your own adventure would be more fun, because then you could cheat and read through all the outcomes before you make decisions. Real life doesn't work that way-- sometimes, you have to just decide, hit the gas, and go, and hope you find what you wanted.

    Set four to five months after the end of Familiar Ghosts.

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    27 Oct 2025

  4. Public Bookmark 4

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    A cleric, a bard and a black mage walk into a bar - and leave beginning a quest to find a stolen god.

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    23 Oct 2025

  5. Public Bookmark 7

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    IV’s hands wouldn’t stay still.

    He sat on the edge of the sidestage railing, starter guitar already tuned and strapped against his back, thumb running up and down the back of his other hand like it might wear the nerves out of him. There was still ten minutes to go, maybe fifteen if Vessel kept fiddling with his in-ears and the small crowd didn’t settle, twenty if III decided that his the paint on his hands wasn’t blended well enough and went back in for a fifth touch-up. Long enough to feel the static build behind his eyes. Long enough to think.

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    11 Oct 2025