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Hold my hopes underwater
Stand there and watch them drown
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After Scout's older brother dies, his family stops going on their summer trip to the family farm for two years.When they finally decide to go back, it's like everything has changed.
First of all, there's a weird guy that he just can't seem to figure out. Plus people keep mentioning things about his brother that just don't seem like they can be true.
And they're playing Assassin, and it seems like people expect Jeremy to carry on his brother's legacy of being the family champion.
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Sorry if this description sucks. Title from Until I am Whole by the Mountain Goats.This is my first tf2 fic, and my first fic in like a year.
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- Part 1 of Transcendental Youth
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"On Southwood Plantation Road / Where the dead will walk again / Put on their Sunday best / And mingle with unsuspecting men." - Southwood Plantation Road, The Mountain Goats
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"Michael Mundy!" The woman called, her eyes searching the crowd. It took a moment for the two words to register as the crowd shrank away from him, a tide receding back into the ocean.
Mick had dreaded this day for years. It was never guaranteed. There was no real way for him to have known, but somehow he had.
This would be one of the last days of his life.
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- Part 1 of Tallahassee
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"Fight through the ghosts in the hallway
Duck and weave
Stand by the door with my eyes closed
When it's time to leave"-
Even with the years he'd spent starving in this house, he still felt…sad. Maybe that was too simple a word to describe the overwhelming grief that enveloped him as he stood holding a picture of a family that wasn't his.
This somehow felt like it was his fault. His absence in this house had caused a rift of some sort.
It felt as if there was a gap in time, a period of stasis where the memories from the decade he'd been absent sat. Memories he'd never be able to reach.
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“Prayers to summon the destroying angel / Moon stuttering in the sky like film stuck in a projector / and you” Tallahassee, the Mountain Goats
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Sacrifice
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“An act of giving up something valued for the sake of something else regarded as more important or worthy.”Five years ago, Scout’s brother volunteered to take his place during the 74th Hunger Games. As one of the final two tributes, the people of District Eight truly believed there was a chance he could come home. He was betrayed at the last minute, dying in the arms of his ally. Now, Scout has been reaped again. Spy, a man he despises, is his mentor. This time there isn’t anybody there to sacrifice themself.
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- Part 2 of Tallahassee
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After one long season of wanting
I am breaking open–
Or: After Scout’s death, Sniper feels strangely lost. He knows that he’s not the team member who lost the most in that alleyway, but it just doesn’t make sense to him. He didn’t understand how he could be alive without Scout. It felt wrong.
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Note: this is part of my all hail west texas seriesSeries
- Part 2 of All Hail West Texas
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"Leading cases are the stuff of which the common law is made, and no leading case in the common law is better known than that of Regina v. Dudley and Stephens. It was decided in 1884 by a court in the Royal Courts of Justice in London. In it, two profoundly respectable seamen, Captain Tom Dudley and Mate Edwin Stephens, lately of the yacht Mignonette, were sentenced to death for murder of their shipmate, Ordinary Seaman Richard Parker, after a bench of five judges had ruled that one must not kill one's ship- mates in order to eat them, however hungry one might be."
-A.W. Brian Simpson, Cannibalism and the Common Law
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Stay wherever the hell you are. Take the train down here if you get a chance. Drive out to the airport. You can’t make me leave. I loved you. I love you. There are no windows or doors and the walls are on fire. You can get out if you’re committed to the effort. It’s easy to get out if you believe in yourself. You have really let yourself go. You are not what you used to be. I’ll take as much of this as I can possibly bear. I am going to take this a little while longer. I am not going to take this anymore.
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Stories Found in an Empty Tavern Filled with the Sound of Birdsong by thefallingempire
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08 Apr 2023
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really long name but <3
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“What are you talking about?” Grace's fingers played quick chords as he spoke. He didn’t even look as he did it, but it did not make them any less purposeful.
“Discussing possible reasons why Tau Ceti is not infected while other stars are,” Eva replied deftly. “I would invite you to join, but we were just finishing—”
“Oh, that’s easy.” His hand twisted a knob, and the notes came out sharper. “It is infected—Petrova Line and everything.”
In Grace's opinion, dreaming about time traveling is no excuse for getting out of practice with his Eridian. To the rest of the Petrova Taskforce, it seems a bit odd that their resident Astrophage expert has suddenly taken to carrying a keyboard around and playing it whenever he speaks. Eva Stratt resolves to figure out what is going on.
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19 Apr 2026
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Hail Mary Counter @hailmarytracker · 12 hrs
Days since last contact with Hail Mary: 9,716
🗨 1 ⇄ 2 ♡ 5It's been nearly 27 years since the Hail Mary departed. When the ISS detects a signal in the far off solar system, hope begins to grow, even as mysteries start to unravel and the universe becomes a little smaller.
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19 Apr 2026
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The genus Magicicada is known for its unusually lengthy developmental phase. Newly hatched nymphs crawl from the branches of the tree they were laid in to burrow deep underground. They spend the entirety of their immature life in the soil, growing slowly, cradled by the earth-- waiting as long as a decade or more before emerging to molt, casting off their juvenile forms to become their true selves.
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If I didn't define myself for myself, I would be crunched into other people's fantasies for me and eaten alive. - Audre Lorde
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23 Feb 2026
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Photos Taken Before the Fire by hyenateeth for natsinator
Fandoms: Tallahassee - The Mountain Goats (Album)
05 Nov 2023
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Art of the Alpha Couple from Tallahassee
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- Part 9 of Art (for exchanges)
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19 Oct 2025
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For a while, Scout has noticed that his father has gotten quite close with the Medic. Ever since Spy revealed that he learned German Sign Language to help translate for Medic, the two have been attached like two soda cans in a packet.
It’s quite obvious: they have a thing for each other.
Or… so Scout thought.
Medic and Spy are best friends. Scout is convinced they're dating. On the other hand, Scout and Sniper are best friends. Spy is convinced they're dating. Cue some mutual father-son stalking.
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- Part 3 of simmering sapphires