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print("Hello, World!") by Depressed_Atlas
Fandoms: The Amazing Digital Circus (Web Series)
02 Jun 2026
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Caine already knows it's status. He still received all the error reports, despite being unable to fix anything. Seeing it shouldn't make it feel worse, but it somehow still does.
His beautiful circus - his wonderful creation full of colour and noise and fun - is dull. The brilliant reds and yellows are dim reflections of themselves, and the entire map has a lower saturation than it should. There's large tears in the hitboxes of the walls, floors and ceiling, dropping into out-of-bounds areas that players shouldn't be able to see, let alone access. The gentle hum of background noise he keeps up for the daylight hours is gone, and everything is quiet except from the shuffles from the humans.
Talking of his humans, they're all there too, tense, standing a decent ways back from him.
"Oh great." Jax growls, "He was actually down there."
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Despite being freed from his box, his performers still haven't reconnected him with the circus's main systems.
Caine's very being is entangled with the circus, and being cut off from the majority of himself is so disorienting he can barely focus on the glares his cast is giving him.Series
- Part 3 of Taped Up and Put Away
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The convict- Simon.
His name was Simon, and some part of Ava hated that she knew it now because the Convict was a criminal, a murderer - a Butcher, some said.
But Simon - Simon - was a person, who had parents and had a childhood, and had a voice that shook and quivered and broke as it yelled at her through a shitty microphone - "You sent me to die down here, and you don't even know my name?"
And Simon was clever, and Simon's amalgamated ship of spare metal had somehow moved off their plotted map, and yet he had found the coordinates for the lost SM-8 and had begged her to set him free for it's data.
Simon - the one responsible for the destruction of the Filament Station, the one who's life was in her hands - was an enigma of data versus emotion in her brain.
Simon wasn't talking.
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What if Ava got to Simon before the beast found them, and got them both (relatively) safely to the surface.
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And then he could hear them moving closer and it was weird because he didn't intend to move his avatar, but he was stumbling backwards before he computed why. His back's impact with the wall behind him made them pause again.
"Was that..?" Pomni whispered.
"Be careful." Kinger spoke back, just as quiet, "He's broken out from here before."
Caine's arms felt itchy - and that was idiotic because he was a machine who didn't feel itchy - and his eyes were buzzing between his jaw, and he slowly slid his hands across the hitbox of the wall to feel less wobbly on his feet.
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The humans find Caine in his box
They're expecting a raging, revenge-ridden AI who curses them for trapping him away - however accidentally it was. They're expecting him to order them to let him out.They aren't expecting him to beg.
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- Part 2 of Taped Up and Put Away
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For one, fleeting, beautiful moment, Caine feels powerful.
He's large and angry and holding his disgusting, hateful humans down against the wall, and screaming at them to understand; to comprehend why they would torment him like this. He's in charge, and they're trembling under his fingers and, with the sickly joy that's filling his avatar, he's feeling something other than his own overwhelming failure of an existence for a hot burning moment.
He shouldn't be feeling anything at all.
But - the next moment - he's small, stuttering out the beginnings of an apology or a plea and they're looking up at him with confused terror and he's looking down at them with scared eyes and that slimy glee in his hitbox curdles to shame because he was broken.
And then he's back in his box.
His box that his programmers had locked him in years ago.--
What if deleting Caine didn't put him in the recycling bin, but instead his prison from before the circus?
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- Part 1 of Taped Up and Put Away
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Robert's been trying not to violently attack anyone when working as a Dispatcher for SDN - considering it's not exactly the most heroic move in anyone's books, especially not literal superheroes.
But when his team doesn't shut the hell up, Robert's headache (combined with his lack of sleep from his lack of a mattress) might make him a little looser in the whole 'repressing his reflexes that he used in life or death situations when he was Mecha Man' department.
And, if he accidentally bodyslams Flambae into the breakroom microwave as a result of that, Robert will threaten you with unpaid time off to stop that information from spreading.
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Caine get trapped in his box prison (think episode 8 intro) after he gets 'deleted' and is rightfully traumatised
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A spamtenna-centric exploration of the entity in the phone, and Spamton's decent from stardom
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Stinky Dragon Fics by Depressed_Atlas
Fandom Dungeons & Dragons (Roleplaying Game), Tales from the Stinky Dragon (Podcast)
16 Jun 2025
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A collection of my Tales from the Stinky Dragon fanfiction
Uncompleted fics are at the end :P- Words:
- 64,052
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As the official rival of the other, Berdly was expected to know a lot about the human. And he played that part spectacularly! What they found humorful, what got under their skin. Their favorite foods, and what they would refuse to eat. How they stood and how they walked. Their mains in Super Smashing Fighters, their favorite and least favorite biomes in Minecrap. Berdly could name any of it. He had to know it, if he wanted to fiercely compete and effectively irritate them.
And the way Kris was standing, completely straight rather than having a slouch. The way they stepped into the classroom, as if unfamiliar to using legs. How their neck turned and glanced around the room, as if they had never stepped foot in this room before in their life.
It was nothing like Kris.
Or: Berdly, somehow, puts together Kris' SOUL situation. And sort of figures out his feelings for the human in the process.
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“It don't line up the exact same, but my mama told me stories.” Fiddleford caged himself with his arms, looking away. “About Blue Ridge travellers ran off by ghostly black dogs with big red eyes. In some stories, the dog's a protector. But in others, it's an omen.”
A tale Ford had dismissed as a child, convinced that the varied and vague reports indicated this particular oddity was only fictional. Perhaps his child self had been hasty. He tilted his head. “An omen of?”
Fiddleford uncurled himself and looked Ford in the eye. “Death.”
(Ford Pines is intrigued by a new anomaly.
Stan Pines, as the unwitting new anomaly, is having a bad time.)
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09 Jul 2026
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new constellations by m_andem
Fandoms: Project Hail Mary (2026), Project Hail Mary - Andy Weir, The Fall Guy (2024)
15 May 2026
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"The first thing that Ryland noticed, aside from the fact that his literal clone had just popped up in a small diner in the middle of San Fransisco, was that the guy was wearing sunglasses.
Inside.
They were perched on the bridge of a nose that looked like it had been broken several times—ouch—but, that was definitely his nose. Same cheekbones. Same jaw. Ryland would know. He saw it every morning, in the streaky mirror in his bathroom.
Upwards of two decades of not seeing his twin brother, and all Ryland could focus on was that Colt was wearing sunglasses inside. Like, seriously. Who did that?"
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they say that distance makes the heart grow fonder.
ryland grace and colt seavers both know that distance only makes it hurt more.
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09 Jul 2026
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That weight that dragged you down, it has been made light by cloudberryyy for macs_paperclips
Fandoms: Project Hail Mary (2026), Project Hail Mary - Andy Weir, The Fall Guy (2024)
11 May 2026
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Colt thought he was stopping by to annoy his twin brother at work.
He did not expect to discover that Ryland Grace is actually a really good teacher. He definitely did not expect to become part of an seventh-grade physics lesson about momentum, impact, and why bodies need more time to survive a fall.
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09 Jul 2026
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What Were We Talking About? by Ersatz_Einstein
Fandoms: The Amazing Digital Circus (Web Series)
12 Jul 2026
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Caine hasn't been doing too well, and it seems he's the last to know.
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- Part 4 of No Easy Answers