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The first time you pass by the troll in the box you kind of try not to see it.
It's gross as fuck when people do this. You guess maybe it's better than driving them out into the country and dumping them to make it on their own, or those stories you've heard about people dumping unwanted wrigglers in sacks into rivers--those you try not to think about because fuck, that is not okay on any level but it's not like you can do shit about it.
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- Part 1 of UFUT
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28 May 2026
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you weren't there that day for the Naming of Things by callmearcturus
Fandoms: Project Hail Mary - Andy Weir, Project Hail Mary (2026)
12 Jun 2026
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"Rocky did not understand human names and titles when we met. Eridian names longer, give information on Eridian's home, associations, skills." For the first time in ages, he positioned two of his arms together, forming the design that Grace thought of like a family crest, a single design bisected.
"You should teach me to read those before we get to Erid, so I can be polite." As Grace considered the linework, already picking up on some vague ideas from the shapes in Rocky's carapace, something else occurred to him. "So… I picked 'Rocky' because your outer shell looks like stone."
"And for inspirational story of athlete who defeats human system of poverty to become great champion. Eye of the tiger."
"Retroactively, yeah." Grace bent at the hips, getting to Rocky's 'eye' level. "So what'd you name me?"
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10 May 2026
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chamomile, rose water, and other unlikely intoxicants by callmearcturus
Fandoms: Homestuck
30 Aug 2017
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"I do swear by Skaia's guiding light to eschew ambition and direction to serve in the holy retinue. I will lay my head in the safety of the bower and pay penance in thought and deed. For the King of All Winters and the Undying Prince, I will provide succor and balm, and yield my being to ease the burden he carries for us all."
An off-the-cuff jamfic for the Strilondes discord that spun rapidly out of control. In which Dirk plays the role of resigned god-prince of Skaia, locked in a twisted version of the Year King fable. His life is a sorry routine until one year, he receives a very bold, strange offering from the heir to House Harley, Jake.
A story about cycles, and how to break them, and the patterns left in the scattered pieces afterward.
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- Part 1 of The Year King and the Alchemist
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A series of jam fics fleshing out the development of Dirk and Jake's canon relationship.
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Bookmarked by Gray_Doubt
02 May 2026
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Of all the plans Robby made for his three-month sabbatical, he never expected to end up on his own doorstep, trying to break into his own house.
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09 Apr 2026
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In which NCR Ranger Karkat Vantas meets a pair of sibling con-artists in the Mojave Wasteland. Good men are in short supply this far east.
(A purely self-indulgent Fallout AU I have been thinking about for literally months. I wrote this for me but you can read it too if you'd like.)
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02 Mar 2026
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Martin is the proprietor and manager of a very discrete and fairly exclusive brothel situated between Belgravia and Chelsea. Blackwood House excels at special requests and pleasing any client.
Except for Jon, who probably has never been pleased a day in his entire life.
Despite that, he still comes back. It eventually begs the question: how do you solve a problem like Jon Sims?
25/9/2020: now with epilogue
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23 Feb 2026
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Androids have all but won the war against humanity, and the remnants of the once-great human civilization are reduced to miles of wastelands and hidden communities struggling to survive. Dirk and his friends are sent out to scavenge for supplies, while AR is sent to hunt down and exterminate the dwindling human population. Their fated meeting is the beginning of a union between species that was once thought impossible.
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- Part 1 of Endangeredverse
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- English
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- 25/25
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17 Feb 2026
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you can only take what you can carry to the edge of the sea by callmearcturus
Fandoms: Homestuck
06 Feb 2018
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Crocker Magitech is among the foremost developers of innovative magic and technology for the modern home, and the team of Crocker, Lalonde, and Strider are among the most important cogs in their clockwork machine. After a long dry spell without new projects to work on, Jane hits it big with a grand new discovery: a remote island out in the South Pacific that’s teeming with lost majyyks to rediscover.
What the team finds out there is far more than their next big break: a lost settlement, a forgotten god, strange arcane flora, and a friendly boy living in the lake. Not even the combined knowledge of the team can prepare them for their expedition to this strange, hidden island.
Magic, sex, and mayhem ensue.
(Main story fully complete, epilogue in progress.)
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- Part 1 of Sex Magic Island AU
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we float before the sea at dusk by Madame la Problématique (callmearcturus)
Fandoms: Homestuck
01 Aug 2018
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Jake English is a minor celebrity of the sublight net who often goes on intragalactic adventures to amazing locales to share his excursions with his lovely followers. It can be very good press for new interstellar tourist traps, so he's used to being hired to check out new vacation spots.
When his old friend Jane hires him, Jake winds up on Alcyone to promote the new resort CrockerCorp has opened there. There's but one small, remarkable detail about the planet: it's covered entirely in breathable liquid.
It would make a perfect tourist trap. Shame it's already inhabited.
(A very weird AU, in which humans try to settle a big waterworld to build a tourist hotspot, and the native mers enact castle doctrine.)
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GT: Wait slow down dirk.
GT: This is all hypothetical right?
GT: I mean youre not actually going to tattoo me.
TT: Of course not.Series
- Part 1 of A6A4
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19 Nov 2025
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Dirk left his siblings behind and moved upriver for the work. As a jeweler, he'd have a better chance to sell his creations in the annoyingly ritzy river bazaar, and he needed the coin.
The last thing he expects is to earn the attention of a handsome bookbinder, but Dirk has no problem with a ill-advised one night stand.
He's less prepared for the consequences of sleeping with a tradesman.
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- Part 2 of the trades of clay and gold
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31 Oct 2025
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It was pretty common knowledge around the mortals that you had to be wary of tradespeople. Not that they were all malicious or anything, but when you lived next door to beings with that much power, it paid to be careful.
The problem is Dave Strider is not very careful.
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- Part 1 of the trades of clay and gold
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The only thing standing between Dave, Aradia, and Jake and their masters is their mandatory fieldwork. When Aradia has the brilliant idea to find the Temple of the Signless, it seems like an low-effort way to get those fancy initials slapped onto the end of their names.
One tripwire of a prophecy later, and the Signless returns. Which doesn't look great for their easy final project. In fact, things only get more complicated from there.
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16 Oct 2025
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Dream-sharing: a highly illegal little industry in which agents delve into people's dreams, and unearth their deepest secrets and memories.
Within this business, the Strider-Lalondes are known as the best there is — until Dirk Strider gets his fool-ass trapped within the confines of his own subconscious, with his Auto-Responder playing malicious prison warden.
To save him, the best and brightest dreamers in the world will have to form a team. Backed by the token rich friend, lead by the surliest extractor ever bribed out of retirement, haunted by the shade of the latest, greatest agent in the biz, and on the run through a dangerous tiered dream in a hostile mind... It's going to take a miracle to pull this one off.
11/11/21: FULLY REVISED WITH A "FIVE YEARS LATER" EPILOGUE
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>Dave: survive three years on this rock by MadSeason (naive_wanderer)
Fandoms: Homestuck
18 Aug 2020
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Growing up on a flying meteor is hard work. You know this from experience.
TG: dude what is this piece of shit you just sent me
CG: TO PUT IT IN YOUR HUMAN TERMS:
CG: IT’S A FUCKING LOVE STORY, DAVE.Well, it's a bit more than that.
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21 Sep 2025
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Karkat Vantas has escaped Alternia, and landed himself in a brand new problem. To pay his way to Earth, he takes a contract with the Undying Umbra as an assassin and wetwork generalist.
With a pricetag assigned to his life, Karkat assumes he just has to work his way out. Day by day, job by job, he's going to claw his way out from Under The Table.
Then: He meets his handler, Dave Strider.
And things get complicated. Like, really fucking complicated.
NOW COMPLETE!
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Dirk has a plan, when he's 18 he's going to take Dave and get him the fuck out of their terrible lives and start over. Until then being the barrier between Dave and Bro is his only job, his soulmate is just going to have to wait goddamnit. Dave has a plan, it involves getting internet famous and not going gay, easy right? Karkat also has a plan, to repeatedly track down his dumb as rocks soulmate and get him to actually talk to him for fuck's sake.
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- Part 1 of It's the end of the world as we know it
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What is the worst thing someone you love could do that you would still forgive them for?
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FBI Agents Jake English and Karkat Vantas are just trying to arrest criminals and live their lives.
Jake wants to go home to his boyfriend at the end of the day. Karkat wants his peace and quiet.
Too bad the Strider thief duo they just can't seem to catch has been giving them a hard time.