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  1. Public Bookmark 2

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    Commander Kharakhov is quite unlike anyone Tristan has ever met.

    or,

    Arbiter Rao sets out to solve a murder and ends up living out the kind of periodicals he certainly does not read (and saving the system)

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    07 Jun 2026

  2. Public Bookmark 9

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    "Ten years in a cryo-pod, and she fell in love with the most unsuitable man in the galaxy. Who didn't even notice her as a woman."

    Arbiter Tristan Rao is order, law, and judgment incarnate. The Commander is chaos, pragmatism, and survival. He is her tank, her critic, and the source of a furious, secret yearning that she buries deep. He is also, completely and utterly oblivious to the torturous effect he has on her.

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    27 May 2026

  3. Public Bookmark 5

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    “What level of attire do you expect from your superior officers?” Rao asked Niles, standing in front of him in the main room of the ship. He was in full Protectorate down-time regalia, clutching a datapad like it held the kind of secrets that could bring down the entire corrupt organization.

    Commander Bri Shepherd keeps things rather unprofessional around the ship, something her emotional support arbiter takes extreme umbrage with. Confronting him about it goes exactly as you would hope.

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    25 May 2026

  4. Public Bookmark 6

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    Luck and likeability are both valuable traits in a superior officer. A likeable superior is easy to follow; a lucky one won’t get you killed.

    “And, uh... Tristan, if you want to... ‘visit a friend’ too, that’s fine? I’m not your boss.”

    More important, however, is the ability to take charge and make hard decisions.

    “I wouldn’t be so quick to denounce your authority, Commander. If you do, Arbiter Rao may feel he has a responsibility to no longer tolerate the continued presence of traitors and malefactors on this vessel- and I would prefer to avoid removing a familiar variable from the Equation unless absolutely necessary.”

    Unfortunately for Commander Lane Perry, a surplus of the former is not an adequate substitute for an absence of the latter.

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    22 May 2026

  5. Public Bookmark 10

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    The ‘Red Spores’, as they called them- typical Auntie’s Choice behaviour, not even assigning the void damned things a proper taxonomic designation- were a scientific curiosity.

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    22 May 2026

  6. Public Bookmark 3

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    “Ever the dramatist, Tristan,” Virgil told him, slinging an arm around his shoulders companionably. “Do not be so quick to dismiss this as a tragedy! You and I are already in our thirties- without such an intervention, who is to say that I might not find you still a bachelor ten years from now, diligently waiting for the arrival of his destined lady?”

    Needs must, and the timely discovery of the trespasser Augustine de Vries on Horizon Point Station has created a need: with the possibility of interlopers lurking amongst ordinary subjects, it is no longer sufficient to allow Arbiters to simply be selected via aptitude testing. To ensure no interference, they must be born into the role.

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    22 May 2026

  7. Public Bookmark 3

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    Virgil was wrong. He had excellent restraint.

    Commander Jean-Pardieu Beauchamp of the Earth Directorate remained unharmed, despite everything.

    (He wanted to break every single one of those maledict fingers.)

    OR

    She tried to scoff. It turned into a sigh. “Not everything is worth gambling on, Pardy. This wouldn’t be a problem if you’d just stop.”

    The winning smile turned coy. “See, that right there? That’s the difference between us,” he said, lifting his index finger and gesturing conspiratorially with it. “With A.C. folks, Order folks, Protectorate folks, even Aza’s little cult: you all think the whole Universe can be broken down into tidy little production quotas, a list of product values- sums and totals and summary executions. A Universal Equation, a Paradigm, a Grand Architect waiting on the other side of a rift... or a long black number on a bottom line.” He leaned towards her conspiratorially. “Everything in this life is a gamble, Inez. All that really matters is how you’re betting.”

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    14 May 2026

  8. Public Bookmark 5

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    As it turned out, there was an Arbiter on the other side of this door. She was alone, and a Protectorate Arbiter was standing inside the 2nd Choice Saloon on Free Market Station.

    Commander Aspen Wilkes has a lot of problems, and saying no to folks in need is one of them. Even if that person is potentially the next Supreme Arbiter of the Protectorate.

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    14 May 2026

  9. Public Bookmark 57

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    It’s difficult being the odd one out in Pelican Town.

    Even after living there for five years, Harvey still feels like an outsider at times among such a close-knit community. He’s just never felt like he really fits in, instead spending most of his time in the clinic or alone in his apartment. And with a sometimes taxing job and an always anxious mind, he doubts that routine will change anytime soon.

    Kate needs a fresh start. After leaving a fruitless career at Joja Co., she decides to take over her grandpa’s old farm in Stardew Valley and finds herself among friendly but no less unfamiliar faces who all seem to have such high hopes for her. As much as she wants to settle into the quiet, comfortable lifestyle of Pelican Town, she still feels lost somehow.

    But maybe the valley can still give them both what they need.

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    26 Mar 2026

  10. Public Bookmark 21

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    As a new year rings in, Dr. Harvey Klein doesn't expect much to change.

    Four hours away in Zuzu City, Chloe Sullivan thinks it may be time for a huge one, as she struggles with her own moral compass.

    When she arrives to her grandfather's farm to escape her troubles and party with her best friends, Abigail & Sam, and on/off situationship, Sebastian, she ends up making an unlikely friend in the town doctor, and an even unlikelier romance blossoms hard and fast between them.

    (A reboot/rework of "What Roils Beneath the Placid Surface" and "The Alchemy of Becoming" series, featuring an alternate plot.)

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    24 Mar 2026

  11. Public Bookmark *

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    You've been aware of your burgeoning feelings for Harvey for a while, and a near-miss of near-sex has started to cloud what you know of the relationship.

    But when your sister, struggling with her daughter, passes a baby off for you to handle, your priorities change.

    Seasons change, wants change, clothes are outgrown. And Harvey is by your side as you desperately try to not fall in love with him.

    Heavy themes of found family, adoption, and implied parenting struggle.

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    21 Mar 2026

  12. Public Bookmark 16

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    You have the perfect life. A loving, fulfilling marriage with Harvey, two healthy, happy children, a wildly prosperous farm, and two successful terms of mayoral service to Pelican Town. You should be very happy, right?
    - or -
    You have lived the last five years doing everything you should be doing. After marrying the love of your life, you had to settle down when the prospect of children was on the horizon, having to make sacrifices for the good of your family. The villagers elected you to be mayor, so you took it in stride, expanding the town and welcoming a plethora of new villagers. By the time you’ve reached your eighth year in Stardew Valley, you slowly realize there’s a part of you missing.
    This is a story about finding yourself after life carries you away.

    Sequel to the series, Pineshadow Farm.
    Update schedule is weekly. Tags will update as I post.
    Smut ch indicated by *

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    16 Mar 2026

  13. Public Bookmark 16

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    This weekend, you're going to see Harvey for three whole nights.

    You can forget the job gnawing at your insides, forget how much you miss him when you're not with him, and generally ignore quite how deeply you're in love with him in favour of just feeling him inside you.

    But you're sick. In the unfolding seventy-two hours in the closest doctor's a&e, your fuck buddy has to take care of you. You are in and out of sleep, and confession is dangerously close on your tongue.

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    22 Feb 2026

  14. Public Bookmark 20

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    New to Pelican Town, the young farmer finds comfort in the arms of the local Doctor. Are either brave enough to admit their true feelings? And, when given the choice, who does Harvey long for?
    Angst has never tasted so sweet.

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    22 Feb 2026

  15. Public Bookmark 24

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    Harvey is a smart man.

    He’s a kind, open-minded, self-assured man.

    But he’s never quite considered himself to be a brave man - at least, not with his own heart.

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    25 Jan 2026

  16. Public Bookmark 27

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    Part 1

    Survival is all that matters when V's life goes from complicated to clusterfuck. She's a broken doll on the run from the SoCal cartel, her (almost) ex-husband wants nothing more than to see her dead, her first love returns to Night City after disappearing a decade before, and then there's Vik—the complication she didn't know she wanted.

    When Jackie asks for help pulling off the heist of a lifetime, V agrees—better judgement be damned. Of course, it all goes tits-up in the epic fashion that could only happen in Night City. V wakes up, only to learn Jackie's been kidnapped by Arasaka and the klepped Relic that saved her life is going to kill her—sooner rather than later.

    Life with the Empress of Chaos might come with more baggage than a Kang Tao cargo shipment, but no one could ever say it's boring.

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    21 Jan 2026

  17. Public Bookmark 11

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    There’s an atmosphere that every diner in Night City shares. The names on the signs may be different, but the coffee all has that same burnt, day-old acidic bite in the back of the throat. The food is usually more grease than flavor, a blandness that matches the clientele, always the predictable crowd of working stiffs. Some are corpo shells, as empty on the inside as their corporate overlords. Some are joytoys fresh off a night on the streets and in need of warmth, however fleeting. Despite the occasional ruckus on account of the drugged up gangoons in the back corner, the only sounds are usually the scraping of the spatula on the grill and the onerous droning of a TV no one wants to watch.

     

    At least, that’s always been V’s experience until now.

     

    Sequel to How I Fell for the Backalley Ripperdoc

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    04 Jan 2026

  18. Public Bookmark 80

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    It's the tail end of 2076 and things were going just fine. Now Vik's old buddy has him in the middle of a medtech mystery and Jackie's running with an ex-corpo ex-output who can't seem to go a few days without taking a bullet. Being the best damn ripper in Night City is a job that never stops.

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    01 Jan 2026

  19. Public Bookmark 40

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    There was always something wrong with her, she thought - something that drove her to drink, shoot, and fuck her way through life without stopping to think twice. A void in her that dulled her empathy and hiked up her pain tolerance, pushing her further and further down.

    So why shouldn't she enjoy it?

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    30 Dec 2025

  20. Public Bookmark 7

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    Gig: V For Valentine -- Prompt 7: Love Language

    It all started with the emptying of a drawer.
    A silly, sweet tale for Valentine's Day.

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    28 Dec 2025

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