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  1. Public Bookmark 11

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    *BANG, BANG, BANG*.
    “Who on earth would be out in this weather?” III asks, and as if on cue, more thunder rumbles overhead.
    “And at this time?” II adds with a look to the grandfather clock on the other side of the room. 12:38 a.m.
    Another knock comes from their front door, making II and III jump up as Vessel strides over and unlocks their front door before pulling it open.
    He takes in the sight of a man standing on the other side of the threshold, he looks soaked to the bone and freezing if his obvious shivering is anything to go by.
    III springs into action gently pushing his partners out the way as he grabs the stranger and all but drags him through their front door. “You must be freezing, let's get you out of the rain.”

    ...

    Vessel notes the tiredness in the man's face as he stifles a yawn. “III, my dear, it’s pretty late. We should let our new friend get some rest.”
    “Hey wait, we didn’t catch your name” II realises, looking over to the man.
    “My name?” the man responds. “Oh, my name is Ivy.”

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    Vessel, II and III own an apothecary in a small countryside village. Late one night a stranger knocks at their door looking for a place to ride out the storm...

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    14 Apr 2026

  2. Public Bookmark 47

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    Vessel and III run a tattoo and piercing place.

    IV finds them while scrolling online, and books an appointment.

    Things develop from there.

     

    title from supermassive black hole by muse

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    13 Apr 2026

  3. Public Bookmark 12

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    Vessel was used to the pain. Used to bending. Used to breaking for a god who only ever demanded more.

    But when Sleep goes too far, an ancient presence intervenes — something older than the gods, older than life, older than the very dream that claimed him. It does not ask for worship. It does not demand obedience.

    It simply steps in.

    ☆⁠☆☆

    Or, my twist on the Sleep Token lore where Vessel finally gets to be happy ;)

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    13 Apr 2026

  4. Public Bookmark 22

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    When everything went awry during a run of the mill scavenging run, Soap could never have foreseen how he would come to meet the enigmatic figure calling itself 'Ghost', a seemingly sentient and talking Volatile. Nor would he have foreseen the strange companionship that would come to be between the two, alongside all the trials that being something more than human would bring them.

    (COD/Dying Light AU, this story is self contained from the main DL games and thus will not feature any canon DL characters and therefore require little series knowledge to enjoy. Set roughly nine years after The Fall in the fictional British city Ernesby near the sea.)

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    10 Apr 2026

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    He wades in it now, eyes still open, fixed on the speckled ceiling, begging himself not to crave bomb blasts and artillery fire in his childhood bedroom. Although…there might be something beautiful about it all, Johnny supposes, those noises in the thick. The gasps in between discharge that say: I’m here, I’m a part of this song too.

     

    After a near-fatal injury, John MacTavish finds himself back in his hometown in Scotland. Fresh off an untimely discharge, he's forced to cope with disability, his dysfunctional family, and the lingering knowledge that there are some things he's just not ready to leave behind...

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    09 Apr 2026