15 Bookmarks by PhantomRider
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Having a baby in a zombie apocalypse is exactly as hard as expected.
Raising it, turns out, is even harder.
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08 Jun 2026
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The experiment went off without a hitch.
In which Barney slept through some very important employee orientations, Gordon is Death: Destroyer of Worlds, and they both have a slightly abnormal day at work.
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13 May 2026
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“She likes you, Daniil. Sticky, too.” Artemy spoke tenderly.
"I'm here, that’s all I am.” Daniil answered back when he was able to compose himself. "Should I leave, they would adapt to it easily and find a new passing interest... or fill in the vacancy in with another presence." He kept his words ambiguous; he knew that in the core of the concept, there wasn't a mystery, he would stay until they told him it was time to go... and there many ways to tell him to go. He was always listening for them. There was a sweetness and bitterness to the new experience, timidly coming in slowly in his life, and knew it can be torn from him. He didn't know if it would be a mercy or a tragedy if it was. He still didn't know if it was a welcomed distraction, or if it was a distraction at all.
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Daniil learns fatherhood can be sweet, sour, or a mixture all at once.
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08 May 2026
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A Study of Lazarus Taxons (and the Other Things Gordon Freeman Cannot Kill) by Nymm_at_Night
Fandoms: Half-Life
08 Feb 2021
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The Combine's chokehold on humanity may have loosened, but their grip left deep scars on the Earth. In the wake of ecological devastation, Alyx, Barney and Gordon find themselves chasing a last ditch hope through the wastelands, desperate to breathe life back into a dead sea. Between the Combine, a contract and the fundamental truth of ACAB, they'll have to overcome more than ghosts if they want a piece of the future. The highway's long, the stakes are high, and it's the end of the end of the world.
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08 May 2026
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Artemy returns to the underwater city where he was born only to find it overtaken by chaos and violence. Together with Daniil, a scientist who has spent the last several years in Rapture researching the limits of human mortality, he sets out to find answers and any hope there might be of saving the city.
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- Part 1 of Burial at Sea
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10 Mar 2026
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“He wounds, Cub. You are aware of that.”
“Yes. But he also heals. What we saw of him back then was also a reflection of us. He became what he needed to be in order to do his duties. We were hostile to one another, Stakh. Imagine how it was for us and how it was for an outsider… how it still is for an outsider.” Artemy looked down. It’s been months since the plague ended and still others treated Dankovsky like a stranger. He treated himself as a stranger. Calling him any other thing would have felt disingenuous... but it still felt wrong.
“Of course. Humans need to adapt to their surroundings to live and survive. But snakes do not adapt when their skins shed, nor do they become anew. They become more of what they already are.” Rubin spoke slowly, choosing his words with either care or caution while looking at Daniil’s signature coat on the rack.
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16 Jan 2026
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Artemy Burakh,
I hope this letter finds you well; or finds you at all, for that matter. Considering the circumstances of our last meeting, I did not have time to become familiar with the quality of your town’s postal system. Hopefully, it is looking better there these days.
I’m writing to you on a matter that I fear nobody else can assist me with. I have recently come down with a strange affliction, and have run out of possible explanations. Be assured, it is not the return of the Pest nor any of its derivatives, however, I fear you may regardless be the only one with insight into my present condition.
I am aware we have not always gotten along in the past, and I am to blame for a large sum of that animosity, so I pray now that you find it in your heart to offer me, at the least, your counsel. The train that I will take will arrive on the fifteenth of February. Should you decide to accept my plea, I would ask you kindly to meet me then.
Until then, Haruspex.
With Respect,
Daniil Dankovsky, Bachelor of Medicine.
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04 Jan 2026
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I'm cornered. I'll never be able to look the people I've failed to protect in the eye. My allies will end up in prison or exile, my research... in fire.
When the plague was cured, the Polyhedron destroyed, and the Haruspex victorious, Daniil Dankovsky did not remain in the town on the Gorkhon. Instead, wise to his presence and determined for retribution, the Inquisitor and the Army brought him back to the capital to be tried for his research—for crimes against natural reality, and therefore against the Powers That Be. After a year in prison, he has at last been sentenced to death... and there is only so long one man can fight against fate before he finally submits to the inevitable.
Artemy Burakh has no intention of letting that happen.
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- Part 1 of Heretics
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02 Jan 2026
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After shooting himself, Daniil wakes up five years in the future as the husband of the Haruspex.
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30 Nov 2025
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Artemy and Daniil are emotionally repressed dummies who can’t express their feelings without a protective language barrier.
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19 Nov 2025
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Heartshot (Or, How not to fall out of love with your best mate) by Purgatory_Porter
Fandoms: Team Fortress 2
07 Jun 2025
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This’ll pass, Sniper tells himself. Give it a few weeks. He’ll keep his head down and focus on his work, and whatever lust or puppy-dog affection he feels for Tavish will fade away with neglect. Sniper is a master of killing inconvenient feelings. Blokes what bludgeon their wives to death with a golf trophy, they have feelings. Professionals have standards.
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14 Oct 2025
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BLU Spy has been breaking into the RED Engineer’s workshop, has been creeping around his buildings more than he ought to. In his wake, he messes with the Engineer’s equipment or, more oddly, leaves gifts — and Engineer can’t make heads or tails of it.
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01 Oct 2025
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“I’m sorry.” Her brow furrowed in confusion as he continued, “I’m in love with someone else.”
After over twenty years of waiting, Hiyori has finally met her soulmate. There’s just one small problem.
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- Part 1 of Fate’s Requiem
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25 May 2025
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A Real Work of Art by couchHouse
Fandoms: Sonic the Hedgehog - All Media Types, Sonic the Hedgehog (Video Games)
26 Mar 2025
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If Shadow's going to be miserable in Rouge's apartment, he might as well be miserable and useful. Rouge enlists him to be her model for some eye makeup, promising that if he hates it, he can take it off, but if he likes it, he can come out with her tonight. She's planning on going to a fancy gallery opening to swipe some unsecured jewelry off of the rich bidders, and maybe enjoy some free snacks while she's there.
And well, Rouge knows damn well that Shadow isn't nearly as opposed to the idea as he seems.Series
- Part 2 of Girl Feelings
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09 Apr 2025
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water falls (it always has, it always will) by Cubicrot
Fandoms: Sonic the Hedgehog - All Media Types, Sonic the Hedgehog (Video Games)
22 Mar 2025
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Knuckles lets Sonic lean on him after the battle. Sonic’s warm against his side, and when Knuckles looks at him he’s gazing off at the sunset and smiling.
Something inside of Knuckles lurches.
And he thinks, very quickly and very firmly, no.
Oh no, no, no.
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09 Apr 2025