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“You always this generous with strangers?” she asks
“Only when it’s necessary,” she says.
Andy decides to finally let out a quiet laugh. She slides off the barstool.
“Goodnight, Miranda.”
Miranda glances at her—brief and assessing like she’s about to say something. She doesn’t. Of course. Instead, she reaches for her glass, already elsewhere. Andy frowns.
“Right,” she mutters to herself.
She turns.
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When a rising journalist and a demanding editor clash over control of a story, their professional tension grows into something more personal. As it builds, both are pushed to confront what it means to be heard and who ends up taking the blame.
Inspired by song “Placing the Blame” by Self
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13 Apr 2026
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Seto Kaiba brings back more from the afterlife than initially planned. He proceeds to deal with absolutely none of it.
This story contains a lot of arguing.
Or: Five Stages of Grief: Denial, Anger, Punching a Hole in the Fabric of Reality, Depression, and Card Game Tournament
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21 Feb 2026
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Something is very wrong in Hallownest.
The Hollow Knight wakes up outside the Temple of the Black Egg. Hornet feels a shift in the kingdom from all the way in Greenpath. Together, the two of them discover the sacrifices each has made—and the grief neither one of them was allowed to feel.
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Hollow survives the Hollow Knight ending, though severely wounded and close to death. Against her better judgement, Hornet takes them under her care. Along the way, Hollow begins to acknowledge their emotions, and Hornet slowly discovers she's been lied to about the true nature of Vessels.
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28 Dec 2025
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When I Wake From This Dream With Chains All Around Me by dropout_ninja
Fandoms: Hollow Knight (Video Games)
25 Nov 2022
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The Hollow Knight was never intended to live.
The Hollow Knight had never been given the chance to live.
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Hornet doesn't know how to be a caretaker. Hallownest doesn't remember how to be a kingdom. The higher beings left in its dying territory don't know what to expect of the god in the Abyss.
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15 Dec 2025
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Things… change.
Ghost supposes that many would probably say that they get better. They do get better, don’t they? Yes, they do. Things change, and they are better. The Infection is gone, and Hollow is safe, and Hornet is happy, and so Ghost is fine. Perhaps they are selfish, and they mourn a dying world that they can never return to, and they are more alone than ever before, but they’ll get over it.
…And it’s not as if anyone will notice if they don’t.
Ghost goes back in time, kills the Radiance, and sets everything right. They tell no one, and do it on their own. It is only after their family is happy, and the kingdom is safe, and the Abyss is soothed to sleep, that they realize just how lonely it is as the last remaining piece of a future never to be.
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11 Dec 2025