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queeniecook · 14 days
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December 3
Now that Este knows how to crawl, Caleb has been trying to get her to stand on her own. Mama don't like it. I almost got upset with him and asked if he's trying to rush her into growing up but I bit my tongue. I know he's just trying to make sure she grows up well, knowing everything she needs to know to thrive.
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I'm happy she's doing so well but at the same time, it's a bittersweet happiness. My little starfish is growing. I want to keep her little but I know I can't.
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I have to cheer up, today I'm meeting Aubree in Brindleton Bay at her house - we're having a day at the spa in Newcrest. Caleb is watching Este and to my utter shock, he invited Jackson over. Those two have never really spent much time together but Caleb says he might as well try to get to know Lilith's boyfriend. Especially considering things could be worse - her boyfriend could be Vladislaus Straud.
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My Este isn't the only one who is growing. Edgar Allan and Emily have grown quite a bit too since the last time I saw them. I helped Aubree put them down for their naps and got in some cuddles while I was at it.
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I met their Nanny as well, Paris Hale. She's pretty. Very pretty. There's something oddly familiar about her and I can't put my finger on it.
"Have a good time at your spa day, ladies." August tolds us with a smile on his face as we headed for the front door. 
I felt like I should talk to Aubree about it but I didn't want to ruin our day. I decided to table the topic until later.
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After we got all pampered, we decided to stop at a shop and buy ourselves nice dresses to wear to a fancy restaurant in Newcrest.
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The food was good, they even had someone playing the piano beside us. I think Caleb would enjoy that place. It was nice to get to spend time with Aubree. Not only do we live in different towns but we're also married with kids, while also having careers on top of it. We don't always get to see each other but we make it a point to keep in touch. Something that matters to you - you have to make an effort to keep it going.
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By the time we got back to Brindleton Bay, it was dark and cold. We went on a small walk around her neighborhood. It filled me with memories of my own time living in town.
"Aubree...there's something oddly familiar about Paris. I don't know what it is but...it's almost like she reminds me of someone." I told her, stopping our walk not far from her home. 
"Any idea who?" Aubree asked me. I shook my head. "I know she's pretty."
"And younger and blonde." I interjected. Aubree for her part gave me a brief nod in recognition but kept going.
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"She does so well with the twins.  They love her. Not only that, she cleans the house, makes dinner. We gave her a small raise because she's become more of a maid slash nanny." I know that she and August don't have a lot of money laying around but they are both firm believers in paying a person fairly for the work they do. 
I slowly nodded. Maybe I was just being suspicious because of what happened to Rahmi. Obviously it was a bit of a different scenario.
"Plus, I trust my husband. We've known him since high school. Do you think he would do cheat on me?" Aubree asked me.
For some reason, my mind briefly wondered to Apollo and Naya. How my brother is feeling lonely and like Naya has been putting her career before him and AJ. Though she has been trying to spend more time with them lately. "Not normally, no. He loves you. But sometimes when someone is feeling lonely and...look, just be careful, okay?"
"I don't think there's anything to worry about but I will still keep an eye on her." Aubree told me, she seemed a little annoyed with me but at least she's taking my advice. 
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jomarchswritingjacket · 9 months
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who wrote you into existence and what makes you think so? tell me in the tags or comments!
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bitterkarella · 1 year
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Midnight Pals: Mr Electric
Ray Bradbury: Submitted for the approval of the midnight Society, I call this the tale of the eternal summer, the last vestiges of muggy august giving way to the bluster of autumn, the twinkling lights of town below in the humid night, young lovers stealing kisses in the dark, old men on the porch, jawin and chewin and chuckling at remembrances of romances long past Barker: you’re literally just describing a Thomas Kinkade painting Poe: clive
Stephen King: wow ray you really come up with some evocative imagery! King: whatever inspired you to become a writer anyway? Bradbury: well, it all started when I went to the county fair and met a wizard Koontz: whoa! A real wizard! King: no dean he’s talking about a magician Bradbury: [chuckling] am I? Bradbury: mr electrico was no mere magician! Bradbury: he had the REAL power!!! Bradbury: the power Bradbury: to fire a young boy’s IMAGINATION! Neil Gaiman: [clapping] right, right! Good show! Right on!
Ray Bradbury: and Mr Electrico pointed a flaming electrical sword at me and said Bradbury: “LIVE FOREVER!!” Bradbury: now I cannot be killed Gretchen Felker-Martin: oh yeah, big mood
Bradbury: Mr Electrico said “Live Forever!” Bradbury: Now I cannot be killed Bradbury: and it’s true Bradbury: c’mon try it out Stephen King: no no I couldn’t Bradbury: c’mon Bradbury: c’mon!!! Bradbury: come at me bro!!! Bradbury: I can take it!!
Bradbury: [slapping chest] c’mon, take a swing at me! Stephen King: I really don’t want to fight you Ray Bradbury: do it! Do it! Barker: I’ll do it Poe: clive Barker: I’m just giving him what he wants! Poe: clive Poe: clive he’s like 100 years old
Mary Shelley: sup fuckers Bradbury: mary!!! Come at me! Mary Shelley: okie dokie [immediately shivs Bradbury, blade snaps] Mary Shelley: what the fuck Bradbury: ha! this isn’t even a tenth of my power!!! Bradbury: what did I tell you?! Bradbury: not a single one of you could defeat you!! Mary Shelley: oh yeah? Mary Shelley: guess we’ll have to gang up on you!! Get ‘im boys! [Ann Radcliffe and Monk Lewis approach with chain and billy club respectively] [Bradbury effortlessly blocks roundhouse kick by Wrath James White] Bradbury: ha! Laughable! [Bradbury effortlessly sidesteps kung fu chop by Alan Baxter] Bradbury: ha! Pathetic!
Bradbury: come on! Come at me! Robert E Howard: you sure about this pardna? Howard: this ain’t no pea shooter hombre Bradbury: [slapping chest] what’s the matter, ya pussy? Bradbury: Fuckin do it!! Howard: hold on thar pardna Howard: I think ya might wanna calm down Bradbury: [grabbing gun and pulling Robert E Howard closer] Bradbury: DO Bradbury: IT Howard: [aiming gun] okay pilgrim you asked fer it Poe: bob Poe: bob this is getting ridiculous Poe: bob don’t Howard: [cocking gun] sorry pardna Howard: I gotta Howard: it’s the law of the west
Ray Bradbury: [flexing] Behold!!! The power of Mr. Electrico!!! The electric man!!! Barker: so ray Barker: I hear this magician’s fake Poe: clive Bradbury: he’s a real magician Barker: is he now Barker: then why hasn’t anyone ever heard of him Bradbury: he Bradbury: he lives in Canada
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dimrememberedstory · 2 years
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Portraits of famous 18th and 19th-century Gothic fiction writers.
Horace Walpole (1717 - 1797) // Ann Radcliffe (1764 - 1823) // Matthew Gregory Lewis (1775 - 1818) // Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1797 - 1851) // Edgar Allan Poe (1809 - 1849) // Anne (1820 - 1849), Emily (1818 - 1848), and Charlotte Brontë (1816 - 1855) // Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900) // Bram Stoker (1847 - 1912)
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vanalex · 2 months
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autumneverleigh · 2 years
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Poeta nascitur, non fit
the poet is born, not made
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dzgrizzle · 6 months
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"In the following decades, absinthe also became popular with writers and artists. It was used by Lewis Carroll, Oscar Wilde, Édouard Manet, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, Vincent Van Gogh, and later by James Joyce, Ernest Hemingway, and Picasso. ...Toulouse-Lautrec was so fond of it that he carried a hollow walking stick filled with the green liquid so that it would always be available."
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here are some interesting people!
Kurt Cobain
Marilyn Monroe
Johnny Depp
Lil Peep
Edgar Allan Poe
H.P. Lovecraft
J.R.R. Tolkien
Damon Albarn
Robin Williams
Cillian Murphy
Idris Elba
Daniel Day-Lewis
Christian Bale
Frances Farmer
Audrey Hepburn
Christopher Nolan
Takai Watiti
Tim Burton
Ian McKellen
Zaffar Kunial
David Bowie
John Lennon
Paul McCartney
Freddie Mercury
Chloe Moriondo
check out zaffar kunial he's not as well known as the rest of them and he deserves more love
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super-jane5 · 1 year
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January 2023 Reading Wrap Up
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Currently Reading: A Fatal Crossing by Tom Hindle
Started Reading: 29 January 2023
Progress: 29%
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spilladabalia · 2 years
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The Jezebel Spirit / The Fall Of The House Of Usher
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mayolfederico · 11 months
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Arno Schmidt - Conversazione su Zettels Traum
Arno Schmidt Conversazione con Schmidt [ Il libro è qua. Io l’ho pesato: pesa 8 chili e 500 grammi. L’ho misurato: è largo 33 centimetri e alto 44 centimetri. Me lo sono guardato: contiene la riproduzione-facsimile di uno scritto tipografico con manoscritti aggiunti, linee e schizzi dell’Autore – circa 10 milioni di lettere in 1330 pagine formato DIN A3. E queste sarebbero, perché un foglio DIN…
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megthemewlingquim · 2 years
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Morpheus scolding a "yn" close friend or loved one for pulling an academic all-nighter.
time flies.
Summary: You've worked all night, doing a task for The Dreaming. Morpheus finds you at your desk at an ungodly hour.
Pairing: Dream of the Endless x Reader
Warnings: none
A/N: I will not be writing any huge spoilers; I have read the entire Sandman series from start to finish, but I will not give away anything that you don't already know (assuming you've seen Season 1).
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It's a dark but peaceful night outside of Dream's castle. The sky is a very dark blue, starless but still lovely. The air about the Dreaming is a gentle breeze, and it's warm outside, as if summer is in full swing.
Morpheus is in a pleasant mood, it seems.
The castle itself, towering over everything else within the Dreaming, is a beautiful structure. The lights inside are a strong gold color, and they cut through the dark.
You've been in the Library of Dreams for a long while, working tirelessly on a task that Lucienne had given you. You're her apprentice — currently studying and remembering some of the titles in the Library.
A large, leather bound book sits open on your table. Next to you stand tall bookshelves, filled with countless books of numerous sizes and colors. You write in this book in front of you, filling out names of mortal authors from long ago and the books they never wrote.
G.K Chesterton.... A.A Milne.... Edgar Allan Poe... William Shakespeare...
"What're yeh doing still here?" asks a gruff voice behind you.
You turn around in your chair and see Merv Pumpkinhead, a sentient jack-o-lantern pumpkin dressed in scarecrow clothes, smoking a cigar. His eyes, for once, are not narrowed — instead, they are open in concern.
"Ah, hi, Merv," you say sleepily. "I'm... writing things down. Lucienne wanted me to study things."
"Yeah, uh, that was a couple hours ago," Merv says. He puffs at his cigar. "Maybe you should get some sleep, huh? Lucienne wouldn't want you to stay up so late. And neither would the Boss Man."
You smile at that. Morpheus.
"What do you think he's doing? Does he need sleep?"
"Who? Boss Man? I dunno, kid. I've never seen him sleep, if that helps your question. But I know you need sleep. That book will be there when you wake up tomorrow." Merv pauses, then continues, awkwardly, "Er, hopefully, it will. Sometimes things are... eaten... by whatever apparitions decide to wander the halls here, late at night..." Quickly, he perks up again. "But! I'm sure it'll be here when you get back here tomorrow morning?"
"It's alright, Merv," you mumble with a smile. "I'll go to bed. I just want to finish a couple more of these, try to rack my brain for any others I might've missed."
Merv sighs. "Alright, kiddo. Suit yourself. I'll leave you be. Just be sure to get some sleep, alright?"
"Alright," you grin. "G'night, Merv."
"Night." Merv takes his leave of you, the only evidence he was ever there is some cigar smoke still lingering in the library.
You turn back around and get back to work. All is silent in the Library, aside from the sound of your pen scratching the paper.
Christopher Marlowe... Jane Austen... J.R.R Tolkien... C.S Lewis...
Your eyes are glued to the paper, your mind racing. You're writing as fast as your mind can think, testing yourself with how many names you can remember.
Suddenly, your mind blanks. Your hand hovers over the paper, the pen in hand. You furrow your brow for a minute, your lips moving soundlessly in an attempt to go over each author you've written down.
You get to St. John the Divine of Patmos when the candle lights flicker all at once, dimming for a time and then coming back up to their full strength. Looking up, you hear another voice speak:
What are you doing here, at this hour?
Morpheus — Dream of the Endless — is standing beside you, looking down at your work, a hand on the chair you're sitting in. His voice is so soft, it doesn't startle you.
"I was... working."
Morpheus blinks. You're exhausted.
"Am I?" you say, trying to shrug off the tiredness that hangs on you. "What time is it?"
It's late, says Dream. Time has no meaning for him. Everyone else is asleep. Mervyn, Matthew, Cain and Abel... even poor Lucienne.
You think on this. If even Lucienne is asleep, it really is an ungodly hour...
What are you working on? Dream asks. What are you writing?
Wordlessly, you show the book to him. He reads over it, and his brow furrows.
You're awake... over this? Dream crouches down to and faces you, his starry eyes filled with worry. You poor thing. This is not needed. Did Lucienne ever check up on you?
"No," you say, truthfully. "But, I know why. She was too busy with the census. That's alright though, I don't mind being here. It's relaxing." You perk up. "But... Merv came to see me, just a few minutes ago."
The tiniest hint of a smile comes up over his face. Indeed? What did he say to you?
"That I should go to bed," you say.
And he was absolutely right. I think this can wait, don't you? Dream gestures with a perfectly manicured hand towards the huge leather book. Then, he lowers his hand and places it on your own.
I miss you, my love, he says gently, his voice now laced with longing. Come to bed.
How could you say no to that?
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godzilla-reads · 4 months
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My Year of Gothic Reading 2024
Rules: For each month in 2024 you have to pick either a book, poem, or short story to read that carries gothic themes or aesthetic. Here's a list of suggested reading, but feel free to read something else or add others onto this list!
Books
"Rebecca" by Daphne du Maurier
"The Turn of the Screw" by Henry James
"Frankenstein" by Mary Shelley
"The Mysteries of Udolpho" by Ann Radcliffe
"The Phantom of the Opera" by Gaston Leroux
"Dracula" by Bram Stoker
"The Castle of Otranto" by Horace Walpole
"The Monk" by Matthew Lewis
"The Haunting of Hill House" by Shirley Jackson
"Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Bronte
"The Picture of Dorian Gray" by Oscar Wilde
"Carmilla" by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
Short Stories
"The Great God Pan" by Arthur Machen
"The Tell-Tale Heart" by Edgar Allan Poe
"The Yellow Wallpaper" by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
"The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" by Washington Irving
"The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Hr. Hyde" by Robert Louis Stevenson
"The Lottery" by Shirley Jackson
"The Masque of the Red Death" by Edgar Allan Poe
"The Sandman" by E.T.A. Hoffman
"The Mark of the Beast" by Rudyard Kipling
"The Vampyre" by John William Polidori
"The Birds" by Daphne du Maurier
"The Cats of Ulthar" by H.P. Lovecraft
Poems
"The Raven" by Edgar Allan Poe
"The cold earth slept below" by Percy Bysshe Shelley
"The Lady of Shalott" by Lord Alfred Tennyson
"My own Beloved, who has lifted me" by Elizabeth Barrett Browning
"What Would I Give?" by Christina Rossetti
"Time to Come" by Walt Whitman
"Love and Death" by Lord Byron
"Because I could not stop for Death" by Emily Dickinson
"La Belle Dame sans Merci" by John Keats
"The End" by D.H. Lawrence
"Hymn to the Night" by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
"The Possessed" by Charles Baudelaire
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poppletonink · 6 months
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Poetry 101: The Best Poems To Start Your Journey Into The Land Of Verse
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Ozymandias by Percy Shelley
Alone by Edgar Allan Poe
If by Rudyard Kipling
The Lady Of Shallot by Alfred Lord Tennyson
O Me! O Life! by Walt Whitman
In Flanders Fields by John McCrae
The Highwayman by Alfred Noyes
The Road Not Taken by Robert Frost
Sonnet 18 by William Shakespeare
How Do I Love Thee? by Elizabeth Barrett Browning
She Walks In Beauty by Lord Byron
Jabberwocky by Lewis Carroll
The Tyger by William Blake
O Captain! My Captain! by Walt Whitman
Invictus by William Ernest Henley
Nothing Gold Can Stay by Robert Frost
The Rime Of The Ancient Mariner by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Sonnet 29 by William Shakespeare
The Raven by Edgar Allan Poe
Porphyrias' Lover by Robert Browning
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kalitera-stin-erimia · 5 months
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Lovecraft and Cosmic Wonder
"But the thing is, for Lovecraft, cosmic-existential horror wasn’t the whole story. Not by a cyclopean margin. In fact, a look at his overall body of fiction, and also his personal development as an author, and his various essays about life and writing, and the teeming ocean of thousands of letters that he wrote to a vast network of correspondents, shows that his focus on the cosmic horrific theme of existence-as-nightmare was balanced and complemented by a deep craving for liberation into transcendent realms of beauty and bliss. As I observed just a few days ago in my latest column for SF Signal, “Fantasy, Horror, and Infinite Longing,” this pairing of horror or terror with sehnsucht, the emotion C.S. Lewis identified as the “inconsolable longing” for “that unnamable something, desire for which pierces us like a rapier at the smell of a bonfire, the sound of wild ducks flying overhead, the title of The Well at the World’s End, the opening lines of Kubla Khan, the morning cobwebs in late summer, or the noise of falling waves,” is quite common among authors and artists, especially those working in the field of the fantastic. <...>
So Dream-Quest is fully as much about an exquisite experience of cosmic longing as it is about a wrenching experience of cosmic horror. The novel shows Carter yearning for an escape into a dreamworld and to a dream city of eternal solace and beauty, and being opposed by all of those nightmarish figures Tyson mentions. And it’s the recognition of this fact, not just in this particular novel but as it’s threaded throughout the rest of Lovecraft’s life and work, that’s missing from so much contemporary scholarship. It’s not that Lovecraft wasn’t about cosmic horror, but that he wasn’t all about it. Cosmic horror was wedded to cosmic wonder in his psyche. The one bled into the other. They were inextricably united as flipsides or complements in his affective makeup. Their paradoxical pairing was in fact the engine that drove him, since he was perpetually poised on the razor’s edge between perceiving the cosmic perspective as nightmarish and perceiving it as beautiful and liberating. This tension channeled itself into a burning desire to capture and convey both intimations in imaginative form, and the fact that the darker aspect has gotten more press than the lighter one in the popular and even the critical imagination, and has in fact become rote, is vaguely reminiscent of the smear-job perpetrated by Rufus Griswold on the memory of Edgar Allan Poe.  But in Lovecraft’s case it appears to have happened by accident, with, perhaps, some help from unsympathetic critics such as Edmund Wilson."
From Cosmic Horror and Cosmic Wonder: Revisioning Our Vision of H.P. Lovecraft by Matt Cardin.
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finn-m-corvex · 7 months
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Masterpost!
Brand new and shiny masterpost! Let's see what I can do!
Ao3 Fics
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Survivors - Jay and Lloyd bonding over survivor's guilt Words: 17k Chapters: 3/3
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Even the Earth Trembles - Cole angst involving touch starvation after DotD! Words: 6.7k Chapters: 1/2
Hugs When You're Blue - Collection of smaller things involving Jay getting hugs from the others! Written for @/sharksandjays based on his incredible artwork here! Words: 6.7k Chapters: 1/1
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Sounding Sea - Jay angst revolving around Edgar Allan Poe's poem Annabelle Lee! Very proud of this one! Words: 1.8k
Someone You Loved - songfic with Someone You Loved by Lewis Capaldi and Jaya mixed together. Has the MondotheBombo seal of approval! Words: 2k
Shopping for Wires - Snippet from Ch3 of my rewrite! Probably won't understand unless you've read it. Written as a request for @/juniperjellyfish! Words: 1.4k
Lightning in a Cubicle - My take on what happened to Jay after the Merge in Dragons Rising (very much an AU) Words: 6k Part 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6
Aftershocks - 5+1 series involving Jay and his sensory issues! Words: 3.7k Cole | Nya | Kai | Zane | Lloyd | Jay
Falling Sleeves - Cole fluff and angst over MotO! Words: 4.3k
Headcanons
The hoodie headcanons used to be here but I'm going to redo them so soon to come!
Moodboards
Would You Like To Enter Prime Empire? - here!
Chapter 4 - First Contact Beta Jay-137 | Dee-Jay 081 | Talon - 066
Chapter 5 - Forest of Secrets The Father
Challenges
Jaya Week 2023 - Days 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 Words: 17.6k Find the full version on ao3 here!
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Memes
Office Jay memes!
WYTYAA memes! Made for @/mondothebombo
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PLEASE let me know if I'm missing something super important. I know there were a couple things here and there (esp art-wise) that I'm missing but I either don't have it or I'm going to rework it. This should be all of the fics though!
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