DUSTBUNNIII



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  1. Public Bookmark 24

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    "O brawling love! O loving hate!
    O anything of nothing first create!
    O heavy lightness, serious vanity!
    Misshapen chaos of well-seeming forms!
    Feather of lead, bright smoke, cold fire, sick health!
    Still-waking sleep, that is not what it is!
    This love feel I, that feel no love in this."
    - W. Shakespeare

    You are a simple woman. You enjoy a simple life.
    The universe, however, has decided you no longer get to live in peace.
    Suddenly you find yourself face to face with an abomination, the likes of which defies the very nature of reality as you know it.
    That might have been a little harsh, but then again, what else would you call a living, breathing skeleton?

    In the back of your mind, you had a creeping feeling there is a lesson to be learned in all of this.

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    23 May 2025

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    You have never felt as pathetic or unneeded as you do now. You look at them from afar, seeing her beautiful figure on his arm as if she belonged there. Grin and bear. Force a mask of happiness for them, even if it hurts and couldn't be farther from your true feelings. ‘Smile. Laugh.’ Try not to think about the fact that he isn’t yours. Don't show how broken you are inside.
    A month passes and you hadn't realized until now, that you aren’t the only one who has been affected with this new dilemma. You see him there, miserable and defeated, just like you. For the same reasons. Mirrored broken hearts falling onto one another for comfort only the other can give, because you both know exactly how the other feels.

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    16 Apr 2025

  3. Public Bookmark 81

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    “As always, humans first.”

    The crowd was silent, clearly unenthusiastic. You tried not to think about your odds—it never did you any good. What were six slips of paper as opposed to hundreds?

    With a shaky breath, you quelled the hammering in your chest. It will be okay. You do this every year, right? Every year, you come to the square, watch two members of your community be sentenced to certain death, then go home and silently contemplate the conditions of your world. That’s how it went every year, and you were certain that is how it would go this year.

    So when the cold metallic voice announced your name over the loudspeaker, you could feel your heart stop.

    Ice shot down your veins and a ringing filled your ear. You thought you could hear your mother scream, but she sounded so far away, you could barely register it. Was it really… it was you?

    Another announcement of your name, followed by a sing-song, “come up here, darling!” confirmed yes, you. You were the human tribute of District 12 in the seventy-fourth annual Games. 

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    21 Feb 2025

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    It starts when you deliver a pizza to two creepy skeletons living in a ramshackle house in the middle of nowhere.

    And then you deliver a pizza to two skeletons living in a nice house in the suburbs. Wait, no, there are six of them. Who all share a strange number of similarities. Wait, are they all the same two people?

    In any case, they seem to like you. And you like them. And you want to know exactly what's going on here.

    So, you all may as well keep getting to know each other.

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    28 Nov 2024

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  5. Public Bookmark 88

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    Unexpectedly presenting as an omega on the morning of their 21st birthday, reader is sent off to a remote cabin to experience their first heat in isolation, as is tradition in their family - only to find that the cabin isn't as empty as it's supposed to be.

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    03 Oct 2024