Crystalquill



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    This is part of a series called "stories I may or may not write", where I write one-shots of ideas I have, with further notes after. Everyone is welcome to take these ideas and write their own version of this!

    Here's the Discord server if you wanna come talk about these stories! https://discord.gg/jsQsmZTKCa

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    When a part of the cerebral cortex dies, it’s inevitable that the function that correlates one part to another loses its purpose.

    But all you need is a reconnection.

    ~+~

    A part of him was scared. Is scared. He could live a life beyond this. Could live a life forgetting Derek, a stranger he’s searched for longer than he’d even come to know. It would be easy, to forget. It would be simpler.

    But simple is New Year’s Eve spent alone at home playing Minecraft off a laptop he’d picked up in a locker he was never meant to pry open. Simple is watching hours worth of video content, of the gameplay of a man solving puzzles in a seemingly impossible situation on that sandbox game. Simple is being alone.

    Derek was always meant to reach Avery, and Avery was meant to be reached.

    This time, Avery means to do the opposite.

    OR: Post-DAWTDE Fix-It featuring the rehabilitation of mind, body, and soul.

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    15 Jun 2026

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    Neuroplasticity principles and how they apply to Derek's recovery after the King in Yellow.

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    You watch him mourn over the you on screen and manage to feel nothing but an itching want. That's not you, your lips twitch. You fingers curl into your palm, and you resist the urge to reach out, to reassure him to stop his crying.

    I'm right here. No sound leaves your mouth, your tongue won't move. But look at me, Evbo.

    His hand is clammy in your fingers, and you look at him and his wet eyes. I'll show you, your mind whispers, more sure than that you was when it jumped for the beef.

    Just watch.

    Or: the cast of Parkour Civilization watch Parkour Civilization.

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    03 Jun 2026

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    Parkour Civ reacts to itself.

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    30 May 2026

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    THE Hunger Games fix-it fic

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    "Grian, what are these?"

    Weakness, he tries to rasp; it comes out garbled, so he sucks in a long, slow breath and tries again, lungs trembling with the effort. "Weak– weakness."

    Scar drops the bottle like it's burned him. "You took three weakness potions?" he chokes out, and that seems to break whatever trance Xisuma, Pearl, and Tango have been in this entire time. They rush forward, eating the distance between them in rapid strides, until they're all crouched around Grian.

    Grian shuts his eyes again, before remembering he isn't supposed to do that. He wants to say sorry. What he says instead, is: "It was– safer. Like this. For you."

    It amounts to about the same thing.

    Or, I finally buckle down and post the rough draft of hunger au, where I give Grian every mental illness known to man and also a few new ones. Please heed the tags.

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    05 May 2023

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    HUNGER AU GRIAN HOLY CRAP I LVOE THIS ANGST

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    There’s more to peace than the absence of war. The work is as hard and uncertain as any Shinobi mission.
    AKA: A highly self-indulgent fic in which a civilian woman helps an orphaned Sasuke and winds up saving the world.

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    16 Aug 2024

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    A civilan decides to take care of Sasuke and teach him how to be a clan head. I could never picture how traditional femininity could be so powerful. How being a caretaker can save the world. I will never make that mistake again.