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Misjudged Your Limit, Pushed You Too Far by Spiral_Ao3, TwoMonkeysAndATypewriter
Fandoms: Fight Club (1999), Fight Club - Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club - All Media Types
29 Jun 2026
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Narrator gets beaten to a pulp after fighting all night one Saturday, and it's the thing that finally breaks him down. He's injured, upset, and worst of all, losing it in front of Tyler.
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20 Jul 2026
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Daniil cleared his throat.
“The Powers That Be are the embodiment of order. There are always threads in the universe that dare to hang loose, and like a moth to a flame, they are always there to tug on them. The Powers That Be unravel everything simply to see what falls.”
“So what? The plague is... it's all gone.”
Daniil noted the slight tremor in Artemy’s voice. Artemy Burakh also lost many things in the chaos. He must also suffer from the nightmares. He must.
“They wanted me to die in the plague along with Aglaya and Block and yet, the more information they received from us, the more they urged us to cure the incurable. To preserve the town. Do you hear me? They will not leave a town of miracles alone. It may not be right away… but they will send someone.”
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There's no choice but to build a new life and live with the consequences, and so they do. But the events of the plague left deep wounds with the pain and fear of loss ever looming.
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24 Apr 2026
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What does it mean to live in someone else's happy ending?
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- Part 1 of Pieces of a Puzzle
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18 Mar 2026
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“… I’d say good morning,” Dankovsky said at length, a little hoarsely, “but I’m afraid I’ve lost track of the time. Good … something, Haruspex.”
“Afternoon. You look—” Artemy began, and broke off.
“Yes? What ghoulish thing do I resemble today?” Daniil blew out some smoke, staring pensively ahead. “A striga, perhaps.”
“—better,” Artemy finished. “Less like you’d gone already, and are only haunting me.”
That shut Daniil’s mouth.
[Or: a rendezvous with danger, one very cold winter.]
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04 Mar 2026
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“You would be willing to change? You would accept me into you and birth new miracles?”
“Yes.” Daniil whispered. Anything to bring back the Polyhedron, that spark of hope.
Dankovsky unwittingly makes a deal with Boddho. Now he is changing and no one is ready for the consequences such a transformation will bring.
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01 Mar 2026
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After a train trip back to campus, Artemy and Daniil perform a quick dissection and part for the night until Artemy finds Daniil alone in the library.
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18 Feb 2026
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Turn away (‘cause I’m awful just to see) by Cabbage_patch_kid
Fandoms: Мор. Утопия | Pathologic
01 Jun 2026
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So what if his former associates thought of him as a lowlife? So what if he was disgraced from academia? So long as he was still welcomed back into the town-on-Gorkhon, nothing else mattered.
With quivering hands, he picked up the letter and carefully opened it as though he was afraid something would jump out at him from inside it. But nothing had changed, it was the exact same as when he had first read it a week ago.Bachelor Daniil Dankovsky,
There is another way.
— Victoria Olgimskaya Sr., The Light Mistress.Yes, there was hope for him still, and hope he would cling to till death did them part.
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Over a year later, Daniil Dankovsky returns to the Town, with a letter from a dead woman and a ticking time bomb inside his own body, in a last-ditch effort to defeat death.
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17 Feb 2026
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Daniil didn’t notice Burakh approach. Not his towering shadow between the can lights, nor the dip of the cushion as he slid into the booth with him. Not until his hand alighted on Daniil’s own. Large, steady. Gentle.
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09 Feb 2026
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It's all a game by Crazypreacher
Fandoms: Мор. Утопия | Pathologic, Pathologic, Ice-Pick Lodge: Pathologic
05 May 2016
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They both want to save the town, but their enemy is time, of which there's never enough. What will the scientist and the shaman do under such pressure, when they experience certain feelings towards each other?
Note: This fanfiction is mostly based on the Bachelor's scenario, bit some things are "borrowed" from Haruspex' scenario, as well (The Changeling's scenario is ignored for the most part). A large part of this story is build around a massive spoiler, so if you're only going to play "Pathologic", it can seriously ruin your meeting with the Authorities.
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01 Feb 2026
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Eva and Daniil share the Stillwater after they both manage to survive the Sand Plague outbreak. Eva tries to find inspiration again by using her new houseguest as a muse. Is that really such a good idea?
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17 Jan 2026
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One year after the end of the Sand Plague, Artemy gets word from Clara that someone is about to die out in the Steppe. When he investigates, he finds a man that no longer knows what his role is - and a man that he thought he would never see again.
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09 Jan 2026
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Night Train to Nowhere by Roselightfairy for starsforscales
Fandoms: Мор. Утопия | Pathologic
29 Dec 2025
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“It is you, then,” says Daniil Dankovsky, and the surprise in his voice is an echo of Artemy’s own. “What are you doing here, Haruspex?”
Artemy blinks rapidly, scrubbing at his eyes with sleep-limp knuckles. Everything about him feels sluggish, unable to react with the whip-crack quickness a conversation with the Bachelor demands. Still, he manages enough wit for a dry, “What does it look like?”
“Well,” Dankovsky says, “it looks like you’re fleeing town on a freight train.” He cocks one hand to a hip, and Artemy follows the motion of his silhouette in the lack of light, seeking expression in his body that the darkness conceals on his face. “But I could hardly believe that of the town’s champion.”
Artemy hisses a breath out between his teeth. The words hit him in two places at once: deep in his gut, where guilt and resentment churn in a seething mass; back in his throat, where he is lashing out with sour bile before he can think better of it. “Well,” he’s snapping before the sense of his words has even resolved in his mind, “maybe if you’d learned to believe what you see, we’d all be better off.”
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06 Jan 2026
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Ever since they brought the Stalker into SIRCAA, Degtyaryov could tell the guy was miserable. And, despite the rules, and his better judgment, he finds himself bending over backward to help. Call it payback, call it guilt, but either way, he’s in too deep to stop now.
TL;DR : giving this gem of a ship a chance :3
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21 Nov 2025
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On the anniversary of Isidor Burakh's death, Artemy decides to face the past by visiting his father’s grave.
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Written for Pathologic Fest 2025: Day 5, 6, 7 - The clock is ticking & Orders from above
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- Part 4 of Pathologic Fest 2025
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10 Sep 2025
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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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23 Aug 2025
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A Game of Marbles by CrossF
Fandoms: Пикник на обочине - Братья Стругацкие | Roadside Picnic - Arkady & Boris Strugatsky
07 Aug 2025
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Kirill begins to have questions about his good friend Redrick, and tries to find answers in the most scientific way he can.
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08 Aug 2025
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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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26 Jul 2025
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When Morgana falls into an enchanted slumber, Arthur and Merlin journey to the Impenetrable Forest to seek a cure while Gwen holds vigil at her lady's side. Eventually, hidden truths are revealed—at the forest as well as in Camelot.
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22 Jul 2025
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The Town and the Kin, an Odongh had once whispered, were sewn together wrong. The plague had torn those old connections apart, and it was left to Artemy Burakh to suture the severed halves back together in a better way. Blood could, and would, flow through them as one common body. And it would, and must, start with solidarity.
This, too, could be its own form of utopia.
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In which Artemy unionises the Termitary workers, organises a strike, and finds a new way to unite the Town.
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22 Jul 2025
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On the outside, she was frozen. Her hands were numb—she didn’t feel the drive in her hand. Niska’s words had pierced Mattie’s soul, her reality as she knew it.
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23 Jun 2025